April 18, 2025 • 21 mins
In this insightful episode, we dive deep into the differences between your brain and your mind. The brain, much like computer hardware, is the physical organ responsible for transmitting and receiving thought frequencies. Meanwhile, your mind acts as the operating system—an intangible force made up of conscious and subconscious components, directing your brain's actions.
Your subconscious mind operates quietly beneath your conscious awareness, shaping your thoughts, emotions, habits, and behaviors. Through intentional practices like repetition, auto-suggestion, and visualization, you can program your subconscious mind to attract the opportunities and resources needed to fulfill your dreams. Speaking positively and cultivating supportive environments are essential, as your subconscious internalizes your words and surroundings.
Think of your brain as a radio—constantly tuning into frequencies that align with your thoughts. Positive thinking will draw positive outcomes, while negative thoughts inevitably lead to negative experiences. Training your mind to view situations positively, regardless of immediate circumstances, shapes your personal beliefs and the reality you experience.
Thanks to neuroplasticity, your brain is always capable of forming new connections based on repeated thoughts and actions. Visualization—mentally rehearsing desired outcomes—strengthens these neural pathways and boosts performance. Amplifying visualization with powerful emotions further anchors your core values and goals. Creating vision boards is another practical way to keep your dreams front and center.
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Tim Staton (00:00):
Hey, and welcome back to another episode.
Are you consciously designing your life or are subconscious patterns running the show?
Over the last several months, we've been talking about your personal vision statement in between
the other episodes, and we've been talking about the power of your vision statement personally and professionally.
And we've talked about nine other principles before this that go into different ways that you
(00:26):
could help shape your vision statement.
And in this episode, we're going to be talking about the power of the subconscious mind and the brain.
It's important to understand that they're, they're two different things.
Your brain is the physical organ.
It's the transmitter and receiver of thought frequencies where your mind is in this intangible
(00:50):
entity of who you are, it's your conscious and subconscious and, and it's shaping and directing the brain's functioning.
We need to make sure that we're intentionally programming our subconscious mind through repetition
and auto suggestion and visualization, things that we've already talked about, to enable the
brain to effectively transmit and attract the resources and opportunities needed to achieve your vision.
(01:12):
The subconscious mind can also be thought of this way.
It's the part of your mind that operates below your conscious awareness, continuously influencing
your thoughts, emotions, habits and behaviors.
Without your active realization, it acts like an internal storage and processing center, holding
past experiences, beliefs, skills and memories and your automatic responses.
(01:36):
Essentially, it's a powerful mental force behind the scenes, subtly shaping how you perceive
reality, respond to events and make decisions.
And if you're having a hard time distinguishing between the two, then this episode is definitely for you.
This is Tim Staton with Tim stating the obvious.
(01:57):
What is this podcast about? It's simple.
You are entitled to great leadership.
Everywhere you go, whether it's to church, whether it's to work, whether it's at your house,
you are entitled to great leadership.
And so in this podcast, we take leadership principles and theories and turn them into everyday, relatable and usable advice.
Disclaimer (02:18):
And a quick disclaimer. This show process or service by trademark trademark manufacturer otherwise
does not necessarily constitute an apply to endorsement of anyone that I employed by or favors in the representation.
The views are expressed here in my show, are my own expressed and do not necessarily state or
reflect those of any employer.
Tim Staton (02:28):
So let's talk about the brain here for a minute. Right?
So the brain as an organ, it is your biological hardware.
I view your brain as the computer.
It is the tangible things and the tangible structure of your neural tissue, your neurons and your synapses, right?
Just like a computer without the gold and the copper and the zinc and the electricity flowing
(02:54):
through the physical hardware components, your computer wouldn't work.
That's why it's even more important to also think about it in a frequency type way.
Whereas, oh, you turn on a radio and it has the little dials, or it used to have dials, now it has little buttons.
But either way, you're either digitally or manually tuning an antenna to different frequencies
(03:15):
to tune in to different music or to different talk shows, or you name it, of whatever's on that
frequency wave in the air.
You're turning that radio and you're tuning it to that right frequency so you can hear the song
that you want to hear, or you could hear the talk show that you want to listen to.
You're tuning that in to the right thing.
(03:35):
And your brain does the same thing.
It has a transmitter and a receiver of your thoughts, your ideas.
And it's very similar to a radio station.
So whatever you're thinking about, you can have the positive side or the negative side to anything
one way or the other.
And your brain will focus in and actually tune to the frequencies of the thing that you're tuning into.
(03:58):
Whereas your mind, that is the non physical entity, that is your conscious and subconscious, it's intangible.
Like this is your psychological and emotional software.
So I equate the mind as to your operating system.
It's the thing that makes things run.
And there are things that run in the background to prevent things from happening and for you to fall into traps.
(04:23):
And these are mechanisms that we have built in over the year.
Just like you have malware on a computer, right?
You have antivirus, not malware on a computer, you have antivirus software on a computer.
Your brain and your mind actually has antivirus software built in to help prevent you from getting hurt.
Once you have built up these past experiences and these templates that you can go, oh, these templates look like this.
(04:47):
So if I'm in this situation, this is similar to this, I could get hurt.
So I'm going to avoid that.
It's kind of how your mind works. It's the emotional software.
Instead of looking at the templates, it looks for our thoughts, it looks for our beliefs, it
looks for our habits and our emotions and our memories.
And then it tells the brain how to respond to a different action.
So the subconscious mind shapes and guides the brain's action through repeated thoughts and
(05:14):
auto suggestion, ultimately determining our behaviors and our outcomes.
I equate this to being kid as a child, you have all of these subconscious things that come into your Mind like you're.
You're at your house, and how do you learn how to speak whatever language you speak?
Because everybody in your house speaks the same language usually.
(05:35):
And you have the rare.
You have more cases where you grow up in a bilingual household where people speak two languages.
And there's a little learning delay because that child's learning to learn two languages at the exact same time.
The brain is working the neurons and the firing of the synapses, and it's also building that
subconscious of, oh, I have the confidence to learn how to speak two languages.
(05:58):
But on a deeper note, what you say about that child, when you think that child isn't listening,
it subconsciously picks up, it listens to the things that are being said about it, and then it internalizes those thoughts.
And I've talked about this before.
If you're talking negatively about a child like, oh, you know, this child's so difficult.
Oh, this child's a troublemaker.
(06:19):
Oh, this child is too much work.
Oh, this child is difficult.
Oh, this child is this, or whatever you name it.
Even if you think that the child cannot understand it or hear it, it subconsciously picks up
everything in its environment, internalize it, and applies it to itself.
So eventually, the things you say about that child, it will internalize and become the thing that you talk about.
(06:40):
That's why it's incredibly important to control those thoughts and speak life into people instead of speaking harsh words.
The same is true for if you're going to talk about how great a child is, be like, oh, by, this child is well behaved.
This child is a hard worker.
This child can read at an early age.
This child can color very well, shares with others really well all the positive things that
(07:05):
you're saying about that child.
That child will then internalize it, apply it to itself, and then in essence, become the thing
that you are boosting up about the child.
We're always divine developing beliefs and perceptions based on behaviors and the.
The decisions that we make in life.
For example, if you're learning how to cook, right, you go over to the stove, you turn it on,
(07:27):
you may burn yourself a couple times, but then you're gonna learn like, oh, either I'm a really
good cook or I'm a bad cook, depending on how many times you burn yourself and whether you can
work out those fine motor skills.
Or maybe every time you cook, you burn food because you haven't learned the perceptions of temperatures
or whatever it is that you want to think about.
So therefore, the outcome of something as you say it to Yourself of, oh, I burned this.
(07:51):
I am not a good cook.
If you do that enough, you're going to auto suggest to yourself that you're not a good cook.
But if you burn something, you're like, oh, I burned it this time, I'm going to do better next time.
And next time you do better and you tell yourself, yep, I did better on this, so I'm actually a better cook.
You keep telling yourself this stuff over and over and over, over a period of time, you're going
to become a better cook because you told yourself that.
(08:11):
Same thing goes with everything else.
Whether you know you're going to have a good day or a bad day all determines on how you're going
to auto suggest it to yourself.
It doesn't really matter what the facts are.
It matters what your belief and the perception surrounding that fact is that you've assigned
to it based on your own perceptions and your own decisions that you've made in life.
(08:32):
If we, we take the same concept and we apply it through a radio station like, like we talked
about earlier, if I'm going to think and tune in to positive thought and ideas and look for
opportunities, my brain is going to tune into frequencies on the same pattern and pick up those
(08:55):
positive thoughts, those ideas, and even opportunities that are going to present itself because
your brain is physically tuning into those frequencies.
Whereas if you think of the negative aspect of something over a longer period of time, you're
going to up on the negative aspect of something.
So you're always going to be one equally one to the left or to the right, either to a positive
(09:19):
or to the negative of a fact always.
And it's up to you on how you program your mind to look at that situation.
So the awesome thing about our brain is that it does what it's programmed to do.
And your subconscious programs your brain to do these things.
And when you develop these patterns over time, you develop intuition.
There's a good book called Blink where why is it that people make good decisions in a blink
(09:45):
of an eye and some people make bad decisions in the blink of an eye?
Or we talk about, oh, I just have a gut feeling about how something is going to work out. That's your intuition.
And we develop intuition through experience, through patterns that we learn to apply to different situations.
So like, if you're going to go into a burning building and you're a firefighter, you're going
to know based on your training and your experience on whether a fire is going to go well or
(10:11):
bad, or whether you should go into the house or just let it burn based on the patterns that
you've seen in the past?
And did you apply your expertise to that situation?
And you're going to have somebody out there who's like, I got a gut feeling this is going to be a good idea.
Let's not go in the house. Everybody's out. Let's let it burn.
Or somebody's going to be like, ah, it'll be okay and it'll look scary, but let's just go and put the fire out. I'll be all right.
Because they've learned to pick up on patterns and cues from previously previous times and apply to this one.
(10:37):
So our brain acts as that filter for us. It acts as.
As the receiver to do the things that we needed to do.
The other great thing about your brain is that it allows you to practice this thing called neuroplasticity, right?
And that's our ability to recognize and form new connections based on repeated thoughts and actions.
(11:00):
So you can actually form new connections in your brain that didn't exist before by repetitively thinking about these thoughts.
And if anyone's ever gone to any type of, like, EMDR therapy, this is kind of like the same thing.
If you're constantly learning about dogs, right?
There's a part of your brain that lights up and thinks about dogs.
(11:22):
But if you're thinking about dogs and how it's related to speed and which breed a dog could
run faster than another breed of dog, then those are going to be connected in itself.
Because eventually there's going to be a new strand of neurons that talk to each other, from
the dog portion of your brain to the speed portion of your brain, and how the two connect to
each other based on your thought pattern going into that brain, the heart hardware will rewire
(11:47):
itself, which is really amazing. And if you.
If you haven't watched any videos on these or looked at it, just kind of look into it.
It's really cool how your body works and how your. Your brain works.
And your brain plays a vital role in the visualization of the achievement of that goal that you have in mind.
The brain is the part that can actually make you physically see with your mind's eye what actually
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it's going to look like.
Your subconscious cannot do that.
Your subconscious can program what your drive for it is, but it cannot give you the actual visualization of it.
And so I go back to the art of visualization and doing an action before you actually do it.
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So baseball players, football players, elite soldiers, do this as well.
So before you're going to do an action, physically do it in your mind.
You mentally rehearse it, doing it over and over and over again.
And what will happen is your brain will actually develop those synapses and those neurons to
talk to each other better.
So when you actually physically do it, you perform at a higher level than if you've never done
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it because you programmed your brain to do it.
Now you've also physically trained your body, so you're going to physically do it better anyway.
However, the mental capacity that goes into that, that is even better.
So that's just kind of like one tool of how all of these kind of tie together.
I know this is like a science Y type episode, but it's important to understand the difference
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between your mind and your brain.
And since we can visualize with our brain what things look like and we develop our goals for
our vision, we need to incorporate our emotions into it, to reprogram our subconscious into
developing our core values, setting smart goals, and even having a vision board.
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And there's also these new things that you can try too.
You can develop like a two minute movie, like a movie reel of what you want the vision to look like.
And then that's even better because it's like in motion, adds sound, it adds more emotion and passion to it.
It just does a better job, I think, other than vision boards.
But if you're not there, a vision board is great because it helps you, your brain connect those
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neurons together and the synapses to get your stuff moving forward.
And when you vividly visualize what it's going to happen, you're programming your subconscious
mind effectively to support what your brain is trying to do.
Another thing that you can do about this is every day for two minutes, watch that video, look
at your vision boards, go over what your vision looks like, and constantly auto suggest it to you.
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One thing I do is on my phone, I put in key Bible verses that are important to me to help me
achieve my goals and my visions and to help keep my mind in check.
And the reason why I put them on my phone on a rotating scroll is because the average person
picks up their phone like 200 times a day.
So I'm auto suggesting to myself 200 times a day the principles and values and passions that
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I need to have in life without me really thinking about it.
Because every time I pick it up and every time I look at the phone, there it is.
It's constantly a reaffirmation of this is what it is.
This is what you need to know.
This is what you need to reaffirm.
Don't forget this, this is important.
And it's constantly driving towards my goals and my visions.
And that's one way that we can incorporate the subconscious mind and the brain.
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I'm physically looking at something my brain isn't, is putting it together.
I'm, and I'm programming the things that I'm seeing.
The other thing that you can do is subtly put up things around you.
Inspirational quotes of things that are going to drive you towards your goals or statements
by people who have done the things that you're trying to do and the things that made them successful.
(15:38):
Pictures of what your vision is going to look like, what it looks like to actually achieve it,
what it looks like to do it, what it looks like to struggle while you're doing it, what it looks
like to fail and then recovery, recover from that failure.
All of those things that you can put in your life to remind you of what you're doing, you're
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programming your subconscious mind to do that.
And I'm kind of reminded of back when I was in the school, in high school in the 90s they'd
have all these cat posters all over the wall and they say, oh, you can do it, you can achieve more, you name it.
They had all these cheesy posters of all up all over the.
But those were a intentional subconscious programming of the mind to let all the students know
(16:23):
that they could do whatever it is that you're doing, that they just need to hang in there just
like that cat's hanging on for dear life, not falling off the, the balcony or the banister or
the door, that you can do it over time we forget that we need to continuously do that to ourselves
because no one else is going to do it for you once you get to a certain point.
So through either using your phone and your home screen as a tool for auto suggesting yourself,
(16:47):
vision boards, videos on your phone that are personalized to you to get you after your vision.
All of those things will help program your subconscious mind and rewire your brain.
So we talked about what the mind is, the subconscious.
We've talked about the mind, the subconscious mind.
We talked about the brain, how they work in tandem together.
We talked about how to auto suggest to ourselves to reprogram our subconscious mind.
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But what are some of the common pit.
Well, well, some of the common pitfalls are negative self talk.
And I find myself running into this as well.
For example, if I make a mistake on something like oh, I'm so stupid It's a simple mistake.
Like I forgot to take out the trash on trash day.
So this week I forgot to put the trash out on Monday. It typically goes out.
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I forgot to put it out the night before I got home from work. Monday afternoon.
It's like, oh man, I forgot to put out the trash. I am so stupid.
That is negative self talk.
I should have said, oh man, I made a mistake.
I'm not going to do that again.
It's okay to identify a shortfall.
It's not okay to assign an attribute to myself because of an action, because that doesn't reaffirm
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into my subconscious mind what I wanted to do, which is I'm smart and I'm brilliant, not I'm stupid.
So negative self talk gets in the way.
Limiting beliefs gets in the way hugely, right?
So we often limit our own beliefs by saying, well, I can only do X, Y and Z.
And I'm going to use this as a quick plug for my book, right?
So I wrote a book, I published it on Amazon.
(18:21):
Life skills you didn't know that you needed.
And I limited myself by saying I'm going to sell X amount of books by a certain day instead
of saying I'm going to sell an unlimited amount of books by a certain amount of day.
So we put a limiting belief on that and by doing that, we're subconsciously going to do things
that will give us the result that we're looking for, right?
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Another pitfall is a fear of failure.
So that, that's a, that's a real one.
A lot of people are afraid of failing and, and this goes back to the positive or the negative side of things.
Tuning your brain in, right?
Everything that I've ever worked on does work out.
It will either work on me to make me a better person or that thing will succeed.
Either way, it's going to win. There's no failure.
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Failure is when I quit. That's when I fail.
Another common pitfall is procrastination, right?
Not, not starting and delaying it because we're afraid of whatever reason, if it takes five
minutes to do, do the five minutes, get after it, go ahead and do it.
And it's important to make sure that we have patience and persistence and seeking continuous
(19:24):
self awareness of overcoming our subconscious barriers.
And this is an ongoing tiring thing, but if you could master this, you're going to achieve your
vision, you're going to achieve your goal at a much more abundant rate than if you were not to do it.
So wrapping up this episode, I would offer up For a practical thing that you could implement
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today to work on your subconscious mind is put something on your phone that is part of your visualization. What is your vision?
Personally and professionally put them on your home screen, on your phone, and that way every
time you look at your phone, every time you pick up your phone, you're going to subconsciously reprogram your brain.
The other thing I would ask you to do is make like a quick one minute video of what your vision is.
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And if, if you would be so brave to share that, you can go to Tim, stay in the obvious and send me an email.
Or you can go to our Facebook page or Instagram page and share that on this episode that we'll
share on there and say, hey, you know, this is my vision.
That also is scary, right?
But it would be also super cool to give other people inspiration to be like, hey, you know what? That person did it.
(20:34):
I could do it too.
So if you do those two things, I guarantee you are going to improve.
Reprogramming your subconscious mind and your brain to do with the things that you need to do
to be able to achieve your vision.
As always, thank you for stopping by and checking out this episode and listening to it.
I really hope that you enjoyed it.
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Again, thanks for stopping by. I'm Tim Staten. Staten the Obvious.
Hey, and welcome back to another episode.
Are you consciously designing your life or are subconscious patterns running the show?
Over the last several months, we've been talking about your personal vision statement in between
the other episodes, and we've been talking about the power of your vision statement personally and professionally.
And we've talked about nine other principles before this that go into different ways that you
(00:26):
could help shape your vision statement.
And in this episode, we're going to be talking about the power of the subconscious mind and the brain.
It's important to understand that they're, they're two different things.
Your brain is the physical organ.
It's the transmitter and receiver of thought frequencies where your mind is in this intangible
(00:50):
entity of who you are, it's your conscious and subconscious and, and it's shaping and directing the brain's functioning.
We need to make sure that we're intentionally programming our subconscious mind through repetition
and auto suggestion and visualization, things that we've already talked about, to enable the
brain to effectively transmit and attract the resources and opportunities needed to achieve your vision.
(01:12):
The subconscious mind can also be thought of this way.
It's the part of your mind that operates below your conscious awareness, continuously influencing
your thoughts, emotions, habits and behaviors.
Without your active realization, it acts like an internal storage and processing center, holding
past experiences, beliefs, skills and memories and your automatic responses.
(01:36):
Essentially, it's a powerful mental force behind the scenes, subtly shaping how you perceive
reality, respond to events and make decisions.
And if you're having a hard time distinguishing between the two, then this episode is definitely for you.
This is Tim Staton with Tim stating the obvious.
(01:57):
What is this podcast about? It's simple.
You are entitled to great leadership.
Everywhere you go, whether it's to church, whether it's to work, whether it's at your house,
you are entitled to great leadership.
And so in this podcast, we take leadership principles and theories and turn them into everyday, relatable and usable advice.
Disclaimer (02:18):
And a quick disclaimer. This show process or service by trademark trademark manufacturer otherwise
does not necessarily constitute an apply to endorsement of anyone that I employed by or favors in the representation.
The views are expressed here in my show, are my own expressed and do not necessarily state or
reflect those of any employer.
Tim Staton (02:28):
So let's talk about the brain here for a minute. Right?
So the brain as an organ, it is your biological hardware.
I view your brain as the computer.
It is the tangible things and the tangible structure of your neural tissue, your neurons and your synapses, right?
Just like a computer without the gold and the copper and the zinc and the electricity flowing
(02:54):
through the physical hardware components, your computer wouldn't work.
That's why it's even more important to also think about it in a frequency type way.
Whereas, oh, you turn on a radio and it has the little dials, or it used to have dials, now it has little buttons.
But either way, you're either digitally or manually tuning an antenna to different frequencies
(03:15):
to tune in to different music or to different talk shows, or you name it, of whatever's on that
frequency wave in the air.
You're turning that radio and you're tuning it to that right frequency so you can hear the song
that you want to hear, or you could hear the talk show that you want to listen to.
You're tuning that in to the right thing.
(03:35):
And your brain does the same thing.
It has a transmitter and a receiver of your thoughts, your ideas.
And it's very similar to a radio station.
So whatever you're thinking about, you can have the positive side or the negative side to anything
one way or the other.
And your brain will focus in and actually tune to the frequencies of the thing that you're tuning into.
(03:58):
Whereas your mind, that is the non physical entity, that is your conscious and subconscious, it's intangible.
Like this is your psychological and emotional software.
So I equate the mind as to your operating system.
It's the thing that makes things run.
And there are things that run in the background to prevent things from happening and for you to fall into traps.
(04:23):
And these are mechanisms that we have built in over the year.
Just like you have malware on a computer, right?
You have antivirus, not malware on a computer, you have antivirus software on a computer.
Your brain and your mind actually has antivirus software built in to help prevent you from getting hurt.
Once you have built up these past experiences and these templates that you can go, oh, these templates look like this.
(04:47):
So if I'm in this situation, this is similar to this, I could get hurt.
So I'm going to avoid that.
It's kind of how your mind works. It's the emotional software.
Instead of looking at the templates, it looks for our thoughts, it looks for our beliefs, it
looks for our habits and our emotions and our memories.
And then it tells the brain how to respond to a different action.
So the subconscious mind shapes and guides the brain's action through repeated thoughts and
(05:14):
auto suggestion, ultimately determining our behaviors and our outcomes.
I equate this to being kid as a child, you have all of these subconscious things that come into your Mind like you're.
You're at your house, and how do you learn how to speak whatever language you speak?
Because everybody in your house speaks the same language usually.
(05:35):
And you have the rare.
You have more cases where you grow up in a bilingual household where people speak two languages.
And there's a little learning delay because that child's learning to learn two languages at the exact same time.
The brain is working the neurons and the firing of the synapses, and it's also building that
subconscious of, oh, I have the confidence to learn how to speak two languages.
(05:58):
But on a deeper note, what you say about that child, when you think that child isn't listening,
it subconsciously picks up, it listens to the things that are being said about it, and then it internalizes those thoughts.
And I've talked about this before.
If you're talking negatively about a child like, oh, you know, this child's so difficult.
Oh, this child's a troublemaker.
(06:19):
Oh, this child is too much work.
Oh, this child is difficult.
Oh, this child is this, or whatever you name it.
Even if you think that the child cannot understand it or hear it, it subconsciously picks up
everything in its environment, internalize it, and applies it to itself.
So eventually, the things you say about that child, it will internalize and become the thing that you talk about.
(06:40):
That's why it's incredibly important to control those thoughts and speak life into people instead of speaking harsh words.
The same is true for if you're going to talk about how great a child is, be like, oh, by, this child is well behaved.
This child is a hard worker.
This child can read at an early age.
This child can color very well, shares with others really well all the positive things that
(07:05):
you're saying about that child.
That child will then internalize it, apply it to itself, and then in essence, become the thing
that you are boosting up about the child.
We're always divine developing beliefs and perceptions based on behaviors and the.
The decisions that we make in life.
For example, if you're learning how to cook, right, you go over to the stove, you turn it on,
(07:27):
you may burn yourself a couple times, but then you're gonna learn like, oh, either I'm a really
good cook or I'm a bad cook, depending on how many times you burn yourself and whether you can
work out those fine motor skills.
Or maybe every time you cook, you burn food because you haven't learned the perceptions of temperatures
or whatever it is that you want to think about.
So therefore, the outcome of something as you say it to Yourself of, oh, I burned this.
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I am not a good cook.
If you do that enough, you're going to auto suggest to yourself that you're not a good cook.
But if you burn something, you're like, oh, I burned it this time, I'm going to do better next time.
And next time you do better and you tell yourself, yep, I did better on this, so I'm actually a better cook.
You keep telling yourself this stuff over and over and over, over a period of time, you're going
to become a better cook because you told yourself that.
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Same thing goes with everything else.
Whether you know you're going to have a good day or a bad day all determines on how you're going
to auto suggest it to yourself.
It doesn't really matter what the facts are.
It matters what your belief and the perception surrounding that fact is that you've assigned
to it based on your own perceptions and your own decisions that you've made in life.
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If we, we take the same concept and we apply it through a radio station like, like we talked
about earlier, if I'm going to think and tune in to positive thought and ideas and look for
opportunities, my brain is going to tune into frequencies on the same pattern and pick up those
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positive thoughts, those ideas, and even opportunities that are going to present itself because
your brain is physically tuning into those frequencies.
Whereas if you think of the negative aspect of something over a longer period of time, you're
going to up on the negative aspect of something.
So you're always going to be one equally one to the left or to the right, either to a positive
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or to the negative of a fact always.
And it's up to you on how you program your mind to look at that situation.
So the awesome thing about our brain is that it does what it's programmed to do.
And your subconscious programs your brain to do these things.
And when you develop these patterns over time, you develop intuition.
There's a good book called Blink where why is it that people make good decisions in a blink
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of an eye and some people make bad decisions in the blink of an eye?
Or we talk about, oh, I just have a gut feeling about how something is going to work out. That's your intuition.
And we develop intuition through experience, through patterns that we learn to apply to different situations.
So like, if you're going to go into a burning building and you're a firefighter, you're going
to know based on your training and your experience on whether a fire is going to go well or
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bad, or whether you should go into the house or just let it burn based on the patterns that
you've seen in the past?
And did you apply your expertise to that situation?
And you're going to have somebody out there who's like, I got a gut feeling this is going to be a good idea.
Let's not go in the house. Everybody's out. Let's let it burn.
Or somebody's going to be like, ah, it'll be okay and it'll look scary, but let's just go and put the fire out. I'll be all right.
Because they've learned to pick up on patterns and cues from previously previous times and apply to this one.
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So our brain acts as that filter for us. It acts as.
As the receiver to do the things that we needed to do.
The other great thing about your brain is that it allows you to practice this thing called neuroplasticity, right?
And that's our ability to recognize and form new connections based on repeated thoughts and actions.
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So you can actually form new connections in your brain that didn't exist before by repetitively thinking about these thoughts.
And if anyone's ever gone to any type of, like, EMDR therapy, this is kind of like the same thing.
If you're constantly learning about dogs, right?
There's a part of your brain that lights up and thinks about dogs.
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But if you're thinking about dogs and how it's related to speed and which breed a dog could
run faster than another breed of dog, then those are going to be connected in itself.
Because eventually there's going to be a new strand of neurons that talk to each other, from
the dog portion of your brain to the speed portion of your brain, and how the two connect to
each other based on your thought pattern going into that brain, the heart hardware will rewire
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itself, which is really amazing. And if you.
If you haven't watched any videos on these or looked at it, just kind of look into it.
It's really cool how your body works and how your. Your brain works.
And your brain plays a vital role in the visualization of the achievement of that goal that you have in mind.
The brain is the part that can actually make you physically see with your mind's eye what actually
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it's going to look like.
Your subconscious cannot do that.
Your subconscious can program what your drive for it is, but it cannot give you the actual visualization of it.
And so I go back to the art of visualization and doing an action before you actually do it.
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So baseball players, football players, elite soldiers, do this as well.
So before you're going to do an action, physically do it in your mind.
You mentally rehearse it, doing it over and over and over again.
And what will happen is your brain will actually develop those synapses and those neurons to
talk to each other better.
So when you actually physically do it, you perform at a higher level than if you've never done
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it because you programmed your brain to do it.
Now you've also physically trained your body, so you're going to physically do it better anyway.
However, the mental capacity that goes into that, that is even better.
So that's just kind of like one tool of how all of these kind of tie together.
I know this is like a science Y type episode, but it's important to understand the difference
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between your mind and your brain.
And since we can visualize with our brain what things look like and we develop our goals for
our vision, we need to incorporate our emotions into it, to reprogram our subconscious into
developing our core values, setting smart goals, and even having a vision board.
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And there's also these new things that you can try too.
You can develop like a two minute movie, like a movie reel of what you want the vision to look like.
And then that's even better because it's like in motion, adds sound, it adds more emotion and passion to it.
It just does a better job, I think, other than vision boards.
But if you're not there, a vision board is great because it helps you, your brain connect those
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neurons together and the synapses to get your stuff moving forward.
And when you vividly visualize what it's going to happen, you're programming your subconscious
mind effectively to support what your brain is trying to do.
Another thing that you can do about this is every day for two minutes, watch that video, look
at your vision boards, go over what your vision looks like, and constantly auto suggest it to you.
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One thing I do is on my phone, I put in key Bible verses that are important to me to help me
achieve my goals and my visions and to help keep my mind in check.
And the reason why I put them on my phone on a rotating scroll is because the average person
picks up their phone like 200 times a day.
So I'm auto suggesting to myself 200 times a day the principles and values and passions that
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I need to have in life without me really thinking about it.
Because every time I pick it up and every time I look at the phone, there it is.
It's constantly a reaffirmation of this is what it is.
This is what you need to know.
This is what you need to reaffirm.
Don't forget this, this is important.
And it's constantly driving towards my goals and my visions.
And that's one way that we can incorporate the subconscious mind and the brain.
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I'm physically looking at something my brain isn't, is putting it together.
I'm, and I'm programming the things that I'm seeing.
The other thing that you can do is subtly put up things around you.
Inspirational quotes of things that are going to drive you towards your goals or statements
by people who have done the things that you're trying to do and the things that made them successful.
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Pictures of what your vision is going to look like, what it looks like to actually achieve it,
what it looks like to do it, what it looks like to struggle while you're doing it, what it looks
like to fail and then recovery, recover from that failure.
All of those things that you can put in your life to remind you of what you're doing, you're
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programming your subconscious mind to do that.
And I'm kind of reminded of back when I was in the school, in high school in the 90s they'd
have all these cat posters all over the wall and they say, oh, you can do it, you can achieve more, you name it.
They had all these cheesy posters of all up all over the.
But those were a intentional subconscious programming of the mind to let all the students know
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that they could do whatever it is that you're doing, that they just need to hang in there just
like that cat's hanging on for dear life, not falling off the, the balcony or the banister or
the door, that you can do it over time we forget that we need to continuously do that to ourselves
because no one else is going to do it for you once you get to a certain point.
So through either using your phone and your home screen as a tool for auto suggesting yourself,
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vision boards, videos on your phone that are personalized to you to get you after your vision.
All of those things will help program your subconscious mind and rewire your brain.
So we talked about what the mind is, the subconscious.
We've talked about the mind, the subconscious mind.
We talked about the brain, how they work in tandem together.
We talked about how to auto suggest to ourselves to reprogram our subconscious mind.
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But what are some of the common pit.
Well, well, some of the common pitfalls are negative self talk.
And I find myself running into this as well.
For example, if I make a mistake on something like oh, I'm so stupid It's a simple mistake.
Like I forgot to take out the trash on trash day.
So this week I forgot to put the trash out on Monday. It typically goes out.
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I forgot to put it out the night before I got home from work. Monday afternoon.
It's like, oh man, I forgot to put out the trash. I am so stupid.
That is negative self talk.
I should have said, oh man, I made a mistake.
I'm not going to do that again.
It's okay to identify a shortfall.
It's not okay to assign an attribute to myself because of an action, because that doesn't reaffirm
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into my subconscious mind what I wanted to do, which is I'm smart and I'm brilliant, not I'm stupid.
So negative self talk gets in the way.
Limiting beliefs gets in the way hugely, right?
So we often limit our own beliefs by saying, well, I can only do X, Y and Z.
And I'm going to use this as a quick plug for my book, right?
So I wrote a book, I published it on Amazon.
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Life skills you didn't know that you needed.
And I limited myself by saying I'm going to sell X amount of books by a certain day instead
of saying I'm going to sell an unlimited amount of books by a certain amount of day.
So we put a limiting belief on that and by doing that, we're subconsciously going to do things
that will give us the result that we're looking for, right?
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Another pitfall is a fear of failure.
So that, that's a, that's a real one.
A lot of people are afraid of failing and, and this goes back to the positive or the negative side of things.
Tuning your brain in, right?
Everything that I've ever worked on does work out.
It will either work on me to make me a better person or that thing will succeed.
Either way, it's going to win. There's no failure.
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Failure is when I quit. That's when I fail.
Another common pitfall is procrastination, right?
Not, not starting and delaying it because we're afraid of whatever reason, if it takes five
minutes to do, do the five minutes, get after it, go ahead and do it.
And it's important to make sure that we have patience and persistence and seeking continuous
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self awareness of overcoming our subconscious barriers.
And this is an ongoing tiring thing, but if you could master this, you're going to achieve your
vision, you're going to achieve your goal at a much more abundant rate than if you were not to do it.
So wrapping up this episode, I would offer up For a practical thing that you could implement
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today to work on your subconscious mind is put something on your phone that is part of your visualization. What is your vision?
Personally and professionally put them on your home screen, on your phone, and that way every
time you look at your phone, every time you pick up your phone, you're going to subconsciously reprogram your brain.
The other thing I would ask you to do is make like a quick one minute video of what your vision is.
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And if, if you would be so brave to share that, you can go to Tim, stay in the obvious and send me an email.
Or you can go to our Facebook page or Instagram page and share that on this episode that we'll
share on there and say, hey, you know, this is my vision.
That also is scary, right?
But it would be also super cool to give other people inspiration to be like, hey, you know what? That person did it.
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I could do it too.
So if you do those two things, I guarantee you are going to improve.
Reprogramming your subconscious mind and your brain to do with the things that you need to do
to be able to achieve your vision.
As always, thank you for stopping by and checking out this episode and listening to it.
I really hope that you enjoyed it.
Before we go, I'd like to ask a favor of you if I could.
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Again, thanks for stopping by. I'm Tim Staten. Staten the Obvious.
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