In extreme situations, the unconscious mind will attempt to protect people and there are many stories that support this fact. There might be a pile-up on the motorway and a man climbs out of his car and goes into action assisting other people until emergency services arrive. At that point, someone else points out to the man offering assistance that half of his stomach is hanging out. He has no idea what they're talking about, looks down and collapses because he suddenly associates with what is happening with himself.
I have worked with the U.K. Army and in particular, a guy by the name of Jim Windsor. Jim is one of the people you see when you return from a war zone and it's his job to help you get your head straight. He says one of the things they've noticed with people returning from war zones is that they will seem to be functioning pretty well, but 18 months to two years later, everything hits them and they need help.
Yet another example of this characteristic of the unconscious mind can be found when someone close to you dies. Generally, someone in the family will place themselves in charge of organization of the funeral and while everyone around them is collapsing, they disassociate from the death and proceed to carry out what needs to be done. Later on, three months or so down the road, while others are slowly getting back to functioning as normal, this person's mind suddenly decides it is time to deal with the death and that's when it hits them all of a sudden.
UNCONSCIOUS MIND OFFERS PROTECTION VIA DISASSOCIATION
This action by the unconscious mind is an automatic one and the real danger lies in the fact that some people might remain disassociated from a tragedy and never deal with it. The grieving process is important and association is what allows us to meet this process head-on. Once your mind begins to associate, or if you have trouble associating, it is time to seek professional help and that might be with a psychologist or psychotherapist, a counsellor or someone skilled in NLP. Sometimes it might mean just talking to a friend or having a good cry, but it's important to feel the emotion and move on.
There are different levels involving the unconscious mind and that is what makes us so incredible. Sometimes our conscious mind might not even need to know or understand an event and the unconscious mind will protect us from knowing the full story. Although there are different models that explain this activity, under the NLP model it's important to associate, learn from that association and get on with our lives.
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