Most people do not appreciate how damaging stress and negativity are to the brain and the body. Most people think that stress and negativity come from without, and if they could just get themselves to a place where other people weren't crazy and where life was simpler, stress and negativity would dissolve away forever. Some people think that if they learn some more about how to increase their brain power by absorbing and applying more information, that this will do the trick. The thing is that most people today are wired for stress and negativity. If stress did not appear "outside of them" they would quickly feel, think and act in ways that would lead them to experiences of stress and negativity that are more familiar and comfortable than peace and joy.
The brain and the body create all kinds of associations between stimuli and survival. Just because they do this does not mean that it is a perfect system. Nor are these systems designed to lead people to joy and other such sublime perceptions. Survival is about keeping the body alive, and while this is a worthy goal at the level of biology, it is not the ultimate goal for human beings.
So if stress and negativity are such a challenge to our ability to increase brain power, and we have become wired to experience these perceptions in order to assure our very survival, then what can we do to increase brain power through reducing these factors?
The first thing to recognize that all experience is interpretation. This means that just because you experience something a certain way does not mean that that is the only possible, let alone the ideal interpretation. Just creating some "distance" or space between your perceptions and your reactions or responses is helpful.
Secondly, it is helpful to recognize that your mind and brain are operating from programs. Most people, most of the time, operate from programs. Just as in cybernetics and computer science, a program is an energy form that takes in a limited amount of data, processes it, and creates predictable outputs based on the inputs. The human mind and body (for most people) are mostly operating according to programs. The problem with programs is that they are limited and predictable and based upon circumstances from the past which can never be perfectly replicated in the present moment. So when we operate from programs and memories we are stuck in the past and unable to respond to the present moment with novel, creative, and completely appropriate responses.
Thirdly, it is important to develop personal practices that help our minds and bodies to disconnect from programs so that we can begin to respond to the actual content of the present moment, rather than limited interpretations of it. It is possible to live program-free. When more and more of us do this, we will increase brain power, because instead of running old version of programs, we will be able to pick up signals and act upon them in ways that lead to new results, solutions, answers, and perhaps most importantly, better questions.
Most people think increasing brain power is a matter of storing and retrieving more and more information. For me, increased brain power is about using the brain more and more as a receiver and less and less as a computer that runs programs. Learn and develop a practice for erasing programs and your brain power will increase dramatically. Erase away!
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Bill Frase is a personal coach and writer who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and son. For more information, check out his blog at http://spiritualpowerforall.blogspot.com/ or follow him on Twitter-BillFrase. The practical implications of spirituality are a really big deal too.
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