Chapter Seven - WHY CHANGE
All humans have equal ability and power to make choices that lead to change so let’s take a look at reasons to change, and most importantly, how change can affect you for the better?
As there could be various reasons for self-exploration and change, this chapter is about very personal reasons, with very immediate implications.
We all use our arms if we are able, right? Unless there has been an accident or a birth defect that prevents us from using our arms, we wouldn’t just give up their use, correct? Why?
Because we depend on them, we know what to do with them, and we know what we can get by using them. We don’t even think about it anymore, we just use them and even take their existence and function for granted.
The same is true for our legs, our mouth, our eyes, and ears. The same is true for our mind as well. We use our body and its functions in order to interact with the environment for a number of purposes.
Depending upon our profession or even our hobbies, we use our body for very specific, controlled tasks. A good dancer doesn’t just move. A good dancer studies and refines each detail of the movement, concentrating energy into consciously expressing herself/himself through that particular movement. A good martial artist refines precision and speed, control of the entire body and many of its functions – such as breathing and emotional response. A good violinist tunes into sound while also controlling posture, muscle tension, speed and precision of execution.
We use our body’s ability to hard-wire automatisms, but we also use our body in a conscious, controlled, intentional manner – depending on our purpose and task at hand. We swing more or less between automatisms and controlled use of our body throughout our entire life, depending on our task performing needs.
Then, is there any logical reason why we wouldn’t do the same with our brain?
You’ll say that all of the things listed above are executed by us through the brain. You would be correct to say that the brain is the command center of our body, and it controls and coordinates all the processes taking place in our body and performed by our body. However, what I am referring to is operating the brain itself, not an operation that takes place through the brain. Yes we can move our hand through the brain, but our hand also affects the brain by sending tactile signals about the environment it comes in contact with. I will elaborate on how we can operate the brain as the book progresses, but for now let us discuss the why, because it is important before going any further.
Here are a few reasons why any of us would be interested to change the way we operate and function: Immediate control over stress, muscle tension, pain, hormonal shifts, immunity, and overall energy. These are things that most of us confront very often, if not daily. Our body is subjected to internal and external forces and processes that take a lot of energy and this ongoing interaction affects our overall experience of living.
The natural functioning of the brain contains a powerful, untapped potential and the reason why we should consider changing the way we operate is due to basic functionality. There is no logical reason why we shouldn’t want to convert our potential into ability.
Think about our years of growth; think about your school and your college. Has anyone, ever, taught you to use your brain? Even when we are told to “use our brain” we are actually told to “think smarter.”
There is an entire industry built upon the enticing “brain betterment” marketing umbrella, selling all sorts of tapes and books that teach people how to raise their IQ, how to have a better memory and all of it addresses the use of the mind.
Unless life has granted you exceptional circumstances, you were never trained to directly operate your brain. Instead, conventional education conditioned you to function through what we call the mind – a function of the brain.
In my years of study and exploration, I experimented with many techniques such as breathing, and meditation. There are powerful methods that humans have developed in order to empower themselves and to achieve better overall functionality, methods that should have been mainstream education but instead, they fell into selective, elusive, and often mystical practices throughout most of our history.
Over the last few decades, this new age of information has changed all of that and now many more people have access to exercises and techniques that not too long ago were only reserved for monks or members of secret clans and orders. That being said, as far as I am concerned, all of these techniques are tools that the brain can use. What I am writing about is using the tool that uses the tools.
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If I was to make a comparison, all of the techniques I have encountered and practiced throughout my life are similar to the speed and effort of skateboarding, while directly operating the brain is like flying a jet. Eventually, some of those techniques bring you closer to the “jet” effect, depending on your years of practice and dedication. However, I am saying that “flying the jet” or operating the brain IS THE STARTING POINT OF IT ALL and being alive is the single condition necessary for it to happen.
Take Qi Qong for instance. If you are not familiar with the method, here is a very simplistic and superficial description of it: the student is supposed to practice various exercises until he or she feels the energy that flows throughout the body. Once that is achieved, the student continues to practice other exercises to move this energy in strictly defined patterns and through strictly defined paths until the accumulation of the energy can begin. People practice for years just to achieve the feeling part of the energy, then more years to begin experiencing moving it… Many never “achieve” these “levels” and due to the intense discipline required many quit practicing if they do not notice results.
Another system that has millions of practitioners is Tai Chi. This particularly beautiful form is a perfect example of operating the brain through itself and through the feedback of the body, but at the highest levels of mastering the concepts behind it. Otherwise, most of the people spend years on the FORM, and even the training concentrates on each movement’s form. This way, it could take an average person countless years until “mastering” one form.
What if there was a faster way to get to the results, and what if form actually had nothing to do with the results?
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Naturally and directly operating the brain is an instantaneous process (if I am to choose a temporal point of reference) once triggered. If you wonder how long it will take for an “average” person to naturally and directly operate the brain, then the answer depends on the person’s level of conditioning.
If you choose to take a hard and honest look at the way conventional education has conditioned your brain, then the first initial contact with operating the brain naturally and directly could take you anytime from a few seconds to a day or so. Once you actually begin using your brain this way, the process is entirely up to you. Time is irrelevant, but most people like to use it as a reference point.
This book is about changing the use of our brain from the interpretative process of the mind – as conditioned by conventional education – to the experiential learning of operating the brain. It is about altering processes that are already taking place, and about accessing processes we otherwise never think of as accessible.
I think that once you begin experiencing the power that the brain has, your interest for your own potential will grow, and, as you will explore new experiences you will also discover many ways to change the way you function and many applications to experiment with.
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