Mindspeaking: Communicating with Your Subconcious Mind.

By Matt Dawodin

They say you only use about 10% of our brain. Thinking of all the accomplishments of man this is quite impressive and leaves a substantial amount of potential untapped. Science can use MRIs and other methods to look into your brain and see where you’re thinking. The thing is, you already have a connection to this vast untapped potential that’s faster than the fastest broadband connection. But before you go to uncharted lands making changes and experimenting with the unknown, lets take a look at the way things work in the known realm, so you can recognize patterns when you get to the unknown. Lets begin mindspeaking.

Mindspeaking, simply put, is communicating with your own mind. Of course you’ve been doing this subconsciously since you’ve existed. Most people don’t take the time to see what’s in their heads. Think about the word fire. Now think of a picture of fire. Remember a good fire like a campfire or fireplace. How about a memory of when you disliked fire, getting burned by the stove or seeing fire destroy something important?

It’s only one thing, but look at the ways that different parts of you mind think of fire. Depending on the situation you might want to use a different method of thought for the same object. If a friend tells you their cousin drowned, thinking of a refreshing drink of water isn’t going to conjure up the empathy that might be proper for this kind of situation.

Efficiency is also a matter. There are some things that can be thought of much quicker as a picture that would take forever to think in words. Conversely, it could be quicker to tell someone else about an object or event than it would be to sit there and draw it all out. Look for the right tool for the right job.

There are many different ways of thinking. These methods of thought are the 10% of the mind we’ve explored thus far. This is not a comprehensive list, far from it, but here are some of the more commonly utilized methods of thought:

1. Words

– to think in words is just like what you’re reading here. This is the voice in your head. For many people this is the dominant method of thinking. As any thoughts you share with other people in a conversation will first be translated into words, many people tend to think in words with the benefit of having their thoughts ready to share. If you and a friend are in the jungle and you see a tiger it would take too long to draw a picture and show your friend, and might not be possible to directly relate the feeling of fear to your friend, so words would be the quickest and easiest way to have your friend understand the danger.

2. Pictures

– thinking in pictures is relating a thought to the way you see the world around you. As vision is a highly developed sense and the staple of mans perception of his environment this method of thought instantly relays a huge volume of information. While it may take a while to create a picture for someone external to see, internally its an incredibly fast way to capture information. The image of the tiger in the jungle is comprised of immense depth. Think of all the words to describe a jungle visually, the words to describe a tiger, the words to describe yourself in this setting. To see this image is all of these words simultaneously. Upon your return to civilization a painting of this scene could relate to a viewer all the things you felt. In effect put them in your shoes, as if seeing this scene with their own eyes and grant them a connection to all the things you may have felt in the moment.

3. Memories

– in remembering you can base whatever current dilemma on previous ones. Very handy to solve problems. If your pencil breaks and sharpening it fixed it last time, it should work again. Remembering enables learning through a series of patterns. Lack of memories to provide a similar pattern can be frightening and confusing, especially if time is of the essence. With the tiger, most people would have no similar memory to compare it to. What do you do in such a situation like that? Good thing is that if you experience something that there is no previous pattern for then you are at an opportunity to learn.

These are just a few of the ways to think. There’s many more, such as math, music, etc, and plenty that probably haven’t been thought of yet. A key thing to remember is that although there is a method you prefer to use, this method of thought isn’t you. You may think in words, but the section of the mind that uses words is not your consciousness. The same goes for pictures, emotions, or whatever your main method of thought is.

There’s an essence within you that does nothing but want. The want section is where your consciousness, or perhaps you soul, lies.