The idea of the subconscious mind was once an accepted part of psychoanalysis. However, it has since suffered a fall from popularity in academic and professional circles, due in part to its acceptance by psychics and new age healers who claim it as a pathway to unlocking psychic powers and gateways to higher consciousness.
The powers and abilities of the subconscious mind are unable to measured or tested in a laboratory. Since no two people are alike, no two minds, conscious or subconscious, will react the same to any given situation. This makes it difficult for the scientific community to accept the idea of the subconscious mind.
The powers of the subconscious mind are real and have been long recognized by many cultures around the world throughout the ages. It is also a useful tool for people today. But what is the subconscious mind, and how can it help you? Before we can understand that, we must first know what the subconscious mind is.
Defining the Subconscious Mind
To answer this question, we fist have to ask, “What is the conscious mind?” Consciousness basically just means “awareness.” Therefore, the conscious mind is what a person’s mind is actively aware of, the totality of their perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. On the other hand, when someone is “unconscious,” such as when they are asleep or anesthetized, they are unaware of their surroundings, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, etc.
The subconscious is the state of mind between being conscious and being unconscious. You are in a state where you are both able to access your conscious thoughts - such as some emotions, thoughts and perceptions of the surface mind - but are unable to access them fully. When you are in a subconscious state of mind you are underneath the surface layer of thought.
Our brains process an enormous amount of information every second of every day, far too much for us to be consciously aware of each separate piece. Every instant, our senses constantly absorb data in the form of sights, sounds, scents, textures, and even flavors. This data is fed to our brain where it is recorded in our memory. Our brain processes the most relevant data to into a cohesive whole for our conscious mind to work with.
Yet all that other information is still in our mind, constantly being processed by our brains on a level we are not consciously aware of, and we call this the subconscious mind.
Using The Powers Of Your Subconscious Mind
Frequently, the subconscious mind processes the perceptions that we’re not consciously aware of, and arrives at a slightly different conclusion than our conscious mind does. In extreme situations, these conclusions rise to a semi-conscious level that the conscious mind is only dimly aware of, and certainly can’t explain. Our ancestors had a term for this: they called it “instinct.”
How you ever “gotten a bad feeling” about something, even though you couldn’t explain why? Later on, after seeing how events unfolded, did you look back on what happened and realizes that your “bad feeling” turned out to be completely valid? That’s the power of subconscious mind at work. Your subconscious mind picked up on little bits and pieces of information that your conscious mind had missed. It compiled all these bits of information together and arrived at the conclusion that something was wrong, that a threat was present, that you might be in danger. It tired to warn you, but you were only semi-conscious of it, and ignored it.
Today we are taught to value the logical decision rather than the emotional one, to think our way through solutions rather than feel our way through them. Too often, when you have no explanation for something other than a bad feeling, you are told to ignore it. People who claim to be aware of danger, who say they can feel negative energy are often viewed with mockery. Some people, sensitive to their subconscious minds, try to brush aside their instincts, sometimes with disastrous outcomes.
Our subconscious mind was developed to help protect our ancestors from dangers and we are foolish to ignore what it is trying to tell us. To unlock the power of your mind you need only open yourself up, to accept your feelings as true and valid, even if it seems foolish. Our subconscious is a powerful tool, and one that can help save your life if you let it.
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