The Subconscious Defined, Based on Clinical Experience
AUGUST 28, 2014
There is confusion in mental health discussions about the subconscious and unconscious mind. The subconscious defined by clinical experience led to a theory of the personality that clarified the rolls of the subconscious and unconscious. When used in therapy to describe the development of the personality, the theory was fully acceptable by all aspects of a person’s personality. The following is the sequence of discoveries I made about the subconscious that led to a subconscious definition that improved my treatment methods with my patients.
The subconscious can learn to treat on the inside
My use of the subconscious in treatment expanded when person’s subconscious, while doing Thought Field Therapy (TFT), started stimulating acupressure points on the patient’s face. One thing led to another and the subconscious was found to be able to do the TFT stimulation on the inside, thereby treating the identified issue.
Conclusion: A subconscious can learn treatment methods.
The subconscious can help in treatment planning and execution.
With one patient, who was brilliant, read instructions for the therapist written by the subconscious on a tablet he created in his mind. The subconscious directed me how to do Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) more effectively. I followed the instructions and made significant progress in a complex case of Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome. After that, I paid more attention to the subconscious and asked leading questions to get the best treatment approach and to expand my understanding of the personality.
Conclusion: The subconscious could improve my therapy approach.
The subconscious does not learn trauma pain
During therapy, I talked the subconscious into running the body, so I could get information about how the personality worked. It turned out the subconscious associated with emotions while running the body and her effectiveness in problemsolving was poorer than I had seen previously. I did EMDR with the subconscious to remove the associated emotions so it could regain its acuity in problemsolving.
Conclusion: The subconscious was free of emotions and could, therefore, “see” active memory associations clearly.
The subconscious can only see active memories.
For a year, I would ask the patient’s subconscious, at the end of each session, if we had finished treating all the parts, and the subconscious said, “Yes.” In the next session, we had more parts to treat.
Conclusion: the subconscious could not see or treat dormant memories but only the active memories of the conscious and unconscious.
This made dormant memories more prominent in the model. I had to be resourceful and invent ways to trigger dormant memories into activity that I wanted to treat. I described the active memories of the unconscious and conscious as active memories in the Active Experience. The Active Experience is a theoretical frame to simplify our thinking. Our behavior, that is, everything we think feel, hear, and do, is created, moment by moment, from active memories in the active experience. Our current behavior is a collage of only active memories in the Active Experience.
The subconscious is in the virtual or spiritual reality
I created a physics model (see Healing Your Mind and Soul) to explain the mechanics and treatment of intruding souls (demons and Fallen Angels). The subconscious could treat intruding souls. The subconscious can see and treat field representations of mental issues. There was Wisdom in the 9th dimension, consisting of all human behavior entrained on love. The subconscious could request Wisdom to create an intervention to treat difficult issues such as years of physical abuse. These interventions are powerful and I used them often.
Conclusion: The subconscious is in the virtual reality.