How powerful is the mind?

Question

any examples?

Answer 1

More than you can imagine. There really are not any limits, the catch is you have to really, really know that.

Answer 2

All powerfull, we just dont know how to fully use it.

1. many people when doing a drug study are taking a placebo.. a fake pill... yet they have the same results as they are told they will have. Their mind believes it and makes it happen.

2. A man was having breakfast with friends and reminded them that he could not eat chicken as it was against his tribal custom. He was assured that the meal contained no chicken. he ate a lot and was very pleased with his meal. He returned a few years later and told of meeting a woman and marrying her. He asked for the receipe of the breakfast he had had before as he wanted to make it for her. He was given the receip and everything was fine until he read the ingredients... chicken. He died 2 days later from unknown complications from... no one knows.

3. Bone pointing. When a crime is committed the villagers hold council. If someone is found guilty and the crime warrents it they will form a bone and charge it with psychic energy. They then point the bone (can be as far away as 20 feet) at the person and with in minutes he get sick and within days he is dead.

Answer 3

This is a common but erroneous way of viewing existence. The exercise of power is not the issue except in minds who accept materialism as a proper view of existence. It is not.

The function of one's mind is to be gratified. It is the same for every value ("thing" in the material vernacular). How gratification is accomplished is a function of perspective and perspectives can be false.

To focus upon power actually demonstrates that, as a matter of advancing the human condition, the mind is a useless entity, an evolutionary dead end.

I would assume you find my answer less than what you wanted. The mind in conjunction with control of our bodies has created nuclear fusion. This reaction powers sun and all stars. Our only limitation is our physical ability to collect enough fuel to make our "bomb" self-igniting and sustaining.

Not satisfied? One can kill his neighbor by numerous methods. Still not satisfied? There is no manner we are aware of where one mind can literally read another mind. Sure sometimes we can understand the what and why of another mind but the "reading" is circumstantial and without certainty.

One thinking value (thing) cannot know all the factors impinging upon another thinking value (thing). As a consequence mind reading and prophecy are fruitless in themselves. However, both have the potential of placing suggestions in a mind whose sense of value may resonate with the suggestion.

Answer 4

Mind is the most powerful part of the body-mind-ego complex called human beings. Most of the time, our consciousness is strong in mind. Through desires and other emotions, mind can make a person irrational in his actions. However, the same mind when properly trained and controlled can help the person rise above the demands of the emotions etc.

Most of the ailments are psycho-somatic indicating the mind-body connection and it is also known that happiness promotes good health.

Answer 5

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

It is as powerful to construct you or destruct you according to the pattern of your thoughts.

If you can learn to employ it only when needed and at othertimes remain in a thoughtless state, it is liberation, peace, happiness, bliss, self realization etc. At this juncture the mind is not scattered. It becomes one pointed and becomes a very powerful instrument.

Answer 7

very powerful. I firmly beleive in mind over matter - If you don't mind it doesn't matter. Seriously I have used my mind to control my body for 50 years. I last had any ailment in 1964 when I had he 'Flu,

Answer 8

There are hundreds of millions who believe every word in the Bible and almost as many who believe every word in the Quoran. There are billions who believe in God without ever having seen or felt His presence directly.

Answer 9

Powerful enough to create something out of nothing.

Good luck!

Answer 10

Powerful enough to contemplate the destruction of our own species and our only habitat.

Powerful enough to create the device to do it.

Stupid enough to probably use it one day.