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February 17, 2020
What Is The Subconscious Mind?
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Do you remember when you tried to ride a bicycle for the first time?
Can you count the number of repetitions necessary to perform a flawless dance?
Have you ever tried to master a new musical instrument?
Most likely, first attempts to synchronize a new set of complex actions are always difficult.
Once we become more skilled, these movements start to require less conscious
awareness until everything begins to flow naturally.
All these automatic movements are guided by one of the most powerful inner forces
which drives human behavior – the subconscious mind (also commonly referred to as
the nonconscious mind).
Subconscious Mind: Where Does It Hide?
It’s not uncommon to hear about conscious and unconscious types of actions when
scientists talk about the brain. As a result, most of us are familiar with the idea that our
behavior is less rational than we believe to be.
Whether we like it or not, our ability to control thoughts, synchronize movements, or
experience emotions depends on the depth of information processing.
The idea of deeper levels of information processing was developed and extensively
studied by famous Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) who introduced
the 3 level mind model. According to his model, the mind could be divided into following
levels:

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Three-level mind model
Conscious – defines all thoughts and actions within our awareness. For example,
the beauty and pleasance of the smell of a red tulip
Subconscious – defines all reactions and automatic actions we can become aware
of if we think about them. For example, our ability to drive a car: once we get skilled
we stop thinking which gears to use, which pedals to press, or which mirror to look
at, yet can always become aware of what was done once we think about it.
Unconscious – defines all past events and memories, though at times inaccessible
to us no matter how hard we try to remember to bring things up. For example, the
first word we’ve learned to say, or how it felt to be able to walk on our own.