How To Get The Most Out Of Your Subconscious Mind

When your conscious mind gets to work, your subconscious mind is working in the background. It’s a region of our brain that continues to be a mystery to us as we try to figure out what it’s up to on a daily basis.

It’s quite straightforward in this scenario. As you read this, your subconscious mind is processing and storing information in bits and parts. It doesn’t matter where that information goes; the brain will use it anytime we try to recall facts.

While gathering, processing, and recalling information with our subconscious mind is simple, learning to use our subconscious mind for other activities is more difficult.

If we want to use our subconscious mind to become more successful, we need to know more about it.

What Is the Subconscious Mind?

First, let’s talk about what our subconscious mind is. It was Sigmund Freud who created this theory as part of the levels of the mind.

Freud theorized that we had three levels of the mind. They go as follows:^[1]

Our ordinary thoughts and sensations are referred to as conscious.
Preconscious: Information we utilise to recollect; memories or information required to complete specific tasks.
The knowledge that impacts our overall behaviour without our realising it is referred to as subconscious.

Even when we aren’t consciously using these parts of our mind, they are constantly developing. Our subconscious is still processing and gathering information even as you are reading this.

In fact, it’s processing 500,000 times more information than our conscious mind!

Why Can’t We Use It All the Time?

Why can’t we use our subconscious mind all the time if it’s so powerful and would help us succeed?

In this way, our subconscious thinking is deceptive. It’s not as straightforward as calling a friend or looking things up on the internet. Our subconscious mind is well known for creating daydreams and aha moments.

In other words, our subconscious is always at work, but the thoughts it generates are somewhat random.This is also the area of our brain that makes us react fast, such as when we jump out of the way of a moving car.

Treating your subconscious mind like your “back-office” is another way to look at it. This implies two points:

To begin with, while our subconscious mind is powerful, it is not self-contained. We still require our conscious minds to function, and they use a significant percentage of our mental capacity — 10%, in fact. ^[2]

Second, because of that connection, it’s understandable that we can’t use it all of the time, but it can also teach you how to harness your subconscious mind to achieve success.

How to Use Your Subconscious Mind to Succeed

As previously stated, mastering the usage of your subconscious mind to achieve success is difficult. The subconscious mind is notoriously difficult to access. ^[3]

It’s not enough to persuade ourselves that we’re employing our subconscious mind because it’s a conscious decision.

Is there any hope left? That’s not the case.

Do you recall the relationship I stated earlier? We may still prime our subconscious mind with our conscious minds. The act of priming is when we use our conscious brain to concentrate on a specific task.

It’s as if you’re putting all of your cognitive knowledge into your subconscious mind. This action informs your brain that you are dealing with a problem or scenario. Your subconscious mind will add the problem to the queue because your brain understands.^[4]

What matters is how we prepare our subconscious minds. Here are a few things you can do to get started.

1. Plan to Do Nothing

Our subconscious mind is like a scavenger of answers and ideas (within reason). When you’re working on anything else, you won’t often discover your subconscious mind presenting you with ideas.

That’s because it stores our thoughts while our conscious mind is at work. With this in mind, if you are continuously doing something, you will not be allowing your mind to rest enough for those ideas to emerge.

If you work in the creative profession, this is a must-have. We can’t evolve if we don’t make time for new ideas to emerge. This could suggest accomplishing nothing at all.

2. Bring Capture Devices Everywhere You Go

Any gadget that allows you to take notes is a capture device: your phone, a notebook, a digital recorder, and so on.

The idea behind this is that you can jot down and capture any ideas you have before they fade away. This could be anything from projects you’d want to work on to a solution to an issue you’re having.

Related: Gratitude Journaling Ideas

3. Do Some Physical Activity

Another strategy to make our brains work harder is to exercise. It will be difficult for us to come up with fresh, new ideas for anything if we are always sedentary. Get up and move about instead, and let your subconscious mind do its thing.

Remember that we don’t always have the ability to rapidly decide on answers to our difficulties. However, we can sow the seeds so that our subconscious mind will begin to work on them.

Also, keep some paper or your phone nearby so you can jot down these ideas when your subconscious decides to let them out.

4. Drop Your Keys

This is a mental exercise that was employed by Salvador Dali and Thomas Edison. The goal is to keep your phone, notepad, and pen close while relaxing in a chair.

Continue to relax in your chair until you fall asleep. You’ve entered the twilight period at this point. It’s a crucial stage in our lives when our subconscious mind is at its most powerful.

Your hand will drop and your keys will hit the floor, waking you up just as you are about to fall asleep.

You’ll probably remember where your mind went during that twilight period when you wake up. Anything you recall should be written down – this is your subconscious communicating to you.

5. Visualize Success

Envision your achievement, no matter how big or tiny you want it to be. If you want to understand how to harness your subconscious mind to succeed, visualise it. We need to put something in front of our subconscious mind for it to work.

We allow our minds wander while we engage in physical exercise, and our subconscious mind begins to provide solutions.

Regardless, if we keep our goals in mind, our subconscious will begin to give us with incentives. It will help to picture and specify our goals if we desire more effective rewards.

In terms of incentives, these are concepts that our subconscious will generate and our conscious mind will adopt and implement.

Without a vision for what you want to do, it may be hard to come up with solutions to make you more successful.

6. Get More in Touch With Your Mind

One way to do this is meditation. To start, all you need to do is get into a comfortable position and start to empty your mind.

In terms of positions, there is no right or wrong position when meditating. The idea is to find comfort and allow yourself to let your mind go.

7. Look After Your Body

From eating healthy to moving around, it’s important that you take care of your vitals. Drinking enough water every day, eating the proper meals, and exercising enough every day are imperative.

You want to make sure the things you are doing are helping your body and mind.

Final Thoughts

It will take time to learn how to use your subconscious mind as you develop habits and put them into practise in your life.

There are numerous barriers to overcome, and establishing this road is not simple. We can better tap into it and find success in due time if we engage in these activities and comprehend the relationship between our many levels of consciousness.