Hedjwitch I am still learning about ideas and models. Ideas and schema about how our mind works-. It is a confusing arena.
I'm not sure what is meant by "being conscious about your unconscious consciousness.", and it is further confusing as different experts, therapists, spiritual leaders use different terms, different ways of looking at things.
There is the idea of our mind being split into different parts with different functions, and often have difficulty communicating to each other.
I am no expert at all, but through my magical practice and therapy it has been necessary to swot up on such things in order to deepen my healing.
So I could tell you of how I see it,, but I am not qualifed and others may come to a different understanding.
My first step in hearing was about becoming aware of my thoughts and feelings.
Although they feed each other they are often at odds in understanding. We can become triggered or suddenlly feel anxious, our thinking mind is left questioning- "what is that all about?"
We can't think ourselves happy, but we can think ourselves into doing activities which nurture our feelings and mood.
Although I have only touched the surface of CBT I think these three things are important in that modality- thioughts/emotions and activity.
Our emotional mind is harder to access, growing from our subconscious seat it doesn't understand words, except perhaps mantras, spells, song.
This is where feelings are born, is home to our shadow, creativity, inner child. It is also where we keep our unresolved pain, it can be a scary place to access, but contains huge treasure. Our unconscious is our primeval brain, home to gut feeling, spidey instinct, survival mechanisms and it does what it can to keep us safe. It can hit the sympathetic nervous response, flooding our bodies with cortisol and adrenalin , gut churning, our hands sweating.
Our subconscious has no sense of time, so has little discernment or triage- responses are often OTT - to our limbic system everything is happening in this moment.
It also contains deep memory, so will sometimes attach a past trauma to a present day occurrence - which is why we get triggered.
This feature however does allow us to do shadow work, inner child healing, as we can move into the areas of pain and start to dismantle things.
Sitting with a feeling rather than pushing it away will sometimes give us an awareness of how that feeling is connected to past or similar feelings and that is an area to start healing, bringing our self into the light and begin to integrate.
Again this starts with awareness. To start with it was work to constantly check in with myself, "what am I thinking right now, what am I feeling right now" but with practice it will happen naturally.
This emotional work can be scary, we repress things for a reason- too painful, to powerful, and sometimes we need a trusted guide or therapist to navigate these deep waters.
There are gentle techniques to do alone, just bring a big bucket of compassion and nest in.
As I say I am no expert, so please feel free to disagree or dismiss the above!