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In my writings, I often interchangeably refer to what animates one’s self as consciousness, the mind, and finally, as “you“. Dancing between these terms when discussing different aspects of the emotional reasoning is strictly about the level of awareness that the mind, or consciousness, has of itself. That’s because the consciousness that animates you (aka, what you summarise as “you“), shifts depending on how advanced each sections of you are down your evolutionary journey: when you have shed light on some wider parts of each branches more than on others, their connection to you and how they relate to the bigger picture of you will appear more clearly to your overall consciousness (again, you); that is when different levels of recognition occur, that are each labelled either consciousness, the mind, or you.
I’m explaining here these terminologies and relations and their usage case.
All these terminologies ultimately all refer to the exact same thing—they are only ever interchangeable because their usage all depend on the level of awareness of one’s self that they describe.
01. The subconscious — the unacknowledged you
The subconscious is always “you,” aka your “consciousness,” it’s just the unacknowledged you. People have the tendency to dis-associate themselves with their subconscious but that is a serious mistake, because this is just you, it just happens to be unconscious. But it’s you at all times and always.
Levels of awareness →
As no one is ever completely conscious or completely unconscious, it means an ebb and flow to and from being more “you” → incarnating the feelings emerging from your subconscious, going from it being you (feeling like it’s you) to feeling like it’s “another entity.” (aka when it becomes perceived back as “the subconscious.”)
Linguistically, it is labelled “sub” to highlight the visual hierarchy of the mind, with the conscious mind as the forefront, and the subconscious under, below, or rather more specifically, in the back. Through such a simple, yet perfect linguistic structure, the structure and nature of the mind both are captured; the essence of the subconscious, to be a receptacle of everything you have shoved and relayed “to the back” whenever consciously dealing with it encountered an obstacle in its process.
That thing flitting around in the back of your head, that thing that sometimes feels like it’s either stuck or buried, or like it’s another person, is you, it’s just the unacknowledged you. This sensation, and mentioning all this, is especially relevant when discussing the subconscious, as you will often hear phrases such “I don’t know what came over me,” “I don’t know what possessed me to do this.” A number of people are misguidedly led to think that their frontal part is them/who they are and the rest is some unknown entity. A lot of people will utterly fail to acknowledge the source of a displayed behaviour, with phrases like “it’s not that deep,” and a general inability to understand the genesis of a behaviour.
↳ The first responses (“I don’t know what came over me“) happen usually happen because lack of self-ownership as an avoidance technique.
However, in the case of having yet to identify what a [current] is, and having understood it inside and out to exit it (like manipulation, you cease to be under the thrall of something when you become aware of it), disconnection from the back will have you believe that you are only the front. While in truth, the frontal part—the conscious part of the mind—is only a suit piloted by [You], the real you, aka, the you that dwells in the back—your subconscious, you who exists in your subconscious.
The unacknowledged you dwells in its own special (in the sense of dedicated) area, that gradually connects back to the ocean of the universe at large, and also feeds information on how you feel to the conscious forefront of the mind; the conscious “frontal” part is the projection of you that is set forth in the (physical) world: that’s your face, your voice, your behaviour, your mannerisms, etc. What you wish to project of yourself. This is the difference between the subconscious and “conscious,” the acknowledged you.
At any and all times, you are never anything other than the unacknowledged you. Your subconscious is you 100% and is the “real,” or rather whole you.
02. The “Mind”
These distinctions between mind, subconscious, “self,” you, etc, can be especially relevant for people who have a natural disconnection from their subconscious.
Contrary to some incorrect notions propagated, disconnection from one’s subconscious can be innate and isn’t necessarily caused by “trauma” (→ oppositional forces, overwhelming distress, lack of ability to resolve a dilemma).
The mind, in this instance, can feel like another entity. An extra thing, in the back of your head, piloting you, while you yourself are at the front essentially letting yourself get piloted by your mind.
This is all especially relevant for you if you’ve ever experienced any of the lists of symptoms I give in my sessions as a recognition sign for depression and trauma.
Namely, the “mind” can feel a lot like something bulky, once again operating from the back: a large conscious mass doing things from the back, and you only get snippets of what this consciousness is doing, when the ripple effect of its feelings manage to flood into the conscious section of your mind.
03. Consciousness / What is Consciousness?
Consciousness is the entity that animates you. It’s an amalgamation of vibrations that form the total part of your being, but because all wavelengths are connected everywhere (as that’s what the universe is made of), you are always linked back to everywhere else, to the vaster expanse of the universe. Therefore, though vibrations come together to form the identity and individual that is you, at the end, the connection to the rest of the universe makes it very easy to dissolve back into ‘oceanic’ expanse.
There will be a deeper and more detailed definition available on this site in the future.
In truth, you are above all else a consciousness, however aware you are of it. See subconscious above to understand the nature of the mind.
04. “You”
Finally, summarising it all as you. Labelling the mind this way shows the cognisant recognition that what is going on inside you is you. While you may be confused at times, feel disconnected, like you are relayed to the back as “that thing flitting around in the back of your head” as I described above, clarity and cognisance allows for the recognition and therefore conclusive admittance that the on-goings of your “mind” are all you.
It is not your mind or your subconscious in the sense of a separate entity you can feel moving and making vibrationally influencing decisions, it is you. What would otherwise feel disconnected, or separated, or puzzling: confusion often comes from this sense of disconnection, because you’re wondering what’s happening: since it’s all inside your head, why does it feel like more than one person? Why does it not feel like you? → refer back to how disconnection from one’s self can be innate.
—The difference between awareness and unawareness
Everyone starts out as unaware; everyone begins as a mass of unconscious vibrations, an amalgamation of sleepy energy currents → sleepy in the sense of unawakened; not yet fully aware of itself*. This is normal, this is not a byproduct of trauma. This is just part of being human; we are all sound asleep.
*There is always a certain degree of awareness that one is, otherwise life would not form. As I explain in the vibrations, life is formed by a converge of self-awareness; knowledge that one is.
Life experiences awaken you because they “trigger” you; whether positively or negatively (most often time, negatively). They poke you in different areas of you based on compatibility and equivalence.
It makes sense to refer to the subconscious as “the subconscious” rather than “you” or aka one’s self, because until you realise that it’s the case, your subconscious appears to you as some entity in the back of your head. Your subconscious is always you, you are your subconscious, and when that becomes clear to you, you naturally come to dub it “me/I”, “one’s self.”
At the end of the day, everything is “you”. It’s all you, it’s all a matter of, how aware are you that it is? How connected and aware are you of all of it, that you’re capable of seeing it clearly, inside you, that all of it is you?
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