Parts Consciousness is the awareness of the three basic parts of each human being's consciousness, those parts being, the subconscious, conscious, and higher self. As discussed before and in The Theory of Parts Consciousness, human beings are a hierarchal consciousness projected into this domain as a light array that is endowed with intelligence.

The rational, conscious mind, is most often concerned with intellectual comparison and logic. The subconscious mind is the emotional mind and therefore most often concerned with feelings and sensations. The struggle between these two lower parts is often the cause of personal unhappiness or even crisis. Reconciling the parts will often relieve the situation, but that isn't always easy.

Feelings and thoughts often overlap and entwine. How do we know where subconscious feeling starts and conscious, or intellectual thought stops?

In Parts Consciousness Therapy we teach participants to express how they feel about a thought and what they think about a feeling. The first goal is to identify each thought and feeling related to a subject and then to clear up any confusion between the two, I. e., feelings and thoughts.

The source for feelings is often quite murky or related to past experiences that may even go as far back as the womb in extreme cases. Rational thoughts are usually based on logic and comparison, but that isn't quite as clear cut as it sounds. What if the thought is based on a reaction to a feeling that is visceral and deeply seated, dating back to early childhood?

The clues must come from trigger words, adjectives and adverbs, primarily. Of course the most obvious of these would be, "I don't think," or "I don't feel," or "I feel," or "I think." Always the ones whose thoughts or feelings are being examined must be brought back to the connection between thought and feeling and that is by the repetition of phrases such as, "How does that thought make you feel?" or "What do you think about that feeling?"