MIND AND ITS WORKINGS

DR SUDIP CHAKRABORTY
BRAIN DOESN’T PRODUCES MIND … AS MUCH AS AN ELECTRIC WIRE DOESN’T PRODUCES CURRENT.
Almost everybody has an abstract idea about mind but ‘a know it all’ by any person is just not happening. More research has gone into it since last century than any given period but still we are groping in the dark. And to define MIND will be like trying to capture the whole ocean in a match box.
So if mind is not in the brain, where is it? Try asking a fish what is water? Just like it is always surrounded by it and it is in it, similarly we are in the mind always. So to pick it up and define it will be childish.
Of course I don’t claim to know all about mind but surely the curiosity to know about it, lead me to read as many books as possible since 20 years and guided by my interactions with thousands of patients with different ailments, helped me to make some educated guess about mind and its workings. As a doctor we are so much obsessed with the hardware (brain) that we are not taught anything about software (mind).
Any question regarding mind during post graduation days in medicine is dismissed as spiritual\paranormal and sometimes psychotic. We know much about diseased human and what we CAN’T do, that we never bothered to know how much we CAN do. Infact much of our human knowledge has come from studying the diseased individual. Isn’t it a upside down way to learn? Nearly every day we hear stories of people doing feat which was considered impossible like a handicapped girl climbing mount Everest, a person without food and water surviving more than seven years, a patient coming out of coma after 25 years, telepathy and so on.
All I intend to do is help each other realize the limitless capacity each of us harbor and use it for our own good, if only we know more about mind.
Its like instead of driving our Ferrari with hand brakes on and never crossing the speed limit, lets drive it full throttle on, in a all clear highway of life and see what happens. Below is some concepts about mind;
1) Brain breathes mind the way lungs breathes air. In a series of 500 CT scan of brain of people with hydrocephalous where fluid encroaches much of brain tissue thus reducing its size, a researcher failed to find corresponding limitation in the functional capacity of the patients. In fact one patient was found to be post graduate in mathematics from Harvard university. That lead him to write a book ‘ DO WE REALLY NEED BRAIN’.
2) If you really want to remember a thing, try hard to forget it; We might have ended with remembering everything that has happened in our life because memories are in the mind, always present around us, to be retrieved at will, just floating. It is because of our brain which filters everything and gives us a measly trickle. It turn events into memories and stores it very erratically and in a unpredictable way, subjected to multiple factors like stress, mood, hormones, distractions, in attention etc. So if you block the conscious brain out, you don’t need to memorise because nothing is forgotten.
3) Mind is non local; It is one mind which is every were. Time, distance and may I add DEATH, has got no meaning here. Bill gates and the mind you are surrounded right now is one and the same. It’s the conscious brain of yours which separates his creativity coming from the mind, from reaching you.
4) Suppress your brain to access the mind; All the inventions are actually discoveries which happened when for some period we silenced our analytical, judgemental and conditioned brain. At that period, we accessed the mind and its limitless gifts.
5) Words and thoughts are basics of Mind; Autosuggestion or what we repeatedly say, think or concentrate on, shapes our brain accordingly to receive corresponding signals from mind. Probably that explains the enormous stress on positive thinking and positive auto suggestion. The great boxer Mohammed Ali was repeatedly coached to say I am the best and strongest.
6) Mind brings in our life what we visualize; Visualization is great way to create future the way. By visualizing it consistently with a rock solid belief without any iota of doubt. Virat kohli, Ussain Bolt, Tiger Woods has been heard saying and doing this regularly among many other athletes.
There are many other things about mind that I would like to share but some concepts blurs the line between science and spirituality. As a man of science I reject nothing and let the mind decide for me what is correct. The point is to be receptive enough. As they say’ teacher appears when the student is ready’.