The Unconscious Mind
You may be feeling a little dubious about the term ‘subconscious' or ‘unconscious' mind, so a brief description of the way the mind works may help you to understand its function.
If we think of the mind as an iceberg, you could perhaps imagine the tip of the iceberg to be the conscious mind, the part of you which is thinking now, as it reads this page. The conscious part of the mind deals with problems at hand, but when it encounters events that have been previously experienced, it dips into the deeper subconscious mind to see how to deal with this problem or event.
The subconscious mind holds all the information about everything that has ever happened to you, everything you've ever seen, heard, done, smelt, dreamt, touched, or thought. It is all there, recorded in and around the cells as electrical nerve impulses.
The subconscious mind is not as intelligent as the conscious mind. In many ways it is quite childlike, and takes things very literally. The conscious mind can be thought of as the ‘critical censor', guarding the entrance to the subconscious mind, evaluating the information that is to be stored in the deeper vaults of the subconscious. Once the information has entered into the mind it is filed away in the appropriate compartment.
However, and this next point is extremely important, the subconscious does not differentiate between fact and fantasy, and when the conscious, thinking mind wishes to draw upon past experience it will dip in and examine a piece of what it considers to be, relevant information to tell it how to deal with this situation.
Of course, I have over-simplified all this and there is a lot more to it than I have briefly outlined. But I want to give you an idea of how the mind functions and how you can improve your outcome, whatever the situation.
When the conscious thinking mind is relaxed, or occupied elsewhere, it drops its guard somewhat, allowing data to filter in, uncensored. We can make use of this knowledge to help us to deal with unwanted behaviour patterns, such as the stress response, addictions to food, tobacco, alcohol, anxiety states, panic attacks, relationship difficulties etc. In fact, almost any problem of a psychosomatic nature.
Advertisers and politicians make use of this knowledge to make us buy their products, or vote for them. Subliminal messages are all around us, and most of the time we are completely unaware of the ‘stuff' that is being put into our minds.
However, knowing all this, we can now decide what goes into our mind. We can put that information there. We can make full use of our potential. We know that people are more intuitive when the mind is relaxed, so you can increase your confidence, help with stage fright, public speaking, memory enhancement, sporting performance, compulsive behaviours, phobias, and even ‘go back' to events that occurred in childhood, infancy, even the womb. The list is limitless and exciting.
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