Subliminal Message

What is a Subliminal Message?

A subliminal message is one of the most misunderstood and underrated performance enhancing tools of the decade. The term "subliminal" is derived from two Latin words, "sub", meaning under, and "limen" meaning threshold. A subliminal message is the act of conveying a message directly to the subconscious mind…below the threshold of conscious awareness.

Subliminal programming is a method used to place pre-arranged thoughts or ideas into the subconscious mind and reinforcing pre-existing information stored in the subconscious or to increase a person's selective attention.

A subliminal message is quite different than responding without awareness. Subliminal messages involves reacting to stimuli that are above your physiological thresholds but below your perceptual thresholds.

For example: If you have ever thought you heard the telephone ringing while running the vacuum cleaner and then turned the machine off to listen and discovered that the phone was in fact ringing, you have experienced subliminal programming. The sound of the vacuum drowned out the sound of the telephone ringing, forcing it just below the threshold of conscious perception, but the ringing of the telephone still prompted (i.e., reinforced) your desire to take action.

There are many ways that a subliminal message can be accomplished, including printed pictures, recorded movie pictures with sound, sound on it's own and even touch. In fact, a subliminal message can be accomplished using any of the known 37 sensory receptors.

Why Use a Subliminal Message?

It's not just our conscious thinking, but also our subconscious thinking that often holds the key to our lives.

Most people still believe that their lives are the way they are because of outside factors like background, environment, education, family, economy, fate or luck. However, it is not these outside circumstances that ultimately determine our lives that make the difference between happiness and success on one hand, or frustration and failure on the other hand.

It is actually the beliefs, thoughts, attitudes and behaviors held at the deepest levels of your mind, as well as your conscious thoughts that make your life what it is today.

Think about this! Outside influences are not the most important thing preventing you from accomplishing your goals.

Your own thoughts are.

Our lives are often what our thoughts make them. It's our thinking that makes our lives what they are.

Thinking. We are all a product of our own thinking.

Subliminal programming is a method to remove negative thoughts, attitudes, habits and behaviors and communicate positive suggestions directly to the subconscious to affect conscious change to achieve your potential.

Using a subliminal message allows us to access our subconscious mind to change the years of past negative programming from the TV, radio, newspaper, friends, relatives, work and even family.

After years of accumulation, these negatives become imbedded in our mind, causing doubts and fears that form habits which literally control the rest of our lives and prevent us from reaching our full potential.

Why is this important? We mortals are all creatures of habit. Habits go very deep. There are physical habits, internal habits and habits of thought. They are held in the subconscious parts of our minds. And it's difficult to change the sub-conscious mind.

Decisions we make consciously are all very nice indeed, but they don't go deep enough. Not deep enough to make real changes or to make them stick. We all know people who make wonderful promises to themselves, only to find they keep slipping back into well-worn patterns.

Perhaps you are one of these people. Most of us are. As an example of a physical habit: If you've smoked for years, your mind is programmed as a smoker. All the horror stories about black lungs or how soon you will die may convince you that you need to quit, but quitting won't be easy, not as long as your mind is still programmed as a smoker. In fact, until you change your subconscious programming, quitting is impossible.

The same is true, not only for physical habits like smoking, drugs, and alcohol, but also for internal habits like procrastination or not managing your time. Then there are the habits of thought, possibly the worst of all because they are so subtle.

You may not even know that you have them.

As an example: if you grew up in poverty, you have habits of thinking like that of a poor person, and even if you were to win the lottery or inherit millions, then that type of thinking can keep sabotaging you until you're right back where you started. Broke.

There are habits of thought like putting yourself down, not believing in your own abilities, believing that you will always be overweight or in poor health, that you are unattractive or stupid, or that you will never find a fulfilling relationship - all habits of thought, that can keep you stuck where you are for the rest of your life.

Using subliminal messages YOU can rewire YOUR internal programs and begin to imbed new positive empowering thoughts that will literally change YOUR mind and change YOUR world.