Your Brain Is Lying About Who You Are

Published 2025-12-31 06-49

Summary

Your brain filters reality to match your outdated self-image. Feed your subconscious better data through visualization and self-talk to reprogram limiting beliefs and unlock growth.

The story

🟢 The problem: your brain is a suspicious little bouncer
You “see reality” through your senses, then your subconscious files it into a belief database called your self-image. After that, your creative subconscious does the most efficient thing possible: it pushes behavior that matches the file, even if the file is outdated.

So if your self-image says, “I’m not a public speaker,” your attention quietly filters for evidence that keeps you “safe,” and your body helps you avoid the mic like it’s radioactive. Selective perception is great for survival. For growth? Sometimes it’s a glitch.

🟢 The solution: give the subconscious better data
Your subconscious does not politely ask, “Is this imagined or real?” It responds to *felt* experience. That’s why vivid visualization and self-talk work like “Vitamin V,” they create emotional realities your system can rehearse.

Can you imagine rehearsing competence the way you rehearse worry? Seeing yourself handle the meeting, feeling calm, hearing your own voice land. Then pairing it with simple inputs like, “I am powerful,” “I deserve success,” “I am capable.” Not as magic, as programming.

🟢 The deeper fix: stop living as your persona
Jung called it individuation: meeting your shadow, balancing anima/animus, and moving toward the Self, wholeness, not your social mask. That’s how individuality becomes real, not just a LinkedIn costume.

I unpack this whole “subconscious potential” toolkit in Chapter 6 of *The Journey: I wish I knew this before I was 21*. If you want to refactor your inner code, start there.

This post was inspired by Chapter 6 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.

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Keywords: #VisualizationAndAchievement, Reprogram, Visualization, Self-Image