The Scientific Power of Thought
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The power of the mind and it's ability to affect physical change may shock you! Find out how simply imagining can make it so.
Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).
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Further Reading --
1) The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge, M.D.
Music Experiment:
2) jn.physiology.o...
3) ti.me/WifVpK
Muscle Experiement:
4) jn.physiology.o...
Brain Plasticity:
5) bit.ly/S8CHlM - Наука та технологія
These videos are brilliant. They distill the information into very small segments, and use illustrations brilliantly to help us understand. And the budget seems to be pretty low as well. It's pretty amazing how even their early videos were of good quality.
Makes me want to try out something like this as well.
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I understood it but the some of the people commenting don’t seem like they have. They’re all like “so I can imagine working out and get ripped?” My dudes in the video it literally said that you’d have to put in physical effort.
So I can workout just by imagining
Nandhu GP yes u can 😭
@Adithyan S Raj The real definition of muscle memory
This is just superb, I been tryin to find out about "meditation techniques for positive thinking" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Piyameron Singular Preeminence - (do a google search ) ? It is a smashing one off guide for ending your limiting beliefs without the hard work. Ive heard some decent things about it and my co-worker got amazing results with it.
No
It’s funny because you actually can 🤣
So, when I think 'I'm going to the gym tonight' I am actually getting stronger already by just thinking it.
Well done brain!
Do you even lift? Through imagination.
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Yepp... There's a thing called telekinesis.
This was great, I've been looking for "how do i change my thoughts to positive?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Piyameron Singular Preeminence - (just google it ) ? It is a great one of a kind guide for ending your limiting beliefs without the normal expense. Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my co-worker got great results with it.
Many thanks, I've been looking for "how does positive thinking affect your health?" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Piyameron Singular Preeminence - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? It is a great one of a kind product for ending your limiting beliefs without the hard work. Ive heard some super things about it and my work buddy got great success with it.
We can't really jump to that conclusion. The emphasis is that mental practice is an effective way to prepare for learning physical skills, but certainly not sufficient by itself. It's more about strengthening the neuron connections/growth, as opposed to the muscle strength/growth. But neural-connections are really only part of the equation when it comes physical action. So by imagining, you are only engaging one aspect, which likely has it's limits.
My workout video will be called ... Imagination Workout. I'll make millions :)
hahahaha
LOL :D. Atleast it will be better than imaginations running haywire.
wrg
Are you a millionaire?
great, ill just imagine im studying and see how it works...
You first have to know what you were studying though and its contents.
How do you imagine it if you don't know the content?
So you're saying if I imagine going to the gym and working out, I will become stronger?!?!?!? OMG BRB
Phan Trash no no ur getting it wrong. U have to imagine using ur muscles more than imagining about the gym itself
Haram Khor yes i dont go for even a walk now for 2 years coz im a student now. my muscular strength didnt increase but it didnt decrease either . I still have the exact same muscular strength and capacity. And also due to my firm belief that i cant get ill , i havent caught any illness not even common cold since june 2016 and this may be due to the placebo effect that my thoughts keeps my immunity strong. So thoughts really are the most important key in the functionality of this human body.
Marilyn J. Bowne its just a video full of quotes from people. Its nothing new at all.
LOL! I think you can apply this to the actual exercise by visualizing like golfer do before swinging. I have found it very useful in the last 8 months of my life and the benefits are starting to reveal themselves. It is hard work to get better at something but I managed to do it by visualizing and reading a lot from people who have done this and succeeded. These books jump.blinkist.com/SHgn helped me a lot to progress. I found a lot of best-selling books here that are transformed into power packs you can read or listen to in 15 minutes. Good luck to all of you and have a happy journey in front of you!
And the best comment of the video awrd goes to..
"A little bit of imagination never hurts."
Ummm...
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explain
Lots o Sheeps aren't you a sheep? :V ;) xD xP
Huh
and this is where existential crisises come in
AWW YEAH TIME TO LEARN SO KUNG FU AND PARKOURS, MATRIX LAZY STYLE :D
yea just imagine practicing each night before bed and you'll be great in no time xD
Reminds me of a line from Mickey’s flashback in “Rocky 5”…
“…That’s it mentalize. See that bum in front of you. You see yourself doing right and you’ll do right…”
And what if I imagine eating instead of actually eating?
You will start drooling?
You will become more hungry actually, that just makes hunger worst
you may feel more hungry but when you start eating. .. u'll eat little and u'll feel ur belly is full...
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GoldenScout TUBE you're a virus. ppl known that it's a virus, so why do it? what's your pleasure from it??!
This is actually true! I have been drawing for quiet a long time, and I am always self teaching anything that can be learned, Through tutorials and through practice, and personally I think both make an exceptional improvement to my current skills and each time gets better! I completly recomend this to all artists!
So I can just imagine lifting heavy weights and get ripped?
+checkeraka47 yes. Then you can imagine yourselfe ripped, with gf, kids and then acual RIP.
ProjectTheEclipse Damn dude that's going from gym workouts, to like a more chi-like understanding. With chi being the energy of the mind.
If a vehicle able to carry 5 ton weight then it does not mean that it have to carry as much as weight you want to carry.. Or it may also possible an ordinary person simply not able to use his mind at that level.
not ripped just stronger
@@hvaranhvaran ha ha ha
I have especially felt the effect of this during intense physical exercise. I actually get significantly stronger by first imagining how I'm going to move. Then I imagine my muscles get overloaded with energy. While performing the exercise I imagine all the energy unleash explosively.
Am i the only one who knew thoughts could be so powerful? It's not just physical stuff that thoughts can affect. If i was really excited or nervous and couldn't stop thinking about the time i would wake up then i would wake up at that very time with a deviation of around 10 minutes. Anyone else had that experience?
Kinda. I remember being really excited to go on holiday the night before the morning I had to get up (at 4 in the mornign) to travel to the airport. I was then surprisingly really awake at 4:00 in the morning when we had to get up
True
They're called dammit dreams.
Can you guys please do a video on how to tell if someone is lying
Cool!
+Emma Burkhalter YES! i´m with you bro
Gregori Mirabal I swear i feel like they never read my comments LMAO
+Emma Burkhalter this came out 3 years ago so i dont think they would read ur comment
BBG haha I know but I commented on their recent videos too.
So I can imagine working my butt off all day, and I'll be stronger? Hey, new exercise.
drink mint tea..
lay down and listen to some intense music... but think about running like crazy or jumping, whatever.. and you will feel it...
this reminds of the story about the crippled marathon runner who practiced mentally while he was in his hospital bed recovering.
he got out two days before the competition, ran the race, and finished in the top 10 out of 100s.
great video guys. keep up the great work!
I HAVE A QUESTION:
What is consciousness? Sure, it may sound like quite the easy question, but why do we have actual emotions, why and how can we imagine an entire movie inside our thoughts and why aren't we all just emotionless robots with no thoughts?
God
The CoC Icon Exactly, thank you!
We are all cursed.. thats the thing we cant use our emotions and thoughts properly there fore we will never know what it truly feels to be a spiritual human being.. a human head is like a barbe Que pit with the lid closed the third eye the fire will allways be controlled from bursting into beautiful flames..if u really wanna say "god" I'd rather say the universe
Bedo Pear To understand consciousness, lets question what's not conscious, unconscious or sub-conscious. Sub-conscious 'awareness' is when the roughly inner parts of your brain, involved in quick decision-making are aware of an event. But, the outer parts, involved in complex decision making, are not yet aware of the event. The inner parts of the brains are the instincts. They don't really reason out things. The reactions from this part of the brain are also such - Predator - run, Sexual mate - Prepare for mating, Tasty food - start salivating and grab the food, etc. The outer parts of the brain can perform complex decision-making and strategic planning. It can hold memories, refer-back to the old memories. These parts of the brain are constantly analyzing what's going on around and making strategies to deal with them. It's the 'conscious' part of our brain and it's when this part of our brain knows about a event that we consciously become aware of it. If these part of your brain stop working, you will lose all consciousness.
There are parts of our brain, that can feed-back into the auditory and visual receptors, so the actual part of the brain dealing with auditory and visual signal actually sees what simulation is being played and makes sense out of it. It would help humans to 'think before they speak', in complex social setups. And simulate a strategy on how to hunt an animal or impress a mate.
Emotions are our brains way of telling the body and other parts of the brain, 'you did a terrible thing, never repeat it again' or 'you did a great thing, you must do this more often'. Emotions also help humans survive in a social setup and chemically signals the body to protect you off-springs, sexual mate and other people/things important for your genes to propagate and survive.
If we were though-less robots, it wouldn't have been possible for us to survive in this world. To protect ourselves from predators and find more food and propagate our genes, we needed to think and solve complex problems and take complex decisions.
The CoC Icon That's the most boring answer ever
I heard something cool regarding this about how the brain compartmentalizes thoughts and associates them with closed areas, like rooms. It's easier to remember something you were taught or thought while in the same room as it is if you're in another room/setting, which may also help explain why you may forget what you were doing until you go back to the room where that thought originated from.
This is all from memory, but I hope this helps. :)
That is absolutely amazing! So be careful what you imagine, because your brain is actually practicing how to do it.
Yes, this is real.. I once became injured so I can't practice martial arts.. Instead, I always imagine myself practicing the moves daily for many hours until I will dream of myself doing the moves. When I recovered and actually did the moves, it became very sharp and accurate as heck.
I can't think positive enough... "If the soul identifies itself with the material world it remains dark, for in the natural world there is corruption, aggression, struggles for existence, greed, darkness,..." "but if it becomes the recipient of the graces of the world of mind, its darkness will be transformed into light, its tyranny into justice, its ignorance into wisdom,.." - Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy
Well said
Thanks for the positive reply Saul.
You're on the right path, god bless take care.
Thanks Saul, the same to you.
Saul Cifuentes Jazz for a second I thought you said take cake 😂😂
That is actually really cool
Keep these coming! Your research and ability to deliver lots of info in a concise manner is truly amazing. Even our kids love them!
Mental practice is so important. A key thing is to practice, revise, or think about something that is important before sleep time, thus we advice students to study something so important before sleep. This makes our brain make the patterns (or connections) inside our it stronger! or maybe that is LTP?
So if you're thinking about non physical things, like abstract logic, what neurons and pathways do they trigger that are overlap with other behaviors or thoughts?
I actually used this to get faster at a rubik's cube.
I went over 2 weeks without touching it and my times actually improved by about 10%, from about 50secs to about 44secs.... was rather weird, like i would pretend i had certain PLLs and would view the turns in my head. And doing F2L i would put random cases and crosses in front of me...
Sounds cool. I haven't cubed in a while, but when I do imma try this.
***** Cool! I'll try this too.....if I get time
I think that the main reason why I watch so many of ASAPSCIENCE videos is because I love the sound of his voice. and I don't know why
this has gotta be one of my favorite episodes of y’all’s that i’ve ever seen, thank y’all for sharing
If they're imagining practicing the piano, what specifically are they imagining? Are they imagining themselves pressing each key with the appropriate loud or softness and fingering and all the right notes for a particular piece, or are they just picturing themselves in the third person on the piano, or is it neither of those?
I'm guessing you imagine doing it in first person with intense focus, basically the first thing you described, so that when the time comes to actually play, it's easier to play because your perceived reality is already in first person. In order to do this, you have to know at least the basic knowledge of how to play the piano, which is I'm sure they did before they conducted the experiment. If you imagine yourself playing in third person, it makes you better at playing in third person, which makes no sense in your perceived reality.
now im imagining working out when im really just watching porn
This means that when you watch porn you are actually getting laid!
This isn’t something you should be proud of.
This really helps understand the power we have over our minds and bodies
That's exactly what happened when I learnt how to ride a bike! I learnt quickly, as I had thought of doing it and knew the theory.
but the problem with imagination is I can make myself the King of the World but outside I am a Mr. Nobody. The Action still is the king because society only recognizes that, however you can still push your brain into awesomeness by imagination that can be considered a comfort.
Your thought pattern is an illustration of a already auto-set victim mentality. You have to effectively take action in the physical reality and do some “awesomeness” little by little to actually implement the mental practice you’ve already done. Just as you can imagine yourself with an amazing body you must now break it down into segments that can be practiced in the meant so state of imagination and in reality in order to get to the bigger goal of having a better body. From the top replace the negative thought process middle replace them with good ones motivational ones then take action through the imagination of small steps needed to achieve the higher goal
I mean how tf could you “wish” to be somebody when you belittle yourself. As if in your subjective lucid imaginative mind your thought patterns show this “king of the world” thinking of himself as a nobody? So why would you implement them into this physical reality? If I’m your imaginative mind you’re imagining a charming confident outgoing person with no thoughts or feelings towards themselves that are negative how I’m the world could they exist as the “king of the world” in your imaginary world? What a depressed “king of the world” how does that work? When we think of what reality is and what a depressed “king of the world” would be, we see a sad lonely below Average (to society’s standards of course) Vessel of a being
Can I use this method to lose some weight??!!!
yes you can
***** LoL yes I already did xD
It takes tremendous focus to make your body(unconscious mind) to believe it's losing weight. This is an example of using your own thoughts to create a placebo.
lilserbogirl4eva Or maybe you just THINK you did ;D
If you want to loose weight make sure you sleep more than 3 hours then you burn 200 fat but sleep fir 2 weeks straight your burn 2800 fat
the mind is so powerful, we can heal ourselves or destroy ourselves if we put energy on it hard enough
I have this feeling that I learn more on this Channel than at school
0:56 Imaginaction
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so.. what if I imagined it and did it at the same time?
When you do something, you are implicitly imagining doing it as well. It's impossible *not* to imagine doing something while doing it.
*****
Umm... walking? We can do things implicit.
You would be normal. Its nearly impossible to do something without "thinking" it.
Now I know how I'm better at drawing without much practice as most people I know do....I just thinking of the way to improve and bang! I can do it better than last time...still this is one of the life trap, so called double edge.
I was injured 1 week before my gymnastics competition so I only practiced one routine a day and then mentally practice the rest of the time. On the competition day, I hit every routine! The power of the mind :D
This is sort of an explanation for the placebo effect
hence why 1/3rd of patience heal "Miraculously from thought"
I don't agree with the evolution theory, but this guy is crazy smart. Like holy crap
yeah me too
you dont agree with evolution theory. Laawwlllzzz
PandaThe2nd no i don't
you dont agree.... asif it's a subjective thing you can just agree or disagree with... I don't believe in the gravity theory, am i going to float away?
PandaThe2nd alright let me put it in this way: I don't BELIEVE in the evolution theory
i'm left handed and i learned to write with my right hand. when i imagine writing my signature with my right hand i find it hard to imagine... but when i imagine writing it with my left hand, even though I imagine it coming out shaky, as i don't know to write with my left hand, i do it much more quickly
Finally a channel on UA-cam worth watching videos...
I'm immaginating to loose weight
Maybe I can mentally workout so that I never have to go to the gym again.
..Hence the concept of muscle memory for performing skills. However the muscles can't be strengthened by just thinking. There has to be adaption in muscles. The strength seen by the study is a perception/motor control issue and not strength increase. This is because muscles actually have a redundancy which you can tap into.
This is why ppl visualize doing a task before doing it. Basically you're remembering doing something before doing it.
finally an exercise that even the laziest american has no excuse not to do
This is honestly how I was self teaching art and such. Thought experiments, then triel and error.
now i do 20 thinking and real push ups each day and other exercises to. this actually really helped because now i can achieve more than i used to
Video game player for most of my life. For one family gathering, they were shooting those discs you toss in the air and I was going to shoot a gun for the first time. It was a shotgun and when they tossed the disc in the air across a lake I hit it first shot. Then I hit my second shot. I was a natural. But then I tripped myself up and started missing because I was trying too much instead of going by instinct. I'd say I learned from FPS.
Walking through doors triggers a reaction in the brain that often deletes the primary task, since upon entering another room, the previously assigned task isn't associated with the room where it was created in anymore.
Several years ago, I printed guitar tabs for a solo that I really liked and wanted to learn but it was late at night, so I laid in bed and went over the tabs, picturing myself playing the solo by reading the tabs, then the next day I was able to play it almost as if I had learned it with the guitar. I still needed a bit of practice but I had it down almost completely. Pretty cool.
your left handing writing is better than my dominant hand writing
This is all so true... The brain does not know the difference between imagination and reality, but our consciousness does. Our consciousness is always on the way...
Sometimes I am really sleepy and trying to wake up to do my homework. As a result of being sleepy, I actually think I am working on my homework until my mom tells me to wake up again.
So that's why I sometimes get better at things I've never done for a long time!
imagine paying for piano lessons and all the teacher does is tell you "just look at it and imagine that youre playing"
when you become so damn good at playing piano just by imagining you no longer need a piano to play
This WAS mind blowing. When a dog is to run and bite me, I can actually run faster then I can.. Brain really is AWESOME :D
I wonder if this is why you can feel exhausted after an intense running dream. You never did any real running, but you still feel sore and tired as if you did.
getting stronger by imagination is obviously nonsense because strength is related to muscles but you can practice a NEW HABIT by imagination first e.g. behaving different in anxiety provoking situations and it works pretty well.
I like painting in my mind. I often sit and go thru the whole process of a new piece, or the process of other peoples work, or how i would tackle something new, or hell, minecraft creations. The mind is a great dahm tool
So is this like training your brain for the upcoming? That's awesome
So your telling me, that if I Imagine it enough (and of course help it out with physical)
I can become a Krav Maga expert, learn to play instruments, lose my fat, have better reflexes, become more muscular, become more propense to capture info. that I am learning, and overall make me more curios and creative? That is freaking awesoeme.
Think and Grow Rich, this book was way ahead of the time.
ill give you an example. a little girl had a skin condition called psoriasis and rhemotoid arthritus.. her father repeated to his friends and family " i would give my right arm to see my daughter cured " a few days later he had been in a head on collision with another car and was rushed to surgury. his right arm was torn off from the limb. the next day his little girl was healed. spooky yeh? whatever you impress in your subconcious gets expressed in the screen of space..
Holy crap!My friend watched Mitchell watched this...And you signed "Mitchell"!!!!
You imagine your self doing it but you are actually just recreating a past event of you writing it . Its up to you of how the surroundings are but trust me your just recreating a past event . Which is why it takes the same amount of time .
i always had a feeling about this i just didnt know how to explain. When i was a kid walking to class id concentrate real hard and imagined myself running and before i knew it one of my picked up pace suddenly.
0:13 "What if I told you that simply thinking could affect not only the way your brain works, but its physical shape and structure as well?"
Without watching the rest of the video, I'd agree. Using ANYTHING changes its structure, even if only slightly. Things deteriorate with use, and there's no reason for the brain to be any different.
Manabender Even if you dont use it then it will deteriorate and i would say that you would be much better off useing it then not.
I actually do that a lot and it really does help-just think about your studying while going to bed or something.
I am a musician and I get VERY anxious when I have to perform on stage. Maybe mental preparation and simulating the performance in my brain would help a little bit
What are the chances of me thinking about writing my name and then opening my eyes and seeing my name spelled the same way on the screen?? lol that was a real trip...
Actually, I read somewhere that a study showed that the brain, in order to lighten it's constant feed of information, has evolved to forget information upon the entrance/exit of a room.
I really wish I could remember the name of the article...
How do we develop and sustain muscle memory? For example: remembering how to play a guitar... or retain skills in sports, athletics, balance, etc.
There is something called the law of attraction. For some strange reason thinking about an event will make it more likely to happen, there are variables that you can't control and other outward things, but the more you think about something the more it becomes real. Like someone who is worried that their house will get broken in to, it happens more often to them than not. So you better not worry about you girl friend breaking up with you.
Its called the freeze response. Freeze, Flight and Fight is the correct order. Freezing avoids predators from chasing you because they are attracted to movement. Rabbits have this survival response.
You seriously need your own show!
I will spend time "working out" in my thoughts. I will become supah strong.
So thats why when I imagine moving something it feels like its moving
When he said imagine the letter B I tried to imagined it but got overwhelmed by the color of the background that I assigned to the letter B which was blue so I kinda got blinded by the color blue and could barely see B.
I wonder what this means
Fascinating! I've often wondered why I felt better at something even if I didn't take the time to physically practice it.
I think I'm getting a hummer right now. I think I can, I think I can
Admit it guys almost all of us,including me, started wiggling our fingers at 1:42
i am actually downloading an ebook from audible! hooray for supporting asap! :D
"Imagining an action and doing it require the same motor and sensory programs in the brain" is a half-truth at best. fMRI studies may show that the same general areas "light up" with regard to imagined and real actions, but this does NOT mean that the same neural processes are engaged; it only means that the computations occur in the same regions. The pathways themselves could actually be quite different; this is still a very open neuroscience question.
Could you please next do " Why do we have a dominate hand? "
Mental process after watching this video:
* I am a GOD, I am a GOD *
Excessively repeated gives you the power to bend spoons with your mind...
and then you wake up!
If you bought glue or went to Wal-Mart/Any store who sells it, you can look at the ingredients on the back. (Or side, depending on what glue bottle it is).
so what you're saying is I could work out mentally with some return. Laziness level upgraded.
Now I know how I write on my exam script by seeing at others.
I've officially learned more in the last half hour than I have the entire two years I was in highschool. =/
ASAP science is amazing in every way shape and form
Since you said that your thoughts actually affect the structure of the brain and in your depression video, you said that depressed people have smaller Hippocampus', does this mean that negative and depressive thoughts can also cause depression by actually changing your brain? Therefore, shouldn't positive thoughts have the reverse effect and increase the size of the Hippocampus so you would be happier?
why are we zoo excited for christmas? and why do we wake up early rather than sleeping through our regular sleeping time?