The Mind And The Brain
“Every time you make a CHOICE, you are molding your reality and Rewiring your brain”
The main difference between human mind and brain is that the brain acts as a hardware while human mind is the software, but unlike computer software and hardware, the human mind hard-wires the brain and changes the physical reality according to a person’s perceptions.
Human mind as the canvas of reality
Human mind is a part of us that we use as a tool to be aware of our surroundings, One has to understand that the mind is the blue print of everything that is happening.
If one disciplines his/her mind, then he/she controls everything within it. To get a glimpse of the potential of mind just think about what it does. A taste, sight, feelings, hearing and smell we use all of these to navigate our external environments, yet they are merely defined by our brains, and they are just electrical signals all happening INSIDE our brains. Everything you do whether is writing, reading, driving and so forth, has been hardwired in the brain, if you had learned something in the wrong way, unless you change that “hardwired part” you will keep on doing the same mistake for the rest of your life.
Everything we perceive as a physical reality is the result of our ‘mental filters’ subconsciously, all the physical matter you see, touch, smell and everything is not the ultimate reality, nothing that exists on this plain of reality stays the way it is forever they all undergo process of decomposition and transformations, from the universe to the atom, these are not indivisible but they can all be changed and altered.
The physical matter that we perceive is only a ‘Mental Perception’ this is to say however we programmed out minds to perceive the reality that’s how we will perceive it; for example if you touch a cold bottle of water that is the senses that tells you that it’s cold but outside your consciousness there isn’t any concept of cold and hot because there isn’t the mind to identify which is cold and hot, big or small etc..
There isn’t any difference between cold and heat nor is there a temperature nor is there material, the mind is the only that tells that apart
- Ø In the Darkness black and white are the same.
- Ø The space has a single direction, there is no up, down, north, south.
- Ø Light and darkness are the same in the empty space
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Psychology and Philosophy of the Human Mind
In psychology of human mind there are four states of consciousness which manifests as four brain frequencies or brain waves. Human brain generates micro electrical pulses as when thoughts permeates the labyrinth of mind. The physical conduits of these thoughts are the millions of nerve cells or neurons in the brain. Just as mobile phone or any other wireless communication devices, in order to tune in of sync another device,your device has to tune into that specific frequency, Brain waves can be measured on an electro-encephalograph machine (E.E.G. Machine). By using special electrodes that are attached to the skull, brain waves can be measured accurately as the person drifts into these different states of consciousness. Keep in mind that depending on a persons character they are mostly operating their brains on different levels so one maybe an Alpha or Delta, that’s why some are geniuses and some are leaders. Brain waves are measured in the number of cycles per second (C.P.S.) which are 4 main frequencies:
Delta level brain waves – range 0.5-3 C.P.S
This is the state where a person is dreamless, tranquil an deeply relaxed, it is believed at this state a person is in tuned in Oneness, at this level of awareness a person sees the relationship and interconnectedness of all things. At this state time doesn’t exists they all merge into oneness. Usually here people would get ‘messages from beyond’.
Theta level brain waves – range 4-7 C.P.S
At this level of mind a person usually have high level of creativity, they would get inspirations, bright new ideas, most of the children operates in this frequency level where they are highly creative and their brains are highly receptive. This is a good state to program one’s mind and get rid of bad habits.
Alpha level brain waves – range 8-12 C.P.S
At this state you are relaxed and can have daydreams, emotional and a heightened memory it is easy to access your subconscious mind at this level. Most of the T.V commercial can reach your subconscious mind at this state easily because people jump into this state of consciousness on and off without being away of it.
Beta level brain waves – range 13-25 C.P.S.
This is basically your conscious mind, when you are awake and aware with logical thoughts, analysis and actions. at this level a person can hardly learn something new because the mind is in the mode of doing something so it is hard to gain any new insights. If you want to get something done you will accomplish it easily at this level because your mind can be less interfered with external factors.
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Brain Waves
The brain produces microscopic electrical frequencies as thoughts travels in the labyrinth of the brain. The physical conduits of these thoughts are the millions of nerve cells or neurons in the brain. Just as radio signals, in order to make a comprehensible message, are beamed out on radio waves, a band of signals within a defined frequency, so the brain’s activity also occurs in waves. Brain waves can be measured on an electro-encephalograph machine (which is normally abbreviated to E.E.G. Machine). By attaching sensitive electrodes to the scalp, it is possible to measure accurately the type of brain wave that a subject is producing. These waves are usually expressed in the number of cycles per second (or C.P.S.)
The brain produces 4 main frequencies:
- Beta level brain waves – range 13-25 C.P.S. (cycles per second)
- Alpha level brain waves – range 8-12 C.P.S.
- Theta level brain waves – range 4-7 C.P.S.
- Delta level brain waves – range 0.5-3 C.P.S.
The following chart relates each type of brain waves to its principal function. We must remember however, that when we speak of someone being ‘in alpha’ we mean that this is their characteristic and predominant brain wave. Other brain waves will also be present, but in smaller quantities than usual
The linking of left and right brain activities is important in producing a shift from learning to accelerated learning. Yet our society is very ‘beta orientated’. We are busy thinking about the problem in hand, but don’t leave ourselves sufficiently open to other influences, which would help us memorize faster and make the sort of less expected connections that we call creative thinking.
In beta you don’t see the wood for concentrating on the trees. But learn to relax, increase the proportion of the alpha and ideally theta brain waves, and you have created the conditions where you may begin to see the whole picture. ‘Alpha’ is a natural and receptive state of mind, that we can all attain through the techniques of relaxation. They principally involve simple and pleasant relaxation exercises and listening to certain types of music.
The theta brain wave pattern is especially interesting. It occurs spontaneously to most of us in the twilight state between being fully awake and falling asleep. Arthur Koestler called it `reverie’. This drowsy stage is associated with fleeting semi-hallucinatory images. Thousands of artistic and literary inspirations and scientific inventions have been credited to this state, a sort of freeform thinking that puts you in touch with your subconscious.
Many psychologists would agree it is a reasonable hypothesis that, when left/right brain symbiosis takes place, conscious and subconscious are also united. The proportion of theta brain waves becomes much higher than normal. This is the moment when logical left brain activity declines. The left brain, which normally acts as a filter or censor to the subconscious, drops its guard, and allows the more intuitive, emotional and creative depths of the right brain to become increasingly influential.
If the hypothesis is true, then do women, popularly characterised as more intuitive, reach a walking theta state more often than men; and can this be associated with the fact that their left/right brain link, the corpus callosum, is larger and richer in connective capabilities than men’s? We do not yet know, but it is a fascinating area for future research.
At the University of Colorado Medical Centre and at the Biofeedback Centre in Denver, Dr. Thomas Budzyski has found that, when people were trained to achieve and maintain theta brain waves using biofeedback techniques, they did indeed learn much faster. Moreover, many emotional and attitudinal problems were solved at the same time.
For example, in a theta state, suggestions that racial prejudice is wrong were well accepted. Suggestions to overweight people to follow a sensible eating pattern were accepted and subsequently complied with, and insomnia and drinking problems were successfuly tackled.
Some time ago a New York advertising agency was asked to produce a T.V. Commercial to combat racial prejudice. They produced two. The first used a carefully built up rational argument. The second was a highly emotional film featuring attractive young black children and using many subconscious but positive appeals for fairness.
The logical T.V. Commercial actually intensified the degree of racial prejudice. The subjects felt themselves threatened as they realized they could not give an equally dispassionate and rational counter argument. Consequently the only possible response was an aggressive defence involving an increased emotional commitment to their original attitude.
The second commercial however, worked. Emotion laden appeals went beyond the conscious, the intellectual objections, and created a new positive image at the subconscious level that changed the subject’s entire personal response, so no conflict or threat was aroused. Can intelligence be increased?
Whilst it is certainly an oversimplification to relate intelligence to brain capacity it is, however, interesting to relate three statements: The average I.Q. is 100 The genius-level is 160 The average human probably uses 4% of his potential brain power
If that average human could learn to use not 4% of his brain but a still minimal 7% of his brain, could he attain genius level? This article is about techniques that probably improve the human memory, that increase creativity and that provide access to unused brain power. The indications are that the same techniques can measurably improve intelligence.
Right And Left Brain
The brain is divided physically into a left and right half is not a new discovery. The Egyptians knew that the left side of the brain controlled and received sensations from the right side of the body and vice versa.
It is only in the last two dozen years, however, that the true implication of the left/right split has gradually become apparent, through the work of a number of researchers. The most famous are probably Dr. Roger Sperry and Dr. Robert Ornstein of the California Institute of Technology. Their work has won them a Nobel prize.
Sperry and Ornstein noted that the left and the rig hemispheres are connected by an incredibly complex network of p to 300 million nerve fibres called the Corpus Callosum. They ere also able to show that the two halves of the brain tend to have different functions.
They and other researchers indicate that the left brain primarily appears to deal with language and mathematical processes and logical thought, sequences, analysis and what we generally label academic pursuits. The right brain principally deals with music, and visual impressions, pictures, spatial patterns, and colour recognition. They also ascribe to the right brain the ability to deal with certain kinds of conceptual thought – intangible ‘ideas’ such as love, loyalty, beauty
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The specialization of the two halves of the brain can result in some bizarre behaviour. Patients who, for medical reasons, have had their corpus callosum severed, have effectively two semi independent brains: two minds in one head.
If a ball is shown to the left visual field of such a person, i.e. registered to their right brain hemisphere, the speaking half of the brain, which is in the other, (left) brain will claim to have seen nothing. If, however, the patient is asked to feel in a bag of assorted shapes he will correctly pull out a ball. If he is asked what he has done he will say’nothing’. The ball has only been seen with the right brain, and felt with the right brain. The speech centre, which is located in the left brain, has registered nothing.
Even more delicate experiments have been performed on surgically split-brained patients. The word SINBAD was projected to such a patient while his eyes were focused on the precise spot between N and B. The first 3 letters went to his right brain, the last three to his left hemisphere. When asked to saywhat he had seen, he replied BAD. When asked to point with his left hand to what he had seen he pointed to the word SIN.
The specialisation of the two brains has also been demonstrated by measuring the electrical activity of the brain during various activities.
When the brain is relaxed in a state of rest, it tends predominantly to show an alpha brain wave rhythm – i.e. waves of 8/10 cycles per second. Ornstein found that a subject tackling a mathematical problem showed an increase in alpha in the right hemisphere. This indicated that the right side was relaxing whilst the left was active and, therefore, in a beta brain wave pattern. In contrast, when a subject was matching coloured patterns, the left showed alpha (i.e. was resting) and the right showed beta (i.e. was active). The brain scans, show the varying levels of electrical brain activity in a subject listening to music, words and singing.
The first activity (music) involved the right brain.
The second (listening to words only) involved the left brain, but singing (words and music together) involved the whole brain.
The left brain is now thought to be the half that specialises in serial, sequential thought, i.e. analysing information in sequence in a “logical” step by step approach. The left rationalises.
The right brain seems to take in several bits of information “at a glance” and process them into one overall thought. The right synthesises.
When you meet someone it seems to be the right brain that takes all the elements at once and synthesises the pattern into a whole to recognise the person instantaneously. If you were using your left brain only you would probably scan first the hair, then the forehead, then the eyes, nose, mouth and chin in sequence to “build up” a picture. The right brain, however, recognises the pattern immediately.
It is the left brain that is dominant in, for example, mathematical calculations. It is the right brain that processes non-verbal signals.
We have come as a society to stress, and value more highly, the functions of the left brain. The analytical thinking of the physicist is usually valued higher (in money terms) than the artistic and intuitive ability of the musician or artist. Most schools relegate right brain dominant activities to two or three periods a week. Yet those schools who have tried increasing the proportion of arts subjects, have found that levels of all scholastic performance improved. Because, although the two halves of the brain may indeed be specialised, they are far from being isolated. Each compliments and improves the performance of the other.
Education that emphasises only analytical thinking is literally “single minded”. As one psychologist put it “Such people’s brains are being systematically damaged. In many ways they are being de-educated. “
