Just as life is a process of physical brain, so is "mind". We can touch, feel, or see a brain, but we can’t touch a mind because it is a sequence of operations that occur to accomplish one or more tasks. The mind is our dynamic structure that takes in information, pushes it through rules of our belief systems and stored knowledge, and devises a solution. The brain has many processes that interact with each other. The brain’s mind process has two lesser processes of interest: an ability to analyze and another to react.

Where do we develop dynamic solutions if our brains are so rigid? First of all, when brain encounters a sequence of events many times, it stores that information so that it knows how to automatically react and what to expect---a new process. It is a way that we handle those daily tasks that we know must be done and don't have to think about it. Taking out garbage, saying "hi" to our mates, and some tasks at work become so ingrained that they are processed quickly and easily without thought or emotion. Call it physical body's way of "making our lives more efficient".

Is it really an efficient method? In some ways, yes. We can simply go through life "without thinking" and allow our physical brains to issue commands to ensure that tasks are completed. "Going through life without thinking" is key point here! We "can" set our physical brain's mechanisms in motion to process life and then phase-out to let it run its path. In general, a consistent and repetitive motion in life, without thought, is called a "rut". This is where we run into trouble.

Is going through life without thought a positive move? It all depends on what you want out of life. We can "let it ride" or "actively participate". It is in active participation that we begin to acquire dynamic solutions and processes in our physical brains. But, all dynamic processing and information occurs within an area known as "virtual mind". The thoughts and dynamic ideas in this mind are intercepted and processed by physical mind and turned into new or altered mechanistic enhancements---call it "retooling".

However, we have to be open to new information and understand what it is before we can truly make beneficial use of it. Some of unique ideas that are intercepted become colored by our own mind to fit within our experiences and belief systems through "analytic overlay". Analytic overlay, taken from remote viewing, is mixing of signals. It is our need to take incoming information and apply our own assumptions, views, and beliefs to make it fit within our realm. With this regard, it is our taking of information arriving externally, and modifying it to fit our understanding and systems. In this way we become more comfortable with new information; however, we tend to obscure information that could provide us with new and intriguing insight.

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