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    Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically
    Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically
    Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically
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    Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically

    By Ram Bansal

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    Human life is governed by the persons mind and brain working in sync with each other and directing the body to sense and act in the external world. How these function is explained in detail through short articles arranged in an easily understandable order.

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    PublisherRam Bansal
    Release dateOct 3, 2012
    ISBN9781301974061
    Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically
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    Ram Bansal

    An Engineering Graduate from University of Roorkee, India (now an IIT) of 1971 batch, has served Engineering Profession for 35 years, now devoted to Social Engineering, Research into Vaidic Scriptures, and Authorship for changing the humanity - the way it thinks.

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      Understanding Human Mind and Brain Psychologically - Ram Bansal

      Understanding

      Human Mind and Brain

      Psychologically

      Ram Bansal

      Copyright Ram Bansal 2012

      Published at Smashwords

      Preface

      I started blogging about 3 years back with focus of different blogs on different subjects. For my articles on human psychology and behavior, I have a blog 'Universe of Mind', now having over 300 posts. In blogging practice, one writes on a topic coming to his/her mind at that point of time. This puts articles on a blog in random order. A reader interested in articles on a particular subject finds it inconvenient to go on hopping from one post to another for reading articles of his/her choice. Therefore, I thought of publishing my blogged articles subject-wise in the form of eBooks combining symbiotic pieces together to concise the Table of Contents to 20 topics.

      Some articles from the blog Universe of Mind related to psychological functioning of human mind and brain have been selected for inclusion in this eBook to facilitate my readers with getting such articles at one place arranged logically. This is my first eBook, so mistakes may be possible. Things are going to improve as more of such books are published by me

      There is a great confusion about what heart, mind and brain of a person are in physical terms and how wisdom differs with intellect of a person. I have tried to clarify on such topics to pave way for a clear understanding of these things by common people. For making the book understandable by common people, I have avoided philosophizing the subject. Rather, I have put things in a scientific manner - concise and to the point, yet clearly understandable. I hope readers would enjoy reading the book as they gather deep understanding of the subject matter.

      Ram Bansal, the Theosoph

      Table of Contents

      1. Constitution of a Human-Being

      2. What is Thinking

      3. Wisdom and Intellect

      4. The Human Life

      5. Understanding Mind and Brain

      6. About Consciousness

      7. Dreams

      8. Towards Optimal Functioning

      9. Fourth Instinct of Memorizing

      10. Taking Care of Body, Mind and Brain

      11. Vipassyana, Ancient Technique of Self-healing

      12. Human Mind - Implosion and Explosion

      13. Mind Bias and Mono-tracking

      14. Psycho-Health

      15. Conversation with the Self

      16. Dementia or Memory-slips

      17. When a Danger Confronts Us

      18. Psycho-social Issues

      19. What is Mania and How it Works

      20. Depression and its Control

      The Author : Ram Bansal, the Theosoph

      1

      Constitution of a Human-Being

      A human-being has three simultaneous existences – bodily, essential, and causal. These existences are enclosed in this order with bodily existence being the outermost, and the causal existence as the core of the whole existence.

      Our bodily existence is made from the food we take and it is in two layers – body as the outer layer and the life the inner enclosed by the body. Combination of body components in a given ratio gives rise to a force called the life. Thus, the life is also made from the food we take. The body becomes inactive during sleep and the life force remains active but in a subdued form.

      Essential existence is a complex composition and is often referred to as mind (science). It is enclosed in the life component of our bodily existence. Worldly pleasures are sought through this existence. The mind needs a lesser amount of rest than the body, so during light sleep, it remains partially active and is the cause of dreams. When both body and mind go on rest, we see no dreams and have a sound sleep..

      Causal existence is free from the bodily and essential existences but is enclosed within the essential existence and is the principle cause of human existence and is known as intellect (psyche). It seeks and provides real pleasures of life free from the worldly pleasures. It is the cause of logical thinking and so is the cause of justified actions of human-being. In many human-being and other lower creatures wherein struggle for survival preoccupies the whole of life, this existence remains dormant.

      Three Elements of Human Personality

      On a broad consideration, a human personality is pinned down to be composed of three basic elements – body, brain, the bridge between body and brain, called mind. What makes a person different from all others is ratio of these three elements in composition of his/her personality. For a balanced personality, these three elements need be have equal shares of about 33 percent each. But actual share of each of these elements may be as low as 17 percent with increments in shares of other two elements. With this, the largest share of an element could be about 67 percent with the other two lying low to the minimum level of 17 percent each.

      I don’t find an idealist proposition of someone having an element with zero share in a personality as preached by spiritualists for nullifying the body feeling to zero level. For every system to keep on functioning, I perceive a minimum share of 17 percent.

      Body

      Body is the essence for physical existence in the world of a personality, and is desirous of health, comforts and gratifications. 

      Brain

      Brain exists in the body in its skull as a physical component. Its function is intellect composed of three things –

      Memory,

      Thinking faculty, and

      Body control centers.

      Memory records and retains experiential information from five sensory organs – eyes, ears, nose, skin, and tongue, collecting information regarding watching, listening, smelling, touching and tasting experiences of the person, respectively.

      Thinking faculty analyzes the information recorded in the memory for taking decisions on issues faced by the person and imagining new possibilities as extrapolations of the existing information. The first function is called management and the second as creativity.

      The body control centers in the brain direct body parts to move to execute decisions and materialize creativity of the thinking faculty. Productivity by the person is also achieved through these control centers.

      Mind

      The neural system spread throughout the body with its root in the brain and twigs reaching to each cell of the body works as a bridge between the body and the brain. This network is used for information exchange between body and the brain. In between, this network has glands, one each for a subsystem of the body such as respiration, blood circulation, digestion, etc, to locally process information passing through them. Each of these glands monitors and regulates functioning of the subsystem to which the gland is concerned with, hence works as the mind of the subsystem, appropriately a sub-mind. Sum total of these sub-minds makes up the mind of the person.

      Mind of a person is highly concerned with the body of the person and puts demands and desires of the body to the brain for directions to body parts to act to meet the demands and desires of the body. It is left for the brain’s thinking faculty to filter out such demands from the mind and direct the body parts accordingly. This process of filtering out the body demands and desires is called discretion of the person.

      While the brain function determines sensibility of the person, functioning of his/her mind determines the person’s sensitivity reflected by his emotional softness and strength.

      Personality Mixes

      As aforesaid, individuality of a person is influenced by the ratio of the three elements discussed above, and it is dependent of personal preferences of the person given to the three elements. There are wrestlers and body-builders whose priority goes to body resulting into a physical strength with low levels of intellectual sensibility and emotional sensitivity. There are philosophers and highly creative persons, who have high intellectual sensibilities with low emotional sensitivity and often a frail body. And thirdly, there are highly sentimental persons with low levels of intellectual sensibility and physical strength.

      As said in the opening paragraph of this study, each of the three components, physical strength, emotional sensitivity and intellectual sensibility, could be as high as 67% with the other two remaining components at minimum level of 17% each. However, the right mix remains to be 33% share of each component in a person’s constitution. The deviations from this balanced situation amounts to weakness of the person.     

      Appraise your own Personality 

      Here is a proposition on how to appraise your own personality through finding the weakness. For this, rate your personality components with deviation of each from the balanced mark of 33%. Sum of the absolute values of deviation percentages is measure of your total weakness in the personality.

      For example, for a particular person, his/her personality mix may be appraised as follows –

      Thus, the person has a weakness of 33% in his/her personality with the greatest weakness of his/her being highly sensitive emotionally. His/her second weak point is lack of physical strength and on the third front of intellectual sensibility, the person is marginally deviated towards a weakness.

      Sensory Organs

      With respect to functionality of our five sensory organs, there are pairs of words, we often use – listening and hearing, watching and viewing, tasting and eating, feeling and being in contact, etc. All these pairs show that our sensory organs behave differently with and without our paying attention to their respective functions. They perceive an input fully only when our attention accompanies the sensory organ.

      With respect to the objects to be sensed, our sensory organs are of two types – voluntary, that remain open only when we consciously keep them open; and non-voluntary, that remain open all the time. Eyes, tongue and skin fall in the first category while ears and nose fall in the second category.

      Every sensory organ has its own mind located in the system itself in the form of

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