The Two Minds
Brain is the organ. Mind is the brain in action. We have a mind with two separate functions. Those functions are the conscious mind and the unconscious mind.
Function of the Two Minds
Conscious Mind:
Current awareness, narrowly focused, can only be directed on whatever we think is important
- Very good a t planning things
- The place where you reason
- Everyday normal state of awareness
- Thinks in a sequential and linear way
Unconscious Mind
- Stores your emotional responses and patterns, belief system, memories values and identity
- Framework of your perception and understanding of the world
- Storehouse of our autonomic functioning (habitual patterns, sensation and perception
- Golden chest of wisdom, creativity, resources
- Functions non linearity, and holographical
- Engages in highly specialized skills
- Carries a multitude a multitude of functions independently of the conscious mind