Conscious vs subconscious

Your conscious mind thinks, analyzes, makes rational decisions.
The subconscious mind doesn't have the ability to think or analyze but can make ds irrationally.
They normally don't work dependently.

Ex: If you see a food item your subconscious says go and eat it. Your conscious mind thinks about the pros and cons and makes a decision. If you decide to eat there is no problem Otherwise your subconscious fulfills its desire in another way, like dreaming.
Here when your conscious mind making a decision it doesn't consider the subconscious mind's desire. The subconscious mind couldn't force the conscious mind to make a decision in favor of it.
People, most of the times use their subconscious mind. And its decisions suck most of the time.
Our conscious mind might be able to make extremely intelligent decisions but it can't be used all the time. It is prone to several distractions. Your conscious mind considers emotions, feelings, empathy, etc. Whereas your subconscious doesn't consider anything at all. It's already built and you can't even control it.

Ex: You are on a road and saw a vehicle moving fast and would probably collide a child. Now how would your conscious and subconscious minds tackle this?

1) Subconscious: As said it's already built and you can't make a decision with it. If you are brave and have a kind heart you would directly jump into the rescue operation. If you are otherwise a person, you would simply wait and watch and may feel bad later.
2) Conscious mind: It needs to calculate all the possible outcomes and make a decision. You need to be so quick to do this. Otherwise, your subconscious mind would handle the situation.
So the subconscious mind is so powerful if it's built-in that way. If it's weak then you a would have to rely more on the conscious mind. But it has limited capabilities.
So you need to train your subconscious and rebuild it the way you want.
Ex: What type of dreams you want to dream?
How do you want to react to different spontaneous situations?
And many more .....

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