Our imagination and powers of
visualization reside in the subconscious. Our willpower resides in the
conscious brain. Your conscious brain represents one-sixth of your brain's
thinking power. Our subconscious brain represents five-sixths of your brain's
thinking power.
It is therefore quite easy to
determine which part of our brain is more important to control? The subconscious has five times the power of
our conscious mind. Therefore, anytime
there is a conflict between willpower, which functions in the conscious mind
(1/6), and imagination, which functions in the subconscious mind (5/6), the
winner is the subconscious! Vsualization and imagination trumps will power every time!
There is another scientific principle involved here. The mind sees only in pictures. If I were to ask you to close your eyes and remember what you did first thing after you got up this morning, you would see this in pictures. You would not see this written on a page of notebook paper in your mind! Because you are aware of what you think consciously, your conscious mind can see things and think things through and filter out negative pictures and give thoughts (mind-pictures) true meaning or perception. However, the negatives from the subconscious thoughts cannot be filtered out because we are not even aware of what that thinking (or picture) is!
So when we say to ourselves,
"I will not overeat!" our conscious mind (1/6) can give this true
meaning, but the subconscious mind (5/6) sees a picture of,
"Overeat!" "Overeat" (and lots of food)! And our subconscious is an excellent listener
and obeys us perfectly! It is not at all uncommon for people who want to lose
weight to actually gain weight! Have you
ever said to your younger children, "Whatever you do, don't spill the
milk!"? Five/Sixth of their brain, sees a perfect picture of what? That's
right! "Spill the milk!" Most young children who listened well always
spilled the milk.
Knowing the scientific basis,
the solution is obvious! Obviously, we
have to access the subconscious mind and even more obviously, use the
imaginative faculties to visualize all the positive benefits of reducing weight
and becoming healthier. In the above
example, we can visualize doing all the things we are able to do after reducing
weight, we can visualize the benefit of that goal. Then the whole brain (1/6 + 5/6) is working
in the same direction! Willpower isn’t
required anymore!
Willpower is overrated but,
it's still important. The initial decision to change requires willpower. But
once that decision to change is made with willpower, visualization and
imagination is all that you will ever need! Procrastination slowly recedes,
persistence and success and achievement take its place. You are programmed for
success, automatically.
It takes about 21 to 30 days
to create a neural pathway. After about
thirty days of imagining and visualizing, focused learning of new information
or situations we are exposed to in our subconscious mind, the brain will have
created a different neural pathway - neurons linking together in new ways - so that
it will automatically take the steps necessary to reach your goals. These new pathways become stronger the more
they are used, causing the likelihood of new long-term connections and
memories. To know more about
neuroplasticity, visit http://www.whatisneuroplasticity.com/pathways.php
Easier said than done? Well it is not too difficult and definitely
not impossible. It does however require
desire, dedication and practice. And it
does require a few minutes of your daily time, amidst all the routines. Nirmiti Nidra ™ makes it easier to access the
subconscious levels of your mind and by doing that, POWERS your imagination and
visualization to greater heights. It
helps you to retain your focus on only those things that you want to achieve
during those few minutes that you dedicate to yourself.
