STUDY - Technical - New Dacian's Medicine
The Subconscious
Translation Draft
I should have a big, big party. Today is the 15th anniversary of my site's presence on the net http://www.dorinm.ro. Or, today he restarted the site after more than a week of being suspended for non-payment, and it would still be some kind of cause for celebration. But, I promised that today I would address a "funny" topic: the subconscious. It's the "heavy" subjects of the new medicine so I don't have time to party... It's a subject that's going to give rise to a huge post, let's call it a birthday.
So arm yourselves with patience! If you find everything too technical, go to the following paragraphs (it means that you do not have the "momentary" ability to understand those statements and you will have to go where you can understand something)!
From the point of view of the definition of the term "subconscious", this is the sphere of psychic phenomena that take place outside consciousness (and not consciousness) and that could have previously been conscious or become conscious afterwards. Interesting approach to the Dex... It is part of the human psychic system represented by the triad "conscious-subconscious-unconscious", the set of sensory, cognitive and regulatory psychic functions and processes, which are in constant interaction. To move forward I'll do a little detail on the components of this triad.
At the level of the conscious there is predominantly manifest, ego or self, connected to reality through the senses, with the role of materializing the desires of the self/ego. This problem-solving activity is referred to by psychoanalysis as a secondary function. Unlike the "self", manifested at the level of the unconscious, which operates on the principle of immediate satisfaction of requirements, the self operates on the principle of reality represented by the satisfaction of desire when the appropriate resources are found. The self encompasses psychic functions such as thinking, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, information synthesis, intellectual functioning and active memory perceived or called. Self represents reason and common sense, in opposition to passion, represented by self. He is manifest and unmanifest consciousness.
Consciousness is one of the most important levels of organization of the individual's mental life and can be defined as everything (psychology without unconscious) or nothing (psychology without consciousness). The difficulty of defining consciousness stems from the fact that it is pure subjectivity, manifesting itself in personal experiences, not accessible to another individual. Consciousness is considered to be the most important part of the psyche because being conscious means, essentially, having sensations, that is, having mental representations loaded with affectivity of "something that happens to me here and now". Man, through consciousness, has the ability to anticipate the outcome of his actions, to establish it mentally before realizing it in its concrete form, consciousness being an anticipatory reflection of reality. Thus, man can reproduce reality itself in order to modify it, change it, adapt to its needs, which designates the creative character of consciousness, implicitly its creative-projective function.
The indispensable, but not sufficient, functioning function is memory. Everything I have has a historical dimension (man is a historicalized system, chronologically), it being the expression of experiences lived and accumulated to the present time. And, to remember, all this can be manifested only and only at the level of the conscious mind, which is why it is called consciousness because it has a strict connection with the state of "consciousness". And, here, are included "stuff" that has nothing to do with the conscious. I mean the thrills instantly perceived and assimilated with fear, nausea/disgust, the thrills of love. They come from somewhere and we've identified them with that something that we perceive is present, manifest. Here we can move on to the subconscious...
Between the consciousness and the subconscious, the conscious appears. He is the one who takes upon himself all that is rational, analytical and logical, being used for all daily activities that require reason, memory and action. Consciousness is the active memory of our spirit, that something used every time we eat, when we think about something, when we work, when we analyze a situation, etc. The way we think depends on the conscious side of our psyche and is directly responsible for our performance as well as our failures in our daily lives, for our happiness or unhappiness, and why not, it is the basis for generating and resolving all our conflicts.
That's because, without taking into account the tangible results or not, the conscious spirit can impose often unnecessary mental and mental limits on us because it is excessively critical and incredulous, in addition to a limited ability to process the information necessary for a perfect and fully "authorized" response. Therefore, when the conscious spirit suffers from "psychological" blockages or limitations, it may be advantageous for it to be bypassed, programmed or used directly to the subconscious.
The subconscious is one of the important hypostases of the psyche, which can neither be ignored nor reduced or identified with other hypostases of the psychic. It is the place where the superego, the superego, the one that encompasses (or defines), as I described in previous posts, the sub-mask. According to Freud, the supereure is born from the Oedipal complex, by identification with the same-sex parent (and even if the perceptual "attachment" is attracted to the other parent, a direct comparison between the parents will still be made, the basis being that of the same sex), identification that will make the child internalize the rules imposed by the parent.
During the period of sexual latency, the supere also acquires the norms and moral values that direct the self in its action of combating or collaborating with the self. The surface communicates its requirements to the self through feelings of pride, shame, culpability, etc. Subsequently, part of the supere is made up of values inspired by those around, teachers, mentors, in other words human consciousness. It has not only specific content, but its own mechanisms and ends. As a first "perception", it represents, it is, a formation or a psychic level comprising acts that were once conscious, but which, at present, are carried out over conscious control. It is the reservoir where all the acts that once passed through the filter of consciousness are preserved, were carried out with effort, but which are in a dormant state of psychic virtuality, and can become active at any time, perceived, passing the threshold of consciousness.
The subconscious is defined as a "latent cerebration" that takes place "under the apparent simplicity of perceptions", thus having a dynamic character. It is defined by the content of long-term memory, which is not at any given time in the operative flow of consciousness, but which can be made aware in appropriate situations. It is the latent content that enters the structure of the general mental preparation state of the subject, positively or negatively influencing the conduct of conscious mental processes, from perception to thinking.
The subconscious is not totally obscure, but implies a certain degree of transparency, and can be considered an implicit "consciousness", the states of consciousness of the individual subsisting in the subconscious, but not in the form of a memorization ranked among many others. For example, although we don't think all the time, every second of the address we have, our favorite food or what we did last holiday, we can always remember these things, thus transferring this information from the subconscious to the conscious.
Few people know the subconscious, the part of the spirit that works without us realizing it. It is estimated that he occupies a place of nine even ten times greater than the conscious in the functioning of our body and in the achievement of our goals. Perhaps that's why the whole human psychic system is compared to an iceberg, the tip being manifest and the rest, the great mass, being out of visibility (under water). It records everything we receive and process through the senses, all the feelings and feelings that result from the interactions.
However he knows neither emotion nor feeling, he being neutral, he does not think but perceives. It also provides control of all automatic biological functions, such as breathing, heart rate (in fact, 99% of all processes that take place in the human body – no longer return to the importance of the vegetative nervous system, also called autonomous). Perhaps that's why the states of the subconscious change, because the causes at their disposal are not given forever and for all individuals. They change because there are causal relationships and mutual influence between them.
And finally, but not least, it would be incorrect to reduce the content of the subconscious exclusively to the information, experiences and acts that come from the consciousness, from the conscious, he naturally communicating with the unconscious, incorporating a number of elements of it. The final argument in support of this claim is the finalist behaviours (understood by all of them, the reason of which remains unconscious. Then, the subconscious is distinguished by a functional autonomy, it has its own mechanisms of self-maintenance and self-preservation.
These mechanisms are stimulated from above, through the flows of consciousness, in the state of wakefulness and goal-oriented activity, and from below, through the flows of the unconscious, in the state of sleep or confused consciousness, which characterize some human states. It would be worth remembering here and dreams which, although they have the starting point in the unconscious, they are completed and stored in the sphere of the subconscious, namely, in the upper floor of it, which makes it possible to raise awareness and account of their contents immediately after awakening.
Therefore, the importance of the subconscious cannot underestimate it, it is difficult to imagine the normal psychic existence of man without his presence and functionality. First of all, it ensures the continuity of the self over time and allows consciousness to achieve integration under the sign of the self-identity of the past, present and future. In the case of total anterograde or retrograde amnesia, self-identity is strongly altered, the subject's relationship with the world being deeply disturbed. Second, the subconscious gives adaptive meaning to learning by allowing the storage of information and experience for later use.
In the conduct of any conscious process, even if it is provoked and relates to a concrete object or external situation, the subconscious unconditionally connects to previous experience, both in the form of operations and informational, imaging or conceptual models. And thirdly, the subconscious ensures the internal consistency of consciousness, its durability over time. Apart from its contribution, consciousness would be reduced to a simple sequence of moments, the content of immediate sensations and perceptions, making its planning and projection functions impossible. And, maintaining the optimal state of the reference frameworks of consciousness requires constant sensory communication.
And to "close" the description of the triad, it's time to talk a little bit about the unconscious. It constitutes the most controversial level of organization of psychic life, in relation to which positions of denial or affirmation abound in the literature (with psychological and parapsychological predominance). It is the place where the self exists and manifests itself, the one responsible for transforming primordial human needs into motivational forces, or instincts, called desires by Freud. These processes have been called primary processes.
The self works according to the principle of pleasure, or immediate satisfaction of hunger, thirst, sex, pain avoidance, etc. In the psychoanalytic alifelitic vision, the newborn is the pure representation of the self, he cries instinctively whenever he is hungry or wants to be clean, although he does not know exactly why he cries. The self includes hereditary (instincts) and acquired contents (the evolutionary result, most often of the discharge), and represents the source of energy of the human psyche, as well as the basis from which the self and the supereure are born, under the influence of the external world (the self conflicting or collaborating with the self and the supere).
The affirmation of the unconscious is mainly based on Freud's conception, which developed a structural conception of the content and role of the unconscious in the individual's mental life. Investigations and direct research were preceded by the philosophical "launch" of that notion by the great German metaphysicists of the post-Kantian era (Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer). Freud defined the unconscious in a restrictive and exclusive manner, considering it only the reservoir of defeated, stifled, repulsed, frustrating tendencies. Many "processings" followed, which, chronologically, Adler's.
For Adler, unconscious psychosis is determined by the will of power and the feeling of inferiority, these being the compensating mechanisms of either deficiencies or the actual or presumed inferiority of the self. "Man has an important tendency of superiority, so his psychic development is due to the struggle that takes place at the unconscious level, between a negative tendency, a feeling of inferiority, and a positive tendency, the sense of superiority, the latter being oriented towards compensation." Jung, influenced by Adler, broadens the scope of the notion of individual unconsciousness, considering, under Freudian influences, libido as determining, along with the feeling of power. This melange has two directions of manifestation, centriped, towards itself and centrifugal, towards the world, according to the two orientations of personality, extroverts and introvers.
Thus, Jung comes to introduce the concept of collective unconscious interpreted as a deep nonindividual, superindividual area of the psyche. The collective unconscious contains ancestral images that lie in latency in the deep areas of the unconscious called by Jung archetypes and gives the individual the opportunity to access them. Contemporary psychology defines the unconscious in an extensive and positive manner as a psychic formation encompassing hidden tendencies, emotional conflicts generated by the intimate sources of personality. The unconscious is different in its manifestations. The collective unconscious is that huge hereditary spiritual dowry, resulting from the evolution of mankind, which is always reborn in every individual brain structure. It is an abysmal layer of psychic structure, another world, as Jung described, a mirrored world that contradicts our momentary, conscious image of the world.
In a way, it is an eternal image, as opposed to the conscious, that appears as an ephemeral phenomenon because it produces all the adaptations and the momentary orientations. The collective unconscious initiates, controls and mediates the behavioural experiences and manifestations typical of all people, regardless of historical era, geographical location, social class, nationality, etc. By custom extension we reach archetypes that are "identical psychic structures, common to all", constituting the "archaic heritage of humanity". The archetype has its own energy, thanks to which it can "exercise psychic influences that do not manifest openly on the surface of the world, but act all the more powerfully from within, from the darkness, over us, being invisible to the one who does not sufficiently subject to criticism his momentary image of the world, thus remaining, even hidden himself."
And, before moving on to what we are interested in, it would be good to detail (from the point of view of psychoanalysis), little, what are the mechanisms of functioning, defense of all formations of the human psyche (we also used the term defense because any system tends to retain its initial state or improve it, terms easily compatible with that of maintenance, defense).
The first of these is the denial of internal psychic reality, which implies, at the same time, the affirmation of its existence. You can only deny something that exists. Thus, the discharges penetrate into the conscious in the denied form. And, the repression of these repressed thoughts and desires end up putting us in the face of their recognition, inducing a state of discomfort, anxiety that can become extreme. Next comes the discharge which is the oldest, most important and most well-known mechanism considered by psychoanalysis. Through the process of discharge are kept subconsciously all those pulsating representations forbidden by the super-I.
Refulsion is a basic mechanism in neurosis, but also a normal process in everyday life, perhaps the most important factor that attracts the conflicts so mentioned by the new medicine. In general, this statement is supported by the fact that those experiences are expressed in particular unconditionally or without the possibility of intervention, such as those from childhood, which attracts an obvious imbalance of the immature psyche of the child and the individual in the later stages. It follows identification, which is the situation in which one person's self unconsciously takes certain traits from another person.
One example is the hysterical son's son's passout with the deceased father. Another form of identification is identification with the aggressor, a means of defense used in dealing with objects of the outside world that the subject cannot cope with, the example being that of the victim who turns into the aggressor. Displacement is the association of an affective charge with an object or event in a contiguous relationship with the initial ones that triggered the affective state. An example is that of the parent who unloads his or her anger on the child when he or she has been put in a frustrating situation by the boss at work.
Sublimation refers to the transformation of instinctual impulses into activities accepted by society, such as the use of sexual instinct for artistic purposes, or aggressive impulses in a sport. Projection is the attribution of our own characteristics, feelings, desires or character traits that we do not want or recognize/know, objects or people from the outside. Rationalization is the process by which we try to give a logical or morally acceptable explanation to inclinations, manifestations or feelings considered unacceptable and the cause of which is not perceived.
Regression (and not in the sense of giving back qualitatively) is the process of returning to a stage of previous mental development, be it thinking, feeling or behavior, an example being the case of divorce filed by the spouse to marry a partner from his youth. Reactionary formation is the development of an attitude or behavior in the opposite direction to the instinctual tendency repulsed. For example, the manifestation of an obsession with cleanliness can hide the desire for sexual perversions. And the list could go on...
Concluding, trying to conclude, the unconscious has a set of programs that allow those of the subconscious to run. There are programs that can be "modified" particularly hard, maybe never and, in the end, everything manifests itself palpablely on their support. The next set of programs is the one at the subconscious level. This is where it is. Here are the programs (something that can be compared to computer programs) that can be rewritten whenever it is deemed imperative to do so. He treats information based on the basic, existential set of the unconscious and works, possibly alters, in direct relation to the ideas and beliefs with which he was fed, with the help of the programs that assimilated them. As the science of our times has demonstrated, it reaches the level of DNA both in reading basic programs (natural programs) and in rewriting them (attention, without touching the base, the unconscious, but only matter, its structuring at the DNA level), the point from which the manifestation of acquired programs departs.
What is more interesting and important than we can imagine is that the subconscious is incapable of discriminating between the information it receives and, for this reason, accepts it as it is. He will not know the difference between dream, imagination and reality, between an imaginary fact and a lived one, nor between the present and the future, the subconscious being timeless. This is a great weakness or quality of the subconscious, the fact that it records all the information, without asking questions or analyzing. In fact, through repetition, he absorbs all the data he perceives, without even sorting out what's bad for us. Even if they are not perceived by the conscious for lack of attention, for example, or because the signal is too weak, the subconscious records them. He blindly executes his program, based on the data that has stored it, and will provide this data again when an identical or close situation occurs.
Building your own thoughts and beliefs throughout your life, those you have accepted and those related to the family, social and cultural environment, are slowly polishing your thinking. Therefore, childhood is the most vulnerable period in terms of subconscious development. Now we accept unconditionally, even strengthened by the authority and worship of parents, most of the negative beliefs, sometimes destructive, passed on voluntarily or not. And, all this gradually becomes brakes and inhibitions in adult development. After all, the accumulation of these negative or limited thoughts ends up creating new systems of thought that will lead our lives and condition our physical and mental behavior. Virtually every disease or evil originates in our brain (including the whole body) and we become exactly what we think. In conclusion, the quality of our lives depends more on the quality of the subconscious than on anything else.
Where does this addiction come from?!? The conscious, as scientists say, is unable to know what is recorded in the subconscious, which gives rise to numerous conflicts between the two cerebral hemispheres. As we have seen in many previous posts, even in this, the conscious is charged with information analysis and reasoning, but he does so on the basis of the data he receives from the subconscious, which will always give him the information closest to the situation experienced at that time. In fact, we need to know and remember that the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious and that it is he who has the last word.
The subconscious is always stronger than the conscious and it always takes precedence over conscious thinking and reflection. This is an important point, which we must integrate into the functioning of the brain, because it is the source of all conflicts. By synthesizing, when you have the conscious will to execute something, an action, the subconscious will serve you the information it has. If this information corresponds to a negative appointment related to a special, previous situation (e.g. a failure, a fear, an altercation, a sentimental deception, etc.), these emotions will appear in the present and will be in conflict with your consciousness, which will not have the means to overcome them or erase these negative thoughts of the subconscious.
They will undoubtedly take control, and you will experience a state of permanent inner conflict, intractable and assumed. It is the beginning of the installation of the disease or a chronic pathology, which you can only solve by starting a work of positive reprogramming of your subconscious. Here's an example... A child is regularly beaten by his parents as a child. His subconscious records all these situations of fear and traumatic, frustrating violence or other similar feelings and feelings. The child becomes an adult and manages to forget all this stuff about his past. He consciously thinks that he has forgotten, or at least put aside, this stage of his life.
What's really going on? His subconscious has forgotten nothing, and every time he has a behaviorally similar person at the center, even in appearance, to his father's or his mother's, he will consciously represent these memories of painful emotions. The adult then goes through an automatism of his behavior against which he can do nothing for the moment (feels discomfort, a fear and an anxiety similar to those of childhood). He's facing a blockage that he's supposed to remove from his subconscious if he wants to find peace and quiet in front of such people. The subconscious always takes precedence, priority, over human thought.
So, you've already understood that failures, humiliations, negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety, are related to something. Some kind of stimulus landmark. In technical, medical, scientific language this link is called an anchor (the purpose of this post is to start treating anchors, so I won't end it until I say something about them too – and I will continue to treat anchors for many posts from now on). So these anchors disrupt the proper functioning of your psychic processes and affect, of course, your way of life and thinking.
This disorder, "launched"/ activated by anchors, without realizing it, has little by little impact on the scheme of thought and leads you to irrational behaviors and against your own interest, pushing you towards situations of failure and until the actual onset of diseases. Yes, this disorder generates discomfort and diseases, which in turn can give rise to disorders such as lack of self-confidence, sickly shyness, bulimia, anorexia, tobacco addiction, alcoholism, but also to serious pathological cases, when the feelings experienced were violent and profound, and the conflicts born from it are particularly strong and manifest over a long period of time.
The effort of the new medicine is oriented precisely in this direction. To heal yourself or simply to feel good, a process of healing and reprogramming the subconscious must be done. Yes, fortunately it is possible to change any program written in the subconscious, whether you help yourself to achieve your goals by changing your character, whether you get rid of a bad habit, or focus on controlled, piloted rewriting, and so on.m. You can "delete" or replace data that is related to any negative or disruptive emotions. discovering the causes and freeing you from all the memories of the emotions that cause you disorder, the rest becomes easy to do.
Success will only be a matter of time and involvement, depending on the motivation and importance you will assign. There are many methods but almost all have a common point, "collaboration" with the subconscious. The simplest is the regular feeding of the subconscious with positive suggestions, which eliminate and end up replacing beliefs and thoughts, so that the subconscious is unlocked, i.e. stopping the negative suggestions that the subconscious offers to the conscious and the progressive deletion of these memories through reprogramming. The golden rule for this to be successful is the daily repetition, or even several times a day, of these suggestions, so that they print themselves subconsciously, to act. That can mean repeating words, phrases, thoughts, or making mental images, life scenes (mental theater), important being to flood your subconscious with the information you want.
But in order to be able to access this collaboration, we must first know how the subconscious works (focusing on practices and control, and not on the pile of informational data that we have typed so far, designed to stimulate the understanding of all processes) in the strict sense of the word and, on the other hand, to know how to "talk" to it and thus communicate, order, etc. A "famous" example of this is that the subconscious does not perceive denials. thus, a "corrective" statement of ours such as "I don't want such an indifferent partner" ends up, by subconsciously disregarding the "no" denial, by being perceived as "I want another partner so indifferent".
The effect is unconditional and absolute, especially through repetition. In our lives there will be another partner, the same or better in the manifestation of indifference to the one who drew us the expression of the erroneousdesire expressed. Through an extension of the example, we can use a computer as much as possible but is it effective?!? So will computer experts, if they do not know the programming languages, they will only be simple users with the limited resources made available. They will not be able to change the operation in any way but will only use it effectively. So, many of the communication elements specific to the subconscious, its language... Then, for most of us, do we know what we want?!? So it's also going to take an effort to structure, to determine what we really want... All these techniques I'll describe in time... You'll see!!!
Now, in terms of the course of my desired exposure, there is the first "place" where I can make a complete and complex connection with the unconscious (I specify that my analysis should start from the other end of the triad mentioned above but my intentions are clear and precise and I cannot digress). This link is represented by the "anchor". Let's see what the anchor is, from the point of view of the human psyche!
If people go through an event that impresses them, they will easily remember it and the feelings that caused them when they later perceive (something similar or pure memory) part of this experience. Such a small fragment of an experience, which is able to determine the appearance of a suite of memories, including the related emotional states, is referred to in the specialized language as "anchor". I'll give two examples, one from real life, palpable and one from subconscious life, "subjective".
The first example is a walk somewhere on the street, simply. We're passing a store where a person comes out. Opening the store door brings to our perceptions a particular song, broadcast by a radio station listened to in that store. Then you remember, incidentally or not, that before, once, you danced with someone of the opposite sex (or accepted) on this song and you were extremely happy. The song has become, in this case, for you or for you, an anchor that helps you update a vast experience.
It's the turn of the second experience, the second example. Hearing the song you can go on enjoying the memory of some exceptional memories or your gaze can be drawn to the song's broadcast source. Then you can notice, for example, the person leaving the store. Gorgeous eyes, perfect appearance with the harmony existing in You and remain mentally "hardened" on the perceived image, even for a few seconds, associated with the spontaneity and remembrance of the experiences born of the first impulse, of the melody.
Something inside, inexperienced up to that point will become a supplement of the anchor that already existed, the one related to remembering pleasant moments. And since life has its charm, someday you'll meet that person, the one who came out of the store in question. You may not remember but you will have a strange openness (sympathy, empathy or similar experiences) to that person thanks, you guessed it, to the anchor (old, associated with the new one, resulting in a new, more complex and complete anchor). This example we created so that you understand the multiple appearance of an anchor. For simplicity, I'll get another example, simple, of course.
Think, for example, of the color red! Why does this remind you? Perhaps, if you have enough patience, you will remember a whole string of past events, make multiple associations, and relive a whole range of feelings. That means that the "red" anchor is not unequivocally linked to a particular experience. However, a special event, or one and the same association, may occur more often or even each time when you think of red or when you turn your attention to a red thing. Perhaps a red rose will appear in your memory quickly, or a "principle of faith" (a principle of faith is a conviction, something that can only be changed with great difficulty by the laws of logic and those of rational thought) in which you believe in particular, such as the red linked to love. It is only after that that other memories and associations appear, all with the possibility of being ordered in a certain sequence.
Other examples of anchors may be: the knot in the handkerchief that must remind you of something, the image of a colleague at work at the sight of which your heart warms, your hopes awaken, the word "love" to which your personal experiences, principles of faith or feelings bind you, the sign of the cross with which you may associate a certain spiritual attitude or faith , a typical, well-known touch that tells you that your partner likes you very much or wants you, the road sign that tells you that if you park you can have unpleasantness, a flashing light on the dashboard of your car that tells you that you will make "the fool's feather", the two letters "WC" that tell you that, nearby, there must be a place where you can have "privacy" and the examples can continue almost endlessly.
As you can see, it seems that all life consists mostly of anchors. They help us to effortlessly update memories and related experiences in order to obtain a logical sensory correlation (left cerebral hemisphere) or nonlogical (right cerebral hemisphere), stronger emotional states, whose energy we need to overcome difficult situations in life, etc. If we also take into account the hidden anchors, the ones to which the vaguest real experience, lived, ours is not correlated, things come to be complicit a little more than expected... Or, if we consider the latest scientific-medical-psychological findings (blah, blah, blah), the human brain uses fragments to create the whole. An anchor, from this point of view, can become an entire universe by simple mental "reconstruction" initiated by an anchor, and complemented by the brain that needs the whole (but, about all this a little later)...
Offf, I'm writing this morning, 8:30, and it's past 3:00. I'm sorry, but I have to dedicate myself to my family... We'll continue tomorrow with the anchors... And a lot of the days ahead... Have a good day!
I should have a big, big party. Today is the 15th anniversary of my site's presence on the net http://www.dorinm.ro. Or, today he restarted the site after more than a week of being suspended for non-payment, and it would still be some kind of cause for celebration. But, I promised that today I would address a "funny" topic: the subconscious. It's the "heavy" subjects of the new medicine so I don't have time to party... It's a subject that's going to give rise to a huge post, let's call it a birthday.
So arm yourselves with patience! If you find everything too technical, go to the following paragraphs (it means that you do not have the "momentary" ability to understand those statements and you will have to go where you can understand something)!
From the point of view of the definition of the term "subconscious", this is the sphere of psychic phenomena that take place outside consciousness (and not consciousness) and that could have previously been conscious or become conscious afterwards. Interesting approach to the Dex... It is part of the human psychic system represented by the triad "conscious-subconscious-unconscious", the set of sensory, cognitive and regulatory psychic functions and processes, which are in constant interaction. To move forward I'll do a little detail on the components of this triad.
At the level of the conscious there is predominantly manifest, ego or self, connected to reality through the senses, with the role of materializing the desires of the self/ego. This problem-solving activity is referred to by psychoanalysis as a secondary function. Unlike the "self", manifested at the level of the unconscious, which operates on the principle of immediate satisfaction of requirements, the self operates on the principle of reality represented by the satisfaction of desire when the appropriate resources are found. The self encompasses psychic functions such as thinking, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, information synthesis, intellectual functioning and active memory perceived or called. Self represents reason and common sense, in opposition to passion, represented by self. He is manifest and unmanifest consciousness.
Consciousness is one of the most important levels of organization of the individual's mental life and can be defined as everything (psychology without unconscious) or nothing (psychology without consciousness). The difficulty of defining consciousness stems from the fact that it is pure subjectivity, manifesting itself in personal experiences, not accessible to another individual. Consciousness is considered to be the most important part of the psyche because being conscious means, essentially, having sensations, that is, having mental representations loaded with affectivity of "something that happens to me here and now". Man, through consciousness, has the ability to anticipate the outcome of his actions, to establish it mentally before realizing it in its concrete form, consciousness being an anticipatory reflection of reality. Thus, man can reproduce reality itself in order to modify it, change it, adapt to its needs, which designates the creative character of consciousness, implicitly its creative-projective function.
The indispensable, but not sufficient, functioning function is memory. Everything I have has a historical dimension (man is a historicalized system, chronologically), it being the expression of experiences lived and accumulated to the present time. And, to remember, all this can be manifested only and only at the level of the conscious mind, which is why it is called consciousness because it has a strict connection with the state of "consciousness". And, here, are included "stuff" that has nothing to do with the conscious. I mean the thrills instantly perceived and assimilated with fear, nausea/disgust, the thrills of love. They come from somewhere and we've identified them with that something that we perceive is present, manifest. Here we can move on to the subconscious...
Between the consciousness and the subconscious, the conscious appears. He is the one who takes upon himself all that is rational, analytical and logical, being used for all daily activities that require reason, memory and action. Consciousness is the active memory of our spirit, that something used every time we eat, when we think about something, when we work, when we analyze a situation, etc. The way we think depends on the conscious side of our psyche and is directly responsible for our performance as well as our failures in our daily lives, for our happiness or unhappiness, and why not, it is the basis for generating and resolving all our conflicts.
That's because, without taking into account the tangible results or not, the conscious spirit can impose often unnecessary mental and mental limits on us because it is excessively critical and incredulous, in addition to a limited ability to process the information necessary for a perfect and fully "authorized" response. Therefore, when the conscious spirit suffers from "psychological" blockages or limitations, it may be advantageous for it to be bypassed, programmed or used directly to the subconscious.
The subconscious is one of the important hypostases of the psyche, which can neither be ignored nor reduced or identified with other hypostases of the psychic. It is the place where the superego, the superego, the one that encompasses (or defines), as I described in previous posts, the sub-mask. According to Freud, the supereure is born from the Oedipal complex, by identification with the same-sex parent (and even if the perceptual "attachment" is attracted to the other parent, a direct comparison between the parents will still be made, the basis being that of the same sex), identification that will make the child internalize the rules imposed by the parent.
During the period of sexual latency, the supere also acquires the norms and moral values that direct the self in its action of combating or collaborating with the self. The surface communicates its requirements to the self through feelings of pride, shame, culpability, etc. Subsequently, part of the supere is made up of values inspired by those around, teachers, mentors, in other words human consciousness. It has not only specific content, but its own mechanisms and ends. As a first "perception", it represents, it is, a formation or a psychic level comprising acts that were once conscious, but which, at present, are carried out over conscious control. It is the reservoir where all the acts that once passed through the filter of consciousness are preserved, were carried out with effort, but which are in a dormant state of psychic virtuality, and can become active at any time, perceived, passing the threshold of consciousness.
The subconscious is defined as a "latent cerebration" that takes place "under the apparent simplicity of perceptions", thus having a dynamic character. It is defined by the content of long-term memory, which is not at any given time in the operative flow of consciousness, but which can be made aware in appropriate situations. It is the latent content that enters the structure of the general mental preparation state of the subject, positively or negatively influencing the conduct of conscious mental processes, from perception to thinking.
The subconscious is not totally obscure, but implies a certain degree of transparency, and can be considered an implicit "consciousness", the states of consciousness of the individual subsisting in the subconscious, but not in the form of a memorization ranked among many others. For example, although we don't think all the time, every second of the address we have, our favorite food or what we did last holiday, we can always remember these things, thus transferring this information from the subconscious to the conscious.
Few people know the subconscious, the part of the spirit that works without us realizing it. It is estimated that he occupies a place of nine even ten times greater than the conscious in the functioning of our body and in the achievement of our goals. Perhaps that's why the whole human psychic system is compared to an iceberg, the tip being manifest and the rest, the great mass, being out of visibility (under water). It records everything we receive and process through the senses, all the feelings and feelings that result from the interactions.
However he knows neither emotion nor feeling, he being neutral, he does not think but perceives. It also provides control of all automatic biological functions, such as breathing, heart rate (in fact, 99% of all processes that take place in the human body – no longer return to the importance of the vegetative nervous system, also called autonomous). Perhaps that's why the states of the subconscious change, because the causes at their disposal are not given forever and for all individuals. They change because there are causal relationships and mutual influence between them.
And finally, but not least, it would be incorrect to reduce the content of the subconscious exclusively to the information, experiences and acts that come from the consciousness, from the conscious, he naturally communicating with the unconscious, incorporating a number of elements of it. The final argument in support of this claim is the finalist behaviours (understood by all of them, the reason of which remains unconscious. Then, the subconscious is distinguished by a functional autonomy, it has its own mechanisms of self-maintenance and self-preservation.
These mechanisms are stimulated from above, through the flows of consciousness, in the state of wakefulness and goal-oriented activity, and from below, through the flows of the unconscious, in the state of sleep or confused consciousness, which characterize some human states. It would be worth remembering here and dreams which, although they have the starting point in the unconscious, they are completed and stored in the sphere of the subconscious, namely, in the upper floor of it, which makes it possible to raise awareness and account of their contents immediately after awakening.
Therefore, the importance of the subconscious cannot underestimate it, it is difficult to imagine the normal psychic existence of man without his presence and functionality. First of all, it ensures the continuity of the self over time and allows consciousness to achieve integration under the sign of the self-identity of the past, present and future. In the case of total anterograde or retrograde amnesia, self-identity is strongly altered, the subject's relationship with the world being deeply disturbed. Second, the subconscious gives adaptive meaning to learning by allowing the storage of information and experience for later use.
In the conduct of any conscious process, even if it is provoked and relates to a concrete object or external situation, the subconscious unconditionally connects to previous experience, both in the form of operations and informational, imaging or conceptual models. And thirdly, the subconscious ensures the internal consistency of consciousness, its durability over time. Apart from its contribution, consciousness would be reduced to a simple sequence of moments, the content of immediate sensations and perceptions, making its planning and projection functions impossible. And, maintaining the optimal state of the reference frameworks of consciousness requires constant sensory communication.
And to "close" the description of the triad, it's time to talk a little bit about the unconscious. It constitutes the most controversial level of organization of psychic life, in relation to which positions of denial or affirmation abound in the literature (with psychological and parapsychological predominance). It is the place where the self exists and manifests itself, the one responsible for transforming primordial human needs into motivational forces, or instincts, called desires by Freud. These processes have been called primary processes.
The self works according to the principle of pleasure, or immediate satisfaction of hunger, thirst, sex, pain avoidance, etc. In the psychoanalytic alifelitic vision, the newborn is the pure representation of the self, he cries instinctively whenever he is hungry or wants to be clean, although he does not know exactly why he cries. The self includes hereditary (instincts) and acquired contents (the evolutionary result, most often of the discharge), and represents the source of energy of the human psyche, as well as the basis from which the self and the supereure are born, under the influence of the external world (the self conflicting or collaborating with the self and the supere).
The affirmation of the unconscious is mainly based on Freud's conception, which developed a structural conception of the content and role of the unconscious in the individual's mental life. Investigations and direct research were preceded by the philosophical "launch" of that notion by the great German metaphysicists of the post-Kantian era (Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer). Freud defined the unconscious in a restrictive and exclusive manner, considering it only the reservoir of defeated, stifled, repulsed, frustrating tendencies. Many "processings" followed, which, chronologically, Adler's.
For Adler, unconscious psychosis is determined by the will of power and the feeling of inferiority, these being the compensating mechanisms of either deficiencies or the actual or presumed inferiority of the self. "Man has an important tendency of superiority, so his psychic development is due to the struggle that takes place at the unconscious level, between a negative tendency, a feeling of inferiority, and a positive tendency, the sense of superiority, the latter being oriented towards compensation." Jung, influenced by Adler, broadens the scope of the notion of individual unconsciousness, considering, under Freudian influences, libido as determining, along with the feeling of power. This melange has two directions of manifestation, centriped, towards itself and centrifugal, towards the world, according to the two orientations of personality, extroverts and introvers.
Thus, Jung comes to introduce the concept of collective unconscious interpreted as a deep nonindividual, superindividual area of the psyche. The collective unconscious contains ancestral images that lie in latency in the deep areas of the unconscious called by Jung archetypes and gives the individual the opportunity to access them. Contemporary psychology defines the unconscious in an extensive and positive manner as a psychic formation encompassing hidden tendencies, emotional conflicts generated by the intimate sources of personality. The unconscious is different in its manifestations. The collective unconscious is that huge hereditary spiritual dowry, resulting from the evolution of mankind, which is always reborn in every individual brain structure. It is an abysmal layer of psychic structure, another world, as Jung described, a mirrored world that contradicts our momentary, conscious image of the world.
In a way, it is an eternal image, as opposed to the conscious, that appears as an ephemeral phenomenon because it produces all the adaptations and the momentary orientations. The collective unconscious initiates, controls and mediates the behavioural experiences and manifestations typical of all people, regardless of historical era, geographical location, social class, nationality, etc. By custom extension we reach archetypes that are "identical psychic structures, common to all", constituting the "archaic heritage of humanity". The archetype has its own energy, thanks to which it can "exercise psychic influences that do not manifest openly on the surface of the world, but act all the more powerfully from within, from the darkness, over us, being invisible to the one who does not sufficiently subject to criticism his momentary image of the world, thus remaining, even hidden himself."
And, before moving on to what we are interested in, it would be good to detail (from the point of view of psychoanalysis), little, what are the mechanisms of functioning, defense of all formations of the human psyche (we also used the term defense because any system tends to retain its initial state or improve it, terms easily compatible with that of maintenance, defense).
The first of these is the denial of internal psychic reality, which implies, at the same time, the affirmation of its existence. You can only deny something that exists. Thus, the discharges penetrate into the conscious in the denied form. And, the repression of these repressed thoughts and desires end up putting us in the face of their recognition, inducing a state of discomfort, anxiety that can become extreme. Next comes the discharge which is the oldest, most important and most well-known mechanism considered by psychoanalysis. Through the process of discharge are kept subconsciously all those pulsating representations forbidden by the super-I.
Refulsion is a basic mechanism in neurosis, but also a normal process in everyday life, perhaps the most important factor that attracts the conflicts so mentioned by the new medicine. In general, this statement is supported by the fact that those experiences are expressed in particular unconditionally or without the possibility of intervention, such as those from childhood, which attracts an obvious imbalance of the immature psyche of the child and the individual in the later stages. It follows identification, which is the situation in which one person's self unconsciously takes certain traits from another person.
One example is the hysterical son's son's passout with the deceased father. Another form of identification is identification with the aggressor, a means of defense used in dealing with objects of the outside world that the subject cannot cope with, the example being that of the victim who turns into the aggressor. Displacement is the association of an affective charge with an object or event in a contiguous relationship with the initial ones that triggered the affective state. An example is that of the parent who unloads his or her anger on the child when he or she has been put in a frustrating situation by the boss at work.
Sublimation refers to the transformation of instinctual impulses into activities accepted by society, such as the use of sexual instinct for artistic purposes, or aggressive impulses in a sport. Projection is the attribution of our own characteristics, feelings, desires or character traits that we do not want or recognize/know, objects or people from the outside. Rationalization is the process by which we try to give a logical or morally acceptable explanation to inclinations, manifestations or feelings considered unacceptable and the cause of which is not perceived.
Regression (and not in the sense of giving back qualitatively) is the process of returning to a stage of previous mental development, be it thinking, feeling or behavior, an example being the case of divorce filed by the spouse to marry a partner from his youth. Reactionary formation is the development of an attitude or behavior in the opposite direction to the instinctual tendency repulsed. For example, the manifestation of an obsession with cleanliness can hide the desire for sexual perversions. And the list could go on...
Concluding, trying to conclude, the unconscious has a set of programs that allow those of the subconscious to run. There are programs that can be "modified" particularly hard, maybe never and, in the end, everything manifests itself palpablely on their support. The next set of programs is the one at the subconscious level. This is where it is. Here are the programs (something that can be compared to computer programs) that can be rewritten whenever it is deemed imperative to do so. He treats information based on the basic, existential set of the unconscious and works, possibly alters, in direct relation to the ideas and beliefs with which he was fed, with the help of the programs that assimilated them. As the science of our times has demonstrated, it reaches the level of DNA both in reading basic programs (natural programs) and in rewriting them (attention, without touching the base, the unconscious, but only matter, its structuring at the DNA level), the point from which the manifestation of acquired programs departs.
What is more interesting and important than we can imagine is that the subconscious is incapable of discriminating between the information it receives and, for this reason, accepts it as it is. He will not know the difference between dream, imagination and reality, between an imaginary fact and a lived one, nor between the present and the future, the subconscious being timeless. This is a great weakness or quality of the subconscious, the fact that it records all the information, without asking questions or analyzing. In fact, through repetition, he absorbs all the data he perceives, without even sorting out what's bad for us. Even if they are not perceived by the conscious for lack of attention, for example, or because the signal is too weak, the subconscious records them. He blindly executes his program, based on the data that has stored it, and will provide this data again when an identical or close situation occurs.
Building your own thoughts and beliefs throughout your life, those you have accepted and those related to the family, social and cultural environment, are slowly polishing your thinking. Therefore, childhood is the most vulnerable period in terms of subconscious development. Now we accept unconditionally, even strengthened by the authority and worship of parents, most of the negative beliefs, sometimes destructive, passed on voluntarily or not. And, all this gradually becomes brakes and inhibitions in adult development. After all, the accumulation of these negative or limited thoughts ends up creating new systems of thought that will lead our lives and condition our physical and mental behavior. Virtually every disease or evil originates in our brain (including the whole body) and we become exactly what we think. In conclusion, the quality of our lives depends more on the quality of the subconscious than on anything else.
Where does this addiction come from?!? The conscious, as scientists say, is unable to know what is recorded in the subconscious, which gives rise to numerous conflicts between the two cerebral hemispheres. As we have seen in many previous posts, even in this, the conscious is charged with information analysis and reasoning, but he does so on the basis of the data he receives from the subconscious, which will always give him the information closest to the situation experienced at that time. In fact, we need to know and remember that the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious and that it is he who has the last word.
The subconscious is always stronger than the conscious and it always takes precedence over conscious thinking and reflection. This is an important point, which we must integrate into the functioning of the brain, because it is the source of all conflicts. By synthesizing, when you have the conscious will to execute something, an action, the subconscious will serve you the information it has. If this information corresponds to a negative appointment related to a special, previous situation (e.g. a failure, a fear, an altercation, a sentimental deception, etc.), these emotions will appear in the present and will be in conflict with your consciousness, which will not have the means to overcome them or erase these negative thoughts of the subconscious.
They will undoubtedly take control, and you will experience a state of permanent inner conflict, intractable and assumed. It is the beginning of the installation of the disease or a chronic pathology, which you can only solve by starting a work of positive reprogramming of your subconscious. Here's an example... A child is regularly beaten by his parents as a child. His subconscious records all these situations of fear and traumatic, frustrating violence or other similar feelings and feelings. The child becomes an adult and manages to forget all this stuff about his past. He consciously thinks that he has forgotten, or at least put aside, this stage of his life.
What's really going on? His subconscious has forgotten nothing, and every time he has a behaviorally similar person at the center, even in appearance, to his father's or his mother's, he will consciously represent these memories of painful emotions. The adult then goes through an automatism of his behavior against which he can do nothing for the moment (feels discomfort, a fear and an anxiety similar to those of childhood). He's facing a blockage that he's supposed to remove from his subconscious if he wants to find peace and quiet in front of such people. The subconscious always takes precedence, priority, over human thought.
So, you've already understood that failures, humiliations, negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety, are related to something. Some kind of stimulus landmark. In technical, medical, scientific language this link is called an anchor (the purpose of this post is to start treating anchors, so I won't end it until I say something about them too – and I will continue to treat anchors for many posts from now on). So these anchors disrupt the proper functioning of your psychic processes and affect, of course, your way of life and thinking.
This disorder, "launched"/ activated by anchors, without realizing it, has little by little impact on the scheme of thought and leads you to irrational behaviors and against your own interest, pushing you towards situations of failure and until the actual onset of diseases. Yes, this disorder generates discomfort and diseases, which in turn can give rise to disorders such as lack of self-confidence, sickly shyness, bulimia, anorexia, tobacco addiction, alcoholism, but also to serious pathological cases, when the feelings experienced were violent and profound, and the conflicts born from it are particularly strong and manifest over a long period of time.
The effort of the new medicine is oriented precisely in this direction. To heal yourself or simply to feel good, a process of healing and reprogramming the subconscious must be done. Yes, fortunately it is possible to change any program written in the subconscious, whether you help yourself to achieve your goals by changing your character, whether you get rid of a bad habit, or focus on controlled, piloted rewriting, and so on.m. You can "delete" or replace data that is related to any negative or disruptive emotions. discovering the causes and freeing you from all the memories of the emotions that cause you disorder, the rest becomes easy to do.
Success will only be a matter of time and involvement, depending on the motivation and importance you will assign. There are many methods but almost all have a common point, "collaboration" with the subconscious. The simplest is the regular feeding of the subconscious with positive suggestions, which eliminate and end up replacing beliefs and thoughts, so that the subconscious is unlocked, i.e. stopping the negative suggestions that the subconscious offers to the conscious and the progressive deletion of these memories through reprogramming. The golden rule for this to be successful is the daily repetition, or even several times a day, of these suggestions, so that they print themselves subconsciously, to act. That can mean repeating words, phrases, thoughts, or making mental images, life scenes (mental theater), important being to flood your subconscious with the information you want.
But in order to be able to access this collaboration, we must first know how the subconscious works (focusing on practices and control, and not on the pile of informational data that we have typed so far, designed to stimulate the understanding of all processes) in the strict sense of the word and, on the other hand, to know how to "talk" to it and thus communicate, order, etc. A "famous" example of this is that the subconscious does not perceive denials. thus, a "corrective" statement of ours such as "I don't want such an indifferent partner" ends up, by subconsciously disregarding the "no" denial, by being perceived as "I want another partner so indifferent".
The effect is unconditional and absolute, especially through repetition. In our lives there will be another partner, the same or better in the manifestation of indifference to the one who drew us the expression of the erroneousdesire expressed. Through an extension of the example, we can use a computer as much as possible but is it effective?!? So will computer experts, if they do not know the programming languages, they will only be simple users with the limited resources made available. They will not be able to change the operation in any way but will only use it effectively. So, many of the communication elements specific to the subconscious, its language... Then, for most of us, do we know what we want?!? So it's also going to take an effort to structure, to determine what we really want... All these techniques I'll describe in time... You'll see!!!
Now, in terms of the course of my desired exposure, there is the first "place" where I can make a complete and complex connection with the unconscious (I specify that my analysis should start from the other end of the triad mentioned above but my intentions are clear and precise and I cannot digress). This link is represented by the "anchor". Let's see what the anchor is, from the point of view of the human psyche!
If people go through an event that impresses them, they will easily remember it and the feelings that caused them when they later perceive (something similar or pure memory) part of this experience. Such a small fragment of an experience, which is able to determine the appearance of a suite of memories, including the related emotional states, is referred to in the specialized language as "anchor". I'll give two examples, one from real life, palpable and one from subconscious life, "subjective".
The first example is a walk somewhere on the street, simply. We're passing a store where a person comes out. Opening the store door brings to our perceptions a particular song, broadcast by a radio station listened to in that store. Then you remember, incidentally or not, that before, once, you danced with someone of the opposite sex (or accepted) on this song and you were extremely happy. The song has become, in this case, for you or for you, an anchor that helps you update a vast experience.
It's the turn of the second experience, the second example. Hearing the song you can go on enjoying the memory of some exceptional memories or your gaze can be drawn to the song's broadcast source. Then you can notice, for example, the person leaving the store. Gorgeous eyes, perfect appearance with the harmony existing in You and remain mentally "hardened" on the perceived image, even for a few seconds, associated with the spontaneity and remembrance of the experiences born of the first impulse, of the melody.
Something inside, inexperienced up to that point will become a supplement of the anchor that already existed, the one related to remembering pleasant moments. And since life has its charm, someday you'll meet that person, the one who came out of the store in question. You may not remember but you will have a strange openness (sympathy, empathy or similar experiences) to that person thanks, you guessed it, to the anchor (old, associated with the new one, resulting in a new, more complex and complete anchor). This example we created so that you understand the multiple appearance of an anchor. For simplicity, I'll get another example, simple, of course.
Think, for example, of the color red! Why does this remind you? Perhaps, if you have enough patience, you will remember a whole string of past events, make multiple associations, and relive a whole range of feelings. That means that the "red" anchor is not unequivocally linked to a particular experience. However, a special event, or one and the same association, may occur more often or even each time when you think of red or when you turn your attention to a red thing. Perhaps a red rose will appear in your memory quickly, or a "principle of faith" (a principle of faith is a conviction, something that can only be changed with great difficulty by the laws of logic and those of rational thought) in which you believe in particular, such as the red linked to love. It is only after that that other memories and associations appear, all with the possibility of being ordered in a certain sequence.
Other examples of anchors may be: the knot in the handkerchief that must remind you of something, the image of a colleague at work at the sight of which your heart warms, your hopes awaken, the word "love" to which your personal experiences, principles of faith or feelings bind you, the sign of the cross with which you may associate a certain spiritual attitude or faith , a typical, well-known touch that tells you that your partner likes you very much or wants you, the road sign that tells you that if you park you can have unpleasantness, a flashing light on the dashboard of your car that tells you that you will make "the fool's feather", the two letters "WC" that tell you that, nearby, there must be a place where you can have "privacy" and the examples can continue almost endlessly.
As you can see, it seems that all life consists mostly of anchors. They help us to effortlessly update memories and related experiences in order to obtain a logical sensory correlation (left cerebral hemisphere) or nonlogical (right cerebral hemisphere), stronger emotional states, whose energy we need to overcome difficult situations in life, etc. If we also take into account the hidden anchors, the ones to which the vaguest real experience, lived, ours is not correlated, things come to be complicit a little more than expected... Or, if we consider the latest scientific-medical-psychological findings (blah, blah, blah), the human brain uses fragments to create the whole. An anchor, from this point of view, can become an entire universe by simple mental "reconstruction" initiated by an anchor, and complemented by the brain that needs the whole (but, about all this a little later)...
Offf, I'm writing this morning, 8:30, and it's past 3:00. I'm sorry, but I have to dedicate myself to my family... We'll continue tomorrow with the anchors... And a lot of the days ahead... Have a good day!
Love,
Gratitude and Understanding (Namaste)!!!
Dorin, Merticaru