There are many aspects and capabilities of the human mind we simply do not understand. Notice I’m talking about the human mind and not the brain.



The human brain is like a computer processor.
To use a computer metaphor, I consider the human brain to be much like the processor in a computer. The processor is the part of the computer that actually moves the data from one part of the machine to the other – like from the hard drive, internet or keyboard to the computer monitor screen. It is also capable of carrying out very basic operations like addition or multiplication of numbers. And that’s about it.

The human mind is like the entire computer.
In contrast, I consider the human mind to be the entire process we use to interpret and act upon facts and feelings or experience emotions, that sort of thing. Using the computer metaphor again, the human mind would be most appropriately compared to the entire computer.

No one knows where our mind is located.
We know that our brains are located in our skull. But we are not sure, and really have no firm idea, as to where our mind is located. I think, like the computer, our mind is distributed throughout our entire body.



We feel emotions throughout our entire body.
I’ve noticed that depending on the emotion, sometimes I get a particular feeling in my arms and throat. That’s where I feel fear. All of us have heard someone say that upon receiving bad news they felt sick. When I feel that way I feel that sinking feeling at the top of my stomach and in my chest. Like many people I tend to feel stress in my jaws and on the inside of my shoulders.

Stress often is felt in our jaws and shoulders.
When I am stressed and want to relax I simply think of relaxing my jaws, as well as my shoulders, and a feeling of calm comes over me. This bit of information is really nothing new. You can read it or something similar in various books on stress management or yoga. The point is that this knowledge has been around for years.

Massages are known to bring back old memories.
I know people who after having a massage, and upon having the therapist work on their arms, legs or whatever, were flooded with memories and emotions that have long since been forgotten. This leads me to believe that, like a computer used to store information on its hard disk (not in the processor), we store memories and knowledge throughout our bodies.

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We are taught very little about how our mind works.
The point of all of this is that we as a people, from a scientific standpoint, have an amazingly small amount of information as to how the most important part of our existence works – our mind. In fact, when we moved through the education process, we received very little information or instruction concerning the best way to make our inherent thinking process work for us. I personally feel that this is a shame.

I have had to solve many problems.
Throughout my career I have been faced with problems or challenges that seemed insurmountable at the time. Most of the time, but not all, they were technical. At least the technical ones are easiest to recall.