Our skillful skulls

It’s rather hard to imagine our lives without our minds, for I seriously doubt we could imagine anything. We would probably resemble all those mindless creepy creatures in us we need to nourish everyday; but since we realize we need them to exist, we shouldn’t mind.

However, I still don’t mind saying that a mind without an imagination will always remain a creepy thing...for without our imagination, we wouldn’t know what to do with the knowledge in our minds. Our minds and imaginations, when co-operating, make a very highly efficient and exceptional team – we blazon forth with an assortment of splendid, flashy, and magnificent speculative notions. Without them, we would never be capable of relishing the delight of a stroll in a warm summer rain, relaxing on a mesa or the desert contemplating a beautiful sunset, snoring in a forest under the stars, watching the clouds roll by, noticing your tire is flat, nor any of the other wonders of life – and we surely couldn’t imagine what the hell this is all about.

If we consumed more of our time exercising our minds and imaginations, there’s no imagining what we could imagine to accomplish with them. We could practice by imagining that politicians were honest, we won the lottery, the IRS sends us a refund instead of an audit notice, or that our blind date is perfect. But just imagine if we had the imagination of a child. When a child is playing with an imaginary friend, we imagine the child’s friend is imaginary – but in the child’s mind, his imaginary friend is not imaginary, it’s real! It’s real because we live our lives in our minds.

Our biological mind is an ultra-elaborate,  and magnificent conglomeration of genetic engineering. It embodies all types of neat stuff – nerve cells, synapses, glia, neurotransmitters, cortex, occipital lobe, thalamus, hippo campus, amygdala, and all enclosed by the cerebral cortex – of course; it has an abundance of other compact and tidy systems. It goes about its duty 24 hours a day, everyday, for every second of our lives. As with our other parts, it needs to be exercised. And how do we do that? This is the really great part – it’s easy!

We learn! It’s like a sponge; it has all this tremendous capacity and monstrous capabilities. It wants to soak up knowledge constantly, and show off what it can do. We need to read, play, write, word puzzles, figures, walk, run, think, tell good jokes, see, hear, taste, smell touch, be aware, eat healthy food, increase our morals, observe, learn new skills, talk, sing, orate, instruct, make decisions, and as you know, we could go on for months.

Another amazing aspect of our mind is when we relax and read, write (or whatever), and concentrate on what we are doing. The mind engages our imagination automatically –and when they work in tandem, we not only absorb and retain more data, we become more creative...for the imagination and mind search all the information in our data banks, and play with it. So, as we can see, the more data in our storage vault, the more creative we can be. Using deductive logic; the more we learn, the more creative we are, the more opportunities we will have, the more money we could earn, the better our attitude, the more interesting we are to be with and converse with, the more capable we will be to help others – plus, it will be easier to relax due to less stress, all of which translates into more happiness...imagine that!

A magical mind (achieved through study), strengthened with an immense imagination (achieved through regular practice) plugged into a faultless faith (achieved through relaxing and doing what we should), and all operating in conjunction with a clean character (achieved by having morals and principles), and encased in a single anatomy (already achieved), is a combination that absolutely knows no boundaries. Percentage- wise, every one of us cannot, or ever will be, labeled as such a single living organism...yet; just imagine what wonderful deeds we could accomplish for ourselves and others, if we just tried to attain that worthy goal. All we have to do is establish a, well, goal – and go!