How to Exercise Mindfulness Meditation To Connect With Your Subconscious Mind
Meditation and mindfulness are names that you have casually heard a million times before and perhaps even have had a discussion about these practices with your friends. But have you ever taken some time out to dig deeper into what it is and what it has to offer in terms of strengthening your subconscious mind? More often than not, the advantages associated with meditation and mindfulness are discussed superficially and confined to mental health and how they can improve their cognitive abilities. Hardly does anyone realize that these benefits actually penetrate deeper into the realm of the subconscious mind.
Be it your learning abilities or the inside voice that helps you heal, your subconscious mind is always in action, giving a boost to your creativity and productivity, giving you a clarity of vision, improving your memory capacity, and organizing your emotions and feelings. Whether you realize it or not, your subconscious mind plays just an important role in shaping your personality as that of your conscious mind.
Now that you have an overview of the crucial role that your subconscious mind has to play, wouldn’t it be amazing if there was time effective, simple to follow a strategy that could help you tap into your subconscious mind and strengthen its powers? Well, then you are in luck as meditation and mindfulness can serve the exact role for you. But you don’t have to take it for granted. Let us elaborate on how such ancient practices help you connect with your subconscious mind and strengthen its powers.
1. Open The Gates For The Natural Relaxation Response
The reason why the subconscious mind for an average person is inaccessible is that the cognitive component of the brain always manages to steal the show. With a hectic schedule with literally millions of things going on for us on a day to day basis, it is getting close to impossible for us to find some time and refresh our brains in a fashion that enables the cognitive mind to take a rest and let the subconscious mind strengthen its powers.
Thanks to meditation and mindfulness, you now have a simple technique that enables you to let go of all the stress and activate the natural relaxation response that is an in-built feature of your body that you were so far unaware of. By activating this response, meditation takes the burden off the shoulders of your cognitive mind and put it to rest while the subconscious mind uses this time to come to the foreground and be more accessible for you.
It is this time when you have access to the subconscious mind when you can put an effort into bonding with it for the purpose of strengthening its power and extract all the help out of it that you can for the purpose of emotional management, improved learning abilities, widened memory capacity, and a range of other features that are directly or indirectly in control of your subconscious mind.
2. Time To Go Back To The Here And Now
Another major reason why the subconscious mind is not accessible for you is that your cognitive mind is too habitual of living in the memories of the past or worries of the future. Whatever time that it can get to take a rest, it chooses to spend that time divulging into what has happened in your life and what is supposedly going to happen in the years to come. This is yet another type of preoccupation of the cognitive mind that disables your subconscious mind to come to the foreground.
Meditation and mindfulness are ancient Buddhist practices which are effective in this regard as well since the whole point of finding a quiet corner where you can sit with yourself in silence is to make sure that you collect all of your thoughts that are wandering in the past or the future and bring them to the here and now. Such practices require you to [restrict] focus on a random harmless event that is happening in the now. For instance, it could be the sound of the rain falling on the ground or perhaps the sound of the whistling wind that you need to focus on. Once you bring your entire focus to the here and now, the scrambled thoughts start to disappear, your cognitive mind gets the message to take a hike, and let the subconscious component of your brain be more accessible for you.
3. Break The Walls Of Disturbing And Troubling Thoughts
As evident from the information mentioned above, accessing your subconscious mind is all about being relaxed and in a comfortable state of mind. The more you have stress and anxiety circulating through your mind, the lesser are your chances of experiencing the wonders of your subconscious mind. This implies that a simple strategy to make your subconscious mind is to remove the stress and anxiety out of your mind. And that’s where meditation and mindfulness make their mark again.
It is likely that you are consistently in a state of stress or anxiety because there are plenty of disturbing or troubling thoughts that refuse to leave your mind. In other words, you have been overthinking about something that is not doing you any good other than ruining your mental health. As in the case of bringing you to the here and now, meditation and mindfulness give the cognitive component of your brain something else, something harmless, or often even useful to focus on just so it agrees on letting go of the disturbing and troubling thoughts. For instance, if you have a trainer with whom you are practicing meditation, he or she is perhaps going to play a meditation soundtrack that is essentially a soothing symphony for you to focus on. As you slowly start to shift your focus to the symphony, the troubling thoughts start to disappear with the identical result of giving your cognitive mind a rest and making your subconscious mind more accessible for you.
I Got The Access To My Subconscious Mind, What’s Next?
Remember that success, be it in your personal life or professional life, is only guaranteed when your cognitive and subconscious minds are working in perfect harmony. You can’t expect your cognitive mind to do all the work while the subconscious mind lays back in the background eating grapes and acting like a princess. Once you try meditation and mindfulness for a few minutes on a regular basis, you learn to make your subconscious mind more accessible for yourself. The moment it comes to the foreground, it works its charm in enhancing your abilities which shapes your personality and makes it more impressive.
For instance, all of the information that you have received throughout your life is stored in your subconscious mind. The reason why you think you learned something but have forgotten now is that the cognitive component has limited memory space and with the inclusion of new information, the previous one is transferred to the subconscious where it is lost unless you have access to the subconscious mind. Please note that we are talking about all the information that you have ever received in your entire life. None of it has vanished from your mind. It’s just concealed in a hidden compartment of your subconscious mind. Once you learn to access it via meditation and mindfulness, you will start to experience a remarkably better memory. You’ll be amazed at the things and even the minor details that you’d be able to recall from years ago once your subconscious mind has been activated.
The best part is that your subconscious can take your learning abilities up a few notches. While it helps you improve your memory capacity, it further enhances your concentration and attention on the task at hand. The cognitive mind is hardwired to be a nomad. It likes to wander. But the subconscious, it believes more in being focused. Thanks to such a preference of the subconscious mind that makes you more concentrated and attentive towards the task at hand, you’d be able to unlock your true potential in terms of creativity and productivity. All of these tweaks work together in making you more capable of learning new things, applying them impeccably, and extract the best possible outcome out of the application.
Sounds Interesting, Is There More?
You bet there is. That is not all to what the power of the subconscious mind is confined to. Once you have access to your subconscious mind, it also starts to help you manage your emotions in a better fashion as well. For instance, if you have been a cranky individual who is known to lose it easily, it is an implication that your subconscious mind has gone passive. For instance, remember that time you were driving on the road and someone decided to cross you dangerously? While you weren’t harmed and neither did anything happen to your car, the way you bashed on the other driver was a bit of a surprise for everybody else.
The point is, nobody likes to be friends with someone or even be around someone who is always cranky and at the verge of punching someone in the face. If you are unable to control your aggression and you find yourself constantly in a bad mood, it is likely that you have lost the connection with your subconscious mind. Once you begin to access it with meditation and mindfulness, you will start to learn to manage your emotions better and be calm and composed in the worst of scenarios. The reason being that your reflexes are primarily in control of your subconscious mind. When you have lost the connection with it, your natural reflex to anything and everything is aggression, anger, and abuse, etc. With greater access to your subconscious mind, you transform your reflexes and train them into being more appropriate at all times.
The extension of what has been mentioned about the subconscious mind so far is an ability to make better decisions. Think about it, if you are always aggressive and in a bad mood, what are your chances of making a rational, good decision? Similarly, if you have forgotten the facts and your creative side is walking towards the graveyard, would you be able to make a decision based on logic and facts? That’s yet another benefit that you get out of meditation and mindfulness as they open the gate to your subconscious mind. You start to analyze the situation, evaluate your options, and make a decision that is likely to benefit you in the longer run. What’s more, is that your subconscious will start to improve your hunches as well. Now that you have access to the power of your subconscious mind, your gut feeling will no longer be something of no significance. Call it your sixth sense, your gut feeling, your hunch, an intuition, or whatever, all of it is in control of your subconscious mind. With greater access comes an evolved version of all of such abilities.
Final Note
In the light of the information mentioned above, it is evident that meditation and mindfulness are effective in tapping into your subconscious mind, creating a bond with it, and letting you harness its amazing powers. A few of the common practices that you should look into are those of breathing exercises, body scan, progressive muscle relaxation, yoga, guided meditation, and mindfulness as these are the ones that are guaranteed to not eat up any more than a few minutes of your time every day. Spare just 15 to 20 minutes in the morning before you leave to work and you’d be able to see the difference for yourself. Make sure to manage your expectations and keep them realistic. You are not about to change your world with a single session of meditation and mindfulness. It will require practice and persistence. But the outcome that you will eventually get will make all of your efforts worth the while. So, what are you waiting for? [/restrict]
