The Subconscious Mind
Beneath
your awareness, neural drives remember and recognize patterns and act with
logical precision. Those drives support
your speech. They respond to your
feelings, organize an idea, find the right words, arrange them in order, check
grammar and operate your vocal chords.
Most of
the things you do are outputs of your subconscious drives. Even the emotional turmoil you experience is
caused by internal drives triggered by emotions. Effective mind control depends on an
understanding of the major neural drives within your subconscious mind.
Your
conscious actions eventually become subconscious habits. The basal ganglia, a brain organ, is believed
to “automate thinking and acting, turning focally conscious activities into
quick, reliable, unthinking habit.” Have
you ever been driving somewhere and pulled into the wrong parking lot because
you so often frequent that place and you were not “thinking”
specifically about where you were going?
Science
has clearly shown that complex intelligent activities can be managed by your
subconscious drives. In their research
using PET scans on subjects playing video games, scientist discovered that
cortical activity increases significantly when you first begin to learn a
skill. Such activity decreases when you
master the pursuit. Your conscious
thoughts are correlated to cortical activity.
The bulk of your activities are learned and converted into habitual
drives. Those drives subconsciously
manage your motor systems without your awareness.
Your
motor control systems have a galactic store of preprogrammed habitual actions,
finely tuned to meet specified objectives.
Everything you do has an objective.
Your will or your emotions, decide those objectives and your motor
systems select appropriate actions to achieve those goals. A television set recognizes the selected
movie channel (the drive objective) and delivers a preprogrammed set of images,
which enact your movie. A drive is a set
objective, which delivers the desired chain response. When you travel on a transatlantic flight a
single subconscious drive manages your trip. Your conscious actions are limited
to reading a few airport signs to assist the current drive.
When
you decide to move a piece on a chess board, a specific drive takes over. It controls the sequences of motor impulses,
which persist from the instant your hand picks up the piece, till it is set
down in its new position. Muscle
movements are sequences of contraction, which last just milliseconds. Each signal invokes only a tiny
contraction. A myriad of muscles have to
contract and relax over thousands of cycles till your chess piece reaches its
desired position. Interpreting the
drive, motor codes continually issue precise instructions to meet its
objective. Your hand does not wander off
on its own. Drive systems within your
subconscious mind persistently iterate the objective till it is achieved.
It
requires your undivided attention, when you first learn to drive a car. A conscious learning process links your motor
drives to sensory perceptions. The system
stores those memories. Over the years,
millions more contextual memories are added, shortcuts, early lane changes,
responses to traffic snarls, etc. With
experience, your drive home requires little conscious thought. Such drives remember and manager your myriad
habitual subconscious activities.
Human
creativity is founded on search drives.
The memories of a lifetime of events are added to a galactic memory,
storing knowledge. Drives can
superimpose one concept on another in memory to create a new image in any
imagined combination. Even a child can
imagine a chair with an attitude, or a refrigerator with a toothache. By interpolating millions of possibilities,
your subconscious mind arrives at new and original solutions. Creativity stands on the firm foundation of a
search drive, which manipulates a gargantuan memory.
So in
reality most of our actions are handled by our subconscious minds. We really don’t have to “think” about these
basic actions. However, do we try to run
our entire life with our subconscious minds on “cruise control?” It seems that many people do! Or they try to justify their actions by
saying “That’s just the way I am.” Or “I can’t change.” Many of our common everyday activities being
handled without our conscious efforts, frees our minds for other
activities. So how powerful can your
mind be? That will be the final topic in
our series - - - “Mind Power.”
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
The Solution to Pollution - - -
Just STOP!
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