Two Cognitive Biases - Confirmation Bias & Planning Fallacy Bias

There are a few ways to intervene and stop the unconscious from wreaking havoc or just making your progress slower than it needs to be.

• Meditating - especially guided where you rewrite your beliefs and associations

• Neuro-Linguistic Programming to interrupt and change limiting patterns

• Hypnosis to eradicate old beliefs

• Change the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious

• Education and allowing inaccurate references to dissolve

I can’t speak for everyone, but because of my bias toward science and desire to understand how things work, my preferred approach is to use a combination of education, and experimentation as part of the action plan and retrain the unconscious. Much the way it was trained to begin with.

This approach has the built-in obstacle of the unconscious standing guard at the entrance of your mind - virtually rejecting anything unfamiliar and therefore deemed dangerous. It’s like asking the unconscious if this new unfamiliar way of doing things is safer than the approach its used all these decades. Of course, it will reject it. New equals unfamiliar and unfamiliar equals dangerous.