Brainframe

We are all either victims or champions of our own past. Constrained either way, we consider ourselves products of our experiences and our environments. But just as buddhism teaches that you are not your thoughts, and to be present in yourself, your body (which is implicitly included in the self, but often thought of as seperate to us westerners), the same is true of your experiences and your past.

In this i am a missionary, a zealot and a mendicant: the human brain, biologically speaking is the most amazing organ in all existence, precisely because of its ability to change and manipulate itself. How it does this is still a mystery to modern medicine. We claim to be able to control and manipulate it through things like surgery and medicine, the truth is that we have only begun to unlock its interlocking, interwoven secrets. We do know this, the human brain has an inherent ability to change, in biological terms, be "plastic," maleable (even according to the Dalai Lama). Neuroplasticity describes this growing field.

This video shows the physical effects of mind on the brain, literally mind over matter. Simply by exercising, by focusing energy and attention in the right places, the physical shape of the brain can be molded and expanded.

Hope, belief, faith, these things become much more than immaterial things created by religious institutions to keep the masses in order, but exist as energy and power that can be tuned to create, to produce, to manifest physical reality. The belief that you will be healed, produces its own healing effects.

Like anything else, it takes hard work and practice to get out of the well worn trenches of habit. In the end "It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation." Rudolf Virchow

Ultimately, it is up to us. The power to choose.