What is Your Unconscious Mind? Self-hypnosis is potentially a compelling tool that you can use to overcome fears, improve physical and mental performance, and even help cure addictions.

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But without our understanding of the unconscious mind, there would be no such thing as hypnotism, never mind self-hypnosis. We will examine what the unconscious mind is and how it relates to your well-being and personality.

What is the Unconscious or Subconscious Mind?

Many of us think of Freud as something of a whack job who accused people of fancying their parents. That said, he should also be remembered for his many incredible contributions to the field of psychology. Before Freud, there was no psychotherapy or counseling, and before Freud, there was no concept of an unconscious mind.

In Freud's view, the unconscious mind versus the subconscious mind was everything that was going on 'beneath the surface' in our waking lives. He often likened this concept to an iceberg, with only the tip visible and the rest murky and inaccessible. So you might say one thing and think another, but on some level, more is going on that you are unaware of.

Freud described an 'unconscious mind' as the part of the mind we weren't conscious of. He never used the term 'subconscious,' which is really just a misnomer.

Complications In What Our Brain Believes

Our unconscious is made up of all the things our brain deems inconsequential or too upsetting for our conscious mind to handle. Thus, we often 'repress' memories and can't remember them; we deny things and fail to notice them, but they are all still there, working away beneath the surface. 

And if there are unconscious associations we hold about something or beliefs about something, then these can hold us back and cause us not to perform at our best, or even to become mentally ill.

This, then, is the role of classic Freudian psychodynamic intervention—to help the individual come to terms and move past these unconscious roadblocks. Freud had many tools for doing so, from the 'inkblot test' to the interpretation of dreams (the 'royal road to the unconscious'). 

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