Ever heard the phrase saying we use only 4-5% of our brain? And wondered how it makes sense or how good it will be if we use 100% of it?
Let me clarify it to you. We use 5% of our brain/mind consciously, and rest 95% of it is not in our control or awareness. And that is what is Subconscious or unconscious mind.
We all have 2 minds, Conscious and Subconscious mind.
Whatever we see, hear, feel, think, do with our awareness is handled by our Conscious mind, we do it consciously. When we are sleeping, this part of mind will be sleeping too, that means it does take break.
Whereas our subconscious mind works 24×7, even if we are aware of it or not, if we give attention to it or not without expecting any credits, such a selfless being. Is not it?
It controls all our body’s auto responses and functions. It keeps the integrity of the body. Its core function is to keep you safe. Your breathing, heart beat, blood flow, body temperature, generating repairing and killing billions of cells of body, all things functions are taken care by your subconscious mind, every single second, till you are alive.
There are many fascinating facts about Subconscious mind, and let me give some glimpse of it here.
1. It has literally infinite memory storage, and it can remember every single detail of what you have seen, heard, tasted, experienced at any point of your life. It can recollect what you had for lunch 10 years ago on the same day.
2. It keeps body’s integrity. That means, it maintains the code how your body is programmed and should work.
Think about this scenario: It’s a hot summer and you are sleeping in your room, with fan set at full speed. And suddenly power goes off. what will happen? You may or may not wake up but one thing is for sure. You will start sweating, and you may ask whats big deal in it. That is your subconscious mind trying to keep integrity of your body. Your ideal body temperature should be 98.6°F. When your surrounding temperature is high, it makes your sweats glands to produce sweat to lower your body temperature. So it preserves your body, keep it safe all the time, without your awareness. How wonderful it is.
Now you know the power of Subconscious mind, but wonder why you are not able to access it. If every memory is present forever in your memory, why can’t you recall it? Answer is there is Critical faculty barrier between conscious and subconscious mind. Because of that, you cannot access your subconscious mind consciously.
Through Hypnosis, one can access to this powerhouse, super computer called Subconscious mind. Curious to learn more about it? Go through the FAQ section or “Hypnotherapy and its uses” to know more about it.