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of which side is dominant, we use varying degrees of both sides. At some point of stress, however, our natural reactions will conflict with our principled thoughts. For example, courage is a principle that is displayed when the principle overrides the instinct to flee.

We can actually see the thought function on brain scans. The waves from the three parts of the brain included in the mind become more active as we consider our experiences and formulate our responses.

However, the part of the mind that does not seem to be part of the physical brain is that which conceives infinity. There truly are no new ideas, for once something is created (added), we find that it already existed in infinity. The greatest minds throughout history merely determined truths about something that always existed. Whether it was Archimedes determining how to measure the volume of a sphere or measuring purity through displacement, or Albert Einstein determining that light particles are subject to gravitational forces and conduct photoelectricity when a threshold number of photons are created, the answers were always there in infinity.

Though we may not have the drive or time to put ourselves in the company of the greatest minds, understanding the concept of the mind is not out of anyone's reach. It is in using the power of the mind to, in essence, trick the function of our brains for better results.

Our memory banks have no ethics. The memory bank cannot distinguish a real experience from a synthetic experience. When we become angry over a thought, we are actually reinforcing the thought as another experience. Dr. Victor Frankl, in his book "Man's Search for Meaning," suggested an exercise he called "paradoxical intention," through which we consciously respond the way we would if we were who we wanted to be. The concept is powerful, and is the core of many philosophies. By doing it, we actually build those responses as experiences into our memory banks for consideration in the future. If we do it often enough, it will become a more natural function of our thought processes, and we can loft ourselves even higher because the threshold will have risen.

It all boils down to possibility and probability. If we do not believe it to be possible, we probably will not create it. It is only in understanding that anything is possible that we will probably make things better for ourselves, others, and our environments. If we do improve our lives, we need to understand that the improved life already existed in infinity. We can then look at other possibilities, and do that which is necessary to make it probable.

Try this: the next time you see a red car, imagine how improbable that effect is except through possibility and cause. Then just keep imagining, for that is how the greatest minds used their brains to understand concepts thought to be impossible to understand, and to create that which before existed only in infinity!

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