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    Subconscious Mind: How to Boost Your Creativity and Conscientiousness
    Subconscious Mind: How to Boost Your Creativity and Conscientiousness
    Subconscious Mind: How to Boost Your Creativity and Conscientiousness
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    Subconscious Mind: How to Boost Your Creativity and Conscientiousness

    By Emily Wilds

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    The power of our minds stretches far beyond our current comprehension. No matter how much science keeps progressing, they still find new wonders of the human brain.



    One of the reasons for this, is that the subconscious mind suppresses and exposes many impulses and neural pathways that we don’t generally notice in our daily lives.



    Therefore, in this book, we focus on several things, which include: how to decrease fears, phobias, and anxiety through the subconscious mind; how to use curiosity, conscientiousness, and creativity to our advantage; the inner language and monologue in our brains; and the difference between subconscious and unconscious thoughts and ideas.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEfalon Acies
    Release dateSep 27, 2020
    ISBN9791220200967

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    Subconscious Mind - Emily Wilds

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    Chapter 1: Subconscious Fear Direct Exposure Helps in Reducing Phobias

    The American Psychiatric Association approximates that around one in ten people in the United States experience some type of phobia. About 40 percent of phobias belong to beings such as spiders, snakes, rats, lizards, bats, and so on. If you are amongst the millions of people who are spider-phobic (arachnophobic) or have an irregular fear of other vermin, there is good news.

    A recent study offers a possibly advanced treatment alternative for anybody struggling with an irregular fear of spiders or other phobias. For arachnophobes, the researchers found that subconscious exposure to a spider image (such as the tarantula above) for a millisecond-- with no mindful awareness of viewing the image-- was more efficient at reducing a worry of spiders than longer, conscious exposure. The February 2017 findings were released in the diary Human Brain Mapping.

    Although phobias are typically considered to be an illogical fear, the majority of the stimuli that activate phobic reactions have deep roots in our evolutionary biology that stem from a justifiably hardwired fear of anything that could have threatened our individual or collective survival as a species. Interestingly, humans are born with a host of natural fears that become part of our neurobiology from birth but reside below the threshold of mindful awareness.

    Human beings respond to any fearful stimuli via an interplay between subcortical ( non-thinking) brain areas and cerebral ( thinking) cortical brain areas like the frontal cortex. For decades, I have been looking into the hypothesis that implied learning and fear-based conditioning or avoidance behaviors are driven by subcortical brain areas seated below the mindful consciousness of cortical regions in the cerebral cortex. The most recent research on backward masking adds valuable insights to this hypothesis.

    As an example of subconscious fear responses, anyone who has ever misinterpreted a safe piece of rubber on a course or in your yard for a snake knows how deeply embedded a fear of serpents is burnt into your subcortical brain regions. That primal subcortical fear of serpents is the reason that your body will instantly jump away at the sight of a harmless garden hose pipe in the yard before your mindful mind and cortical brain regions have some time to rationalize or understand that the garden hose positions

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