STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Individually, brainstorm a definition

Awareness of one’s self and one’s environment

TYPES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Types of Consciousness

ExternalSensoryPerception

InternalSensoryPerception

AbstractAwareness

AwarenessofSelf

External Sensory Perception

Awareness of the impact of the environment on the five senses

• Sights

• Sounds

• Tastes

• Smells

• Touch

Internal Sensory Perception

• Internally experience sensory information from remembered event

• Create sensory representation of an event never experienced

Abstract Awareness

• Symbols used to represent big ideas

• Thoughts and emotions defined as sensory images

Awareness of Self

• Unique, separate individual

• Have and observe experiences, thoughts and feelings

Cogito, Ergo Sum

Levels of Consciousness

• Subconscious:thoughts, emotions, behaviors available but not in present awareness

• Unconsciousdesires, conflicts, memories difficult to resolve; resources, motives, drives

Altered States of Consciousness

Daydreaming Meditative State

Drug-Induced Biofeedback Induced

Hallucination Lucid Dreaming

Hypnosis

HYPNOSIS

Brainstorm 5 Qualities• Heightened Suggestibility (not contrary to basic morals)

• Dissociation: separation from external sensations

• Vivid Imagery: ignore what is present, imagine objects, ammonia as perfume

• Enhanced Memory: what is not available to person in wakened state can be recovered

• Post-Hypnotic Suggestion: quit smoking, manage pain, eat better; fades over time, requires renewal