MIND– What it has and how it works?

Today, we will talk about what is mind, parts of mind, their functionalities and how is it different from brain.

This blog lays a foundation for my upcoming blogs. I want you to have a clear picture of the concept of mind for a better understanding of the forthcoming articles.

What is MIND?

Mind is the set of thinking faculties including cognitive aspects and non-cognitive aspects.

Recently, I have read one book ‘Power of Subconscious Mind’ by Joseph Murphy. It’s indeed the masterpiece in its niche. To understand the concept of mind, I’ll give you some useful insights about our topic from this very book.

How mind is different from Brain?

How many of you think that mind and brain is one and the same thing?  I know your answer is positive. But factually, mind and brain are two different entities.

Brain is the tangible organ of our body. Mind is part of the intangible and invisible world of thought process, feelings, emotions, belief and imagination. It is true that brain is closely associated with mind but mind is not confined to brain. Brain is the hardware and mind is the software. Mind is the source of energy in the body.

Concept of Conscious and Subconscious Mind.

Mind has two levels – the conscious or rational level and subconscious or irrational level.  Mind consists 10% of conscious mind and 90% of subconscious mind.  

Conscious mind is referred to as objective mind and it deals with the outer objects. It takes cognizance of the objective world. It’s mode of observation are our five physical senses (eyes, nose, skin, ear and tongue). You recognize things through your senses. Your objective mind is the guiding light to perceive various things in environment. It learns through observations, education and experience. It has the power of reasoning. It works only when we are awake not when we are sleeping. It works at the human speed. It is also called the logical mind because it thinks before acting.

Whereas, subconscious mind is your subjective mind. It perceives by intuition. It takes cognizance of the environment by means independent of your five senses. It is the seat of your emotions and the storehouse of memory. Subjective mind performs its functions when the objective senses are in suspension. It works 24X7. It works, in fact, way beyond the speed of light.

Subconscious mind cannot argue. It has no capacity of reasoning. It will accept what is delivered to it. If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil, evil will follow. It acts in the same manner for every suggestion.

Above are the capsules to understand the basic notion of Mind, Conscious Mind and Subconscious Mind.

After knowing this much about the subconscious and conscious mind, what do you think, which level of the mind is working presently while you are reading this blog? It’s actually both. Enjoy your day segregating your acts, as to which are governed by conscious mind and which are governed by subconscious mind.   :)