How to Use Your Subconscious to Change Your Life

how to use your subconscious to change your life
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By Karl Staib

“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison

Your subconscious loves to do work while your body performs other tasks that are easy. I can prove this very easily by asking you how many good ideas you have had while driving or in the shower. When you are relaxed yet slightly distracted, your mind is often at its best.

Using subconscious requests will…

  • Improve your motivation.
  • Help you become happier.
  • Increase your emotional intelligence.

You’ll see improvement in less than a month.

My last request was…

“Please give me more patience when commuting to work and allow me to even enjoy my time in the car.”

Within a month I was enjoying my ride to work.

My latest request is…

“Let’s find creative ways to grow my blog.”

I took this approach because it’s going to take a request to my subconscious and action in my waking life to make this happen. This request is only a few days old, but it’s already working. Instead of just asking people to help vote for my blog on social sites that rate articles such as Stumble Upon and Digg, I’ve change my communication. I now friend someone, give a compliment (only if they are worthy) and tell them that they ever need any help to shoot me a message. They are much more willing to help me out.

Mindset

My mindset is changing by setting my subconscious on a certain issue.  I start to see new angles that I’ve never seen before. This subconscious request works for personal issues as well as work related concerns.

The 3 step request only takes five minutes:

Step 1: Before you turn out the light, close your eyes and take one minute to make a request to your subconscious. It can be anything. I would start small and make it open ended. I wouldn’t request to be an astronaut by the end of the month. Your subconscious is good, but not that good.

Step 2: Take two minutes to visualize yourself actually able to do this thing. Whether it is getting the motivation to jog before work or eating a healthy snack, you must visualize yourself doing the request that you asked your subconscious. Let’s say you want to jog before work: imagine yourself getting up a few minutes earlier than usual, putting on your exercise clothes and jogging shoes, and heading out into the crisp air. Then you start jogging, watching the sun rise over the buildings, the birds chirping, and you are feeling good.

Step 3: Take two minutes to imagine the feeling that will occur when you are able to accomplish this new thing. How do you feel when you walk back in your front door after a morning jog? Energized? Whatever feeling you want to achieves imagine that you have already created this emotion inside of yourself. Let it sink in, then go to sleep and let your subconscious do the rest of the work.

Your subconscious mind wants to help you improve your life; you just have to trust its vast resources and allow it to do its thing.

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Action Makes Your Request Real

You may not want to go jogging after the first subconscious request, but try to visualize yourself going through the motions the first couple of weeks. Then just start putting on your exercise gear and go for a five minute walk. Taking these baby steps will set you up for your jogging routine. Then after a few weeks just go for it. Now that you have your emotions geared toward jogging it should spur you into action.

By allowing the emotional momentum to build, you can create motivation that will help you accomplish things that make you happier.

Do you have a motivational tip to share? Have you ever tried making a subconscious requests before bed? We would love to hear it. Let’s discuss in the comment section.

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About Karl Staib

Karl Staib writes about unlocking and kicking open the door to working happy at his own blog: Work Happy Now! If you enjoyed this article, you may like to subscribe to his Free 10 week E-course or follow him on Twitter.

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232 Responses to How to Use Your Subconscious to Change Your Life

  1. Lain October 12, 2010 at 1:43 pm #

    I’m definitely going to try this. I’m a pianist so I’m pretty sure this would help me practice more.

    • Braden December 13, 2011 at 8:58 pm #

      I found this article/blog incredibly interesting! I’m a pianist as-well and would like to try it for not only practicing more but to be more consistently enthusiastic towards music.

      I hope it works well for the both of us*

  2. illuya October 23, 2010 at 1:15 am #

    Now I understand why good ideas often come up when I lie in my bed in the quiet night. I think it will do some help to my insomnia.

  3. Jennifer October 27, 2010 at 9:20 pm #

    Great thoughts. I’m always intrigued by the power of the subconscious. Thought you might also like this article from the New York Times on moments of insight: http://www.scribd.com/doc/4463595/ahha

  4. major bulldozer November 1, 2010 at 7:56 am #

    Thanks a lot for this post, it’s really useful, thanks for sharing!

  5. hahn November 8, 2010 at 5:57 pm #

    this is how the quabala teaches us to pray

  6. Lisa November 10, 2010 at 6:05 pm #

    Hello. I was just stumbling by and stopped. Great post as I have been reading all about the Law of Attraction so I loved the quote to get my mind working while asleep. Sweet dreams!

  7. morton16ok November 14, 2010 at 10:54 pm #

    Sounds like the getting up and going outside gets you used to the idea of jogging. Plus, neuroscience research shows that visualizing yourself doing something actually demotivates you to go out and do it because you already create within yourself that feeling of accomplishment of doing it. So don’t meditate on doing it, meditate on the results of what you’ll get from running and that will motivate you.

    • Braden December 13, 2011 at 9:01 pm #

      Thats really interesting and helpful! im going to give that a shot because im a runner, but consistently demotivated.. hav’nt run in weeks =P

      Thanks for the insight.

  8. victoria November 30, 2010 at 8:26 am #

    Hi. I would like to get better at it. I just tell it to wake up at a sertain times and it always does. Just visualise you waking in the morning and see what eve time you want to be up. Anyone can do it. Just set your alarm 10 min later so you give your subcon. a chance to work

  9. Steve Bailey January 9, 2011 at 7:18 pm #

    Another book recommendation (aside from Power of Subconscious Mind mentioned here) is Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland. One of his points of advice: Feel as if you’re already there at thae nextg subgoal towards the ultimate major goal. (Something also Neville said, in his books such as Resurrection.)
    Don’t try to force a particular route to your destination.. your higher self, or the Universe knows the perfect way there.
    Also, though it may sound contradictoary, Vadim also advises to feel as if it’s easy to do the daily actions and to contemplate yourself successfully, joyfully and easily doing those actions, and when you’re inspired to take different actions, then start doing those while doing daily visualizations of doing those new ones.

  10. Bestoti January 12, 2011 at 3:30 am #

    We always underestimate the subconscious mind…Thanks for the great info

  11. Phoenix Marshall January 13, 2011 at 8:56 am #

    I never realized just how powerful the subconscious mind was until I started using hypnosis. It definitely helped me to change my life.

  12. Scott January 22, 2011 at 3:56 pm #

    I know from personal experience that this works. If you have anything you need to memorize, read it or go over the words if it’s vocabulary, for instance, immediately before going to sleep and you’ll wake up remembering what you read or studied.

  13. Fulya January 31, 2011 at 12:35 am #

    Dancing is a good practice before beginning day routine.By doing it, you not only summon up your energy but also listen your favourite songs. And, your subconscious mind sending you a message when you listening.

  14. LGL February 5, 2011 at 10:12 am #

    The subconscious mind is a powerful tool. Not only do I use this technique but since I think about talking about the technique itself I seem to find more information even when I am not looking. Great post.

  15. Zartashia February 8, 2011 at 8:43 am #

    Very interesting.. i think i should try this to change my life.. and i hop .. this works =)

  16. Engravable Keychains February 10, 2011 at 7:27 pm #

    Great post. I know visualization can have a very powerful affect on creating reality. This is a great reminder to really focus on what I want to achieve. Thanks.

  17. Amanya February 11, 2011 at 6:48 am #

    iam very grateful for the wonderful change you have inserted into my life. ever since i subscibed to your website i have been changed alot. i hope to change the minds of many people in Africa who are still living in the past.
    thanx for the ebook sent to me.
    God bless you.

  18. Man Pead February 12, 2011 at 9:02 pm #

    I was aware about this already, nevertheless there was clearly some beneficial pieces that finalized the picture for me personally, thanks for your time!

  19. change your life February 14, 2011 at 3:40 pm #

    These tips are awesome for changing your life… I really like your blog. please keep writing great information .

  20. Rich-M April 3, 2011 at 10:04 pm #

    the mind is simply amazing as to what we can accomplish when we put it to use i have proven this to my self time after time everything from overcoming rejection to overcoming addiction. good stuff

  21. Rebecca July 8, 2011 at 6:48 am #

    Good advice! I like using meditation to move deep into my subconscious mind. All you need is 15 minutes in the morning and or night. It really makes a difference.

    • Kate September 28, 2011 at 5:29 am #

      hi Rebecca..i wanna try meditation..would you tell me which kind of meditation you do…

  22. flossydee August 10, 2011 at 9:59 am #

    I think Angela `s view is really interesting and that does happen to me all the time.

  23. flossydee August 10, 2011 at 10:00 am #

    really good tips its brilliant

  24. Art Epicurean September 17, 2011 at 7:10 am #

    All great philosophies, great thoughts, great men/women are born from spending time alone – with no distractions. In our crazy fastpaced world, people work hard not to be alone with t.v., internet, music, noise, distractions, people – when the opposite is needed to birth individuality and great ideas. Thanks for the reminder.

  25. Peter Hall November 4, 2011 at 12:33 pm #

    The subconscious mind is a powerful tool as you have shown. It can also help us with decisions. The old adage of “sleeping on it” is a very true one. Trying to force a decisions is often a big mistake. It’s much better to leave the mind to percolate on the matter and wait for the clarity to arrive.
    There is though a cautionary aspect to this which is making sure that what we ask of our subconscious and what we feed our mind is good stuff. Playing some shoot-em-up videos game before be is never a wise move!

  26. Christa Herzog November 8, 2011 at 2:49 pm #

    Until recently I was sure that action is so very important. Feeling and the frequency of vibration, which changes with the feeling, are more important, as you explain here. You first have to get yourself into the feeling of what you want and out of this attitude the ideas come upon which you start to get active. And instead of: “Come and visit me.” it should be: “Let’s visit each other”.

  27. GM November 23, 2011 at 2:07 pm #

    Great article! I enjoyed it.

  28. carljungfan November 25, 2011 at 6:20 pm #

    For all of you who found this blog to be somewhat revealing to the human mind, i suggest two books, both of which are beyond fascinating. “The essentials” and “the spirit in art, man, and literature” both books are written by the brilliant Carl Jung. If you do not have the time to read a book but are still interested. GOOGLE! read a few of his theories and your life will change.

  29. Mayukh December 9, 2011 at 4:02 am #

    I really Like this Post.. And I’m going to work it out well, from Today itself… I love your “I can” too…
    You are very good writer and most attractive virtue is ur simple statement

    Mayukh

  30. Richard December 15, 2011 at 7:41 pm #

    “Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison

    Such an inspiring quote. We really must have a positive outlook/ mindset in our everyday living.

  31. Velma December 26, 2011 at 3:16 pm #

    I think I have ADHD. I’m going to see a doctor soon, but it would confirm a lot of the oddities in my life. I definitely don’t want to be hooked up in meds all my life, so i’ll be trying this out!

  32. Jenna December 30, 2011 at 10:26 pm #

    I am definitely trying this out. All my life I have struggled with low self-confidence. I have recently changed careers and I am really fighting this fear of failure and of saying and/or doing the wrong thing…..

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