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Understanding The Mind

We all know that we have a conscious and a subconscious. Here are some definitions regarding both:-

Conscious

The waking mind policed by ethics, morality, rights and wrong. It self-imposes rules, restrictions, and regulates action and behaviour

Subconscious

Subconscious mind: psychic activity just below the level of awareness Just below the level of consciousness

Because the subconscious relates to our psychic ability, a well known drinks company used subliminal messages in their advertising to sell their products during the sixties. How did they do this?? This is how - before the end of the first half of the movie, they would put subliminal pictures of their drink into the movie just before the intermission. People, unknown to them, were subliminally programmed to buy their drink. During this unethical advertising campaign (surprise, surprise) sales of their drink increased.

Although the conscious mind could not see anything different, the subconscious mind could see the subliminal pictures. This is because the subconscious mind sees everything (the drinks company did get caught doing this and had to stop - there is documented proof regarding this).

When we do a repetitive task i.e. driving to work, the task, over a period of time goes from the conscious to the subconscious due to the repetitive nature of the task. I’m sure we have all driven somewhere and not remembered part of the journey. This applies to nearly everything we do and has happened to all of use at some stage.

Another example is learning a musical instrument. When you first start to learn, you have to consciously practice step by step. After a few years of playing the basics, you are able to play without even having to think about what your playing since the initial repetitive practice over the years has moved it from the conscious to the subconscious. Drums

The use of our subconscious can also be explained in another way. We all have a sixth sense, which we subconsciously use on a regular basis. Have you ever been in the situation where you are driving in a car with someone and you decide to open/close the window, then the person beside you says, "I was just about do ask you to do that" or "I was just about to do that". Have you called someone or has someone called you and they say, "I was just about to call you" or "I was just thinking of you" - well this is our sixth sense/subconscious at work.

So what have we learned - well we now hopefully understand how sensitive and susceptible our subconscious mind is to information that is all around us and how we use or sixth sense. Even today, advertising companies understand that if they can show you a product with a strong logo or jingle on a repetitive basis, sooner or later you will be able to draw the logo or sing the jingle word for word.

Case History

In one of my many IT jobs, I worked with a young South African girl who was quit religious and obviously at the age of 21, still unaware of what was going on in the world. One day we were talking and got around to the subject of the state of the world and how people seem to be unhappy and working just to pay their bills.

I explained to her about what I felt was going on and how there were elements controlling the masses and manipulating our lives. She was a bit taken back by what I said and then mentioned something that I was surprised to hear. She said that she felt that something was going on, but she didn’t understand what it was and didn't know why she felt this way? When I explained what was happening, it was if someone had opened a locked door!!

What was happening was that her subconscious was picking up certain things that she knew were not right. Unfortunately because she didn’t understand the subject matter and how, both the conscious and subconscious works, she could not decipher the information.

Although she has gone back to South Africa, I am still in contact with her. She is now researching the subject to understand her initial feelings.