Influence Your Subconscious — a Menta-Morphosis Magnifier

Magnifier #1: Influence Your Subconscious 

Introduction

Our subconscious mind is a powerful thinking tool. It is, however, unpredictable and impossible to manage.  We can’t always predict when or how it will work on our issues and provide us with additional insights.  While we can’t manage it, we can influence it by certain practices that are more likely to engage it. So, this magnifier implements certain practices that are designed to engage our subconscious mind into the thinking project.

Where to Use It:

Hopefully your subconscious mind will identify things you had not thought of, and present solutions that you would not have considered otherwise.  So, use it anywhere the outcomes are more important and in which you can building in ‘down time’ to allow your subconscious mind to engage the project. Engaging your subconscious into a program takes time, so your thinking project must have time built in to allow your subconscious to function. So, for example, if you are dedicating one half-day to a thinking project, you will probably not be able to use this magnifier. If you were to break it up into two two-hour sessions, and held them a day or so apart, the time between the sessions would allow for the working of your subconscious.

How to apply this magnifier:

• Believe: When we believe that we will find the solution, that we will gain the insights, we are much more likely to actually attain that end result than if we doubt. When we believe, our subconscious seeks ways to make our belief a reality.  So, believing that we will be successful with the task and develop the right solution is a powerful way to engage our subconscious mind in the game.

• Immersion – This means that we immerse ourselves deeply into the thinking processes, not allowing anything else to intrude upon our mental space or waylay a process. By immersing ourselves we load this issue into our subconscious mind and make it more likely that it will engage with the issue. Reduce distractions, give ourselves wholly to the task at hand, and expect that our subconscious will engage as a result. John Dewey observed:

           When a person is absorbed, the subject carries him on. Questions occur to him spontaneously; a flood of suggestions      pour in on him; further inquiries and          reading are indicated and followed.”                                     John Dewey

• In and out – When I was a student in college, I developed the routine of studying for 50 minutes and then taking 10 minutes to do something totally different. When I returned to the subject after 10 minutes, I often had a clearer understanding of the subject and new insights and ideas. I’ve maintained that habit all the way through my adulthood. To this day, I create little 5 – 10-minute projects that have nothing to do with what I am working on. Often these are physical tasks, such as taking out the garbage, watering the plants, etc.  I save them to provide my 10-minute breaks, knowing that over time, they will prompt my subconscious mind to engage with the projects. I go “in to” a project for 50 minutes and “out “ for ten, and, in so doing, engage my subconscious mind in the task.

• Unfinished tasks – If I have a major task, I will purposefully bring it to 95 percent completion, and then leave it unfinished for a few days, counting on that time for my subconscious mind to work on it.  When I return to finish it, I often find that I have new insights and ideas to modify the output

          As a trainer, I often assign tasks in a          training session and then call a halt to      the time for the task before it is finished. I do this intentionally, knowing that my      trainees will have engaged with the           subject and by stopping them before they      finish, their subconscious mind will        continue to work on this project. When        they return to finish the task after the      training session, it will be with a clearer    perspective and sharper insights.

• Experienced intuition: Intuition is the wholistic insights that an experienced person realizes about a subject or situation which are often difficult to support.  When someone says, “It just doesn’t feel right,” for example, it’s difficult to explain why it doesn’t feel right. That’s an example of intuition. It differs from emotion in that it primarily emerges from the intellect.  “Feel” is used in the sense of an intellectual insight, whereas “feel” for others is an emotional response.

This is particularly helpful when mining information and prioritizing.

          Capture the output: We never know when our subconscious mind will spit out some  ideas or insights. So, we should be prepared to capture those ideas when they occur.                I’ve found that if I wait to write it down, I almost always lose the idea.  So, capture it                  right away, while it is fresh in our mind.  Have a notebook pad and pen handy by your                bedside or keep a notes app on your phone so that you are ready to capture the                         thoughts whenever they occur.

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