How you can program your subconscious mind:

When the information about driving is stored into your subconscious, it's stored as a program. Think of your mind as a computer and the driving information as software that can be run automatically whenever needed. The same goes for lots of other activities and emotions. Think of the case of someone shouting at you, the installed program of anger is launched and the result is a behavior you may end up regretting later. Through programming the subconscious mind with new programs, you can fix many problems in your personality. Just make sure that your autopilot is capable of running your system without ruining your life or causing you any problems.

Programming your subconscious can be done through hypnosis. The subconscious mind learns by repetition and not by logic, that is why you can convince someone to believe in something by repeating your argument again and again rather than using logic. For more information on this topic see the guide to the psychology of convincing
 Reprogramming The Subconscious Mind

As have been said above, your unconscious mind absorbs everything that it encounters or feed by you purposely. The information that it takes in will become the programming that it will follow when reacting or responding to the world. For that you might not be getting what you want in life because the programming that you have done earlier is controlling your life. You might hate money inside you although you don't do it through your conscious acts.

Reprogramming the subconscious mind so that it acts as accordance with what you want is actually easier than it sounds. The subconscious responds mostly to metaphors, symbolic imagery, and indirect commands. One thing that you must always remember is the mind think in the form of images; it could never think in words. Even the word that you think of comes in the form of image in your mind. For that, visualization is an excellent way to reprogramming the subconscious mind.

For example, think of a certain phobia like phobia to height, darkness or even snake. Take yourself back in those situation by imagining it. You will first start to feel a little uncomfortable - this is because your subconscious actually think that you are back in those situations! Now hold the feeling in your mind and really analyze exactly what it is about the fear that scares you. What was the source of the fear? How do you feel in your body at that moment? Anything happens in your stomach - feeling sinking?

Now, while having the exact images in your mind, try reversing the physical feeling of the fear. Know that every emotion is a choice that you can consciously control. Instead of feeling the sinking feeling, you can substitute it with something lighter and starts to float. Your neuro association will recondition here. It is all about the way we link 'the things' inside us and we could choose what feeling or emotion to be linked to certain events. Life is a choice!

You can always associate happiness and euphoria with the object that caused you fear and turn it into something that empowering rather than disempower. If you have gone through any Tony Robbins's stuffs, these are the things that he emphasizes a lot.

The subconscious mind:

Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious mind; it stores all your previous life experiences, your belief system, your memories, you skills, all situations you've been through, and all images you've ever seen. The best way to understand the subconscious mind is through the example of someone who's just started to learn how to drive. At the beginning, he wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with anyone while driving as he would be focusing on the different moves involved; that's because he's still using his conscious mind to drive.
The subconscious mind; your Autopilot!
The prefix 'sub' simply means beneath or hidden below and when it is combined with the word conscious, it literally means beneath consciousness. It is a state where you do not have immediate access to under a normal circumstances. The subconscious mind was actually a 'term' in the studies of psychology which first theorized by the famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud. He strongly believed that there was a part of mind below our conscious threshold (as explained just now). The subconscious mind controls every aspect of our lives; belief system, personality and behavior. Through extensive of studies, Freud found out that most of our natural thought processes were deeply rooted there. For that, how you think and act is predetermined 'there'.

The subconscious mind which is also known as the secondary mind absorbs everything that we encounter and stores them in its own system. Indeed it is a memory storehouse that never (ever) forget anything. If there is any, it is our fault of managing our memory. Back to the point, the subconscious takes in information from the world and communicates it to the conscious mind (which mean the YOU right now) through intuitions, impressions or gut feeling - that kind or weird feeling you have inside your stomach or any part of your body.

For example, have you been in the place where you knew that the person that you met will somehow became your friend or even business partner. Your subconscious mind is actually absorbing the subtle things about them; voice inflection, body movements, deep feelings and metaphorical communication that the conscious might fail to pick up. Some people call that 'Attraction' and I totally agree with that because the mind is always attracted to the 'same-minded mind'

A few weeks later, the driving process comes to him automatically, without having to do any thinking; he'd even start using his cell phone or talk to his friends as he drives. This on account of the fact that the driving information or process has been transferred to his subconscious mind and so the conscious mind is free to function on something else, like talking or using his cell phone.

The subconscious mind is responsible for the automatically triggered feelings and emotions that you suddenly experience upon facing a new situation. Let's consider the example of you giving a presentation all fear and anxiety feelings are then launched and controlled by the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is, on the other hand, responsible for logic, thought and calculations (all actions that are performed under your complete contro
l); the subconscious mind also controls other functions in your body like breathing and heart beats.

Another good example that can help you better understand the subconscious mind is the process of breathing. Before you started reading the previous line, your breathing was controlled by your subconscious. I want you now to try and control your breathing for one minute. You will, of course, be able to do so. This time, it was the conscious mind controlling your breathing, but when you let go of your focus, you are said to be handing the task over to your subconscious mind.


Rules of the subconscious mind:

In order to best use the power of your subconscious mind, you must first know how the subconscious mind works. The subconscious mind is governed by many rules; learning about those rules will allow you to make the best use out of your subconscious mind with the least effort. Below is a link that contains all the information you need to know about the rules of the subconscious mind.
Ego defense mechanisms:

Just like your body has got its defenses against physical wounds and injuries, your subconscious mind has got its defenses against emotional shocks and wounds. These are called ego defense mechanisms or unconscious defense mechanisms. The ego defense mechanisms' main function is to protect your well-being and to help you overcome emotional shocks.

The subconscious mind and forgetting about someone

The main reason people stay broken after breakups is that they have false ideas stored in their subconscious minds about relationships. In my book, how to get over anyone in few days, i described how can getting rid of beliefs like "the one" or "the soul mate" help you forget about anybody in few days.

As soon as someone gets rid of these beliefs he starts to realize that he can one day find another person who replaces the one who left him, and so recovery happens.

Expansion of Consciousness

A Spiritual Ecstasy: A Divine Melody Brings Total Liberation

Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment. Your conscious experiences are constantly shifting and changing. For example, in one moment you may be focused on reading this article. Your consciousness may then shift to the memory of a conversation you had earlier with a co-worker. Next, you might notice how uncomfortable your chair is or maybe you are mentally planning dinner. This ever-shifting stream of thoughts can change dramatically from one moment to the next, but your experience of it seems smooth and effortless.

Max Velmans
How to Define Consciousness. And how Not to Define Consciousness
Abstract: Definitions of consciousness need to be sufficiently broad to include all examples of conscious states and sufficiently narrow to exclude entities, events and processes that are not conscious. Unfortunately, deviations from these simple principles are common in modern consciousness studies, with consequent confusion and internal division in the field. The present paper gives examples of ways in which definitions of consciousness can be either too broad or too narrow. It also discusses some of the main ways in which pre-existing theoretical commitments (about the nature of consciousness, mind and world) have intruded into definitions. Similar problems can arise in connection with how a ‘conscious process’ is defined, potentially obscuring the way that conscious phenomenology actually relates to its neural correlates and antecedent causes in the brain, body and external world. Once a definition of ‘consciousness’ is firmly grounded in its phenomenology, investigations of its ontology and its relationships to entities, events and processes that are not conscious can begin, and this may in time transmute the meaning (or sense) of the term. As our scientific understanding of these relationships deepen, our understanding of what consciousness is will also deepen. A similar transmutation of meaning (with growth of knowledge) occurs with basic terms in physics such as ‘energy’, and ‘time

Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
Meanings Attributed to the Term ‘Consciousness’: An Overview
Abstract: I here describe meanings (or aspects) attributed to the term consciousness, extracted from the literature and from recent online discussions. Forty such meanings were identified and categorized according to whether they were principally about function or about experience; some overlapped but others were apparently mutually exclusive — and this list is by no means exhaustive. Most can be regarded as expressions of authors’ views about the basis of consciousness, or opinions about the significance of aspects of its contents. The prospects for reaching any single, agreed, theory independent definition of consciousness thus appear remote. However, much confusion could be avoided if authors were always to specify which aspects of consciousness they refer to when using the term. An example is outlined of how this can be done (using a ‘PE–SE’ framework).

Anders Sogaard & Stine Osterskov Sogaard
On Definitions of Consciousness
Abstract: It is argued that consciousness studies suffer from a Problem of Essentialism. In response, it is proposed that definitions of consciousness be treated as stipulative definitions. Some example definitions and their relevance for scientific inquiry are discussed.

David Skrbina
Transcending Consciousness: Thoughts on a Universal Conception of Mind
A panpsychist approach provides a double benefit: it gives us a new perspective on our own human mentality, and it allows, by extension, a better understanding of non-human minds. We can see both as existing on one continuum, comparable to and parallel with the physical continuum of being that we have long accepted. This provides us with a more naturalistic and parsimonious account of mind and consciousness. It avoids human chauvinism and neo-Cartesianism. And it bypasses the intractable problem of brute emergence of mind.

Penelope Rowlatt
Consciousness and Memory
Thomas Nagel famously suggested that: ‘an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism — something it is like for the organism’ (Nagel, 1974, p. 436). However, it is difficult to imagine a creature being conscious of anything if it has no memory. As Baars and McGovern (1996, p. 66) pointed out, the only conscious events we can study are those that are ‘reportable’, that is, remembered for a short time at least. In this paper I examine the idea that Nagel-type consciousness might be what it is like to have certain types of memory. If this were the case, then different types of consciousness, ‘phenomenal’ or ‘access’ for example, could be defined in terms of the respective relevant memory stores.

Alfredo Pereira Jr. & Hans Ricke
What is Consciousness? Towards a Preliminary Definition
Abstract: There is little or no general agreement about what researchers should focus on when studying consciousness. The most active scientific studies often use the methods of Cognitive Neuroscience and focus mainly on vision. Other aspects and contents of consciousness, namely thoughts and emotions, are much less studied, possibly leading to a biased view of what consciousness is and how it works. In this essay we describe what we call a referential nucleus, implicit in much of consciousness research. In this context, ‘consciousness’ refers to (partially) reportable content experienced by living individuals. We then discuss the philosophical concept of a phenomenal world and another contemporary view that conscious experience involves, besides integration of information in the brain, participation in action-perception cycles in a natural, social and cultural environment. These views imply a need to reconceptualize ‘qualia’ as the conscious aspect of subjective experiences, thus stating properties of consciousness that pose serious challenges to an exclusive approach via Cognitive Neuroscience, because experimental settings oversimplify conscious experiences, narrowing them to fragments correlated with measured brain activity and behaviour. In conclusion we argue that a science of consciousness requires a broad interdisciplinary range of research, including qualitative methods from the Human Sciences.

Bill Faw
Cutting ‘Consciousness’ at its Joints
Abstract: To define ‘consciousness’ is to describe its uses and determine its boundaries, essential nature, and mechanisms. I distinguish between ‘normal waking consciousness’; altered forms of waking consciousness underlying trance, absorption, hypnosis, dissociation, meditative states, drug states, and out of body experiences; and REM/dreaming and slow-wave/deep sleep — examining them by the basic characteristics and mechanisms of normal waking consciousness: cortical arousal, qualitative experiences, first-person subjectivity, intentionality, knowing objects and self, interaction with e

Michael Beaton
Qualia and Introspection
Abstract: The claim that behaviourally undetectable inverted spectra are possible has been endorsed by many physicalists. I explain why this starting point rules out standard forms of scientific explanation for qualia. The modern ‘phenomenal concept strategy’ is an updated way of defending problematic intuitions like these, but I show that it cannot help to recover standard scientific explanation. I argue that Chalmers is right: we should accept the falsity of physicalism if we accept this problematic starting point. Accepting this starting point amounts to at least implicitly endorsing certain theoretical claims about the nature of introspection. I therefore suggest that we allow ourselves to be guided, in our quest to understand qualia, by whatever independently plausible theories of introspection we have. I propose that we adopt a more moderate definition of qualia, as those introspectible properties which cannot be fully specified simply by specifying the non-controversially introspectible ‘propositional attitude’ mental states (including seeing x, experiencing x, and so on, where x is a specification of a potentially public state of affairs). Qualia thus defined may well fit plausible, naturalisable accounts of introspection. If so, such accounts have the potential to explain, rather than explain away, the problematic intuitions discussed earlier; an approach that should allow integration of our understanding of qualia with the rest of science.

Sophie Allen
The Definition of Consciousness: Is Triviality or Falsehood Inevitable?
It is now more than two centuries since David Hume asserted that the longevity of some philosophical controversies lay in incompatibilities of definition, thus implying that their resolution required careful attention to the meanings of terms and the removal of ambiguity. He had in mind, when writing the passage above, debates about the compatibility of free will and determinism, but perhaps contemporary debates over consciousness provide equally good examples of how ambiguity and equivocation can fuel philosophical and empirical confusion, and hinder explanation.
This paper discusses why the (implied) Humean resolution is unachievable. I will argue that the main difficulty faced by anyone engaged in defining consciousness is to find a way between triviality on the one hand, and falsehood on the other (or, more accurately, probable falsehood, since there is always the possibility of unjustified truth), and that this problem is insurmountable. The best outcome would be the provision of a useful, and most probably fairly trivial, working definition or range of definitions, which furthered the empirical (and conceptual) exploration of the phenomenon or phenomena which they are intended to capture. Such working definitions of consciousness would not be definitive in the usual strict, unrevisable sense as they would need to be open to revision as investigation proceeded; if we are to explain consciousness, we have to be prepared for our conception of consciousness to change as our understanding of it improves.