The Conscious Mind
This is the part of the mind you identify with. Some but not all memories are here, only the memories you need on a day to day basis. The conscious mind uses the intellect to come up with choices and logical solutions to problems. It learns and understands through input from our senses. It also moves your body in the way it decides to.
The Subconscious Mind
Also known as the unconscious mind. All the body's automatic systems are here, it's in charge of your breathing, heart rate, kidney function, digestion and more. It's also the storehouse of your long-term memory, all of your experiences and emotions. Everything you've ever encountered. Everything you're unaware of that forms your decision making process.
It learns from your experiences and stores the information.
Memories that Suddenly Surface
Have you ever smelled, seen, tasted felt or heard something that suddenly brought up an old memory? It happens all the time. Yesterday on entering a shop I smelled the perfume my mother used to wear.
I don't need this memory on a day to day basis, and so it's usually stored in my subconscious mind. When I smelled it again though, I was transported back to my childhood and it reminded me of all the things I associate with that time.
By smelling, seeing, tasting, feeling or hearing something you've previously experienced, your subconscious mind throws the memory to your conscious mind - like the piece of a missing puzzle.
It does this to remind you of your past learnings - to give you the right thoughts or emotions to help you deal with a similar situation. This is how we learn to keep ourselves safe.
This particular memory of my mother brought up (or triggered) feeling of being loved. This influenced how I went about the rest of my day.
Some memories of past experiences aren't so pleasant. If I'd had an unhappy childhood - the smell of that perfume may have triggered feelings of distress and anger. These emotions would have come to the surface (my conscious mind) changing the way I felt and behaved. I may have felt on guard and started to behave in a defensive way.
Automatic Pilot
Have you ever been busy mulling something over in your mind while driving, only to notice miles down the road that you can't recall all the points you've passed in the last few minutes? The subconscious stores all your patterns of thinking and behaviour and repeats them when needed.
The problem is, some of this information doesn't make you feel good or help you grow into a more content / happier person. It repeats the old patterns over and over.
Accessing, understanding and changing information in the subconscious mind can make long lasting change towards a more balanced, content / happier state of being.
Without taking a peek at the subconscious mind, the surface (the conscious mind) seems like that's all there is to know or work with.
Like thinking the Earth is flat, because you can only see to your present horizon.
Numerous neuroscientists claim that 95 percent or more of all brain activity is completely unconscious. Yohan John, a professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, confirms that the unconscious processes can be voluntarily ‘lifted’ into our conscious awareness, given the right circumstances.
NLP and Time Based Techniques, Hypnotherapy and Meditation are all tools to bridge the conscious mind to the subconscious (unconscious) mind.
Click here to read more about the Conscious & Subconscious
This is the part of the mind you identify with. Some but not all memories are here, only the memories you need on a day to day basis. The conscious mind uses the intellect to come up with choices and logical solutions to problems. It learns and understands through input from our senses. It also moves your body in the way it decides to.
The Subconscious Mind
Also known as the unconscious mind. All the body's automatic systems are here, it's in charge of your breathing, heart rate, kidney function, digestion and more. It's also the storehouse of your long-term memory, all of your experiences and emotions. Everything you've ever encountered. Everything you're unaware of that forms your decision making process.
It learns from your experiences and stores the information.
Memories that Suddenly Surface
Have you ever smelled, seen, tasted felt or heard something that suddenly brought up an old memory? It happens all the time. Yesterday on entering a shop I smelled the perfume my mother used to wear.
I don't need this memory on a day to day basis, and so it's usually stored in my subconscious mind. When I smelled it again though, I was transported back to my childhood and it reminded me of all the things I associate with that time.
By smelling, seeing, tasting, feeling or hearing something you've previously experienced, your subconscious mind throws the memory to your conscious mind - like the piece of a missing puzzle.
It does this to remind you of your past learnings - to give you the right thoughts or emotions to help you deal with a similar situation. This is how we learn to keep ourselves safe.
This particular memory of my mother brought up (or triggered) feeling of being loved. This influenced how I went about the rest of my day.
Some memories of past experiences aren't so pleasant. If I'd had an unhappy childhood - the smell of that perfume may have triggered feelings of distress and anger. These emotions would have come to the surface (my conscious mind) changing the way I felt and behaved. I may have felt on guard and started to behave in a defensive way.
Automatic Pilot
Have you ever been busy mulling something over in your mind while driving, only to notice miles down the road that you can't recall all the points you've passed in the last few minutes? The subconscious stores all your patterns of thinking and behaviour and repeats them when needed.
The problem is, some of this information doesn't make you feel good or help you grow into a more content / happier person. It repeats the old patterns over and over.
Accessing, understanding and changing information in the subconscious mind can make long lasting change towards a more balanced, content / happier state of being.
Without taking a peek at the subconscious mind, the surface (the conscious mind) seems like that's all there is to know or work with.
Like thinking the Earth is flat, because you can only see to your present horizon.
Numerous neuroscientists claim that 95 percent or more of all brain activity is completely unconscious. Yohan John, a professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, confirms that the unconscious processes can be voluntarily ‘lifted’ into our conscious awareness, given the right circumstances.
NLP and Time Based Techniques, Hypnotherapy and Meditation are all tools to bridge the conscious mind to the subconscious (unconscious) mind.
Click here to read more about the Conscious & Subconscious
