What is the mind in psychology?

Answer 1

In the materialistic world, Mind is the most neglected part of our body because it is invisible to others. Our knowledge of mind is totally distorted.

Mind is a buffer and filter interposed between our sensations and movements. Thus, mind minimizes our movements even when there are chaotic changes in the real world.

The abstract mind:

Religion, science and lay people believe that mind is abstract. The reason for this is that in both religion and science mind is bypassed. Science recognizes just Instinctive thinking, or thinking without thinking, and religion recognizes just virtual thinking or thinking using god. This makes mind look very mysterious to us.

The mind, structurally:

From the dawn of civilization mind is associated with every structure in our body like heart, liver, gut, etc.

Science associates it with the brain. However, there are basic differences between the two. we can feel and control our mind but we can't feel and control our brain. The brain is the most enigmatic structure in the entire universe but thinking is very simple.

The only structure that has properties exactly the same as that of the mind is the skeletal muscular system.

The Unified Skeletal Muscle:

All the skeletal muscles of our body can Isometrically contract and relax (Harden and soften) as a single unit called Unified Skeletal Muscle (USM), popularly known as mind.

The body is the Isotonic component of our Skeletal muscular system and thus, ulike the mind, it brings about movements. Thus, mind and body are intimately related.

The USM is basically a distinct entity and works independently. However, when it is bypassed the USM becomes a part of our body. Thus, USM is common to body and mind.

I, Self and Attitudes:

When the tone of the USM is 50% it is called as 'I' When it is 0% it is called positive attitude and when 100% as negative attitude. The tones closer to the attitudes constitute the Self. 'I' is voluntary and Self and Attitudes are involuntary.

However, in reality We don't allow our tone to vary from 0% to 100% and use a small spectrum portio around the 50% range.

Since 'I' lies in our USM, which is common to both our body and mind, we use it to refer to both our body and mind. Thus, we say 'I think' and 'I do'.

Isometric movements (movements that just give us a feeling of movement but never results in actual movements), emotions, feeling, consciousness, time sense, god, I, Self, thinking, etc are properties of the USM.

Therefore, we can feel all these entities and even control them. However, since, skeletal muscles can be involuntary all these can work on their own also.

Mind and thinking:

The most important function of the mind is thinking. In thiking we use memories of feelings and biological feelings as sensations. We use Isometric movements instead of isotonic or real world movements. Emotions act as our guide and enables us to know what emotions would be produced by interaction between changes in sensory feelings and isometric movements. It can also be used to know what changes in sensations and/ or movements would produce the desired emotion.

Parts of mind:

Mind is conventionally divided into conscious mind and subconscious mind.

However, in reality it is made of 7+ 1 minds.

The seven minds:

They are,

1. Dreaming mind

2. Illusory mind

3. Voluntary mind

4. Semi voluntary/ Natural/ Default mind

5. Involuntary mind

6. Status altering mind

7. Compulsive mind

Normally, the best mind for a purpose is automatically selected and therefore, we believe that there is just one mind.

The eighth mind is the Instinctive mind over which we don't have direct control.

The upper three and a half minds constitute the conscious mind and the lowe three and a half, subconscious mind. Thus, anatomically the conscious mind corresonds to the the below navel part of the USM and subconscious mind to above navel part.

Control of mind:

Mind can work on its own. If it is not working properly we can service the mind by separating and resetting the seven minds. Since mind is made of skeletal muscular system we can do this through isometric exercises.

Answer 2

The mind is the immaterial subjective dimension of humans and other conscious beings in interpreting the external objective world. The mind is widely believed to arise from activity in the brain and consists of faculties such as reason, intuition, imagination, emotion, volition, and communication, especially through the use of language.