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The unconscious mind may work in a different fashion from the
conscious. The unconscious mind may not register and associate in terms of specific context and definitive value. It may associate feelings instead of values, or unconscious memories long forgotten by the conscious memory, or it may sense living energy unrecognized by the logical identity, or even ghosts. The unconscious may have its own method of association. It
may associate freely, without the limitations of the logical associational process like the term 'up' may associate 'down'. It may associate instead by similarities of feeling, color, shape, smell, taste; by body movement, symbolism, design and placement, number symbolism, or associate abstractions like freedom, confinement, generalized fear or beauty. These associations may register in subliminal form such as a person resembling a fox may be associated as that, or the image of a face in a rock may register in archetypes without individuality.
What may be necessary to have greater access and operational facility of the unconscious is an identity, with a different perspective, differing goals and objectives, different values and belief system, that are more analogous to the dynamics of the subconscious. What can possibly be said to be a primary asset of the unconscious is that it knows the truth. The conscious mind often contradicts the truth to which the unconscious is privy. The unconscious memory may record reality in an objective way, like a mechanical recording device. The conscious mind as the individual identity, conditioned, learned, logical personality will tend to filter and interpret the perception of reality in ways that do not accord to the truth. For instance the unconscious may know that one is somewhat ill, even though the conscious identity denies it.
The individual may suppress truth that is emotionally traumatic, that is contrary to strong beliefs, to desires, objectives, ambitions or self-image of the conscious identity. A high stress life style for the purpose of obtaining success may be completely contradictory to the individual's body temperament. There can be developed conflicts between unconscious truth and conscious untruth that are unhealthy, disruptive, that can cause all manner of mental disorders, addictions and unhealthy emotional disturbances.
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