Learn to Speak to Your Subconscious Mind

Posted on October 05, 2022 by George Miller, One of Thousands of Leadership Coaches on Noomii.

Here’s some insight into the disturbing reality of unconscious decision making. In a study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, participants had the activity of their brains scanned while they were making decisions. The results were unsettling. They discovered the brain decides 5 to 6 seconds before we are consciously aware of our choice. WTF! What kind of design is this!? Even if there’s some good survival reasons, I’m still freaked out.

So, this is totally terrifying…. and there is emerging research that sheds insight into how to direct your subconscious mind.

Biologist and pioneer in the field of Epigenetics—literally “above genetics,” Dr. Bruce Lipton has done extensive research showing that our historic understanding of our own biology in the scientific community had largely been inaccurate. He characterizes our genes as blueprints, as the options we have available for our physical and emotional reality. Our mind is the architect. We are choosing how to use the blueprints. That means we have the ability to choose how to use our genetic coding.

I want to underline how awesome and alarming this is—that I’m deciding really important things—like even how I’m using my genetic coding, 6 seconds before I make a conscious decision.

What is going on?

Once we use our conscious mind to learn how to drive we pass off the task of driving to the unconscious mind. Bruce Lipton points out that this type of learning is not limited to driving and actually applies to every area of our life, including the most basic functions of our body, such as wellness and sickness; even life and death. “90% of disease has no historical background in our genes; in fact, less than 1% of diseases are actually connected to our genes.”

Yes, that means even if everyone in your family died young of all the diseases, you wouldn’t have to. Except that you would likely believe that you would. So, you probably would too.

For most of us, we’re in the habit of letting our subconscious mind dictate how we live our lives. When we understand the implications of this—that we can decide how we use our genetic coding – we can design and navigate the course of our lives.

This sounds really good and it is. Even so, it doesn’t change the fact that we are mostly unconscious. Picture yourself as a captain of a ship hurtling through space. The spaceship is your subconscious you created with the help of those in your environment. You, the captain, is your consciousness. If you are really going to navigate the spaceship of you, you need to be intentional at a level most of us are unaccustomed to.

Even if I tell myself I’m going to do something differently, my subconscious mind has already determined that I’m probably not going to. Bruce Lipton points out that the subconscious mind can’t translate messages from the conscious mind. In effect, we need to learn the language of our own subconscious in order to truly command the spaceship of ourselves.

Loss Aversion—At first looks like another obstruction to consciousness, but can shine light on how to proceed and increase awareness

To further help us chart our course is the Nobel Prize winning research of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. In summary, “We feel the pain of loss more acutely than we feel the pleasure of gain.” How this plays out in our day to day lives is that we tend not to take risks on things that would make us significantly happier. Basically, we choose to keep what we have, even if what we have isn’t really satisfying. The flip side to this is that if we’ve made a decision that isn’t working well for us, we will continue to abide by that decision, even as the negative consequences of it accumulate. We are wired to go to great lengths to avoid feeling the pain of losing.

Learning to speak to our subconscious mind through a badass graduate program

We’ve looked at two concepts about how we function, but how do we apply this to everyday, moment-to-moment life?

So, I go to the coolest school on the planet where we bring concepts like these into a framework that empower me to consciously fly the spacecraft that is me. To effectively circumvent Loss Aversion, I chose to take on the assignment of making and celebrating mistakes. By noticing my mistakes and the pain they bring, I begin to engage my conscious mind to assess what the damages really are. They tend to not be so horrible and even when they are pretty bad, I learn that I can weather the upset and the mistakes. I begin building in a new belief that I am resilient—not to mention I’m more likely to actually learn from the mistake. In this way, I employ Epigenetics by implanting the belief that mistakes are good and worthy of celebration. I conclude that I am learning and growing and experiencing more because I am making mistakes.

¹ Richards, Carl. “Overcoming an Aversion to Loss.” The New York Times. October 19, 2018. Accessed March 23, 2019. [link removed]

² Vedantam, Shankar, Rhaina Cohen, Kara McGuirk-Allison, Parth Shah, and Tara Boyle. “Daniel Kahneman On Misery, Memory, And Our Understanding Of The Mind.” NPR. March 13, 2018.

³ Richards, Carl. “Overcoming an Aversion to Loss.” The New York Times. October 19, 2018. Accessed March 23, 2019. [link removed]

⁴ The Wright Graduate University For the Realization of Human Potential [link removed]