How our mind operates

After listening to numerous talks on lifestyles, motivations, health and soul, there’s one particular common interesting topic; that is our mind.

From one particular talk by a yoga guru, she summarized in very well,

• 1.    The logical/scientific ways
• 2.    The non-scientific ways or our belief system
• 3.    Imaginative or worrisome
• 4.    Subconsciously
• 5.    Our memory

These 5 parts are governing us socially, professionally and individually, it intertwined in our mind and provoke us to make decisions. Let’s look at one thing at a time and elaborate it further.

In a progressing and technological world like ours, there are thousands or millions of researches on various topics, products, theories and activities. These are results driven scientific data to proof a theory, action, or product. As we select to read or understand the sections that we are interested in, these facts became our logical data in our mind and it became a reference point for our judgement, decision and choice.

We all learned through experiences, education, feedback, media and sharing, as we go through with lives. These components will determined how we behaves and who we are, and these components are constantly triggering our choices and options, most noticeable are advertisements and a bombardment of information, be it a truth or a myth.

Let us look at a typical scenario, a normal person indulged in outdoor activities like running and hiking. There are numerous researches on these activities, that it help to reduced cardiovascular diseases and give other health benefits to our bodies, and with proven scientific data, that when these exercises are done properly and diligently, it will brings a lot of health benefits. Then, there are myths and hyped up stories that someone have died from running a marathon or suffered a stroke during hiking. The media created a great sensation with these stories, the headline will read “Man died of Cardiac arrest while running THE ABC Marathon”, but it may not be true that this person who died from stroke is caused by running the marathon. Then when this person’s belief system sets in and choose to belief the stories by the media, he became worrisome, and start to imagine the possibility of a stroke whenever he is doing his runs or hikes. These worries started to build to up in his subconscious mind coupled with the memories of these stories playing in his head, he started to make his decision based on all these built-ups.

Conclusion, what will be his choice?