Understanding Subconscious Programming in Personal Development

Personal development reveals subconscious programming, empowering individuals to break free from mental limitations.

### Unlocking Self-Awareness: Understanding Subconscious Programming
* 🎭 Personal development involves bringing awareness to ideas, concepts, and tools that help individuals **understand themselves better**.
* 🌀 An analogy of a hypnotist show illustrates how **intelligent individuals can be more susceptible to subconscious programming**, similar to how they might respond to **hypnotic suggestions**.
* 🦆 In the story, after being hypnotized, a person unknowingly acts on a suggestion to **quack every time the word "duck" is mentioned**, highlighting how **stress can trigger subconscious behaviors**.
* 🔍 If the individual is informed about the suggestion, they have the opportunity to **recognize and resist the urge**, demonstrating the **power of self-awareness** in overcoming subconscious programming.
* 💡 The goal of these discussions is to provide insights that reveal the **subconscious influences shaping our lives**, especially those that may lead to **stress and overwhelm**.
* 🧩 Understanding our own programming allows us to **navigate life's challenges more effectively**, rather than feeling **trapped by past conditioning**.
* 🌍 Ultimately, personal development is about **unraveling the complexities of ourselves**, as the journey to **change the world begins with changing our own minds**.
* 🚪 Recognizing that we are all influenced by our upbringing, it's essential to find ways to **escape the metaphorical matrix** we live in.

A lot of the personal development work that I help other people with is really about bringing ideas, concepts, tools, and frames into their awareness so that they can become more aware of themselves. I want to sort of give you an analogy or a story of what I'm hoping I'm doing. Let's imagine that you and I, we go to a show in Vegas, and it's one of these hypnotist shows where the hypnotist on stage, he does all these kinds of mind tricks, and he calls people on stage and hypnotizes them and yada, yada, yada. And he calls you up. And I don't know if you know this or not, but the more intelligent you are, the more susceptible you are to hypnotism. And because of this, and likely if you're watching my channel, you're intelligent, but because you're intelligent, of course, when he hypnotizes you, you go deep down under. Now, while you're under there, he tells

you every time he says the word duck, you're going to stand up, you're going to flap your arms, and you're going to quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, every time he says the word duck. But you're not going to remember any of this suggestion that he's made. And in fact, you're not going to believe when you wake up that you were not able to be hypnotized. So he proceeds to wake you up, and you hear him saying, Well, some people just can't be hypnotized. You beat me today. And you feel good about yourself. You feel confident. You feel like you are the mental strength you think you are. And you come back down into the audience, and you sit down next to me. Five minutes later, he starts talking about duck hunting. And every time he says the word duck, you have this urge. And in fact, it's irresistible. You stand up. You start to flap

your arms and you quack. And see, when we stress, we fall back to the subconscious programming. We fall back to our childhood kind of instructions that we don't know are there. And coincidentally, so is this hypnotic suggestion that he's placed into your mind. Let's change the story a little bit. Let's say that when you came back down and sat next to me in the audience, I said, hey, he did hypnotize you. Every time he says the word duck, you're going to want to flap and quack. Now you know this instruction's there. So five minutes later, when he starts talking about duck hunting, you might still stand up. You might still flap. You actually have an opportunity not to because now you know this instruction's there. But even if you do stand up, you're not going to stress because you're going to say, oh, it's that silly instruction. Well, this is what we're trying to do.

with these Sunday talks that we have, is give you a little bit of information that helps you understand some of the programming that's going on in your mind, that gives you tools and frames and awareness that you have subconscious programming that is driving a lot of your life. And in some of our cases, that subconscious programming is not very good. And so as we stress, we end up doing more things that create more stress and it can feel overwhelming. In fact, sometimes it can feel right out impossible to get it over. So this is the idea. This is why we do personal development. This is why we try to become self-aware, not so that we can become some kind of, you know, grandmaster walking the earth. It's really more about trying to figure out this puzzle we call ourselves. We've all been hypnotized. We had mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, grandparents, teachers, brothers and sisters, who all told us things when

we were very young and very susceptible to what they would say that defines the world for us. And remember, if you want to change the world, it starts with changing your mind. We're all stuck in the matrix. It's your job to find your way out. I hope what we share helps. Have a great day.

The Real Hypnosis: Your Subconscious

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The Power of Hypnotism and Self-Awareness

The speaker's personal development work focuses on increasing self-awareness through ideas, concepts, and tools.

They use a hypnotist show analogy to illustrate the power of suggestion and the mind's susceptibility to influence, especially in intelligent individuals.

The story highlights the conflict between the hypnotist's suggestions and the individual's belief in their mental strength, ultimately emphasizing the impact of external influences on behavior.

Subconscious programming from childhood influences our behavior, especially under stress.

Hypnotic suggestions can create automatic responses, but awareness of these instructions can provide an opportunity to break the cycle.

Personal development and self-awareness are essential for understanding and overcoming negative subconscious programming.

The Power of Mindset in Changing the World

Our young and impressionable minds are easily influenced by others' words.

Changing the world begins with changing our own mindset.

It's important to seek a way out of the limiting beliefs and perspectives we are stuck in.