I am currently reading a few texts about how the brain works, free will and how we can train our selves to become a happy being. These texts has surely got my brain to run on full speed thinking about what I am reading and connecting the dots in all kinds of ways possible.
In an interview with Dalai Lama I read that he believes, due to own experience, that one could train the mind into becoming happier by doing some exercises for this. One that he mentions and that I still remember is that every morning when you wake up you should think that today I am going to use this day in the best possible way. And when it is time to go to bed you go over your day and see if you did what you planned and learn from your errors and in this way, one small step at the time, you will slowly train yourself in doing things you believe in and living your days as you want and thereby becomming more happy.
A different text explains that scientists and doctors have noticed that smoking does effect the brain physically which means that it is not a matter of free will when you want to stop smoking, due to these changes. I also read that stress can lead to brain damages (note: and tinnitus as well according to recent discoveries), which means that the issues that this brings are not only a mental illness, but actually a physical illness or modification if you will.
For a long time philosophers has seen the mind and the body as two different parts of the human being and has not really been able to connect the two. Others has unified the two down to only being chemistry and physics and there by completely removed the free will from the equation.
One of the currently most interesting lines in brain science at the moment is said to be the one using neural network as an analogy. This is a system that isn't preprogrammed, but is instead developing itself and making connections itself and thereby also teaching itself its task. The scientists has found that this system at many times reminds about how human learning acts.
After reading the four texts I have come to the conclusion that if we can imagine something, it can become a reality. We must only gather the correct information and be persistant in teaching ourselves to think the right thoughts and do the right things. The things we do in life is of free will, limited by our history and experiences that we have made. But as long as we follow a good process actively we can change ourselves into what we need to be to take the next step.
A good teacher is said to not only stand in the front and talk and talk without letting the students take part. Activity and taking part is key factors when one should learn something new.
Before learning something new we have to understand what it is we are going to learn and how it will apply in our lives or how we can use the information we are about to get.
When we have gotten the information we have to check that we understood what the information was about and if there is something missing. We have to come to some kind of conclusion.
Next step is to have the conclusion transformed into more general terms so it can be applied to other situations.
The last step is to evaluate the knowledge. Was it hard or easy to understand? What other difficulties might you run into in other similar situations?
So instead of just keep on living one has to take an active role in life and just not only "go with the flow". However, the brain can only handle up to seven chunks of information at the same time and the subconsciousnes can handle more than this, up to 20 I think the text said. This means, and has been proven over and over again by people such as Einstein and other geniouses, that thinking of a problem or how to solve it does not always give a solution. But if you spend enough time preparing for a solution for some time, then the mind will eventually put bits and pieces together when you decide to go fishing or take a walk with your dog in a park, just thinking about something else. The brain does never stop working and will, if it has collected the correct pieces of information, work out a solution of the task you have prepared for it.
(This is just some loose thoughts and I have more that I would want to add to this, but the thoughts are going too fast I just can't catch it all at the moment. Blogpost might be updated more within the week.)
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