The science of thought
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The document explores the nature of thought and its significance in both mental and physical well-being, highlighting the interconnectedness of thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and bodily responses. It discusses the uniqueness of thought, its impact on health, and results from experiments showing that mental practice can yield similar outcomes to physical practice in skill development. The concept of neuroplasticity is introduced, emphasizing that both imagination and action utilize the same neural pathways in the brain.
The science of thought
- 1. The Science of Thought The Doorway to Five Senses
- 2. What is Thought? Thoughts are the result or product of spontaneous acts of thinking. Because thought underlies many human actions and interactions, understanding its physical and metaphysical origins, processes, and effects has been a longstanding goal of many academic disciplines including artificial intelligence, biology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. THOUGHT?
- 3. Why is thought so unique ? Our Thoughts Are More Important to Our Health than Our Genes Our whole world is a reflection of our thought. As you think, your thoughts are activated, which in turn determines your attitude, because your attitude is all of your thoughts put together and reflects your state of mind. This attitude is formed in the chemical secretions that are released. Positive attitudes cause the secretion of the correct amount of chemicals, and negative attitudes distort the chemical secretions in a way that disrupts their natural flow. The chemicals are like little cellular signals that translate the information of your thought into a physical reality in your body and mind, creating an emotion. The combination of thoughts, emotions and resulting attitude impacts your body in a positive or negative way. This means your mind and body really are inherently linked, and this link starts with your thoughts.
- 5. Speed of Thought How fast are our thoughts? Are they physical? Or maybe a by-product of simple physical things like electric current and suchlike? Can thoughts be measured? If not, are they bound by physical laws? Could a thought be faster than the speed of light? In fact nobody knows the answer for it.
- 6. Neuroplasticity it refers to changes in neural pathways and synapses which are due to changes in behaviour, environment and neural processes, as well as changes resulting from bodily injury.
- 7. Power of thoughts Let’s try an example Now write your signature with your dominate hand Now Imagine writing your signature with your dominate hand Surprisingly ,the time taken do both would take the same time
- 8. Neural pathway Neural pathways serve to connect relatively distant areas of the brain or nervous system, compared to the local communication of grey matter.
- 9. Difference between Action And Imagination? It was quit surprising to know that your action and imagination would take the same neural pathway So, ultimately imagination is approximately equal to Action
- 10. Experiments on thought A set of students where asked to practice Piano for 2 hours day While the remain set of students where asked mentally practice Piano for 2hours per day Well the results where astounding
- 11. Contd… After 3 days both the groups where asked to play the Piano It was found that both the groups performed equally well After 5 days The group with physical exposure’s , performance was slightly better than the group with mental practice ,but here’s the catch mental practice group where able to cope with physical exposure
- 14. Can mental Practice change our physique ? One was asked to exercise his fingers by stretching and relaxing in a regular interval While the other was asked to imagine doing it After doing this on a regular basis it was found the The one with physical exposure had a 30% increase in muscle mass in his finger. On the other hand , the one with mental practice had a 22% increase in muscle mass in his finger .
- 16. CONCLUSION A Little Imagination will always never hurts
- 17. Bibliography THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF ASAP SCIENCE FAST AND SLOW THINKING WIKIPEDIA
- 18. THOUGHT OF THE DAY
- 19. ANY QUESTION?
- 20. THANK YOU