After the interview with Bob Burns and his exciting take on the subconscious mind, he says he doesn’t think it exists. It has given me food for thought.

It is an interesting thought. The HSOH School of Hypnotherapy training is about how we learn habits and skills and store them in our subconscious mind. Over the years, I have developed the IMR (Ideo-motor response), which, in my view and from the changes that clients have experienced over the years, produces amazing results.

Clients are achieving goals that they want to achieve. Letting go of fears/phobias and anxiety, changing eating habits, feeling confident and healing their bodies are a few of the things that hypnotherapy can help with. I absolutely love helping people achieve healing themselves and feel much happier in themselves.

My whole therapy is based on the subconscious mind. Where we store all our habits, skills, and memories, and the subconscious mind is responsible to maintain and operate our physical body. It was worth exploring further how far science has come in understanding the subconscious mind. Where it is, how it works. Below is the information that I found.

What does science say about the Subconscious? Yes, there is scientific evidence supporting the existence of the subconscious mind. Research in psychology and neuroscience has shown that many mental processes occur below conscious awareness. These include automatic behaviours, implicit memory, and various cognitive functions that operate without deliberate control. Methods like brain imaging, cognitive psychology experiments, and studies of patients with certain brain injuries have contributed to our understanding of the subconscious mind. While it may not be fully understood, there is substantial evidence indicating its presence and influence on our thoughts and actions.

The subconscious mind does not have a specific physical location in the brain or body. Instead, it’s a concept used to describe mental processes that occur below the level of conscious awareness. These processes involve various parts of the brain and are distributed throughout it. Cognitive functions associated with the subconscious mind can be attributed to different brain regions, neural networks, and processes that work in parallel with conscious thought.
In essence, you can think of the subconscious mind as a metaphorical term for the parts of your mental activity that you’re not consciously aware of, and it doesn’t have a specific “location” like a physical organ.

There you have it.

Science has acknowledged that the subconscious mind exists. But as of now, it has yet to learn where the subconscious mind is. How it works or how to influence the subconscious mind into change.

My take on the subconscious mind is that it is not stored in our physical body. I think that it is up in the Universe that we are all linked.

Have you ever been thinking about someone you have not spoken to or seen for a long time, and suddenly you hear from them? Maybe unconsciously, our subconscious mind had linked, just a thought.

Only recently, a very dear friend I had not seen for a long time popped into my mind. I was returning from a day out on the Isle Of Wight and suddenly decided to pop in and see Sue. I called to check that she was home. Sue answered the phone and said, “Oh my God, I was at Queen Elizabeth Country Park today and said to my friend that we should go and visit you as we are so close to where you live; how strange is that!”. It was lovely catching up with Sue.

Wherever the Subconscious and the conscious mind are, it certainly affects every part of us. Our physical and psychological health is a big part of the way we think. Hypnotherapy is not only a psychological therapy; it is also a physical therapy. The subconscious mind controls and operates our physical body. Yet, we still do not know where it is or that much about it.