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Before we begin to go into the hidden powers of the mind we are first going to discuss with the subconscious is. We do this because in order to use something properly you must first understand it fully; in this case, we are talking about the subconscious mind.

Everybody has a vague understanding of what the subconscious mind is but for the average person if they had to give an accurate description they would probably not be able to.

We tend to think of the subconscious mind as those thoughts that might seep into our dreams or into our speech, such as when one makes a Freudian slip.

That is true, that our subconscious is responsible for both but that is only the tip of the iceberg for what our subconscious mind really is and what it can do.

When it comes to our thinking there are two kinds of thinking that we do. Our conscious thinking is the thoughts that we have actively in our mind.

Our subconscious thinking is the thinking that we refer to as our background thinking. Our brains handle many different functions at once and we are processing information from all of our senses all the same time but not always on the same level.

For instance, perhaps you are at a party and it was not until after the party that you realized that two people who typically do not get along were sitting at the same table and talking.

Now you had seen this will you are at the party but it did not register until later as your subconscious mind was processing the information and it registered as important and moved up to become an active thought.

Our subconscious consists of layers upon layers of those types of thoughts, insights, and observations that have all been categorized and then shelved until we need to pull up the information.

Certain things can trigger one of those subconscious thoughts and pull it up to become part of our active thinking.

Another example of our subconscious works is when we are talking about emotions. Have you ever been watching a movie only to find yourself crying and the sad part?

You were just watching the movie, you were thinking about it you were just watching it but the emotion impacted you all the same.

That is your subconscious at work, it noticed that you are watching something that was sad, and it triggered that emotion, which in turn can trigger the physical response sadness, which would be crying.

The same thing can happen when watching a happy movie you find yourself laughing even though you were not putting active thought into the movie you were just listening, watching, and enjoying.

Sticking with our movie example, let us say that while watching a movie you had a brief thought that one of the actors looks familiar but you could not place where you had seen them in.

Several hours after watching the movie, while in the middle of something else all of a sudden it pops in your head that you had seen that actor in such and such a movie.

Perhaps you did not spend hours thinking about it but because you would had a thought about who that actor was it triggered your subconscious to check its files until it found the answer and then to let you know.

Another thing that is attributed to your subconscious thinking is what we call instinct.

True instinct is something that is found in animals and birds and it dictates certain aspects of their behavior that they will all display, even of raised by humans with no contact of their own kind.

Humans have no true instincts, at least not like that but we do have instincts and they come from our subconscious.

As we go about our daily business, things that we have seen, heard or had contact with all get filed away into our memory files.

When something comes up that relates to one of those memory files, our subconscious will go and pull up the file. That gut feeling we get, or that little voice in our head telling us what we should, or shouldn’t do, is our subconscious trying to get your attention.

The actual definition of subconscious means below the conscience and it is called that because it is a thinking that is just below our conscience or our active thinking. So part of tapping into the hidden power of the mind is to have a better grasp of our subconscious thinking and how we use it.