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Marco S
Posted: 2008-06-26 21:19:14
Brain Vs Conscious Mind
For a while i've a theory that sometimes the brain can make discisions independantly of the conscious mind which we would generally recognise as our discision maker.

i.e. we decide to go down to the shop for milk; conscious mind

...but in the case say where something might happen, we might do something which our conscious mind might think wrong but turn out to be for the best, like people say God works in mysterious ways, maybe its just a part of the brain at work that we don't understand yet.

Say like through experience or whatever one's brain works out which is good and what is bad, say a very general example;
your hanging out with your friends and they decide to go drinking and say your not training, having a break or whatever and your saying to yourself " yeah lets go, have a good time" i.e. the conscious mind is saying this.

....while the brain, the part of our body some people claim we only ever use like 1% of, goes through this thought process saying "if you go drinking now you might establish a habbit, that in future might upset your training, your taking it seriously, you'd be far better going home, getting something good to eat and getting an early night, that way you'll be better for training soon"

...but this thought never actually passes through the conscious mind. It is formed and stays in the brain, the 99% of which some people think is not in use.
And so as the brain knows that to you as a person training is far more important than some wee night out, but that your conscious mind will would, if it considered this thought, simply ignore it.

So the brain imposes an action on your body that prevents you from say going on this night out. It say, decides to make you feel tired even though you got a good nights sleep the previous night, or more extreme, if it deduced that if was crucial that you didn't go on this night out, it might impose a minor kind of sickness on you so that even if you did go out you would not enjoy it, thus hampering all efforts to go out even if the conscious mind was really up for it cause maybe you were meeting some girl or something.

The ultimate discision was made by the brain that deduced that from the experiences it had with you up to this point, long term training and its rewards are far more important to you than some night out and a once off with some girl. And it was also aware that consciously you would not see things this way but just think of the short term (i.e. the girl probably!); so it imposed a sickness and thus did what was best for you even if it was against your own will and gave you something you were pretty pissed off about!

Thus the brain and conscious mind are like two different entities that deduce the best possible situation for yourself and thus control the body this way.

So maybe were not as in control of ourselves as we might have thought and maybe there is an individual path laid out for us and if we veer off of it our brain will bring us back to it, even if it means causing us some relatively short term trouble.

Lets take an example of one of my heros and maybe one of the greatest sports men ever to walk the planet; Lance Armstrong, six time Tour De France Champion.

Initialy Lance was a great athelete, excellent cyclist. And then he got three types of cancer and was reduced to a shell of a human being.
I read the biography and what he described he went through sounded nothing short of utter hell.
Such an athelete one day and the next not being able to move from bed or eat and being in that state for months and months.

But lets not forget what BC Forbes said, and I quote
"History has demonstrated that usually the most notable champions overcame the most heartbreaking obsticles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become refused to become discouraged by their defeats"

Maybe Lance Armstrong would have gone on to become a great champion regardless, even if he didn't go through such a terrible ordeal,
or would he?

He was a very healthy individual before he got cancer, no smoking, the occasional drink/coffee whatever. Nothing to suggest he would ever become the victim of such a terrible disease, and at such a young age.

But was it possible that deep in his brain, it knew that, or rather his brain knew that he had to succumb to something so heartbreaking and discouraging for him to spring back and reach his maximum potential? And so perhaps it weakend the bodies defenses to the extent where Lance would become infected, all in the knowedge that he had the potential to overcome the disease and thus make him better than ever.

Of course we would not everyday hear of a story of something so harrowing happening to someone on their rise to greatness..

.. but can you ever recall a situation at any point in your life where something bad happened to you but caused you to spring forward to something better?
Or something bad or even harrowing which happend which may have caused you to change the course of your life or perhaps bring your life back onto the course for which perhaps you deeply yearned for but where something was holding you back?

As a last example we think of Steven Hawking. He did not particularly excel academically up to almost exactly the point he commenced his study of astrology at Cambridge, at almost exactly the same time he developed his neurological disorder. And today he is considered perhaps one of the greatest minds of our time.
But would this have been the case if this terrible disorder had not manifested itself?

Please feel free to contribute,
Cheers.

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