Mind Exercises!

Your brain is a part of your body that grows and develops just like anything else. The more you utilize it and expand neural connections, the greater its capacity for knowledge will become. Just like you lift weights or run laps to increase muscle strength and endurance, your brain too can be exercised. Here are a few examples:

To start off, a meditative state is necessary. There's meditation tips all over the internet, but the general basis is a quiet atmosphere, with little light, and no distractions. You can listen to soothing music if you want to. Close your eyes, and clear your mind. Picture a blank space of nothing but white. You probably won't be able to hold it for very long without thinking of something else, but that's OK.

The Blank Face
Close your eyes and picture a blank human face. Either white, black, or whatever color you want it to be. Now give it eyes, a nose, a mouth, ears, and hair. Try to hold all of the aspects of the face in place while you piece them all together. It is much harder than it sounds. An interesting notion is that one cannot create an original face from their imagination. You subconsciously draw characteristics from people you may have only seen once in your life.

That's because your brain must use past information to make present conclusions. If you've never been taught how to ride a bike, then you won't know how. If you were taught twenty years ago, your brain will have remembered that stored information and you should be able to pick it up quite easily.

The Fourth Dimension
The human brain can also not fully comprehend the idea of a fourth dimension since we live in a three dimensional world. I'm sure you've heard theories of the fourth dimension as time, and there are a bunch of others as well. When we try to mentally picture the fourth dimension though, or brain comes tantalizingly close, but without ever fully grasping the notion.

You can visualize the 0th dimension as a single point on a 3-dimensional plane. The 1st dimension can be seen as that point stacked infinitely upon itself to form a line of points. The second dimension are those lines of points infinitely stacked upon each other to form a plane. These planes are then infinitely stacked upon one another to form a three-dimensional object. So if we continue this pattern, what would a plane of points stacked upon one another form? This is what our mind cannot comprehend. It's fun to think about, though. Imagine a three-dimensional object infinitely stacked upon itself. Theoretically one might imagine it was growing stack of an object, growing infinitesimally in size. It barely becomes bigger at each stage, but nonetheless the object eventually reaches a point where it can no longer become any larger than it already is, and thus the outer plane which contains within it each of the inner planes can be seen as a fourth-dimensional object. The snag here, of course, is that humans don't know the rules that apply to a fourth-dimensional object. We don't know how big they grow, or if they ever stop growing.

Infinity
Try to comprehend the concept of infinity. I have done this in a way I now consider distinctive infinity. Normally, though, people just imagine something material, like apples that cover every air space of the world. Eventually, though, the space will run out. So I choose to interpret it in this way:

Imagine this exercise. Place your left hand on your head. Take it off. Now do it while playing music. Now touch your head in a different place. Now do it at a different point in the song. Now do it with the volume different, but for every volume you have to touch a different point on your head. There are millions of ways to touch different places on your head with both your left and right hands. Combine that with the other actions that take place around you. Maybe the music is louder, softer, at a different point. And that is just for one song, and the one action of touching your head. Now factor in the possibilities of the trillions of actions and objects that have the potential of interactivity. We live and do things only one way. Once we do them, they are gone. But imagine that for every action we take there is an action we do not take. These natural actions that are not taken can be accumulated in to a number that reaches close to infinity. Everything that doesn't exist can be seen as an accumulation of that which is infinite.

Actions that we do not take in life will always exist so long as the human notion of passage of time exists. Thus the events that take place due to the ongoing process of life and passage of time in general will never cease. This endless accumulation of data can be seen as infinity. Mathematically infinity is when a line goes on and on and never reaches a point. The flow of time and life can be seen as this line. The development of the various universes of the world continues to exist, so thus does the accumulation of the infinitely varied processes that are produced. Infinity will only cease to exist when life does not exist.

Hope you enjoy these. Don't fail to exercise your brain!