Really glad to see you’ve gotten some results! Whether that’s from the subliminals or from your own actions, or both, I don’t even care. It’s just cool to see people setting goals and achieving them.
Let’s start super basic because THIS (quote below) shows that we shouldn’t put the cart in front of the horse.
Obviously subliminals have words in them.
The word subliminal means “below conscious perception”… aka it effects your subconscious mind without affecting your conscious mind. The rain track (mask) you hear has absolutely nothing to do with the subliminal itself. It only masks the subliminal so that it’s heard by your subconscious mind, not your conscious mind.
What are these words.
In essence, they’re suggestions. It’s that simple.
The subliminal industry took off when Tony Robbins started selling subliminals in the late 80’s, early 90’s. If you ever hear someone say “I did everything personal power said and listened to it every day for hours and hours to and from work.” they’re talking about listening to his success tapes and committing to the subliminal routine he set.
What were his subliminals? They were pretty basic. Now we’d call them crap. But hey, it was the 90’s.
They were just simple affirmations, sped up, and lapped up on top of each other, so that you could hear them if you really focused on them, but if you didn’t intensely focus on them the words would lose their meaning and they would kind of just drift into your subconscious.
That was the original “mask…” and the current rain track is just an improvement on that technology.
Why is it important to mask suggestions? Because the subconscious mind believes anything it’s told, whereas the conscious mind always has a judgement.
If you tell yourself every day in the mirror “i am confident…” your subconscious mind may actually receive a different message.
“I am so unconfident that I look myself in the eye every day and try to convince myself I am confident. Only losers do that. I’m a loser.”
That’s why we need to bypass the subconscious mind.
Apart from improving the mask, SubClub and every other producer is also trying to improve the receivability of the suggestions. They found out a long time ago that brute force affirmations simply don’t work very well. The old Q technology that was around at SubClub in 2018, before my time her began, was 8 hours of listening, 5 days a week, or something like that. (Someone who was here for that please correct me if i’m wrong.)
And sure… you could brute force your mind into thinking “i am confident” by hearing that affirmation 8 hours a day 5 days a week, and not even giving yourself space to think “i am not confident” but ultimately, the mind rebels against anything that doesn’t feel natural and self-generated. Nobody likes being told how to feel. Not even, apparently, our brains.
And of course, the question of “do I even agree with the affirmations” comes in to play. If the affirmation is “I powerfully walk into every room I enter and COMMAND the attention of everyone present…” Well… what if you don’t want that? How does a producer make a subliminal that meets everyone’s needs perfectly, is unique to them, and yet can be used by anybody?
That’s where Zero Point comes into play, and while it’s not public about the word for word scripts, what we do know about Zero Point (ZP) is that it helps you mine your own subconscious for the answers, and it’s role is more in terms of asking the questions. I believe this is why the listening time has gone down from 40 hours a week per title to (my listening schedule, at least) about 10 minutes a week per title (3 mins, 3 times per week.)
Repetition isn’t as necessary when you ask your brain a question once, and IT asks ITSELF the question again 1000 more times until it finds the answer.
As for resources/studies, I’m not aware of any subliminal ones, specifically, but there’s been a lot of research done on hypnosis and how effective it is. This might be debatable, but andrew huberman says that it’s by far the most proven method of mental improvement out of everything studied (meditation, yoga nidra, therapy, etc.).
So if you take that and say “hmm, ok, well subliminals are about suggestions, and hypnosis is about suggestions, and subliminals are just a different way of accomplishing the same goals as hypnosis” than you can start to see that even though subliminals themselves are a niche concept, the greater concepts of mental suggestibility are actually incredibly well documented. One difference between hypnosis and subliminals is that subliminals are entirely within your control to mix and match as you see fit, while hypnosis requires a professional.
So I guess the final question… what EXACTLY are these words?!
Well… that’s up to the producer to share or not. It’s like their formula. Their secret recipe. I don’t blame them for not sharing it… if they did, everyone else would copy them. Not just at SubClub, but, all producers, and then eventually all subliminals would be more or less the same, and the uniqueness and individuality of them would be lost.
You don’t taste the soup and ask for the exact ingredients to determine whether or not it REALLY tasted good or if you just tricked yourself into thinking it tasted good because of the marketing or something. You just… taste it… and see if you like it.
And of course make sure there’s no poison in it but you’ve been listening to subliminals and your life has been getting better, not worse, so there’s no poison.
There’s really just a more important question:
Since you started subliminals, has your life improved more than normal? Forget about subliminals and whether or not they had a role, just ask yourself, “am I surprised at the turns my life has taken between now and january?” (if that’s when you started.)
Subliminals are incredible at removing limiting beliefs. Once you remove your limiting beliefs, you start acting like yourself and who you truly want to be. So subliminals oftentimes don’t even feel like the addition of anything. Sometimes they just feel like the removal of what’s unhelpful, making them very difficult to detect sometimes. That’s one of the reasons why taking action is so important - if you’re running a subliminal that removes the blocks stopping you from taking action, but then you don’t take action, what results will you get? And who’s fault is that?
With that being said, if you struggle to take action, my favorite subliminal is Limitless Executive, which makes taking action feel easy.