The Subconscious Mind And Goal Setting

Many of us who are interested in a follow the self development field will have undoubtedly heard of the movie the secret and related topics such as visualisation, law of attraction goal setting, quantum physics and so on and so forth. My interest in this field came about from a business achievment perspective and I was introduced to many new concepts by my personal development coach some years ago.

While many have heard of the law of attraction and of the subconscious mind, in discussions I have come to realise that the practical everyday link between these topics and the outcomes in our everyday lives have not been made by too many.

The subconscious mind caters for over 95% of what we do, say, act and how we conduct ourselves in general. A good exmaple of the function of the subconscious is if you lift your hand to scratch your face, there are (too many to count) muscles that are involved in the action yet all we do is consciously give the command and then our underlying subconscious minds take over to move the necessary muscles and to carry out the action.

If we are crossing the road and a car is seen to be hurtling towards us, we take a look, calculate that if we do not move we will be hit - we pass the instructions to get out of the way and then the subconscious takes over to move the necessary limbs and muscles to move us out of the road.

So what is the point of all this discussion ? well, when we have specific goals and ideas of achievement if we were able to get those goals and the steps for the achievement of those goals down into the subconscious then our progress towards those goals would become a part of our nature and analagous to when we scracth our head. i.e. the things we know we must do to achieve success yet fail to, when our goals are literally programmed into our subconscius then we will start to move in an unstoppable fashion toward where we want to be.

So how do we do it ? just how to we go through the process of programming our subconscious minds with the outcomes (business or personal) which we wish to see manifest in our lives ? The first thing to do is to take time out to become completely clear as to what it is that we wish to achieve. We then need to write the goal down and then write down the steps we need to carry out in order to accomplish those goals. One of the other things we can do is to write down positive affirmations which are to be stated in the positive with us already having achieved our goals and aspirations.

The key point to be made is that when we hear about the law of attraction, affirmation and the subconscious mind we often forget that we are being affected by these concepts every second of the day, with that in mind it makes good sense for us to harness our understanding of the topic and then make it work for our good and channel our energies into accomplishing that which we wish to see in our lives.

The final thought I wan to leave you with is that when you think of success and achievement is that you also need to think about paying the price (in advance) for the accomplishment of those goals. Simply taking the time out to write down exactly what it is that we want (and I know we are not conditioned to do these things !) will serve to impress the desired goal into our subconscious and put us on the path to taking the steps toward the achievement of those goals at the subconscious (or automatic) level.

Try it today, take some time out and commit to paper what is it that you want your business or life to look like. Write it down and start to take the steps today to move you forward in the direction of your heart's desire.