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Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind

March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Not too long ago, a good friend of mine told me about this; his huge Rottweiler is afraid of cats. His story goes that when the dog was a young pup, it tried the usual dog-hates-cats’ snarling and snapping technique on an older cat. Unfazed, the cat coolly let the pup have his merry way.

The cat probably got irritated after a while and without warning, a feline claw lashed the dog’s sensitive nose. The poor dog probably felt that it was the worst pain he’ll ever feel that he associated cats with it. From then on, he gave cats a wide berth. Even when he grew the size of a small horse and could probably swallow a whole cat without effort, they still lorded over him. This huge beast, which can reduce grown men to quaking, is afraid of little cute cats.

We can laugh about the absurdity of this pair but come to think of it, don’t we all have our “little cute cats”? Don’t we all have those little fears that shaped us into what we are now? Wasn’t there a particularly painful experience that taught us to react to things in a particular way?

As little kids, we were constantly barraged with lessons on what to do and what not to do. It could be as instructional as ‘don’t play with matches’, ‘don’t talk to strangers’, ‘drink more water, ‘study hard’ and so on. These simple messages got ingrained into our system, making them become autopilot (the unconscious beliefs).

That’s great but what if you were constantly told ‘you’re not good enough’, ‘your grades are lower than so-and-so’, ‘you’re not pretty’, ‘you’re fat’, ‘money is hard earned’ etc.?

Well, unfortunately, these negative outlooks got into our psyche too. Like a dormant computer virus, it got embedded into our subconscious programming. Let’s say you were always being told that you’re ugly; you grew up always thinking about that, and each time you try to improve your looks, this ‘virus’ creeps up and tells you ‘don’t bother, you’re ugly and nothing works’. Read more

Posted by Ken | Filed Under subconscious