Brian Tracy explains how your subconscious mind stores habits and resists change, enforcing patterns that keep you stuck. He argues the subconscious obeys your repeated thoughts, so positive thinking matters, and recommends affirmations and meditation to stretch beyond your comfort zone.
Your subconscious mind is influenced by the thoughts and pictures you put into it. So think positive thoughts. Hello, I'm Brian Tracy, and today I want to talk to you about something that has a huge effect on every action you take, but is often overlooked. And that is your subconscious mind. Now, your subconscious mind is like a huge memory bank. Its capacity is virtually unlimited. It permanently stores everything that ever happens to you. By the time you reach the age of 21, you've already permanently stored more than 100 times the contents of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Under hypnosis, older people can often remember with perfect clarity events from 50 years before. Your unconscious memory is virtually perfect. It is your conscious recall that is suspect. That's a problem. The function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. Its job is to ensure that you respond exactly the way that you are programmed. Your subconscious mind makes everything you say and do fit a pattern consistent with your self concept. Your master program. Your subconscious mind is subjective. This means that it's not based on fact or truth. It does not think or reason independently. It merely obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind. Just as your conscious mind can be thought of as the gardener planting the seeds, your subconscious mind can be thought of as the garden or fertile soil in which the seeds germinate and grow. So your conscious mind commands and your subconscious mind obeys. Your subconscious mind is an unquestioning servant that works day and night to make your behavior fit a pattern consistent with your emotionalized thoughts, hopes and desires. Your subconscious mind grows either flowers or weeds, the garden of your life, whichever you plant by the mental equivalents that you create. Your subconscious mind is what is called a homeostatic impulse. It keeps your body temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, just as it keeps you breathing regularly and keeps your heart beating at a certain rate through your autonomic nervous system. Your subconscious mind maintains a balance amongst the hundreds of chemicals in your billions of cells, so that your entire physical machine functions in complete harmony most of the time. Now, your subconscious mind also practices homeostasis in your mental realm by keeping you thinking and acting in a manner consistent with what you have done and said and thought and acted in the past. All of your habits of thinking and acting are stored in your subconscious mind. It has memorized all your comfort zones and it works to keep you in them. Your subconscious mind causes you to feel emotionally and physically uncomfortable whenever you do anything new or different, or to change any of your established patterns of behavior so you can feel your subconscious mind pulling you back toward your comfort zone each time you try something new. Even thinking about doing something different from what you're accustomed will make you feel tense and uneasy. Superior men and women are always stretching themselves, pushing themselves out of their comfort zones. They are very aware how quickly the comfort zone in any area becomes rut. They know that complacency is the great enemy of creativity and future possibilities. Remember, for you to grow to get out of your comfort zone, you have to be willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable doing new things the first few times. If it's worth doing well, it's worth doing poorly until you get a feel for it, until you develop a new comfort zone and at a new, higher level of confidence. So if you enjoyed this video and feel it was valuable in discussing how to use your subconscious mind to achieve your goals, share it with your friends or anyone else who might benefit from this information. Before we wrap up, I'd like to leave you with a thought to share with your friends and followers. Your subconscious mind is influenced by the thoughts and pictures you put into it, so think positive thoughts now. I'd love to hear from you. So my question today is do you ever use any techniques to tap into your subconscious mind, such as affirmations or meditation? Leave a comment below and I'll be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching. Remember, if you want to change your future, take action and take action now. If you enjoyed this video and feel it was valuable in helping you achieve your personal or professional goals, subscribe to my channel like this video and share this video with your friends or anyone else who might benefit from this information.
