The art of the subconscious mind

Do you remember the first time you tied your shoes? Can you remember the steps to master a martial arts form? How about learning to play a Van Helen song on the guitar flawlessly. At first, one might find the steps to achieving these tasks difficult. However, with practice and repetition these tasks come automatically.   What causes a person to become less conscious while becoming skillful at these tasks? Well, this powerful thing is called the subconscious mind.  The subconscious mind keeps you breathing, your heart beating regularly as well as keeps your body temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.  With the support of the autonomic nervous system it’s able to keep the billions of cells in your body in -order. 

This power that humans possess, guides our actions, behaviors and movements without being consciously aware. Actions such as controlling thoughts, synchronized movements, or experiencing emotions usually depend on information processing. Information processing is the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer.  According to Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud, he found a way to develop the mind in three different categories. Consciousness defines all thoughts or actions within human awareness.  Subconscious defines all reactions and automatic actions we become aware of if we think about it.  Unconscious defines all defines all past events and memories. 

One compelling challenge most psychologists and neuroscientists find is pertaining to the level of thoughts that influence human behaviors. To achieve the goal of understanding how thoughts influence the human brain, different depths of the mind must be detected. One-way thoughts can be analyzed using the technique called priming paradigms. A recent study was done, and it showed how irrelevant our shapes influence conscious, unconscious and subconscious thoughts which can be varied by emotional faces. 

Your subconscious stores and holds a large amount of memories from over the years. Everything that ever happens to someone gets stored in the subconscious mind. When someone reaches the age of 21, they have 100 times more content than an encyclopedia. While being hypnotized, a person can remember events fifty years prior as well as, precisely how it happened. An unconscious memory remembers things in an orderly fashion.   The job of the unconscious mind is to collect and keep information. 

The subconscious mind does not think or reason on its own. It does almost anything your conscious mind tells you. The conscious mind tells someone what to do, the subconscious does it. Everything you do from thinking is all placed in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious also tries to keep you in your comfort zones. Whenever trying a new task, your subconscious mind makes you uncomfortable physically and mentally. It also is not used to change of routine and new patterns. One can feel their subconscious mind try to hold them back while learning something new. Even a different routine can make a person feel frigid and not at ease. For a lot of people, staying in one’s comfort zone can put someone in a rut. Therefore, staying in comfortable patterns can get in the way of one’s success and hold them back from reaching their fullest potential. However, reprogramming your subconscious mind can make different outcomes. This is not an easy task, however with repetition it can be done. 

Reprogramming your subconscious mind, can take a lot of time and effort. This process might have you take some steps of action that are not in one’s comfort zone. There are many things one can do including, meditation, exercise, acts of gratitude, learning a new instrument or activity that really challenge a person.  Once someone taps into their subconscious mind there is nothing that person cannot accomplish. The question is, do you have what it takes to reprogramming your subconscious mind and live your fullest potential? Only those who are dedicated enough would answer yes to that question. 

Sources: IMOTION