Concepts do not translate to the unconscious. Experience does. And since the conscious mind is too slow, too limited, & too resource-intensive, the bulk of life is dictated by the unconscious. The conscious mind has assumed the role of a dictator, but all it can be is a mediator.
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Mindset medicine predominantly fails because instead of alleviating the problem it aggravates it; like throwing water at a drowning man. As long as a human being exists unaware of their unconscious mind and divorced from it, they will continue to work against themselves.
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Replying to @mistermircea
"Oh, I really, really want that. But I don't know why, other than this voracious thirst." ...It spends rest of life simultaneously gulping air and wondering why it is thirsty.
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The problem lies in the fact that the conscious mind is bsically hollow; it reflects and identifies with the reflection.
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Unconscious is a non-deciding part of the entity, serving the entity apparently benevolently but without intelligence or perceptive judgment. It feedbacks to the conscious from the conclave of info and experience which it is fed by the conscious mind - the gatekeeper Conundrum
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Your descriptions are accurate but you have it backwards.
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I simply have a different view of it. In my experience, it is the (so-called, because the conscious-unconscious dichotomy is only a description insofar as what our being's relation is to them, no its inherent attributes) unconscious that is the intelligent & capable of choice.
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Replying to @mistermircea @spiritedpilgrim
It all depends on where you stand. To a person who is unaware, the unconscious appears as without volition, intelligence - the 'dumb' process of 'life'. But it is by understanding and investigating this very process that life, and one's own life, reveals its motives and beauty.
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PS Not directed at you, as you are quite an aware individual. The idea is the same as Nietzsche hinted at when he stated that 'there is more wisdom in your body than all your philosophies' — yet he had a very Western mind, so he could only intuit, not overcome.
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Replying to @mistermircea @spiritedpilgrim
The essential idea here is perhaps that your experience will tell you all you need to know if you learn how to listen.
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