The Four Functions Of Consciousness

For a better understanding of consciousness, we will describe the four functions.

1) Think: It is characterized by making a permanent use of thought and reason.

2) Feeling: There is a predominance of the emotions, feelings and moods.

3) Sensory: Main functions of the senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) and perception (color, noise, smell, taste and body contact). There is much interest in the material world (houses, cars, objects in general, everything related to nature, etc).

4) Intuit: There are situations that we cannot perceive through the senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch), but nevertheless intuit (such essential issues or spiritual).

There are people whose dominance of the thinking and find it hard to express their true feelings. Others are governed by feeling, where everything that happens in life, live it very emotionally, as if it were a matter of life or death. There are those that are managed in the world of sensations and perceptions (sensory), giving much importance to all material. Finally, there are those who can sense or put all their attention not on the material, but in essence or spiritual.

Then there are those who are only handled by logic and reason (left cerebral hemisphere in right-and left-handed right), as well as we can find that only interested in creating, intuit and imagine (right hemisphere for right-handed and left lefties).

Some suggestions to consider:

1) self-observation

Begin to observe yourself, in order to realize which of the four functions of our consciousness (thinking, feeling, perceiving and intuiting) govern our lives.

2) Dominance of a cerebral hemisphere

Regarding the prevalence of some cerebral hemisphere, may ask: I tend to be very logical and rational?, Am I imagining and creating permanently?

3) Self Discovery

Find out for ourselves, if we often have many ideas (thinking) or predominant emotion (feeling). We may be interested in much contact with material things and the sensations produced (sensory), or that need to be continually in search of the spiritual (sense). Maybe we love the logic and numbers or have a strong tendency to the imagination and creativity.

When we have discovered, we try to develop further the role that less use and thus achieve true emotional attunement.

It is essential that the use of the cerebral hemispheres and the four functions of consciousness are well balanced, as the excessive use of any of them take us out of the internal harmonization.

It is very necessary to think with logic and rationality, as well as create, imagine and intuit. Also to express our feelings, enjoying the sensations and the material world, without forgetting the essential or spiritual.