Does Subconscious Mind actually work?
It was 1:am, and the whole team was on call, solving a giant ass issue.
“Guys it’s late… let us continue tomorrow”, I said.
The Next day morning, at 6 am, my colleague called me and said,
“Hey, Good morning, I got the solution, I fixed it and now I will go to sleep”
“Oh my god, were you working the whole night?” I asked.
“Nope. I saw the solution right in front of my eyes. When I woke up, it was already in my mind. I just tried and it worked…”
Such a pleasant surprise, right?
How is this even possible… Getting solutions all sudden when you are dead asleep? Well, it does happen. And I am sure even you must have got any solution like this.
Law of attraction? Could be.
One who thinks about food all the time is always hungry.
umm… well not only on positive notes but yea, few of you might have seen a horror movie and might have faced inkling of ghosts (Pardon me for such lame example). Yes, but this all is subconscious mind!
Its effect on how you program your mind before you go to sleep.
Considering most of the audience being techie, let me put it in another way round. The subconscious mind is like a Cloud Storage with absolutely no limit to storage capacity. Updating & retrieving anything from this memory is possible at any point in time. However, it works as a slave and our conscious mind is Master.
Consider the case of a kid who just started walking or eating or speaking. We do not teach the child how to eat, how to walk on every single day, do we? We do not have to teach or train our minds on these kinds of activities daily. Our mind can capture these images & learns how to respond to it. This storage IS our subconscious mind. Our conscious(active) mind is responsible to send a notification to the brain and we act on it according to what our subconscious mind instructs based on the learning of the past experiences. It works in autopilot mode, by memorizing it, that has happened already. In short, the subconscious mind takes care of physical as well as mental habits (Thinking & acting).
So, coming back to our technical problem and finding the solution, this was the first time we were dealing with the problem and how come we still got the solution?
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND is capable of molding into new patterns if we feed in different thoughts. While working on the problem, the deep involvement could have fed and written the concern to SUBCONSCIOUS MIND which could have found the solution already when you (and your CONSCIOUS MIND) were asleep. It then memorizes and stores this pattern to permanent storage to retrieve faster next time.
Now imagine an example of gardening, if the conscious mind can be thought of Gardner who plants seeds, fertilize it, then the subconscious mind is the actual plant that grows and hence we always say, hear or read this everywhere that “the power of positive thinking is important to the foundation of your entire thought process.”
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND does not understand (or judge) what is right or wrong, what is good or bad, hence we (along with CONSCIOUS MIND which understands, right and wrong) always should make sure to plant good seeds. Not as tough as it sounds, is it? All successful people are positive thinkers; hence it is our responsibility to write down our goals and keep dreaming about it every day until we achieve it. One should never dominate successful thoughts, by doing so, we are providing negative food to SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.
Power of the subconscious mind helps to create the desired life, so make sure to plant the seeds you want it to grow as visualizing goals helps to reach your passion.
Once we are habituated to a pattern, it goes in our comfort zone and hence successful people also keep challenging themselves. Doing this consistently and providing positivity adopts good patterns and trains or takes you closer to the desired life/goal. Do not limit it to just positivity, go and feed your brain with courage, peace, freedom, hope, strength & love.
Now you may raise a question, just by thinking that I will be rich one day will make me rich by this concept? NO. the money will not fly and come to you. Feeding the THOUGHT of being rich will make your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND work, will create interests to do good things smartly and hence this habit will make you rich.
Based on the book “Power of subconscious Mind” by Joseph Murphy.
Do read it if you liked the article and let me know if I could help you to think a bit more affirmative today?