PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -What is consciousness? Consciousness can be defined as the awareness of our own thoughts, feelings and perceptions (internal events) and our surroundings (external stimuli) at any given moment. It creates our reality (what we believe to be real and happening at this moment) and is central to our sense of self.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conscious awareness is a twofold state of being, in which the mind is both awake as well as cognizant of its surroundings. Like in the classic example of a square is always a rectangle but a rectangle is not always a square, a mind can be consciously aware but it cannot be aware without also being conscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -We can view consciousness as three distinct levels: the conscious, the subconscious (or preconscious), and the unconscious.