beautiful minds

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have you ever fallen in love with someone else’s mind? A meeting of minds can create some powerful ideas & actions both for good or evil. It is important for some of us to have a meeting of minds when we meet a potential partner. So let’s explore the mind somewhat first. Ideas come from the mind but what do we know about the mind & how the mind works? According to Wikipedia: ‘Mind refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all of the brain‘s conscious and unconscious cognitive processes. “Mind” is often used to refer especially to the thought processes of reason. Subjectively, mind manifests itself as a stream of consciousness.’ok

“What is there to know of the mind? The mind is not to be learned about. It is to be forgotten about. ” Sri Swami Sai Premananda

I read a great article online from ABC News Where Do the ‘Big Ideas’ Come From? Researchers Say the Brain Acts Differently Just Before a Moment of Revelation. They raised some interesting points as per below:

So John Kounios of Drexel, and Mark Jung-Beeman of Northwestern, along with a team of researchers have been looking inside the noggins of volunteers to see if there’s any difference in how their brains are working just before an “aha” moment, and just before a bit of plodding. And the results suggest there certainly is a difference. Why can we be creative one moment, and dull as a fencepost the next? Scientists have sought the answers to questions like those for centuries, because human creativity is as mysterious as it is important.
“If you are going to solve a problem with insight (creativity), there’s a characteristic pattern of brain activity even before the problem is presented,” says Kounios, a professor of psychology at Drexel. “When it’s going to be solved by a more methodical, analytical approach, there’s a separate characteristic of brain activity that is different. ”That suggests that a person’s brain state, or frame of mind, determines which strategy he or she is going to use to solve a problem when it finally does appear.” The brain scans revealed that insightful thinking was marked by increased brain activity in temporal lobe areas associated with conceptual processing, and with frontal lobe areas associated with cognitive control. The methodical approach involved increased activity in the visual cortex at the back of the brain.

“What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.” Unknown

But if that’s so, is there anything we can do to make our brains more creative, or more methodical? Kounios says their research doesn’t completely answer that, but “we have some good reason to believe that some of these aspects are under a person’s control.” The work “suggests,” he adds, that such things as cognitive exercises, like yoga, might help make a person more creative, since they direct the attention inward, which appears to be tightly linked to creativity. But much more research is necessary to fully answer that, he says.
The brain scans revealed that insightful thinking was marked by increased brain activity in temporal lobe areas associated with conceptual processing, and with frontal lobe areas associated with cognitive control. The methodical approach involved increased activity in the visual cortex at the back of the brain.

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki

Let’s have a bit of fun so check out this picture and identify which way the girl is moving, then look again to see if changes? Check out this link to find out whether you are Right Brain or Left Brain. Clockwise – you are more right brain function (feeling) and anticlockwise – more left brain function (logic). For all those who can see both – good work – you have access to both sides which helps in life & relating. I’ve linked to this image in a very early post a couple of years ago but decided to use it again cause it is fun & interesting to investigate the dominant side of your brain. On GooHackle you can see the result of a poll done regarding this figure.

“If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely right. If you’ve made up your mind you can’t do something, you’re absolutely right.” Unknown

I am licensed in the Hermann Brain Dominance Indicator which identifies which segments of the brain are developed in individuals – interesting stuff! See diagram below for summary:

This model helps to understand the types of careers you may be attracted to or have talent for as per the diagram below: