Let me explain you about the subconscious brain with a very nice analogy. Let us take the example of this room. This room has it has chairs, tables, sofa sets dining table, TV and other appliances . It is having certain format and layout. Now you want to go from A to point B. Now you can use different strategies to navigate from point A to point B but you have to consider all the objects and hurdles between A and B and then safely reach the point B. Similar to how you noticed the stuff between you and your end point, you need to observe all the mental patterns, blind spots and pitfalls that we ingrained in our brain from our childhood and navigate our objectives in life. First we need to pay attention to our way of thinking and behaviours and become self-aware of our mindset. Then we can observe our thoughts and respond to various circumstances that happen with in us and outside of us.
We can compare our subconscious brain as nuclear energy which has immense energy and possibilities. It is just an energy source which can do power a whole planet or could destroy it. That is the reason why a whole lot of equipment and sophisticated technology is used to control the energy to put it to good use. Our subconscious brain is like we have a nuclear energy in our head which determines 95% of our decisions and steering the wheel of our life. We are of course doing our best to control our emotions and bring in rationality in our decision making using our fore brain which is the controller of the unseen energy.
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