How your mind works

Let’s take a look at how your mind works. You operate on two levels:

• conscious – the part of your mind that operates deliberately with thought
• subconscious – the part of your mind that carries out commands unconsciously, your ‘automatic pilot’.

When we first start to learn something, we use the conscious part of our mind and back the experience up with previous knowledge from the subconscious. If we have never tackled a task before, the conscious mind will be concentrating on the actions whilst the subconscious is either trying to defeat you or spurring you on, depending on your attitude.