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Term: Subconscious Mind
Subconscious Mind: That half of our consciousness that operates when we sleep. The subconscious mind is the origin of hunches, intuition, and psychic awareness. source: Dreaming the Divine, Scott Cunningham (Llewellyn Publications)
Meditation is:
An emptying of the mind of all thoughts and "chatter" often by concentration only on the slow inhalation and exhalation of breath and is characterized by slow alpha and theta waves. It induces relaxation and a "clean slate" ... Relevance: The conscious mind is the "middle" consciousness—the "ordinary" consciousness, the "objective" consciousness, the "aware" consciousness—with which we exercise control and direction over our "awake" lives.
With your Conscious Mind you ... Relevance: Exactly what is hypnosis, or more accurately, self-hypnosis?
Self-hypnosis is a self-induced, altered state of mental consciousness that allows you to give constructive suggestions directly to your subconscious mind.
More simply put, you cause ... Relevance: Hypnosis is a daydream-like state. In this state, the person’s conscious mind becomes quiet or passive. The hypnotist introduces suggestions into the powerful subconscious mind.
Let’s take a brief, slightly technical look at how the brain operates. ... Relevance: The mind of man is a marvelous and complicated creation, possibly the least understood facet of the non-physical side of man. The mind is the nonphysical counterpart of the brain. It resembles but exceeds the finest computer assembled by man, in ... Relevance: Many of the terms used in these subject areas do not actually describe "things" so much they do "functions." Similarly, a hand can be described as a fist, or an open palm, or a light hand or a heavy hand, and so forth—these describe functions of ... Relevance: All hypnosis does is capture your natural going to sleep scenario, while keeping you awake, so you can give your subconscious mind beneficial suggestions.
How does hypnosis do this?
Since the conscious mind, or beta, does not do a very efficient ... Relevance: “I venture to call it (the mind) indestructible since it has a peculiar time-table, namely mind is always now. There is really no before and after for the mind.”
Erwin Schrodinger, Physicist and Nobel Prize winner
“We can ... Relevance: To understand the sacred, other world journey of the shaman, it is necessary to first understand shamanic consciousness. To begin with, consciousness is usually divided into two primary types:
The focused, waking consciousness in which we are alert ... Relevance: The signs of the zodiac are the most widely known part of the astrological system. As mentioned earlier, almost everyone knows your Sun sign. The daily horoscopes in the newspaper are based on the position of the Sun in the zodiac. The zodiac is ... Relevance: |
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