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Self Motivation With Your Other-Than-Conscious Mind
"It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100% - when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given." ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100% - when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.” ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Physically, mentally, spiritually, financially, persuasively. . . are you functioning at 100% of your capacity? We’re born to learn, thrive, live and search for happiness, meaning and fulfillment, and yet many find these things to be out of reach. Why is it that some people struggle with their finances, their love relationships, their weight, and a general lack of motivation, while others seem to live up to their full potential with ease?
I happen to believe that this is partially a result of a disconnect with our other-than-conscious selves. When we engage our other-than-conscious, phenomenal things can happen.
If we consider our subconscious mind a friend, and communicate with it directly, succinctly and, in a way, strictly, we can move mountains.
Harnessing the power of our gentle giants aids us in pursuing fulfillment and happiness in all aspects of our lives. They’ve been learning since the moment of our birth, and with our attention, they can give us even more of what we want.
All of our unconscious learning gets filtered into this gentle giant for later use.
Through all of your conditioning - punishments and rewards, schooling and experiential learning - your other-than-conscious learns to do certain things, to expect certain things and create a metaphorical map of what will happen to you in your life which could predict successes, failures, areas in which you do well, and areas in which you wouldn’t.
Of its many roles, the subconscious is a powerful persuader—self-persuader—and when you understand this, you are naturally able to engage its help.
Keeping us alive is one of the other-than-conscious mind’s jobs. That’s a big job. Another function is to keep us static, doing what we’ve been doing, doing what we’ve always trained it to do. . . this can create problems for us when we decide we want to make changes.
Our other-than-conscious may have been sabotaged by receiving negative conditioning of ‘I can’t do it’. This is the portion of who you are that can make something a habit and then not have to keep remembering it. This can work for the positive or the negative.
You’re going to experience an enormous difference in your life as we reframe the power of your other-than-conscious and engage it to aide us in exploring how far we can go.
So the big question is: how do we befriend this gentle giant? Well. . . how do you make any other friend? You gain rapport with them. It’s that easy.
When I first heard this I laughed. I thought, “What do you mean I have to become a friend with some other part of me?”. But if you’ll just take a leap of faith, I think you’re going to find that it makes a huge difference in the way you see things and you’ll get a whole lot further a whole lot quicker in your persuasion.
It’s quite simple to gain rapport and befriend. . . have a conversation. Say, ‘Hi buddy, I’m sorry to have neglected you for so long. I’d like for us to start working together and part of that includes breaking old patterns. I’d like it if we could increase our income, lose twenty pounds, and keep ourself organized.’ Of course, ask for what you want and need, tailor it to what’s going on right now.
Or maybe, “I’d love it if my persuasion skills went through the roof and you are the one to really turn to in seeking an ally.” Just try it and see what kind of results you get.
Everything that you are, everything that you do, and everything that you have began with your intention to have it in one way or another is controlled by your other-than-conscious mind. All you have to do is tap into your persuasive power and your persuasion skills will naturally develop.