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."
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.
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.
