I was just thinking about something, completely unconsciously, and it suddenly dawned on me. There are many ways to programme human behaviour and activity. The only two ways I know of are consciously, and subconsciously.
Conscious programming is just pure and blatant. It’s where you’re on the same wavelength as someone else, that you will take into your mind whatever they say. For example, if I truly like a tutor of mine and can attune myself to their style of teaching and am truly desiring to learn what they have to teach, then I will pick up on anything they say straight to my face. If they were to tell me that I have ten arms and two fingers, and even if I could see that I don’t, if I were that attuned and willing to ‘hear’ what they were saying, I would take it on board, and adopt that thought as my own. Especially if that message were emitted to me repeatedly, over a period of time.
The subconscious programming side, for me, takes many forms that I can think of. Subliminal audial programming, visual programming, environmental programming, habitual programming, are only some that immediately come to mind.
Audial programming: This is where a piece of noise is played (either in the way of meditational chants, noises of nature, or calming affirmations, to name a few) and yet unlaying what the listener can consciously hear is another track, or series of tracks, telling the listener things which the subconscious mind can pick up on. An example of this would be the relaxation cd’s that are readily available that will help you give up smoking or lose that five pounds you have gained over christmas.
Visual programming: People are very visual in how they like to learn. Even those who are not consciously receptive to visual learning, will learn a lot subconsciously, if exposed to the right sensors. To me, visual programming can be something as simple as a sentence. For example, “JOHN is one of THREE children who are ELEVEN years old. This is the message that John gave his brothers. “You have heard from the beginning, since we started school. We are all born equally, so we should love one another.”
This is a really bad example, but give me a break, it’s 1am here. What I am trying to show with the words in bold, is that this is a quote directly from the bible. John 3:11 states “You have heard from the beginning, we should love one another.” That message, although blatant once told about it, finds it way subconsciously to the brain, which works way quicker and harder than we give it credit for, and processes the full example, and also files any other formation of that message that it possibly can. Hence, we could read a million different statements from that one example, whichever way our brains decides it wishes to take it. But the probability of the mind subconsciously picking up on the bolded words in that example are still quite high.
Environmental: This, to me, is where we are subjected to something, such as the smell of coffee in the morning, which tells us it’s time to wake up and face the day. This is not something consciously picked up, instead it is something that is automatically triggered in our minds. I believe this is from years of learning that most people drink coffee in the morning. It gives them a jolt to get them started for the day. You may never have even drank coffee before, but you know that this is a trigger to get you moving for the day, just the smell of it.
Habitual: The whole human race is based on habit. We all have our little quirks. Some people can’t open their eyes before their first coffee and smoke for the day. While others will religiously do their shopping at 6pm on a Thursday. These are learned behaviours. We have learned that something we do. or say, will affect us in a certain way. Sometimes consciously, sometimes totally without realising it. However, we will keep practising this until it becomes automated in our minds. A good example of this is, I am teaching my daughter to pull her stomach in, as she has a little bit of a pot belly, and I have heard that this can help her when she is older to combat such things as UTI’s and Pelvic floor deterioration after childbirth.
We spend a minute or so doing this multiple times per day. Every now and then, I see her just doing it while she is doing something else. It’s like she isn’t even thining of it, but she has slowly automated her body to do that for itself.
There are other forms of this programming going on. However, like I said at the start, it has only just dawned on me what it is all about. Any comments, if I am on the right track or not, or anything else, would be muchly appreciated. Thanks.
