Subconscious Mind

3 years ago By Yogi Anoop

Storytelling & The Subconscious Mind

The power of the subconscious mind is beyond our grasp. What feeds into the subconscious mind and impacts our daily routine is something that we all pay little attention to. In our childhood, we all have been told fairy tales by our elders. Some were so fantastical and unbelievably enchanting that I vividly remember even the minutest details of some of the stories that were told to me when I was a little boy.

To think of it, why do elders tell stories to children? Most of you will say that the sole purpose is to distract the monkey mind of children and help them focus on details, or some of you will simply say, we tell stories to our child to put him/her off to sleep. 

However, one thing that we do not understand is that telling stories to a child is one of the most effective ways to boost the imaginative ability. The child visualises what is told to him/her in great detail - the colours, the situation, the entire backdrop of the story is created in the young mind and then the characters come alive. 

This gives an immense ability to a young mind to undertake the process of detailing. "The king was tall and handsome and used to wear rich ornaments of gold, diamonds and pearls and lived by the river which was of the colour of a rainbow," the child is told and his/her mind recreates the entire scene in the mind.

What I mean to say here is that storytelling is just a traditional mode of honing the subconscious mind of children so that they grasp the technique of detailing, analysing a situation from different aspects and viewpoints while living a practical life when they grow up.

  

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