Power of mind

• The power of the mind

  "YOU EITHER CONTROL YOUR MIND OR IT CONTROLS YOU"
• Understand the different parts of the brain, processes and functions

  1. May help in improving thoughts, behavior and feelings

  2. Explore ways on how to improve brain functions for personal development

  3. Develop a personal plan to enhance brain functions
• Preferences


  • Learning a new language
  • Drawing
  • Solving puzzles
  • Playing an instrument
  • Singing
  • Solving math problems
  • Playing intelligence and strategy games
  • Playing games that require imagination
  • Deals with logic and facts
  • Having an adventure
  • Love to daydream and fantasies
• Characteristics


  • More emotional, intuitive, and creative
  • Love to do sequencing
  • Like to set goals
  • Can interpret information well
  • Answer questions spontaneously
  • Appreciate directions and tend to follow directions well
• Mind power is one of the strongest and most useful powers you possess. The thoughts that pass through your mind are responsible for everything that happens in your life. Your predominant thoughts influence your behavior and attitude and control your actions and reactions.
• Three major parts of the brain

  • Cerebrum
  • Cerebellum
  • Brain stem
• Cerebrum


  The largest part of the brain, composed of the left and right hemisphere, accounts for about 85% of the brain's weight, has four lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal & occipital
• Frontal lobe


  Involved in higher cognitive functions such as decision-making, problem solving, planning and voluntary movement. It also plays a role in personality expression and social behaviour.
• Parietal lobe


  Processing sensory information from the body including touch, pressure, temperature and pain. It also helps with spatial orientation and perception.
• Occipital lobe


  Primarily responsible for processing visual information received from the eyes. It helps with visual perception, object recognition and interpretation of color, shape and motion.
• Temporal lobe


  Associated with processing auditory information, language comprehension, memory storage and emotion regulation. It also houses the hippocampus, which is crucial for forming new memories.
• Sulcus


  A groove in the cerebral cortex
• Gyrus


  A ridge in the cerebral cortex
• The main function of these Gyri (ridges) and Sulci (grooves) is to increase the surface area of the cerebrum such that it can accommodate more number of neurons.
• Cerebellum


  Controls voluntary movements, translates your will into action
• Neurons


  The basic working unit of the brain, a specialized cell designed to transmit information to other nerve cells, muscle, or gland cells
• Neuron


  • Nerve cell body
  • Axon
  • Dendrite
• Cell body


  Contains the nucleus and cytoplasm
• Axon


  Extends from the cell body and often gives rise to many smaller branches before ending at nerve terminals, covered with myelin sheath
• Dendrites


  Extend from the neuron cell body and receive messages from other neurons, covered with synapses formed by the ends of axons from other neurons
• Synapses


  The contact points where one neuron communicates with another
• How a thought works

  1. Thought moves as an electrical signal from the receptor cells, picked up by dendrites, pass it to the cell body, down the axon to the axon terminal

  2. Signal jumps from the axon terminal on one cell across the space, called a SYNAPSE, passes to another nerve cell with the help of chemicals called NEUROTRANSMITTER

  3. Signal continues jumping from one cell to cell until it reaches the muscle you need to wave, wink or walk
• Brain stem


  Connects the brain (the cerebrum and cerebellum) to the spinal cord, plays essential role in integrating and coordinating the body's physiological processes to ensure overall health and functioning
• Structures of brain stem

  • Pons - helps control breathing rhythms, facial movements and transmitting sensory information, serves as a relay center transmitting signals between the cerebrum and cerebellum
  • Midbrain - contributes in various sensory and motor functions, helps relay signals for hearing, vision and motor control such as eye movement
  • Medulla oblongata - controls vital autonomic functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and digestion, regulates reflexes like coughing, sneezing, swallowing and vomiting
• Brain lateralization


  The tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other, developed by Nobel-prize winners Robert Ornstein and Roger Sperry
• Brain dominance


  An individual has a natural preference for processing information on a certain side of the brain, the left hemisphere performs tasks associated with logic, such as analyzing problems or sequencing events, the right hemisphere favors tasks that deal with creativity and arts
• The left side of the brain is responsible for controlling the right side of the body and vice-versa, damage to one side of the brain affects the opposite side of the body, this is known as decussation
• Differences between left and right brain dominance

  • Classical Music vs Popular Music
  • Being on time vs A good times
  • Careful planning vs To visualize the outcome
  • To consider alternative vs To go with the first idea
  • Being thoughtful vs Monopoly, scrabble or chess
  • Being active vs Athletics, art or music
• Ways to develop our brain

  1. Be Creative - Try new things and promote unconventional way of thinking to find alternative solutions

  2. Feed Your Brain With Ideas - Read good books to prevent cognitive decline, enhance vocabulary and comprehension, and improve brain connectivity

  3. Do Mental Gymnastics - Play games that challenge your brain like chess, sudoku, and word games

  4. Practice a healthy lifestyle - Create space for silence, do yoga meditation, get enough rest, eat good foods, avoid vices

  5. Make it a habit to brainstorm - Use mind mapping to better organize thoughts
• Mind mapping


  A technique to better organize thoughts using images, words, colors to represent connections to a main concept
• Types of mind maps


  • Library maps - to transfer information and knowledge, store and recover useful materials, and understand information
  • Presentation maps - to convince the audience, argue, inform, and call the audience to action