Exercise your Conscious Regularly

This morning, along the way from home to work, before taking the elevator to the 9th floor office, i went to Starbuck to by a cup of coffee. Before, i was addicted with the ice-types coffee like ice latte, latte frappe..etc. Recently, I noticed that my taste changes to something hot, hot latte. Thus, walking to the counter and i order “latte” please. After waiting a while, I got my coffee, but not the hot latte. In stead, it was ice latte. I thought there was something wrong. I tried to checked the receipt and saw the “ice-latte”. At first, i felt a bit shocked, but latter, when my consciousness comes in, I realized that “my mouth betrayed my mind”–i thought i ordered hot latte, but my mouth spelled ice-latte, automatically.

What can be learnt from this? I realized that drinking ice latte has become my habit for the long time, maybe in the last 3 or 4 years. When I tried to change the taste, which may be forced by my consciousness, the subconscious, which recorded the event that every time i ordered coffee, it must be “ice-latte! ice-latte! ice-latte!….”.

So, now i changed just in my mind (conscious) and only if i use my conscious when i order, i will get hot latte. otherwise, i will always get ice latte. Why? because it is become a bit. Once you do same thing everyday for some period of time, it becomes the habit, which is recorded in your subconscious, the function in your brain to help you automatically react to any situations you have experience before, without bothering your conscious.

your subconscious is not always right. For example, at night walking on glass, you saw something is moving to your leg. At first, you may scream and/or jump and may shout “Snake!Snake!”. Then, you may try to analyze and figure out what it is. at this stage, your conscious start working. then, you know it is a robe that moving cuz of the wind. This is the reason that we should delay our judgement (in other word, ask yourself, is it {the subconscious} correct?).

Now back to my case of coffee, next time, i need to remind myself by using my conscious to order the hot coffee. By doing this for some period of time, my subconscious will be replaced the ice latte to hot latte.

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