15/11/2023
THE FUNCTIONS OF
THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND
‘THE PRIME DIRECTIVES’
1. It is the storehouse, the repository of ALL your memories.
2. It is where your emotions reside.
3. It ‘files and logs’ every one of your memories in the following ways:
Temporally – By listing events on a Time Line so you can identify its place in your history.
By subject – Creating a ‘Gestalt’, a group of linked types.
4. It represses memories that contain unresolved negative emotions.
5. The unconscious will re-present repressed negative memories for resolution (and not always at the most appropriate moment!).
6. It may continue to repress negative memories to protect you, so allowing you to live life ‘normally’.
7. It runs your body systems (e.g. Heart, Breathing, etc.). It seems that it has a detailed knowledge of your body in the now and what your body would be in perfect health.
8. The primary function of the Unconscious is preservation; to keep you alive and whole.
9. It assumes as correct, the moral code you were taught and accepted as a child and follows it implicitly.
10. It wants to serve you by taking and following instructions from your conscious mind.
11. It is the recipient of all external data via the senses and filters it, before re- presenting the remaining information to your conscious mind.
12. It regulates your energy, according to physical and emotional input and output.
13. It maintains your ‘intuitive’, instinctive behaviours. It is also where habits are created and maintained.
14.Initially, it needs repeated, conscious application, before it will install a new habit or behaviour.
15. Tends to seek for more and more: e.g. achieving a goal soon leads to seeking a new goal.
16. It is at its most efficient in helping you achieve outcomes when it is operating as an integrated whole, devoid of ‘conflicting parts’.
17. Responds well to and utilises symbols, which is why we ‘see’ things in random patterns and why metaphors can have such a great effect upon us.
18. Traditionally thought of as being around 4/5/6 years of age in terms of maturity and therefore tends to be very literal in interpretation and takes everything personally.
19. Will always adopt the easiest route to a goal or outcome.
20. It does not process negatives
