Building Abundance
6-week eCourse by Randy Gage

Lesson Seven: Programming Your Subconscious Mind

Every thought that reaches your conscious mind gets transferred to your subconscious mind for filing. This becomes your “hard drive,” and your conscious mind draws on it for all the decisions you make. This is done automatically, and often without effort or deliberation.

So for example, maybe when you were quite young, one of your parents said something like, “Those rich people are always trying to chisel out of their taxes.” At that age you are very impressionable, and very protective of your parents. You’re not even sure what rich people are, but you know that they are trying to do something to hurt your parents.

So later if they say something like, “We may be poor, but at least we’re honest,” it’s another piece of programming on your hard drive. You don’t even know it’s there. Because as you get older, you come to the conclusion that you want to be rich. So you may work two jobs, save money for a business, and do all kinds of things to get wealthy.

Unbeknownst to you, you have programming on your hard drive that will stop you. It’s a small voice that you can’t even hear, and it’s saying things like, “You’d better stop what you are doing, or you are going to be rich. And if you’re rich, your parents won’t love you anymore, you won’t fit in with your friends, and you’ll have to sell your soul. You’d better stop doing what you’re doing right now.”

You never hear this voice, but it can subconsciously sabotage what you are trying to do nonetheless.

You’re getting this kind of negative programming, 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the data-sphere (TV, radio, movies, Internet, friends and family). And if you aren’t censoring some of these sources, and replacing them with positive counter-programming, the sabotage cycle continues.

But it can be stopped . . .

You can program your own subconscious mind. This is what we mean by autosuggestion. It simply means all self-administered suggestions and stimuli, which reach your mind through your five (arguably six) senses.

The thoughts you give precedence to in your conscious mind, determine what gets filed for saving in your subconscious mind. So the first place you start is with the conscious stuff you are aware of. If you are a prosperity-conscious person, you won’t watch 95% of the programs on network television. You wouldn’t watch talk shows and reality shows that take advantage of people’s ignorance for your entertainment. You wouldn’t read 95% of the books on the bestseller lists. Most of the Hollywood movies that come out wouldn’t be on your must-see list, and you’d be very selective about whom you spend time with. You would be always vigilant about everything that has the power to program your subconscious mind.

But that isn’t enough . . .

Not by a long shot. You have to be very proactive about giving yourself positive programming as well. I keep a little publication called “Daily Word” and the book “As a Man Thinketh” next to my bed, everywhere in the world I am. That way, the first thing in the morning, and the very last thing before I turn off the light, I read a short passage of something positive. I want that positive message imprinting itself on my subconscious mind.

I believe in affirmations. I say them out loud, I write them out 13 times, and I sometimes put them on stickers around the house, so I see them all the time. I believe in having goal cards, or writing goals and positive statements in your planner. Every time you see them, even if it is just out of the corner of your eye, they are making an impression on your subconscious mind.

One of my favorite activities, and something that worked great for me, is building a Dream Board. This is a big piece of poster board that you fill with pictures, affirmations and other things you want to manifest in your life. (For instructions on how to do this, read book four in this series “The 7 Spiritual Laws of Prosperity and How to Manifest Them in Your Life.”) Then you put this someplace where other people won’t see it (so negative people can’t ridicule it), but you see it every day. Like the other things, just walking by and seeing it out of your peripheral vision has an effect on you.

In book two in the series (“Accept Your Abundance”), I share a powerful programming technique from seminar leader Richard Brooke. He has you actually write a movie script of the thing you want to manifest.

Here’s what you must understand about your subconscious mind. It doesn’t question, argue, or doubt. It does exactly what it is programmed to do, no questions asked. It responds very well to imaginary scenarios. So when you affirm things like, “I am in perfect health,” it works to make that true.

Here’s the secret . . .

The more real you make things, and the stronger you imprint them, the faster your subconscious mind can make them come true in reality. So what you want to do is involve as many of your senses as you can. That’s why Richard’s movie script idea works so well. You can write all senses into the script. So you can wake up, smell the coffee downstairs, hear the waves crashing on the shore, feel the pride as you receive the Academy Award, touch the hair of your soul mate, and see the sunrise over the water, from the view in your penthouse. The more real you make it—the sooner it becomes real!

I have one more technique to share with you. And it is a powerful one! It’s a way to directly program your subconscious mind with the exact information you want it to have.

Another interesting aspect to know about your subconscious mind is that it goes through cycles, and during certain of these cycles, it is more susceptible to being programmed.

The perfect time to program your mind is when you are in an “Alpha” state. Alpha is the state of deep relaxation—the state you feel right before you drop off to sleep, or are gently waking up in the morning. By the time you’re halfway through the massage you’re getting, you’re probably in a wonderful alpha state. But it can be difficult to be programmed at those times.

So here’s the perfect time . . .

Meditation. When you get in a deep meditative state, you are in Alpha cycle. Now if you haven’t been trained in meditation, let me give you a way to get into a deep meditative state, almost at will.

First, get in a relaxed position, usually sitting down, with your legs crossed, or on a chair. Close your eyes, and begin breathing deeply. Breathe in through your nose, and exhale out your mouth. Slow, steady deep breaths.

Begin counting backwards from 50, with each exhalation. Clear your mind of outside thoughts, and just concentrate on the next number. If stray thoughts come into your mind, just notice they are there, then release them and go to your next number.

Starting at 50, you will be in a deep alpha state by the time you get to one. You now can start programming your subconscious mind. Best to do this in the form of affirmations.

Examples:

Now to the uninitiated, making affirmations like these are corny, or even silly. They have no idea how wrong they are. This is a POWERFUL programming technique.

Once you have completed all the things you want to program, then say something like the following:

“I am going to count backwards from five to one. When I reach one, I will return to an awake, alert state, refreshed and ready for a great day. Five...I am starting to hear what is going on around me. Four...my eyelids are feeling lighter. Three...I am feeling alert. Two....”

That’s what you might do if you were meditating in the morning. If you were doing it at night, you might say something like this:

“I am going to count backwards from five to one. When I reach one, I will be relaxed and serene, ready for a good night’s sleep. Five...I am starting to feel sleepy. Four...my eyelids
are feeling heavy. Three....”

Now if you are nervous or you’re afraid you wouldn’t be able to remember what to say when you’re in the Alpha state, make a tape! You can just sit relaxed, with your finger on the tape player. Start counting backwards, and when you get to one, push the ‘Play’ button. You’ll have exactly the affirmations you want, in your own voice.

Remember this. Your subconscious mind doesn’t analyze or critique, it simply runs on autopilot, doing what it is programmed to do. These autosuggestion techniques allow you to choose the programming you want—which leads to the exact results you want to manifest!

-RG

*Chapter excerpt from "Prosperity Mind" by Randy Gage.

Prosperity Action Step

1. Write down all the reasons why you, your friends and your family might think you can't or shouldn't be abundant.

2. Write down all the reasons why you are prosperous and why you are deserving of abundance in your life. Begin by turning every reason why you just listed you couldn't be abundant, in #1, into a positive and affirming statement.

The idea here, is to bring awareness into your life. So that when people limit you or themselves by lack thinking, you recognize it right away. Realize, that what others say is a reflection of their thinking . . . not who you are.

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