Behind where I am sitting now is a framed poster showing a photo of Albert Einstein. Underneath his photo is one of my favorite quotes, which says that "Imagination is more leading than knowledge." When it comes to human transformation, too much press is given to the power of the subconscious mind and totally ignores the requisite role of the conscious mind, which serves as the true captain of neurophysiology. As such, the most capable tool available for guiding us in the direction of our selecting is our ability to use our imagination. Yet, as a reserved supply it is too often subordinated and not given the prestige it is due. As a requisite asset our ability to dream is not just a baseless cliché bantered nearby by idealistic self-help gurus and inadequately trained practitioners. Rather it is something that has a clear scientific and physiological basis. By insight that, we can better form processes and procedures designed to enhance our potential to shape our future.
The existence of imagination as a thinking process is a characteristic of the evolution of industrialized human frontal lobes, which makes potential our highly industrialized conscious mind. Therefore, humans have both a ability to be self-aware and can alter at will how they construe their perception of past, present, and future reality. Nevertheless, despite our superiority the vast majority of our consciousness remains reactive no different than that of the lower life forms and matter. When we sense cold, we shiver. When we comprehend protection or danger, we react accordingly down to the sub-cellular level. On the other hand, there is a extra human ability that provides us with the remarkable ability to anticipate. It is that factor that is the key to our ability to understand the remarkable value of imagination.
One of the exercises that I use with my students is a simple one that involves them retention a heavy object in their upturned palm. This is commonly a sizeable book. They are instructed to keep their hand from rising when other man removes the object. This is highly difficult if not impossible. However, when the subject is asked to take off the book themselves and again attempts to prevent their hand from rising, they find it quite simple. This is because the human brain has the tendency to anticipate and simulate. When the other man removed the book, this was difficult. But when the subject was in operate of the situation, their ability to direct their imagination led to their success.
Although conscious awareness is a integral highlight for all matter, to include living organisms, it seem that the ability to anticipate and simulate, which means imagine, is more industrialized in creatures with the most industrialized frontal lobes. In humans these structures narrate about 40% of our total brain weight as opposed to 12% in our house dog's brain, 7% in our cat, and approximately 0% in a lizard. Going a dinky further, based upon neurological reports connected to industrialized brain scanning techniques, it appears that the relative number of energy that is provided to the right orbitofrontal cortex, which resides just above our right eye, correlates with a our ability to vividly imagine. Indeed, when this cortex is activated a person's ability of using suggestion, imagination, and inhibition seems to be much more powerful. Conversely, should that substrate become not fully functional due to genetics, trauma, or faulty thinking processes - such as obsessive thoughts, inordinate multi-tasking, and addictions - the features typically connected with that substrate will not be as available. Luckily, for most of us an inadequate imaginative ability can be strengthened through proper exercises such as may be employed by a competent hypnotherapist.
Why is this important? Granted just about everyone would facilely concede that humans have stronger imaginative capabilities than the orchid in our garden. So what? The answer here lies in the realization that the rest of our neurophysiology is reactive. It reacts to our environment. As such, it adapts or entrains as it, hopefully, adequately harmonizes. The beauty of our imagination is that it allows us to artificially create an environment to which we react - and transform. For instance, if your imagination interprets a shadow as a snake, spider, or whatever else we have been programmed to often fear, our neurophysiology will cause a sympathetic, fight/flight response to be kicked in. Conversely, should we anticipate and simulate an erotic, loving, or otherwise stimulating event, we will get a substantially different reaction. This is much different than a typical stimulus-response reaction. My dog may physiologically react when she sees me repeat a behavior that commonly leads to her receiving a treat. However, I rather doubt that when I fail to open such symbolic behavior that she is presently sitting at my feet imagining what her next treat will taste like. This is something in which we humans specialize.
Again, the value of our considerable imagination lies approximately entirely in its tendency to sway the reactive nature of our neurophysiology. A strong imagined reality, which I commonly would characterize as being antithetical, creates cascading changes within our brain and body. Just like the adverse ensue caused by an imagined fearful phenomena, should we become more appropriately selective as to the content of our thoughts, then we are unleashing the virtually unlimited potential ability to sway our neurophysiology. Previously I have documented numerous cases and investigate studies in which a man has been able to positively enhance their immune ideas and even growth somatic medical rates by merely imagining. These studies included expanding white blood cell counts in a person's intestines and a 70% growth in wound medical rates. Likewise, the benefit of thinking rehearsal of a corporal skill, such as playing a violin or development a golf putt, is a clear example regarding the power of prospect and simulation to create and reinforce new networks of neurons in the brain.
The remarkable power of a human's ability to dream is due to the fact that we can use it to consciously shape our neurophysiology. When we dream a wound medical faster and even visualize the desired end state, the correlated neurophysiological structures will tend to entrain and adapt as they harmonize with the imagined reality. In layman's terms this could be rephrased as the territory changing to reflect the map - rather than the other way around. This is like saying take out a map and pencil in a new road. Soon the new topographical highlight miraculously appears on the ground. I am not claiming that this "magic" works as dramatically when we talk about our body. Nevertheless, every cell and organ of our body is somehow connected with networks of neurons in our brain. Once we change our notion structure and hence our neurological organization, the body is apparently influenced.
Imagination may positively be more leading than knowledge. Our knowledge reflects the storage of former events, memories, and thoughts within our mind and body. It is historical and can at best narrate our reactive nature. However, imagination represents something much, much more significant. Unlike knowledge, our ability to dream gives us the ability to shape our future. Yes, pills and surgery are also considerable tools in the hands of the right clinician. But it is the power of imagination that resides within each and every one of us - and that can be guided by a competent hypnotherapist - that probably has the most potential. (But maybe that is what my imagination is telling me.)
Surgery Residency:The Unlimited Power of Imagination
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