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How To Unlock The Power of Your Subconscious Mind with Dr Bruce Lipton #308

Nov 2, 2022 1h 40m 22 insights
Have you ever felt held back by a habit or pattern of thinking that you feel powerless to break? Or perhaps felt frustrated by a loved one’s failure to see mistakes they’re repeating? The reason it’s so hard, says today’s guest, is that these actions are programmed into our subconscious minds from early childhood. And they affect not just our behaviour but our whole experience of life and even our risk of disease. The chances are we’re completely unaware of these programs but, importantly, we can change them.   Dr Bruce Lipton began his career as a cell biologist graduating from the University of Virgina before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973. Today, he describes his work as bridging science and spirituality and in his bestselling book The Biology of Belief, he sets out the idea that our thoughts affect all the cells in our body.   Bruce explains how, as children, our subconscious minds ‘download’ what we see and hear adults around us doing and saying – and these become the programs that drive our habits and thinking throughout life. Depending on our early experiences, they might be programs like ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘It’s my fault’ – and it’s not much of a leap to see how these might create unwanted behaviours as we grow up.   Happily, we can cultivate self-awareness and learn to reprogram our minds, to create positive behaviour change. Bruce shares his practical guidance on how we can start to do that immediately. As we go on to discuss, reprogramming our minds can be incredibly liberating, affecting our happiness, confidence, health, work and relationships – with others and, crucially, with ourselves.   This was a warm and empowering conversation with a wonderful, kind-hearted man. I hope you enjoy listening. Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore. For other podcast platforms go to https://fblm.supercast.com. Order Dr Chatterjee's latest book Happy Mind, Happy Life: UK version: https://amzn.to/304opgJ, US & Canada version: https://amzn.to/3DRxjgp Show notes https://drchatterjee.com/308
Actionable Insights

1. Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind

Cultivate self-awareness to identify and reprogram subconscious patterns, which are downloaded from early childhood and drive 95% of daily behavior, often sabotaging life quality. This allows you to change long-standing behaviors and live the life you desire.

2. Control Your Genetic Activity

Realize that you control your genetic activity through your consciousness, as less than 1% of disease is gene-related, and 90%+ is stress-related. This empowers you to influence your health beyond genetic predisposition.

3. Understand Stress & Disease

Recognize that over 90% of diseases are stress-related, not primarily genetic. This shifts focus from genetic victimhood to managing stress as a primary factor in health and well-being.

4. Your Thoughts Control Genetics

Understand that your thoughts directly influence your body’s chemistry and, consequently, your genetic activity (epigenetics). Holding positive thoughts releases beneficial chemistry, while negative thoughts release stress hormones, impacting health.

5. Identify Sabotaging Life Programs

Observe areas where you struggle despite significant effort, as this indicates an unconscious program sabotaging your desired outcome. Recognizing these patterns helps you understand why certain goals feel like a constant struggle.

6. Cultivate Deep Self-Love

Actively cultivate self-love, as a lack of self-love can lead to self-sabotage and an inability to accept love from others. Prioritizing self-love is a critical step towards genuine happiness and healthy relationships.

7. Stop Negative Self-Talk

When engaging in negative self-talk or experiencing depressive thoughts, consciously choose to ‘stop’ the internal dialogue and redirect your attention to something positive or engaging. You always have a choice to break the cycle of negative rumination.

8. Manage Your Energy Budget

Treat your life energy like a checkbook, consciously deciding where to invest it. Only expend energy on activities or arguments that yield productive results, enhance your life, or benefit your community, avoiding wasteful engagements.

9. Rapid Reprogramming (Energy Psychology)

Explore energy psychology modalities, which utilize ‘super learning’ processes to rapidly rewrite subconscious programs, potentially achieving significant behavioral changes in 15-20 minutes. Bruce Lipton’s website brucelipton.com lists modalities.

10. Reprogram with Self-Hypnosis

Utilize self-hypnosis by playing desired programs (e.g., for health, happiness, love) through earphones as you fall asleep. During the theta brainwave state, your subconscious mind is receptive to downloading new beliefs without conscious effort.

11. Reprogram Through Habituation

Change subconscious programs through consistent practice and repetition of desired behaviors or affirmations, making them new habits. This method is effective at any age, even if it takes longer than childhood programming.

12. Act as Your Desired Self

Intentionally act and affirm the qualities you wish to embody, even if you don’t initially feel them, as this repetition will reprogram your subconscious. By consistently ‘faking it,’ you habituate the desired state, eventually becoming that person.

13. Focus on Desired Outcomes

When pursuing a goal, focus on the desired outcome rather than overthinking or trying to manually control every step. Trust that your subconscious ‘supercomputer’ will guide you if you clearly define the destination.

14. Address Relationship Patterns

Recognize that relationship struggles often stem from subconscious programs downloaded from childhood observations of parents or family. Instead of blaming partners, engage in discussions to identify and reprogram these patterns for healthier relationships.

15. Positive Programming for Children

As a parent, consistently provide positive affirmations and loving statements to your children, especially during their first seven years, as they are actively downloading these as foundational subconscious programs that will influence 95% of their future life.

16. Integrate Desires as Programs

Actively work to install your conscious wishes and desires as subconscious programs. Once your subconscious is aligned with your conscious goals, your actions will automatically lead you to your desired destination without continuous conscious effort.

17. Limit Negative Information Input

Be mindful of the information you consume, such as news or social media, as constant exposure to fear-based or negative messaging can deplete your energy and hinder positive reprogramming. Prioritize inputs that enhance your life and well-being.

18. Spread Joy and Positive Vibration

Intentionally spread joy and love through simple actions like smiling and offering kind words, as this positive vibration is contagious and will resonate with others, fostering connection and positive interactions. What you put out will return to you.

19. Use Frustration as Mirror

When feeling frustrated or triggered by others’ actions, use it as an opportunity for self-reflection to identify underlying personal patterns or beliefs. This practice helps cultivate compassion and shifts focus from external blame to internal growth.

20. Understand Mind’s Learning Styles

Understand that the conscious mind is creative and learns easily (e.g., reading a book), while the subconscious mind is the habit mind, which resists change and learns differently. This distinction is crucial for effective reprogramming, as educating the conscious mind alone does not change subconscious habits.

21. Empowerment Through Knowledge

Seek knowledge about how your mind and biology work to gain empowerment over your life and health. Understanding these mechanisms prevents you from feeling like a victim of circumstances or genetics.

22. Embrace Life as Creation

Understand that your innate purpose is to create, and if you are struggling, it’s often because you are playing out old programs rather than consciously creating your desired life. Reprogramming allows you to manifest your true creative potential and experience ‘heaven on earth’.