5 New Thoughts To Begin To Rewire Your Unconscious Mind
What does it mean to rewire your unconscious mind?
The process of rewiring your unconscious mind is becoming aware of the person you would rather not be.
Think of how you react to being embarrassed or made fun of.
Do you change something about yourself to avoid the feelings these situations cause you?
If you answered yes, then you have a good idea of what your unconscious mind is made up of.
It is made up of the negative emotions you chose to ignore and the aspects of yourself you chose to change to support this decision.
Instead of processing your feelings in the moment or accepting yourself as unique, you shame the parts of you that aren’t accepted.
You alter your behavior and personality to a more acceptable version of yourself.
A more likeable version of you.
All of the moments of shame, embarrassment and guilt add up to create your unconscious mind.
Processing emotions out of your body is the only way to avoid a destructive unconscious mind.
Bottling things up or numbing out makes the unconscious mind stronger.
As more and more of your personality get sent to the unconscious, you begin to feel the toll it is taking on you.
You begin to feel:
- Unfulfilled
- Lost
- Lonely
- Overwhelmed
- Irritable
- Angry
- Anxious
- Fearful
The unconscious mind is made up of the parts of us we need to feel whole.
The parts of us we need to accept in order to thrive.
The benefits of rewiring your unconscious
- Self acceptance
- Self love
- Authenticity
- Creativity
- Healing
- Trust
- Overcome fears
- Manifest easier
You cant get rid of the unconscious mind, but you can train it.
Your unconscious mind controls you actions.
Becoming aware of your unconscious is the first step to retraining your thoughts, changing your behavior and making choices on purpose.
The unconscious mind is for your protection.
When you experience something uncomfortable or painful your brain will send certain information to your unconscious to keep you from overwhelm or shock.
Why do you have unconscious beliefs?
When faced with something undesirable, your ability to process and understand is lessened.
Your brain’s first response is to prioritize fight or flight.
When you are stressed the only thing your body knows is that it is not safe.
It is up to you to give it more information.
When you don’t provide more information your mind turns on and takes over.
Retaining your mind is about redefining how you will react and under what circumstances.
With an untrained mind your brain will de-prioritize your logic and reasoning skills at even the slightest inconvenience and trigger fight or flight.
When you are feeling threatened your body is trying to escape the danger.
Retraining your mind to respond correctly to non physical threats allows you to deal with life’s circumstances more logically and reasonably.
When the unconscious mind is left to its own devices it controls your life from survival mode.
You experience:
- Misplaced anger
- Lack of creativity
- Defensiveness
- Suspicion
- Paranoia
- Addiction
- Anxiety
- Fear
The aspects of yourself that you send to your unconscious become the very things that create your suffering.
All of these aspects and feelings hold you back and create unnecessary problems in your life.
This cycle of suffering is endless and will not go away on its own.
So instead try becoming aware of your emotional reactions like the ones above.
Begin to see them not as problems, but as opportunities to rewire your thoughts.
5 new ways to rewire your mind for a positive mindset:
Accept that your unconscious beliefs are not working for you:
You are not your mind.
A negative mindset, limiting beliefs or bad habits are all results of you allowing your mind to function on autopilot.
Your mind on autopilot is the same as survival mode.
When you don’t set specific intentions and goals for your mind it resorts to making decisions from survival mode and not thrive mode.
Use stepping stone thoughts:
When you’re setting new goals for yourself, only choose slightly better thoughts to achieve your outcome.
Don’t try to go from I am miserable, to I am happy.
Your mind wont believe you and it wont work.
You have to move slowly toward your end goal, with slightly better and believable thought.
I like to call these stepping stone thoughts.
Instead, try changing I am miserable into I am trying.
As you get used to each new thought, replace it with another and another.
A thought is just a sentence in your head.
A belief is a thought you keep on believing until it becomes true.
The point is to start believing new thoughts slowly and not move on to another until each thought feels natural and effortless for you.
This is how you begin to change your mindset.
Become aware of your unconscious thoughts through self reflection:
Turn your judgments inward.
When you feel yourself being judgmental in any way, use this moment to identify harmful thoughts.
Become curious about what you are judging and how it relates to your own life.
The next step can be combined with this one.
Ask your thoughts questions to reveal unconscious beliefs:
Asking your thoughts questions is a powerful tool.
The mind is wired to come up with answers to the questions we ask it.
It will always come up with something and when it does, you get closer to the unconscious thoughts that are harmful to you.
Ask yourself:
- What am I thinking?
- How does it feel?
- Why am I thinking this?
- What other perspective can I think about this from?
- Why am I thinking this?
- What result do I want?
Use self love to diffuse harmful unconscious beliefs
Work on accepting yourself and all your mistakes
Its impossible to rewire a thought while you are in it.
Self love and acceptance creates enough space for you to see your thought from a different perspective.
Start your acceptance journey by choosing to see the bigger picture in all the lessons instead of just the negative.
Life is neutral its what we make things mean that creates suffering.
Once you pin point your imperfections refrain from judging them.
Use the questions outlined in the previous step to get to go deeper into your unconscious thought patterns.
De-armor your unconscious mind and practice being your future self:
Decide how you want to act and feel from your future self
You should have a better idea of what you don’t want to feel.
Using your higher self as a point of reference is an easy way to begin making changes.
Write down all your dream ideals about who you want to become.
What does she like?
How does she react?
What temperament does she have?
You will be deciding on purpose who you will become.
Reinforce your new thoughts with an action:
Do something different, that the old you wouldn’t do.
The more you practice, the easier and more natural it will feel for you to reinforce your thoughts and feelings with behavior.
It will eventually become a habit and finally a new way of being.
You will override your unconscious mind and begin to intentionally change your life
Final thoughts:
This list will get you started on rewiring your thoughts and creating a more positive mindset.
Unlearning old ways is the exact same as learning new ways.
It takes time and you have to practice to get it right.
I really want you to focus on the journey instead of the destination.
You cant rush growth.
Each phase is necessary.
The place you are now, is exactly where you are suppose to be.
Find a way to feel grateful for everything that is happening now, knowing that it is all happening in your favor.
Make sure to feel excitement for what is to come!
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