The Subconscious Mind

Understanding how the brain works gives us insight into what makes us human. But there are long-standing mysteries about the mind-body connection, the brain, and consciousness. The subconscious mind is very powerful. A lot of progress has been made recently about the understanding and use of this power. The Law of Attraction is a metaphysical belief that "like attracts like", that positive and negative thinking bring about positive and negative physical results, respectively. Basically, there are three steps to achieving conscious and subconscious alignment and shifting your subconscious mind away from any negative habits or roadblocks that are stopping you making improvement in your life:  Visualization,  Emotion,  and Repetition.  The Secret is a wildly popular film and book that gained recent attention in the media. It is based on the Law of Attraction and is more of a video seminar, a presentation featuring a series of authors, philosophers, doctors, quantum physicists such as Bob Proctor,  Joe Vitale,  and Michael Beckwith. Bob Proctor is one of the most sought-after speakers in the world for professional coaching and company seminars and a teacher. Proctor is considered one of the living masters and teachers of Ways to Improve Your Life using your subconscious mind. Dr. Joe Vitale ("Mr. Fire!") is about attracting money, health, success, happiness, marketing, publicity, selling, hypnosis, copywriting, books, fitness, metaphysics, and more using the power of The Law of Attraction.  One of his techniques is about using a mirror. In short, you stand before a mirror big enough to see your face and torso, stare into your eyes, and then speak out loud about what you want to have, do, or be. You give yourself the pep talk of all time. You reprogram your mind with your voice and your own authority. Michael Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California. His inspiring teachings have been empowering spiritual seekers for more than two decades. His talks on Spiritual Liberation show how prayers are answered when the individual's subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or thought in his or her mind. Mindfulness is an ancient, time-tested, and still  modern antidote to so many of our problems because mindfulness is a way to train and harmonize mental activity and it can be used to reduce stress and increase concentration. Mindfulness meditation aims to allow you to create a compassionate relationship with yourself, by eliminating self criticism and recognizing persist negative thoughts. By allowing yourself to become a passive observer of your own inner events, you can become aware of automatic responses in behavior or thinking. The basic vipassana technique is simply to become aware of what is happening in your body and in your mind from moment to moment, simply to observe, to allow what is happening to happen, without making any value judgments about whether it is good or bad. The goal is to observe, not to try to influence or alter anything. But this can help gain insight into the mental sources of negativity, most of which is subconscious. It is not a religion and shouldn't interfere with religious practices. Philosopher and scientist Dan Dennett argues that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes and are not what we traditionally think they are. His 2003 book Freedom Evolves explores the way our brains have evolved to give us the kind of freedom that matters, while 2006's Breaking the Spell examines religious belief through the lens of biology. Lynne McTaggart is a best-selling author, researcher, and lecturer whose work has rightly been described as a bridge between science and spirituality. She teaches what she calls Living the Field, which offers  a bridge between science and the spirit. The programs are designed to help people incorporate new science discoveries into a coherent plan for modern integrated living. Quantum Consciousness holds that,  "All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.... life is a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves."  -Bill Hicks Also, recent advances in cellular science are heralding an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were preprogrammed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinacy. Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the belief that the character of one's life is genetically predetermined, a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science. Cellular biologists now recognize that the environment, the external universe and our internal physiology, and more importantly, our perception of the environment, directly controls the activity of our genes. Cellular consciousness is the molecular mechanisms by which environmental awareness interfaces genetic regulation and guides organismal evolution. Summary What you set your intention for becomes what receives your attention. When you are energetically and emotionally aligned manifestation occurs within the parameters of your intention. But when you are not aligned with your intention, because your thoughts and beliefs have not yet been integrated to allow yourself to be at the energy of what you wish to manifest, there is no flow and the process is frustrating and disappointing. This is because your attention is displacing energy from your intention. To learn about recent discoveries from the world of neuroscience in a way that people of all backgrounds can enjoy, check out the Brain Science Podcast. Creative visualization Bruce Lipton & The Subconscious Mind Hacking Your Mind -PBS .