How the Subconscious Mind Shapes Our Emotions and Decisions: A Deeper Understanding of the Human Psyche

 

The Impact of the Subconscious Mind on Emotions and Thoughts

By: Dr. Khaled Debbi – Mental Health Consultant & Family Counselor

In times when your mind is filled with difficult questions and troubling concerns about yourself and others, about the actions of those around you and their reactions—and you find no answer to heal you, no words to guide you, and no space in others to confide in—your subconscious mind emerges from its shell in those moments to take control.

You begin to drift in seas of darkness, where only the language of your distorted emotions and disruptive internal dialogues is understood. The anxiety within you translates into a chain of fears and a spectrum of beliefs, projecting in shapes, scenes, and images of what you fear, wish to avoid, or dread facing. These could be messages of injustice, sadness, pain, or disapproval, or perhaps frightening images, or even calls from the past and the future to reenact events on the stage of the present that were never anticipated.

When you cannot understand yourself or find someone who can, someone to analyze you, point out your flaws, and shine light into your dark corners, the subconscious mind defends you in this way. You mount its saddle of exaggeration, magnification, and interpretation, as the threads of reality and illusion intertwine, and the harmful becomes indistinguishable from the beneficial, leaving you lost in the gardens of anxiety and chaos.

When no path leads you to light, you bear the weight of thoughts dug up by the subconscious mind—driven by fear and anxiety, characterized by panic and dread, fueled by depression and boredom, and stripped of advice and hope. If you allow the subconscious to dominate you, it bypasses consciousness, reality, and evidence, leading you into psychological symptoms, illnesses, and dark disorders. These require analysis, separation, and verification of their connection to truth or lack thereof, transforming them into useful ideas that guide your emotions alongside behaviors that open paths to inner peace between you, people, life, and its events. In doing so, you find comfort, confidence, and happiness, overcoming an obstacle that once stood on the edge of a grim, distant, and unreal world.

You cannot always be right, nor can you always be wrong. There is a third way between the two, imposed by true knowledge, systematic analysis, and sound understanding of the depths of the human soul in its journey to know itself, to reach the maturity of its thoughts, the clarity of its emotions, and the uprightness of its behavior—aligned with the truth of the self, the reality of circumstances, and the appropriateness of actions and their responses. At that point, you reconcile with your problems and shortcomings, striving to make your today better than your yesterday and your tomorrow better than your today.

How the Subconscious Mind Shapes Our Emotions and Decisions: A Deeper Understanding of the Human Psyche