We Use 10% of Our Brains, What About The Rest?

This can be one of the biggest question people have been asking themselves. There are two questions to be addressed when it comes to this matter;

• Is it that our brain operates automatically 100% effectively and we are just not utilizing it or?,
• Is it that there is this potent within our brain that lies dormant waits to be discovered.?

Though an alluring idea, the “10 percent myth” is so wrong it is almost laughable, says neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. Although there’s no definitive culprit to pin the blame on for starting this legend, the notion has been linked to the American psychologist and author William James, who argued in The Energies of Men that “We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.” It’s also been associated with to Albert Einstein, who supposedly used it to explain his cosmic towering intellect.

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Let’s not go into the scientific terms that leads you nowhere at the end of the day, even though science has accelerate and disciplined the growth of human consciousness  most of the time it tends to deals with things that are physical in nature which is exactly that 0.0001% of reality and forgot about the real reality,  let’s try something a little out of the box. We all have our brains and use it everyday, I am trying to face this concept in a lively manner, in such a way that  everyone who owns a brain can experience it her/himself. We are well aware of two parts of the brain the conscious mind and the subconscious mind

The Conscious Part

The conscious mind is the one we use everyday for conscious activities, like going to work, reading a novel, cooking etc., deals with will power, logics and tends to be very narrow and limited in perception, depends on what type of person you are it varies on how much  you are dependant on this part of your brain, for example there are people who makes choices instantly they don’t consider anything outside of  what ‘they know’ or their realm of knowledge,  most of them are leaders, military, they act quickly and have the ability to move fast.

The Subconscious Part

The subconscious mind deals with subconscious activities such as moving the muscles, heart beats, growth, healing, breathing(can be conscious and subconscious) and many other things that we are not aware of. We tend to think that we are in control but most of our actions are based on what has been programmed into this part of brain, it is more in control than you could ever imagine, think about this: when you touch a coal of fire your reflex action pulls out your hand immediately without being conscious of it, it gives you an alert when you are sick, hungry, or need a rest, another example is the fact that most of the choices we make are based on the personal belief that we have been taught when we were little kids for the first six years (to understand this i suggest you grab a copy of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles
), see it this way; just as the diagram shows the conscious mind is like a ball which can move within the constrained greater reality, more like the species living within the earth bounded by the gravity of the planet, they are there to be protected, nurtured until they grow to maturity, this is the role of your subconscious mind, it makes sure you survive and it is only natural for you to automatically copy and believe what you were exposed to for the first six early years. It controls your motor system, the ‘way you think’, respond and sometimes what you like gives you what is known as self concept. A huge percentage  activities run in this part of the brain more than the conscious part, Muscle test is one of the test you can do to know how much your subconscious mind is in control.

Through extensive training, practice and repetition some of our reflex action can be reprogrammed, an advanced trained person have different reflex actions than an ordinary person, his senses have been heightened or in another words his/her senses has been brought into his/her awareness into higher level than the rest, this is to say they can easily escape and avoid danger even before it happens. A traditional Hawaii sailor has the ability to detect where the close land is in the middle of the sea without any campus of electronic device just by going into trance and detect the wave patterns.

The Super-conscious Part

There is another part of us (not sure if it can be located in the brain or it’s purely mental. Think about this for a moment, you need your subconscious mind as much as your need your conscious mind, if your eye muscles suddenly stop working properly, you won’t be able to go to work, drive, read etc. just a simple function failing the entire system is jeopardised and no i am not only talking about the body system but also your surroundings the people around you, the place you work, etc. to take it further your physical body is totally dependant on it’s surroundings in order for you to survive, you need oxygen, the right temperature for your body to exist, gravity, energy from the sun, food and many many other things that we usually take for granted. this is but part of the super-conscious mind, if the earth was rotating in a perfect circle around the sun there wouldn’t be any seasons of the year, no plants would grow, this shows clearly that there is the mind behind and it is part of us just as your arm, a heart, legs etc . some research have clearly shown that there is an intelligence outside our physical body read this article ‘The Intelligence Field’.

The super-conscious mind deals with phenomenon like serendipity, ‘coincidences’, psychic phenomenon such as telepathy, remote viewing, astral projection, telekinesis and many other that cannot be explained into the world of science, the super conscious has the ability to take you into different stages (trial and tribulations) to make you reach and accomplish your goals. Saying that we use the law of attraction by simply thinking about what we want to manifest in our lives would be rather shallow without understanding and include the mechanism behind it that makes it come into reality, to some people it takes less time to manifest what they think about because of how well they are aligned in harmony with their surroundings, and the communication between the subconscious mind and the conscious mind. lets say you want to manifest 100 dollars within six hours, the third hour one of your old friends calls you and says he/she wants to pay you back your 150 dollars that he/she owed you, but the only problem is she/he has moved 20 hours away from you, because of your thinking process you just give up and not try to think of the possibilities that you could have use other means to get that money. but it is because we have not brought our awareness to it that we ‘use 10% of our brains’.

Beyond comprehension.

This is simply yet to be discovered, the things that are there but because we are not that advanced yet to understand and comprehend that it is still part of us.

How do we utilize our brain power?

The question is not how to do, since this is and inborn quality of who you and me are we simply have to learn how to be aware of these higher parts of ourselves, there are simple steps to follow so that you can begin to apply and realise these parts of yourself.

• Be an open minded person, it is a fact that nobody has all the knowledge and knows everything, the more you give a chance for new knowledge to come to you the more aware of new things you will be, the tendency to stay in the state of “What i know is the ultimate TRUTH”  is like digging your own grave from growth, and don’t be just a follower makes sure you ask questions apply it in your daily activities and the only way to find out is the results if you apply and it doesn’t bring the result you want then you know it is not true.
• Being aware of what is happening at every moment and time, there is a constant communication between our conscious, subconscious and super conscious mind, being alert and aware of what is happening every moment means listening to these signs and messages.
• Exploring beyond the norms, in our civilization it is Right Brained dominance means our choices are mostly made based on logics, even the way we put our records it is mostly logical, a piece of art would convey a message to you in a holistic way more than a written statement, just think about your favourite song, it sinks deeper and it motivates you, it gives you emotions, imaginations etc. but a simple statement may mislead you into totally different meaning. if you start taking things in with their ‘complete spectrum’ visual, auditory and Kinaesthetic means all your senses are involved in the process more than you would take something in once sense.
• Meditation and relaxation, most of people who meditate have a good brain synchronization the neural network function in a harmonious way more than those who don’t. you can decide to spend from 15 to 30 minutes everyday just sit down without doing anything, don’t sleep just sit, the first time it might be hard but eventually you will start to notice some of the solutions you were looking for comes natural and easily, this is because your mind settles and everything starts to naturally fall into it’s place.

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