The Subconscious Mind and the Sixth Sense

Chapter 20 Master and Servant (3)
Many young people today believe in horoscopes, blood types, and zodiac signs, just like the older generation would like to believe in fortune tellers.If someone jumps out and says that this is unscientific, they will definitely get this answer: "It's really accurate, the horoscope says what will happen to me this year, and I really am like that."

In fact, whether it is constellations, blood types, zodiac signs or I Ching gossip, first of all, there is a little bit of scientific basis.The age, month, and time of birth are different, the diet is different, the natural conditions are different, and the physiological reactions are different, which will have some subtle effects on the development of character, but these things mainly come from psychological hints.

Everyone's personality is complex, not single and definable.When the description of the constellation exaggerates a certain characteristic of a person, this characteristic will become a definition in the heart and become a firm psychological suggestion.For example, Leo people are strong and have a leadership style. People who read it will subconsciously develop their own strong side and take it as their own original characteristics.It is precisely because of this that there is a folk saying about such things: "It is not allowed to those who do not believe, but it is very accurate to those who believe." People who do not believe will not change their psychological positioning because of various remarks, so His life is not influenced by these remarks, so of course he is not allowed; but those who believe are imprisoned in their thinking by those remarks, forming psychological hints, and naturally getting closer to the description.

A man believed in fortune-telling very much. He asked the fortune-teller, why did he fail to open several restaurants?The fortune-teller replied: "Opening a restaurant belongs to the 'fire' business, which is not suitable for you. You have one last chance to stand up in your life. Only the last time, the business is related to 'wood'. Grasp this time. If you lose it, you will be rich and prosperous; if you miss it, it will be difficult to succeed.” After returning home, this man found some contacts and resources in the timber business, devoted himself to researching the market, endured hardships and stood hard work, and finally became a big boss.He thought the fortuneteller was simply amazing.In fact, this success was only due to his psychological hints.When a person is suggested that they have one chance in life, the power is immense.What makes him himself is actually his firmness, his determination, his relentlessness and his hard work.

It can be seen that one of the effects that suggestion can achieve is to stimulate people's potential.Suggestions create strong mental stereotypes and guide underlying motivations into behavior.Positive cues with a sense of success will make people spontaneously achieve their goals.So in the method of developing the subconscious mind, it is the most often advocated.

Napoleon said: "Auto-suggestion is a bridge between consciousness and subconsciousness." When a person holds 100% confidence in one thing in his heart, then this thing will most likely be achieved.If people can always give themselves good psychological hints, in the long run, they will naturally become a person who is optimistic and easy to feel happy; but long-term bad psychological hints will form a vicious circle, and people's emotions will become worse and worse. The more pessimistic you are, the fate will change accordingly.In fact, life is very simple, what kind of emotion we choose to treat it, it will give us what kind of life story.

"Creating an Autobiography": Memory is also at the mercy of others
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【Creating an autobiography seems to be just the creator of past experience, but also the contractor of the present and the future.Not everyone can live completely according to their own spiritual planning, but everyone's life trajectory is affected by their own spiritual planning. 】

American scholar Timothy Wilson wrote a famous book called "Freud's Myopia".As the name suggests, although Wilson admits that the development of modern psychology is due to Freud's peeking into the world beyond the narrow corridor of consciousness, in the field of empirical psychology, the exploration of the nature of the subconscious has already surpassed Freud's. Loyd's conceptual limitations.

How does the adaptive unconscious affect your life?Wu Jiaxuan, a psychiatrist in Taiwan, wrote a book review: "The adaptive subconscious mind can carry out automatic thinking, allowing us to complete several things at the same time with 'concentration', just like computer operating software, which can open several windows at the same time for different programs. More importantly, 'unconsciousness' is the soil for constructing personality, and it also hides human prejudices. If its function is not estimated, human beings will not be able to know themselves. The book emphasizes 'narrative' in the discussion of self-change power. As long as a person can string together the phenomena that have happened into a story that he can understand and accept, although things themselves may not necessarily change, most of the tension caused by conflicts and struggles has been eliminated.”

The adaptive subconscious can transform lives because, after intense self-suggestion, the key element of action begins to emerge as the dominant force.The best way to change the self-consciousness is action. Compared with thinking, action is always more realistic. It can change the appearance of life drastically in a short period of time.This makes people connect with "whatever you want", but it has actually gone beyond a level.

Strictly speaking, people's summary and description of reality are not objective.When what actually happened becomes a memory, the process of this transformation is subjective and varies from person to person. "History is a little girl who can be dressed up", and so is memory.In this process, the subconscious mind is created subjectively and becomes what it wants.Then, if this process can be harnessed to modify our life stories and the tone of our lives to form a powerful "context," then the power of the adaptive unconscious can be unleashed.

Looking at the biographies of celebrities, it is not difficult for us to find such a situation: if there are multiple biographical versions of a biographer, the stories they describe are often different, especially in the West, and even contradictory events may appear with description.In the end, what is the life of the protagonist can only be reduced to an event that people think about and talk about in their spare time. The truth has long since disappeared with the event and has become a Rashomon that cannot be solved.

The description of one's own experience is crucial from the perspective of life creation. Changes in mentality and feelings ultimately require changes in behavior and concepts.That is, self-narration, or according to the understanding above, it is called "creative autobiography".Creating an autobiography cannot be wild and unfounded, at least it must not be far from reality, so that experience can be coherently explained.Finally, unconditionally believe in the autobiography that you have created.

In the analysis of the adaptive subconscious, people find that there seems to be no absolute real self, only continuous construction.In fact, this is a way to change the subconscious mind through acquired training. "People have a kind of mental assembly that evolves over time and operates unconsciously." When people realize this characteristic, people's cognition of self and subconscious will be much clearer.

The subconscious mind is complex and extremely important to our existence.So psychologists have spent a lot of effort to decipher it.And when the adaptive subconscious is raised, it does explain a lot of doubts.For example, sometimes a couple around us had a falling out, and we, as friends, tried to persuade them separately, but found that it was clearly the same thing, but the descriptions of the two people were quite different.The public says that the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right. It seems that no one is lying, and they can't explain it clearly.In fact, this is a kind of "creative autobiography".

The same incident is reflected in different mentalities, different values, and in the different emotions of different parties at the moment, it is likely to be a different story.If many events in the world are manipulated in a multi-angle narrative way, it will show wonderful effects.In fact, such an attempt has already existed in people's field of vision. For example, people's interpretation of the Second World War has many angles, whether it is a book or a movie, they all bring different touches to people.Compared with macro history, private memory is becoming more and more popular and accepted by more people.But in fact, people understand that private memories are not reliable. For the distant reality, they can only appreciate the differences and experience the memories that have been relayed countless times and are full of re-creation.

"Creating autobiography" is not only a normality of reality processing, but also a methodology that can be used.The effect it can achieve is similar to deep self-hypnosis.No matter what kind of eyes others cast, we can look at ourselves according to our own wishes.People who are not confident and firm enough are easily influenced by gossip, which greatly reduces their ability to "create an autobiography".

For example, how would a street cleaner respond when passers-by gave him contempt and ridicule?Some people feel ashamed, feel that their work is extremely shameful and shameful, and then become inferior; some people straighten their backs and sweep more vigorously, because he thinks his work is very noble, and every corner of his life is inseparable from this group His hard work, so he takes pride in his occupation and enjoys it.The same situation can make people depressed, but it can also make people enjoy it.At this time, we personally construct a "self".

To give another negative example, in "The Emperor's New Clothes", the emperor wears clothes that don't exist at all, but can walk in the crowd calmly.The reason lies in the fact that the emperor constructed a false reality. In order not to admit his ignorance, he first convinced himself that the most beautiful clothes in the world were being woven on the empty loom. Instigated by him, he proudly stripped off his clothes, put on the imaginary finery, and walked naked in the sun.In the process, he also weaves a new story for himself, setting up a new character, who are separate from reality and can go on and on.

Whether it is a positive example or a negative example, the truth comes down to one thing, that is, cognition changes mentality, and mentality changes life. "Creating Autobiography" is a re-interpretation and re-creation of real life, which is based on individual psychological needs and will present different characteristics.It also tells people that the same life, viewed and narrated from different angles, will have different moods and different endings.The past can never be changed, but it determines the future.If it plants positive seeds in the subconscious mind, positive flowers will bloom.Conversely, if you plant the seeds of negativity, you will reap negativity.

Many celebrities are willing to whitewash their own experiences and biography, for the sake of fame, they want to put themselves in a "deified" position, so as to gain more glory and benefits.However, the "creative autobiography" we are talking about here is advocating a kind of self-motivation and self-adjustment psychotherapy, which cannot be compared with it, and it does not mean that this is advocating "no repentance" and "no self-examination".In real life, everyone will inevitably encounter some hardships.A single thought may affect the happiness of a lifetime.If you can learn to persuade yourself and sum up some upward forces or golden lessons from past events, it will be the greatest gain.

It is very important to learn to properly construct your own life story. Its tone not only represents the past, but more importantly, it determines the future direction of the story.Some people like to interpret many details in real life into heavy sighs; some people like to turn those past events into anecdotes, which have the color of interpretation; some people like to live life into jokes, even sad things can be evolved into self-deprecating humor.It is conceivable that the lives of these three people must be in different directions.

Some depressed patients are stuck in a memory and cannot extricate themselves, and often even have the idea of ​​committing suicide.After undergoing treatment and getting through that stage, they often say with relief: "That matter is not a big deal, why couldn't we turn the corner at that time?" This also shows that a lot of happiness and distress are created by themselves, and the world itself There is no emotion.

Once you have learned the method of "creating an autobiography", you will understand the essence of the adaptive subconscious mind.When encountering ups and downs in life, you might as well use this ability to interpret them and turn them into useful teaching materials on the road to growth.Zen practitioners said: "There is no definite answer to life. It is not a multiple-choice question. It is not a question of right and wrong. It is complex, changing, and full of mystery and wisdom. It needs to be experienced and introspected with heart."

Facing the same failure of starting a business, some people think that this is their most dedicated attempt, exhausting financial resources, energy, and manpower. I am afraid that this is God telling him: "You are not suitable for starting a business, so you should be a wage earner obediently." Let's go." So he stopped his hand and heart, and switched to the ordinary life trajectory.Some people think that almost every successful businessman has experienced failure or even bankruptcy. This is just the most common test question on the road to entrepreneurship. He should give a qualified answer and then advance to the next level.So he did not give up, continued to work tirelessly, and finally overcame all obstacles and became a leader in the business world.In fact, this is the different effect of "creating autobiography" in the lives of two people, and it is also a different demonstration of the use of subconscious mind.

Of course, this is not a law that can be applied casually.In fact, the former kind of people may also become powerful working emperors and find another new path that suits them. The latter kind of people may really not be suitable for business, and they fail completely and cannot make a comeback.But no matter what the circumstances are, I believe that "Creative Autobiography" will follow them all their lives and affect their attitude towards life in the future.In fact, the mediocrity or failure of most people is not due to aptitude, nor is it because of the betrayal of fate, but because of their own mentality.

The facts that have happened are all objective. However, after being magnified by self-feeling, they will present a variety of appearances.We must first have the courage to analyze ourselves, and then reposition the history according to the future plan. This is different from whitewashing and tampering. More precisely, we should learn to interpret ourselves correctly.

In fact, it is more difficult to interpret the self than to interpret the world.This is because throughout the course of our lives, we are directors, writers, actors, and even audience members of our life stories.For the evaluation of quality of life, everyone has their own standards, the most important, of course, is their own set of standards.

(End of this chapter)