Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind

0:06Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast of this podcast. And if you're out there and you wanna dominate your 2025 goals, I just wrote you a short to the point 17 page ebook with a free workbook that will help you plan and achieve your 2025 goals. Go to goals2025.com. Once again, goals with an S, 2025.com and you can download it for free. Today, I'm gonna be talking about how to reprogram your subconscious mind. Now, why would we want to do this? Well, because you have to understand that 5 % of your mind, of your thoughts, of everything that happens is your conscious mind.

0:5195 % is your subconscious mind. There's a whole lot that's happening in the background that you're not even really noticing. And one of the things that I notice with people that holds them back a lot is that they constantly are living in the past. And so that makes sense. It makes a lot of sense because that's where you've been and you're basing it off of factual stuff that's happened in the past, but that's actually holding you back. Because if you're constantly focusing on the past and you're constantly trying to take the past and place it into your future, then your future is going to look exactly like your past was.

1:25But if you're listening to this podcast, if you're here right now, you don't want your future to look like your past. So you need to do some sort of rewiring to make yourself believe that something different, that something greater than your past is possible, which is what we talk about in the rewiring of the reprogramming of your subconscious. You know, you don't want your future to look like your past. And what you look at, you will create. So you have to focus on the future that you want. And you have to actually kind of brainwash your subconscious mind into believing that it's possible. Because what's happening is the 95 % that's working in the background, is keeping you in the exact same place because that 95 % is focusing on what's happened in the past.

2:13But if you're going to create something bigger than what you've done before in the past, you have to think greater than what you've thought in the past. You have to think greater than what you've done in the past. And you have to focus on the future that you want. You have to believe that your imagination is reality or that it will be reality. This is what you did as a child, your child, you would, as a child, you would sit there and you would play with toys and you would make, make the, the, the monsters and you'd have the princess and you were in this world that you created. In order for your future to be greater than your past, you're going to have to start to do that.

2:50You're going to have to start to reprogram your subconscious so that doesn't keep you in a straight jacket in the exact same place that you've always been. You know, Alan Watts always talks about the past being like the wake of a boat. If you're on a boat and you look behind you and you can see the waves that the boat is creating. It shows you where you've been, but it doesn't steer the boat. So humans care about the past, which makes a lot of sense. When you look at the brain, the human brain is designed to keep you alive. And the one way that it does this is by predicting the future. And the way it predicts the future is by looking at the past.

3:24And the reason why it wants to actually predict the future is because you have a better chance at staying alive. You can plan, you can make the right moves, and hopefully you can avoid injury, death, all of that. And this is incredible. It is absolutely incredible. It's one of the biggest things that kept our species alive is that we were able to notice things and predict the future based off of the past. The brain protects us based off of what has happened to us in the past and what we've learned. So it tries to predict, it tries to avoid pain. You know, if your friend ate berries two years ago that were a black color and died, well then now next time you see black color berries, you're not going to eat them again.

4:03It's amazing. Absolutely amazing for staying alive. But it is absolutely terrible if you're trying to create a successful life, if you're trying to reprogram your subconscious, if you're trying to grow a business, if you're trying to get out of your comfort zone, it is terrible because your brain wants to predict. That's what it wants to do. So if your brain wants to predict, and if we're not in control of it, it's constantly predicting the past onto the future. So if it wants to predict, if we kind of throw ourselves in there, what if we gave it a new thing to predict? What if we step in and we're in charge of its predictions?

4:43And if we are in charge of our predictions, then we actually start to rewire our brain in ways we start to actually change our subconscious. This is where your intention comes in. You can let your brain predict the future from the past if you want to, or you can step in and you can be in charge of the prediction through visualization. You decide what you want your future to look like and you get so focused on that future that the brain doesn't go to the past. Your brain, the beautiful thing about it, it's amazing, but it mostly does not know the difference between between something that is happening right now in reality or something that is visualized.

5:24And this isn't some like woo-woo BS. There's been many studies on this. Richard Shin did a study on this and found out whether they were looking with Olympic athletes. And they would have them run a race and they would hook them up to electrodes and kind of see what was happening in their body as they were running the race. They'd see what was happening in their brain. They would see what happened in their muscles. And then what they did was they had them sit down and they hooked electrodes up to their brain and their body the same way, and the athlete's muscles showed very similar activation when they were visualizing their routines versus actually running them, which means that they visualize them so in depth that their brain and their body actually started responding as if they were running that race, indicating the brain's response is the same as actual performance.

6:14Approximately 90 % of Olympic athletes this past year use mental imagery to prepare for their competitions. If it didn't work, why the hell would they use it? So when you imagine this, imagining activates brain areas that are similar to reality. And so there's been studies, Dr. Costlin actually revealed this, that visualizing an event activates the same brain areas as if it's experiencing it. And this is really good for us because if we're, think about this first day, just take a ride with me, right? If our brain is predicting the future off of the past, well, then if we sit down and we visualize something over and over and over again of what we want our future to look like and live as if we're already there and actually visualize it, and our brain doesn't know the difference between what's happening and what's not happening, that means our brain will then store it as reality and store it as the past, which means that we can take that past and throw it, quote unquote, past and throw it into our future.

7:21And what's really good about this is because of the fact that you feel and think like you've already done it before, your fear and anxiety around, quote unquote, doing it the first time, but really doing it again, your brain thinks, your fear and your anxiety goes down around it. And it's really effective for anxiety reduction. Visualization techniques are commonly used in therapy to help reduce anxiety. And the brain responds to imagined scenarios similarly than the way it does to real ones. But what you're making your brain do, you're kind of in a way brainwashing yourself to believe that it's already possible and it's already been done.

8:01So therefore you don't have this mental barrier of, well, I need to keep myself in my comfort zone to protect myself. Now it's like your brain's almost thinking subconsciously, I've already done this before. It makes you think that you've already done it. This means that it thinks and then stores everything as if it was a true past. And we will be right back. And now back to the show. And this is good because otherwise it would take your old past into a place in a new future. I don't want that to happen. If you had a failed business in the past and you think to yourself, you know what, I really want to start my own business again.

8:41I really want to start a business. I have this new idea. But you had a failed business in the past and your brain wants to make predictions. Guess what it's going to do? Yeah, it's going to make predictions that your new business is going to fail, most likely, and protect you from that failure because it was a lot of pain. It was a lot of heartache when you had that failed business. and so it's going to try to protect you from that because what happened in the past? Your business failed. If you haven't had a failed business yourself, but you know someone who's had a failed business, guess what it's going to do?

9:12It's going to make predictions based off of other people's businesses that you know in the past, what it has seen in the past. Why? Because it wants to protect you from pain. If you've been cheated on in the past and you want to get into another relationship, guess what your brain is going to do? It's going to make predictions about your new partner and maybe them cheating. Why? Because it wants to protect you from pain. And this is completely unintentional and usually goes on without anybody ever knowing, which is why it's called the subconscious. It is under the conscious mind. It is almost imperceivable.

9:52So you're not really perceiving the whole thing. And so it's unintentional. in the subconscious self-sabotage cycle ends up perpetuating itself over and over and over again. So what do we do? We create the future in our minds that we want. We get clear as hell on it and we visualize it as often as we possibly can. You create your own future. So first off, you have to get very clear on what you want, as detailed as you possibly can. Not like, oh, you know what? I'd like to make more money. That's stupid. No. How much money do you want to make? What do you want it to look like? What are you going to do?

10:24What kind of life is that going to afford for you. Get very clear on every single detail. Well, I want to get into a relationship with a perfect partner. Okay, cool. That sucks. Tell me more. Just go into more detail. Who is that person? What do they look like? What's their body type? How tall are they? What's their hair color? Just go into as much. How are this person? How do they treat you? How do they hold your hand when you're walking down the street? Become as clear as you possibly can because the more clear that you can become, the better you can visualize it. And the better you visualize it, the more that you actually start to reprogram your subconscious to believing that it has happened before, which means believing that it is possible to happen again in the future.

11:03So you get very clear. And I don't think I can stress clarity enough. Whenever you write down what it is that you wrote down, go, how can I make this more clear? And then make it more clear. Okay. Because the better you can see it, the better, more clear it is, the better that you can visualize it. That's the first thing. And the second thing is if you really, I mean, are actually serious about this, like really, really serious about this, you have to visualize every single day. You have to visualize it every single day. What does it look like? What does it feel like? What does it smell like? What is it inside of your body when you accomplish this goal?

11:38What is that pride in the sense of accomplishment feel like when you finally realize you got to X? and you've got to basically live in your future at every moment of the day because most of us are living in the past every moment of the day and allowing our subconscious to throw predictions into the moment that we're in and into the future to keep us into the exact same place. You need to become so excited about the future that you want. And then what happens, what's really important about this is a lot of us have big goals. We have things that we want to do. And when we think about those big goals, there's a little bit of a feeling of fear within us.

12:19Like, oh my God, that's a lot. That's gonna require a lot of me. I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And so by visualizing that future, we start to feel fear. And that fear kind of paralyzes us a little bit. It keeps us in the same place. So what you wanna do is you wanna visualize a future so much that when you think about the future, you don't have the fear, but you have the feeling of excitement of that future. and you use that feeling of excitement to drive you to take action. Because people like familiarity, which is why they go back to the past.

12:53So then the question is, can you make yourself more familiar with the future that you want than of your past? Can you be more familiar with the future that you want than the past that you have? The past only happened once. Whatever moment you're thinking of happened once. A visualized future can happen every single morning. So instead of feeling fear about the future based off of the past being thrown into that future, here's what's really interesting. Can we instead of feeling fear about the future, which doesn't exist, which isn't real right now, we feel fear about the future. Can we in turn start to fall so in love with the future, become so obsessed with the future?

13:44Can you feel so in love with that future that you actually feel grateful for that future in the present moment that hasn't happened yet, but will? If I can feel fear about a future that hasn't happened yet, can I feel gratitude about a future that hasn't happened yet? Yes, I can. Can you learn to be grateful for a future that is coming to you? When you start to think about it, your mind is this incredible thing. When you look at the placebo effect, people are given sugar pills and it cures many diseases because they think a sugar pill is actually a cure. So just by them thinking that they're healed, they become healed.

14:23This shows you the sheer power of belief and how it can shape our reality. The more that we believe in our future vision, the more that we will take actions that align with it and the easier it will be to take action so we don't keep self-sabotaging. You are who you are because of your past and your perception of the past. If that's true, you can become whoever you want to be based off of your visualization of what you want your future to be. And that's really important for every single person to understand. You have to just visualize, and this is the key part that I want to bring in, right? Visualize it, feel it every single day as often as you possibly can.

15:01But whenever you do, what I want you to do is release control of when it will happen. Just know that with every single fiber of your body that it will happen. The when, you're not in control of. There's some other thing that's out there. God, the universe, life, whatever it is, the quantum field is in control of the when. You just have to be able to be the person that says, I know it's going to happen with every single fiber of my body. just completely release when it's going to happen though. What you do is you mentally rehearse your future in your mind over and over and over and over again. And you will start to reprogram your subconscious.

15:43You will start to create new neural pathways inside of your brain to make these things actually happen. It can be really hard at first. It feels really weird at first, but you start to settle into it the more that you do it. If you feel like you're doing it wrong, you're probably doing it right because your body and your mind are in the unfamiliar and that can feel uncomfortable. I must be screwing this up. No, no, no. You're doing it right because you should feel uncomfortable for the first few times you do it. You should feel unfamiliar. You've never been in this place before. But when you mentally rehearse your future over and over and over again every single day at the beginning of the day, at the end of the day, and you start to actually feel it every single day, you're going to start to become more self-aware of like, oh, I'm noticing that I'm starting to get more excited about this.

16:30Oh, I'm starting to notice. And you'll start to notice people, places, things, opportunities pop up around you to make it easier for you to step into the future that you want. It's almost as if it's, you know, you can say synchronicity, you can say law of attraction, all of those things. Maybe you've just set your reticular activating system to be aware, like hyper aware and tuned in to the people, places, opportunities that pop up in your life that now make it possible for you to create the future that you want. And so if you want to change your future, if you want to change your life, it comes with you reprogramming your subconscious mind first.

17:04Figure out what you want, become very clear on it, and then visualize it. Make it a habit. Make it a ritual. Make it something that is one of the most important things that you do every single day. And that is how you reprogram your subconscious mind. And if you love this episode, please do me a favor. Share it on your Instagram stories, tag me in it, Rob Dial Jr., R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. The only way that this podcast grows is from you guys sharing it. So if you've ever, even once, gotten any value from anything I've ever shared, please share it on your Instagram stories. Please pay it forward. I would greatly, greatly appreciate it.

17:34And once again, if you want to go ahead and download my free ebook on how to dominate your 2025 goals, go to goals2025.com. Once again, goals with an S2025.com. And with that, I'm going to leave you the same way I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.