Having explained how stress affects our life and what we can do to de-stress, it ts time to delve into the world of mind ‘Mind’ is a software. run on hardware called brain, Brain Is the physical matter that is Inside the skull, Whereas. mind is the set of neural connections forming habits. memory.
behaviour, ernotions that run on the brain and that form our personality. When we are conscious, we use only 5% of our mind just to receive signals that we call ‘sensory input’ and emit signals that correspond to the circuitry ot our mind. Concious mand is logcal; it responds to the external stimuli according to what it deem logical based on subconcious programming.
95%, of the mind is subconscious mind that stores our programming. our habits. our memories, our emotional responses and our behaviour. Subconscious mind is programmed till 7 years of age and stops growing after that age. What we do for the rest of our lives, unless changed due to some intervention. depends on what is programmed in our subconscious mind.
Subconscious mind is programmable It cannot grow but it can be re programmed A program is a set of neurons wtred together by proteins and fires electric impulses in unison So for example, if you are learmng how to drive. you will notice that you act consciously to start With. At this stage, your neurons have just started to fire electric: impulses to indecate that a new habit is about to form As you keep on practicing. those impulses create a network of neural connections made of proteins so more and more neurons bind together. In everyday language we call it forming of habit. If you have learned driving on a manual car and you want to shift to automatic transmission. you will have to make changes to your already developed habit of drivinq a manual car This ability to change a neural connection in our mind is called ‘neuroplasticity’. So If you are able to understand and utilize
neuroptasticity of the brain, you can not only change your habits and personality but also
program yourself to carry out extraordinary feats that are not fathomable by ordinary
mind.
Saad Mahfooz Islamabad
