WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND?
The Conscious Mind looks, listen, learns, reasons, analyzes, judges, criticizes, accepts, and rejects bits and pieces of information it gathers throughout the day. The conscious side of ourselves is often described as the EGO. It is very much like a computer that classifies information and forms opinions based on the information that is fed into it. This information is derived through all our experiences from childhood forward.
As you can imagine, the gathering of all this information keeps our conscious mind or ego in constant activity. This may result in constant chatter...talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk--all day long we talk; with others or with us. The bombardment of thoughts that lead to mind chatter can drive us crazy.
We go to bed at night consumed with thoughts of what we didn't do that we should have done. We wake up in the morning consumed with thoughts of what we have to do. Oftentimes we start our day with a defeatist attitude. "I'll never be able to do everything I have to do today!"
Sometimes, our going to bed thoughts and our waking up thoughts are even more depressing than that.
The average person has 40-90,000 thoughts a day. 95% of these thoughts are the same from day to day...
I would like to make more money, but I'm not intelligent enough... I would like to leave my job, but I may wind up with no job at all... I would like to be more optimistic, but things just never work out for me...
REMEMBER:
You are not what you think you are, but what you think you are.
(Capture the meaning of that statement and repeat it often.)
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND?
The Subconscious Mind harbors any image, idea, concept, or anything that it feels, touches, smells, or tastes. It will act out from birth until death any image, idea, concept or anything that it feels, touches, smells, or tastes.
The subconscious mind controls 95-99% of all mental abilities. It controls the physical function of every part of the body automatically. It does not have to be reminded to make our heart beat, or our lungs to breathe, or our legs to walk... It propels our organs to work without our having to think about it.
The subconscious mind is the sum total of our past experiences.
What we feel, think, or do forms the basis of our experiences. These experiences are stored in the form of subtle impressions in our subconscious mind. These impressions interact with one another and give birth to tendencies. We become prone to react in a particular way to a particular situation depending upon the tendencies in our subconscious mind. The resultant tendencies determine our character; or in many case, lack of character.
Mentally, we generally operate on a 5% conscious to a 95% subconscious ratio.
This means that our lives are really ruled by our intuitive subconscious. Regardless of what we would like to think or regardless of how our lives may appear to be, our conscious mind really has very little control over the scope of our experiences, or reactions and emotions. Those inner qualities exist first in the subconscious mind and are then expressed through the conscious mind via the neuron connecting the two hemispheres.