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Your unconscious mind is very powerful and you can use it help you achieve your goals if you follow a few simple steps.  Let’s start by looking at some of the key functions of your unconscious mind.

9 Key Functions of Your Unconscious Mind

  1. Controls Your Body’s Core Functions (breathing, blinking, swallowing, etc)
  2. Controls Your Fight or Flight Response to Danger
  3. Only Processes Positive Commands
  4. Follows Clear Orders (that’s why visualisation is so powerful)
  5. Judges Your Thoughts, Words & Actions According to Your Values (conscience)
  6. Stores Memories;
  7. Organises Memories;
  8. Represses Memories associated with unresolved negative emotions;
  9. Presents Repressed Memories for Resolution;

Your unconscious mind is responsible for all your behaviour, all your learning, and all the information that goes into your brain –  it is the control centre of your entire body.  If your unconscious mind is not doing it’s job your life suddenly gets much harder – you have to think about how to balance yourself, you have to consciously decide how many times your heart will beat in a minute, and pay attention to how often you need to breath in and out to be comfortable and  to blink to keep your eyes lubricated.

All of this would take a lot of effort and you would be so busy making all these decisions moment by moment that you wouldn’t have any energy to spare for higher-level thinking, but your unconscious takes care of it for you and it ‘just happens!

Harnessing The Power of Your Unconscious Mind To Achieve Goals

Imagine what would happen if we could harness the power of our unconscious mind to achieve our goals, instead of just take care of core functions.  If you thought about the 9 key functions above, you might notice that numbers 3, 4, and 5 all deal with things we can influence if we choose.

Positive Commands and Clear Orders

We can give our unconscious minds positive commands – for example, “Earn $10,000 per month.”  “Weigh 60kg”.   These are much more powerful and effective than, “Lose weight.” or “Don’t be poor.” or “Eat less.”  This is also why visualisation is such a powerful tool – your unconscious mind takes the picture you feed it of an end result, and helps you turn it into reality.  It receives these pictures as a clear command of something you want to be true.

The Importance of Congruity

Because your unconscious mind is a clear and impartial judge it is really important that your thoughts, words, and actions are congruent with your values.  Money is often a key area where our desires and values collide because we often have a conflict between what we would like to earn or own, and what we believe we deserve.  If you set a goal about your wealth that your conscience tells you is wrong, then you will probably not achieve it.  Success in business is another common area of conflict because we are constantly bombarded with stereotypes about ‘evil’ business men.

If we deal with these conflicts and uncover the unconscious beliefs that conflict with our goals our unconscious mind will guide us almost without effort until we achieve those goals.  Instead of pulling us away from behaviour that supports our goals it will guide us toward it, so that we are no longer having to discipline ourselves every moment, but rather are willingly taking the necessary actions.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of how your brain processes language and pictures and controls your behaviour, I have found that the insights NLP provides into my unconscious mind has dramatically increased my power to achieve the things I really want in life – from material goods, and opportunities to relationships.

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We all have an unconscious mind, and it is a very powerful tool, but most of us let it go to waste.  You can harness your unconscious mind and use it to help you achieve your dreams.

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