by Jon Coe

Created on: March 01, 2008

The human brain is an incredible organism, if only we could learn to use it properly. Right now, the human brain is like one of those fancy computerized gadgets that we buy at an electronics store. We take it home, the instructions look like coordinates for a UFO landing site, so we toss them into the trash can.

We spend the rest of our lives figuring out how the gadget works but we never quite realize it's optimum capabilities, then one day we say, "Oh, so that was what that button was for!"

The brain is an organic computer with infinite possibilities. It knows the answers to everything, but we tend tell it to do things rather than letting it, tell us. However, just to be able to access another five percent of the brain's function all of a sudden, would be very scary indeed, as that unchartered and instant awareness would probably send us straight to an asylum.

To say that we use all of our brains one hundred percent, would be like saying that a car will never go faster than fifty miles per hour or we will never put a human being on Mars. There is always room for growth and new development and that has been proven through time. The only thing that we can do is to learn to use parts of our brain gradually, logically and collectively.

The human brain is developing slowly but surely. Each lesson and thought is like a road map. First we think, then we take action and we start to charter a course inside of our tiny skulls. The human brain has an estimated 100 billion neurons, each connected to 10,000 others. The brain has an infinite realm of capabilities, linked to an infinite universe of possibilities.

The brain is so vast that it is hard to imagine that we could ever use one hundred percent of it. If we could ever use the brain in it's entirety, then we would be close to the end of infinity, but that will never happen.

When an individual learns something for the very first time, a minuscule part of their brain becomes activated. When that learning process takes root, neurons in the brain start to transmit signals and then something incredible happens; To put it bluntly, it is somewhat similar to a road construction. As the individual learns, so the synapses in the brain start to connect the thought processes together until the area of learning in the brain begins to look like a full scale city map, consisting of highways, bi-ways, underpasses, back roads and side walks. Once the thought patterns and experiences have been established, so the brain configures and reconfigures

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