Working with conscious and non-conscious processes

Many of the tools and techniques can help to surface and integrate elements of non-conscious processing into conscious awareness, especially if combined with mindfulness and incubation (see Brain stuff).

• Mindfulness practice and emotional categorisation can improve awareness of both conscious and non-conscious processes and improve interaction between them

• Incubation practice can allow non-conscious processes to emerge into conscious awareness

• Archetypes can help to expose habitual meaning schema that are operating outside your conscious awareness

• Cognitive interviewing can help you to recall memory details that you have not consciously processed

• Self-confrontation and Johari window can help you to notice details of an event that you were not consciously aware of at the time

• Stream of consciousness journaling, twenty statements and randomisation can allow non-conscious associations and evaluations to surface

• Calling time outs during activities can allow for either more conscious processing of live events or just a bit more time for non-conscious incubation