| The Subconscious Focus…  [+ favourites]
Some things do not depend on the conscious aspect, but at other levels of consciousness.
We do not only feed and work with the conscious mind, but also the subconscious, and unconscious.
When you work with your thoughts, it is important to allow for things that no matter how much consciousness you put behind them they are not really affected. In these cases it is a matter for the other levels of consciousness.
The idea of working with other levels of consciousness, means with working elements that are traditionally related to these levels of consciousness.
The benefit of looking on this level, much like working on the level of consciousness, is improving faculties.
Things that you usually do subconsciously need to be worked with on that level, in order to improve your patterns of behaviour.
I should try and give an example here, as you probably understand the principle, but would benefit of seeing how it works…
Now, to begin you would assume some things at a given time are controlled by different states of the mind, conscious controls and other controls, for example subconscious controls.
In regards to those subconscious controls, you would need to work on that subconscious level, to keep the focus of consciousness relatively unaffected.
Your subconscious controls would regulate patterns of behaviour that are being controlled by the subconscious.
One situation may be you are running through the park. Whilst running through the park, you are mainly focussing on the path, moving your arms and legs, and partly breathing. All of which you may be focussing on consciously. At the same time though, your heart-beat is being regulated, your breathing being kept in check, and things like peripheral vision are being controlled. These things would be focussed on subconsciously.
Let’s say that you’ve been running for a while, and you have got past the stage of needing to pay as close attention to things as you needed to during the beginning of the run. At this stage, you will still need to control your actions, however as you’re very familiar with the changes you need to make, you need only very little of your attention to focus on these changes.
The changes are being made without a great amount of consciousness, and some you might expect to be made by the subconscious. These changes are simple, you may not even notice having payed real attention to them, they may be near automatic, they would not occupy the conscious mind enough to be memorable, etc.
Now, the effect is that you co-ordinate your activities keeping in mind that certain activities are controlled by consciousness and others by the subconscious, etc.
With the subconscious, you would think, act and feel slightly differently. The difference would be of a few noticeable differences, like the obviousness to mind, subtleness instead of great definition, and possibly things that are more internal (as external things tend to be more variable, and less familiar).
Questions I would ask would be…
- Does this ring true to you? And,
- Have I missed something in the description? As well as,
- Does this relate to anything else (that you can think of)?
"There is no negative one..."
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