How to Reprogram Your Brain with Neuroplasticity

Outline

• How is the subconscious mind formed?

• 6 ways to rewire your subconscious mind

  • Environmental and music curation

  • Visualization

  • Rewrite your story with affirmations

  • Resolve to chase your fire

  • Design daily rituals

  • Refocus the ego

How is the subconscious mind formed?

The subconscious takes our environment--our social world and media--and pieces it together into a narrative about who we are and what we believe. The subconscious is a creature of habit that prefers predictability. It takes feedback we've been given in the past from our partners, family members, friends, peers, and mentors and integrates it into our identity.

6 Ways to Rewire Your Subconscious Mind

Reprogramming your brain is a shift takes commitment and practice. It's important to remind yourself you're not defective, damaged, broken, an impostor, or doomed to fail no matter what you do. Your brain is like a muscle, and the following exercises can help you reprogram your subconscious mind. 

1. Curate Your Environment and Your Music

Strictly limit your consumption of and exposure to news, social media, complaints, and gossip. Seek to grow and learn through high-quality books and videos, and spend time with high-vibrational, successful people, to uplift and empower you.

Notice song lyrics. Pay attention to the lyrics and whether you feel good as a result of listening to the song. Is the message empowering, does it align with your values, or does it lower your energy?

2. The Power of Visualization

Close your eyes and tap into the reality you want to create for yourself – a fulfilling relationship, meaningful friendships, an uplifting community, exciting work, a beautiful home, and memorable experiences. This helps to overwrite past fears, worries, and doubts. Your body will respond as if you are actually experiencing your desired reality, bringing feelings such as awe, gratitude, love, joy, peace, and even bliss. Our reality ripples out from the present moment.

3. Rewrite Your Story With Affirmations

Any time you notice negative thoughts creeping in, whether it's fears or doubts, journal about it. Give it light. Then channel your inner contrarian, pull your best comebacks in and affirm an authentic, opposing belief. Look for evidence to support your new belief. Record these affirmations and listen to them 3 times a day.

Don't settle for someone else's affirmations. Your voice is an important element of this new program. You'll be astonished how quickly you will cultivate unshakable belief in yourself. Replace excuses with riches.

Write down your old story, the one you keep telling yourself, and next to it write the affirmation you know is the real truth.

Examples of affirmations:

• I am safe and supported.

• I am worthy of divine love and financial abundance.

• It's easy for me to find joy in the moment.

• I am learning and growing every day.

• I am intuitive.

• My thoughts, feelings, and sensations are valid.

• I trust my gut.

• I am fully capable of achieving my goals.

• I am driven and determined to achieve my mission.

4. Resolve to Chase Your Fire

When is the last time you gave light to your dreams and wrote down the things that excite you, experiences that you want to have in your life? Often, our fears and doubts put out that fire before it has a chance to burn. Whether it's fear of failure, rejection, pain, or the unknown, it keeps us living small. 

Our dreams are designed to help us learn, evolve, and grow. It requires courage and vulnerability to risk rejection, which, if it happens, is redirection. It's better to try than to never know--an even more exciting opportunity may await on the other side of that door.

Focusing on a mission that's larger than you is incredibly grounding, putting you in energy that can help you attract new ideas, insights, inspiration, conversations, resources, and people who can help you.

5. Design Daily Rituals

Habit replacement is easier than habit restriction. Word your habits positively--focus on what you want, not what you don't. The brain doesn't recognize the linguistic differences between a positive and a negative.

Stack your habits into morning, energy-boosting, mealtime, and evening rituals.

Spend time every day doing what brings you joy. Meditating, dancing, reading, and writing are powerfully grounding ways to break free of recurring thought patterns.

6. Refocus the Ego

Becoming aware of our triggers through bodywork (e.g. somatic experiencing) and breathwork (e.g. holotropic breathwork) can be profoundly transformative.