Saturday, 15 March 2014

CONSIOUS V/S SUBCONCIOUS MIND

CONSIOUS V/S SUBCONCIOUS MIND

     The subconscious mind is a composite of everything one sees, hears and any information the mind collects that it cannot otherwise consciously process to make meaningful sense. The conscious mind cannot always absorb disconnected information, as it would be an information overload, so the subconscious mind stores this information where it can be retrieved by the conscious mind when it needs to defend itself for survival (and for other reasons, such as solving puzzles).
    The subconscious mind stores information that the conscious mind may not immediately process with full understanding, but it stores the information for later retrieval when ”recalled” by the conscious mind, or by an astute psychoanalyst who can draw out information stored in the subconscious, bringing it to the individual's conscious awareness.This can especially be observed with heightened sensitivity of victims of violence and other crimes, where victims "felt something" "instinctually" about a person or situation, but failed to take action to avoid the situation, for whatever reason, be it embarrassment, self-denial or other reasons to ignore instinct, as they disregard internal warning signals.

    A precise example of the subconscious mind at work and related phenomena can be found in a book written by psychoanalyst Gavin De Becker, "The Gift of Fear". He describes how a victim "knew something was wrong", but initially discredited her own instinct/subconscious mind, opting instead to respond to the perceived threat in a normal, "socially acceptable" manner, completely ignoring that the subconscious mind tried to tell the conscious mind "that something is wrong." De Becker tapped into the mind of the victim regarding her "prior awareness by the subconscious mind that caused her to act instinctively" allowing her to realize that the perpetrator was going to kill her. The analyst brought her conscious mind to recognize how her subconscious was working on her conscious mind, by eliciting her original "inner thoughts/voice" through a series of events to which her subconscious mind ultimately drove her conscious mind to behave in such a manner as to protect her from being killed. Gavin was able to elicit her subconscious mind's recognition of a dangerous situation that compelled her conscious mind to act to save her through its basic survival instinct, bringing to the victim's conscious mind that it was the "subtle signal that warned her." The victim describes this as an unrecognized fear that drove her to act, still unaware consciously of precisely why she was afraid. Her conscious mind had heard the words, "I promise I won't hurt you, while her subconscious mind was calculating the situation much faster than the conscious mind could make sense out of WHY the fear was there. The victim stated that "the animal inside her took over."

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Saturday, 8 March 2014

How To Manage "Stress"



      We often say or have heard the word “stress”. Now, what does the word “stress” really mean?“Stress” is a sudden physical reaction of our body caused because of an unconventional or sudden situation for which our mind is not prepared.

Think of these situations

1. Exams tommorow.

2. Job Interview after two days

When we think about the situations above our heart pumps furiously.We start thinking of many” how?s” and “if?s” . In a situation of “stress” our mind only thinks of two things to tackle the situation.

“Fight or flight”-either face the situation or just back off the situation (avoid).

In 21st century we are in constant red alert of “stress”.so it becomes necessary to learn to manage our stress.The steps to tackle stress are :

1.   Breathing:
Take some deep breaths whenever you are in stressed situation.     

2.  Get Plenty of Exercise:

           Exercising helps you get good mind and body. A healthy body will help you tackle stress easily.

3. Make Action Plans

           Try to understand the situation and make strategies to tackle the problem instead of trying to avoid the problems.

4. Share with your Friends 

            Share the problems with your friends.Friends can help you solving your problems by giving their views.

5.Spend time with nature or pets 

           Go for walk and you can try anything else that makes you feel happy like play with you pet or watching comedy videos.



Friday, 7 March 2014

How To Boost up Concentration



Easy step to boost your concentration


   Concentration is an art to focus on things which are important for a long time or as long as you wish. Concentration can create a major difference in your life.
1.   Do you feel you can’t focus or concentrate?
2.   Do you want to master the art of concentration?
3.   Do you want to learn immediately now?

If your answer is yes !!!


Let’s start with a simple exercise. This will boost your concentration just by holding your attention. Before we start remember one thing you need to practice this exercise daily to improve your power of concentration. For this exercise you need a quiet place and time, a stop watch, a book and a pen.

Step 1. Take 2 to 3 deep breaths and collect all your attention as this is most important exercise that can help you achieve all your goals.

Step 2. Now focus on a image. The image should be very simple such as a square,circle or triangle of any color. For example you can see the image below.

    Step 3. Look at the image constantly for a minute and close your eyes. Now start you stop watch and try to visualize the image as long as possible. When the image starts to fade or wraps stop the stopwatch and note down the time.


         On first few days image will fade within few seconds as you practice daily you will see tremendous changes in your concentration.