Drifting In Life?
It is with tremendous excitement that you launch the innings of your life. A great career, plenty of money in the bank, decent house with a beautiful garden, bunch of friends who care for you as you care for them, a loving spouse, children who do you proud ... yes, you aspire for all these. Somewhere down the line, you find something or the other going wrong in one or the other of these areas. You keep struggling ... yet the aspiration is beyond your grasp. At the end of the day, you wonder: what's going wrong?

Not only is there unhappiness, you experience the same pattern of events repeating in your life. For instance, whenever you take up a new job, you find yourself reporting to a senior who treats you unfairly, and this happens invariably with every next job that comes your way. Or you end up having an affair with a person who is already married, and this person ultimately ditches you in the end because they find their earlier attachment stronger. Or you go through a string of marriages, each one ending up in divorce. Or you find yourself perennially in debt, and no sooner did you extricate yourself from one mortgage, you are neck-deep in yet another. Or ... Sigh. The list goes on.

Have you asked yourself the question - "God, why is this happening to me?" Thankfully, you do not have to seek the answer anywhere else. The answer lies in your subconscious.

Planting The Right Seeds In The Subconscious
To put it more succinctly, the answer lies in your thoughts. There is a simple rule of life that I wish I was taught on the first day of my school: "What you think, so shall you become." "How you perceive yourself, becomes your reality." "It is your thoughts that shape events in your life."

Below the threshold of our conscious mind lies the subconscious. It is the subconscious that is in tune with the cosmos that we live in. The subconscious is a part of our persona, and acts as a conduit between us and the rest of this world. The only way to communicate with our subconscious is through our own thoughts. Thoughts are generated in our mind as a result of external stimuli (TV, movies, printed material that we read, sounds that we hear, etc.), or they may be internal (our basal emotions, our rational intellect). These thoughts that cross the landscape of our alert conscious, seep below and reach the subconscious. The relationship between our alert conscious mind and the passive subconscious mind is that of master and slave. Whatever thoughts come from the conscious mind are accepted "as is" by the subconscious. After accepting a thought, the subconscious immediately gets to work on it.

In some cases, the result is instantaneous. (Pause here for a moment, and read the text right up to the closing bracket very slowly. Visualize that you have a half-cut lemon in your hand. Visualize that you are opening your mouth. Now visualize that you are bringing this lemon on your tongue and squeezing it. Let the juice from the lemon squirt on your tongue. Do you now feel a certain sensation in the corner of the jaws? Do you feel yourself salivating? What exactly happened? What happened was this: the visualization was a stream of conscious thoughts. The thoughts reached out to the subconscious, which in turn implemented them into your particular reality by creating the sensation in your mouth as well as the entire body!)

In other cases, the result takes a little while. At some point of time, if you are fascinated (a basal emotion) by authority figures that are rough and tough and tend to chew out their juniors ... then the subconscious works in tandem with the universe in such a way that the same quality of authority figures come into your life. (I am simplifying things here.) If you find a particular character in a television soap opera or a movie attractive, this attraction seeps down to the subconscious; and at some point of time, your walk and your talk, indeed your entire personality begins to be a clone of this character. The interesting point is this: if this character goes through a string of divorces in the soap opera ... then you are so engrossed in imitating the character, that you might face the same set of situations in your own, very real life, too!

Makes you sit up and read the entire paragraph once again, doesn't it? :)

The net conclusion is this: The quality and tenor of your thoughts decide what kind of people and events come in your life.

Correcting Your Present Situation
In the fast-paced life of today, it is not possible to go off to the high mountains to meditate and contemplate; or to rejuvenate oneself. You may be weak, tired, worn out, but still you cannot give up the battle that life has become. The Formula One cars that burn the tracks in a Grand Prix event have pit stops where they can change tyres and refuel and rejuvenate. There are no pit stops for you - except for the time you spend in reading articles such as this. Your refuelling and rejuvenation and consequent course correction has to happen while you are right there, in your very own Grand Prix. Fortunately for the present generation (circa 2000 and beyond), technology has a good solution to offer.

This solution is in the form ofsubliminal messaging. Technology takes advantage of the fact that the present generation spends most of its time in front of a computer screen. Softwares have become available in the market that, once loaded on your computer, flash positive messages on the computer screen at random time intervals. These messages may belong to any category of your choice that is relevant to your present life situation - whether it is new learning, or a good career, or relationships, whatever. The software is careful enough not to divert your attention from the work you may be doing on the computer. So the messages come to you without any advance warning, briefly titillate the pixels on the monitor, and fade away almost instantaneously. This happens with such speed that your conscious mind does not register it. Yet, unbeknown to you, the message percolates to your subconscious. How does this happen? One analogy that comes to mind is when you are able to complete a sentence that a near and dear one leaves hanging midway: in a flash, you know what he or she was trying to convey in those half-completed sentences. Your subconscious is actually able to *read* their mind in those moments.

Once the messages begin to be received by the subconscious, it immediately starts acting on it. And as we saw earlier, in some cases the results are very quick, while in others it takes a little while.

Final Word
How do you know that the solution is working? When your aspirations begin to come in your grasp, one after another. A great career, plenty of money in the bank, good house with a beautiful garden, bunch of friends who care for you as you care for them, a loving spouse, children who do you proud...