maandag 22 november 2010

when to use the conscious - subconscious (beta)

Creative, interesting, new projects are not always completely ready delivered at our conscious, creations are made bit by bit and put together from a lot of different insights, all genius were workers, not only unstoppable at thinking out but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, organizing. They used their conscious and subconsciousnes in harmony. Our subconscious is in direct contact with the world around us, we can see reality, the immediate artistic appearance and our conscious is involved from time to time to realize the beauty. Our subconscious thinking is spontaneous, uncontrolled and works through a relaxed mindset, pressure of time or stress blocks our subconscious thoughts. It is particularly useful in situations which are new and complicated, we study the problem, examine all the aspects, leave it when we are stuck, do something completely different so we are not actively busy with the problem, and our subconscious has time to make different connections and generate a solution or new pattern. During this proces it's impossible to think out loud, to speak or articulate what you are thinking, you can only communicate your insights spontanous but cannot say what you are thinking.
With reason we can understand what it means, the underlying scientific meaning, examine the implications and have reasonable communication with others. Our conscious thinking is controled, deliberate and happens by explicitly articulating, thinking out loud is possible. It's espessialy usefull in situations who suppose common sense and reason. We use our conscious thinking for linear mecahnical problems, problems which consist of seperate parts,  for organic problems, problems where changing one part has consequences for other parts, we use our subconscious thinking.
When you have to make a choice in relation with your preferences then there is no point in analysing or reflecting your choice, it will only make you doubt but doesn't lead to satisfaction. If you have to make a choice regarding food, woman, music, art then you have to follow your feelings and not the ratio for to make a satisfactory choice. Your subconscious will also take those considerations into account whinch are difficult to put into words, our ratio is overestimating the cognitive factors and underestimating the feelings with the result that our dicision will seem reasonable and functional but will not give a long gratification. After counting all the pro's and contra's you will choose for the middle way which is less satisfactory then choosing for the very best positive points ore the least negative points. Choosing means loosing, we can't choose and -and but or - or, you can choose for the middle way or for the way with the best positives or least bad negative effects, only the last ones will give satisfaction, the middle way will be rational and argumentated but will not give satisfaction. The beauty and quality of events, objects, moments and artistic projects are not the possession of the object or nature but of feeling the intuitive answer.
It's impossible to proceed completely rational without using your intuition but using your intuition is something different then not thinking at all. You can use your intuition only when you know allready something about a problem, your subconscious is working with the information it receives. We gain a big part of our insights, understanding, intelligence by explicite knowledge which becomes implicite know how.
Our conscious steers the subconscious, our subconscious can only pass new found insights on when our conscious is open for it. When we are very active in our conscious it is much more difficult for our subconscious to catapult new information into our consciousness. New thoughts which have no direct link with our conscious thoughts are very difficult to realize when we are thinking consciously, thats why we can walk against objects. Allthough our subconscious is the master we can't functionate without our consciousnes, we live on maximum capacity when we are open to our subconsciousness and keep our consciousnes at bay, using it when it is appropriate and dont think for to think. We will have an overabundance of energy if we think less and live more.