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The Conscious Mind
The conscious mind is your thinking mind. It influences about 5% of who you are, shaping your behaviour, decisions, rationalizations, and visualizations. This part of the mind is responsible for:
Thinking and Analysing
Making Plans
Short-term Memory
The conscious mind is rational and helps us maintain order in our lives. It’s the part of you that is actively aware and deliberate in its actions and thoughts.
The Subconscious (or Unconscious) Mind
The subconscious mind operates beneath your immediate awareness. It functions as the filing cabinet of your mind, storing everything that has ever happened to you. This includes your beliefs, memories, perspectives, expectations, habits, and fears.
The subconscious mind controls about 90% of your thoughts, reactions, behaviours, and actions. Unlike the conscious mind, it is not directly accessible. However, Hypnosis provides a way to tap into it.
The idea of the iceberg model comes from Sigmund Freud's Iceberg Model of Consciousness. Freud contested that our conscious behaviour is only the visible 10% of our psyche – the tip of the iceberg if you like. The tip of the iceberg is our conscious mind, and the huge part underneath the water is our subconscious mind.
Hypnosis involves entering a light trance or altered state of consciousness, allowing valuable access to the subconscious. In this relaxed state, the conscious mind steps aside, enabling
you to explore thoughts and feelings hidden from everyday awareness.
Further Understanding the Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind plays a vital role in managing bodily functions such as breathing and temperature regulation. It also heavily influences behaviours and reactions based on deeply ingrained beliefs. Acting as a background processor, it operates without the need for conscious attention.
Key Points About the Subconscious Mind:
Most Actions Are Subconscious: The majority of what you do is carried out by subconscious programs ingrained into your neural pathways. It stores strong emotions linked to past experiences, which can significantly affect your responses to similar situations in the present.
Operating System vs. Application: Think of your subconscious mind as the operating system, while your conscious mind is the app you’re actively using.
Living Unconsciously: Your subconscious governs automatic processes, habits, and behaviours. While it’s difficult to consciously change subconscious behaviours, this part of the mind stores formative memories and experiences that shape your actions.
Deeply Ingrained Beliefs: From childhood, the subconscious mind develops beliefs about yourself and the world. These beliefs strongly influence decisions and actions without your conscious awareness.
The Habit Mind: The subconscious drives habits. When you encounter a stimulus linked to a habit stored in the subconscious, the behaviour is triggered automatically. For example, while cycling home, your subconscious mind ensures you stay on course even as your conscious mind plans dinner or recalls a recipe.
Why Awareness Alone Isn’t Enough
Simply being aware of a problem doesn’t make it disappear. This is because the subconscious mind operates on deeply embedded patterns. Through hypnosis, you can reprogram the subconscious mind. Compared to other psychological therapies, hypnotherapy often achieves results relatively quickly.
Changing Habits Through Hypnotherapy
Changing habits involves a two-part process:
Awareness: Recognize the problematic behaviour and consciously decide to change it.
Repetition: Repeat the new behaviour consistently as an exercise. This repetition helps reprogram the subconscious, eventually replacing old habits with new, desired behaviours.
Most individuals experience significant change within 6-8 sessions of Hypnotherapy.
Remember, the conscious and subconscious minds are distinct entities. Awareness and understanding alone won’t rewrite subconscious programming. Consistent practice is key to lasting change.