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146: Rewiring Your Subconscious Mind for Success and Self-Love: The Power of Affirmations

• Hannah Andersen and Sara Swanson • Season 2 • Episode 44

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Are your subconscious thoughts running the show aka your life and holding you back from the self-love and success you deserve? WE HAVE BEEN THERE- stuck in the same thought loop cycles with no idea how to shift our mindset and exist in our conscious minds. Now? We have been successful at rewiring our subconscious minds through energy work, the power of affirmations, and a whole lot of PRACTICE. 

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Tune in to learn:
✅ How to recognize and rewire negative subconscious patterns
✅ Why visualization supercharges your affirmations
✅ Tips to shift your inner dialogue and embody self-love daily
✅ Tools to build a success-oriented mindset and attract your desires

In this episode, we dive deep into the subconscious mind—how it shapes your reality and influences your actions without you even realizing it. We’ll break down limiting beliefs: where they come from, how they formed, and the impact they have on your mindset, relationships, and goals.

Imagine your subconscious mind as a computer hard drive, loaded with programs from your early life that dictate up to 95% of your actions and beliefs. We explore how these ingrained patterns, actually CAN be reprogrammed, and affirmations are one of the major first steps. You hold the power to challenge the patterns that are in your subconscious mind to create lasting change via neuroplasticity.

You’ll learn actionable steps to clear subconscious beliefs and blocks, replacing them with new empowering beliefs, aligning with self-love and success. We’ll explore how to harness meditation, visualization, and affirmations—but not just ANY affirmations. You’ll discover why it’s not enough to say what you want—you need to feel it in your body, activating the emotions that align with your highest self.

Through powerful mindset shifts, we’ll show you how to shift your inner dialogue and practice speaking your dreams into existence. This isn’t just about positive thinking—it’s about rewiring your mind from the inside out, so you can finally step into the version of yourself that’s worthy of love, abundance, and joy.

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00:00:00- Rewiring Your Subconscious Mind for Success
00:04:37- Mastering Your Subconscious Mind and Beliefs
00:16:28- Creating and Living New Beliefs
00:26:05- Unlocking Freedom With Energy Work

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Hannah:

Do you find yourself saying nothing ever works out for me, I'm never getting the things I want. Why does this always happen to me? And you just find yourself in this victim mindset, never thinking that you're ever going to get the things that you want. If so, keep listening, because we're going to tell you how to rewire your subconscious mind for being in this full embodiment of self-love and success.

Sara:

Love that. Welcome to Mindfully Moody. It's Sara. I'm joined with Hannah, my best friend, my co-host. We are excited to be back with you for another episode. Before we get into this amazing episode about the power of affirmations how to reprogram your subconscious mind we want to let you know that we are now on YouTube so you can watch us, see our beautiful faces, see how we interact, get our expressions the full vibe of our energy on YouTube. So go subscribe to us there. The link is in the show notes and we also have the feature of being able to now text us so you can talk to us. You can text us in your questions, things you want us to record about questions you have. We would love to start doing some Q&A style episodes, so text us in the show notes. It's anonymous. Well, the link is in the show notes I should say the number and we're excited to talk to you more to get into it. And, lastly, we are now recording or releasing episodes on Wednesdays. So we were previously on Mondays, we're now on Wednesdays.

Sara:

I love a Wednesday by the way I actually think Wednesday is one of the best days of the week. So, you know, it's just like it's the peak of the week. You're starting to like feel like it's you're not in weekend energy, but you might be like ramped up for the work week and it just feels good. So follow us on Spotify, apple, youtube, wherever you listen to podcasts, so you can get updated with all of our new episodes. All right, what's up, hannah? What are we getting into first?

Hannah:

All right, well, we're going to be talking about the power of affirmations and how you can rewire your subconscious mind for self-love and success. Now, I firsthand struggled with this for so many years. I just always felt like things weren't working out. I always got the short end of the stick. I was damaged from my childhood. I was just in a victim mindset that, I feel like, really kept me low, kept me stuck, kept me in so much fear oh my stuck. Kept me in so much fear. Oh my gosh. I was in so much fear, like so much social anxiety, so much insecurity, like it's just crazy to think about me five years ago compared to me now, like so different. And you knew me then. We knew each other then and just how I think you know how we would spend our time.

Hannah:

how would we spend our days? How would we people we would hang out with, how we would spend our time? How would we spend our days? How would we people we would hang out with, how we would self-talk and, like, like, speak such negativity about ourselves. And I think when we started to learn about reprogramming our subconscious mind and speaking in a way that is abundant and in loving and kind, I feel like everything really did change. So we're going to be talking about how you guys can rewire your subconscious mind to be more in a loving state, in abundant state, and help you get the things that you want in life more quickly, more efficiently and more lovingly. So should we give a little science lesson on the subconscious mind and how it's really driving our life?

Sara:

Yeah, let's do it. This is such a powerful topic because so many people live their entire lives with no awareness of what the subconscious mind is, how it controls their day-to-day, and it's astounding how much your childhood and the things that you learned at an early age, the patterns that you saw, the relationships and communication styles that you witnessed, the trauma that you went through all of these things how it carries with you, it sits with you and you carry it with you through your whole life and you make decisions based on it. You show up, based on it, you choose partners because of it, friends because of it, jobs because of it. Your inner world shifts because of it. So your subconscious mind controls I believe the stat is 95% of your day-to-day life is controlled by your subconscious mind and your subconscious mind is the part of your mind that is formed when you are very young, so stops forming around like six to seven and again, all of these things are loaded that you see in your childhood into your subconscious mind.

Sara:

I like to think of it like a computer, like a hard drive, like it's loading all of these programs in and then you carry that on. So on the other side, right, you have your conscious mind, which is barely utilized for most people, which could be super triggering, and someone would say no way, like I'm always conscious of the decisions, that about things, or getting super angry, or getting emotional, taking things personally, whatever your patterns are. When you are in a pattern, that is your subconscious mind literally taking over. So getting just into all of this topic of the subconscious mind allows you to then see where am I showing up in my subconscious versus my conscious, and when you are working within your conscious mind, you have more awareness of the things that you're doing, the decisions that you're making, et cetera.

Hannah:

Great explanation right there. So if you want to think about real life examples of beliefs that might have been formed in your childhood that are now in your subconscious mind, you can think about, maybe, relationships. How did you see your parents interact, build connection, create boundaries with each other when you were from ages zero to six, and how did you inherit and learn that and now carry that throughout your life? And now those are your beliefs, thoughts and actions in life, because that's what you learned subconsciously when you were being raised. You could think about money, right. How did your parents treat money, see money, spend money. Do your money beliefs currently relate to the same way that your parents saw money, right? Maybe you are so annoyed at yourself that you're so bad with money and you can never save and all these things.

Hannah:

I would say take a look at your parents' beliefs and see if that's a direct reflection of you. You can kind of test this in your own life and see like, okay, where do I have a belief, a pattern that is unhealthy, that maybe I don't really enjoy in my life? Can I relate that back to my parents and this is no shade on our parents. Our parents most likely did the best that they could. Right, we have so much more knowledge than our parents did at this point too, I know, and they all went through so much, so true, and so I think it's just like having that awareness and taking a look at, like, maybe, how some of your parents' beliefs may be carried on into your life and how they might be affecting you.

Hannah:

And it's really interesting that we have actually anywhere from 6,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day, so all of these thoughts could be also unconsciously happening in the background and we're not even really like consciously aware that they're happening. But they are right. Like we're going walking in an elevator, right, I always love to use this elevator example, and now I'm feeling like there's thoughts of like, oh, you know, imagine how many thoughts really happen when you're in the elevator with somebody. But, like you're really only conscious, probably, of like some of them, like you could be like, oh, I'm in an elevator with somebody.

Hannah:

Consciously you're like is this person going to steal my phone? Are they looking at me weird, Like all of these things that are half.

Sara:

Are they going to steal my phone? That's funny, I never have that one.

Hannah:

Me walking on the street in. Austin Like oh my God.

Sara:

Oh well, sure Walking on the street. Sure, yes, okay, oh, I was more like am I going to get attacked? So fucked up.

Hannah:

But okay and like it's interesting to think about Okay.

Sara:

Actually, how does that relate back to?

Hannah:

I don't know if that necessarily would relate back to childhood, but I mean, that's just kind of reality depending on where you live, right, right, but yeah, so, yeah, it's interesting, it's really interesting to think about our thoughts, our beliefs and how are they affecting our life. How are they getting us to where we want to be, how are they detracting us from where we want to go? Our thoughts and our beliefs are so powerful in driving us every single day. So, yeah, let's talk about the power of that.

Sara:

Yeah, and how does this relate to affirmations? Is that, the same way that you can feed your mind or your mind can feed you, I should say thoughts that are negative or just like not positive in nature? You know negative thoughts about your body, about your ability to be successful, about you know so many things. I mean, we all have so many different experiences, repeating cycles in our stories. You know in our minds that come from our different upbringings and all of the things that we've experienced in life. But the same way that your mind can feed you this negativity, you can, in turn, feed your mind with positivity, with things that actually are reprogramming your subconscious mind, versus allowing your subconscious mind to basically rule your life.

Sara:

Because the hardest thing about the subconscious and this is the hardest thing about self-growth, I think is that we weren't in control of our lives.

Sara:

When this major part of us was formed, we were under the care of our parents or our caregivers, whoever was providing for us, which could have been an amazing experience or a not so amazing experience or somewhere in between. So, because we weren't in control of this, we're all kind of up against a challenge when it comes to our patterns and behaviors and beliefs about ourselves. So we have to feed in love, positivity, nourishment, things that really make our mind expand, versus contract. And I don't mean writing I am worthy on a piece of paper like 100 times a day and then all of a sudden, a week later, you're going to be like I have no issues and I'm worthy. It goes way deeper than that which I feel like even psychology doesn't necessarily tell you. It's just like oh well, you know, just tell yourself. You know it's more than just telling yourself. You have to really work at the belief, the embodiment of this new belief. That's how you reprogram your mind.

Hannah:

They say that it can take anywhere from like three to four weeks to reprogram a belief.

Hannah:

Now it may take longer for you, depending on how long you're doing it, how active you're practicing the rewiring. Like if you're doing something every single day for three to four weeks and really being intentional about it, maybe you can rewire it. I think it's going to be different for everybody, also depending on the belief and depending on, like, where it came from. But I wanted to share an example of something that I'm currently experiencing.

Hannah:

I'm generally somebody who has a lack mindset, like I don't want to claim that necessarily, but I do have a history of being in lack, and I had a session with my friend who was helping me with some business stuff and I found that, wow, I was actually kind of in lack around my business and I had a really big energy shift there of like why I am in lack, why do I feel like it's hard to get clients that quote unquote nobody wants to work with me, and like it's interesting to think about how that is the default and then where that kind of can come from.

Hannah:

But it's so easy to shift and to find new um, like evidence of why that isn't true. Like I have a choice to think about how I'm going to get clients in my business. I can think lack. I can think that there's nobody that wants to work with me, or what is that going to do for me? Where is that going to get me? We're going to be talking about mirroring in a bit. But if I think that nobody wants to work with me, what the hell am I going to get back in return? Nobody's going to work with me. But at the same time, I also have the same option to say there are so many people who want to work with me, right?

Hannah:

There are millions of people. I had this related to the podcast. I'm like stepping more into podcast management kind of stuff, and I'm like there are 2 million people out there in the world who have podcasts 2 million people. Do you think that it could be possible that 10 of the 2 million people would maybe need my services? Probably, of course, and so, like it's that I have been actively shifting into that abundance versus lack, like you can have two. You have two roads to go down. Right, if you think in the lack, in the negative mindset, what is that actually going to do for you? Truly think about how is that belief serving you compared to a belief that is more abundance, that's more open, that's more loving, that leaves room on the table for possibility and opportunity. It doesn't hurt anything. Having lack thoughts hurts something. It makes you worse. Having abundance thoughts opens things up, it brings opportunity. It's just like that growth versus fixed mindset, too right. When you have a growth mindset, you're seeing the opportunity. When you're having a fixed mindset, you're limiting yourself.

Hannah:

Yeah so yeah, there's so many examples that we could use. Do you have any examples of like shifts that you've done recently from you know of rewiring a belief?

Sara:

Yeah, I mean it's interesting too. I just want to say, like the three to four weeks thing, like that's going to be a straight up no for me. Like three to four weeks, I could never reprogram something in three to four weeks and that's just not even me speaking that Like. I just think that when something is into existence, when something is that deep seated, like maybe if I go on a retreat, like I'm all like in on something like that, like I don't know, I feel like that almost makes it seem like people feel bad if they can't. Like you know, if you have a belief from childhood that is with you, like it takes a long time to rewire that.

Hannah:

Yeah, definitely it can depend, I guess, depend on your situation, your circumstance. Maybe it's something lighter, maybe it's something that's like deep, deep rooted, like very deep deep rooted, like very deep, because I'm just thinking about too like neuroplasticity.

Sara:

it takes a while for a new neural pathway to form. But this is the same thing that science says about changing a habit. It's the same.

Sara:

They say that as well, it only takes 21 or 28 days. Maybe they changed it now. Who's they? Who is they the habit scientist, you know? Yeah, who is they Exactly? Dr Google.

Sara:

But for myself, yeah, I mean, I'll give an example that is taking me I'm still working on my relationship with my body and being comfortable with my relationship with my body from the belief that my body size determines my worth. I have reprogrammed that, but there's still this belief that I desire to be in a smaller body or I desire to be a certain size, et cetera, and I don't think that that's like a desire of my highest self, right. Of course I desire to be healthy and I desire to live a healthy, you know, led life and have a healthy mindset. But you know the belief. But you know the belief, yeah, it probably still is, I guess, tied to worthiness and to something deeper, right? So I'm always working on reprogramming that, because it's such a thing that's perpetuated in society. It's such a thing that I saw in my younger life that a lot of I mean so many women probably everyone that's listening to this right now can relate to that. So, yeah, I just feel like the I wanted to kind of pull in even what you were saying into like an affirmation, and then what I'm saying into an affirmation, and then show people how you can break that down and bring that to life. So, for your example of what you're talking about about having like a more lack mindset and work, having a affirmation that is very led with the podcasting space is endless and people cannot wait to hire me to help them grow their podcast Could be a multitude of things, but that's just an example.

Sara:

For myself, it could be I love the body that I'm in and I am worthy, no matter the size of my body. So getting some sort of affirmation like that, that's like step one. And then going back to what you were saying, also, if you write something like that out and you're like I'm not buying it, okay, then let's go into like what you were saying, like what's the evidence? Getting all these points you know Like, okay, there's 2 million people that are podcasters. I feel like there will be more. I'm thinking that might be low. So, whatever, there's 2 million people that are podcasters, or my soul chose to inhabit this body in this lifetime for a very sacred reason. So, whatever your evidence is, start contributing that. So you're not just writing I am worthy, no matter what size I am. You're really starting to understand why that should be a new belief for yourself.

Hannah:

Yeah, because you have to remember that you've spent years wiring this belief that you currently have about yourself. You've been spending years finding evidence to confirm that this belief is true. So it's time for you to start looking at different evidence and really starting to rewire and get rooted in this new belief that you desire that no one could pull you up from that. You are so deep in this new belief that, no matter what outside circumstances come at your way, you're so confident in that belief in yourself. Right, like? I'm trying to think of another example of, like how you can create evidence. I love the idea of the affirmation, but also, how is there like ways to look in life and see evidence everywhere around you, right, like? If there is a belief that maybe you had a you know divorced parents, or you never saw your parents be in good relationships, and now you have this belief that you will never be in a successful, loving relationship, right, and you have evidence that that is true from your parents, from maybe your sister or your brother, or friendships. You've looked for evidence and you've said, oh, that they were fighting. Oh, now that's evidence for me that I'm never going to be in a successful relationship. It's time to start looking for new evidence of why that's true.

Hannah:

Right, you're walking down the street and you see an old, 80-year-old couple holding hands. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to have a successful loving relationship. Clock it right. You go on an amazing date with somebody who feels like super aligned, has amazing qualities. Wow, yes, I can't wait to have a successful relationship and have someone show up in these qualities. And so it's like about where you're looking Like you really have to start looking in different places rather than looking in the places that you have assumed in the past. Look for evidence in your life directly where you could say, oh yeah, that is possible, that is true. That's what I actually choose to believe, rather than this. There's evidence every single place that you go. Wow in yourself.

Hannah:

wow, I have such a beautiful heart that's going to contribute to such a healthy loving relationship one day Like yeah it's really intentionally looking at your life and seeing how can you see things and really put that in the bucket of the beliefs, of the beliefs that you want to have.

Sara:

Yes, and how you can even solidify that further. You got your affirmation. You got the evidence further. You got your affirmation, you got the evidence. Now take those things. Take your affirmation, sit with it, not just writing it out, but actually do visualization around the affirmation. If yours is, I am in a healthy, loving relationship with my soulmate okay, because always make it in the present tense. Then sit and visualize, use that affirmation to get yourself into the energy of what it is like to be in that place. Okay, so you are in a happy and loving relationship with your soulmate. What are you doing? What does that feel like? What's your day to day? Visualize that. Visualize what it would feel like to be with that person. Imagine that love that you desire to feel actually filling you up.

Sara:

As you're visualizing this experience, if you are desiring to you know, your affirmation is I am a successful entrepreneur running my own dream business. What is your dream business? Get into the visualization of what that you know every day would feel like if you have a six, seven-figure business. What are you doing? How do you wake up? What are you contributing to during the day? Who else is in your life? Who are the main characters in your life, really deepening into what that feels like, because that is what's going to actually contribute to the reprogramming of the subconscious mind and the mindset shifts that you're desiring, versus the psychology method of just writing something on a paper. We need to get that energetic embodiment to then lock it in, seal it in, reprogram the subconscious mind and move forward into where we're actually inviting that experience into our lives.

Hannah:

So it's changing your thoughts, changing your beliefs and then action as well. I love that you're saying the list create the evidence. It's also about action, sometimes as well of okay now, how am I going to be stepping into my life in that embodiment? Okay, I desire to be in a loving, committed relationship. I desire to be a wife one day. How am I showing up in my day-to-day life like that? Am I showing up as a wife or am I showing up as 2016 frat girl me?

Hannah:

What energy do I want to be in and what things might I need to do? Right, when I'm walking into a cafe if I'm looking to attract my dream partner? Right, I know my husband is out there somewhere. How am I still showing up physically in those old beliefs and old thoughts? Or am I showing up physically embodied in this beautiful energy of somebody who is in a successful, healthy relationship? Because that is the magnetism, that energy people feel and you have to go out there. You have to go out there and do things. You have to go out there and be seen and really step into this new belief, not just allow it to passively be right Like yeah, you got to embody it as well.

Sara:

Yeah, don't just talk about it. Be about it, don't talk about it. That's the vibe.

Hannah:

Be about it.

Sara:

So we hope you enjoyed this episode. Use this to propel you forward. Whatever you are experiencing right now, whatever cycles, thoughts, patterns are coming up for you, use this episode as your guide to shift these things, because we are telling you it is possible. We have done it in our own lives. You can do it in your life and we love you so much.

Sara:

If you are seeking more freedom in your life freedom from your thoughts, freedom from your circumstance maybe you want a new job, maybe you want a new relationship. You want to improve your life and create more space internally so that you can then shift your external life you need to check out our Freedom Formula. It is our free resource, linked in the show notes. This is our new program that is just going to help you get to where you're trying to go. It works with energy work. There is a recorded guided meditation for you to actually do the energy work to visualize freedom in your own life. That is completely free and it is available right now. So go check it out in the show notes. We love you so much. We'll talk to you next Wednesday.

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