Conscious/Unconscious Minds

The locations of the conscious and unconscious minds correlate with the two sides of the brain. The conscious mind functions primarily in the left brain, or more wisely stated the analytical part of the mind, and the unconscious functions primarily in the right brain, or creative, metaphorical side of the mind.

There is a twofold nature to the activity of mind, indicating an interrelated process where the conscious and unconscious activity is simultaneous.

Consciousness refers to awareness. Thereby, when you know or are aware of something, you are conscious of it. This conscious awareness is achieved through your sense organs. Your eyes, ears, sense of smell, taste, and kinesthetic sensations are used to think, form judgments, and make decisions.

Your consciousness breaks the information down into small parts, analyzes, compares, evaluates, and then provides its best response given the information provided.

Your conscious mind also controls all of your voluntary bodily movements. Once processed information is used, it is then stored for future reference.

The unconscious mind, the hypnotist’s favored intellect provides instincts and intuition. It functions both as our savior, creator of genius and simultaneously as our greatest enemy providing primitive impulses such as fear, anger, jealousy, lies, and theft.

It has been suggested that the unconscious mind consists of associated sense impressions and memories from our past, being composed of our brain, spinal cord, and the nerve networks throughout our bodies.

The unconscious mind also controls all non-voluntary bodily functions such as heartbeat, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, and reproductive organs. I remember when I was really young out for a walk with my dad when a woman stopped to talk to him. I got what I thought was a tumor under my pants and my dad told me not to worry about it, that it was just my unconscious talking.

Beyond everything already said, the unconscious mind also controls the health and function of every body cell, automatic habits, and the personal idiosyncrasy we each have.

Most interestingly, at times, the unconscious mind takes control of the conscious mind and some of its functions, preventing speaking, or causing stuttering or stammering. When the conscious mind freely gives into the unconscious allowing us to sleep, our unconscious mind becomes a problem solver and creative genius within our dreams.

The unconscious mind is also said to be a servomechanism which automatically steers towards its target. It reacts uncritically to all hypnotic suggestions and ideas, and acts on them without judgment, provided they are not harmful. It cannot differentiate between the real and imagined, and not only is it much smarter than your conscious mind, it is much stronger. No amount of will power can override your unconscious.

All of these reasons and more are what makes the use of hypnosis so exciting, because what the unconscious mind enjoys, is to be addressed directly, although it does tend to pay attention to subliminal messages, and has the tendency to create its own subliminal interpretations from our every day exposures.

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