Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Are You Partially "Brain Blind"?

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By the way, the two fellows mentioned in the last post were 15 and 18 years old, respectively.

Are you partially "Brain Blind?" Is it far easier for you to recite the alphabet forwards than backwards? Much harder to count backwards down from 100 than up to 100? A struggle for you to carry on a present-moment conversation when you hear a favorite song playing in the background? Seemingly impossible to remember the names of three individuals to whom you've just been introduced? Very tough to remember the names, in order of seven or more random items within two minutes after you've had them, recited to you? Painfully difficult to recite the names of seven random items mentioned to you...even if reiterated three times in a row?

You're not alone.

We are, each of us [even those who faithfully read The Braintenance Blog] handicapped to some extent when it comes to doing things with our minds which we would think to be easy.

This is really a function of how we learn, how we focus and how we associate things, scientists believe.

We all too often rely on singsong rote memorization than on imaginary pictures of things: for example, if you could picture the alphabet, or the numbers from 1 to 100, you could easily recall that picture and just read it from the vision in your mind.

We have difficulty focusing on two or more stimuli to the same sense. If two people speak to us at once, or if a person is speaking to us and a song we enjoy is playing somewhat loudly in the background, we have a difficult time focusing in on one stimulus at a time. In the situation with two people talking simultaneously, rather than listening to noise, focus strictly and unwaveringly on one person's conversation -- upon recall, you'll be surprised to find that not only do you recall the conversation of the person upon whose conversation you had focused upon, but you'll also remember a great deal of what the other person was saying.

This latter phenomenon may be due to a splitting of our mind into an active, frontal, conscious listening device in short-term memory (which is later moved to long-term memory) and into the powerful recorder of the subconscious, being summoned by the conscious mind to replay the secondary conversation.

In remembering the names of a series of people, the key is to simply listen and not to focus on how you look, or what you are going to say in response. Don't rehearse your own personal introduction when you should be focused on listening to the three names. In fact, if you identify each of the three names with a silly short story about tat person and an article of his or her clothing, or some eccentricity, it gives you the context to recall each of the names with some relevance (although you don't want to say that to a fellow named Lance Boyle, John Reade, or Suzanne Bumpers).

Lastly, in order to become a memory master and to recite, in order, a series of unrelated terms which are recited to you, look about you (if possible), and associate each word with something either unmistakably memorable or something just going on at the time, and cobble the associations into an ordered, sequential story. You'll find that you can remember objects placed in key positions in a story much more easily than by any other method. Incidentally, without using this technique, most individuals can usually not remember and recite more than five unrelated objects.

None of us is truly "Brain Blind." We simply need to learn how to utilize our minds more efficiently.

 Do you see my point? By the way, without looking,how old were the two boys mentioned at the very beginning of this article?

Thank you for reading me and for spreading the word to your colleagues and friends across your ever-growing social media networks.

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Friday, April 12, 2013

One Simple Exercise To Expand Your Intelligence And Creativity

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One splendid braintenance trick to expand your analytic intelligence (reasoning and problem-solving ability) and your creativity (the ability to envision something in your mind without having seen it with your open eyes) is [believe it or not] doing algebraic word problems in your head. No pens. No pencils. No computers or mobile devices. This absolutely requires that you keep information filed in various parts of your mind while looking at new information, and then ultimately going back to those files and fitting these "saved" pieces together to find the solution.

Your intellectual curiosity and perhaps your oversized ego demand that you meet this little challenge. It involves two brothers from Poland named Mario and Lorenzo (their parents had a particularly bizarre sense of humor):

  • Mario is currently three years older than his bother (this is a Freudian Slip inserted in the interest of making this exercise a bit more challenging) -- er, brother;
  • The sum of the two digits in Lorenzo's age is 6;
  • Both brothers are teenagers.
What are the brothers' ages?

One helpful hint - It might serve you well to actually picture the two boys in your mind...give them different heights and hair colors as well. Neither should have freckles (that's just my own opinion).

Now solve the problem. If you can do it in less than 1 minute you are in possession of a good cranial companion; if you can do it in less than 5 minutes; you've done well. If it takes you longer than 5 minutes to do this exercise (and to get the answer correct), you need to work a bit more on these types of algebraic logic and memory problems.

Work quietly and swiftly, and Dr. Braintenance will be back with answers!

Thank you as always for reading me, and for sharing my articles with your colleagues and friends via your social media groups.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Be Yourself: Paradox Of Objectivity. [Brain Versus Mind?]

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Being Yourself - The Ultimate Challenge... A Paradoxical Puzzle. This incredibly strenuous introspective and reflective exercise requires a Braintenance Strain that will, if you'll allow it, elevate you to a new level of reasoning and a higher state of awareness and consciousness. We'll call it "The Paradox Of The Self Upon Reflection." It is a never-ending exercise which causes the essence of you as an unidentified, unattached, disembodied, ego-absent observer, to continually evolve. It is ultimately transcendental. It builds a newer power of intellect both analytically and emotionally.

Try to envision your mind (not your brain, but the electromagnetic, biochemical and mysterious "animator" which operates it at different levels to accomplish different things) as a fantastic machine which works at each or all of these settings in varying degrees:

1) The Unconscious Mind: This layer is purely for sustenance, is geared to the central nervous system and does not produce anything short of certain signals to certain part of the body to keep you alive. It does not create or ruminate - it is highly mechanical, and physically reflexive;

2) The Subconscious Mind: This layer is where all of your robotic programs and memories are stored, and it tends to fight with your conscious efforts to achieve things. L. Ron Hubbard (in a rare moment of genius) referred to it as the "reactive mind." It tends to remember failures and contradict your conscious efforts. It is like the mind of a child, and unless properly programmed, holds you a prisoner of your failures and disappointments of the past. In fact, it keeps you most comfortable repeating this undesirable but programmed shortcomings. It must be programmed constantly to keep your conscious goals and innermost desires within reach. It suppresses successes [rhyme time? Nein.] and causes most subtle but powerful emotional stresses. It is permanently childish, but has a giant capacity for full sensory memory;

3) The Conscious Mind: The component of mind that is thinking, working, deciding, reacting, and creates the world, or your perception of the world, which you carry with you. It let's you read, write, be entertained, converse, but it is an instrument -- but not the artist playing it. In most of us, it senses things around us, and we identify the notion of "self" with it. Yet it is the mind thinking on its own for the most part;

4) The Superconscious or Ubermind: This is the notion of you standing outside yourself as a detached but dedicated observer...watching what you do as if you were a third party. This is the mind that is representative of you watching yourself. It makes itself a part of the world around you looking at how you conduct yourself. This is the captain, or pilot of the other layers of mind. It is, in philosophical theory, the ultimate controller of all of the other levels, if you find it, focus upon it, and float free of your other layers. It is a part of you that can look at you from any angle and separate itself from you if you know how to will it to do so. This Superconscious looks down upon you as you live your life and interact with your environment.

Persons claiming experiences with astral projection, out of body experiences, and near-death experiences have reported experience this kind of detached observation. Much research was done on the whole out-of-body liberation experience by Robert A. Monroe, the fellow who they named the Monroe Institute after. These types of detachment sensations have also been induced externally by deploying such catalysts as various psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs, such as LSD, DMT, peyote buttons and other phytochemicals, mostly tryptamines.


5) Then there may be the collective consciousness that many sociologists and psychologists use to explain phenomena such as spontaneous and simultaneous breakthroughs, instant revelations, clairvoyance and many other things which the proponents of the paranormal , Rosicrucians, and other groups reference in their writings and doctrines.

Getting back to the theme of "Being Yourself," we Braintenancers see the oddest paradox -- in order to know who you are and who you should be, would mean that you would have to detach your Superconscious objective mind from all of the other layers of mind in order to view yourself somewhat objectively... and wouldn't that require either losing the notion of the creature we were observing as being anything more than a reactive robot, or getting the notion that when we step outside of ourselves through meditative observational detachment, there is no longer any self at all.

Think about it. The more you think about this, and the more you focus on being an outside, detached observer of your own actions, the more brilliant, yet peaceful you will become. This is the perhaps the highest level of consciousness you can obtain -- and in the process, the identity of you as a being, fades away.

As any accomplished sufi.

See you soon.

Douglas E. Castle for The Braintenance Blog

p.s You absolutely must read this article on The Deeper Consciousness And Altered States Blog.....

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