A Sneak Peek Into the Magical and Mysterious World of Your Subconscious Brain

From the archive: originally published May 2013 on the Empower Network blog.

Disconnecting the Unconnected

A few days ago, I briefly mentioned that I was able to eliminate 99% of my desire to smoke because of a conversation that I was having at the right time, with the right person.

That person was my brother Will.

Will has developed what appears to be a magical ability to help people tap into their subconscious mind and create instant change.

He asked the room if there was anyone that had something they wanted to get rid of. I said, “Yeah, I keep smoking these damn cigars, and I don’t even really like them that much.”

Well about 7 years ago I was on the North Shore of Oahu right after I met my wife. We had climbed into some old military bunkers on the side of one of the remote mountains. The waves were rolling in gently that night, there was hardly a cloud in the sky, and the full moon was large, and rising gracefully over the ocean.

As I’m taking in the amazing scenery, my buddy Carlo gets to the top of the bunker and offers me a cigarette. I had taken a puff here and there, but never liked them. I must have hit that one just right, or maybe it was the power of ocean filling me with inspiration, but that was a damn good cigarette.

Fast forward to this last Empower Network event in Chicago…

Will gets me into a trance, thinking I am going to have one of the “normal” reasons for going back to smoking all the time.

How I Quit Smoking at an Event

Nope, I somehow had made the subconscious connection to smoking and paired it with the inspiration and power of nature, on that beautiful night on Oahu when I was 27 years old. Nature happens to be something in my life that is very important to me.

So when I got “brain chatter,” which I get a lot of being somewhat A.D.D. and needed a little dose of “inspiration and clarity,” I would head for the cigars.

As soon as I became aware that I had made a REALLY stupid connection, it was quite easy to break. 99% of the desire was immediately gone, and Will did some other voodoo stuff that makes my lip twitch when I smell cigarettes and triggers me to laugh.

I’ll save that part of the story for another day.

Connecting This to Your Business

This story has everything to do with your business, and having transformation in your business. You see a lot of times we want to do something in life on the conscious level, but our inner child learns something that isn’t correct…

…like me connecting the inspiration and power of nature to smoking. I didn’t even realize that I had done it.

People say stuff all the time like this about money for instance.

“I’m broke, but at least I’m happy.”

Well, how are those connected?

“Money is the root of all evil.”

How are those connected.

“Money doesn’t grow on trees.”

Well, actually fascinatingly enough, it does. We could go over several more examples of limiting beliefs that people connect that aren’t connected. You can be happy, and rich, and be a good person. Someone could also be rich, miserable, and a bad person.

They are simply not connected. So if you are given the choice to manifest your destiny, then why not choose to be rich, happy, and free? Those are better things to have connected.

Disconnect the unconnected.

-Aki Wood
“Quit smoking at an Empower Network event”