Okay, lesson number 10, the critical you the conscious mind. Now at the end of the last lesson, we spent a good deal of time in the last few lessons a good deal of time talking about the largest part of our mind, which is the unconscious mind. We learned that when we're born, we're an open book, and the thoughts and the images and the ideas which were impressed upon us from the time of our birth, up until we've been talking about the ages of eight to 10. We called our experiences in life. And these experiences gave us the foundation of who we are. And at this point, we were the sum total of all of our thoughts, our images and the ideas and the experiences which we learned supposed to.

Now why? Because we hadn't yet developed our own critical thinking processes yet and develop their critical filter. And we started to talk about that in the last couple lessons. When we were babies and little children, we really didn't have much of a choice, our family and our friends, our playmates, our culture, our religion, even the amount of TV that we were exposed to shaped and molded us simply by exposure. It was a combination of our environment and the nurturing that we received. I mean, we literally were like a sponge ready to soak up everything and anything which we came into contact with.

We learned yes and no, we learned goods and Bad's and we learn likes and dislikes. And we developed a pattern of thought our brain developed to millions and millions and millions of neural connections, not by our own choice, per se, like I said, but by the environment in which we created or raised and, and the nurturing or, I guess we could even say that Non nurturing which we received through the exposure to our life's experiences. Up until that point, we were subject to our parents or caregivers, our older siblings, our cousins, our teachers, and even religious leaders, these patterns of thought laid the very foundation of who we were and who we are today, how we make decisions, how we judge and interpret the world based upon these millions of positive and negative experiences. And we label those experiences either positive or negative through what we call the internal GPS.

And I also suggested that when we reach the critical ages of eight to 10, or so, we developed this critical filter, and we began to become more critical. We learned how to judge as a cipher. We learned how to make decisions about our world for ourselves in many respects. And in other words, we thought we learned how to master critical thought. And with this newfound power called thinking for ourselves, which we really wanted to do so badly at that age. We thought we were in control.

But really, it was an illusion. Instead, we interpreted the world through the filter, which we called past experiences. And based upon our habits and our paradigms of thinking by our environment in which we lived, you know, this became our lands, our perception of who we are and how we would interpret the rest of the world. So now we've come to the third part of the mind, the conscious mind. Now another term for the conscious mind is our critical mind or our thinking mind. And after all, we developed what I call a critical filter.

Now here in our conscious mind, I'm placing on the stick figure the five physical senses, we view and interpret the world from this point on, based upon these five physical senses. What what are they again, well, we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. Now on top of the conscious mind or the thinking mind at the sick figure, I placed Five little antenna, kind of like a cell phone, cell phone tower. So what is the purpose of cell tower? Well, it's to pick up incoming signals from a sender or a source and relay that information to a receiver. So if somebody is trying to call you on your phone, their cell phone is going to send us a signal.

And it's eventually, very quickly my dad picked up via cell tower and it relays that signal, or the cell phone to your cell phone. And the antenna or the cell towers job is simply to relay the information to relay the signal, it doesn't interpret the signal just relays it. Now let's look at a quick example. Let's say that I'm your friend and I want to give you a call. And so I pull up my phone, and I dial your number, and the signal goes through the air and it hits a few cell towers and then your phone eventually and your phone's gonna ring. Now what happens.

So let's go ahead and watch through the process really fast of how you use your five physical senses or some of your, your physical senses to make a simple decision like answering your phone. So first you're going to hear the phone ring. If you have your phone on vibrate, you're going to use your sense of touch. If you're listening to it, obviously you're hearing it. So then what you're gonna do is you're gonna pull out your phone, you're gonna look at it. So you're using your sight, and you're looking at your phone and based on your conscious mind or your thinking mind or your critical mind, you have one of two choices, what are they?

You either answer it or you don't answer it. Now, there's a lot of reasons that can go into why you would or why you wouldn't answer. Now if I'm a friend of yours, you want to talk to me your decision could be pretty easy. Yeah, so the phone. Now quite frankly, there could be a lot of reasons why you want to answer the phone. Maybe you're mad at me, you need to give me a piece of your mind or maybe you don't consider me your friend but you want to get to know me better.

So you make the decision to answer your phone but on the flip side, maybe you're just busy and you want to talk to me. But you just don't have time right at that moment. So you make the decision not to answer the phone at that point. But either way, you're still using your conscious mind. And you're using your conscious mind based upon the five physical senses. All right.

So that's a very simple way, in a very simple illustration, to see how to answer your phone. But we use our five physical senses all the time I'm moving, you're driving down the freeway, you have to use your five physical senses to drive safely. So you don't hurt yourself. You don't harm other people. You're looking where you're going, you're hearing the sights and that and you're paying attention to, to traffic, you get your hands on the steering wheel, your foots on the gas. I mean, our five physical senses are extremely important to us.

But I want you to think of this. There are a lot of animals in our world that have five physical senses. I have a little dog Her name is Nala. Nala can see and she can hear well in fact she can hear a lot better than I can. She can also smell. In fact her little stiffer is way better than my sniffer.

And she can also taste sometimes they give her but she doesn't like so I know that she has taste buds. And you know what she has palsy. They're not hands but I can tell that when she's walking on like hardwood floor or linoleum, it's hard for her to to get her footing. You know, she likes to walk on carpet or go outside a lot better than she does walking on the hardwood floor. So what makes us different than the animal kingdom if we all have five physical senses. Well the next lesson I'm going to talk about our higher senses or our higher faculties.

So go ahead make sure that you're working in here your workbook, complete the assignment basis bases and I will see you in the next lesson.