Understanding Your Subconscious Mind For Better Results

Most people think they’re in control of their life.

They think their decisions are rational, their habits are intentional, and their results are based purely on hard work.

Wrong.

What’s actually driving their life?

The subconscious.

The subconscious mind runs the show — not your willpower, not your goals, not even your motivation.

Do you want better results?

Stop trying to force change with conscious effort alone.

That’s like trying to move a freight train by pushing it with your hands.

The real power — the engine — is your subconscious mind.

It’s been programmed over years by repetition, trauma, environment, and belief systems you didn’t even choose.

And until you understand how the subconscious works, you’ll keep hitting the same invisible ceiling.

Everything from your income, your relationships, your confidence — it’s all tied to your subconscious.

So if you want better outcomes, stop hacking the surface. Start reprogramming the subconscious mind.

Because when the subconscious is aligned, results come fast. When it’s not, you stay stuck, no matter how hard you try.

Defining the Subconscious Mind

The subconscious mind is basically the operating system running your entire life behind the scenes. You don’t see it. You don’t think about it. But it’s dictating almost every move you make. Your habits? Subconscious. Your beliefs about money, success, relationships? Subconscious. That gut reaction you have when something feels “off”? Yep — subconscious.

Most people think they’re making conscious decisions. But 90% of what they do every day is controlled by the subconscious mind. It’s the part of your brain that stores everything you’ve been exposed to — every experience, every belief, every piece of conditioning. And it uses all of that data to predict and control your behavior. Automatically. Without asking your permission.

You can grind all day, set goals, hustle harder — but if your subconscious mind isn’t on board, you’re just fighting yourself. The subconscious doesn’t care what you say you want. It responds to what you believe at a deep, automatic level. And that’s either working for you or working against you.

So what is the subconscious mind? It’s the unseen driver of your life. If you’re not getting the results you want, it’s not because you’re lazy — it’s because your subconscious is programmed for something else. Change the programming, change the outcome. That’s the game. (1)

Components

Memories and Emotions:

Our memories and emotions are deeply embedded in the unconscious. It stores our factual memories and the associated emotions linked to those experiences. Understanding and addressing these emotions can be instrumental in fostering emotional well-being and personal growth.

Beliefs and Conditioning:

The subliminal mind is heavily influenced by our beliefs, often formed during our early years. These beliefs can be empowering or limiting, shaping our self-perception and influencing our behavior. Exploring and challenging ingrained beliefs can open up new possibilities and lead to personal transformation.

Dreams and Creativity:

Dreams are a window into the unconscious, offering glimpses of unexplored thoughts and emotions. The creative process is also closely tied to the subliminal mind, as innovative ideas often emerge from our unconscious thoughts.

Autonomic Functions:

The subconscious controls essential bodily functions like breathing, heartbeat, and digestion.

These automatic processes ensure our survival without requiring conscious effort. Understanding the intricate connection between the mind and body can contribute to holistic well-being and stress management.

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How the Subconscious Influences You Daily

Your subconscious runs the day before you even get out of bed. From the second you wake up, your subconscious mind is already dictating how you feel, how you think, and how you act.

You don’t even realize it. You just call it “your mood” or say you’re “not a morning person.” That’s the subconscious.

The subconscious mind stores every belief you’ve repeated — good or bad. So if you grew up thinking money is hard to get, or you’re not good enough, that program is still running in the background.

And guess what? That program becomes your daily operating system. It influences how you show up to work, how you interact with people, and what decisions you make without even thinking.

That voice in your head that talks you out of doing the hard thing? Subconscious.

That sudden feeling of anxiety before you pitch your offer? Subconscious. That habit of scrolling for 45 minutes instead of doing the work? Yep — subconscious mind again.

You’re not failing because of a lack of knowledge or resources. You’re failing because your subconscious is stuck on autopilot — and it’s playing an old script. Until you rewrite that script, nothing changes.

The subconscious doesn’t care about motivation. It responds to repetition and emotion.

Bottom line: if your subconscious mind is trained to survive, not thrive — you’ll unconsciously avoid growth, risk, and discomfort every single day.

That’s how powerful it is. You want different results? You need to make your subconscious your ally, not your enemy.

Accessing It

While the unconscious mind operates largely outside our conscious control, there are methods for accessing and influencing it intentionally.

Techniques such as meditation, hypnosis, and visualization can create a bridge between the conscious and unconscious realms.

These practices can help individuals explore their inner landscapes, promote self-discovery, and facilitate positive change.

Understanding your subconscious is subjective. It does not think or reason independently; it obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind.

Understanding The Subconscious Mind

When I asked what topic he wanted me to write about for this guest post, he asked if I would write about the subconscious mind since many people still don’t understand it.

Although many people have heard about the subconscious, unconscious, or subliminal mind before, this doesn’t mean they understand it perfectly.

So, what is the subconscious mind, and how does it work?

In the article, I will attempt to answer those questions better to understand this significant part of it.

Dr. Bruce Lipton compares the subconscious to a tape recorder. (2)

Understand that your subliminal mind started recording events when you were between 0 and 6 years old, when your mind was working at its most unconscious level.

That is when most of your subconscious mind is shaped. A considerable part of our unconscious was shaped between those ages.

Then, as you aged, your subconscious kept getting shaped, and everything good or bad was recorded as they were, which became your deepest beliefs about life.

For example, if you were told growing up that you were a failure and would never amount to anything, you’ve recorded that in your internal tape recorder.

On the other hand, if you were told that you were a success and could do whatever you wanted in life, that is what is in your tape recording—your beliefs about yourself.

Subconscious Mind vs Conscious Mind

Your brain has two key players:

The autopilot system running in the background
The intentional thought processor you’re using right now.

The Silent Powerhouse vs. The Loud Thinker

Your mental autopilot is like a supercomputer churning away 24/7. It stores every experience, manages your habits, and shapes your gut reactions.

Meanwhile, your deliberate thinking machine is the part of you reading this right now, making conscious choices.

Here’s the kicker: that autopilot system is ridiculously powerful, but it’s often working against you without you even realizing it.

Want real change? You’ve got to hack that autopilot.

Here’s how:

Define crystal-clear outcomes
Flood your environment with success triggers
Build habits that align with your goals
Use visualization to reinforce winning beliefs

Do this consistently, and you’re essentially rewiring your brain’s default settings to drive you toward success, even when you’re not actively thinking about it.

Here’s where most people screw up: they think positive self-talk alone will change that mental autopilot. Wrong. Real confidence comes from evidence, from repeated action.

You need to create a feedback loop where your intentional efforts lead to small wins, which then reinforce your autopilot’s belief in your abilities.

Remember, success isn’t about convincing yourself you’re smarter than you are. It’s about doing the obvious things consistently for an extraordinary amount of time.

Let your autopilot handle the routine while your deliberate mind focuses on strategy and growth. You create an unstoppable force by aligning your background processor with your conscious efforts.

That’s how you build real, lasting success – by making your entire mind work for you, not against you.

Are The Subconscious And Unconscious Mind The Same?

The terms “subconscious mind” and “unconscious mind” are often used interchangeably, but they can have slightly different connotations depending on the context and the psychology theories being discussed.

In many psychological frameworks, the subconscious mind refers to the part of the mind that operates below the level of conscious awareness but is still accessible through techniques like meditation, hypnosis, or introspection.

It encompasses thoughts, feelings, memories, and automatic bodily functions that influence behavior without conscious awareness.

On the other hand, the unconscious mind typically refers to a deeper level of mental processing that operates beyond conscious awareness and is not easily accessible through ordinary means.

This concept is often associated with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories. Freud believed that the unconscious mind contains repressed memories, desires, and instincts that influence behavior without our awareness.

While there are distinctions between these terms in specific psychological theories, they are often used interchangeably in colloquial language and popular psychology. Ultimately, both concepts refer to aspects of mental processing that occur outside of conscious awareness and can influence behavior.

Even though we have one mind, two parts of our mind work very differently and have very different purposes.

Those two parts of our mind are:

The conscious mind
The subconscious mind

If you compare your conscious mind with your subconscious mind to a computer’s processor, your unconscious mind processor would be about a million times more powerful than your conscious mind processor.

So many people fail to attract what they want because they use their small processor (their conscious mind) to override their big processor.

They are trying to fix the problem using the powerless tool when using the powerful one.

You can’t override the robust programming with your feeble conscious mind. Once you understand this, you can start working based on such knowledge.

How Does It Work?

The unconscious mind works very differently from the conscious mind. While very powerful, the subconscious mind is a tape player.

Again, it’s just a tape player. A recording can’t tell you what to do. You can’t tell your unconscious what to do, and it can’t tell you what to do either.

Try talking and reasoning with a tape player and see what happens. To change that recording, you need to find the “record button.” We’ll discuss that later in this article.

Your unconscious programming (tapping/recording) happens when your brain works more at an unconscious than conscious level.

For the first six years of our lives, our brain works on Alpha waves, the brain waves of hypnosis. In other words, until age six, we are about 80% unconscious, and nearly everything that we absorb during those years is sent directly to our unconscious.

This is why we have little to no memories of ourselves before age six. My father died when I was five, and the best memories I have of him are because of the Super Eight movies that I used to watch of him and me years after he died.

When he was alive, I had no conscious memories of my father in flesh and blood. The first six years of our lives are significant because everything stuck in our unconscious comes from that period.

However, at the same time, it’s also why we have little knowledge of our unconscious programming. What you need to remember, however, is that whatever is on that tape player is here to stay unless you purposely tape something different over it.

To do this, you need to find the “recording” button. Later in this article, we will see how to do that.

Have you ever driven down the road in your car thinking about what you’ll make for dinner, where you will spend the weekend, or what you will wear tomorrow?

Whatever you think about takes your mind away from what you’re doing. However, many images related to your thoughts come to mind.

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So, who’s driving the car?

While your conscious mind was engrossed in your next meal, vacation, or wardrobe, your subliminal mind was driving the car. Habit-like actions such as driving a car are done chiefly subconsciously.

If we had to drive a car using only our conscious mind, we couldn’t go because we could concentrate solely on one thing at a time.

The driving example shows that our unconscious mind runs the show, but it also shows that many people live their lives unconsciously.

They never come to realize that they do things unconsciously. If you never become conscious of what’s in your unconscious, you can never take control of your life completely.

What Doesn’t the Subconscious Do?

A crucial point you need to understand about the subliminal mind is that you can’t reason with it. Remember, it’s just a tape player, not evil or good; it’s just neutral.

When things go wrong, people make mistakes, “blaming” someone or God. Then, when they learn about the subconscious mind, they also blame that.

However, this is the same as blaming your tape player for what was engraved on that tape.

What’s wrong is NOT the tape player; it’s what’s on that tape! Blaming your subconscious mind for what’s in there is as ridiculous as blaming a tape player for what’s been recorded on it.

Sometimes, people have an inner dialogue that goes like this:

“You’re not dumb! You’re a brilliant and proactive person. Don’t think this way. You are the most intelligent person I know. Well, you’re not as smart as you think you are. Yes, I AM!”

When you have such a conversation with yourself, you’re all giddy and happy because you think you’re talking to your subconscious mind, and it will fix the darn thing. However, you’re WRONG.

The truth is that you can speak to a tape player until you’re blue in the face, it won’t change the recording on it and won’t talk back to you either.

Your subconscious doesn’t talk back to you. EVER. Do yourself a big favor by knowing this once and for all.

You talked with your conscious mind, not your unconscious. Your subliminal mind is just a memory of data that plays back. It’s not right, not bad, and has no judgment.

Do not be confused.

Many people have realized that positive thinking alone doesn’t change their lives; however, they wonder why. Unless the subconscious mind agrees with the conscious mind, positive thinking alone won’t work, Period!

To change the recording of your subliminal mind, you need to push the record button.’

Most people have yet to understand this because they live the same life even though they’ve read dozens of personal development books and practiced positive thinking for years.

Don’t fool yourself when you engage in an inner dialogue like the one mentioned above. You’re not discussing your subconscious mind.

You can’t have a conversation with your subconscious; you’re having a conscious conversation with yourself talking to your tape player.

Stop talking to the tape player and start pushing the ‘record button’ to record something new.

There are two ways you can help push the ‘record button’ to change the tape recording instead of talking to it. One way is to find out your deep beliefs and replace them.

The other is putting new information directly into the unconscious while putting your brain in Alpha waves, such as under hypnosis.

For example, a life coach can use various exercises and methods to help you discover and change your deepest beliefs.

You can also use self-hypnosis, EFT Tapping, and meditation to help reprogram (push that recording button) to change your beliefs.

About the Author: Sylviane Nuccio is a Freelance Writer and a Life Coach. As a Freelance Writer, she writes about any topic under the sun, creating quality content for her clients. As a Life Coach, she helps people understand and use their subconscious to work with the Law of Attraction to improve their lives.

How to Keep Your Subconscious Mind Working for You

If you want real, long-term results — not hype, not hope — then you need to train your subconscious like it’s your business partner. Because here’s the truth: your subconscious mind is either compounding success or compounding sabotage, every single day. There is no neutral.

Keeping your subconscious working for you means feeding it the right inputs — daily, relentlessly. Repetition is the language of the subconscious. Not logic. Not motivation. You can say “I want to be rich” all you want, but if your subconscious mind still believes success is unsafe, you’ll unconsciously find ways to lose, delay, or avoid it. Every. Time.

So how do you keep the subconscious working in your favor? You make it a daily practice:

Watch your inputs. What are you listening to? Who are you around? What content are you feeding your subconscious? Garbage in, garbage out.
Talk to yourself on purpose. The subconscious doesn’t filter. Say something long enough, it believes it — even if it’s false. Use that to your advantage.
Visualize with emotion. The subconscious mind learns best when there’s feeling attached. Don’t just think it — feel it like it’s real.
Audit your habits. Your subconscious mind builds habits fast. Make sure the ones on repeat are aligned with where you want to go, not where you’ve been.
Stay consistent. One-off effort won’t reprogram anything. The subconscious rewires through consistency, not intensity.

The goal isn’t to fight the subconscious — it’s to align with it. Once your subconscious mind believes what you consciously want, you’ll stop sabotaging yourself and start moving with power. That’s when the real shift happens. That’s when success gets automatic.

Conclusion

The subconscious mind remains a captivating realm that holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of human behavior and potential.

By delving into the depths of our unconscious, we gain valuable insights into the forces that shape our lives.

Embracing a deeper understanding of the subliminal mind empowers individuals to cultivate personal growth, enhance well-being, and embark on a transformative journey toward a more fulfilling life.

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