So I was getting really bored with the other book, which happens a lot. Ill probably come back to it later. Anyway, the book is The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam and seems really interesting. Its about how we behave due to our subconscious minds and how things affect it. Ill get back to you about the first chapter soon.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
sleep deprived
So sorry everybody, the tell-yourself-to-wake-up-at-six-and-you-will thing didn't work. I really wanted it to. I have trouble waking up in the morning so if this worked I was going to be super exited, and maybe even start to believe this guy. Now I have very little faith, but ill keep on reading and see if I can find some more solid facts in it.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Book talk
I figured out I was reading the book completely wrong, it is actually set in a book format not just random sections like I thought. Oh well, I just started to read it from the beginning again. So the first section just talks about why he wrote the book and all that stuff which is boring. You don't really care about that so ill just move on to the other stuff.
Ch 1- The Treasure House Within You
In the intro he talks about how some people end up really successful and others really struggle. He says that the struggling man is full of doubts and fears and the other is full of confidence and faith. I don't think that this is really true some people that I have seen dont doubt enough and end up getting in some really big messes. But basically what he is saying is that some how he will make you the confident faithful man "born to win and succeed". He then proceeds to tell you that in order to do that you need to train yourself to use your subconscious mind (he wants you to do this by talking to your two minds out loud and demeaning your conscious mind). This all seems kinda like a load of crap to me, I am the complete opposite of gullible, but I try to keep an open mind so if you really believe in it I respect that and completely understand. Actually, I believe that if you really believe that it will work it most likely will. Now this kind of self help book is not what I was looking for. But then he starts to move into some more solid factual things not just his own theories.
Necessity of a Working Basis (each chapter has subsections)
Here he explains his working basis "The universal truth that what ever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event".Then he talks about praying which I think is very random and unimportant. Even as a practicing Catholic I thought this was very miss placed.
The Duality of Mind
Here Murphy starts to regain my interest. He explains that which I have already learned in a new way. "You have only one mind but possesses two distinct characteristics...The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface self and the deep self, the voluntary and involuntary mind, the male and female, and many others". (male and female gave me a good laugh) So I guess the whole subconscious and unconscious being the same thing is true (according to this ,apparently Ph.D, D.D, guy). He proceeds to talk about the reasoning and not reasoning which I have already talked about then tells me to follow my unreasoning mind? Huuuumm sound a little suspicious.
To be continued....
Ch 1- The Treasure House Within You
In the intro he talks about how some people end up really successful and others really struggle. He says that the struggling man is full of doubts and fears and the other is full of confidence and faith. I don't think that this is really true some people that I have seen dont doubt enough and end up getting in some really big messes. But basically what he is saying is that some how he will make you the confident faithful man "born to win and succeed". He then proceeds to tell you that in order to do that you need to train yourself to use your subconscious mind (he wants you to do this by talking to your two minds out loud and demeaning your conscious mind). This all seems kinda like a load of crap to me, I am the complete opposite of gullible, but I try to keep an open mind so if you really believe in it I respect that and completely understand. Actually, I believe that if you really believe that it will work it most likely will. Now this kind of self help book is not what I was looking for. But then he starts to move into some more solid factual things not just his own theories.
Necessity of a Working Basis (each chapter has subsections)
Here he explains his working basis "The universal truth that what ever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event".Then he talks about praying which I think is very random and unimportant. Even as a practicing Catholic I thought this was very miss placed.
The Duality of Mind
Here Murphy starts to regain my interest. He explains that which I have already learned in a new way. "You have only one mind but possesses two distinct characteristics...The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface self and the deep self, the voluntary and involuntary mind, the male and female, and many others". (male and female gave me a good laugh) So I guess the whole subconscious and unconscious being the same thing is true (according to this ,apparently Ph.D, D.D, guy). He proceeds to talk about the reasoning and not reasoning which I have already talked about then tells me to follow my unreasoning mind? Huuuumm sound a little suspicious.
To be continued....
Answer. I think.
I think I might have started to figuring out the whole thing with my dad. So the subconscious controls our instincts and it was instinctive that my dad found it a moment to be documented. Of course this instinct was brought on by every thing his subconscious has stored through out his life.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
An Update
Yesterday I went to the library and got two new books; The Power of Your Subconcsious Mind by Joseph Murphy and The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. They seem to be more what I was looking for hopfully I'll find them more interesting than my original book. Sorry I wasn't able to start reading already, my brother broke his arm last night and I was at the hospital. I'll keep you posted on that, oh, and I'm currently trying to contact Candace Pert.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Hurray!
So I asked one of my friends to help me a little with my research, she's really good with that kind of stuff, and she found a neuroscientist named Candance Pert that looks pretty promising. From what I've seen she focuses on the science behind the subconcious, which is what I'm interested in, and has written a book called "Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind". Now i know there are people that have stubied the science behind the subconcious not just the new age stuff, bye-bye Nobel Prize.
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