Unconscious Mind Research - The Unconscious Death Trap

Unconscious Mind Facts for Basic Neurosis Podcast.

Facts about your unconscious mind that combine make your life miserable.

Nearly 50 years of observing human nature have led me to one profound realization: Most of us have no clue why we do what we do.

In a state of impressive ignorance, we go on feeling compulsively unhappy. If you're in this boat, then you'll probably identify with the following symptoms:

You cannot control your behaviors and are often compelled to act against your own best interest.

You cannot control your thoughts - you may live under a barrage of self-criticism and negativity in your own head.

You cannot control your feelings and experience fear, anger, jealousy, worry, apathy, discouragement, self-doubt and so forth....that actually prevents you from doing what you think you want to do.

Why?

Why would anyone sabotage their life?

Why would you ever do ANY of the following, especially when you honestly know better?

• Invite all the wrong people into your life - controlling people. Rejecting people. People who ignore your needs.

• Stop doing what make you healthy and happy. Eating right. Exercising. Keeping up good habits.

• Deprive yourself in a million ways. Doing for others who don't reciprocate. Not take care of your own needs.

When you understand the unconscious mind, you can know why. And you can do something about it. if you dare. I say if you dare, because most people are terrified of mental health. They don't want to be healthy. It's a fear-inducing prospect. The power and freedom and responsibility of having excellent mental health is simply terrifying to many of us.

Anyway, what combination of facts turns the unconscious mind against you?

These are scientific facts and I will put them together in such a way that will reveal the death trap of the unconscious mind.

Unconscious Death Trap Fact #1: The unconscious mind Controls 95% of your Life

Emotions - Preferences, Likes and Feelings and GOALS Can be 100% Unconscious

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00288.x

subliminally induced affective reactions still influence people's preference judgments and even the amount of beverage they consume - Decisions and Behaviors - 100% unconsciously determined.

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&uid=2000-16325-007

Unconscious Death Trap Fact #2: 95% of Decisions are Made Unconsciously

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-subconscious-mind-of-the-consumer-and-how-to-reach-it

It processes info and comes to conclusions of its own:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150217-how-smart-is-your-subconscious

It Records Everything

Habit-Based - Habituation

Familiarity Effect

In 1980, Zajonc proposed the affective primacy hypothesis, which hypothesizes that affective reactions (i.e. liking) can be "elicited with minimal stimulus input". Through mere-exposure experiments, Zajonc sought to provide evidence for the affective-primacy hypothesis, namely, that affective judgments are made without prior cognitive processes. Zajonc tested this hypothesis by presenting repeated stimuli to participants at suboptimal thresholds such that they did not show conscious awareness or recognition of the repeated stimuli (when asked whether they had seen the image, responses at chance level), but continued to show affective bias towards the repeatedly exposed stimuli. Zajonc compared results from primes exposed longer which allowed for conscious awareness to stimuli shown briefly such that participants did not show conscious awareness. He found that the primes shown more briefly and not recognized prompted faster responses for liking as compared to primes shown at conscious levels.[5][6]

Goetzinger (1968)

Charles Goetzinger conducted an experiment using the mere-exposure effect on his class at Oregon State University. Goetzinger had a student come to class in a large black bag with only his feet visible. The black bag sat on a table in the back of the classroom. Goetzinger's experiment was to observe if the students would treat the black bag in accordance to Zajonc's mere-exposure effect. His hypothesis was confirmed. The students in the class first treated the black bag with hostility, which over time turned into curiosity, and eventually friendship.[4] This experiment confirms Zajonc's mere-exposure effect, by simply presenting the black bag over and over again to the students their attitudes were changed, or as Zajonc states "mere repeated exposure of the individual to a stimulus is a sufficient condition for the enhancement of his attitude toward it".[4]

Always Awake - always working

Neuroscientists have shown that the conscious mind provides 5% or less of our cognitive (conscious) activity during the day – and 5% they say is for the more aware people, many people operate at just 1% consciousness. Dr Lipton also says that the unconscious mind operates at 40 million bits of data per second, whereas the conscious mind processes at only 40 bits per second.

Is Different than the Conscious Mind - the Split

It’s a Massive Multi-Tasker