4 Primary Methods To Reprogram Your Mind To Create Lasting Changes In Your Life
The primary rule of reprogramming your subconscious mind is simple:
What you practice, you become.
Said another way: you are what you repeatedly do.
Here’s the neuroscience version: nerve cells that fire together wire together.
Below are the four basic ingredients for influencing your subconscious mind to create positive changes in your life.
1. Self-talk
The words “I can,” “I will,” “I am,” and “I deserve” are the most powerful ways to start a statement in your mind. Through mindful self-talk, you can feed your subconscious words and ideas that align with the person you wish to become.
Two ways to put this into practice every day:
- Recite Lofty Questions: a positive affirmation reframed as a “why” question. For example: “Why am Iso confident and friendly?” “Why am I so healthy and fit?” “Why do I am so creative and brilliant?”
- Do Mirror Work: Every time you pass a mirror, look in your eyes and repeat aloud three compliments that align with the qualities you want to program into your subconscious.
2. Imagination
Your imagination is directly tied to your self-image which is controlled by your subconscious mind. The two important nuggets to know about the subconscious mind:
- It works in images and symbols.
- It doesn’t know the difference between a real and imagined thought.
We are largely governed by the movies and images that play in our minds. So if you can’t picture yourself doing or experiencing something, you literally won’t be able to do it or experience it in physical reality.
Make the “impossible” possible by using your imagination to repeatedly give your mind pictures of your future self. The bolder and brighter the images, the better.
Put this into practice by visualizing yourself reaching success every night right before you are about to fall asleep.
3. Physiology
Body posture, breathing patterns, and facial expressions are directly connected to your subconscious mind and play a big role in how you think and feel. Your subconscious takes these “cues” from your physiology to reinforce your attitude at any given moment. Sometimes we smile because we feel good, and sometimes we feel good because we’re smiling.
Take control of your physiology by using and moving your body as if you are already the person you want to be.
Here are some ways to put this into practice every day:
- Mindfully straighten your posture and smile.
- Do Amy Cuddy’s Power Pose.
- Try the “One Point” centering exercise
- Take random movement breaks throughout the day to release stagnant energy in your body.
4. Anti-Routines
Routines and habits are the bedrock of personal change. The downside is that they make it too easy to fall into old patterns of behavior that don’t serve your future self.
For one, routines can easily lead to a rut.
More importantly, familiar routines create familiar outcomes. Familiar places create familiar situations. Familiar people create familiar interactions.
To wire something new into your subconscious, you must give it something unfamiliar.
Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about this in his various books by saying:
“The best way to create your future is to create it not from the known but for the unknown.”
You can put this into practice by simply breaking your routine. Schedule to do something every day that is:
- Out of your normal behavior,
- Unexpected to your subconscious mind,
- And aligns with your future self.
Stretch your comfort zone slightly and take small risks.
In summary, every day:
- Talk to yourself in a way that aligns with the future self you desire.
- Make big, bold pictures in your mind exhibiting the qualities of that future self.
- Shift your physiology by moving your body as if you were already that person.
- Do something unexpected and unfamiliar every single day that aligns with this future version of you.
Repeat and see what happens in a month. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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