How Your Subconscious Mind Controls

Your Behavior
Scientists have known for decades that the subconscious (or unconscious) mind is more
powerful than the conscious mind. Some of them even suggested that if you could access
and control your subconscious mind, doing extraordinary things, such as telekinesis
would be like a walk in the park. In the popular documentary hat the !leep "o e
#now$, "r. %oe "ispen&a states that a healthy human brain can process '(( billion bits of
information per second. )owever, we are only conscious of about *,((( of those '((
billion bits of information. In simpler terms, he is telling you that most of the information
of reality is processed by your unconscious mind.
+he main reason why your subconscious mind processes most of the information of your
environment is because your conscious mind isn,t powerful enough to process all the
information of reality. If your conscious mind tries to process billion of bits of information
at once, you would see or experience things that would make your life very chaotic. +his
is why your subconscious mind translates most of the information, so that it can filter out
unnecessary things. +his allows you to experience life in a way that makes sense to you.
Since the unconscious mind is more powerful than the conscious mind, could it influence
your behavior- Some psychologists believe this is possible and they have actually done
experiments to prove their theory.
+he .ew /ork +imes published details about an experiment done by psychologists at /ale
to see if they could alter people,s behavior.
+he study participants, college students, had no idea that their social instincts were being
deliberately manipulated. 0n the way to the laboratory, they had bumped into a
laboratory assistant, who was holding textbooks, a clipboard, papers and a cup of hot or
iced coffee 1 and asked for a hand with the cup.
+hat was all it took2 +he students who held a cup of iced coffee rated a hypothetical
person they later read about as being much colder, less social and more selfish than did
their fellow students, who had momentarily held a cup of hot 3ava.
+he study involving coffee is 3ust one of the many similar experiments that came to
similar conclusions. 0ne of those studies used cleaning li4uid and another used briefcase
to alter people,s behavior. /ou can read more about those experimentshere.
0ne of the most popular psychologists is Sigmund 5reud. )is theory of the structures of
the mind is the most well6known. 5reud separated the mind down into three parts, the id,
the ego and the superego. 5reud believed that most of our emotions, beliefs and impulses
were buried in our subconscious mind, which he referred to it as the id. !ecause of his
belief, he considered the id to be the main drive for our behaviors and personalities.
5reud tends to see the subconscious mind and ego as scary and chaotic, which is still
widely accepted in modern psychology.
+he unconscious mind and ego are part of who you are, because they are parts of your
identity. hen you become fearful of them, it makes it easier for them to control your
behavior. +he ego is a part of your mind that loves to control you. It,s always living in a
state of fear due to its belief that it needs to fight against you for survival. 7s a result, it
will lie and deceive you, so that it can stay in control. If you want to stop the ego from
controlling you, you need to learn how to integrate the ego with other identities of your
mind, so that the ego doesn,t feel so lonely and separated. 0ne of the first steps to calm
your ego,s controlling behavior is to stop fearing it and accept it as a part of you.
!ehaviors that arise from the unconscious mind are very effective at influencing how you
behave, which is why advertising companies are obsessed with subliminal messages.
+hese types of messages were created by advertising agencies for the purpose of
reprogramming your unconscious mind, so that they can influence how you think. If
subliminal messages didn,t work, do you think they would waste millions of dollars per
year on them- Since the unconscious mind plays a big role in how you behave and
experience reality, if you want to have more control over your life, learn to acknowledge
it instead of fear it. !y doing this, it will help you become aware of your unconscious
compulsive behaviors, making it easier for you to control them.