Daydreaming
Listen To Your Subconscious
Dr Raven Dolick M.s.D.
Mar 18, 2016
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Have you heard the term Late Selection?
Late selection refers to the fact that all information taken in by our minds (through all the senses) is processed by the subconscious mind first before reaching our conscious mind. You don’t need consciousness to learn. (Wow, what did I just say?)
The old belief was called Early Selection, in which information passed through the conscious mind before the subconscious mind and all non-essential information was discarded.
IMPORTANT: LATE SELECTION IS HOW OUR MIND OPERATES!
Everything MUST go through the subconscious mind first.
Do you see how major that is?
This finite, conscious mind you have will only be playing a minor role in your learning. You can put any insecurities aside, because the part of your mind that may be making you apprehensive, or unsecure, is of very little consequence. It has a right to feel insecure and to question what it doesn’t understand. But trust us your subconscious mind knows nothing of insecurity or doubt.
Are you familiar with the iceberg analogy? The mind is similar to an iceberg. Only a small portion of the iceberg is visible above the water. This is similar to the conscious mind. Most of the iceberg (sometimes well over 90%) is submerged below the water. This is similar to our subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind has so much more responsibility than our conscious mind. It controls our heart rate our breathing and just about every bodily function needed to keep us alive. The subconscious mind holds our memories and emotions. It never forgets a thing.
Imagine the water line of an iceberg. This is spot at which the conscious and subconscious meet and communicate. This is where we imagine and dream. Imagination is one of the best ways to communicate with our subconscious mind. We tell our subconscious mind what we want through what we imagine. The stronger our imagination, the more vividly we can see the images in our mind and the stronger the emotions we feel, the more contact we have with our subconscious.
IMPORTANT: Don’t forget communication between the conscious and subconscious is two way. Our subconscious sends information to our conscious as well, most of the time we just aren't aware of it.
We need to learn to listen to our subconscious.
Our conscious mind is at its best contact with the subconscious mind when we are dreaming. Make an intent to remember your dreams. Replay your dreams in your mind and ask yourself what your subconscious is trying to tell you.
Fortunately we have a way to access and listen to our subconscious while we aren't asleep.
Daydreaming!
And they used to tell you daydreaming is bad.
Hardly!
Did you know Post-It notes were invented because of a daydream? Did you know Einstein constantly attributed daydreaming to his discoveries?
Everyone knows what it is like to daydream. You enter a trance like state and you become completely oblivious to everything going on around you. You are completely submerged in your thoughts.
The good thing about daydreaming (unlike MOST dreaming) is you can consciously choose the topic of communication between your conscious and subconscious mind. You initiate the process by imagining with your conscious mind then your subconscious mind will take over.
Like sleep, daydreaming cannot be forced. The harder you try to make yourself daydream the less the chance you will enter the daydreaming state.
You have to just let it happen.
And it will.
You have done it so many times in the past.
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