It is a known fact that what you concentrate on most of your time is what you get as a result in your life. This is no secret, because your unconscious mind which dictates indirectly most of your attitudes only assimilates what you think of and leads you towards it: It does not know what you want on a conscious level, it only copies what is going on in your mind on a constant basis and tries to apply it. Thus the importance of feeding your unconscious mind with only positive thoughts, and goals you are thinking of from time to time on a conscious level, and making that habit long standing.
You have probably heard a thousand times that the first step in every achievement in life is goal setting, and the way this step should be done, but the problem with goal setting alone is that it is made only at a conscious level, and this is why it does not last. In life, a general rule is that 'Everything that is not done on a repetitive basis never gets anchored, and thus never becomes reality'. To illustrate this point, I will go through many of the habits that you get in your life, and that become part of your daily routine, without you wanting them, but that come into existence because of your repetitive behavior.
I will set apart the habits involving an addiction factor, like smoking and drugs, although to some extent these respond to the same rule indirectly because you never get addicted to smoking from one cigarette, and the same is true for drugs. But let us put this aside, and consider some of the habits that you "learn" in your life, without you being conscious, only by repetitive behavior: These need not be necessarily negative, but unless you are conscious about them, you are letting your unconscious control your life:
- Watching television each and every day for 3 hours at least: Do you think it is a conscious act that when you reach home you turn on the TV, and you sit down and watch whatever is running, and if nothing pleases you, you begin switching from one channel to another.
- While in front of the TV, eating snacks of every kind, and go on eating till you are full or till it is time to go to bed: Do you think your cravings are real or you are just following a habit?
- While you are with your colleagues at work or at school, complaining about what is wrong, about this and that person, about this or that thing: Do you really need to talk about that, or is it just something natural?
- Brushing your teeth every morning or evening: Do you do it consciously? Or do you deduce that your teeth need brushing? Do you brush your teeth after eating during the day?
This leads us to believe that by repeating something over and over again, it becomes a habit. Physiologically, it is a fact, and the explanation behind it is that your unconscious mind dictates the behavior without you even noticing it. You do take notice of it on a conscious level every once in a while when you feel for instance that days are passing without you noticing (interesting no, especially that 20% of your conscious time during the day is in front of the television), when you go to the dentist for check-up and you have no problem with your teeth, or when you get on a scale and see you are overweight.
The question then is how to turn our subconscious mind into a generator or a machine that does only what we need to do, as opposed to what we want to do, and the answer as per the above reasoning is divided in two answers:
1- On an action level: By taking what we want to do (that is our goals after translating them into tasks), and acting on them time and time again till we reach them. This looks logical when it is stated like this, but it usually does not happen this way because our conscious mind is acting against us, and because we are not giving it enough time to assimilate the behavior we need to enforce.
The same thing applies for everything you learn in your life as much as for goals you need to achieve. Let us take some examples of the process:
You want to learn how to swim. You begin practicing, and of course, the first few times, you find it difficult, you have hard time drinking water from the pool, you have difficulty coordinating your arms and legs, it is exhausting, etc. If you do not persist throughout the difficulties, you never learn how to swim, and if you persist partly, you learn how but in a lousy way.
2- On a thinking level: By stopping your lousy thinking process, or by cutting it short. You need to replace your current thinking patterns by more positive ones. Thinking about good things will make good things happen to you. It is not that the bad things do not exist. Both good and bad things exist, but you only attract what you think of. If you think your day is going to be terrible (like Monday for example), or that you need more sleep, or that you will not be able to sleep, you will only attract these feelings to your life. The question is than how to anchor the "good" thinking process in our brain. The answer is simply by asking ourselves the correct questions over and over again, and answering them.
For example, instead of asking ourselves "How come we are so fat?" and answering because we cannot stop eating (and making our brain assimilate unconsciously that we cannot stop eating), we should ask ourselves "What can we do to become fit?" This way, we will make our brain process the question and find an appropriate answer (is it eating less and exercising?) and by repetitive question and answer, our unconscious mind will assimilate the behavior, and it would be easier for us to reach it.
So the invitation for today is to reverse our lousy thinking processes by changing the way we ask ourselves questions, trying each and every day to think about these new questions and finding answers (remember repetition is very important), and taking repetitive action.
Nicolas Succarieh
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