S1 E10: The Conscious and Unconscious Mind

The conscious mind is:

• Our awareness

• Our logical thinking, our analyzing

• Our thoughts that we are aware of that we are thinking

• We can control the thoughts of the conscious mind when we are aware of them

• Like we can tell ourselves to STOP thinking of a particular thing and change to something else

• Our conscious mind’s thoughts can affect our feelings

• Our conscious mind houses our short term memory – going into the kitchen to get....

• Our conscious mind is less than 10% of our total mind

The subconscious and unconscious mind:

• Between 90 to 95% of our mind is subconscious and unconscious

• It is set by the age of 35

• Kids up to age 7 are fully in their subconscious and unconscious mind and that is why so many childhood issues take a lot of work to resolve, they are firmly implanted there The unconscious mind is about our instincts

• The subconscious is about intuition

• Our habits are in the subconscious mind and can be broken and reprogrammed

• Our imagination

• Our deep feelings

• Our underlying beliefs sit here

• Our permanent memories are located here

• Our subconscious mind cannot tell what is actually real and what is not true

• For example, dreams – they seem so real but they are not

• It is very powerful because it controls you without your awareness

• It influences our patterns of behaviour

• Understands emotions, not language

• Visualizations with feelings are part of the subconscious mind

• We can retrieve memories and beliefs from the subconscious mind

• The unconscious mind is where stuff is buried very deeply

• Our instincts live there

• Traumas that we are not remembering

• But it can still influence us

• It is automatic

• We can access the unconscious mind but is is harder to do than the subconscious mind

How is this connected to our spiritual growth?

• Our subconscious mind holds the key to our growth

• It can limit our thinking and what we know we believe

• We can hold many limiting beliefs and with those, we cannot grow

• In order to grow spiritually, our mind has to be open and unlimited

• Reprogramming our subconscious mind helps our growth

The podcast gives several examples of ways to access our subconscious mind. We go through a couple of practical exercises that help us to change thoughts and beliefs that do not serve us.