The Subconscious Mind

Mar 28, 2010

Recently I watched a Bollywood movie ‘Karthik Calling Karthik‘ which is basically a Suspense but best suits in the genre of Psychological Drama. Sorry for revealing the suspense but the protagonist is really caught up between the conscious and sub-conscious state of minds. We always know there is a sub-conscious state of mind which makes us remembering some phenomenal activities and facts but this movie urged me to know more about this powerful yet hidden state of mind.

The Subconscious Mind:

Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious mind; it stores all your previous life experiences, your belief system, your memories, you skills, all situations you’ve been through, and all images you’ve ever seen.

Best example that can help you better understand the subconscious mind is the process of breathing. Before you started reading the previous line, your breathing was controlled by your subconscious. I want you now to take a deep breath, hold it for 5 seconds and then breath out. Yes you just controlled your breathing for sometime. This time, it was the conscious mind controlling your breathing, but when you let go of your focus, the breathing doesn’t stops but you are said to be handing the task over to your subconscious mind. Even the Ghajini, who forgets everything, breathes!

Subconscious Mind as a Program:

Think of your mind as a computer and the breathing information as software that can be run automatically whenever needed. The same goes for lots of other activities and emotions. Think of the case of someone shouting at you, the installed program of anger is launched and the result is a behavior you may end up regretting later. Through programming the subconscious mind with new programs, you can fix many problems in your personality. Just make sure that your autopilot is capable of running your system without ruining your life or causing you any problems.

Programming your subconscious can be done through hypnosis. The subconscious mind learns by repetition and not by logic, that is why you can convince someone to believe in something by repeating your argument again and again rather than using logic.

Conscious Mind & Subconscious Mind together:

As you can see, the conscious and the subconscious parts of the mind form a team. The first handles some tasks then assigns them to the second, the second after that sends feedback and messages about the task done in the form of emotions to the first. Emotions are no more than messages sent by your subconscious mind in order to alert you of something. By learning how to make the best use of the cooperation between your conscious and subconscious mind, your life skills will improve and you will have much more control over your emotions.

The subconscious mind is governed by many rules; learning about those rules will allow you to make the best use out of your subconscious mind with the least effort.