- Reprogram your subconscious. As you say your new statement, show your subconscious a picture of your desired outcome, whether it’s your child smiling and safe, or happily flushing the toilet. Don’t worry about how to achieve your goal – that will get your mind involved again, which brings up fear. Instead, summon up a feeling of happy gratitude along with your picture. The longer you can hold that feeling and picture, the more quickly your subconscious will start helping you create it.
- Take action. Ask yourself: “What is one thing I can do right now (or today) to make this positive outcome more likely?” Then do it. Here’s where this technique differs from positive thinking. We have to feel good to know what action to take, so we’re acting from our higher self instead of our “small self.” But we have to take the action to change our lives.
Every time your worry surfaces, repeat these steps. Scientists have found that our minds tend to follow certain tracks repeatedly, like grooves on an old vinyl record. Each time you interrupt a worry and send your subconscious a picture of a happier outcome, you’re carving a new path for your mind – a path of happiness instead of anxiety. Soon, you’ll find yourself in a whole new landscape.
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Dr. Laura Markham is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends For Life and Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting. Find her online at AhaParenting.com
