Three Game-Changing Paradigm Shifts
A Tale of Two Minds
Exposed: The True Influence
Of the Mind We're
Not Reaching
Surprisingly Simple Powerful
and Unexpected
This is what Democrats and, in reality, our democracy is up against and why so much of what we say falls on so many deaf ears. When a listener hears a message that doesn't fit a consistent pattern of belief held by his or her subconscious mind, it gets tunned out.
Her Subconscious Mind Rejected it All: "...if you're not really paying attention to how they're going to pay for it or...the rest of that, it's easy to fall into that trap [serious rejection] and say my kids deserve this... and ya know maybe the government should be responsible for helping me."
Her Conscious Mind Liked What it Heard: "They talk about things that everybody wants especially like if you're a parent. They talk about education for your kid, health care for your kid, the things that you want..."
Conscious vs.
Subconscious Thinking
Why The Subconscious Mind Matters
That is, of course, unless an alarm bell starts ringing and cockpit lights start flashing. At that point, the pilots will take action to disengage the autopilot and have it relinquish control. But what if it won't. What if, despite the pilots' best efforts, the autopilot continues to fly the plane. If the plane's computer brain believes the autopilot is receiving factual information when it's not, all on board could be headed for disaster. Planes have actually gone down because pilots couldn't wrestle the aircraft away from a malfunctioning autopilot.
Imagine for a moment your aircraft has pushed back from the gate, taxied to the runway, and reached number one for takeoff. As the plane makes its turn on to the runway, the engines roar, the plane accelerates, and within 30 seconds, you've gone from zero to 160 mph. In the cockpit, one pilot says, "rotate," the other pulls back on the yoke, and you're airborne. It takes little more than ten minutes to reach a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet. Once there, the autopilot will be engaged, and the pilots won't really retake active control of the plane until six hours later when it's time to land.
A Powerful Force to be Reckoned With
It would be remarkable if there were a real-time illustration on YouTube of how this all comes together in our brain. Yet remarkable or not, there is at least one. Meet Virginia Kruta. Virginia is a Trump supporter, a conservative, and an associate editor for the Daily Caller. In 2018, she shared with Fox News and now will share with you what can be seen as a battle being fought between her conscious and subconscious minds for control.
What then is the relationship of this metaphor to winning elections and the importance of the subconscious mind? The reasons are three-fold.
1- Your subconscious mind is in control of your brain 95% of the time.
2- It seeks to keep you on a consistent pattern of thoughts and beliefs.
3- For you to be persuaded to a new course of thought or action, your subconscious mind must first be convinced it's in your best interest.
Though that's not Virginia's shared perception, few of us view our lives from a mind vs. mind perspective.
If it were a song that was being recorded, the lyrics and music would first be recorded on two separate tracks and then merged. The same is true of lifetime experiences. They are also recorded separately on the two different tacks of the conscious and subconscious minds.
Breaking down what you just watched begins with an explanation of the difference between our two minds. While the conscious mind condenses the moments of life's experiences by evaluating, qualifying, and editing them, the subconscious mind records them. It's the subconscious mind that keeps a record of all those experiences, locking them into pathways of thought similar to grooves on a vinyl record.
Convergence and Resolution: In her Daily Caller piece, Kruta consciously reassured her subconscious mind that it was still on board. She characterized the rally as "truly terrifying” because “I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for the populist lines...” And lest her subconscious had any doubts at all that she had resolved to be where she has always been, she ended the piece with this "There, but for the grace of God, go I."
If the two tracks line up, they will be merged and stored in the subconscious, becoming the soundtrack of our lives and the autopilot in control of belief. If, however, the tracks are not congruent in some critical way, then the subconscious mind will reject them. That's what you watched happen to Virginia Kruta.
To influence another person's subconscious mind, you must first get its attention, speak directly to it, and repeat your message over and over and over again.
If that hardly seems like a fair fight, that's because it's not. Unless we are consciously aware of what is happening, every single one of us will lose this battle 100% of the time. Often it will be willingly as we consciously reassure our subconscious mind that it does indeed know best.
The Battle is Joined: There is a critical tipping point here, and it is the money. It connects to a very well-grooved path that distills down to a personal belief, which is likely shared by the vast majority of Trump voters. It goes something like this, "Social programs may sound good, but they are too expensive. They create deficit budgets. Budget deficits are bad for the country. What is bad for the country is bad for me!"
And the Winner Is: And there you have it. The 5% of Virginia Kruta's brain, the mind that possesses the ability for rational and objective thought, found what she heard to be very appealing. However, the other part of her brain, which has been replaying the related recording repeatedly for many years, says differently. "This is bad for you." And that's the part of the brain that controls her thought patterns 95% of the time.
There are only two ways to reach and influence the subconscious mind...from within and without. The challenge of reaching our own subconscious mind from within is considerable, and one will find a plethora of information online on how to shift desired control back to our conscious mind.
It is, however, even worse than that. With each repetition of confirmation from the conscious mind to the subconscious that nothing has changed, "we still believe what we believe," the groove formed in the subconscious pathway of belief deepens.
However, the second way of influencing someone else's subconscious mind from without is actually a fairly straight forward process.