Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "The Art of Power." Let's get started right away, here we go.

<p><br></p> <p>Automatic English For The People</p> <p>The Art of Power Vocabulary Text</p> <p>Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "The Art of Power." Let's get</p> <p>started right away, here we go.</p> <p>Our first word is subconscious. We've talked about this word already several times, so</p> <p>I'll review it quickly. Subconscious means the deep part of your mind. It's the deep</p> <p>emotions, the deep thoughts. They're not at the top of your mind, you're not thinking</p> <p>about them. You don't realize that they are there, they're deep down.</p> <p>And then, of course, the other kind of mind or consciousness is your conscious mind.</p> <p>Your conscious mind is what you are thinking about right now. You know what you're</p> <p>thinking about. You can kind of see it or hear it in your brain. But the subconscious is</p> <p>deeper. You don't see it or hear it immediately, it's not obvious. So that's</p> <p>subconscious.</p> <p>Our next word is dormant, dormant. So Thich Nhat Hanh said that often these seeds</p> <p>of anger or the seeds of violence or the seeds of sadness and depression, often they</p> <p>are dormant. Dormant means sleeping. Quite simply it means sleeping, so, again,</p> <p>dormant. If the seeds are dormant it means they're sleeping. They're not growing,</p> <p>they're not active. They're not awake they are sleeping, so dormant means sleeping.</p> <p>You hear this word with volcanoes sometimes. They'll say it's a dormant volcano.</p> <p>Volcano is a big mountain, right? It explodes sometimes. Well if it's a dormant</p> <p>volcano it's a sleeping volcano. It's not exploding, there's nothing happening, it's</p> <p>asleep. Okay, so dormant, again, dormant means sleeping or asleep.</p> <p>Our next word is formation, formation. He says that when these negative emotions,</p> <p>these negative seeds are fed or watered, when you give them energy they become</p> <p>mental formations. So a formation is just a thing, an organized thing. So, in other</p> <p>words, they become real thi