The Importance Of The Last 5 Minutes Of Your Day

"When you enter into a sleepy, drowsy state, the conscious mind is submerged to a great extent. The highest degree of outcropping of the subconscious mind occurs just prior to sleep and just after we awaken. In this state the negative thoughts, which tend to neutralize your desires and so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind, are no longer present."
---Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind

What do you do with the last 5 minutes of your day? That last 5 minutes between awake and asleep? Do you lay in bed and worry? Do you fall asleep to the sound of the television? Do you simply let your mind drift off into dreamland?

What you do with the last 5 minutes of your day is pivotal. Why? Because in this portion of the day, your deeper mind(subconscious mind) is very susceptible to suggestion and imprinting. In Rhonda Byrne's book, Hero, she states, "The most powerful time to reprogram the subconscious mind is when you're falling asleep at night. When you're in that very sleepy state of being half asleep and half awake, plant the thought that you can do anything and you can achieve anything you set your mind to. Your aim is to make that "believing in yourself" thought your last thought before you fall asleep, because the very last thought you think as you're falling asleep goes straight past the firewall and into your subconscious mind. And when that thought goes past the firewall, the subconscious mind must accept it as true".

This is extremely powerful because whatever beliefs you hold in your subconscious mind eventually manifest in your life. Your subconscious is connected to Divine Intelligence, and once Divine Intelligence has instructions, it will work with you to bring into reality what you believe. "For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."(Proverbs 23:7).

This valuable 5 minutes before sleep is a perfect time to affirm "I AM" statements, or self-affirmations. Do you have a list of "I AM" statements that you repeat to yourself? These statements can be very powerful because whatever you put after the words 'I AM" will ultimately shape your reality. A few examples are:

I am happy.
I am creative.
I am confident.
I am loving.
I am worthy.
I am healthy.
I am capable.
I am kind.
I am good with money.
I am friendly.
I am an excellent mother(father, brother, teacher, wife, manager, student, employee, etc).
I am blessed.
I am protected.
I am successful.
I am grateful.
I am helpful.
I am content.

Make your "I Am" statements personal. What do you want to become? As you say these statements(particularly during the last 5 minutes of your day), you are figuratively tatoo-ing them into your mind and experience. They have transformative power! Use these precious pre-sleep moments to visualize and emotionalize your best life, and day by day, it will become yours!