Athmabhava means self - a combination of conscious, subconscious and the unconscious mind.

Your conscious mind is what most people associate with who you are. It’s like the captain on the ship shouting out orders. But in reality it’s the crew in the engine room (the subconscious and unconscious mind) that actually guides the ship.

The conscious mind communicates to the outside world and the inner self through speech, pictures, writing, physical movement, and thought.

The subconscious mind, on the other hand, is in charge of our recent memories, and is in continuous contact with the resources of the unconscious mind. The subconscious mind stores information continuously and gives out reactions based on our experiences and emotions associated with someone or something. As contrary to what many perceive, it is the conscious mind and not the subconscious that draws in your reins, while the subconscious mind simply brings out your feelings and responses. The unconscious mind is genetically inherited and is not shaped by personal experience. The unconscious constantly communicates with the conscious mind via our subconscious, through feelings, emotions, imagination, sensations, and dreams.

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, “divine.” - Carl Gustav Jung