How Self-Help Subliminal Messages Work

Wow! What a great deal! Women suddenly find you attractive (despite that beer belly you currently have...). Money falls into your lap! And you don’t even have to do anything at all...

I’m sure you can now easily see why self-help subliminal messages are so popular.

In this article, I’m going to explain how self-help subliminal messages supposedly work.

There’s a lot of rubbish out there, with a lot of misconceptions and irrational logic as to how subliminal messages actually work. The sad thing is that many of these incorrect explanations are actually spread by unscrupulous websites who try to convince you to buy their questionable subliminal products.

The Theory Behind Self-Help Subliminal Messages

Remember that subliminal messages are messages that you can’t consciously hear, yet can still affect you on a subconscious level? To summarize what I discussed earlier, subliminal messages work by being so low in perceptibility (too soft or too fast or too faint) such that you can’t detect or identify the message consciously, but on a subconscious level, your mind is able to detect the message.

And there-in lies the attractiveness of subliminal messages for the self-help industry. The whole raison d’etre, or reason for existence, of self-help subliminal messages is their ability to bypass the conscious mind, and deliver the messages directly to the subconscious mind. This enables you to change your existing habits, attitudes and negative thinking to more positive and empowering thinking, attitudes and thought patterns.

Change Begins With The Subconscious Mind...

Let’s talk about the subconscious mind first.

The subconscious (defined as "below" the conscious) mind is the intuitive, emotional part of your mind. It’s the part where all your hunches, gut feelings, intuitive feelings come from. Your memories are also stored in your subconscious mind.

Now, your subconscious mind readily accepts anything that you put to it. It doesn’t criticize, censor, filter or question back.

If you keep putting negative thoughts into your subconscious, then it’s no surprise that you feel depressed, negative and lousy all the time. If you think of happy, cheerful and optimistic thoughts, then you’re likely to be in a cheerful, optimistic and happy mood most of the times.

So, if you’re able to deliver the right messages or affirmations directly to your subconscious mind, you’ll be able to improve yourself and install more positive, empowering & motivating attitudes and habits. Self-improvement & personal growth would be so much easier and you wouldn’t need to use self-help subliminal products.

Unfortunately, life isn’t always so easy. That’s because, usually, without fail...

...The Conscious Mind Gets into the Way

Have you ever noticed that little voice in your mind that’s always talking and telling you what to do?

Have you ever wondered who that little voice actually is?

That’s your conscious mind talking!

The conscious mind is what you use in your normal, everyday, waking life. It’s what you use to navigate and get through your life. The conscious mind is the logical, thinking part of your mind. It’s always thinking, evaluating, filtering information, and it does that very well.

The problem is, because it’s always thinking, evaluating and analyzing information, the conscious mind tends to act as a "filter", blocking out any message that it doesn’t like or agree with.

"Nah, you can’t do it", "You’re not good enough", "Why bother, you’re going to fail anyway", "Why don’t you sit down in front of the TV and just relax. After all, you deserve it. You’ve had a tough day", "Just one more helping of ice-cream won’t hurt! You can always start the diet tomorrow", "Exercise? Do it tomorrow! You had a hard day at work today", blah, blah, blah...

Sound familiar?

That’s why it’s so difficult to change your habits and attitudes. Every time you try to tell yourself to do some work, go on a diet & start exercising, stop procrastinating, learn something new, etc., your conscious mind goes into overdrive and comes up with lots of excuses not to do so.

Why You Need to Bypass the Conscious Mind

As you can obviously see, the conscious and subconscious mind are different from each other. It’s like two totally different and separate personalities in the same mind.

Compared to the conscious mind, which is always thinking & talking away, the subconscious mind is a lot quieter and doesn’t show itself a lot. You don’t often hear your subconscious mind a lot.

However, it’s not a case of the louder voice being right all the time. The subconscious mind actually determines what you do, your attitudes and habits. Not your conscious mind.

Now, unfortunately, your conscious mind likes to act as a "gate-keeper" or filter by blocking out messages that it doesn’t like or agree with.

Whilst the conscious mind does this in order to protect ourselves, unfortunately, this also sometimes prevents you from adopting or learning any useful or positive thought patterns or habits in your self-improvement efforts.

So, if you could bypass the conscious mind and "install" your messages directly into the subconscious, your personal growth and self-improvement efforts would progress a lot faster.

And That’s Where Self-Help Subliminal Messages Come In

I’m sure you can obviously see now why it’s so important to be able to bypass the conscious mind and go directly to the subconscious mind. And that’s where self-help subliminal messages come in.

By being able to "sneak in" under the conscious mind, the messages get delivered directly to the subconscious mind, thus helping you in your personal growth efforts. It’s actually very similar to how hypnosis or auto-suggestion works.

Now, hang on a moment! Don’t get the wrong idea.

It’s important to understand that self-help subliminal messages can’t change you overnight. It’s going to take a while, from as fast as several weeks to several months or even longer.

What happens is that you’ll hear less and less from that little voice in your head. After a while, that little voice will eventually be telling you to start exercising, stop taking that extra helping of ice-cream, stop buying that super-size value pack of potato chips, etc., etc., etc.

And that’s because self-help subliminals work by changing your attitudes and habits from the inside out.

You’ll naturally start doing the things you know you have to do to achieve your goals. What may have seemed like a dreadful chore or task to be put-off and finished another time, doesn’t seem so bad anymore. Eventually, you’ll end up doing it because you want to do it.

It’s basically having stronger will power and motivation to accomplish your goals. And at the end of the day, you’re going to achieve your goals because you’ll want to do it yourself.

So, the real reason why self-help subliminal message programs work is because they make you want to do all the many, little tasks necessary to accomplish your goals.

And this way, you’ll always have the motivation and stamina to achieve all your goals and objectives, and more importantly, maintain that goal that you’ve always wanted for the rest of your life.

Now that, is worth a lot more than all the self-help products in the world...

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