THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
A Book Excerpt From
The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
ABOUT THE BOOK
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
See Also:
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
The Mind is a set of cognitive functions including consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory.
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness or of being aware. It has been defined using other terms like sentience, awareness, qualia, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood or soul and the executive control system of the mind.
Within the consciousness are three minds
CONSCIOUS MIND
It is the mind of your five senses, enabling you to consciously experience the physical world. It the part of the mind that is rational and able to reason. Your conscious mind essentially grants you the freedom to consciously rather than unconsciously choose your outcomes. The conscious mind contains the critical thought function of our brains.
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
Associated with the conscious mind is the subconscious which includes the things that we are not thinking of at the moment but which we can easily draw into conscious awareness.
THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND is a collection of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness. It stores all memories and past experiences, both those that have been repressed through trauma and those that have simply been forgotten. It’s from these memories and experiences that our beliefs, habits, and behaviors are formed.
TYING THEM TOGETHER
A perfect analogy that ties these three minds together is a computer.
Most of your brain is constantly working—to sense, process, think, move, and even dream.” Even when you head to sleep at night, your brain is still hard at work.
- It is usually defined as the center of thoughts and consciousness.
It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation - It is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness or of being aware. It has been defined using other terms like sentience, awareness, qualia, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood or soul and the executive control system of the mind.
Within the consciousness are three minds
- The Conscious Mind
- The Subconscious Mind
- The Unconscious Mind
CONSCIOUS MIND
It is the mind of your five senses, enabling you to consciously experience the physical world. It the part of the mind that is rational and able to reason. Your conscious mind essentially grants you the freedom to consciously rather than unconsciously choose your outcomes. The conscious mind contains the critical thought function of our brains.
- It is your objective or thinking mind. It has no memory, and it can only hold one thought at a time. This mind has four essential functions.
- Identifies incoming information - it is continually observing and categorizing what is going on around you.
- Compares - it compares the information against previously stored information and experiences
- Analysis - it analyzes the information
- Decides - it accepts or rejects data and makes the choices and decisions
- The conscious mind includes such things as the sensations, perceptions, memories, feeling, and fantasies inside of our current awareness.
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
Associated with the conscious mind is the subconscious which includes the things that we are not thinking of at the moment but which we can easily draw into conscious awareness.
- It is the powerful layer underneath the conscious mind. It encompasses the awareness of all things the conscious mind cannot recognize.
- The subconscious is a huge memory bank with a capacity that is virtually unlimited.
- The function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data.
- The subconscious acts as a sort of gatekeeper between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. It allows only certain pieces of information to pass through and enter conscious awareness.
- Its job is to ensure that you respond exactly the way you are programmed. It makes everything you say and do fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept.
- Your subconscious mind is subjective. It does not think or reason independently. It just obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind.
- All your habits of thinking and acting are stored here. It has memorized all your comfort zones and it works to keep you in them.
- The subconscious causes you to feel uncomfortable when you attempt anything new or different. It is against changing any of your established patterns of behavior.
- Your subconscious will you back toward your comfort zone each time you try something new. Even thinking about doing something different will make you feel tense and uneasy.
THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND is a collection of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness. It stores all memories and past experiences, both those that have been repressed through trauma and those that have simply been forgotten. It’s from these memories and experiences that our beliefs, habits, and behaviors are formed.
- Most of the contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, aggression, anger, anxiety, or conflict. Theory suggests that the unconscious continues to influence our behavior and experiences even though we are unaware of the influence.
- Hidden desires and wishes from the unconscious make themselves known through dreams and slips of the tongue (known as Freudian slips)
- The dark urges we have are kept out of consciousness because our conscious minds view them as unacceptable or irrational. These are suppressed feelings, desires, phobias (hidden or known) and sensory stimuli.
- The unconscious mind is less accessible. It cannot automatically retrieve memories or patterns the way the subconscious mind can. In the unconscious mind, memories are highly repressed and not readily available.
TYING THEM TOGETHER
A perfect analogy that ties these three minds together is a computer.
- The conscious mind is the keyboard and monitor. Data is inputted using the keyboard and then displayed on the monitor.
- The subconscious mind is the memory or the RAM. All current or recent memories are stored there for quick recall when needed. It also holds your holds your current recurring thoughts, behavior patterns, habits, and feelings.
- The unconscious is the hard disk drive in the computer. It is the long term storage of memory, habits, feelings, emotions, and behaviors.
Most of your brain is constantly working—to sense, process, think, move, and even dream.” Even when you head to sleep at night, your brain is still hard at work.
- Our thinking is done with the use of electricity and chemicals.
- The average brain is believed to generate up to 50,000 thoughts per day.
- There are almost 200 known cognitive biases and distortions that cause us to think and act irrationally
- Thoughts simply aren’t facts, they are mental events that pop up in the mind and are dependent on our mood.
- Every thought is literally a physical path that is formed within the brain. The more repetitive the thought, the deeper the imprint that this path will make and the easier it will be for the thought to reenter your mind. That’s why it is good to constantly have uplifting, encouraging thoughts.
- Of the thousands of thoughts a person has every day, it’s estimated that 70% of this mental chatter is made up of negative thoughts that are self-critical, pessimistic, and fear based.
- Ninety-five percent of your decisions take place in your subconscious mind.
- Multitasking may seem like a good thing but your brain actually can’t learn or concentrate on two things at once.
- It can toggle back and forth between tasks but this causes your attention span, ability to learn and short term memory capacity to decrease and it adversely affects your overall mental performance.
- The average attention span is 8 seconds. That’s shorter than the 9-second attention span of the average goldfish.
- The mind wanders about 30% of the time and sometimes as much as 70%.
- Emotions drastically alter our brains. The chemical reactions stirred by feelings can be physically seen in studies of gray matter.
- Studies have shown that the brains of children who have been exposed to violence at home have the same patterns of activity as combat war vets with PTSD.
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