The Natural State of Man

Our Natural State

In our natural state we have a perfect memory.

By inference I will define natural state and for now define a perfect memory as one that can recall any and every detail of an event in a situation when asked to do so. The natural state refers to the mind; the culmination of the brain (the grey matter) and the power of reasoned thought. In this state we have an optimal set of conditions. These conditions may be lowered by the effects of our environment, leading to less than optimal performance.

So the game we are about in dealing with our memory is to overcome the effects of our environment. This state may also be said to be the state of no-pain.

Pain lies on a gradient scale from maximum pain to no-pain. We can imagine maximum-pain to be the firing of every single nerve cell in the body with the signal, "pain", in a moment, with a clear expectation the physical pain will have no end. This situation may occur, for example, if one was to be thrown into a pit of burning sulfur!

The pleasure state, or optimal state, is where every nerve cell reports feelings of pleasure, with a clear mental picture the enjoyable nature of the state will continue. This may be where the environment provides pleasant stimulus through to a pinnacle or peak experience of euphoria, ecstacy, awe and wonder or simply, pure pleasure.

Free from physical pain, which requires an awareness of self, the physical being we possess, our mind is not distracted by the real world. This is the best state to start from.

Next we embark on a process to deliberately call to mind the painful experiences from the past.

On closer inspection of these memories, which may be recalled several times in succession, more detail than had previously been available becomes available. We get in contact with more detail in the pictures from the memory.

Doing so is akin to unlocking the effects of old environments. One model of these memories has it that past painful memories have an associated charge. This charge is like applying heat to the skin: too much heat causes pain and prevents us operating from an optimal state.

Clearing old painful memories is as important for cleaning up our childhood memories as it is after being fired from a place of work. It is as important for the genetic history of the perennial body you have as it is for the eternal spirit we are.

For various reasons we encounter trouble, in this life and presumably at some previous time in the existence of our eternal spirit (well 76 million years in the making is a fairly huge amount of time that by any standard of reference that fits in the human mind simply does-not-compute). Those times of trouble, physical and emotional pain, are stored in our memory.

So this process of clearing the past has the tremendous benefit of bringing about our natural state by removing the effects of the environment, both past and present, from our memory banks. These data storage units, when not being cooked - or overheated - by the energy of past painful memories, perform perfectly well.

By way of simple example, if you drank too much beer last night and have a headache this morning then you understand perfectly well that things that happen in the past can impact the way we feel today.

If you 'forget' how many drinks you drank you may recognise that as you think about the questions, "What did you drink?" and "How much did you drink?" you will recall more detail.

Your first reaction may have been to protest, "My head hurts and I didn't drink that much..." however on reviewing your memory of the previous night you may recall the five rounds of shots that 'a friend' insisted you imbibe! Around this time you experience an "Aahhh" moment. "Ah-ha!" you exclaim, shortly before collapsing back on the couch with your sore head!

Weight Loss Example

Recall the prevalance of television weight loss programs. On a daily basis participants are required to exercise and work to consistenty higher physical performance levels than they have clearly undertaken in a number of years.

This reigeme is continued for several months. In six months time the candidates are presented to the watching audience and the results are often dramatic. Massive weight loss is the external metric.

The process of using one's body on a daily, consistent basis towards the goal of weight loss produces many changes: lower resting heart rate, clearing thinking, faster metabolism, energetic feelings, can-do feelings, etc.

The change in physical condition produces a massive shift in mental ability. New possibilities open up. The evidence is clear and you, my dear reader, can see this for yourself!

Changing Minds

Get someone to move differently and you get that person to think differently. From that point out you have someone you can work with. That's power! You just "saved" a man.

Freed from the pain of the past, we live in the moment in our Natural State; our memories work better and as a funny little aside that means our intelligence goes up!

Why?

Great question.

The answer may be found by searching out the factors that increase "gF" a measure of Fluid Intelligence.

To simplify the process you can get the data here:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.abstract

The full article is freely available. And I highly recommend searching for online games that apply this concept: search for "Dual n-Back Training". There are many games, mostly free and the results become apparent after only three or four days training about twenty minutes per day, playing this game! Enjoy.

Human potential is awesome. Explore more of yours today!

(c) Paul Heffer 7 July 2010