Top 5 Mysterious Facts About the Subconscious Mind
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality” — Earl Nightingale.
Our subconscious mind makes decisions before it even knows what’s going on.
That’s how important it is that we have a better understanding of how our bigger and better half works.
Our subconscious mind is more amazing than we can imagine.
It gives wings to our dreams, but we just have to notice the signs and understand the language of it.
There’s a lot of air of mystery surrounding the subconscious mind, which only makes it more mystifying and intriguing!
Here are the top 5 facts about the subconscious which most of us don’t know, but here’s what top scientists and researchers profess!
1. The Subconscious Mind Dreams
Dreams have been always studied by scientists and philosophers with different theories and interpretations.
As it’s known Sigmund Freud explained dreams as a window into our unconscious and a manifestation of our deepest desires and anxieties (mostly of a sexual nature) and repressed childhood memories or obsessions.
However, even Freud admitted that “sometimes even a cigar is just a cigar”.
Nowadays neuroscience generally agrees that dreams are purely physiological and represent the brain’s attempt to make sense of random thoughts and images from recent daytime experiences and memories that flit through the mind during sleep.
2. The Subconscious Mind Controls 95 Percent of Our Life
Not all that surprising as our subconscious mind controls each and every physical move, whether voluntary or involuntary.
Neuroscience has shown that most of our decisions, actions, emotions, and behavior depend on the 95 percent of brain activity that lies beyond conscious awareness, meaning that 95% or as much as 99% of our life comes from the programming in our subconscious mind.
3. The Subconscious Mind is Always Awake
Our subconscious mind never sleeps, rests, or takes a break as it controls all vital processes and functions of the body.
For example, it controls heartbeat, blood circulation, regulates digestion and elimination.
In sleep, our conscious mind becomes dormant while the subconscious mind stays completely awake.
Studies show that we still hear and process everything even while asleep.
4. The Subconscious Mind is Habit-Based
As we go about our daily routine such as waking up, traveling to and from work, eating, and going to sleep it becomes second nature, we’ve formed habits.
This is because we process all the information quickly and without being aware, this is the unconscious mind at work.
Freud believed that our unconscious mind does most of the work of our daily activities without us even realizing it.
5. The Subconscious Mind Takes Everything Literally
Our subconscious mind has the habit of taking everything literally.
It doesn’t differentiate between negative and positive.
So if we continually tell ourselves that we’ll never succeed in a particular venture, it’s likely to turn out that way.
The subconscious mind is subjective. It doesn’t think or reason independently, it simply obeys the commands it receives from our conscious mind.
Henry Ford very well said, “if you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right!”
Conclusion
Our subconscious mind is an amazing and at the same time surprising thing.
Religions, philosophers, researchers, scientists, psychologists, and even esteemed psychonauts — so many have tried their hand at attempting to unravel the complex mysteries of the subconscious and conscious mind.
As it seems that we reveal plenty about it, it’s still a great, wondrous mystery that is at the basis of determining each human’s life.