Mental Focus And The Power Of Habit:

Using Mental Focus To Build A Power Partnership With Your Subconscious Mind That Makes Your Success AUTOMATIC!

          Your moment to moment Mental Focus - what you're doing with your attention, what you're clinging to in your thoughts, what you're feeling as a result of both those, and what you habitually express to others - are writing and solidifying your destiny even as you read this article, and I'm about to tell you why you need to take advantage and control of the process.

          Let's talk a moment about the importance of going into a conscious - CONSCIOUS - partnership with the most powerful part of yourself, your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. You must pay particular attention to this principle in order to have an EASIER time of bringing about your ultimate success, because to do so, you'll be required to stop trying to run the entire show of your life every single moment, and allow your Subconscious Mind to step in and take over matters through the power of habitual thought and habitual action so that what you want "seems to just COME to you!"

"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. . . For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automation, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work."--William James

          Among the FIRST things you would do well to seek in your acquiring of new knowledge and skills along the road to self-fulfillment is a wealth of POWERFUL HABITS that move you with precision and efficiency on as straight a path as possible to your objectives.

          In the personal mental fitness training I conduct with my clients, I inform them early that their most powerful tool will be that of HABIT - of replacing old with new - habit of thought, habit of emotion, and habit of action. They are well instructed as to why psychological rules dictate that they occur in just that order: THOUGHT, EMOTION, then ACTION. For the process to be successful, you must seek the assistance of the one force that guarantees a right outcome: THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND!

          There are images that can be found of icebergs floating peacefully on the sea, and what can be seen beneath the waterline is the subsurface mass of the object, vastly larger than the exposed peak. As an illustration, your Conscious Self - the integrated agent of your thinking, feeling, planning, deciding, and acting from moment to moment - is represented by the tip of that iceberg image, while the massive subsurface material represents your Subconscious Mind.

Your destiny is carried out by your Subconscious Mind.

Your Conscious Mind feeds it the coordinates.

          Your Conscious Mind is the wheelhouse of a great ocean-going vessel, while your Subconscious Mind is the main body of the vessel itself, plowing through the tides on the course given it from the wheelhouse Captain.

          Your Conscious Self - the you that you are all day - feeds the commands to your Subconscious Mind with energy and emotion, and the Subconscious Mind "makes it so," first through subjective self-perpetuating experience, then eventually, by way of your ending up exactly where you were most consistently determined to be (by evidence of the thoughts you continually entertained and the actions or inaction that reflected that thinking) in the OBJECTIVE world.

          The great vessel moves one's life ahead according to the input it is given be that input of a quality and character CONSCIOUSLY CONTROLLED, or whether it be AUTOMATONICALLY PERMITTED THROUGH FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL. Your Subconscious Mind grants your demand and it does not matter whether the nature of the demand is high or low, beneficial or harmful, wise or foolish, enlightening or blinding, wealth-building or poverty-perpetuating. Subjectively and (inevitably) objectively, you will get what you consistently FOCUS on, because what you FOCUS on, insofar as your Subconscious Mind is concerned, you ASK for.

          Your first habit is to accept and carry out the mission to DAILY OCCUPY THE WHEELHOUSE AS CAPTAIN. You must daily check the charted course and determine any adjustments that must be made to arrive at the destination on time, for there are winds that blow and tides that turn, but you shall NEVER seek a port of escape because your vessel is built to withstand and SAIL RIGHT THROUGH such storms to get to calmer waters. As Captain, you must DAILY ISSUE RIGHT COMMANDS to the engine room of your Subconscious Mind. You must keep your focus on your path, and concern yourself ONLY with where you want to go! ALL STOW-AWAYS MUST BE DISEMBARKED!

          This is accomplished by making an ally of your Subconscious Mind because it is indefatigable, working relentlessly on your behalf 24 hours a day, rain or shine, whether or not you are seeing the process unfold. Along the course to your own version of paradise, you will need to capitalize on your ability to engage in just the right habitual thoughts and actions to make the process of getting where you want to go a matter of MATHEMATICAL, AUTOMATIC CERTAINTY.

          To get to paradise, you'll need the highest level of thoughts and habits. To get those, befriend your Subconscious Mind to provide them, to take the load off of YOU, so that you can FOCUS on the small role you play of steering the ship, letting only the best onboard, and rejecting everything that does not belong aboard.

          Focus your attention and rally your Subconscious resources by becoming seriously interested in these questions:

• "What are the best habits of thought and behavior that I should integrate into my life in order to achieve my objectives along the straightest line and in the shortest time possible?"
• "What are the core beliefs, ideas, and strategies I need to integrate into my life so that I may achieve my objectives along the straightest line and in the shortest time possible?"
• "Who already possesses these things that I may seek them out, learn them, and make them my own, so that I may achieve my objectives along the straightest line and in the shortest time possible?"

          Gather a list of empowering right ideas to focus your attention on. Build a list of MUST-HAVE success habits to integrate into your way of doing and acting, as soon as possible, and even that is not soon enough!

Here are some ways available to you for bringing your focus about so that you feed only the best commands - the most valuable Thought Objects - to the great engine room:

STRATEGIC MENTAL TRAINING - A person whose business it is to get the most out of your Mind can teach you the cognitive skills you need for self-mastery in order that your efforts get maximum return on the investments of time and energy. The right personal mental fitness trainer can help you eliminate mistakes in thinking (fear, anxiety, negativity, false reasoning, mental laziness, etc.) and establish the most empowering mental habits, such as keeping hold of the wheel, plotting the most efficient course, tirelessly maintaining constant vigil, and issuing the best commands so that your Subconscious Mind becomes your ally and the resulting habit of thought and massive action your friend.

PERSONAL ASSOCIATIONS - You MUST get around the right people who achieve as you aspire to achieve, who think and act and do as you want to think and act and do, so that you can tune into that frequency, cognitively. Anyone who operates on a conflicting frequency oriented in the opposite direction is not operating sympathetically to you and can interfere with your progress, and even (though unintentionally) serve as a fatal enemy to your dream. Do whatever you must to get around the right people. Do not be surprised in your doing so if you end up in the temporary company of someone who has great habits but a painful mentality. You want to keep moving past even that person. Seek those who have a well-rounded grasp on the Power of Mind as it contributes to success, and who are eager to greet a fellow seeker. The Great will know you, and see you coming from a mile away. To maintain and increase their own greatness, they will warmly share what they know.

STRATEGIC READING - People who do not read for growth are really no better off than people CANNOT read. Reading is a gateway to self-expansion, deeper intelligence, self-transformational wisdom, and elevating personal power. Do not read to impress others and chatter on endlessly about how sophisticated you are. Read to learn, to apply, and to fulfill your possibilities. When you read the right books, written by people who are sympathetic, familiar, and who have succeeded at your aims as a person and productive member of society, your Subconscious Mind receives good fuel in the form of ideas, strategies, and habits which it can integrate into your own being.

AUDIO RECORDINGS - Digital, disc, tape, however you can get them. Ensure they are actually VALUABLE for your progress. Take the best of what you learn and integrate it into your own way of thinking and acting so that they are self-perpetuating. As an example, I have clients who have read great books and taken a few of the premises and synthesized them into concise Affirmative Declaration statements which they repeat to themselves with vigor several times a day. Over time, those statements become WHO THEY ARE. The outcome is natural, easy, and habitual.

AFFIRMATIVE DECLARATIONS - Use concisely written declarative statements and repeat them with intense emotional commitment. Do so no matter how often a critical, doubting miscreant of a voice in your head whispers its dissent. Do it a thousand times a week if you must, and that voice will begin to change; and the next thing you know you will think and believe and feel exactly as you have declared. When your thought and emotion aligns with your declaration, your actions will certainly follow suit. When your thought, feelings, and actions are in alignment, you will realize your reward.

SELF-HYPNOSIS - Remove the critical voice in your mind through intensive relaxation, and then you can listen to your Affirmative Declaration which goes directly to your Subconscious Mind without interference. Educate yourself well on this technique, record your script according to best practices used by professionals, and commit to consistent use. Hypnosis is a fantastic approach for putting the right ideas into your Subconscious Mind so that they begin to reflect in your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

There are other avenues, but I believe you understand the point. Acquiring new knowledge and then funneling it to your Subconcious Mind is key to changing the way you view possibility, and vital to your conceiving of methods to break through the current, self-limiting perceptions serving as a veil between you and where you want to go.  Remember that you want to:

• Achieve what you most rightly desire
• Achieve it on a STRAIGHT, UNWAIVERING LINE of progression
• Achieve it in the FASTEST POSSIBLE TIME
• Achieve it as EASILY as possible (meaning, with the least amount of unnecessary STRUGGLE)

Habit is your tool.  Your Subconscious Mind is your greatest ally.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
www.neuro-sculpting.com
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