The power of your mind

1. Our brain(or mind) can store unlimited information, more than all of the computers in this world can store.

If you don't believe this, think about how many books you have read, how many pieces of news you have read, how many pictures have you seen, how many movies/videos you have seen, how many songs you have heard, how many skills you have learned, etc. As long as you are awake, your eyes, your ears, your nose are constantly receiving information. All the information is stored in your brain or mind. Sometimes you can't retrieve a certain piece of information in your brain, but it is still there, it is like that you write a piece of text in a document on your computer, but you have so many folders on your computer, and within each folders, there are so many files, it is difficult for you to find that piece of text. When we have a certain emotion/feeling, like fear, anxiety, this feelings will hinder us from retrieving certain information.

2. Your brain's creativity is unlimited. Think about how many ideas you have figured out by now, how many problems you  have solved with your mind, that's our mind's creativity's capacity. However, when you have mixed feelings or conflicting thoughts in your mind, that conflicting state severely blocks your mind's creativity power. Therefore, by aligning your subconscious mind with your goal, you can let your subconscious mind fully bring its creativity power into play and create inspirations for you, give guidance to you how to achieve your goals.

Cynicism doesn't help you

This article comes from my answer to a question on quora.

Success doesn't magically and suddenly happen. Success is an event, while there is a process before it which leads to it. That being said, before you succeed, you need to desire for success, crave for success, you need to be interested in success, you need to feel no shame to talk about success. You even need to visualize that you have been successful. If you can visualize that you have been successful and are comfortable about it, it means that your subconscious mind has accepted it and it will assist you in achieving that goal.
That being said, an outcome can't be caused by something after it, it is not what you say and what you think after you succeed make you success, it is what you say and what you think and what you do before you succeed make you success. To succeed, you need to embrace the concept of success, like to talk about it, let your mind always open, willing to learn the science of success while cynicism makes you feel morally superior but it doesn't actually help you succeed.

We write what we think, and our thinking precedes our actions and will lead to corresponding actions. So we can say that it is our thinking that leads to our success, rather than our actions, because our actions are dictated by our thinking, it's like that a person kills another person with a gun, it is not the gun that kills the person, it is the person who holds the gun kills the other person.

We often trick ourselves. For example, when we think that someone is showing off, actually you don't know whether the person is showing off, quite the opposite, it is the viewer/audience who feels inferior, therefore he/she thinks that the person is showing off. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. It is our own mind that determines how we interpret and feel what we see.

The subconscious mind and success

Any one achieves anything is an effect of all of his thinking, all he has seen/read/heard,  all of his behaviors, and all of his actions beginning from a certain moment of his life. At any moment, a person has innumerable choices regarding what to think about, what to see, how to behave, what to do, how to do. The person who achieves anything has made many choices of what to think about, what to see, how to behave, what to do, how to do from a certain moment of his life, and all of those choices together lead to his success. So how does the person make those choices? At any time, our choice is made by our rational mind(conscious mind) and our feeling. Our feelings most of the time directly come from our subconscious mind, sometimes come from our thinking at our conscious mind level, however our conscious mind uses "axioms" and "theorems", it's like that the conscious mind is a cook, but this cook uses ingredients(food materials) from the subconscious mind to cook, because conscious mind can conduct logical reasoning, imagination, etc., but it doesn't have memory function, all of thinking products are stored on the subconscious mind. Therefore you can see how all of the choices are mainly decided by our subconscious mind, maybe by 95%. Also think about how many times that your thinking is purely rational? Thinking on the conscious mind is like mathematical reasoning, and you have to use "axioms" and "theorems" on the subconscious mind to conduct the reasoning, it's like that you can't cook without ingredients.

So if our subconscious mind doesn't know if we can achieve a certain goal, how will the subconscious mind make us make choices?  The subconscious mind will ask us to act halfheartedly, to wait and see, to think about what we should do if we fail, to let us have doubts, to let us doubt what we are doing, to let us doubt the matter we are dealing with. What result will all of these behaviors, actions and thinking lead us to? Will they help us achieve the goal?

So what if  our subconscious mind doesn't believe that we will achieve the goal, what will our subconscious mind tell us to do? It will tell us to quit,   it will tell us to reluctantly engage in it, it will tell us to frustratedly engage in it. So what will these "instructions", persuasion or influences lead us to?

And if the subconscious mind believes that we can achieve the goal, the subconscious mind doesn't doubt it, so what will the subconscious mind tell us to do? It will think how to achieve it, it will tell us to make the realization/success happen, it will tell us to act towards the realization/success, therefore every decision or choice(what to think about, what to see, how to behave, what to do, how to do) we make is what we believe by our conscious mind or/and subconscious mind will lead us to the realization of our goal. So what do you think these choices and actions will lead us to? The answer isn't difficult to see.

Levitation

Do you believe levitation?
No.
Why?
It is fake.
Why is it fake?
I don't know.
So when you came to this world, say, when you were 1 month or 2 month old, did you think that levitation was fake?
No.
Why?
I didn't know anything at that time.
So why did you think that it was fake later?
It doesn't conform to science.
Why is it fake because it doesn't conform to science?
I don't know.
Is whether conforming to science a criterion to judge whether something is fake or real?
I don't know.

How does it affect you?
Since I don't think anything is real unless it conforms to science, I close my mind to new things(or new learning). As a result, I will end up only possessing traditional wisdom(or conventional wisdom), and my life will  be less wonderful/marvelous than it could have been.

Belief

You will admit that it is your behaviors and actions that create your life, you will admit that it is your behaviors and actions that create the results. So when you believe that you can achieve a goal, you subconsciously believe it, you will behave and act differently from that you don't believe you can achieve your goal or differently from you are neutral(You don't know if you will achieve your goal). Your behaviors and actions will be guided by the belief that you will achieve your goal. It's like that you drive a car. There are many roads which lead to different destinations, and since you believe that you will achieve your goal, you choose to drive the road which will lead to the destination of achieving your goal. Whenever there is a fork, you always choose the branch which will lead to the destination of achieving your goal, therefore you will certainly achieve your goal.

Just see if you believe you can achieve a goal, and you subconsciously believe it, see if you will behave or act differently. Since your life is created by our behaviors and actions, different life is created by different behaviors and different actions.

So based on the fact that you believe you will achieve your goal, what will your conscious mind(your rational mind) do?

I will try to make it happen, I will try to think how to make it happen.

So if you don’t know if you will achieve it, what will your rational mind(conscious mind) do?

I will not wholeheartedly think how to make it, I will not wholeheartedly try to make  it happen.

So what will you do?

I will think what I will do if I don’t achieve it.

In this way, do you think that it can happen?

No.

Why?

Because I don’t try it wholeheartedly.

So what if you don’t believe if you will achieve it? What will you do?

I will quit.

Why?

I don’t want to waste my energy and my time.

So will your goal be achieved if you quit.

Of course not.

Conscious mind and subconscious mind

On the conscious mind, it is thinking produces thoughts, thoughts produce  feelings, and feelings produce behaviors and actions.  Thoughts can also directly produces behaviors and actions.

On the subconscious mind, it is thoughts produce feelings, and feelings produce behaviors and actions. Thoughts can also directly produces behaviors and actions. The subconscious mind contains your habitual thoughts. Your habitual thoughts reside in your subconscious mind. Your habitual thoughts are your automatic thoughts.

What's the difference?
The difference is, on the conscious mind, thoughts are produced by thinking on the spot, while on the subconscious mind, thoughts are already made, thoughts already reside in our subconscious mind. On the subconscious mind, there is no thinking, there are only already seated thoughts/perceptions.

How to send a thought produced by conscious mind to the subconscious mind and make it reside there, by affirmation. How is affirmation done? You speak to your heart, you tell a statement or a resolution to your heart, again and again, until your heart fully accept it. Make sure when you say it(the statement or resolution), you 100% mean it.

What if I can't 100% wholeheartedly tell the statement or resolution to my heart?
That means you have resisting thoughts that are affecting you doing this work. You can use rationality and logical reasoning to rid of your resisting thoughts.

How long can a thought produced by conscious mind be sent to the subconscious mind and reside there by affirmation?

It depends on how devout when you speak to your heart. Make sure when you conduct affirmations, you really mean what you say, and you really accept what you say. You 100% accept what you are saying to yourself. The more devout you are, the fewer number of repetition required.

Irrational mind, conditioned mind

Our mind is a conditioned mind, while also an irrational mind, because many irrational or wrong thoughts/concepts/notions have been conditioned into our mind ever since we came to this world. Although we have been conditioned many irrational or wrong thoughts/concepts/notions into our mind, we still survive and don't die, we are just less happy and less achieved. How are these irrational or wrong thoughts/concepts/notions conditioned into our mind? By simply believing that they are true  and absorbing them.

That said, wrong or irrational thoughts/concepts/notions don't make us die(unless some extremely wrong or irrational ones), it just makes us less happy or less achieved, therefore we can do it the opposite way, we can condition thoughts/concepts/notions which are not necessarily correct but help us more achieved into our mind. How can we condition these thoughts/concepts/notions into our mind? The same. By simply believing that they are true and absorbing them.

What is important is not correct or wrong, rational or irrational, what is important is helpful or unhelpful, empowering or disempowering.

Your thoughts should be responsible for the outcomes, not your actions

We often think that it is our actions that make us success or gain what we want, or produce the result we want. This cognition seems innocently accurate, nevertheless, it is wrong.

Let me give you two examples:

Example 1: You have a car. The car is turned on with its key, the car is turned off with its key. So we may think that it is the key that controls the car, right?

Example 2: Someone is killed by a gunshot. So we think that the person is skilled by the gun, right?

In example 1: It is not the key that controls the car, it is the person who possesses the key. The person decides when to turn on the car and when to turn off the car, not the key.

In example 2: It is not the gun that kills the victim. It is the person who uses the gun that kills the victim. The gun is just a means the shooter uses.

To our people, every action is dictated by its respective thought.  We act because we have the thought that dictates the act, we do nothing because we have do-nothing thought; we do something in a certain way because we have do-it-in-a-certain-way thought. When we focus on the action, it is like that we punish the gun after the victim is killed, while the shooter should be the real culprit, when the action is wrong, it is our thought that dictates that action is wrong. Unless you have some nervous system problems, every action, every movement,like raising your hand, extending your leg, opening your mouth, leaning forward, even a tiny movement, is dictated by your thought.You can't think wrong while do correct, and you can't think correct but do wrong. If you trade stock and lose money, it is not that the action of buying that stock or the action of selling that stock is wrong, it is the thought that dictated buying that stock or/and the thought that dictated selling that stock is wrong.If you blame your action, it is like that you blame the gun for killing the person, while actually the shooter should be responsible for killing.

Happiness and Success

Some people are happy but not successful, some people are successful and not happy, while some people are both happy and successful, therefore you can be happy but not successful,  successful but not happy, and you can also be happy and successful. Success doesn't necessarily guarantee happiness,  if you think that you will be happy after you achieve success, please take care.  However, what's interesting is that the erroneous belief/thought(I will be happy after I achieve success) can act as a big motivation factor that motivates you to do what it takes to succeed, therefore this erroneous belief/thought may help you succeed, but of course it will also make you disillusioned after you achieve success. The same thought can make you very unhappy in the present moment while driving you to succeed in the near future.

However, being depressed definitely prevents you from success. The more depressed you are, the less likely that you will achieve success.

Our emotions can make us unhappy, but it can also help us succeed. For example, if you see that your old classmates make much more money than you and live in a very good house but you don't,  and you feel shame, you can channel that strong feeling of shame into a burning desire to make more money to overtake your classmates. Let your emotions help you succeed, don't let your emotions hinder you from succeeding, but in the meantime please understand in your heart of hearts that your unhappiness or bad feelings are caused by your thoughts, not by not succeeding, so you won't  kill yourself in case that you don't succeed.

Declaration

Our mind is a conditioned mind, our mind is an irrational mind. When we come to this world, we don't know anything except body language and a few physiological needs. Later, as we grow up, we learn everything. So everything is learned and conditioned to our mind. When we learn them, except for the stuff in science textbooks, we don't critically accept them, we blindly accept them. A lot of beliefs/concepts/notions we accepted do us more harm than good therefore are in  our best interest. To let our mind better support/serve us, we need to replace those beliefs/concepts/notions with more beneficial ones. When we accepted them, we didn't use rationalization or logical reasoning to accept them; but we need rationalization or logical reasoning to get rid of them, and then to install new ones with non rationalization ways. Namely, we simply believe that the new beliefs and ideas. If we have resisting thoughts that prevent us from believing new beliefs or ideas, we need to use logical reasoning to tackle the resisting thoughts.

For example, if we don't think being humiliated is good, we can use logical reasoning or rationalization to ask ourselves:
1. What will happen to you if you are humiliated?
   I don't know.
2. Will you be killed if you are humiliated?
No.
3. Will you be physically injured if you are humiliated?
No.
4. Will you lose money if you are humiliated?
No.
5. Will you be put in jail if you are humiliated?
No.(You will only be put in jail if you break the law.)
6. Will you lose happiness if you are humiliated?
No.
7. Will you lose friends if you are humiliated?
No.
8. Will you mentally break down if you are humiliated?
No.
9. Will you become suddenly ill if you are humiliated?
No.
10. So what will happen to you if you are humiliated?

You don't know what will happen if you are humiliated, in deed, you may just become more composed after you are humiliated.
Then you can make a declaration:
It is OK that people humiliate me.
It is OK that people humiliate me.

When you make the declaration or announcement, you need to 100% believe what you are telling yourself and absorb it.

Magic will happen after you do this, because your mind will accept it and internalize it, it will become part of you.