Sharpen Your Mind: See the Future

Posted by Jerry Lopper Apr 19, 2007

The future you can imagine will depend upon your past experiences.

"Using brain imaging, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that the human mind taps into the same parts of the brain while imagining the future as it does when recollecting the past. This means that the brain apparently predicts the course of future events by imagining them taking place much like similar past ones," reports David Biello in a January 02, 2007 article for ScientificAmerican.com.

This explains why it is difficult for us to see ourselves achieving goals and life situations much different from those we've previously experienced. Most of us are not very good at seeing futures that depart very much from our pasts.

This physical limitation of our brains reinforces the value of depending on intuition and connection to Universal energy to make significant strides in life development. Our own logical, analytical systems are limited by past experience.

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