Today, researchers do not have a consensus on what the subconscious is, what it consists of and where it is located. I think that one of the existing definitions, “The subconscious is the unconscious part of the psyche,” will suit many. It cannot be seen, touched or felt, therefore statements about how it works and what it consists of are just assumptions of one or another author. DESPITE THIS, we can use it to solve our problems, just as we can get from one place to another by driving a car, without knowing at all how it works. It is enough to know the controls, general principles of movement, follow safety rules, and be able to manage the process. Not a single impression, even the most fleeting one, passes without a trace for us. It leaves an imprint on the psyche, which for the time being settles in the depths of the subconscious. These hidden, unnoticeable influences can seriously change our behavior. Often we ourselves don’t know why we are upset, unreasonably aggressive, or, on the contrary, happy. And it was the little things that worked that “passed by” our consciousness, to which we almost did not pay attention and immediately forgot them - a commercial on television, an overheard conversation between neighbors, smells on the street, the smile of a passerby, etc. Imprints of childhood unconscious impressions, ideas about pleasure and happiness, fear and danger, pain and loneliness primarily form specific personality traits and make us who we are. The burn from a hot stove, the pain from falling, the frequent sadness of the mother, the frightening prowess of the father - all this is indiscriminately stored in the subconscious. It is on this basis that a person’s character grows with all its characteristics - timidity or fearlessness, isolation or sociability, healthy or neurotic reactions to the outside world. Regardless of whether you are awake or in deep sleep, your tireless subconscious mind continuously and completely independently of your consciousness directs all the vital functions of the body. For example, the heart continues to beat rhythmically during sleep, the lungs do not rest during sleep, but continue to supply the blood with oxygen, just as in the waking state. The subconscious mind controls the process of digestion and the functioning of the endocrine glands, as well as all other mysterious processes in the body. The eyes and ears and other sense organs are also completely ready for activity during sleep. And many of our great researchers have literally found in their dreams the answer to extremely perplexing problems - they dreamed the solution to these problems. Once you learn to discover the amazing power of your subconscious, strength, wealth, health, happiness and joy will come into your life in such a way. quantity you never even dreamed of. You don't need to acquire this power, you already have it. You just need to understand its essence and method of action in order to successfully apply it in all areas and in all problems of your life. Everything will appear before you in a new light, and you will receive from the depths of your mind the power with which you can realize many of your hopes and dreams. The deepest layers of your subconscious mind contain endless wisdom, unlimited power and an inexhaustible supply of opportunities, abilities and talents that are just waiting to be fully developed and manifested in order to achieve the place in life that you deserve and that you - and only you - you can occupy it in the most worthy way. (Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious) Indeed, the possibilities of the subconscious are enormous. One of the ways of interacting with the subconscious, called visualization, is described by John Kehoe in the book “The Subconscious Can Do Anything!”: “I want to talk about a well-known and documented experiment by psychologist Alan Richardson. The varsity basketball team was divided into three groups; In each of them, the performance of the players was determined and recorded. The players of the first group came togym every day, practicing serves. The basketball players of the second group did not train at all, while the representatives of the third group did very special training. They did not go to the gym, but stayed in their rooms, mentally imagining the process of training. For half an hour a day, they saw themselves scoring goals and winning with a crushing score. They continued to mentally train every day. A month later, all three groups were tested again. The first group (those who trained every day in the gym) improved their results by 24 percent. The second group (those who did nothing) showed no improvement. And in the third group (players who trained mentally), the improvement was practically the same as that of those who actually trained in the gym!” Along with the term “Subconscious”, the term “Unconscious” is used. There are many different points of view on these concepts and. a large number of definitions depending on the theoretical platform of their authors. History of the issue... The use of the term unconscious was started by the Austrian scientist Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. He first united all the facts, assumptions and hypotheses related to human mental activity into a single whole, and gave it a scientific basis. justification, thereby creating a new section of science “Psychology” (from the Greek psyche - soul, logos - teaching), literally the science of the soul or the inner world of man. Freud identified three levels in the “psychic apparatus” - the system of conscious, preconscious and unconscious. The conscious system, according to Freud, includes any directly conscious data (sense organs), current experience, learning outcomes, images, feelings or thoughts. The preconscious system - the intermediate level - consists of any data that is currently unconscious, but easily accessible to conscious perception. The unconscious system includes manifestations of instincts (survival, procreation, etc.), all repressed from consciousness and therefore completely inaccessible to direct conscious perception of thoughts, feelings, actions, memories, subjective experience, etc. Freud describes the mechanism of repression as defense from the most negative, frightening, unpleasant experiences that the psyche hides in the deepest layers of the unconscious. Consciousness is no longer able to extract this experience from there; it turns out to be non-existent. Repressed memories can be resurrected and turned to the benefit of our “I” only through special psychotherapeutic influence. One of Freud's students, who later founded a new direction in psychology, Carl Jung developed the doctrine of the unconscious, considering not only individually acquired qualities as a result of training and personal experience, but also inherited properties, instincts, impulses to activity, which people follow out of necessity and without conscious motivations. Everything that a person knows, but does not think about at the moment, everything that he was ever aware of, but has now forgotten, everything that was perceived by the senses, but remained unattended by consciousness, everything that is to come, “ripening in head" and only then realized - all this constitutes the content of the unconscious. Jung also founded the doctrine of the collective unconscious. Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson also developed the doctrine of the unconscious as a result of working with trance states. Erickson viewed the unconscious as a reservoir of memories of the past, a repository of structured experience. He considered the unconscious to be a positive, creative force. Thanks to the work of Erickson and other researchers, it became clear that the trance state provides direct access to the unconscious. In a state of hypnotic trance, the following are possible: recalling past events that are inaccessible to recall in a normal state (age regression) or, conversely, memory loss (amnesia); experiencing future scenarios before the actual occurrence of the events depicted in them (age progression); imaginary observation of oneself during any action;.