I have explained our mental system for many years and finally created a new mental model, which makes it easier to solve our spiritual problems. Let’s introduce it.
How to comprehend our mental system
Sometimes, we want to understand how our mind works. Recognizing it makes it easier to control our thoughts, including uncontrollable emotions, unstoppable worries, and various spiritual problems.
However, until now, no simple, straightforward-to-understand mental model existed. Although Freud’s and Jung’s models are pioneering and provided useful frameworks, they were not sufficient for me.
That drove me to create a new mental model for spiritual problems, and I finally succeeded in making it.
Today, I will present an overview and compare it with Freud’s and Jung’s models. In my model, I removed the concept of the subconscious, which misled people’s focus, and placed more importance on the conscious, which is the true cause of mental complexity.
This model may show you our mental system and resolve your spiritual problems more easily, although it will be a simple introduction to the model.
Existing mental models
In my theory, the subconscious has nothing to do with spiritual problems; the conscious does. In other words, we should turn our attention to the system of consciousness.
To explain it, let’s look at Freud’s and Jung’s mental models.
Freud’s mental model
Sigmund Freud, who is the pioneer of psychoanalysis, proposed the following mental model.
He classified the mind into three layers: the conscious, the subconscious (preconscious), and the unconscious.
It described efficiently the parts of the mind that were difficult to perceive. For example, on the surface of our hearts, we want to be happy. However, in deeper areas of our minds, something unrecognizable drives us with a destructive impulse.
His model effectively defined the phenomenon. People realized that there were inexplicable parts within the mind.
Jung’s mental model
Carl Jung, who was the most influential psychotherapist of the 20th century, developed Freud’s model, as shown in the following figure.
He suggested that the mind is connected to social values and that it should be defined in contrast to them. People realized the contradictory aspects of society and people. Those discords caused psychological problems.
The fatal problem
However, those models involved a crucial problem: they needed to recognize the subconscious, which is difficult to manifest.
That led to the development of various manifestation methods, from artistic approaches like sandplay therapy to mystical methods such as dialoguing with the inner gods. Modern psychotherapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, place emphasis on the subconscious.
People have believed the problem lies in the subconscious, which is an imperceptible realm. That was the crucial problem in Freud’s and Jung’s models, in my opinion.
My mental model
In my theory, the cause doesn’t lie in the subconscious; the conscious does. To be precise, one of the conscious processes is causing spiritual problems, such as flashbacks, uncontrollable emotions, unstoppable worries, intense empathy, an inferiority complex, the lack of boundaries of the self, low self-esteem, and destructive impulses. Focusing on the subconscious is pointless.
To explain it, let’s introduce my model, as shown in the following figure:
I divided the structure of the mind into four parts, as follows:
- The conscious is the function by which we make decisions, being activated by the subconscious. It is the part we focus on. One process in it causes spiritual problems.
- The memory area provides past subjective experiences and the emotions associated with them. This division enables us to separate judgments from emotions.
- The primitive cognition area (the subconscious) is the part that connects the conscious with the other parts. In my theory, we will not delve into it.
- The body is the physical part that creates physical problems and demands orders that the body cannot handle alone. Although it doesn’t belong to the mind, it affects the mind.
In other words, understanding the work of the conscious and memory helps resolve spiritual problems.
A detailed version
A more detailed model is as follows, although we will not use it in this overview:
The red area in the above figure (the (2) analysis step) causes the mental problems.
In the following articles, let’s look at how our mind works in more detail based on this mental model.
Conclusion
That is an overview of my new mental model to solve spiritual problems.
In my model, I removed the concept of the subconscious, which misled people’s focus, and placed more importance on the conscious, which is the true cause of mental complexity.
Since the detailed explanations will be long, I will cover them in the following articles.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
