Your Mind is a Virtual Google!

Actually that’s a bit of an understatement, Rather, Google can be viewed as  a ‘wanna be' virtual mind. This is no criticism of Google. I find it’s efficient delivery of information to my fingertips quite extraordinary. But, you know? It’s efficient delivery of information to my fingertips pales in comparison to the extraordinary feats performed by/in your mind every day. 

For all the neuroscience we’ve learned in recent decades, words still fail to capture just what we are talking about when we say 'mind'. We hear folks say, ‘mind’ or ‘memory’ or ‘consciousness’ and we struggle to understand just what we mean by these words.

Let me simplify what I mean as I write today. Just as surely as programmers have been busy writing code to capture, classify and code all information uploaded to Google, so has your brain been busy capturing, classifying and coding all information received by you from a bit before your birth! Wow! That’s a lot of information.

Yes, it is. And what do the IT (information technology) folks tell us? We must organize that info 'associatively, that is with keywords and, yes indeed, our mind system uses keywords associatively too. I can say to you, ‘high school’ and voila! A lot of bundled information jumps to the foreground of your mind. 

Think, just for a moment, of the amount of information your mind system has already processed. Think, just for a moment, of the amount of information your mind system is managing as we speak! Sights, sounds, smells, taste and touches all bring information into the system and that information must be managed.

Your 'Phenomenal Mind’ does just that. Think of it as a tool at your disposal or better yet, as your new BFF (Best Friend Forever).

By Dr. Diane Kern, owner of Phenomenal Mind Studios. Classes are offered in Walnut Creek to help folks mobilize Mind Power.   See www.phenomenalmind.com