Considering the impact of diet on physical, mental, and aesthetic well-being, the author sought to create a comprehensive picture of Dietetics - the art of living - through four books. However, as he wrote, it became clear that something important w...
What we are exploring: How are consciousness connected with preconsciousness and self-love?
What is new: Why is it necessary to control consciousness when we "go on a diet" and how does it manifest itself?
What we will learn: What knowledge and what experience are required to learn to love ourselves?
1. Our consciousness concentrates on some stimuli and ignores others. Attention is selective; some events have preferential access to consciousness and attention. Events that are significant for survival [life, author's ed.] * usually have the highest priority (Atkinson R.L., et al., 2003) [1].
* The basis of a human's life, happiness, growth, and freedom is rooted in his ability to love, i.e., care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge [2].
2. What does the attention of consciousness depend on?Our consciousness is interconnected and interacts with other mental processes, particularly preconscious memory (preconsciousness). When a program of actions aimed at self-love is recorded in our memory, we will act automatically, achieving a beautiful and healthy body (II fr. 10. 2). The preconscious is so called because it is before consciousness or ahead of it. What does this mean? It means that before the attention of consciousness is focused on someone or something, it is necessary for the memory to already contain a program of a human's actions. For example, when a human walks home through the city along a familiar route, his consciousness chooses those streets that will lead him home. However, in an unfamiliar city, getting to your place of overnight stay may be difficult, since there is no program in the memory for choosing the necessary streets. It must be created through learning or experience so that it is formed in our memory (I fr. 20. 8). Only then will the attention of consciousness be focused on choosing the necessary streets.
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3. Selectivity of attention of consciousness. Even though each human has a common consciousness, what it focuses on can be attributed to his individual attention. For clarity, let us imagine a human in a huge supermarket in which there is almost everything that one could wish for. Among the many goods presented, a human stops at those that everyone needs, and at others that only he needs at a given moment in time. When he stopped at these or those goods, he followed the list that he had with him. Similarly, our inherited consciousness is selective. It tends to stop at what is recorded in our unconscious body program.
• "The perceptions, thoughts, and feelings experienced by a person at any given moment form the content of his consciousness. Events that influence behavior, even though we are not aware of their perception, act on us subconsciously [according to the unconscious program, ed. author]" (italics by the author) (Atkinson R.L., et al. 2003) [1].
Therefore, a human's desires must correspond with his true needs, recorded in his unconscious program. The more a human's desires, manifested in the content of his consciousness, correspond to his authentic needs, the more reason he will have to love himself. And vice versa. The less a human's desires, manifested in the content of his consciousness, correspond to his authentic needs, the more he will be forced to keep them under the control of his consciousness.
