Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Cori Muscara and in today's episode we're going to talk about the power and potential danger of the unconscious mind.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so the unconscious mind.

We'll start this episode with a quote.

It's a popular Carl Jung quote.

And he writes,

until you make the unconscious conscious,

conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Until you make the unconscious, conscious. It will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Let that one sink in.

I think the power and the poignancy of this quote and one of the reasons it just like slices through us like a hot knife through butter

it's essentially saying that there there is this guiding force that is this guiding force that is pushing us in a certain direction moment to moment.

And if we're not paying attention to it, it will take us on a particular journey.

And we might say, well, this is just my plot in life, or this is just my fate, or there's some bigger force out of my control that is influencing

the path.

I'll leave a door open for that possibility for sure. But we can't deny how much power our

mind has in influencing the thoughts we think, how we respond to situations,

whether we feel safe or not in a situation, and how that causes us to react.

The jobs we might take or decline

based on subconscious beliefs or again feelings of safety.

Relationships we might stay in or move out of.

Again, based on subconscious feelings, ideas, beliefs about why something is good for us or not good

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