What Is Consciousness? Three Ideas To Remember

What does it mean to be conscious? This short kind voice learning practice helps you understand and remember three foundational ideas about consciousness in interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB): the subjective experience of being aware, the relationship between access to neural information and subjective reality, and the distinction between the knowing and the known.
Designed for therapists, spiritual seekers, and curious learners alike, this practice uses simple language and repetition to make complex ideas easier to understand and recall.
In this two-voice call-and-response practice, phrases are offered and repeated. You can receive the words, repeat them silently, or say them aloud.
An independent learning resource for readers of Daniel J. Siegel’s The Mindful Therapist and anyone exploring IPNB.
First in a nine-part series on the nine domains of integration.
Second voice: Doreen Van Leeuwen.

Transcript

My kind voice says. My kind voice says. There's a lot of things to learn. There's a lot of things to learn. Just thinking about the first level. Just thinking about the first level. But in the end, But in the end, I just need to remember three things. I just need to remember three things about consciousness. About consciousness. The first. The first. Is it's my subjective experience. Is my subjective experience. Of being aware. Of being aware. The second. The second. Is that it involves aspects. Is that it involves aspects of neural information, Of neural information. And then subjective reality. And subjective reality. What that means. What that means, At a practical level, At a practical level. Is the neural reality. Is the neural reality. The access to information part. Which is the access to information part, Is we can measure my eardrum vibrating. We can measure my eardrum vibrating. That information is accessible. That information is accessible. But how my mind interprets the vibration. But how my mind interprets the information. That's my subjective experience. That's my subjective experience. So the second thing about consciousness So the second thing about consciousness that I want to try and keep in mind. That I want to try and keep in mind. Is that. It involves access to information. Is that it involves access to information and subjective reality and subjective reality. The third thing. Yes, The third thing. Is the knowing and the known. The third thing is the knowing and the known. The known is the content. The known is the content. And the knowing is my experience. And the knowing is my experience.