Aspects Of Consciousness

Consciousness
Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings,
sensations, and environments. Essentially, your consciousness is your awareness of yourself and the
world around you. This awareness is subjective and unique to you. If you can describe something you
are experiencing in words, then it is part of your consciousness.

But, this definition identifies only one aspects of consciousness and ignores the fact that we are also
conscious when we try to solve a problem.

Consciousness involves,

1. monitoring ourselves and our environment

2. controlling ourselves and our environment

Monitoring

Monitoring is the systematic process of collecting, analyzing and using information to track a
programme’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Monitoring
usually focuses on processes, such as when and where activities occur, who delivers them and how
many people or entities they reach.

Monitoring is conducted after a programme has begun and continues throughout the programme
implementation period. Monitoring is sometimes referred to as process, performance or formative
evaluation.

Controlling

One of the most essential qualities required in a manager is that he should command the respect of his
team. This allows him to direct and control their actions. In fact controlling is one of his more important
functions. Let us learn the importance and meaning of controlling function.

Controlling is one of the important functions of a manager. In order to seek planned results from the
subordinates, a manager needs to exercise effective control over the activities of the subordinates. In
other words, the meaning of controlling function can be defined as ensuring that activities in an
organization are performed as per the plans. Controlling also ensures that an organization’s resources
are being used effectively & efficiently for the achievement of predetermined goals.

Preconscious memories

Preconscious: Latent parts of the brain that are readily available to the conscious mind, although not
currently in use. Freud used this term to make clear that the repressed is a part of the unconscious, not
all of it, which is to say that the repressed does not comprise the whole unconscious.
Preconscious Memories refer to memories of past events that are not present in the day-to-day
consciousness but can be retrieved when and as necessary. These are like memories of events or items
from childhood that are not necessary to life, but are there if a person is thinking about their childhood.

The Unconscious

The unconscious is the vast sum of operations of the mind that take place below the level of conscious
awareness. The conscious mind contains all the thoughts, feelings, cognitions, and memories we
acknowledge, while the unconscious consists of deeper mental processes not readily available to the
conscious mind.

When conceptualizing the unconscious mind, it can be helpful to compare the mind to an iceberg.
Everything above the water represents conscious awareness while everything below the water
represents the unconscious.

Impact of the Unconscious

Unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and feelings can potentially cause a number of problems including:

Anger

Bias

Compulsive behaviors

Difficult social interactions

Distress

Relationship problems

Automaticity and dissociation

Automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required,
allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. It is usually the result of learning,
repetition, and practice. Examples of tasks carried out by 'muscle memory' often involve some degree of
automaticity.

Dissociation is, a fairly common and normal response to trauma

a creative survival mechanism

a way of mentally blocking out unbearable thoughts or feelings

a defence against pain

an instinctive, biologically-driven reaction

a splitting-off of mental functions which normally operate together or in tandem

Sleep And Dreams

Stage of sleep

Stage 1 non-REM sleep is the changeover from wakefulness to sleep. ...

Stage 2 non-REM sleep is a period of light sleep before you enter deeper sleep. ...

Stage 3 non-REM sleep is the period of deep sleep that you need to feel refreshed in the morning. ...

REM sleep first occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep.