act of remembering. You do not get any new knowledge through memory. It is only a reproduction.
When you desire to remember a thing, you will have to make a psychic exertion. You will have to go up and down into the depths of the different
levels of sub consciousness and then pick up the right thing from a curious mixture of multifarious irrelevant matter. Just as the railway sorter in the
Railway Mail Service takes up the right letter by moving the hand up and down along the different pigeon-holes, so also the sorter subconscious
mind goes up and down along the pigeon-holes in the subconscious mind and brings the right thing to the level of normal consciousness. The
subconscious mind can pick up the right thing from a heap of various matters.
Our mental processes play a complex and dramatic role in our lives. The brain weighs less than 3% of our total weight but burns 25% of our total
oxygen intake. It is a busy, powerful, phenomenal, mysterious place. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our
thoughts, we make the world. said -The Buddha
Humans have always, I suppose, been fascinated by the mind. Yet, the disciplines of psychology and psychiatry only started studying the mind or
cognition about 100 years ago. The universe of the mind is still a dark, vast, unexplored place.
It mystifies us.
Yet, it is a region of great promise.
If we could learn to develop our values, master basic psychological principles, and increase our self-awareness and motivation, great strides might be
made in self-control or self-actualization.
Some theorists think the mental image of ourselves (or of our potential) must change first, then the behavior will change; others think it works in
the opposite direction, i.e. behavior changes first, then the self-concept (I think both ways may work).
When minds study themselves or each other, a number of paradoxes appear: While we know much about our mental processes, there is far more
we don't know, and, as individuals, there are some things about our minds we don't seem to want to know. Likewise, while the brain is a fantastic
sensing, remembering, thinking, problem-solving machine, it still, without our awareness, makes many foolish mistakes.
Clearly, the brain and "mental processes" are involved in everything we humans do.
Only we know who we are--what we have intended to do and actually done, what we have thought and felt, and what we have hoped for. Our
"self " is a life-long accumulation of impressions. How we see and evaluate our "selves" and others' selves has a tremendous impact on
self-acceptance, self-control, and acceptance of others.
