ILLNESS is in the MIND (Part 1)

'Our brain composed of both the Conscious as well as the Subconscious mind controls all our actions. The Conscious part being responsible for all our voluntary actions, and the Subconscious, all our involuntary actions'  - I read this way back in 2003 I guess when I was in standard \/||| in one of my school textbooks. Little did I understand then though as to what is actually meant by subconscious mind ,etc.(yet I did manage to get 90% in that subject..I guess a very simple formula existed then, where your perception fails, cramming begins!) The text went on to describe each scientific term citing examples from our daily life. Though I was'nt  clueless  at the end of the chapter yet my so called thinking self constantly nagged me asking, 'you have completed the chapter but, do you really know what is meant by the term Subconscious mind?' Answer from me - NO.

       

       Fast forward to 2010...I have crossed my teenage and my once frayed teenaged nerves are now non-chalant. During this leap of 7 years I have met people of varied ages. I have had the liberty to experience not only my own experiences but also many vicarious ones. Now, it would be fair to say that  I have been successfully able to delve into the subliminal truth of that text to a large extent. I guess almost all of you are sure of what is meant by 'conscious mind' and voluntary actions. Its the term 'subconscious' that is a bit recondite and esoteric. So let me share my perception (blog soubriquet truly justified, I hope.) of the Subconscious mind.

          [P.S- Neither am I Sigmund Freud, nor do I possess his bloody veins running in my body. If you are an ardent follower of him, then I request you to stop reading at once, and get back to those moronic social networking sites.]

       The subconscious mind actually acts as a stack of all our experiences gained at different junctures of our daily life. It acts just like a lexicon. Though biologically there is no material substance filling this part of our brain, yet it does exist and keeps a track of all our experiences and orders instructions accordingly and sub-consciously, which is why it is so named. This ordering of instructions subconsciously is of prime importance to us.The Subconscious mind pops out a particular experience from the stack, draws an assumption relating to the actual scanario at hand, derives a relation between the present and the experience, and orders instructions accordingly.  All too arcane??  Let me give you an example.

         We generally pay very careful attention while locking our doors when leaving our house. Right from selecting the proper key to bolting the door carefully and then placing the lock at the appropriate place, our conscious mind plays an important role. But it often happens,(atleast it has happened with me on several occasions) that after locking the door when we have already left our house suddenly an alarm bell rings in our conscious mind, asking us and subsequently puzzling us with questions like, 'did we lock the door properly? or did we lock it at all?'. Without any ado we rush back to check, only to find everything's fine.

       Now let's analyze. First and foremost the very obvious fact is while we were locking the door our conscious mind had been dozing, because if we were conscious while locking and since the task requires some amount of precision this whole scenario wouldnt have arised. Now the question is if our conscious mind didnt instruct our hands and fingers to act accordingly, then who did? The answer is its the Subconscious mind that did. The next question which arises is HOW? The answer is pretty simple. Our Subconscious mind had  added the experience of locking a door(taking into account all the minutiae of details), gained sometime back, into its stack. Now when it realizes that the conscious mind is unconscious, it pops out the experience of locking, relates it to the present situation and automatically instructs our hands and fingers to act, all sub- consciously, that too with near 100% accuracy. What's the conclusion to be drawn here? Its the Subconscious mind that takes control of our actions when our conscious mind actually becomes unconscious temporarily. But that in no way implies that our subconscious mind becomes active only when our conscious mind becomes unconscious. Actually our Subconscious self remains active all the time. Whatever we feel, think, see everything counts as experience and gets stacked into our subconscious self.

To be continued.......