This song is another written during the recent 50/90 songwriting challenge and whilst it is very simple and basic I like it a lot. It refers to the patterns perpetuated by a person, which can have a positive or a negative effect depending on their nature. My favourite part is the last verse!

Throughout the tracking of my debut solo album "All in a Life’s Work" and the mix sessions that are beginning this weekend, repetition is something I am getting used to! I have heard every nuance of these songs so many times over that I can remember every detail in my head and this is the main point of this week’s post.

I write over at the Neural Recon Report about the techniques that can be used to purposefully re-wire your brain to be more effective in achieving the goals you set out to achieve. Nearly all of what determines our success is governed by our subconscious patterns of thinking and acting. The conscious mind is responsible for setting the stage as it were, deciding on the goal or the intention, but it really has very little power beyond that. What do you think is responsible for your motivation to keep working on the goal or to get you out of bed to continue when you feel like a lie in? It is the sub-conscious and it is like a thermostat.

Over time, through experience and what decisions you made about yourself and the world in which you fit, you were setting up a certain state of programming in your mind to the effect of it being so automatic now that certain ways of thinking and acting that you perform every day go unnoticed, just like the automatic functions you carry out every day to keep your heart beating and your lungs pumping. The thermostatic nature of this is what keeps you doing "your thing" over and over again. You can make a conscious effort to change something about yourself, but if you don’t imprint that intention as a belief in your sub-conscious very little will change.

So the principle of auto-suggestion; ways in which to instill more empowering, constructive or positive beliefs and habits about a certain thing in order to have far more power in achieving your goals and living the life you want is where this is going and repetition is one of the most effective ways in which we learn things and become better at with more of it. Repetition of a positive thought for example is very likely to bring about a habit of that thought naturally rather than having to try to think about it and the "better" your thoughts, the better things around you appear. I know from experience if I happen to be feeling happy and positive and all those flowery things then I seem to happen upon positive situations more naturally, like meeting happy people rather than miserable ones for example.

Repetition of a New Philosophy
I encourage you to create an alternative, more empowering outlook on a particular situation today and keep repeating it to yourself, writing it down and just thinking about it as much as you possibly can for a while. As the saying goes "Fake it until you make it". If you feel like you are lying to yourself, then remember that your sub-conscious mind cannot tell the difference between a lie and reality. It just takes your orders and processes them according to the programming that you determine and you can choose to change the way that happens if you really want to. I believe you will find it will make a difference. Before I started this podcast I believed I couldn’t write lyrics, so I started saying to myself "I am a complete songwriter" instead of "I want to be…" or "I wish I was…" It didn’t take long for that statement to become a hard fact. Now it doesn’t actually matter if my lyrics are good or if they are C**P because it’s all subjective anyway, but what is important is that I am happy about what I create and what I achieve and much of that has been down to the power of repetition.