Thanks to the fast-paced technology of the world today, more and more ways to improve, maintain and enhance the well-being of individuals are available. For people who want to take care of their mental and physical health as opposed to simply relying strictly on medicine and other drugs, perhaps alternative technologies subliminal's may of help to them.
From the name itself, brain wave subliminal's focus and target the brain waves of individuals. What’s great about brain wave subliminal's is that the people can participate in the process of making themselves become better through a method called “self-talk”. With proper motivation and perspective, individuals can change their brain programming and eventually, their lives.
The word “subliminal” pertains to a threshold below the conscious perception of human beings. Since you are not aware of the existing subliminal programming underlying the music or sounds of nature (birds chirping, ocean waves, rustling leaves, etc.), you are simply receiving the subliminal repetitive positive suggestions without any force of resistance from your mind.
Because your conscious mind is not the main target of subliminal messages, you can't really put up any barriers or walls against the messages. Eventually, you will learn to accept and integrate the unconscious messages given to you and you will notice positive changes in your behavior, performance, and outlook in life.
The reprogramming of the mind and attitude aims to get rid of negative thoughts, ideas and feelings that hinder an individual from performing successfully. By ridding an individual of all the pent-up negative feelings in his or her system, self-esteem and self-confidence will increase which will result to a higher sense of self-efficacy.
“Blink moments” are what we may refer to as rapid cognition's or intuitions. The author of the book “Blink”, Malcolm Gladwell, defines rapid cognition as the kind of thinking that occurs in just a blink of an eye.
The problem is, most people don’t usually trust their “blink” moments. Some tend to be too apprehensive and they dwell more on the objective aspects as well as facts rather on their intuition, no matter how prevalent and strong it may seem to be.
Brain wave subliminal's can help individual to cultivate and develop their intuition. Since these subliminal messages work on a deep inner level of the human brain, they can simply change the programming of your brain. You can ditch the behaviors and beliefs that you don’t want and replace them with ideas and thoughts that you would like to integrate in your mind.
You will eventually feel that your attitudes and behaviors have changed for the better, thanks to the reprogramming of your mind. In addition, you will also learn to trust your intuition than you did before the reprogramming.
You will have the inner power to know the right thing to do as well as have the calmness and serenity whenever crises arises because the brain wave subliminal's have developed your intuition and programmed your mind to trust your decisions that occur in “blink” moments. Finally, people who undergo brain wave subliminal's must also perform self-talk to support further the reprogramming of the brain.
Alternative technologies subliminal's may not be approved and accepted by some, but they have already touched and improved the lives of numerous individuals who swear by them and were brave and courageous enough to try them.
If you are one of the many people who are still wondering “do subliminal's really work?”, then consider these points....
The subliminal's are not saying anything to people directly. As mentioned earlier, they target the unconscious that’s why they only act to emphasize and influence. They aim to grab the attention of the unconscious mind and give significance to specific positive messages that are composed of suggestions such as those in hypnotism.
In most cases, subliminal suggestions are not as effective as suggestions given consciously. It is because the subconscious part of the mind may have the tendency to be not completely responsive to subliminal commands or complex messages.
There are only very limited and specific messages that are effective when given subliminally to individuals. Subliminal's have the power to tweak the unconscious mind and make it pay attention the signals. The difference between regular suggestions and subliminal suggestions can be seen by the way they affect the individual’s state of mind.
Regular suggestions are made of complete and very specific statements and cognitions, while subliminal suggestions are only composed of very short and brief phrases.
This question is quite related to the question discussed above and the answer is still similar as above. Subliminal's cannot directly make or command people to lose weight, stop smoking, free people from their fears, etc. However they can influence and many people have successfully overcome these problems with the aid of subliminals.
Realistically speaking, a suggestion presented consciously such as “Stop smoking” would most probably have a greater effect and impact to an individual rather than having the message “Stop smoking” embedded subliminally.
The point here is that not all statements, commands or affirmations have the same effect on different people. It depends on the individual and their particular "life script". There are actually proper subliminal's that are said to be effective in infiltrating the unconscious mind of human beings. These proper subliminal's are the result of painstaking clinical and laboratory research.
Although there has been no reported media vessel that has blatantly admitted of using subliminal messages and signals to advertise or to hook viewers, readers or consumers, there have been lots of hearsay that the media is really using subliminal messages to further enhance their production or business.
However, keep in mind that subliminal messages are not the only techniques used (if ever they are being used) by the media. It is obvious that advertisements that are overt and target the pleasure and pain associations in the conscious mind of people are still widely used by the media.
The fact is that many people swear by subliminal's and claim they worked wonders in their lives. Do you think they can change your life, beliefs and attitudes? My advise is, if you even think they might, then by all means try them and judge for yourself. They surely can't hurt.
Article by Mark Hamilton, C.Ht of HypnoticSolutions.com
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