A couple of thoughts on how to engage with subliminals & manifestations.
The 7th Rule of the Mind (it’s a psychology/hypnotherapy thing) is as follows:
When working with the unconscious mind, the greater the conscious effort, the less the unconscious response.
This is true in several ways.
If your subconscious is the autopilot and you are the driver, every time you actively take the wheel the signal for the subconscious is clear: Step back, I’ll do this manually.
In manual mode it will only intefer if the instincts, especially the survival instinct are triggered.
Let’s say, you want to quit smoking. Every go for willpower, every conscious thought of quitting holds for this moment. But it doesn’t change the program running in the background, so it is back with a vengeance soon.
That’s what all the usual (and often confusing) tips point to: Let go. Learn to surrender. Just let it happen. This is the attitude in which actual change can happen. That’s why the latest subs with relaxed nervoussystem are so powerful: In this state there is no fight or flight. It is pretty much as close as we can get to Just Let It Happen. That makes The Art of Happiness and Joy so exceptionally powerful.
It was one of the aspects of the (very) old listening schedule that worked IMO well: “Set and forget.” With ultrasonics you would just forget that subs were running all day (and all night) long and the consciousness would just forget a little about it and so not engage at all.
But how do you get the ball rolling?
[The following part my sound a bit esoteric, but it is really just empirical.]
IME with e. g. manifestations the conscious and emotional work is incredibly difficult to calibrate. You have to give the subconscious like a nudge and a wink what you want. But think about it all the time, fantasize about it, engage consciously and there is a good chance, that nothing will happen, because you switched the (manifesting) autopilot off.
My wife is quite good at manifesting stuff precisely (like the exact thing, situation, human being in slightly disturbing detail). But it is always preceded by a casual longing and a thought in passing (Wouldn’t it be nice?) and no conscious followup. The big stuff rarely happens. Because we do it manually every day.
But maybe it would be possible to “Set and Forget” the big stuff?
