Lessons in Positivity
04. The Genie Within
The Genie Within is a name for our subconscious mind.
Tap / click this link Iceberg to see picture of an iceberg
representing the three different parts of our mind.
The genie is a spirit of arabian folklore, traditionally depicted as imprisoned within a bottle or oil lamp, and capable of granting wishes when summoned.
Tap / click this link Genie to see how a genie looks like.
Our mind is divided into three parts. They are:
- The Conscious Mind
- The Sub-conscious Mind and
- The Unconscious Mind
They help us understand what each part represents and what it contains.
The sub-conscious mind represents information that is unawarely stored. This information is collected from what / how we think, reason, conclusions we make and our responses. It is constantly getting recorded. It is continually shaping our thinking, feeling, orientation to reality and capacity to cope with events and happenings.
The unconscious mind represents repressed memories. When we consciously push away thoughts and / or feelings about a person, thing, experience, observation or conclusion it gets buried as a memory. This process of burying is called suppression. Multiple times of suppression of the same type of memory or strongly pushing it away from memory causes its repression. While suppression occurs when we consciously force thoughts and feelings out of our conscious awareness, repression occurs when impulses, thoughts, feelings and emotions are unconsciously pushed out of awareness. An example will explain the difference - A person may take calculated risks in stock trading. He will be setting aside fears consciously. The fears are suppressed. Another person may recklessly take risks in the same circumstances. His fear is repressed. When repression takes place we deny ourself the ability to re-experience. It however shapes our psyche - the manner in which we perceive, evaluate, assess and conclude things about people, incidents, events, occurrences and experiences. These conclusions shape our responses, motivation, self image and self esteem.
In learning positivity we study the working, functions, operations and shaping of our sub-conscious mind. We learn methods to train it to work to our advantage and serve us much like the genie!
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Very clearly explained the distinction between the layers of mind.
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