Harness Your Subconscious

Super Psychology

Harnessing the Power of Your Unconscious Mind

Step 0: Become Interested in Your Internal Unconscious

• Desire to understand your unconscious mind, be interested in learning significant brain processes like intuition, insight, and creativity.

Step 1: Understand Your Unconscious Mind

• Recognize it as a background process that handles tasks you're not consciously aware of.

• Acknowledge its limitations and the need for conscious guidance for complex tasks.

Step 2: Identify Your Key Motivators

• Trace your goals back to primal emotions like happiness, fear, or love.

• These primal emotions are what your unconscious mind recognizes and will focus on.

Step 3: Visualize Success

• Associate your task directly with these good feelings or key motivators.

• Use Pavlovian conditioning to make this association strong.

Step 4: Implement the Habit

• Day 1: Take some time to figure out your key motivators.

• Subsequent Days: While doing your task, think about your key motivators. Feel the associated positive or negative emotions.

Step 5: Be Consistent

• Do this daily for quick results. Consistency is key.

Step 6: Avoid Common Pitfalls

• Ego and Failure: Take failure personally to engage your unconscious mind.

• Avoid Gaming the System: Don't do easy tasks for quick dopamine hits; it's counterproductive.

• No Entitlement: Don't feel entitled to success; work for your goals.

Step 7: Keep the Association Strong

• Regularly revisit your key motivators and the association with your task to keep your unconscious mind engaged.

Conclusion:

• This method is particularly useful for those who don't naturally love what they do but need their unconscious mind to be more engaged in their tasks.

Additional Tips:

• Take failure personally; it should bother you that you can't accomplish a task that others probably have.

• Don't feel entitled to success; you still have to work for your goals.

By following this guide, you can effectively engage your unconscious mind to focus on tasks that are crucial for achieving your goals.

Primal Human Emotions

The primal human emotions commonly recognized are:

1. Happiness/Joy

2. Sadness

3. Fear

4. Anger

5. Disgust

6. Surprise

Examining Key Motivations

1. What are your primary goals? (e.g., increasing business cash flow, providing for your family)

2. Why are these goals important to you? (e.g., financial security, family well-being)

3. What emotions do you associate with achieving these goals? (e.g., happiness, relief)

4. What emotions do you associate with failing to achieve these goals? (e.g., fear, sadness)

Designing Pavlovian Conditioning

1. Positive Reinforcement: Every time you make progress toward your goal, immediately reward yourself with something small that brings you joy (e.g., listen to a favorite song, eat a small treat).

2. Negative Reinforcement: If you fail to make progress, immediately expose yourself to something you dislike (e.g., listen to an annoying sound, do extra chores).

3. Visual and Emotional Association: While working on tasks, visualize the end goal and the associated primal emotions. Feel the happiness of success or the fear of failure.

iPhone Shortcut Automation Program

1. Morning Reminder: A notification every morning reminding you of your key motivations and associated primal emotions.

2. Progress Check: An afternoon notification asking if you've made progress. If yes, the shortcut triggers your chosen positive reinforcement. If no, it triggers negative reinforcement.

3. Evening Reflection: A notification in the evening to reflect on the day's work and visualize your key motivators.

4. Weekly/Monthly Review: A calendar event to review your progress and adjust your key motivators and reinforcements as needed.

Steps to Create iPhone Shortcut:

1. Open Shortcuts App: Go to the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.

2. Create New Shortcut: Tap the "+" button to create a new shortcut.

3. Add Actions: Use the "Add Action" button to add various actions like sending notifications, playing sounds, or setting calendar events.

4. Set Triggers: Go to "Automation" and set time-based triggers for the shortcut to run automatically.

5. Test: Run the shortcut to make sure it works as expected.

6. Activate: Once satisfied, activate the shortcut.