The Power of the Mind the Conscious and Subconscious Mind

The Conscious Mind

The rational mind, the logical mind, the decision maker, the intelligent mind. This is where we experience pleasurable sensations, pain, joy and laughter, our perceptions of our senses and emotions.

The conscious mind can only concentrate on what is happening NOW if it gets cluttered it cannot cope, causing forgetfulness or the inability to concentrate.

Its functions control; reading, writing, arithmetic, verbal analysis, logic, ego and linear processing.

The Subconscious Mind

Does not interpret, it simple stores. Gathering information like a large database, it also collects all our feeling senses. It is immense as it harbours all the information we accumulate throughout our life from conception, but most of it is buried, as we never need it. Very happy and very painful events are easier to recall as they have an emotional charge around them. Repressed emotions are when we do not want to face up to something; it is always there with you even on your happiest day,

The stressed subconscious mind is like a large jug, its contents increasing, until it overflows as we keep on topping it up with unhappy memories, compounding misery, making our expectations lower. We must learn to recognise what the jug is holding and how to deal with it. A stress victim is someone whose jug is constantly overflowing making them feel as if they are unable to cope. The subconscious mind is the powerful, irrational mind overruling the conscious, rational one

e.g. A little girl touched a frog by mistake when she was two, it frightened her. Now, all through her life, frogs scare her even though her conscious mind (the logical one) tells her it cannot harm her. The subconscious mind overrules the logical mind with the memory of the fear.

The subconscious functions are non-verbal, recognition, imagination, creativity, emotion, simultaneous processing, identity symbolism. We must look after the mind as well as the body. Imagine if you had a very expensive car you would not drive it at full speed, not checking it for fuel or oil, then leave it running all night, get up the next day and do it all over again? NO

The mind is the same; we must switch off the engine, let it calm down, and then check under the bonnet. The problems will still be there but you will be calmer and stronger to deal with them.

Say To Yourself

“I am my own person starting afresh. I have every right to be my own person, no one is better, I take the good from the past and throw away the rubbish”.

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