Hello, and welcome to the lecture what is the subconscious mind? So if you made it this far in the course to part three, that I'm going to guess that you're interested in the material that I'm presenting something I'm very grateful for, by the way. So now it's time to discuss the mechanics behind what makes the whole machinery work. So it's time to ask the question, what is the subconscious mind? Now hopefully you're not like me when I started. So if someone was to ask me, in my early days, what is the subconscious mind?

I'd say something like, Well, you know, what's that part of you that? Well, it's kind of like when you were sort of the thing that I don't know. Quit asking me hard questions. So that was my problem with when I first start doing hypnotherapy is I didn't exactly know what the subconscious mind was. And so what I've learned through the years of doing this stuff that the easiest way to discuss what the subconscious mind is, is by first discussing what it is not. And one thing the subconscious mind is not is not the conscious mind.

So the conscious mind is the state of mind that we're in right now. It's our awake state of mind. It's the home of our rational and cognitive thinking process. It's the part of us that they exclusively focus on in the education system, at least in the United States. And it's behind some of the greatest parts of human discovery that like you know, science and technology. However, beneath the conscious mind, is the subconscious mind.

So sub means under so the subconscious mind is underneath the conscious mind and this is a very vast part of who we are as people. And so what is the subconscious mind net? Well, the subconscious mind is the home of the non physical aspect. acts of the human experience. So some of these things include our intuition, our imagination, our dreams, our creative insights, our memory, and most importantly, in the world of clinical hypnotherapy, it's a home of our emotions. And so it's important to also remember that the subconscious mind and accessing the subconscious mind is a very natural act.

You don't need to do this weird hypnotherapy thing to access your subconscious mind because most of us go into it at least twice a day. And that's right before we go to sleep at night, and right before we wake up in the morning, so it's a twilight zone between awake and asleep. And it's often referred to as the suspended dream state. And the beauty with hypnotherapy is that we can go into relaxed states and access that conscious mind for an extended period of time. And in that frame of mind, some really deep healing work can be done within the subconscious. So that's kind of it in a nutshell.

If you want to read more about it, please go to the summary or have some discussion. there and I'll see you at the next lecture. So see you there.