Before I begin this explanation, here are some useful scientific facts about the human brain:
- It is estimated that the human brain has about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses.
- Each one of our more than 100 billion neurons may be connected to hundreds of other brain cells by as many as 10,000 synapses.
- The National Science Foundation states that the average person thinks between 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day. Experts say that 96-98% of those thoughts are those that we don’t think consciously.
- Every thought that we think is used by the same networks of brain cells and synapses—every single time.
- Every thought attracts thoughts of a similar nature because neural electrical branches are capable of growing secondary branches that will lead to similar but different thoughts.
- The more you consciously think a thought, the easier it will be to think that thought again because the connections between the brain cells that support it will become wider and broader. The less you think a thought, the more the connections that support it will thin out and eventually dwindle away.
How to Control your Subconscious Mind
Subconscious thoughts come to us in the form of auditory phrases and mental images. When we have subconscious auditory thoughts, they play in our minds without any deliberation whatsoever and they formulize our perception of our surroundings—sometimes without us even knowing it. Subconscious mental images are transparent pictures that flash in our minds that either originate from our past or from our discernible future.
Subconscious thoughts come to us effortless because the synapses that give life to them are wider and information can pass through them more easily. They usually represent the sights and sounds from our past that have been mentally revisited the most often or have affected us on the deepest emotional level—whether positively or negatively.
One of the worst difficulties anyone can cope with is to be haunted by negative thoughts that constantly repeat themselves in our head without our conscious control. These negative thoughts serve no beneficial use to us whatsoever and are even known to drive some people insane. If you let them, they will take away all of your confidence, all of your happiness, and even your desire to better yourself. The negative subconscious thoughts from our childhoods are particularly brutal because they are the most deeply-ingrained and we have the tendency to let these thoughts define who we are in every situation of life.
Fortunately, one of the greatest discoveries ever made about the human mind is the fact that we can choose which subconscious thoughts to develop and which to eliminate. You can do this by choosing thoughts that are the complete opposite of your negative thoughts; positive thoughts that are stronger and more vivid in nature. Like radio signals traveling through space, the waves that have more force behind them will counteract those that are weaker in nature. The synapses that supported those negative subconscious thoughts will dwindle from disuse and the neurons that they passed through will be used for another purpose.
Just by repeatedly thinking something that you want to think about on a daily basis, you can make those thoughts “self-moving” within a matter of about 4 weeks. Within that time, those positive thoughts will affect your habitual emotions, your self-identifying belief systems, and your subsequent behaviors.
You will control your subconscious mind instead of letting it control you.
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