In fact, the concept of consciousness in psychology does not have a clear definition and this term is used in the widest range of meanings, but there is, nevertheless, the generally accepted basis of its understanding is the mental zone of the human person, accumulating in itself all the subject's views about the external world and about himself, at the same time possessing the ability to generate a reaction to stimuli coming from outside.
Why am I myself?
Consciousness and self-consciousness in psychology are often not shared at all, and so far there has been heated debate among psychoanalysis about how we still manage to identify ourselves with our own minds and perceive our "I" separately from the rest of the world? Each of us at least once in my life asked myself the question: "Why am I - it's me, and not someone else?". How many fragments in the mosaic of the universe had to come together to form a fully self-aware personality , possessing unique and inherent features only? To date, there are no answers to these questions. But there is some understanding of the workings of the mechanisms of this mysterious machine with respect to human behavioral responses.
At the basis of all the properties of consciousness in the psychology of any subject is a bundle of motivation - the goal. It is conditioned both by the research activity of the individual, aimed at studying the world around him, and the analytical processes taking place at all levels of activity, aiming to develop correct approaches to solving problems arising in the area conventionally designated as space-time-circumstance.
Consciously or not?
Possessing genetic memory, many of these decisions a person takes not only consciously, based on his already existing life experience, but also at the subconscious level, in the base of which knowledge and ideas about the world of his distant ancestors are laid. Because of this, consciousness and the unconscious in psychology are often considered as two halves of one whole. We unconsciously react to certain smells, we feel fear of some objects, preferring one color, completely ignoring the others. Naturally, all this is purely individual and often based on emotional impressions of early childhood, but one way or another, every choice that we make in our lives is determined by the psychology of both the conscious and the unconscious.
Where does the line between consciousness and subconscious really go, psychology tries to define long ago, but this zone is so vague that it is practically impossible to work directly with one without touching the other. On penetration into the subconsciousness the whole principle of hypnotherapy is built, on the same basis all techniques of meditation and self-knowledge are held. AND
I'm part of something more
Psychic and consciousness in human psychology are also inextricably linked. Any our mental state is conditioned by processes proceeding on the higher mental level, uniting in itself all personal parameters and characteristics of the subject, controlling his behavioral reactions and determining the internal and external self-positioning of the individual. Human consciousness clearly draws a line between itself and the world around us and on how comfortable we feel from the psychological point of view, the degree of our self-esteem and the height of the bar correspond to certain criteria adopted in a society that is essentially a single matrix or an egregor for the consciousness of all its members.