Changing Your Thought Patterns Can Bring You Greater Success
Studies have shown that around 20% of our thoughts occur at a conscious level each day. Subconscious thoughts therefore make up the remaining 80% or so of our total number of thoughts.
So, would you be surprised to know that if only about 20% of what you really desire is currently showing up in your life, it may be that you need to spend some more time consciously working on what you are ‘inputting’ every day to affect what is happening to the other 80%?
So, how can you make such a change to your thought patterns? As we can’t control what is currently happening at a subconscious level, we need to change our input at a conscious level. To do that, we need to do the following…
- Processes such as meditation, positive affirmations, and keeping a daily performance journal, all serve to to feed powerful affirming thoughts into the conscious mind, which then permeate into the subconscious mind.
- Whenever negative emotions rise, e.g, emotions of anger, doubt or fear, we need to not let them settle in our minds. Why? Because emotions are transitory. It takes a combination of emotion and though to generate a permanent feeling at a subconscious level, not emotion alone. If we refuse to pay attention to that emotion, it will pass.
- The subconscious mind can’t distinguish between ‘imaginary’ and ‘real’. Therefore, at the level of our feelings, our subconscious mind can’t tell a ‘real’ past event from an ‘imagined’ one. By consistently consuming a daily diet of positive energy, over time, perpetual positivity becomes our ‘reality’.
By following the above steps, we can use the 20% of our thoughts that we have the power to control to bring about change to the 80% that just ‘happen’, thus improving the 80% of stuff that is showing up in our lives.
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This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. Continue : Secrets Of Success