Many people make new year’s resolutions and many are already history, even this early into the new year.  And there’s a very simple reason this happens – the same reason that simple affirmations are largely ineffective.

When we decide to make a resolution or use an affirmation, we are using our conscious minds which process about 40 bits of information each second.  The problem is that our subconscious or unconscious minds process 40,000,000 bits of information each second.  That’s like pitting an old abacus against a modern supercomputer.  Our conscious mind has little chance against those odds.

It’s your unconscious mind that carries all the core beliefs that drive you.  You ‘installed’ 70% of these by the time you were 5 years old, and most of the rest by the time you were 10. These could be beliefs about how intelligent you are, how attractive, how sensitive, whatever.

You may want to consciously change the habits that these beliefs control, but your subconscious mind is running the ‘tapes’ of those old beliefs on an endless loop, and your subconscious works at a million times the speed of your conscious mind.  Simply making a resolution or saying an affirmation is like attacking an iceberg with a toothpick.  Not very effective.

In order to make lasting changes, you need to ‘reprogram’ those subconscious tapes, and there are now some very simple, powerful ways to do that.  I’ll outline one in my next posting.

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