We learn everything by repetition. All our beliefs and memories are made by repeating things again and again.
Our mental structure is formed by the conscious and subconscious minds.
The conscious mind is also called an analytical mind. it will analyze all the information. It acts as a gatekeeper to our subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is a storehouse to our beliefs and patterns. It will not analyze things. It will just accept whatever comes to it. It’s the job of the conscious mind to analyze things and allow the only information to be stored as a belief in the subconscious mind, which it feels is true.
So if any information matches with the beliefs we are already holding, our conscious mind will treat it as a piece of true information.
When we are a child up to 8 years old, our conscious mind is not fully developed. So we accepted everything from our circumstances without questioning them, which got stored directly in the subconscious mind. We are made this way by the creator so that we can learn fast to survive on this planet.
There are mainly two ways to change information in our deeper mind.
- Conscious Way: In this, we use our willpower to change the old beliefs. For example affirmations. In this way, we need to be greater than our old patterns and consciously create new thoughts and new feelings. When we repeat this process multiple times, our mind accepts it as true and replaces the old beliefs with new ones. But it will take a lot of effort and our commitment to become a new person.
- Unconscious Way: In this way, our conscious mind is bypassed and information is sent to our subconscious mind. This way is effective and fast because there is no gatekeeper to validate the information. For example, Deep meditation, hypnosis, or subliminal messages, etc. are the unconscious techniques to reprogram the mind.