Tapping the Power of Thoughts - A Reality?
The ability to heal, love and create is in our minds!
~ Harsh Kabra
If scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are to be referred to, the human race is going to have direct contact with aliens in the next 10-15 years, not through radio waves, but through the power of thoughts.
We all feel that thoughts are nothing, but just normal and regular creations of a functioning brain, like the water that flows from an open tap. Nevertheless, while going through a simplistic and abstract view of what philosophy professor W D Hart called "Ahe Artifacts of an Analysis of a Mind", we fail to appreciate the real energy that brainwaves personify.
Scientists at University of Zaragoza, Spain, have unveiled a wheelchair that can be steered by the power of thoughts, the user only has to concentrate on the part of the display corresponding to where he or she wants to go, and electrodes in a skullcap can detect the user’s brain activity to work out the destination.
As a matter of fact, the power of thoughts is no more limited to the realms of the philosophy. An Austrian health care company has actually invented a thought-powered prosthetic arm, which works based on the impulses from the wearer's brain.
One of the world’s biggest toy manufacturing companies, has already launched an inventive game where players wearing a brain-scanning headset can guide a ball through an obstacle course using the power of thoughts.
Researchers from the University of Southampton also have used brain-computer interfacing to capture brain signals and translate them into commands that enable the humans to control devices and virtual reality environments just by thinking about various actions.
These developments have added a strong scientific dimension to Bhagavad-Gita’s assertion:
"You are what you think; hence thought is action, being and becoming; what one thinks, one becomes."
It was the power of thought that Krishna invoked in Arjuna that helped the latter overcome his grief.
A study by researchers at University College, London, affirms that brainwaves have a direct influence on a person’s behaviour. They’ve found, for instance, that people can be made to move in slow motion by boosting a brainwave of a certain frequency and location. Be it our health, lifestyle, occupation or relationships, we are what we choose to become.
According to Swami Chinmayananda:
"Activities gain potency from the power of thought that feeds them."
As James Allen writes in As a Man Thinketh, human mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
If our thinking is negative, we can drown in a sea of negativity; if it’s positive, we can float on the ocean of life.
It is obviously not about living in an illusion that just by thinking positive, we can automatically take care of all obstacles in our way. On the contrary, it is more about approaching life with a positive mind-set so as to let the mind think better.
Positive thinking alone may not be a nostrum for all the problems and illnesses, as the bustling self-help industry would have us believe, but it surely can guide us in the way to positive beliefs and the emotions that come out of that belief, which can help us in thinking clearly and in getting closer to happiness. Thoughts help us to heal, harm, create, destroy, love and hate. It is up to us to unleash and exploit that power. If it can help us communicate with aliens, why can’t it be used to communicate with our own selves and guide to glory the actions that define us?
~ Harsh Kabra
If scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are to be referred to, the human race is going to have direct contact with aliens in the next 10-15 years, not through radio waves, but through the power of thoughts.
We all feel that thoughts are nothing, but just normal and regular creations of a functioning brain, like the water that flows from an open tap. Nevertheless, while going through a simplistic and abstract view of what philosophy professor W D Hart called "Ahe Artifacts of an Analysis of a Mind", we fail to appreciate the real energy that brainwaves personify.
Scientists at University of Zaragoza, Spain, have unveiled a wheelchair that can be steered by the power of thoughts, the user only has to concentrate on the part of the display corresponding to where he or she wants to go, and electrodes in a skullcap can detect the user’s brain activity to work out the destination.
As a matter of fact, the power of thoughts is no more limited to the realms of the philosophy. An Austrian health care company has actually invented a thought-powered prosthetic arm, which works based on the impulses from the wearer's brain.
One of the world’s biggest toy manufacturing companies, has already launched an inventive game where players wearing a brain-scanning headset can guide a ball through an obstacle course using the power of thoughts.
Researchers from the University of Southampton also have used brain-computer interfacing to capture brain signals and translate them into commands that enable the humans to control devices and virtual reality environments just by thinking about various actions.
These developments have added a strong scientific dimension to Bhagavad-Gita’s assertion:
"You are what you think; hence thought is action, being and becoming; what one thinks, one becomes."
It was the power of thought that Krishna invoked in Arjuna that helped the latter overcome his grief.
A study by researchers at University College, London, affirms that brainwaves have a direct influence on a person’s behaviour. They’ve found, for instance, that people can be made to move in slow motion by boosting a brainwave of a certain frequency and location. Be it our health, lifestyle, occupation or relationships, we are what we choose to become.
According to Swami Chinmayananda:
"Activities gain potency from the power of thought that feeds them."
As James Allen writes in As a Man Thinketh, human mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
If our thinking is negative, we can drown in a sea of negativity; if it’s positive, we can float on the ocean of life.
It is obviously not about living in an illusion that just by thinking positive, we can automatically take care of all obstacles in our way. On the contrary, it is more about approaching life with a positive mind-set so as to let the mind think better.
Positive thinking alone may not be a nostrum for all the problems and illnesses, as the bustling self-help industry would have us believe, but it surely can guide us in the way to positive beliefs and the emotions that come out of that belief, which can help us in thinking clearly and in getting closer to happiness. Thoughts help us to heal, harm, create, destroy, love and hate. It is up to us to unleash and exploit that power. If it can help us communicate with aliens, why can’t it be used to communicate with our own selves and guide to glory the actions that define us?
It’s been years since we have been told that we are just FEW years away from the development of a teleportation machine like the transporter room on Star Trek's Enterprise spaceship! I don’t think thoughts have the power to communicate with aliens living several thousand light years away from us! For instance; I have been reading this article for a month: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-the-Second-Hand-on-a-Clock-Appear-to-Stop without success! :) Just give a try and let me know if it worked. Yeah?
ReplyDeleteCheck this out as well http://www.meditationchristchurch.org/content/05-concentration-black-dot-3.
One thing I really admit; positive thinking is the source of positive energy that radiates around us. I remember last time I was smiling and a lady came and asked me “what are you laughing at” and I replied “I am sorry. I like to be pleasant always” and she swore at me and went! Jesus…radiating energy also demands payment of tax!!! Lol…