Posted on October 16, 2022
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1 Conscious.
1.1 Subconscious.
1.2 Conscious vs. Subconscious
1.2.1 Conscious as a Memory System
1.2.2 The effect of your subconscious on your emotional state.
1.2.3 Hypnosis is a purely natural state that allows direct access to the subconscious mind, where our learned behavior pattern-making systems reside.
1.2.4 The Power of the Subconscious Mind
1.3 How hypnosis synchronizes the conscious and subconscious mind.
1.4 Hypnosis and NLP by Victor Tsan, MD
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Conscious.
Conscious is everything that you are experiencing. Conscious is the song that keeps playing in your head, the sweetness of chocolate mousse, the agonizing pain of a toothache, the passionate love you have for your child, and the painful realization that these emotions eventually pass. From the earliest ages of antiquity till the present, the origin and nature of these experiences, also referred to as qualia have remained a mystery. Many contemporary analytic philosophers of mind, probably most notably Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, claim that consciousness is an illusion because they find it to be such an awful affront to what they feel should be a meaningless cosmos of matter and the void. In other words, they either contest the reality of qualia or contend that science will never be able to study them in any real way.
According to a novel awareness theory, choices are first made subconsciously and only become conscious after around a half-second.
This essay would be quite brief if that claim were accurate. I would only need to explain why you, I, and most people are so sure that we even have feelings. However, if I have a tooth abscess, a clever argument to convince me that my suffering is unreal will not even slightly diminish its agony. I won’t continue since I have little sympathy for this desperate attempt to solve the mind-body issue.
Most academics take consciousness for granted and work to understand how it relates to the scientifically defined external world. “Francis Crick and I,” continues Daniel Dennett, “decided more than 25 years ago to abandon the philosophical debates surrounding consciousness (which have occupied thinkers since at least the time of Aristotle) and instead look for its physical manifestations.” What is it that causes a
highly excited brain cell to become conscious? We aim to come a step closer to fixing the underlying issue once we can comprehend that.
Subconscious.
In Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, the subconscious mind is referred to as a repository of sensations, thoughts, urges, and memories that are not a conscious part of the conscious mind. This viewpoint views most of the subconscious’s contents—such as pain, anxiety, or conflict—as inappropriate or unpleasant. Even if people are ignorant of these underlying influences, Freud thought that the subconscious nonetheless affects behavior.
It can be useful to think of the mind as an iceberg while trying to understand the subconscious mind. The conscious and subconscious are each represented by something above and below the water, respectively.
Think about how an iceberg might appear if you could see it from all sides. The iceberg is actually just partially visible above the water. The massive volume of ice that makes up most of the iceberg is submerged deep beneath the ocean’s surface and is, therefore, invisible from the surface.
Our conscious awareness’s objects are mere “the tip of the iceberg.”
Subsurface information contains the remaining knowledge that is not conscious. Even though this knowledge might not be conscious, it nevertheless impacts how people act now.
Subconscious events include things like repressed emotions, automatic reflexes, complexes, and hidden phobias. A divine’s role in directing a motive or action has historically been linked to feelings, ideas, and reactions that are not conscious to a human.
The Freudian Slip is the most prevalent example of subconscious activity. A common occurrence is when someone uses the incorrect term or makes a memory or verbal error, such as calling their spouse by their ex-name. spouse’s These errors are frequently interpreted by listeners as the speaker’s covert emotions. Freud thought they revealed more than what they appeared to while being perceived as unintentional. The lapses, it is said, reveal a person’s deeper, more genuine, and hidden thoughts and sentiments.
Studies have been done to determine whether there is a connection between these linguistic and memory errors and the subconscious. A person is believed to be more likely to make verbal mistakes if they have more suppressed thoughts and sentiments.
Internalized racism is another illustration, albeit one that is more complicated than a Freudian slip. Even if we are actively opposed to racist ideologies, psychologists and mental health practitioners feel that everyone is likely to have some degree of internalized racism.
Although it is disturbing to consider, we may be able to challenge racist programming by comprehending and studying our cultural origins and upbringing. Analysis of conditioning is crucial to understanding the origins of our subconscious habits.
Subconscious events include things like repressed emotions, automatic reflexes, complexes, and hidden phobias. A divine’s role in directing a motive or action has historically been linked to feelings, ideas, and reactions that are not conscious to a human.
The Freudian Slip is the most prevalent example of subconscious activity. A common occurrence is when someone uses the incorrect term or makes a memory or verbal error, such as calling their spouse by their ex-name. spouse’s These errors are frequently interpreted by listeners as the speaker’s covert emotions. Freud thought they revealed more than what they appeared to while being perceived as unintentional. The lapses, it is said, reveal a person’s deeper, more genuine, and hidden thoughts and sentiments.
Studies have been done to determine whether there is a connection between these linguistic and memory errors and the subconscious. A person is believed to be more likely to make verbal mistakes if they have more suppressed thoughts and sentiments. Internalized racism is another illustration, albeit one that is more complicated than a Freudian slip. Even if we are actively opposed to racist ideologies, psychologists and mental health practitioners feel that everyone is likely to have some degree of internalized racism. Although it is disturbing to consider, we may be able to challenge racist programming by comprehending and studying our cultural origins and upbringing. Analysis of conditioning is crucial to understanding the origins of our subconscious habits.
Conscious vs. Subconscious
Conscious vs. Subconscious is the subject of this post. You’re of oneself, and the environment is what consciousness means. This awareness is personal to you and subjective.
A new theory of consciousness has been established by a researcher at Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, describing why it evolved, what it is useful for, which disorders influence it, and why it is so difficult to diet and resist other cravings.
According to the corresponding author Andrew Budson, MD, professor of neurology, “in a nutshell, our theory is that consciousness emerged as a memory system that is employed by our subconscious
brain to enable us flexibly and imaginatively foresee the future and plan accordingly.”
The idea that humans don’t directly experience the world, make judgments, or take acts is what makes this theory utterly novel. Instead, we perform all of these actions subconsciously until becoming cognizant of them around a half-second later.
In order to explain a number of phenomena that could not be readily explained by earlier theories of consciousness, Budson explained that he
and his co-authors, psychologist Elizabeth Kensinger, PhD, from Boston College, and philosopher Kenneth Richman, PhD, at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, developed this theory.
We were aware that conscious processes were simply too slow to actively participate in activities like music, sports, and other ones that call for quick reactions. Budson, who is also Chief of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology, Associate Chief of Staff for Education, and Director of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, stated that if consciousness is not involved in such processes, then a better explanation of what consciousness does was required.
This idea, according to the researchers, is crucial because it clarifies how all of our choices and actions—which we mistakenly believe were made consciously—are actually made subconsciously.
Therefore, because our conscious mind is not in charge of our actions, we can tell ourselves that we are just going to have one spoonful of ice cream, and then, the next thing we know, the container is empty.
Even our thoughts generally escape our conscious awareness. We may struggle to stop a constant stream of thoughts as we try to go to sleep, and this lack of control also contributes to the difficulties of practicing mindfulness, says Budson.
According to Budson and his coauthors, various neurologic, psychiatric, and developmental conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, delirium, migraines, schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, some forms of autism, and more, qualify as diseases of consciousness.
The authors’ research concludes with a road map for how therapists, teachers, and individuals might use clinical and educational approaches that can effectively mold both the conscious mind and the subconscious brain to change behavior and learn information. With more research, this approach may help patients reduce problem behaviors like overeating, shed light on how the brain’s structural components aid memory, and even shed light on philosophical questions about free will and moral responsibility.