conscious mind that is the source of thought also it's the mind that gives us the sense of awareness in our normal waking life the knowledge that we are ourselves here and now the recognition and understanding of our environments the power to rule over our mental faculties to recall the events of our past life and to understand our emotions and their significance more concretely it enables us to have a rational understanding of the objects and persons about us of our successes or shortcomings of the validity of an