The Conscious Mind (CM) is what we use to experience the world. It is also through the CM that we experience physical and emotional pains. Even though pain is experienced by the CM, it is only created by the Unconscious Mind (UCM).
The fact is that the CM cannot experience pain unless the UCM decides pain is necessary. This also means that the CM cannot resolve pain unless the UCM decides one is safe and that pain is no longer necessary.
Most of us live as if we’re always in conscious control, but the truth is that 90% of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours are run by our UCM. We’re basically passengers most of the time. What becomes frustrating is that when physical pain persists, we make repeated futile attempts to resolve pain through just the physical body using the CM, while completely ignoring the UCM. Most of us are unaware of the power of our UCM, so naturally we rarely stop to acknowledge it, let alone listen to it. The UCM holds the memories we’ve buried, the emotions we’ve repressed, and the potentials we have yet to tap into. Many have proposed that sometimes pain persists because of a disconnection between the conscious and unconscious minds (Freud, Jung, Sarno, etc.).
Instead of always trying to eliminate pain, what if we offered our patients an alternative approach? One could focus on understanding and listening to PAIN! (www.ThePainTruth.org)
Real healing starts when we increase our self-awareness by beginning a dialogue between our conscious and unconscious minds. When we repress or ignore parts of ourselves, they don’t just disappear, they quietly move into the UCM, and from there, they influence how we think, feel, behave… and hurt.
But how is a person supposed to understand something that comes from their unconscious? Here’s a crazy idea: Imagine PAIN as a character sitting across from you… and voila, start the conversation (I’m currently writing the book on how to do this :o). In the meantime, listen to my song PAIN SPEAKS from PAIN! The Musical so you kind of get a hint of what I mean.