How to use Passwords to Program your Subconscious
We all have them. We love them, cause they give us a sense of privacy, and we hate them as they can be challenging to remember.
But you can actually use passwords for more than just protecting your information.
While biometrics and quantum cryptography will eventually change how we try and secure our information, passwords will be around for a while.
So, you might as well use them to your advantage.
Of course, you can use a password program, have super strong and long randomly generated passwords and simply copy and paste from there — you definitely don’t want to store them in your browser as that kind of defeats the purpose of having them in the first place.
But you can also use passwords to program your subconscious.
Most of our daily experience is subconscious: We are being programmed all day long by advertising, PR and other ways of messaging common narratives — not to mention the many programs we run that were instilled by mother/father/preacher/teacher, many of which have long lost their meaning and are counterproductive to our evolution as individuals.
Programming your subconscious purposely toward outcomes or states of mind — and the consequent emotions we feel — is one of the oldest elements of perennial wisdom traditions. Whether in Eastern traditions, where e.g. mantras are used to replace undesirable thought and focus you on integrating higher aspects of yourself, or in Western Magick, most explicitly through Sigils in Magick.
Sigil Magick is a key element especially of Chaos Magick, one of the more modern approaches to Magick developed by Austin Osman Spare in the 70s. For a good overview, check out Ultraculture’s ebook on Magick.
Sigils are essentially symbols that you imbue with meaning in a ritual, and that then help you to continuously program your subconscious.
Passwords can work the same way.
After all, you are probably typing them several times a day (and you probably/hopefully have several depending on the level of privacy required).
Imagine that every time you typed in a password, you would send an instruction to your subconscious mind.
Since passwords these days have to be strong, this means they should:
- Not be directly based on a word in the dictionary
- Contain upper and lower case letters
- Contain numbers
- Contain special character
With a “normal” password, this can be tough to remember — and since it’s meaningless, it’s really a waste of your brain space to do so.
What you can do instead, is to create a “Sigil” password, one that fulfills the requirements of a strong password, while being easier to remember, and — most of all — will help you become the person you would like to be.
So, how does it work?
Simple.
Here is a process you can use to create new, strong and powerful magickal passwords:
Write an intention, e.g.
I am happy and healthy and enjoy life to the fullest.
Now take that sentence, and randomly replace some of the vowels with numbers:
I am h4ppy and h3althy and enj0y l1fe to the fullest.
Now take out the remaining vowels and any repeating letters:
mh4pynd3ltj01fs
Next, let’s randomly cApitalize:
mH4pyNd3ltJ01fs
And finally, for good measure, sprinkle in some special characters, e.g. replacing s with $:
mH4py!Nd3ltJ01f$
And voila! A strong password, which you can (kinda) remember more easily since it is based on a meaningful sentence, and which — every time you type it — will actually affirm your intention.
If you want to make it an extra strong intention, do a ritual around it:
Imagine how you would feel when the intention is fulfilled. Go deep into that feeling and imagine it as vividly and emotionally charged as you can. Then look at the password and type it a few times, each time going deeper into how you would like to feel. This creates an emotional association that will bring up at least a hint of that emotion when you type the password in the future. The tactile typing of it will create an additional haptic anchor.
So next time you have to create a password (it is good practice to update them regularly), why not create a Sigil Magick password and program yourself?
The future belongs to those who create it. That is why I work with change leaders and their teams to create future-ready cultures and organizations…. Through my work with LUMAN and other projects, I provide frameworks and operating metaphors to support leaders around the world in their individual evolution and in growing innovation capacity in their teams and organizations. I have worked with startups, NGOs and with global brands in a variety of industries around the world. More at http://philiphorvath.com.
