Your mind is a very powerful thing and it’s your thoughts that control how you act and how you go through life.

If you have the ability to change your thoughts then you have the ability to change yourself on a core level and drastically improve the quality of life.

When it comes to changing the way you think there happens to be a number of different methods but the two we are going to look into today, in this “rap battle” extraordinaire our very own positive affirmations Vs subliminal messages.

Positive Affirmations

Positive Affirmations are short positive statements that you repeat over and over. The reason you repeat them over and over is because one of the ways to access your subconscious mind, which is the part of your mind that controls your beliefs, is through constant repetition.

So, at first you really wont believe the affirmations that you are saying but overtime they will eventually sink in and you will start to notice that the way you think has started to change and of course you are now behaving differently.

It’s always easier to understand something with examples, so here are some affirmations for someone who is looking to become happy:

• I am happy
• I think only positive thoughts
• I am 100% happy with who I am
• I am able to see the good in every situation

Someone who isn’t very happy would take those affirmations and what they would do is they would repeat them each day. Not just once but they would repeat them at least twice each day and they would say them in a confident manner with 100% belief behind them as confidence and belief is needed to make them work.

Of course they wouldn’t start to feel happy after one day of using them, instead it will take a while to work but overtime they will sink into the subconscious mind and that person will find themselves much more happier.

The main benefit with positive affirmations is that they are super simple to use, you can get started within just 5 minutes (just read our guide), and that you can make them for almost any subject area you want to progress in.

Subliminal Messages

To understand subliminal messages you need to know that you have two different types of perception – conscious and subconscious.

For ease now we are going to refer to subliminal messages as in their audio form.. as this is actually the point of this article.

With conscious perception you are actually aware of the message. For example when you repeat a positive affirmation you are of course aware that you’re being exposed to it and say when you’re listening to a song, you hear the song lyrics and you know that you’ve heard them.

Subconscious perception on the other hand picks up on things but you aren’t aware that you have picked up on them and it’s the subconscious perception that picks up on subliminal messages, which are messages that have been put together to avoid conscious perception.

In audio form, all subliminal messages are, are simply positive affirmations, initially read aloud, but then moved to a higher sound frequency – i.e. they are made subliminal.

Subliminal messages are just positive affirmations!

The main benefit with subliminal messages is that they are a more passive experience. You can play them while you wash the dishes, clean the house, do your homework, write that report, hit the treadmill. The hard work has been done for you, the affirmations are recorded and non-intrusive.

Which Is Better?

Right now you might be wondering if you should use subliminal messages or positive affirmations.

Well, some will tell you that positive affirmations are the way to go and you should stay away from subliminal audio while others say the opposite and say only use subliminal audio to change your thoughts and don’t waste your time on affirmations.

The thing these people don’t understand though is that both positive affirmations and subliminal messages work and it is a personal choice, not a solid given that one is better than the other.

Whether you decide to use positive affirmations or subliminal audio to change your thoughts you will get results, it just depends on how your mind interprets the info, and usually a little experimentation is required to actually just see which one is best for you personally, which one resonates with you, suits your lifestyle, and brings results.

Often, it might be both. The best thing to do then is to use a mixture of both positive affirmations and subliminal programming 🙂

To give both a try you can get started with our free positive affirmations ebook, or try a free subliminal mp3 from Real Subliminal.

If you imagine that your subconscious mind is like a hard disk of a computer, over time this tree, just like a computer can get cluttered by bad programs and corrupt files.

In your human mind these bad programs and corrupt files can be related to negative influences in your environment, disempowering information from the media, bad habits that you pick up over time, chronic stress and even the food and drink we consume.

This hard disk is responsible for your heart beat, your breathing, your long term memory, your digestive system, your immune system and the majority of the processing power of your thoughts and emotions takes place here too.

So when this goes wrong, so does your health, your well being, your mind power and even your ability to attract and manifest the things that you want.

Correction with Affirmations

Thankfully you can correct these bad programs by using meditation techniques with positive affirmations.

Positive affirmations are suggestions that you make to your subconscious mind that change your habitual thinking patterns.

However your subconscious mind cannot differentiate between negative and positive.

For example if you want to attract money, you cannot say things like I don’t want to be poor because your subconscious mind will act upon the word poor, ignoring the word don’t and will bring that result instead.

So you must choose what you say to your subconscious mind very carefully and that is why we use positive affirmations.

Your subconscious mind is most open to suggestions while you are in the ‘alpha’ brainwave state.

This state of mind is when you are most relaxed and calm.

You produce most alpha waves when you are in a meditative or prayer state or just before you go to sleep and have your eyes closed.

You can also produce alpha waves using a special technology known as brainwave entrainment or alpha wave producing meditation music.

While you are in this alpha state you can now start to repeat positive affirmations to your subconscious, by chanting them out loud, or just repeating them consciously with conviction in your mind.

Here is the formula you must follow to make positive affirmations work for you.

5 Steps to Success with Affirmations

1. They must be said while in an alpha state, a positive state of conscious focus
2. They must be all affirmative and said with conviction and confidence
3. They should involved a specific action
4. Repetition is essential, so the more times you repeat an affirmation the better. It should become a daily practice.
5. Be aware that positive affirmations do not magically manifest results, what they do instead is open your subconscious to new channels of information and opportunity, so you must take action on these in order for any major changes to happen to your life.

So remember to pick the right statements for your intentions, then make it a daily habit to clear the clutter and reprogram your subconscious mind!

With repetition, when coming from a position of confidence and conviction, affirmations can be a powerful tool to spark changes within your mind from which you can really take action and see a huge difference in your life!

This is a Guest Post from Niraj Naik

Niraj is the founder of the Alpha Mind System – which he created using a fusion of brainwave entrainment and his own musical compositions. His background musician and scientist with classical training in ancient indian vedic and gregorian music gave him an ear for artistic expression and his attention to detail and knowledge of sound waves and beats helped him to create his master system.
He then used his own Alpha Mind System and compositions to literally turn his life around and regain his health after serious illnesses.

Find out more about how the alpha mind system works here, or visit his homepage at:

http://www.alphamindsystem.com

This is a guest post from Rishan Bhagowat from Manifest Absolutely Anything.

In this week’s blog post I am going to share with you the three biggest mistakes I see our clients make when it comes to applying the Law of Attraction and visualization.

Fixing just these three mistakes will supercharge your visualizations and empower you to manifest your deepest desires with unbelievable consistency.

Mistake #1: Not Enough Detail

The first mistake I’m going to call out is not visualizing with enough detail. We’re all guilty of this one (even me!)

Objective research has conclusively shown that the more detailed we can get with out goals and visualization, the more effort we’re likely to put in to achieving those goals, the more likely we are to persist through challenges…and the more likely we are to succeed.

The level of detail that is required is to describe *exactly* what it will look like when you have accomplished your goal. This involves details about the environment, the people involved, the sights, sounds, feelings (both physical and emotional) etc.

The easiest way to get this kind of detail is to write a one page description of exactly what it will look like when you’ve achieved your goal. Writing it down and forcing yourself to make it at least one page forces you think about the kind of detail that creates amazing results.

Mistake #2: Thinking Only of the Positive

This one might be a little counter-intuitive but stick with me for a second.

Gabriele Oettingen, professor of Psychology at NYU has clearly shown over thousands of experiments done by her and her team, that imagining *only* the final outcome results in a lower level of commitment and action…and a lower level of success.

Instead, what we want to do is go back and forth between the final outcome and various challenges and steps along the way.

So in practice first we first imagine the final outcome in all the glorious detail mentioned in “Mistake #1,” then we think about some challenges we might face along the way, then we switch back to imagining the final outcome, then we consider some of the steps we’ll need to take…and so on and so on.

Fixing this one mistake with exponentially increase your motivation to action on your goal and your ability to deal with challenges along the way…allowing you to manifest whatever it is you desire quicker and easier than ever before.

Mistake #3: Ignoring the Practical Details

In a set of related experiments, Professor Oettingen and her colleges have shown that taking the time to think about and visualize the steps along the way to our goal results in greater level of effort, persistence and success.

Once we’ve gone through the process outlined in “Mistake #2” (it’s called Mental Contrasting by the way) we’ll have a good idea of some of the things we’ll need to do manifest our desire.

At first these may be broad, vague ideas..that’s OK, they’ll become more specific with time.

For now, we want to take these ideas and insert them into our visualization practice. We want to see ourselves going through the steps to manifesting our desire and dealing with some of the possible challenges along the way.

Adding in this step programs our resources to take the action necessary to manifest our desires, making it as automatic and as painless as possible.

This is a Guest Post from Rishan Bhagowat

Rishan became one of the youngest practicing actuaries in the world at age 22. He promptly “retired” from that professional job as an actuary at age 23.

Since then, Rishan has travelled extensively and now lives life on his terms. He has lived in at least 7 countries in the last 5 years and visited countless others. His story is a real world example of the freedom you can achieve using his technology.

Rishan’s approach to the Law of Attraction steers clear of magical thinking and is strongly grounded in objective research and what works in the real world.

If you enjoyed his evidence based approach to the Law of Attraction check out his step-by-step blueprint to manifesting absolutely anything desire *almost overnight* on his website here:

http://www.manifestabsolutelyanything.net