Subconscious Mind: Reprogramming Your Brain with New Ideas and Creativity

By Emily Wilds

This book consists of two titles, which are the following:



Book 1: 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.




Book 2: In order to tap into the amazing abilities of our brains, it can help to first understand how they work. This guide will aid you in your journey to comprehension.
Some things that will be discussed, are how our subconscious mind procrastinates things, mind wandering and its significance, daily escapes, predispositions that shape our thoughts, creative skills, and free choice as a gift of nature.
All of these topics can enlighten you about the very nature of our thoughts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Efalon Acies
• Release date: Sep 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220201230

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Subconscious Mind

Reprogramming Your Brain with New Ideas and Creativity

By Emily Wilds

Subconscious Mind

How to Boost Your Creativity and Conscientiousness

By Emily Wilds

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Subconscious Fear Direct Exposure Helps in Reducing Phobias

Chapter 2: Interest, Curiosity and Conscientiousness

Chapter 3: How the Cerebellum Optimizes Split-Second Choice Making

Chapter 4: Is Conscientiousness Compatible with Creative skill?

Chapter 5: The Whites of Your Eyes Communicate Subconscious Truths

Chapter 6: The Inner Language of the Subconscious

Chapter 7: Subconscious or Unconscious?

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 no danger.

For the new research study on arachnophobia, a group of researchers consisting of Bradley Peterson, director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at Kids' Medical facility Los Angeles, and Paul Siegel, associate professor of psychology at Purchase College of the State University of New York, used fMRI brain imaging and a strategy called backwards masking to determine brain areas involved in conscious and subconscious fear processing. (Very short direct exposure to possibly phobic stimuli followed by longer direct exposure to a non-threatening masking image that sidetracks from cognitive consciousness of the threatening image is called backward masking.).

To test neural activity throughout extremely quick subconscious vs. longer conscious exposure to phobic stimuli, the scientists hired a group of 21 spider-phobic research study participants and a friend of 21 people who weren't afraid of spiders. All 42 participants were exposed to 3 conditions: (1) Very Brief exposure (VBE) to masked pictures of spiders, seriously minimal awareness; (2) obviously visible direct exposure (CVE) to spider images, full awareness; and (3) masked images of flowers (control).

Then, Peterson and colleagues analyzed the degree to which particular areas of the brain involved in fear processing and deciding how to respond to a phobic image were triggered when a person was consciously mindful or uninformed of the spider image. Surprisingly, they found out that even though non-conscious consciousness didn't register in a way that could be evoked or was cognizant, this kind of exposure triggered subliminal fear responses to increase.

Surprisingly, the amygdala (which is widely considered the hub of fear responses and processing) wasn't the focus of this study. Rather, the fMRI neuroimaging focused on the activity of the caudate nucleus-- which regulates psychological fear responses and works with the frontal cortex

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