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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality - Earl Nightingale
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Why You Should Listen To Your Unconscious Mind - And What It Can Tell You
A useful way to think about gestures is as an early warning system for intent, emotion, and mood. We gesture because our unconscious minds push us to do so with an emotion, an intent, or a desire that our conscious minds are not aware of until after the gesture has started. Our bodies know what we want before our conscious minds do.
That’s counter-intuitive, because of course the only mind we’re aware of is our conscious one, but brain science in the last decade bears this out. Studies of decision-making show that we make decisions unconsciously, and act on them physically before we’re aware consciously that we’ve done so. The delay can be up to 9 seconds.
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Female scientists are up against a lot of unconscious bias. Here’s how to fight it
It can be hard for women in science to get promoted. This study may help.
What Is The Subconscious Mind?
Do you remember when you tried to ride a bicycle for the first time? Can you count the number of repetitions necessary to perform a flawless dance? Have you ever tried to master a new musical instrument? Most likely, first attempts to synchronize a new set of complex actions are always difficult. Once we become more skilled, these movements start to require less conscious awareness until everything begins to flow naturally.
Do subliminal messages actually work?
None of this means that subliminal messages make us into brainwashed zombies.
Get Out of My Subconscious!
Our subconscious beliefs, which we cannot easily understand or change, motivate many of the decisions we make.
Get Out of Your Own Way
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought.
How advertisers seduce our subconscious
How can advertising do this? It’s very simple. Our brains have a primitive defence mechanism called the limbic system, which is permanently alert, perceiving stimuli and assigning meanings to them. It is this system which wakes us if our baby cries, or makes us jump back onto the pavement if we see an approaching car in the corner of our eye. The limbic system works regardless of whether we are paying attention, and works at a far greater speed than our thoughts. And unfortunately for our consumer selves, it is the system that processes emotional stimulus
How the human brain can register information without conscious attention
Magicians, dictators, advertisers and scientists all know it. It is possible to influence people without them even realising it. The technique, known as “priming”, involves introducing a stimulus – a word, an image or a sound – that has an effect on a person’s later behaviour, even if they cannot remember the stimulus in the first place.
How to Get Your Own Cooperation: Taming Your Subconscious Mind
Have you ever wanted to break a habit, and found it seemingly impossible? Ever hoped to start a new healthy behavior, yet didn’t follow through – repeatedly? If so, you know the stuck feeling.
How To Influence Anyone, Any Time, Anywhere: 4 Subconscious Secrets
Now more than ever leaders need to be able to influence outcomes. Good intentions are rarely assumed, people are on the lookout for manipulative tactics, and even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect. Influence is no longer about doing something to someone to get what you want. Real influence is about forging deep connections quickly, stepping into someone’s world authentically, and striving for consistent win/win outcomes.
NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind
We may have a complex, scientific take on the unconscious mind, but as Eliexer Sternberg's new book shows, explanations demand a nuance befitting the subject.
The Holy Grail of the Unconscious
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.”
The Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind is a very mysterious part of a person because it is just that: sub-conscious. We are not aware in our active thinking mind of what is going on below our awareness. This is one of the most perplexing parts of personal development. This area of our mind has a huge impact on our lives, but it is not obvious what is going on in there minute by minute.
The Unconscious Mind: A Great Decision Maker
In a series of experiments reported last week in the journal Science, a team of Dutch psychologists found that people struggling to make complex decisions did best when they were distracted and were not able to think consciously about the choice at all.
Unconscious or Subconscious?
As a general rule, then, in most of the professional literature where mental functioning is concerned (including not just psychoanalysis, but also psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience, among others), writers—like Freud—tend to use the word “unconscious” rather than “subconscious.” Although the word “subconscious” continues to appear in the lay literature, it is rarely defined carefully and may or may not be synonymous with “unconscious.”
Understanding Your Subconscious Mind
Your subconscious mind is like a huge memory bank. Its capacity is virtually unlimited.
Who’s Minding the Mind?
Yet the new research on priming makes it clear that we are not alone in our own consciousness. We have company, an invisible partner who has strong reactions about the world that don’t always agree with our own, but whose instincts, these studies clearly show, are at least as likely to be helpful, and attentive to others, as they are to be disruptive.
Working With Your Subconscious Mind
There are two types of mind: The subconscious mind and the conscious mind and we use them in different ways to go about our daily lives. All is well with the world, but what if we could learn to harness the power of the subconscious mind as well, and cross the line between the subconscious and the conscious?
Your subconscious is smarter than you think
We feel that we are in control when our brains figure out puzzles or read words, says Tom Stafford, but a new experiment shows just how much work is going on underneath the surface of our conscious minds.
Your Unconscious Mind May Be Smarter Than You
PSYCHOLOGISTS are using ingenious new methods to plumb the unconscious. Their vigorous, systematic exploration is laying bare the basic but ordinarily invisible building blocks of irrational opinion, prejudice and neurosis. Yet they also reveal an unconscious far smarter in some ways than the conscious mind.
Why You Should Listen To Your Unconscious Mind - And What It Can Tell You
A useful way to think about gestures is as an early warning system for intent, emotion, and mood. We gesture because our unconscious minds push us to do so with an emotion, an intent, or a desire that our conscious minds are not aware of until after the gesture has started. Our bodies know what we want before our conscious minds do.
13 Ways To Start Training Your Subconscious Mind To Get What You Want
Your subconscious mind is the gatekeeper of your comfort zone. It is also the realm in which you can either habituate yourself to expect, and routinely seek the actions that would build and reinforce, the greatest success, happiness, wholeness or healing of your life.
3 Ways to Change Your Subconscious Thoughts
The subconscious mind is very protective. It attempts to protect us from harm, real or imaginary.
8 Subconscious Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day–And How To Avoid Them
Get ready to have your mind blown. I was seriously shocked at some of these mistakes in thinking that I subconsciously make all the time. Obviously, none of them are huge, life-threatening mistakes, but they are really surprising and avoiding them could help us make more rational, sensible decisions.
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