You are not your brain!
You are your mind!
The human brain is a biological organ and it is the command center of the nervous system. The adult human brain is a three-pound mass of gray matter that is located inside the head and between the ears. There are different interpretations of what the mind is and its correlation between the brain. They are not one and the same.
It is generally accepted that the brain is the physical place where the mind resides. Electronic impulses that create thought are contained in the brain. It is receiving, interpreting, and disseminating sensory information throughout your body. It coordinates movement, organ function, and transmits impulses.
It is theorized that the mind is the manifestations of thought, perception, emotion, determination, memory, and imagination that take place within the brain.
Think of your body as a computer, the brain being the hardware so it can perform functions and the mind being the software to make it run.
The mind has been highly debated over the years by psychologists, philosophers, and scientists because it is subjective and hard to prove it exists. In reality the vast majority of the parts of the mind do not exist, they are oversimplified names for a perplexing orchestra of procedures. A simple approach so, it is understandable and makes sense. So the mind is open to interpretation and should be viewed not as a science, but as a philosophy. Ones personal philosophy.
Some schools of thought interpret the mind as having two characteristics of itself. The Conscious and Subconscious, which is also referred to as the Unconscious Mind. Or they view the unconscious mind separate from the subconscious. They are one in the same. So by definition, you will get different arguments because it is very subjective. The mind is still a mystery.
of the “The Model of the Triune Mind” is the model I use to educate my co-therapists or clients. Education is important to understand how beliefs in one’s self are formed. Why we do the things we do. When we do have a understanding of the mind and with the proper tools we can change those behavioral patterns.
The Simmerman Sierra model of the mind has three characteristics, or levels of conscious awareness: conscious, subconscious, and superconscious, each with its functions and capabilities.
The conscious mind can best be represented by the keyboard and monitor of a computer. Information from an outside or inside source is inputted as data via the computers keyboard and displayed on the monitor screen into your conscious awareness.
The subconscious is like the RAM (random access memory) and the hard drive on a computer. Information or data is stored on the computer hard drive as short or long term memories, beliefs, habits, or behavioral patterns. When memories or information is needed it is read from the hard drive, placed in the computer memory and then displayed on the computer monitor (conscious awareness). Memories and programming are stored on the hard drive since birth. Some memories can either be suppressed or repressed.
Your Superconscious Mind is like the Internet, the network connection were we could access a wide range of resource data. It can also be referred to as Infinite Intelligence, the Universal Mind, or Consciousness.
Ever wonder why true psychics get their information? It is not that they were afforded special abilities they are just more “aware”.
Modern Science calls Conciousness and it’s relation to the Brain “The Hard Problem”.
In this four part series, we will explore how the mind is interpreted using this “Model of the Mind”.
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