The New Year is the perfect time to assess where you're at, and take some time to set new goals for yourself in order to continue manifesting the life you want to live. New goals can be as simple as giving yourself a compliment every day, spending more time with your family and friends, starting to be more conscious of the food you're putting into your body, and finding a workout buddy to help you stay motivated and keep on track. Whatever it is that would like to have more of or less of in life, is entirely possible. If you can think it, you can make it happen!

Dave and I have been setting goals and doing specific work to help influence our subconscious mind in order to manifest our dream. Only 12% of our brain is conscious thought (that includes conversation, daily thinking, reading, writing, assessing, anything that you are aware of in your mind), and the other 88% is unconscious (the part of the brain that is working all the time, but you are not aware of it). To make lasting changes, it would make sense to do something that would influence the 88% unconscious, but we usually write down our goals during the day using our 12% conscious mind. So how do we influence the subconscious?

The subconscious mind can be influence best at night during the 30 minutes before falling asleep. In that last 30 minutes, you are between a waking and sleeping state (similar to a hypnotic state). You are very susceptible to messages influencing your subconscious mind at this time. The first 30 minutes of waking is also similarly in this state. So, be aware if you are watching TV or the news before you go to bed or first thing in the morning. The negativity of the news might be affecting your mood and view of life.

So here's what you'll want to do, write down your goal at night right before you go to bed. If you can focus on one goal, that would be ideal, but you can write two or three goals at a time if you like. Writing down one goal will allow your subconscious mind to focus more easily and possibly help manifest your goal faster. During your sleep, your subconscious mind will start to process your goal and begin to manifest it in your life. 

If you aren't seeing your goal begin to manifest within two weeks of writing it every night before bed (and you should be accomplishing physical tasks throughout the week that will help you reach your goal), you may need to adjust how you are writing your goal. For example, writing "I will receive $500 by the end of the week" or "I enjoy the $500 I got this week" or "I have $500 coming to me in cash this week" may all work for different people, but you may need to tweak your verbiage depending on how your subconscious mind is processing the information. 

This method of influencing the subconscious mind was created by John G. Kappas, Ph.D., founder of the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. I've simplified the method for you here to a simple single affirmation that you can start working on. If you're interested in learning more about how to influence your subconscious and how to perform self-hypnosis to help manifest your dreams, take a look at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute Website and check out their book Success is Not an Accident: Mental Bank Concept (that's what Dave and I have been doing every night for our subconscious mind). There's also a video you can watch to learn more about the Mental Bank System.

Keep Manifesting your Dreams and Living the Life You Want!

Natalie

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