Conscious Mind
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shrinking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life
Carl Jung
The subconscious mind is not a thing in itself, it is simply the psychological processes and the design elements of which we are not aware at any moment. The subconscious mind is everything that is not in the spotlight of the conscious mind.
The conscious mind and subconscious mind have an active relationship.
-The contents pass from one to the other, as the conscious mind's spotlight moves.
---Items from the conscious mind are recorded and stored in the subconscious mind.
=====We are aware of something, and then we are aware of something else. We are looking at our computer, in the next moment, we are listening to the background music.
=====We are aware of something, and then we repress our awareness of it.
---Items pass from the subconscious mind to the conscious mind.
=====We remember something that we had viewed previously.
=====We acknowledge something that we had repressed.
=====We become aware of something for the first time. We realize that we have talents that we had not recognized previously.
They influence one another.
-The conscious mind influences the subconscious mind. As we create thoughts and imagery and energy tones, this material is registered in the corresponding design. When our attention moves to other subjects we say that the material is now in the subconscious mind. We are continually generating the material that will constitute the subconscious mind.
-The subconscious mind influences the conscious mind. While the material is in the subconscious that material affects us in various ways:
----Whenever we encounter a design, we leave a permanent record of the thoughts, images, energy tones, and actions that we created during that encounter. The record remains in the design. When we encounter that design again, we tend to default to the elements that have lingered in the design from previous encounters. We can say that it is the subconscious mind that is affecting us because this default is generally an act of habit and subconsciousness,
----It offers new possibilities for the conscious mind. When the conscious mind becomes barren in its habits and ruts, the material of the subconscious mind provides new energy, perspectives, options, and creative inspiration. Indeed, the subconscious mind offers a well-spring of useful material.
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