And welcome to the coach's binary module communicating with the unconscious mind. In this module we will review what is the unconscious mind, what it means to us as coaches and ways to connect with it. So we can create change now clients lives and in our own lives. We find it helpful as coaches decide to distinguish between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. Because when we have immediate awareness of something, we refer to it as being conscious mind activity. So you're aware for example of watching this module, you focused on screen, you know that it's happening.

So you have conscious awareness. When something is removed from immediate awareness, we refer to it as unconscious mind activity. And the vast majority of our mental processing is actually at the unconscious level. The conscious mind is considered the digital side of thinking, meaning that the conscious mind subjects, everything it processes to a logic test. Is this statement true? Or is it false?

Is what I'm experiencing logical or is it rational? the conscious mind is logic driven. So as we've said, the conscious mind is also the realm of immediate awareness. What To put it another way, the conscious mind is oblivious to a stimulus or input. It says that stimulus or input actually doesn't exist. And in addition, the conscious mind is the locus of for reflective review of what we experience.

Or have experienced. This is when we're thinking about the conversation we had yesterday with somebody, or the outcome of something that we implemented in a coaching session for example. So you we explore our options, and we make deliberate choices about how we will respond to emotional and sensory experience. The unconscious mind, by contrast, makes no logical, moral or ethical judgments about the objects of its of the thoughts themselves. So it leaves that rotates the conscious mind to decide if something is good, bad or otherwise. In this regard, the unconscious mind is largely uncritical of the input from the conscious mind.

So for example, when repeatedly told by the conscious mind that a certain thing is true, the unconscious mind will start act accordingly. It will muster all its resources to align with the judgments of the conscious mind. And if the conscious mind, for example, regularly says that all black dogs are dangerous, the unconscious mind will obligingly provide a fear response that fires off automatically whenever a black dome comes into view. So as we're going through this, start, think about what this means for you and your clients. Because in effect, the unconscious mind frees up the conscious mind to specialize as the discriminator. The unconscious mind takes care of the clutter that would otherwise impede quick judgments, and the exercise of discretion.

So to view this in another way, the unconscious mind manages all of those things that don't need conscious awareness. That's why the conscious mind is busy reflecting on what's actually happening. the unconscious mind is quietly regulating body temperature It's managing our breathing rhythms. It's keeping our heart beating and keeping us alive. And the myriad of other physical, physiological functions essential to survival, our unconscious mind takes care of all of that. It is also alerting, monitoring and responding to external events that must be tended to, even though they may not call for conscious attention at the moment, to an unconscious mind combined, the hind brain keeps us alive and keeps us safe.

But here's another example. So for instance, if you're taking notes during a phone conversation with somebody who's upset, all of your conscious energies may be concentrated on what the other party is saying, and how to frame your reply. So this is when you're doing phone coaching with the client. Meanwhile, you're actually jotting down notes automatically, because the unconscious mind is translating ideas into notations on the page without you having to consciously think about planning process. Just because we inattentive to what the unconscious mind is doing, however, does not mean that it's activities or of a subordinate importance. At any given moment, the unconscious mind is regulating more of our physiology than the conscious mind.

As a result, the unconscious mind is the primary determinant of behavior. Think back to the dog example, the conscious minds made that decision fit the unconscious mind see the dog, the unconscious mind is like a black dog alert. Let's get you out of here. Because the conscious mind typically gives itself to tasks of logic and analysis. It ties itself closely with left brain activity. Now, this does not equate to the left brain and the conscious mind is the one we're merely saying that the left brain and the conscious mind share a common bias and therefore they can walk closely the unconscious mind on the other hand affiliates itself with the rich symbol processing of the right brain.

Since most people are left brain dominant communicating with the unconscious mind frequently entails left brain to step aside to allow us to direct dialogue with the right part of the brain. Now this is things to support this learning we'll go through more in the coach's brain. But here's some things to start considering. Some different states you can go into or create in your clients which helps you connect to the unconscious mind and for yourself as well. Sleep states listening to audio tapes while you're going into sleep to reprogram your dreams. You have trance inductions, which will actually learning trance inductions.

There's yoga and there's chanting there's a static dance. There's things like hypnosis that allow you to connect to the other conscious mind and we're going to be doing inductions as well in the coaches brain right. So there's lots of ways to tap into the unconscious mind and connect with it, which we'll be learning as we go through the brain MRI. So, the introduction part Welcome to creating change. If you haven't yet experienced any of these work, here's your first introduction. So welcome.

Now during your time in the coach's brain, we will be exploring different levels of communication and those different spaces. So until next time, thank you for watching the module and we'll see you on the next one.