The concept of consciousness has great importance in human psychology. Even though the concept of psychology is translated into Turkish as “the science of the soul”, it should actually be defined as “the science of behavior”. For this reason, psychology is a branch of science that studies the human mind, the structure and function of the mind. In the past, it was thought that the mind consisted only of consciousness. For this reason, one of the most important concepts of psychology is consciousness. In later periods, it was predicted that various mental processes might occur other than consciousness. One of these processes is the “subconscious”. The subconscious can be defined as the occurrence of mental states outside of consciousness. The subconscious is a phenomenon that usually develops out of control. However, people learn to direct their subconscious if they wish. The subconscious works together with the nervous system in the body. For this reason, it moves very quickly. All emotional state changes, fear, joy, excitement, sadness, experience, habit, and every action taken without thinking are recorded in the subconscious. Situations such as walking, cycling, and driving are all actions that are recorded in the subconscious and occur without thinking.
How Does the Subconscious Work?
How the subconscious mind works is quite complex and not fully understood. However, some studies provide some information about the subconscious:
1. Automatic Processing: Many processes of which the mind is not aware occur automatically by the subconscious. For example; like changing gears while driving a car.
2. Emotional Processing: Emotional experiences are stored in the subconscious. For example; An event that occurred in the past may be triggered by a similar situation that will occur in the future.
3. Creativity and Imagination: Dreams, creative thoughts, works of art are related to the creativity and imagination of the subconscious.
4. Formation of Beliefs and Attitudes: The subconscious plays a very important role in the formation of a person’s beliefs and attitudes. Experiences acquired in childhood, society, family and culture leave traces in the subconscious and affect behavior.
5. Perception of Communication and Non-Communication Signs: In addition to the words used in subconscious communication, they received body language, tone of voice and other non-communication signals, and the messages given other than what is said are understood by the subconscious.
Subconscious Traumas
Subconscious traumas are traumas that a person stores psychologically, usually without being aware of it. These traumas may result from abuse experienced during childhood, domestic violence, neglect, illness, accidents and losses, or various events experienced during adulthood. It can have negative effects on a person’s physical health as well as their psychology.
Subconscious Causes of Diseases
In some cases, the subconscious can physiologically affect our health and contribute to the emergence of diseases. However, diseases may not be entirely related to the subconscious. Genetic and environmental factors, lifestyle preferences and many other factors may be more effective. Some of the subconscious causes of diseases can be listed as follows.
• Stress-related diseases,
• Immune system diseases,
• Psychosomatic diseases; Eczema, asthma, stomach ulcer,
• Chronic pain and fibromyalgia.
Subconscious causes of these diseases may include low self-confidence, fears and anxieties, loss of control, traumas, and repressed emotions.
How to Manage the Subconscious?
Managing the subconscious is very important to protect a person’s physical and mental health. To manage your subconscious, you can:
• Making time for yourself,
• Meditating,
• Feeding positive thoughts,
• To raise awareness,
• Receiving therapy or counseling services,
• Loving yourself and accepting yourself the way you are.
What is Subconscious Cleansing?
Subconscious cleansing is a work done to remove the negative thoughts in our minds. These studies enable understanding and transformation of negative and limiting thoughts. A person contributes to the development process by discovering himself.
How to Do Subconscious Cleansing?
People start each day by constantly thinking about some problems. All these problems can be linked to many emotions. Every thought exists with emotions, and these thoughts become permanent with emotions. All these emotions and thoughts experienced throughout a person’s life create an accumulation in the subconscious. This accumulation can cause many psychological and physiological problems for the person after a while.
Subconscious cleansing cannot be defined as the complete deletion of an existing thought, event or emotion. On the contrary, it is changing thoughts, feelings or events into the exact opposite. The idea of replacement should be a predetermined and thought-out issue and should not be approached with the expectation of a complete clean-up.
When cleaning the subconscious, a person can follow the following methods:
Think about Past Experiences: Think about the past events that left the most and least traces in your mind and subconscious. Sort these in your mind and create a path for yourself. While walking on this path, try to focus on how past events you experienced made you feel. You can then try to change those events that caused the bad feelings.
Confront Your Past That Affects You Badly: It can be quite difficult to confront bad experiences in the past. However, if you want to clear these experiences from your subconscious, you need to confront them. Otherwise, they will not disappear and continue to negatively affect your life.
Log In to Your Subconscious: In order to successfully clean your subconscious, you need to be in the area between consciousness and subconscious and believe that your mind is not superior to you. What you need to enter the subconscious is to trust yourself and constantly motivate yourself.
Perform Subconscious Cleansing: Identify events that leave bad memories and try to change these memories. Try to beautify the events that previously appeared in black and white by coloring them in your mind. You can get support from breathing exercises, yoga, meditation and mental activities. Believe that all these emotions, events and thoughts that negatively affect your life are only in your mind and that you can eliminate all of them.
Fill in the Gaps the Way You Want It to Be: It is very important to fill the gaps in your mind and subconscious correctly. Otherwise, old bad thoughts may return. You can replace these bad thoughts with the positive events you thought about in the first step. In general, be careful to feed your consciousness with good things.
Subconscious Therapy
Subconscious therapy is a therapy method used to understand the emotions, behaviors and events in a person’s subconscious and to get rid of them by changing their negative effects. It is applied with various techniques, these techniques can be listed as follows:
1. Hypnosis: It is the state of sleeping with an open mind. The aim is to facilitate access to one’s subconscious. By accessing the subconscious, necessary changes can be made in the desired direction.
2. Affirmation: It is replacing negative thoughts in one’s subconscious with positive thoughts. Affirmation is a process. It is constantly repeated and imposed on the person’s subconscious.
3. NLP: It aims to change the individual’s language, thoughts and behaviors. It affects language use and mental state, and negative thoughts are modified and replaced by positive thoughts.
4. Regression: Going back to the past and going to the source of bad and negative events. These situations are detected and changed.
In order for the therapy process to occur as desired, the person must express himself clearly and not refuse therapy.
Subconscious Studies
The reason for the behavior that occurs outside of logic and consciousness without the person being aware of it is the subconscious. Subconscious studies aim to reach the center of a person’s existing fear, anxiety, addiction and similar situations.
Since the person does not know what is going on in his subconscious, he often cannot control it. Uncontrollable situations can often be disturbing. It is very important to carry out subconscious studies in order to solve the person’s emotions, situations and behaviors that seem meaningless by bringing them to the conscious level. Dream analysis and self-hypnosis are among the frequently used subconscious studies.
1. Dream Analysis: Dreams are a reflection of the subconscious and the subjects we concentrate on during the day or in general. Most of the dreams seen have important meanings that are matched in the subconscious.
2. Self-hypnosis: The person controls himself and goes to his own subconscious. Individual therapies and self-hypnosis are very important for a person to know and understand himself and to delve into his subconscious.