Factors That Influence The Subconscious Mind

• Society plays a big role in influencing the subconscious mind. 
• Exposure to different stimuli makes us different from our parents.
• Every successive generation is different from the last.

In a previous article we talked about how the subconscious mind stores information throughout your life, and then uses that information to influence the type of life you live, how you feel about yourself and the things you will achieve in life.

If you have limiting negative beliefs stored in your mind, then unless you are able to reprogram them, those subconscious beliefs will continue to affect you throughout your adult life.

This is why it is so important to learn about what your subconscious mind is, and then how to influence it.

Because once you are able to influence your subconscious mind, you will then be able to steer your life in the direction you want it to go.

If you don’t learn to positively influence your subconscious mind, your life will be dictated by those negative beliefs.

However in this article we shall concentrate on some of the factors that help to shape your subconscious mind, and influence the type of beliefs you form about yourself and the world you live in.

External Factors Which Influence The Subconscious Mind

Your subconscious mind is first shaped by your parents. This means that as you grow older, you are likely to develop the same beliefs and attitudes as they have. In addition to this, you will also tend to behave like they do.

The downside to this is that whilst it allows you to survive as a baby and then as a child by giving you skills to deal with the world in which you live, if you had bad parents, then you could form beliefs that end up working against you throughout the rest of your life (unless you change those beliefs by using various subconscious influencing techniques).

However it is important to remember that whilst our parents do play a big role in shaping our subconscious mind, and therefore the type of person we become, there are other things which will continue to modify your subconscious mind as you grow older.

This is why grown up children retain some resemblance to their parents, but at the same time are different and unique individuals.

How different you become from your parents, is really dependant on the external differences your subconscious mind is exposed to throughout your life.

The main way this occurs is through the life experiences you have. If your life experiences are radically different to those of your parents, then you are likely to be more different to them compared to someone who has had similar life experiences to their parents.

However, because the beliefs you have in your subconscious mind ultimately affect your actions, you may be living a more similar life to them than you imagine. Simply because you acquired their beliefs as you were growing up.

As a result, if you are experiencing problems or frustrations in life, then it is likely your parents also experienced something similar and so did their parents.

Unless these subconscious beliefs are changed by you, they will continue to be passed from generation to generation.

For example, if you feel that you lack self confidence and are a shy person, there is a good chance one of your parents felt the same way when they were growing up.

And perhaps they are still the same way now, as they never changed those limiting subconscious beliefs because they were not aware they existed.

This is another important point to remember, because the things that happen to us on a daily basis are the very things we assume are normal or a natural part of life. Even if those things are bad for us, we will believe that’s just the way things are.

Influence Of Culture On The Subconscious Mind

A good example of how the subconscious mind can remain relatively constant from generation to generation, can be found with African children living in an isolated tribe.

These children tend to have extremely similar beliefs and characteristics as their parents. This occurs because the life they live, and the things they experience, are very similar to that of their parents.

Note : In these cultures tradition is an important part of life (i.e. they do the same things throughout successive generations), which is what ensures the subconscious mind of the child is very similar to that of the parent.

Of course because no two lives are the same, there will be some degree of difference throughout generations which means no two people will be exactly alike.

They will however be very similar, which means they are likely to think the same way, feel the same way and act the same way. All because of the beliefs they have programmed in their subconscious mind.

Effect Of Westernised Culture On The Subconscious 

If you compare African tribe children to westernised children where tradition is less valued, and there is greater exposure to a variety of influences (the 2 biggest being TV and music culture), children are less likely to share the same beliefs as their parents and as a result will often ‘rebel’. 

This is simply the process of adopting new patterns of thought and behaviour, after repeated exposure to stimuli which has modified the child’s subconscious mind.

As a result, westernised children will still share some of the same subconscious beliefs as their parents (usually personality traits), but will exhibit a greater degree of difference than African children do to their parents.

Modifying The Subconscious Mind Can Help Society Grow 

Although individually parents may not like their children rebelling, for society as a whole this ensures each new generation has a different mindset from the last.

This can either be a beneficial or detrimental change, depending on the type and frequency of stimuli those children were exposed to.

Overall what this means is that society changes, and with change progress can be made or lost.

However for you what is most important is learning how to modify and influence your own subconscious mind, because that is what is going to have the biggest impact on your life.