Will You Use This Simple Technique To Add 8 Hours To Your Day?
If I told you that every single day of your life, without notice, you’re wasting about 8 hours each day, what would you say?
Could you figure out how you’re wasting those hours?
Maybe you’ve guessed by now that it’s because you sleep. If so, you’re right!
However, let me tell you how I believe you can turn those 8 hours of normally wasted hours into 8 productive hours, leaving you with a much more successful and fulfilling life.
Your Thoughts Before Sleep
Before you go to sleep each night, what do you think about? Are you pondering over the mistakes you made throughout the day, worrying about what’s to come at work tomorrow, trying to figure out why your spouse got mad at you earlier in the day, or even just aimlessly thinking about nothing?
If so, you should start changing that habit, today.
You see, our brains are a very complex thing. Studies have shown that if you study right before you fall asleep, your memory of that subject will be much better in the morning than if you studied it earlier in the day. This is because once the brain receives input and is then allowed to rest (in this case – sleeping), the subconscious mind takes over and can “play around” with the sensory input it has just received.
It takes that information, scrambles it up a bit, and puts it back together in a tight network-like fashion, leaving you much smarter than when you went to bed.
Since this is true, what about thoughts? Do they have any direct input on the subconscious mind? Well, fortunately they do! In the past decade or so studies have also proven that the brain can’t distinguish reality from a thought it has. So for instance if you go test drive a brand new corvette, then you go home and visualize driving a corvette, your brain has no idea which 1 is real and which isn’t.
Fascinating isn’t it?
What if you harnessed the power of your mind and purposefully thought of yourself achieving great things? Maybe you could visualize yourself being at your ideal weight, having the perfect relationship with your spouse, or you can even visualize yourself driving the new car you’ll buy when you finally achieve financial independence.
Your brain will then work on making that happen for you. Since you’re visualizing those thoughts just before bedtime, your subconscious mind has all night to sort it out for you and figure out exactly how it’s going to make it happen!
Your mind automatically moves you in the direction of your most dominate thoughts. Think about it – if your mind thinks you are a successful and healthy person, you’re going to eventually start moving in that direction.
Why?
Have you ever noticed that extremely healthy or successful people have different living patterns than others? They continually exercise hard and often, eat healthy with very few cravings to binge, and make what seem like “lucky” choices in their careers which catapult them to the top.
What makes those people successful or healthy is the fact that they make wise decisions all day long, everyday. They continually act a certain way which is going to give them the greatest success. That is why if your mind believes you’re one of these people, you’re going to start making the same types of choices that successful people make.
By continually reinforcing the image of yourself being successful (in whatever area of life you choose), you’re on your way to greatness. From this day forward, make it a commitment to hold positive images of yourself in your minds-eye as you fall asleep each night.
This is one of the easiest ways to passively increase the quality of your life. It’s one of the best forms of mental leverage I can imagine, and one of the easiest ways to add about 8 hours worth of positive thoughts to your subconscious mind.
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