Be The Captain Of Your Own Team

Hi It’s Kelly Savage with The Butterfly Thoughts Podcast.

Welcome and thank you for joining me where we take our transformation journey, day by day, thought by thought and we do it together.

Today’s episode – “Be The Captain Of Your Own Team”

If you want to confuse yourself quickly, get into a deep discussion with yourself, or learn a fact or 10 of them……read on.

Go ahead and google brains, facts about brains, the mind and all kinds of things will start popping up. You will probably encounter more than you ever wanted to know about these subjects.  That is what google can do, right?

You will see articles how the mind and brain are intertwined in definition yet differences of explanations of how they act separately and how they are alike and so forth. You must really weed through the information and take the chicken off the bone and throw away the bones.

You will see articles about the power of the mind, power of the subconsciousness, how feeding your mind can be good or bad depending on thoughts and how you control them, think on them, act on them all the way down to affecting your mind by what you listen to, what you read and on and on.

Wow!

I did just that and although I love to learn and love to hear interesting facts, it can also be overwhelming, perhaps because my brain doesn’t pick it all up and explain it to me in plain English.

Why do I say all of this or bring this up?  That is probably one of your questions right now.

I was thinking about how powerful and amazing the brain is. Approximately 3 lbs. of the most complex organ in the human body, flexible, ever evolving set of neurons, approximately 90 billion plus (Yes, I just learned that fact).  It isn’t a muscle, but they liken the brain to a muscle as you can exercise, learn, grow, evolve, and scientists how proven that it changes and gets stronger when we use it.

That’s where it got me thinking.  What does that mean about our brain? What does this mean for our mind? Can we exercise these important pieces of our very complex beings? Certainly! Games, puzzle, apps, and more for the brain, mindsets and memories.

Do YOU think of your brain as a muscle? Do you separate mind and the brain? Does that even really matter?

Going one step further, and yes, we are stretching our brains and challenging our minds. How does our mind affect our life and our brain? Do you see them interchangeably?

The brain is the physical matter inside our body, very complex but vital. Our mind is the most puzzling and intangible thing related to the brain.  Mind is about thoughts, feelings, emotions, spirit, will, imagination, memory, perception, and more.

 

So how can we exercise them.  How important is this information in our life?

 

Our gym goers, fitness gurus or just those that like to stay fit and work their bodies focus on certain muscles to tone, and know that if they want to get strong, stay strong, grow larger in muscle mass or just stay fit, the body does need to exercise.

 

Ok. So that has been proven by research. 

 

Oh yes, research, all the research experiments I found.  My mind goes to “how do they get people to do this, how do they measure the results, determine the end results and so on”.

 

I digress. I am not willing to spend too much time on that, the science of, or debating the differences and commonalities.

 

Let’s concentrate on our POWER OF CHOICE. BOOM!  You know I love those 3 little words. 

 

POWER. OF. CHOICE.

 

Where does that leave us? Let’s summarize some facts.

 

The Brain is a physical organ inside our body.  It is vital, important, can be exercised and has been proven to grow and get stronger as it is used.

 

The mind is powerful.  Thoughts are powerful.  That can go for good or bad thoughts and how much we concentrate on them,