The Tactical Commander
This part of the mind is responsible for only about 3% to 5% of your daily thoughts and emotions.
What is the conscious mind?
This "inner genie" is responsible for an estimated this percentage of human brain activity.
What is 95%
This "Father of Psychoanalysis" theorized that human behavior is largely driven by unconscious forces.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Learning to drive is a conscious action, but after years of practice, the task is primarily handled by this.
What is the subconscious mind?
This term refers to a behavior that has been repeated so many times by the conscious mind that it becomes an automatic subconscious routine.
What is a habit?
The conscious mind typically handles this many bits of information per second.
What is 40 bits?
While the conscious mind is slow, the subconscious can process roughly this many million bits of information per second.
What is 2 to 40 million?
Carl Jung divided the unconscious into the "personal" layer and this "deeper" layer shared by all humans.
What is the collective unconscious?
This "inner guidance system" is the bridge between the subconscious and the conscious mind, requiring no analytical reasoning.
What is intuition?
To "reprogram" the subconscious, experts suggest it takes approximately this many days of conscious, consistent practice to form a new habit.
What is 21 to 66 days? (Accept any answer in that range).
This brain region is the primary "executive center" where conscious reasoning and judgment occur.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The subconscious mind is always in this temporal state, meaning it does not think in terms of the past or future.
What is the present moment?
In Freud’s theory, this part of the unconscious mind seeks short-term pleasure and acts on animal instincts.
What is the Id?
While you are sleeping, your subconscious mind is busy regulating these automatic bodily functions.
What are vital processes (like heartbeat, breathing, or digestion)?
This is the name for the brain's ability to physically reorganize itself by forming new neural connections between the conscious and subconscious.
What is neuroplasticity?
When your mind is in this state, it is producing these specific brain waves associated with normal conscious processing.
What are Beta waves?
In this state of sleep, the conscious mind becomes dormant while the subconscious remains fully active.
What is REM sleep?
This term refers to the process of becoming a "complete self" by unlocking the potential of the subconscious, according to Jung.
What is individuation?
This mental tool involves repeating positive statements to "reprogram" the subconscious mind.
What are affirmations?
This relaxed mental state, often reached through meditation, lowers brain waves to "Alpha" or "Theta," making the subconscious more open to suggestion.
What is a trance
Unlike the subconscious, the conscious mind is generally limited to holding only this many thoughts at a single time.
What is one?
The subconscious communicates through images, metaphors, and this, rather than literal language.
What is emotion?
This psychological theory explores unconscious thoughts to help a person better understand themselves.
What is Psychodynamic theory?
This "mental faculty" allows you to live "from" your ideal life, helping your intuition tune in to new possibilities.
What is imagination?
This "filter" in the brain stem decides which pieces of information from your environment are allowed to pass from the subconscious into your conscious awareness.
What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS)?