Program Yourself To Be Sucessful
We've all heard the age-old advice about the power of positive thinking. How many times have you heard someone trot out a line about filling your mind with good, positive images and avoiding the negative ones?
Now that you understand the concept of the subconscious mind, it should be clearer than ever why doing this is important. Positive thinking is important because the thoughts and images that occupy your conscious mind become seeds planted permanently in your subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind will make them real!
Speaking of seeds, let's consider an acorn. When an acorn falls to the ground, it will remain an acorn until it comes into contact with soil and water. When it does that, it begins a change. Particles of energy in the earth are attracted to it. Shoots extend from the bottom of the acorn into the soil to find more water. Another shoot at the top becomes a stem and reaches for the sun.
As the roots grow, they extend further and deeper into the soil--attracting the water and minerals they need for this new sapling to flourish. The stem produces leaves, and these leaves spread themselves out, attracting sunlight and particles from the atmosphere.
As the acorn continues to expand, at some point it ceases to be an acorn and instead becomes an oak tree. The roots, bark, trunk, branches, and leaves are all produced from the acorn, which had a patterned plan for life built within its nucleus.
Choose Your Own Programming
Once the acorn comes into contact with what it needs for life, there is no doubt what it will become. It will become an oak tree. You are much like an acorn in that you are a seed that will grow when given energy.
However, unlike the acorn, what you become is not predestined. You can choose your own future. And the fertilizer--the thoughts and images--you allow into your subconscious mind will determine what you become. Unlike the acorn, you are a co-creator; you can choose your own programming. Therefore, the beliefs you hold... the things you consciously dwell on... are planted deeply into the vault of your subconscious mind. And it is these things that become the patterned plan for what you will grow into.
Overcoming Negative Suggestions
From the day you were born, you've been bombarded with negative suggestions. As a child--or at some point during your lifetime--you've undoubtedly heard:
- You can't.
- It's no use.
- You'll fail.
- You're not allowed.
- Life is too hard.
- Don't trust anyone.
- It's not worth it.
- It's too much trouble.
- And on and on...
We could fill pages with the other people's negative rules and regulations for us. But now that you understand the power of your subconscious mind--and how to change those long-held negative beliefs--it's time to write your own rules. It's time to create your own future. Beginning right now, choose your own programming. Make sure the beliefs you hold ARE YOURS, not those that were taught or suggested to you by others.
In addition, make sure you surround yourself with positive energy and fill your mind with constructive beliefs. You are the co-creator of your own life. And unlike the acorn, you can be whatever type of tree you want to be.
With the skills you've learned in this issue, you can literally begin programming yourself for success. With an empty chalkboard to write on, make your health, wealth, and career exactly what you want them to be.