Using your conscious mind alone is like balancing a truck on one wheel

We tend to rely heavily on our conscious mind. I’ll like to draw on the iceberg as it’s a concept we are rather familiar with. Just like an iceberg, your mind is comprised of two parts: the part that’s visible (above the surface) and the part’s that hidden (below the surface).

The top of the iceberg that you can see above the water represents our conscious mind. This is where our thoughts, feelings and memories that we are aware of and what we reveal consciously. This is our logical, analytical thinking, five sensory sensations and short-term memory. Interestingly, this is only 10% of our brain function.

The bulk of the iceberg that lies beneath and unseen represents our unconscious mind. This is where our repressed memories, experiences that is hidden from our awareness and what we conceal unconsciously. This is the reservoir of our beliefs, protective reactions, distressing experiences, habits, emotions, insecurities, stressors, trauma and long-term memory. Importantly, this is 90% of our brain function and hidden from our awareness, it exerts the greatest influence over our everyday behaviours and actions. For many, more than 90% of actions is unconscious.

I’ll like to share a really useful analogy – using your conscious mind alone to navigate life’s challenges is like balancing a truck on one wheel. Imagine that. By tapping into both the conscious and unconscious mind is bringing the truck to balance on all wheels. When all wheels are balanced, you are using every aspect of you to serve your benefit in order to move forward. Imagine this, how would you move forward if your truck is titled on one wheel and also trying to move forward?  

“There are layers and layers of memory in the unconscious.” – Sadhguru, Yogi.

Our body remembers and our body stores past stressors in its cellular memory and meridians, Qi. Your mind can play tricks on you however, our body never lies. Kinesiology through muscle testing gains biofeedback into the mind-body system where stressors were stored and by clearing these blockages from the past through the body’s energetic systems, it enables you to respond differently to your past, the present and the future.

Drawing inspirations from Sadhguru, Yogi; Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalyst

“The volume of memory that the body carries is a billion times more than the volume of memory
your mind is capable of carrying. Every cell in the body has phenomenal memory – not just of this life.”
Sadhguru, Yogi