PART 2 - WHAT MAKES BRIGHT IMAGES PROGRAMS SO POWERFUL?
Subliminal, by definition, is: Any sound, smell, touch, or sight that is perceived by the mind, and below our level of conscious awareness.
Subliminal communication occurs when we bypass the conscious portion of the brain and send valuable information directly to the subconscious.
Through our five senses, our subconscious recording equipment is capable of recording millions of bits of information every second. Because it's for more than our brains can consciously register, our subconscious accepts the information instead and stores it away.
Pictures can help to explain a sometimes complicated and highly technical process. Our mind is a very powerful Bio-Computer, capable of recording everything we experience by our 5 senses throughout our lifetime. Today, we represent our inherited traits and the accumulation of everything we have seen on TV, in the movies, heard, felt, smelled, thought, and personally experienced. Experts believe for each positive experience, we have 5 negative ones. It is no wonder that we have self-imposed limitations due to all the negativity that surround us each and every day.
Did you know that the number of neurons in the human brain is almost equal to the number of stars in our Milky Way? That's over 15 billion. One noted brain physiologist estimates when writing out by hand on a flat surface the number of possible neuron interactions, that figure would span almost 9 1/2 kilometers. Did you know that we only use 10% of our total brain capacity?
Most physicists would agree that the human brain will be our ultimate intellectual challenge in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Since the complexities of the brain are so great it is very difficult to explain in simple terms what bits of information we do know. For example, when dealing with subliminal there are four subjective states that we need to concentrate on. First, there is the Alpha state, the state of imagination and fantasy. Second is Beta. Beta tends to be the state of reasoning which protects our attitudes. Next is Theta and Delta. Within the subjective states of Theta and Delta, you encounter deep sleep and meditation that allows you to reorganize and restructure such things as attitudes and behaviors.
Subliminal takes place when you bypass the conscious state of Beta and move directly to Alpha, Theta, and Delta. As Alpha imagines a change, Theta and Delta are already going to work rebuilding and creating new attitudes and behaviors.
As Henry Ford once said "Think you can, think you can't; either way you're right."
In 1985 at Venango Campus of Clarion University of Pennsylvania a research project was conducted with the participants enrolled in General Studies 100 - Reading and Study Skills, 1st semester. The students were each given a tape to listen to for 12 weeks. Some of the tapes were subliminal and some were not.
In June 1985, grade reports for each of the participants were received. The reports showed the students who listened to the subliminal tapes increased their semester averages by .45 over their previous cumulative averages. However, the students who were given the tapes without subliminal messages did not improve.
In the study, all evidence supports the hypothesis that students who use subliminal programs designed to improve recall in test situations will outperform classmates who listen to identical sounding placebo tapes containing no subliminal messages.
This is just one example of the hundreds of experiments being conducted on subliminal learning techniques and how they can work for you.
How Effective Is It and Who Uses It?
Audio subliminal training methods are now in use throughout the United States by major department stores to reduce shrinkage. Documented and controlled studies by researchers at Tulane University demonstrated a 37% reduction in shrinkage at a major retail department store chain that instituted this subliminal technology program.
The Philadelphia Phillies baseball team has used subliminal training methods with great success in their pitching force!
Rick Charles, a world champion athlete credits subliminal training as helping him to overcome fear in training for his world record of the 172-foot high dive.
Carl Simonton, M.D. of Yale University in his latest book attributes startling cures in terminal cancer patients via the use of positive mental imagery techniques, which are similar to subliminal training.
Subliminal learning is also used by a variety of professionals. Musicians, movie producers, therapists, athletes, and advertisers..., and all are benefiting from its use.