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BETTER USE OF BRAIN

Frequently, a common man who have the qualities of sharp focus, smarter decision and peak performance is kept under the category of a great personality. Philosophers like Socrates, Mahatama Gandhi and Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan; Politicians like Abrahm Lincoln, George Washington and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru; artists like Leonardo da Vinsi and Maqbool Fida Hussain; actors like Charlie Chaplin, Amitabh Bachchan and Sean Conery; Poets like Shakespeare, Ravindra Nath Tagore, John Milton and Jai Shankar Prasad as well as sports icon like W.G.Grace, Don Bradman, Sunil Gavaskar and Pele got success giving a good performance during their life span.

The scientists and socio-logists are trying to discover the differences in their map of brain as compare to the man next door. Scientists have explained some scientific reasons that are responsible for their success while according to sociologists, some specific circumstances are responsible for that.

According to a study, a general personality use just twenty percent of its mental power. Scientists says that to know some scientific facts and adopting some habits, we can increase our mental capabilities to an extent.

Refocusing the mind to eliminate the buzz and static of everyday thought, according to a new book by Dr. Herbert Benson who is seated in Mind-Body medical institute, at Boston has done an immense research on this subject. Benson is perhaps most well known as the author of the 1975 bestseller “The Relaxation Response”, which taught millions of readers that practising a simple form of meditation can lower blood pressure and reduce the risk or lessen the symptoms of many other physical maladies.

Now Benson is applying the relaxation response to help people reach peak performance in various forms—from creative insights, to lower golf handicaps, to spiritual enlightenment. In his new book, “The Breakout Principle, ” written with William Proctor, Benson describes a simple technique he claims alters brain chemistry to produce that elusive state sometimes called “the zone,” where ideas rush forth and answers to thorny questions emerge from the subconscious. The key like in giving one's ragged psyche a break.

He insists that stepping away from problems creates changes in the central nervous system that produce calm and clarity. After struggling through those worries “the best thing to do is back off and often you'll have an insight.”

Of course, some people seem to know intuitively that the best way to cope with a problem can be to walk away from it.

According to Benson, it's brain chemistry not hapen-stance, that creates this now-I-get-it state we all crave. He says your body increase production of a gas molecule called nitric oxide. Scientists once thought nitric oxide, or NO was merely a toxin. It's a component of cigarette smoke, for example. But in the late 1980s researchers learned that this gas is made in the human body and plays a role in a range of physio-logical processes, such as controlling blood pressure.

Benson says that the scientific evidence—from his lab and others—suggets that when NO is released in the brain, it produces “puffs of insight.” It not only counteracts the effects of the potentially damaging stress hormones released when we feel anxious but, Benson says, NO increases the output of neurotrasmitters, including dopamine and endorphins, which promote a sense of well-being. Benson believes it's possible to set off the peak experiences he calls “break-outs” by learning to trigger the release of NO.

Other scientists aren't convinced. “Whether you can put NO at the centre of the picture and say that it participates in counteracting stress, and say it's more important than many other molecules that have been shown to be involved in stress response, about that I would be skeptical, ” says neuro-biologist Grigori Enikolopov at an independent research and educational facility in New York. Benson concedes that proving his theories is a challenge, in part because measuring NO levels in humans is “devilishly difficult”.

But Benson has grown accustomed to skepticism about his work. Trained as a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School, Benson began in the 1960s to study how stress affects physical well being—then considered a radical idea. Many of his colleagues told him he was wasting his time and would ruin his career.

But Benson went on to become a pioneer in the now-flourishing field known as mind-body medicine, which explores how our thoughts and feelings contribute to disease. Physician Larry Dossey, author of “Healing Words,” says Benson's research, and his standing as an eminent doctor, jump-started serious study in mind-body medicine. Now more than half of America's medical schools teach the relaxation response.

In “The Relaxation Response”, Benson helped patients to reduce blood pressure, control pain and speed healing through a basic form of meditation meant to quient the mind and shut down the body's fight-or-flight reaction.

As the years passed, Benson discovered that there is more than one way to evoke that calm, and the process may have applications beyond the clinic.

Benson believes that making time to elicit the relaxation response, through meditation or whatever quiets your mind, clears away the intellectual static or emotional baggage that blocks creative thinking or even obvious solutions.

According to L. Michael Hall, a schollar, this is the power of meta-states. Our mental and emotional states about other states (our meta-states) do not only make our thinking and emoting richer and our perspective wider, they also set frames of meaning. As we hold in mind these frames, they become our “meanings”. Each move up that we make transcends the previous level of our thinking and emoting so that we think and feel about the previous state. Each move up also includes the previous level. This explains how we take a state, transcend it to higher ideas, concepts, and feelings, and then use that as the frame for the first level thoughts and feelings.

Recent findings indicate that your brain can and does grow regardless of your age, provided you feed it a variety of rich new experiences on a constant basis. The brain grows in the number of synapses, weight and the ability to process information and solves problems. The basic information that the brain uses for all of it's processing is sensory infor-mation, whether it derives from the inside or the outside world. If you live in a stagnant 9-5 routine deadhead life, there is little stimulus for you to grow new pathways. You must pursue activities that provide new and interesting experi-ences to continue the growth of your intelligence, which you experienced as a child. You may choose to lead that deadhead life, but at some point the world is going to get very interesting and exciting in the next few years.

The mind has a certain organization. If the increase of thoughts and stimulus increases beyond capacity of that organization to handle it, the organization breaks down and reconfigures into a higher order. This process can happen through the pressure of circumstance or one can choose to create the situation that brings it about. Most people choose the direction of low effort and the easy way out when it comes to mental work. It takes considerable effort and commitment to oneself to be able to orchestrate the variables necessary to push into a higher state of order. The thereshold and the breakdown are accompanied by powerful emotions, confusion, fear, and a desire to stay in the comfort zone of the old way of thinking and organizing one's thougts. One must be willing to go through these unpleasant areas and not be derailed. This can happen on a personal level. However it is possible for an entire population create the circumstance that causes this breakdown and reconfiguring of the mind. The world is in this postion at this time. With the advent of mass communication and volumes of new information and knowledge being created daily, the present organization of mind is incompetent. Each person must make the jump into the next higher state of organization or perish in the chaos that accompanies this process when it occurs on societal level.

Finally, You can prepare yourself psychologically and develop increased left brain/right brain synchronization. This left brain/right brain state produces the highest competency level for solving problems, tapping into your creativity and the ability to very effectively deal with all aspects of the world. Through the use of a specially designed program that stimulates your mind to organize itself into a higher level of order, it will be easier for one to deal with the rapidly changing times and information overload that is occuring now in western civilization.

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