Understanding Your Conscious and Subconscious Mind.

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Successful people, whether they are top athletes or entrepreneurs, have mastered the power of their conscious and subconscious mind to produce their success. Many of us haven’t tapped into the unlimited potential of our minds because we lack the understanding of how our minds actually work. Our minds are actually made up of two distinct processes called the conscious and the subconscious minds and when we decidedly focus our effort on creating unity with the conscious and subconscious minds, we can achieve a greater sense of happiness and success in our lives than we ever thought possible.

Your Physical Body (“The Ship”)

In order to better illustrate this analogy, let me first put it into context. Think of your body as a large ship in the ocean. Just as a boat won’t go anywhere without a captain, your body won’t go anywhere without someone to give it directions. The Captain and Crew that pilot your body are your conscious and subconscious minds, respectively.

Your Conscious Mind (“The Captain of the Ship”)

Your conscious mind is like the captain of a ship. He issues orders to his crew and they follow it without question or evaluation. The captain uses his instruments and his experience to make decisions. He then issues orders to his Crew who follow those orders without question. Likewise, your conscious mind is like the captain of your body and your subconscious mind is like the crew that carries out those orders. The conscious mind has the ability to think, decide, and to act. It is rational in nature and its purpose is to either accept or reject the information that it receives. The conscious mind filters information to the subconscious mind.

Your Subconscious Mind (“The Crew of the Ship”)

If your conscious mind is the Captain of the boat, then your subconscious mind is the Crew. Like the Crew of a ship, your subconscious mind also takes orders without questioning the conscious mind. It simply obeys and carries out those orders. On a ship, the Captain with a well-trained Crew does not tell his Crew how to carry out his orders; he simply issues those Orders and expects that they will get carried out. In much the same way, your conscious mind creates decisions, thoughts and ideas which it hands over to the subconscious mind to act on.

The subconscious mind does not differentiate good from bad or right from wrong. It simply acts on those orders issued by the conscious mind in much the same way that the crew follows the captains orders, even if those orders will lead the boat into the rocky shore. Whatever orders are fed to the subconscious mind, it acts upon and carries out.

Your Thoughts (“The Captain’s Orders”)

Think of your thoughts as orders issued by a Captain to his Crew. The quality and safety of the ship can only be as good as the quality of orders being communicated from the Captain to his Crew. Your thoughts come in the form of autosuggestions, which are simply the way you talk to yourself, either verbally or internally. When you tell yourself, “I’m fit and beautiful,” you are issuing an order to your Crew to act upon. Conversely, when you tell yourself, “I’m fat and ugly,” you are also issuing an order to your subconscious mind to make that happen. The quality of orders or autosuggestions that you give your subconscious mind will determine the level of success you are able to produce for yourself because as Brian Tracy says, “You are what you think you are most of the time.”

Conclusion

The mind is composed of the conscious and subconscious processes. Remember that you are what you think most of the time, so make sure you feed yourself nutritious, healthy thoughts that promote the safety and well-being of your body.

Reference:
Murphy, Joseph Ph.D. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Bantam Books, New York, NY. 1963, 2000