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

I'm your host, Corey Mascara, 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, 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 is it's essentially saying that there there 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 for

us so much of this is happening beneath the surface of our awareness. In fact, I've

heard statistics that say 95% of what is directing us moment to moment or subconscious thoughts.

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