To simplify the concept of the subconscious mind, here’s an example: When you start driving a car for the first time, your focus is entirely on the gear shift, the gas pedal, and the brakes. You concentrate on every step, noticing every bump, pothole, or obstacle ahead.
Over time, as you become more experienced in driving, the subconscious mind takes over. You start driving without full conscious focus, yet you automatically avoid obstacles, bumps, and potholes while doing other things simultaneously, like listening to music.
So, the subconscious mind takes control after repeating a task multiple times until it becomes easier. This leads to the definition: “The storehouse of feelings, thoughts, and memories outside of conscious awareness, most of which might be unpleasant or unacceptable.”
As author Earl Nightingale said: “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” This truly shows the power and influence of the subconscious mind on your life.
The subconscious mind operates through repetition and exposure to events. For example, it helps you differentiate between people based on past experiences — if you once saw a thief with messy white hair, your subconscious may label anyone with similar traits as a thief and avoid them.
Over time, the subconscious stores a vast amount of information and makes decisions based on that stored data.
It’s important to note that when the subconscious takes control, your awareness of it is unconscious.
Did you know that by the age of 21, your subconscious mind has stored information a hundred times more than what is contained in the Encyclopedia Britannica?
All instinctive thoughts and actions are stored in the subconscious mind. It knows your comfort zones and works to keep you within them.
This means when you try to do something new that your subconscious isn’t familiar with, you’ll feel discomfort and strange emotions. Your subconscious will try to push you back to your comfort zone. To experience this, think about doing something out of your usual routine—you’ll likely feel tension and unease!
Of course, this doesn’t mean you should stay confined to your comfort zone. Despite the subconscious mind’s strong influence on your life, you must face it and try new things. With time and repetition, these new experiences will become comfort zones as well.
On another note, since the subconscious stores everything you do from birth, it’s possible that it has stored memories of a traumatic event you have consciously forgotten. Even though you don’t recall it, it’s still stored in your subconscious. But what does this mean?
The next time you experience a similar event, you might feel pain or discomfort automatically, as your subconscious has taken control.
Remember that psychologists and psychiatrists delve deep into the subconscious mind to help patients undergoing therapy!
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