The Unconscious / Conscious Mind: Our conscious minds hold a limited amount of information at any one time. Our conscious minds attend too many of the things we deliberately want to concentrate on. Where we place our attention has a significant impact on our abilities, outcomes, emotions, behaviours, communications, and our state during a situation and/or encounter.
Our unconscious minds can attend to the whole experience, stores information it has exposure to throughout time, and keeps us up right and breathing. You may of heard yourself say something like, it just popped into my head, or a thought just came out of nowhere. Perhaps you had a sense or an intuition about something. You may even have a voice or voices that tell you information, some useful and perhaps some not so useful. Its OK, we all experience this. We refer to this as our internal dialogue, an inner voice that offers information to the conscious mind. This is one way we can communicate with our unconscious minds, and there are others. We are also able to ask for assistance once we have clear communications established. Our unconscious minds are there to offer assistance and always in our best interest with the information it has.
Many people have yet to learn to trust their unconscious mind and/or have an over active conscious mind that may over ride detail given from the unconscious. Developing the ability to recognise signals and information from your unconscious mind assists in drawing upon resources in real time in any given situation. It also offers warnings about safety, physical health and highlights information of importance. When these signals are ignored or over ridden, the consequences are often not consciously made explicit. We believe treating our unconscious minds with respect, manners and all the etiquette they deserve is a good habit to form. When your unconscious mind offers you a signal of some sort, acknowledging the signal and thanking your unconscious mind goes a long way towards a strong communication and relationship, as it would with another person.
NLP learning’s, patterns and processes that have been experienced in an emergent approach go directly to the unconscious mind, with or without conscious understanding. Trusting your unconscious mind is personally useful and offers resources for every context.
