Concentrated Unconscious Directive: Repetition

I like to write. It is almost more the technical part as pen puts ink on paper... typing, while not the same, has it's own variation of what makes it enjoyable. Writing on paper forces me to put my thoughts into a semblance of order so they make sense once I get to the end of the sentence.

The physical act of writing is a form of habit. Each stroke and letter is a practiced action that has developed over years by forming the same shapes on paper repeatedly. Eventually anything that is repeated many times becomes an almost automatic response... or more accurately, an unconscious response.

In the same line of thinking the unconscious act or writing can work in two directions. Just like learning the individual written letters and joining strokes through repetition, you are teaching your unconscious what you want to happen when you think of a particular letter or group of letters for each word.

Seeing as we seldom use much of our entire mental capabilities at one time (that's a whole other topic, suffice it to say that the classic 10% ever being used is just wrong but the total processing power is staggering none the less) and we can learn and memorize huge amounts of data that we are able to recollect at any given time I would think that our unconscious is capable of rather complex teaching patterns.

Back to the imaginative "great" experience from the last post about procrastination. I have already internalized the imagined experience of one case of overcoming procrastination but that can only do so much. So I write the scene out and embellish it to produce my ideal experience adding many details and feelings. Keeping in mind the unconscious capabilities for complex learning, I can, through repetition, teach my unconscious a new concept of what I would prefer instead of my typical procrastination. Obviously the best method to perform the repetition would be to write out the scene many times or perhaps just read it. Either way the idea is to allow myself to re-experience the ideal scene which embeds the the whole into my unconscious thinking. The next time an opportunity arises to procrastinate on that particular activity I will choose not to procrastinate on an unconscious level... or more accurately, choose to do what ever it is that is to be done.

The next step would be to generalize the imagined scene to allow it to encompass more than just one task. I may look at identifying the feelings that I experience when I do procrastinate and use those as a trigger to let me know when I need to engage the more enjoyable version of what I should be doing instead. I know those very well and they shouldn't be too hard to nail down in a descriptive manner.

Jeff.