Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast.

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium.

And here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means.

Today on the show, I have another solo episode,

and this comes out of questions that I've been getting,

as well as just me wanting to explain to you all a bit about consciousness.

So I talk a lot about consciousness, mindfulness, awareness.

I sort of use those words interchangeably. And I just wanted, I did an

Instagram live about this, or not an Instagram live, an Instagram about this a while back,

but I wanted to revisit it because I think it's so important. I also have a little quiz on my website.

It's just a fun little thing I put together if you want to take it and see how conscious you are and where you fall in the realm of three, four, and five D consciousness, which I also don't think is that dissimilar when we talk about unconscious, semi-conscious, subconscious, subconscious and unconscious. So we are going to start there.

We're going to start by talking about the unconscious. And this is really where my learning

began as a clinical psychologist and what Freud brought to the table around this notion of

unconscious. And the unconscious feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that are, when we talk

about the unconscious, that's what we're talking about, that are stored outside of our conscious

awareness. So they're often repressed. They're often automatic. Sometimes we're not even sure

what they're about. And the best way that I can describe this is if you ever have an argument with someone

in your life. But the argument does not seem commensurate with what happened or commensurate

with your relationship with them. Sometimes that could be an old unconscious pattern that has existed

that is getting played out in our other relationships.

So one of the things that I often talk about

when I am working therapeutically with someone

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