I use subliminal messages for relaxation, self-love, self-esteem, confidence, cleansing my mind of old negative thought patterns, and getting in the energy of love and happiness.” Putting them on before she falls asleep, Ariana lets the video then play for 8-10 hours overnight.
“I was feeling lost and really just had a strong urge to learn how to connect with life and myself more. The solution, then, may be to embrace subliminal messaging as an answer to your problems, and luckily, the internet is awash with videos to help you do it.ĭuring the pandemic, Ariana, 20, an actor from New York, was browsing YouTube when she stumbled into the world of subliminals. Struggling financially? Keep failing in relationships? Unhappy with your appearance? The idea goes that you’ve created a blockage in your mind that will hinder you from making progress in these areas. The thoughts we let in are normally the ones that match our existing beliefs. With billions of bits of information coming at us every minute, the Reticular Activating System works as a filter in our brains to decide which bits of information are permitted into our conscious mind. So how does it work? Our subconscious is, in theory, far more susceptible and open to change than our conscious mind, which typically puts up barriers, influenced by external sources, to certain information.
But for others, they are a short-cut to their goals. For the sceptics among us, the idea that you can hijack your life while doing the washing up sounds a lot like the plot to a budget sci-fi flick. On YouTube and TikTok there is a deluge of spiritually-inclined life-hacks a rabbit hole of manifestation tips and tricks and law of attraction affirmations. These messages then work at sneakily influencing our behaviours, which consequently have a ripple effect on our lives. Below the limits of normal perception they consist of images or sounds that slip past our mental radar, bypassing critical awareness and logical reasoning and embedding in the subconscious mind. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. Subliminal messages are messages you can neither see nor hear.