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Your mind holds power that you probably wouldn’t believe. There are so many websites out there promising the secret to unlocking the power of your mind but the secret is simple – you possess the power and the means of unlocking it already. Here are 3 life-changing tips for unlocking the true power of your mind.
1. Delve beneath the surface
Your conscious mind is just the very tip of a vast pyramid of knowledge and wisdom that is your subconscious mind. It is estimated that we use only 10-20 % of our mind potential, with the great majority of our mind power remaining untapped. Tapping into your subconscious mind is the way to access this knowledge and the most direct way to do that is to learn how to meditate.
There are many forms of meditation, but the guiding principle is the same. Meditation alters your brain patterns, changing them from the regular waking state of beta waves to alpha, theta and delta. Alpha is the first altered state which is associated with light relaxation and the beginning of the meditation process. In this state you will begin to be able to access your subconscious mind. In this state you will experience waves of creative thought and be able to see how ideas that may have seemed unrelated might actually be deeply connected. Problem solving becomes easier and solutions deeper. As you progress with meditation you will gradually be able to access even deeper layers of your consciousness and the true power of your mind will be unlocked.
Meditation is easy to learn and can be practiced by anyone. The practice of meditation has many other benefits as well, which have been studied extensively over the past few decades. Meditation leads to real changes in your brain with the physical increase in both white and gray matter. It also causes the release of a whole range of beneficial brain chemicals, increasing your feeling of well-being as well as improving your mood, learning capacity and memory, amongst other things.
As you progress down the path of meditation you will surely wonder how you could have survived so long without it!
2. Believe in your own power
Are you trapped by your own disbelief in yourself? Once you have learned how to access your subconscious mind, the key to unleashing your true power is to truly believe you have it. Many of us are victims of ingrained beliefs from our school days – your achievement at school or any time past is completely irrelevant to your potential now. As meditation helps you realize your untapped potential, so you need to begin to believe in your ability to put it into practice in your life.
3. Use the best fuel you can
If you had a Lamborghini you wouldn’t fill it full of cheap, dirty fuel, would you? If you want your mind to operate like a highly tuned, high performance machine, you also need to be very mindful of what you fuel it with. There has been a lot of research into the relationship between food and cognitive function. You may wish to research this question further but there are a few important guiding principles. Avoid processed ‘junk’ food as much as you can and eat fresh food often. Omega 3 oil should also be an essential component to your diet as there is excellent evidence in its’ role in supporting healthy brain function. Include lots of antioxidants, like blueberries and foods high in vitamin C and make sure you exercise regularly.
The secret to unlocking your mind power is really no secret at all. As you acknowledge the wonder that is yourself and your incredible mind, you will be motivated to take good care of the gift that you have. Meditation, belief, good fuel and exercise are the simple keys to unlocking your true potential.
Roger Pocock loves worms
Roger Pocock loves worms. Not your garden variety worms, mind. His worms are cooler. Measuring no longer than a millimetre, these worms are transparent so you can see the brain at work and they grow from a single cell to an adult in three days.
For the British neurogeneticist, worms don't get any better than the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans.
Associate Professor Pocock uses the worms to study how genes function in the human brain, with the research set to contribute to an improved understanding of neurological conditions such as schizophrenia and epilepsy.
His work has brought him to Melbourne as one of three international researchers awarded a 2015 veski​ innovation fellowship, announced on Thursday evening, which draws talented researchers to Victoria.As part of the fellowship, associate professor Pocock has relocated his team of six from Copenhagen University in Denmark to Monash University. Reflecting the true international nature of science, the research team hails from India, Spain, Denmark, Lithuania and Poland.1. Human brains use way too much energy to be mostly nonfunctional.
While the brain makes up less than five percent of our body weight, it uses a full 20 percent of our energy reserves—more than any other organ. While it’s not out of the question that one tenth of an organ could be that hungry for energy, we see direct changes to the brain whenever we are low on nutrients, implying all of the brain is whirring away all the time.
All that energy goes to good use. Although the most powerful supercomputer in the world—the K computer from tech company Fujitsu—can compute problems four times faster than one human brain, it uses enough electricity to power 10,000 homes doing so. One brain can handle 25 percent of the load of the world’s faster computer using only the energy required by a 100-Watt light bulb.
2. Medical scans have never found any completely nonfunctioning area in the brain.
For the last few decades we have used incredibly intricate physics to generate detailed pictures of the human brain. For example, we can put someone in an fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner and look at where the blood is flowing to determine active areas of the brain. But over the course of probably hundreds of millions of these scans, we have never encountered an area of the brain that doesn’t eventually light up. We may not know why an area of the brain lights up, but all of them do.
There are still so many mysteries of the mind. Even knowing that we use 100 percent of our brains—not all at once, but all of it over time—we have no idea what much of the brain does. We don’t even know what consciousness is, and that’s the most fundamental aspect of human life! Enough problems are left unsolved that neuroscientists would love to ignore 90 percent of the brain and focus in on where the action is. They can’t; there’s too much science left to do.
3. Damaging any area of the brain damages the mind.
If we only used 10 percent of our brains, we would be incredibly resistant to brain damage. Think of it this way: Could someone poke a pencil into your head 10 times and you would be completely unaffected nine of those times? In reality, we know that even tiny alterations to the brain can lead to lasting and fundamental changes.
That’s not to say that we can’t work around brain damage. So-called “neuroplasticity†is the idea that the brain can re-wire itself to compensate after damage or to learn a new skill. Consider the case of Phineas Gage, the go-to example of all psychology textbooks. This ordinary man had a spike rocketed straight through his head. He survived, but his personality changed. He was not the man he used to be. The fact that he was able to function at all is testament to the brain’s ability to compensate. He would have wished he only used 10 percent of his brain; if that were true he probably would have been fine.
4. Evolution isn’t nice enough to let such brain potential go to waste.
Random mutations, selected over time by environmental pressures and procreation, eventually leads to better-adapted organisms. That’s evolution in a nutshell. But evolution only uses the tools available to it, and it isn’t kind. Trillions of organisms have fallen by the wayside of evolutionary history. 99.9 percent of all the species ever on Earth are currently extinct. So it’s extremely unlikely that random mutations would first produce a mostly useless brain and then nature would select for it. Where’s the advantage to having no advantage? In fact, if we did only use 10 percent of our brains, there would be a large survival advantage to humans with smaller, more efficient brains.
We are the evolutionary winners when it comes to brainpower. While a chimp is our closest genetic cousin, for example, it has ten times fewer neurons than a human, correlating with decreased intelligence. In terms of brain size versus body weight, humans are far and away the leader in the qualities we think leads to high intelligence.
5. Brain functions are spread out enough that not using 90% of them would kill you.
Despite what the colorful infographics will tell you, you aren’t a “left-brain†or a “right-brain†person—you are a whole brain person. While some brain functions, like speech, are partially localized to one side of the brain or the other, most of what the brain does is spread out across a large area. When everything is so spread out, only using 10 percent of the brain would be like only seeing 10 percent of a collage; it would cease to be what it is.
There are redundant systems in the brain, making it highly adaptable. When a patient has terrible epilepsy, for example, one last-ditch surgical solution is to cut the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is a bundle of nerves that connects the two brain hemispheres, and cutting it can help stop seizures from spreading all over a patient’s brain. The brain can overcome this severing of communication. In fact, these “split-brain†patients tell us fascinating things about how our minds work. In one amazing test, researchers put an object in the right hand of a subject with a split-brain. Because of how the brain’s functions are spread out between hemispheres, the subject could verbally describe the object but could not physically see or hear it.
6. On any scale, we find that everything in the brain is doing something.
In some cases, researchers have been able to insert electrodes into the brains of surgical patients to record the activities of single neurons. No matter where the electrodes are placed, there are neurons firing (see where we are going with this?).
The human brain has around 86 billion neurons. That’s not quite as many as the stars in our galaxy (between 200 and 400 billion), but it’s still more than any other animal that we know of. If we only used 10 percent of those, we would be on the neuronal level of an adult zebra fish, and below a frog.
7. We check out your brain when you die, and most of it isn’t mush.
In the human body, “if you don’t use it, you lose it,†holds true a lot of the time. When astronauts aren’t able to exercise their muscles and bones properly, for example, their bones can start wasting away at the rate of 1 percent (or more) per month. Because the brain uses so much of the body’s resources, we can imagine that shutting off 90 percent of the brain would turn the same amount to jelly as well. At every autopsy, we should see brains that are mostly goop, but we never do.
It may be true for some parts of the body that if we don’t use them we lose them, but the brain at least has a way around that. When we first started studying the brain it was a truism that once brain cells die, they are never replaced. We only recently discovered that this isn’t true. Called neurogenesis, our brains recruit neural stem cells that become full-fledged brain cells and make all the same connections that normal brain cells do!
8. A lot of mothers would be mad if that big head held mostly unusable brain.
Having a huge brain complicates birth. Human babies’ giant heads are a tight-squeeze, so to speak, and the ordeal of birth can damage mother’s spines or worse. If we only used 10 percent of our brains, evolution would impose a huge selective pressure to shrink the size of the human skull to only accommodate useful material, if for no other reason than that it would help the species procreate successfully.
We have artificially imposed the problem of birthing a creature with a huge head on our dogs. Over 80 percent of bulldogs are born by caesarian section because we have artificially selected and bred for bulldogs with enormous heads. The little pups can no longer physically pass through the mother’s birth canal. Without artificial selection, the human brain must be pretty amazing to impose such a high risk on our mothers. (Modern medicine helps, but we’ve only had that for a century or so.)
9. The brain is buzzing even when you imagine it’s silent.
The best case that the 10 percent myth can make is that parts of our brain occasionally seem inactive. But thoughts can be deceiving. Even when we sleep, our brains keep computing, consolidating the events of the day into long-term memory and crafting bizarre dreamscapes.
In fact, because we use all of our brains over the course of a day, we can afford to shut off certain parts when necessary. Ever feel like you just can’t think straight when you are sleep-deprived? You’re right. Researchers have found that after long periods of staying awake, some neurons in the brain will go into “offline mode,†catching some needed rest while you continue to stay up. This division of labor is only possible because we have all of the brain at our disposal. Dolphins take it one step further. To get some sleep at sea, bottlenose dolphins can put a whole half of their brain into offline mode. Neurons in one half “rest†while neurons in the other half make sure there aren’t predators around and that the dolphin keeps breathing unimpeded. After a few hours, the hemispheres switch.
10. Brain tumors can change who you are.
Over the last few years, modern neuroscience has given us insights that would have astounded doctors even 50 years ago. Chief among them is the conclusion that, to put it glibly, the mind is what the brain does. Changing one part of the brain can fundamentally change who you are. No clearer is this fact than when mental illness or brain abnormalities change human behavior. When a seemingly good man goes on a killing rampage, only discovered to have a nickel-sized tumor in his brain pressing on areas critical for emotional regulation after his death, it’s shockingly clear how much changing the brain can change the person. Cases like this one raise questions about free will, legal agency, and criminal punishment, but they also answer definitively: we use all of our brain, and if you tweak even a small percentage of it there are tremendous consequences.
If only there was some pill like Bradley Cooper took in Limitless or a bag of sparkling blue drugs like in Lucy that could vault us into the realm of geniuses or even masters of matter. It’s a seductive thought. But the truth is that you used nearly 100 percent of your brain just reading this article, shifting in your seat, day dreaming, and maybe eating a snack while you did so. And that’s OK! We don’t need one more reason to be jealous of Scarlett Johansson because the human brain is already beyond description. It’s mysterious, essential, and the most complicated combination of matter in the universe (that we know of). In truth, even if Lucy could unlock some hidden brainpower, she still would have a hard time improving on what you have pulsing beneath your scalp right now.
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