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How To Control Your Brain At Will
Your Brain controls all the aspects of your life. Dr. Vittoz found a new way to control it. These gentle exercises will help you to master your mind, your emotions, and get peace and serenity
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First published January 1, 2001
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August 1, 2013
I downloaded 36 ebooks, all related to brain and memory, as I wanted to embark on a powerful journey to level up to the next level of myself.
But it is hard, because even though I finished my third book, they kind of suck balls.
The latest one I tried is called “How to Control Your Brain at Will”, and while the title sounds like it would fit neatly in every other self-help (or should I use the term, Personal Development?) book, I was surprised to find out that the book was written from a doctor to psychiatrists about patients with mental problems. But then was the title tacked on to make the book more appealing to the self-help audience or was the book written like to seem more scientific?
I was hoping for the latter, but more and more it felt like the letter. Mainly, because the theories seem a bit stupid. One of the initial things we learn is that we have a conscious mind and an unconscious mind, and between these two is something called the cerebral control. This allows both minds to have a smooth flow and if it is damaged, then we get certain mental problems. I’m not brain doctor, and I can’t know if something like this is true or not, but I have read enough to be able to find clues if I can trust the source.
Here is why you can’t. The doctor says that we can find out how a brain is working by…touching the forehead. The brain apparently vibrates. If the person is panicked, then you will feel more intense vibrations. He tells us there is no scientific proof of this, but he can confirm through experience, which is as trustworthy as telling me that people have auras. Plus, I figure if there is something movement, when a person is panicked, then that can just means the person’s heart is beating faster, blood flows more, and we feel the pump of the blood in the veins of our heads. But he doesn’t address this.
And here is his definition of someone with an abnormal cerebral control, “Patients ponder over everything they do, endlessly deliberating, without ever being able to reach any definite and practical solutions. They hardly exist in the present; their thoughts come and go, and their minds are their lost in reveries about the past, or are consumed with worry about the future.” And so on. Now, I don’t know every single person in the world, but going to make a wild guess, and say that most people who read vague descriptions like this, go, “Wait, I’M LIKE THAT!” For example, look at this description, “A psychasthenic wants to get something from his room, but by the time he gets to his room, he often forgets what it was he came for.” Does this not happen to EVERYONE?
Like a lot of self-help books, there are a lot of self-advertisings. One of his anecdotes was a patient who had mental and physical problems for years, and was on medication, and the author prescribed her a few exercises and in fifteen days she was fully cured. Woah, cool! Sign me up! What ARE these exercises?
In brief, just concentrate more. Pay attention to your senses more, think about the cause of your problems, imagine them being rubbed off, and so on. That’s it.
As useless as this book is, I still believe all useless books have occasionally something to get from it, no matter how minor. Here, I do think that concentrating on your internal thoughts and the external world might be ultimately useful for your mind. I’ll try that, and even thought it might seem common-sense, a reminder does no harm.
By the way, it is certainly a self-help book, because it has a final chapter written by someone else who writes about exercises we can use, “And you will take control of your life, instead of being controlled by it.” Fuck off.
But it is hard, because even though I finished my third book, they kind of suck balls.
The latest one I tried is called “How to Control Your Brain at Will”, and while the title sounds like it would fit neatly in every other self-help (or should I use the term, Personal Development?) book, I was surprised to find out that the book was written from a doctor to psychiatrists about patients with mental problems. But then was the title tacked on to make the book more appealing to the self-help audience or was the book written like to seem more scientific?
I was hoping for the latter, but more and more it felt like the letter. Mainly, because the theories seem a bit stupid. One of the initial things we learn is that we have a conscious mind and an unconscious mind, and between these two is something called the cerebral control. This allows both minds to have a smooth flow and if it is damaged, then we get certain mental problems. I’m not brain doctor, and I can’t know if something like this is true or not, but I have read enough to be able to find clues if I can trust the source.
Here is why you can’t. The doctor says that we can find out how a brain is working by…touching the forehead. The brain apparently vibrates. If the person is panicked, then you will feel more intense vibrations. He tells us there is no scientific proof of this, but he can confirm through experience, which is as trustworthy as telling me that people have auras. Plus, I figure if there is something movement, when a person is panicked, then that can just means the person’s heart is beating faster, blood flows more, and we feel the pump of the blood in the veins of our heads. But he doesn’t address this.
And here is his definition of someone with an abnormal cerebral control, “Patients ponder over everything they do, endlessly deliberating, without ever being able to reach any definite and practical solutions. They hardly exist in the present; their thoughts come and go, and their minds are their lost in reveries about the past, or are consumed with worry about the future.” And so on. Now, I don’t know every single person in the world, but going to make a wild guess, and say that most people who read vague descriptions like this, go, “Wait, I’M LIKE THAT!” For example, look at this description, “A psychasthenic wants to get something from his room, but by the time he gets to his room, he often forgets what it was he came for.” Does this not happen to EVERYONE?
Like a lot of self-help books, there are a lot of self-advertisings. One of his anecdotes was a patient who had mental and physical problems for years, and was on medication, and the author prescribed her a few exercises and in fifteen days she was fully cured. Woah, cool! Sign me up! What ARE these exercises?
In brief, just concentrate more. Pay attention to your senses more, think about the cause of your problems, imagine them being rubbed off, and so on. That’s it.
As useless as this book is, I still believe all useless books have occasionally something to get from it, no matter how minor. Here, I do think that concentrating on your internal thoughts and the external world might be ultimately useful for your mind. I’ll try that, and even thought it might seem common-sense, a reminder does no harm.
By the way, it is certainly a self-help book, because it has a final chapter written by someone else who writes about exercises we can use, “And you will take control of your life, instead of being controlled by it.” Fuck off.
May 20, 2019
Fascinating instructional booklet which proposes the radical notion that trait neuroticism can be treated through mindfulness directed to control, memory, attention on actions, and doing one thing at a time.
Does it work? It's hard to say.
Does it work? It's hard to say.
January 28, 2010
Some useful techniques. Good for rebooting the brain. 1....1...1....1....1....1....1....1....1....1...
March 27, 2017
A good read on the interesting organ called the brain.
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