The Power of the Subconscious Mind With Austin Tani

The subconscious mind is like a hidden library in our brains, quietly influencing our thoughts and actions. When ideas are consistently reinforced, they sink into the subconscious, becoming automatic responses. Positive or negative, these beliefs influence our decisions and behaviors without our conscious awareness. Have you ever wondered how your subconscious beliefs might be guiding your choices without you even realizing it? In this week's episode, I have Austin Tani, Founder of Bringing Balance Back. Today, we discussed how negative beliefs are often formed in childhood based on experiences, and how those beliefs can then impact our lives unconsciously. He also shared transformative techniques for clearing subconscious beliefs, including breathwork and somatic therapies to release emotional charges from the body. Ready to transform your beliefs? Tune in now! --- Listen to the podcast here: The Power of the Subconscious Mind With Austin Tani Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. I am confident. I am competent. I am smart. I am good enough. I will make things happen. How many of you out there have said things like this to yourself in the mirror? How many of you wake up every day or have some sort of regular ritual around saying things like that? And what kind of results have you gotten from these affirmative messages that you said to yourself? Now, chances are, those results are kind of mixed. Maybe some of you start to notice a difference as you repeat these mantras to yourself, but maybe some of you did not get the results that you desired. Maybe some of you, for some reason, one reason or another, tried it for a while and still kept falling back into some of the same patterns and some of the same beliefs. My guest today, Austin Tani, of Bringing Balance Back, has a different approach to some of these instances in which this set of affirmations may not have particularly worked. --- Austin, welcome to the program. Thanks. Thanks, Stephen. Thank you. How are you doing today? I’m doing good. Doing good. Had a slight headache this morning but it’s starting to go away. Well, not bad. Now, Austin, have you ever initially before starting a business tried this set of affirmations, kind of those repeated mantras, whether they be in the mirror or meditation or anything like that? Yeah, I’ve tried some affirmation stuff but it didn’t really help me too much, but, yeah, I’ve given them a try. And what kind of experience that you have with these affirmations? Kind of just scratching the surface, you’re using your conscious mind and you’re hoping that you impregnate the subconscious mind with that affirmation and it becomes your belief. But with what I’ve learned and what I’ve seen through experience, a lot of times when we’re trying to drop an affirmation in, that usually means we’re carrying the opposite belief in our subconscious mind. If you’re trying to say, “I’m worthy, I’m worthy, I’m worthy,” probably means you’re carrying the belief of unworthiness in your subconscious mind. That’s why you’re trying to drop that information in and that’s why that worthiness came up as an affirmation for yourself. So I’ll explain it like this. So if you’re trying to drop in, “I am worthy,” into your subconscious mind, which is actually your body, the body is your subconscious mind, so if you’re trying to drop in, “I’m worthy,” in your subconscious mind but you have a big bubble of unworthiness stuck in your body, it’s just going to bounce right off you and you’re going to still feel unworthy, until you remove that feeling of unworthiness out of your nervous system and then you can drop in, “I’m worthy.” So let’s talk a bit about this feeling of unworthiness and talk about a little bit from the standpoint of a personal journey. A person you encounter that has this feeling of unworthiness in their subconscious mind, where does that generally originate from? Because I don’t think any children are really born thinking themselves they’re unworthy and I don’t see a lot of four-year-olds say, playing out there thinking, “I’m not worthy of playing this game or having these loving parents,” et cetera. Yeah, that’s a great question. When we’re born, you’re right, we’ve got no beliefs about ourselves or the world, You’re the infinite being, as they say, and that’s what we’re trying to get back to as we’ve realized that we’ve picked up all these thoughts and feelings about ourselves in the world. So we have experiences, mostly a lot from our parents when we’re young, teachers, friends, whatever, other adults, whatever, and then it turns into, “I am this, I am that, I am good, I am bad, I am unworthy,” blah, blah, blah, but, of course, the negative stuff is definitely not you, kind of like viruses that you pick up, and positive stuff, it’s pretty good, it’s kind of like applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint where you can use here and there. So the negative stuff is definitely not you. The positive stuff, it’s nice to have, but it’s actually not you either. I’ll go deeper into it. So, the way these beliefs are formed in your subconscious mind is thoughts concentrated upon or feelings concentrated upon turn into concepts or beliefs in the subconscious mind. Let’s say you’re on a school, you’re in the third grade, you’re in PE, and everyone is a little bit faster than you, maybe you’re more towards the end of people when they’re doing races or different kind of physical activities and in your mind, you pick up an idea of, “Oh, I’m just not as fast as everybody,” or, “I’m just not there,” or, “I’m inadequate a little bit.” That idea that you decided to pull down and you think about for a while will then get charged up into your nervous system and that’ll stay in your body..Share on X So, growing up, if you had a feeling for long enough, you’re going to think it’s a part of you but it’s actually not. It’s actually not a part of you. That’s just an idea that we charged up and now we believe it. And do these beliefs happen typically based on one catastrophic event or is it more common, as you said, a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow, a little bit the next day, a repeated scenario where, day after day, you get rejected for something, you get, say, last to be picked for the basketball teams, et cetera, and then, over time, it starts to become, “I’m not good, people don’t like me,” et cetera? Right, that’s a great question too. So, it could happen either way. it can happen either way. It can happen over a period of time. Let’s say a teacher kind of made the students kind of pick on you a little bit, and, over time, you’re going to be like, “Oh, I’m the bad kid,” you’re going to have that belief, “I’m the bad kid.” Or it could be like a single event. It could be a more stressful or more traumatic event that charges your nervous system immediately and you have that experience which created that belief. And I’ll give you a good example of how this works on a more traumatic way. So I had a client that had massive anxiety on planes and elevators, like every time, like on the plane, when you land, everyone stands up to get their bags and whatnot, and that’s when he would get this crazy anxiety, he’s like, where’s this coming from? So we found out when he was about three or four, he was on a boat with his dad, and this boat caught fire. And what did everybody do? They all stood up and they were trying to get off this boat. Yep. Well, that one incident created this whole thing in his head where if a lot of people stand up, it triggers that feeling with him. So that’s one way that one experience can create a whole domino effect in your whole life. So he had mapped it to his subconscious the idea that when I see a whole bunch of people standing up, that means fire, and, of course, your subconscious mind is trying to create shortcuts so you don’t have to cognitively think through every single thing that ever happen and so now every time he sees he thinks fire, even though it’s just a routine, I’m getting off an airplane or getting off a train or something. Right. Right. It’s actually just a safety mechanism for him that his body created, just like this was an emergency, this was a big thing, when people stand up, you gotta move. So sometime in your life, you either have a catastrophic event or a series of events that creates a belief system in your subconscious mind, right? Now, do these belief systems in your subconscious mind, do they vary in the amount of strength and is that why we see such variable results in these affirmations? Because if it’s really strong, it’s more likely to bounce off, and if it’s relatively weaker, maybe it might have some effect. Yeah, that’s a great way to put it. Some things are more deeply ingrained in certain people and some things aren’t. And the belief can be just a small, weak belief or it can be a more powerful, ingrained belief. And the thing about the more powerful, ingrained beliefs is, sometimes, people don’t feel safe to let that part of them go. So they need to feel that safety to let that part of them go so they can change into this new feeling. I’ve gone to a seminar and the guy doing the seminar, he stood up in front of the class and he brought up someone and he said, “Okay, I’m gonna send over a feeling to you. Let me know how it feels. Let me know how it feels to you.” So he said, “Okay, give me a second,” and then he did it and the person on stage is like, oh, just kind of basking, “Yeah, this is great. I feel like I’m gonna pick up a baby and hold it,” and he’s like, “No, no, no, don’t pick up the baby, put the baby down,” and then he did, “Okay, I’m gonna do a different one,” then he stood next to her and he said, “Wait a second,” and then he got into that feeling,...