Issue 9 February 2011
Quantum
habituation is a problem. Most of us grow comfortable with the people we see and the experiences we have on a regular basis, and so our interactions become rote. As the behaviours and emotional responses of the people around us become familiar and predictable, so do ours. We and they are mostly running our belief programmes, and so acting unconsciously. This familiarity and habituation can make for a comfortable existence without too many surprises to ‘upset the applecart’ of our lives. But it can also mean that our marriage, friendships, work relations and other kinds of relationships suffer from neglect and boredom. It can mean we keep doing the same thing over and over, despite our good intentions to do otherwise. This is why it is important to understand that despite the vast amount of information the subconscious mind can process, our subconscious is fairly straightforward—it is mainly a stimulus and response system. What is programmed in is what comes out.
Have you ever had an experience where someone ‘pushed your buttons’? When someone said something to you that created an autopilot emotional reaction? The trigger is not really what that person said—that is just information. The trigger is usually how you perceive what that person said, coupled with the way you read the signals from that person’s tone, body language and facial expressions. Those intangibles stir subconscious memories within you and activate those past programmes you are running automatically. It is from those subconscious memories that your actions and responses arise, which are usually emotional ones. Remember, we are running our subconscious programmes a minimum of 95 percent of the time! In effect we are robots, prisoners of our personal beliefs and conditioning, and for the most part we don’t even realise it. There is no freedom until we make the choice to break free from our outdated belief patterns and remake them with ones that better serve who we are now and how we want our lives to look now.
How do you make such a shift? There are many ways. I don’t mean to tease you in this article, arguing for the necessity of integrating your
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subconscious and conscious belief systems and then not offering the pay-off with techniques for doing so. However, the techniques are many and varied, and its takes some training and guidance to use them properly. The point of this article, really, is to help you wake up to the real reason why you may not now be living the life you dream about or achieving your full potential. With this knowledge, you can find the most effective tools to help you reprogramme outdated beliefs. My book Incredible You details the belief-change technique that I teach and use with individuals and groups in public and private trainings, and in the corporate world. Using these techniques, you can reveal outdated and self-sabotaging subconscious beliefs in seconds, and then reprogramme with updated and self-empowering ones in minutes. But you can also use other systems, such as neurolinguistic programming, energy psychology, hypnosis, and others. Just be sure that whatever avenue of change you explore, the skills you learn and the insights you gain are ones that help you;
uncover your subconscious belief systems to see which ones are self-sabotaging and out of date,
reprogramme them with more nurturing and empowering belief systems
help you more fully integrate your subconscious and conscious patterns and programmes. If you do, you will not only be able to keep your New Year’s resolutions, but you will be able to celebrate the achievement of all of your most cherished life resolutions.
Chris Walton, MSc, is an author, sought-after keynote speaker, and internationally recognised performance psychologist specialising in change performance. From his base in London, he travels around the world training and coaching world- class athletes and other sports figures to achieve mind–body optimal performance, runs public personal development seminars using his belief-change techniques, and conducts corporate organisational training and coaching programmes on high-performance mindsets.
His websites are
www.ChrisWaltonUK.com and
www.IncredibleYou.org.
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