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Your mind is the servant of your body. For your body to
remain alive, your mind must order your body to act in ways that
will continue its survival. Your mind is equipped with tools that
aid it to perform this function. These tools are the brain, the
nervous system, and the various functions of the brain. It is
essential to understand neurology, biology, and psychology in
order to attain full potential usage of your mind.
Full potential usage of your mind will allow you to learn anything,
to lead people, to make society-changing discoveries, go
anywhere, do anything, and create a Superfunctional person
with phenomenal achievement in every category. Below, this
page will address biological, nerological, and psychological
methods for improving your mind. Employ them in your daily life,
as well as tactically, when facing a test, for stunning results.
INTRODUCTION
Art, music, mathematics, language, sports, mechanics, science, philosophy, politics, and any other interest
any human can possibly have is within the mind’s grasp. Moreover, because of the way the mind is built,
any person can do anything with their mind. This is a very recent sort of belief, made justifiable by
advances in modern science to prove it.
The human mind is equipped to understand anything. The mind is malleable and
extremely capable. Human minds naturally seeks to learn and understand without extra
effort on your part. However, with deliberately effort, you can turn your mind into a
superpower. Any faults you feel you may have, from math skills to art, are most likely
the fault of programming in your brain, and not an actual lack of potential ability. Better
yet, you may fix those faults yourself. All humans have equal potential in all things. The
mind's programming either blocks or allows those abilities – whether athletic or Socratic.
THE BRAIN HOUSES THE MIND
"The bulbous cerebral cortex is composed of convoluted grey matter internally supported by deep brain
white matter. The two hemispheres of the brain are separated by a prominent central fissure and connect
to each other at the corpus callosum. A well-developed cerebellum is found at the back of the brain. Brain
stem structures are almost completely enveloped by the cerebellum and telencephalon, with the medulla
oblongata projecting through the foramen magnum to merge with the spinal cord." - Wikipedia.org, "The
Human Brain."
Anatomically, the brain consists of:
Each of these parts of the brain plays
an intergral role in forimg your mind.
Everything from your perception to your
imagination to your personality is a
result of the functioning of these parts.
To function properly, the brain needs:
- Oxygen
- Cholesterol
- Protein
- Carbohydrates
- Sleep
The role of nutrients in brain usage is quite simple: they provide the brain with the energy and materials
necessary to conduct thought. Carbohydrates and oxygen provide the brain with energy. The physical
mechanics of forming neurotransmitters (chemicals which transmit throught) are supported by the amino
acids found in proteins. Cholesterol allows the brain to manufacture hormones.
The following are rules of thumb based upon brain diet studies, and are techniques you can use starting
immediately to get the best use out of your brain at a given time. They are based upon the way different
nutrients cause the brain to produce the chemicals dopamine, norepinephrine, and seratonin.
"1. For a comfortable, calm, alert state, one with steady energy, I have found that combining
protein and carbohydrate seems to be the best way to eat.
- Grain and beans,
- bread and hummus,
- fish and rice, or
- a chicken sandwich
will stimulate the production of all three of the brain chemicals in a balanced way.
2. For a strong energy sprint, protein with vegetables and no carbohydrate (no starch or
sugar):
- beans and vegetables,
- fish and salad,
- Chinese stir fry with chicken or scallops and broccoli (but no rice) or
- similar combinations.
will do the trick of producing the dopamine and norepinephrine.
3. To calm down and relax, a carbohydrate (starch or simple sugar)
with no protein will help kick in the serotonin and promote feelings of
comfort. Bananas, anything sweetened with maple syrup or other
unrefined sweeteners, whole grains with vegetables, plain pasta with
garlic and oil, dry breakfast cereal, crackers, all will have a similar
effect, calming and relaxing."
http://www.foodandhealing.com/article-foodmind.htm
see also: http://www.alz.org/adopt_a_brain_healthy_diet.asp
The body's chemical homesotasis has a reflexive affect on mood, which directly affects brain operation. If
you are not meeting your body's biological needs, then it will not produce the correct balance of chemicals
to support energy and life, which in turn can have a disorienting affect on your thought process. http://www.
mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Mind+guide+to/Mindguidetofoodandmood.htm. A good diet for your body
is a good diet for your brain. However, according to the above sourced, there are ways to plan for times of
heightened functioning or endurance ased upon what you eat immediatly before an event.
Finally, the role of sleep in your brain's functioning is equally important to the role of proper nutrition in
brain functioning. These requirements are unsuprisingly similar to those of your body for sufficient health.
To that extent, please refer to the next chapter, Body.
NEUROLOGY
Neurology is the science of brain function. Because of neurology, our concrete understanding of brain
function has made enormous leaps and bounds over the past century. Because of government regulation,
neurological scientists are largely limited to brain scanning experiments in which they ask people to perform
various tasks or to think certain thoughts while watching for which area(s) of the brain become(s) active,
and how. Some of the most significant breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain have occured
entirely by accident, however, whereon scientists may then study the affect on the brain of say, shoving a
crowbar sized rod vertically through the fronal lobe or the loss of a limb.
It is important to understand neurology and its major breakthroughs because mastery of brain function may
only be had through awareness. You must know how your brain operates and why, in order to control its
function to deliver the most prized results. Certain discoveries, such as those discussed below, have a
direct impact on your being able to put the information to use immediately through purposeful technique.
Provided below is an overview of some of the recent discoveries in neuroscience. Each entry provides:
- details of the experiment or accident,
- the results,
- the implications of this discovery,
- and a concrete technique for best utilizing the information to master your mind.
After reading this webpage, put these discoveries to work in your own life. Explode your brain’s power and
unlock your ultimate potential to do anything. Purchase the Superfunctionalism Workbook, which will guide
you through the methods of putting these theories to work in your life. Learn simple habits and techniques
which involve simply knowing when and where to do them in order to get 100% better results in your life.
After all, that’s what success is all about – not doing harder things, but doing the right things at the right
tims (which is REALLY the hard part, unless you know what and when those are!)
Sources: Gamon, David, Ph.D & Bragdon, Allen D. Building Mental Muscle. (Barnes & Noble 1998).
"The Brain, A User’s Guide." (Time Magazine 1/29/2007).
CONCLUSION
Your mind is the collection of chemical results cause by your
awareness throughout your entire life. It consists of the memories,
impressions, facts, theories, habits, and other neural connections with have
been formed by amino acids in your brain through electronic neural
stimulation. It also consists of all of the processes which occur within those
neural networks constantly. The mind is housed by the brain, but relies
upon the complex system of nerves which runs throughout the entire body,
forming the 5 senses through which your brain interprets its surroundings.
Mental interpretation is a highly subjective activity, and can be influenced
by the very attitude, or interpretation process of the mind itself. As long as
you continue to live, you mind will change; it will grow, expand, and naturally
adapt itself to assimilate your new knowledge.
Emotional response and physical well being are intricately and
inseparably tied with the mind. The connections between physical well
being, emotional response, and the brain are so great that even when
causal relationships are reversed, simlar results occur. For example,
normally, pleasurable sensations cause the brain to feel happiness, which
in turn causes the brain to tell the face muscles to make a smile. However,
a smile made purposefully in the absence of happiness or pleasure can
reflexively cause the brain to tell happiness to occur.
These biological relationships are explored in the study of neuroscience, which has made
breakthrough discoveries in the past 100 years. Through the study of neuroscience, you can begin to
understand how the brain works, and why one result is caused rather than another. This understanding
can be translated into healthy habits you may use to increase your intelligence, make yourself happier, or
become more effective in any role you play in life. For these reasons, Superfunctionalism advocates the
following daily habits for the mind:
- Be around people you respect, and have frequent meaningful conversations with others. Be
the person you want your children to become. Do unto others what you want them to do unto you.
- Be aware of the activities within your brain, and take a mindful approach to your thought
processes. Discover more about yourself, and about how to improve your mind through reflection
and deliberate effort.
- Whatever goals you make for yourself, visualize them. Visualize yourself becoming the person
who can achieve your wildest dreams for 15 minutes while performing slow, deep breathing
everynight before bed. When a major event is coming up, visualize, in detail, your desired physical,
mental, and emotional activities for 24hours preceding and following the event. Be sure to
incorporate sleep, nutrition, and spiritual principles into your vision to maintain the proper balance for
Superfunctional performance.
- Avoid impact to the front of your head.
- Put the past behind you. Do not focus on negative incidents which have taken place. The more
you think about the memory, the more negative hormones are released, which only serve to make
the memory stronger. Get the most out of life, and be happy to develop strong, positive memories.
Do not overreact to negative situations; the greater your reaction, the stronger the memory.
- Be sure to make yourself act like you want to feel.
- Exercise continually, throughout life.



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EXPERIMENT
Crowbar shot
vertically through
frontal cortex,
removing large
portion of brain.
Scan the brain
during periods of
action and periods
of mere
observance;
compare the scans
for similar activity.
Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy
– test DRUG FREE
treatment on OCD
and Depression
Patients to get them
to re-wire their
brains with mere
monitoring of their
own thoughts.
Compare results
with those of
patients on drugs.
Scan the brain
during periods of
action and mere
imagination (unlike
the above
experiment with
actual observation).
Administer
adrenaline blocker
to patients in an
emergency room
and record reports
of their trauma(s).
Administer
placebos to others
and record reports
of their traumas.
Play back the
recordings for the
groups over 1 year
later, measuring
heart rates, etc.
Compare results.
Scan subject's
brian when happy
to discover location
of positive emotion
in the brain. Scan
unhappy subject's
brain and instruct
them to use certain
face & body
muscles (which are
associated with
smiling,
happiness).
Measure results.
Compare rate of
mental loss among
two elderly groups:
one who exercises
and one who does
not.
Study the formation
of neural networks
in the human brain
and measure their
reactions when
stimulated.
Compare with
smaller, less active
networks.
RESULTS
Rudeness,
unreliability, poor
social judgment.
The same neurons fire
when we conduct an
activity as when we are
exposed to it second
hand.
It worked – moreover,
it was discovered that
the more people
focused mindful
attention on the
techniques, the
stronger their neural
connections became.
You can not only be
happy at any given
instant, but make
yourself an all-around
happier person on a
daily basis.
The same neurons fire
when an action is
performed as when it is
imagined. Neural
connections
strengthen with
repetition. Neural
connection
strengthening occurs
regardless of whether
the action is actually
performed or merely
imagined.
Patients with
adrenaline blocker had
no reaction to listening
to the tapes. Those
with the placebo
experienced symptoms
of post traumatic
stress disorder when
listening to the tapes.
Subject became happy
by engaging facial
expression, posture,
and style of movement
associated with
happiness.
Direct correlation
between physical
activity and prevention
of brain failure.
More
interconnectedness in
neural networks
causes greater
reactions upon
stimulation.
TECHNIQUES
Avoid impact to the front of your head.
1. Teach your children well and curb their
exposure to bad influence.
2. Be around people you admire or respect
for thier positive traits.
3. Show people how you want them to be and
act. Especially in sales, the technique of
“building rapport” starts with first mimicking
your customer, and then moves on to taking
control of the conversation to get the
customer to mimic you . . . and feel good
about them buying something.
1. Self-awareness: monitor your own
thoughts and reactions to events,
occurrences, or your own thoughts. Be
aware of panic, negativity, or hopelessness.
Consciously tell yourself, “I’m doing it again. I’
m taking things out of proportion. Its no big
deal. Everything is actually really good!”
2. Positivity – Do slow, relaxed, deep
breathing each night. During your deep
breathing, forget all of your worldly troubles.
Feel safe, and focus on happiness, joy,
compassion, or any other mood or
personality quality you would like to have.
Visualize this as reality during your 15
minutes of deep breathing before sleep.
1. Picture yourself performing perfectly –
over and over again – in order to train your
mind to perform that way in real life.
2. Prior to a big game, test, or other
performance event, close your eyes and
picture the entire 24 hours preceding and
following the event – including eating
properly, getting sufficient rest, and
approaching the event with confidence. See
yourself going to the location of the event,
and dealing with mundane details like parking
the car or finding your seat, or putting on
your cleats. Picture yourself properly
handling emotional states, such as any
nervousness you may feel, and replacing it
with confidence, and with the visualization of
success. Picture yourself approach the
performance and perform every minute
movement and thought it will take for it to go
perfectly. Picture your and others reactions
to the success, and handling it in a healthy
way, resisting the temptation to gloat, get
drunk, or otherwise. Repeat, over and over
until the event.
1. Put the past behind you. Do not focus on
negative incidents which have taken place.
The more you think about the memory, the
more negative hormones are released, which
only serve to make the memory stronger.
2. Get the most out of life, and be happy to
develop strong, positive memories.
3. Do not overreact to negative situations;
the greater your reaction, the stronger the
memory.
1. If you are unhappy and desire to be
happy, act as if you already are happy.
2. Be careful of putting yourself into bad
moods by acting them out.
Exercise continually, throughout life, to avoid,
aside from poor health, Altzheimer's
syndrome.
Learn a lot. Continually read, stay informed,
dvelop your understanding of new and old
subjects, converse with informed and
intelligent people, and experience as much
as you can. Every additional experience you
gain will make every new experience that
much richer, more interesting, and more
enjoyable.
IMPLICATIONS
The frontal lobe
houses the
personality.
Monkey See,
Monkey Do –
the existence of
mirror neurons
affects learning,
empathy, and
even
experiencing
pain.
Neuroplasticity –
the brain can be
rewired, even as
an adult, and
even if you have
a “disorder” or
mental disease,
through mere
purposeful self
control.
You can become
better at
anything
through
visualization
techniques.
Emotion and
memory are
strongly linked.
Both positive, as
well as negative
emotions
reinforce
memories.
Likewise,
memories can
cause mimicked
emotions.
Emotions cause
certain natural
reactions which
involve use of
certain muscles.
Employment of
the muscles
associated with
a particular
emotion can
cause that
emotion to occur.
Exercise may
prevent loss of
mental prowess.\
Knowing and
understanding
more can make
life seem richer,
more exciting,
and deeper.