Abilities of our Mind
The mind has extraordinary power, and it is challenging to comprehend, and we still know very little about how the mind works and why.
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The mind has extraordinary power, and it is challenging to comprehend, and we still know very little about how the mind works and why.
As soon as we start to understand bits and pieces of it, we find even more about it that wasn't even considered; or scientists and doctors find out they were chasing their tales and were ass-backwards about what they thought within their findings.
As our minds and technology advance, our understanding of ourselves and our chemistry and biology's evolution speed up faster and faster, just like the technology.
For example, researchers from Heidelberg University in Germany found a more vital brain cell at the end of last year (October 2014). It passed information more efficiently than our regular ones.
When we thought we knew everything, the technology we have now proved us wrong, for lack of a better term: we don't know shit. And it's entirely portentously moralizing to think otherwise.
Our technology is now so advanced. We use it to advance itself, and a computer, for example, can make its algorithms better than our best minds at work can pull off.
Soon, technology won't need us anymore, and hopefully, they don't turn on us.
Abilities of Our Mind
Mind over Body
Time and time again, we see and hear of people curing themselves of any ailments merely because of the power within our minds.
Anything from fixing oneself of pain-related injuries or diseases like arthritis to curing cancer is the placebo effect.
A medic discovered the placebo effect by Henry Beecher during the Second World War.
He found that once he ran out of morphine, he used a saline solution to help treat soldiers.
Amazingly, it was 40 percent effective. So what is causing this hidden power within the mind?
Is it something that science can't even determine?
Do we have to look to spirituality to help understand this?
Could it be the hiding forces of spirit guides taking over to help cure us?
Thinking
This is a mind fuck within itself.
Our minds have areas that most animals do not; they allow us to reason instead of instinct.
Thankfully, we've evolved (well, most of us) to the point where we can sit back for a moment to think of different options to take when carrying out a task.
For example, you take a bear; if they're hungry, they'll eat, even if it's their kind.
Unfortunately, we tend to over-think things too, which can cause stress, and stress is the most common ailment found among adults, leading to anxiety or even depression.
Where do these thoughts come from anyway?
How is it we can think of new ideas always?
Why are there so many thoughts all day without being able to shut the mind's ability to think down?
Even when we're sleeping, the reason is still working, just as if we're still awake…
Dreaming
Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams mainly express aggressive impulses, infantile sexuality, and an expression of repressed wishes in our minds.
Some other psychoanalysis believed that plans had more to do with feelings of inadequacy or filling a compensation gap.
Psychologists point more towards dreams helping with memory consolidation and or threat stimulation in more recent times.
These leading theories account for some types of goals but clearly don't define them.
During the rapid eye movement (REM) state, the brain areas are the same as if we are in our awaken state when we're dreaming.
Unconscious Mind
Our unconscious mind is approximately 30,000 times more potent than our conscious one.
While we are fully aware of what is happening in the conscious mind, we understand what information is stored in the unconscious mind.
It consists of our mins and the processes that occur automatically and are not introspection.
It includes thought memory, functions, motivation, and affect.
Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious wonder has repressed feelings, mechanical skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, automatic reactions, possibly complexes, hidden phobias, and desires.
We take in so much information during a typical day that there is no way the conscious brain can handle it, storing it inside the unconscious mind.
Imagination
As young children, our imagination runs wild. But, as we grow, it seems to start to diminish.
We get influenced by what to think that drives the vision down.
The greatest thinkers, scientists and minds alike have a vast imagination.
For instance, take Albert Einstein; he contributes many remarkable scientific discoveries and theories to his active vision.
He even said, "imagination is more important than knowledge."
Are one person's imaginative thoughts just being recycled from someone else's?
When someone's imagination comes up with an idea, does someone else, somewhere else, think the same thing simultaneously?
Are these imaginative thoughts fictional, or does it happen within different lifeforms on a planet somewhere within the cosmos?