Table of contents hide 1 Brain: banishing the myth. 2 Now the question that arises is what percentage do we use of our brain? 3 Returning to the issue that afflicts us, is the idea that we only use 10% percent of our brain false? 4 Example of brain functioning 5 Then the more complex the tasks and the more they are, the greater the requirement for the use of the whole brain. However, the simpler and smaller the amounts of tasks to be performed, the smaller the parts that will have to be put into operation.
Brain: banishing the myth.
Over time, the idea that we only use 10% of our brain has been established in popular knowledge. This is widely known, and is deeply rooted almost as an absolute truth. However, despite being an idea that has spread throughout the planet, its truthfulness is incomprobable or void .
So the underlying idea is what would happen if we could use the remaining 90 percent? We would be incredibly wonderful beings, geniuses and revolutionaries, perhaps like Einstein, Hawking or Shakespeare who were surely touched by some magic wand or rather blessed with the opportunity to use more than 10 percent of their brain. Then, to the rest, since we can no longer use the rest of our brain, we can only live an ordinary life. Unfortunately, these are the thoughts that emerge from this theory, since it disqualifies the cognitive capacity of the brain by minimizing its functioning and leaving behind the scenes the possibility that if we used a little more, we would stop being ordinary beings to become wise or enlightened perhaps.
In this way, in this article we will demystify this idea that made us believe and we bring the scientific explanation of why we do not use only 10 percent, but more.
Now the question that arises is what percentage do we use of our brain?
Throughout this writing, we will try to make clear this fundamental response to begin building a repertoire of rational and credible beliefs in our psyche.
This is a good trigger to invite you to ask yourself, to ask us more about everything we hear. With this I do not mean that we doubt everything, but we do begin to listen and process the information in another way . In other words, today information has become a weapon of power, a tool that drives and induces people to take different actions, so according to what information we give it, it is easier to predict or determine the type of behaviors such people can take.
In the face of so many conflicting interests, and the amount of information being handled is so great, it is necessary that we begin to appeal to our inner wisdom. Before any theory, conclusion or belief that we are given as the only truth or as a simple truth, we need to ask ourselves where does this information come from? Or could it be this other way? Or what other possibilities are there? For example.
It is necessary, if we are going to take something as true, that we seek the source of such knowledge and that we are guided by our inner guidance.
Returning to the issue that afflicts us, is the idea that we only use 10% percent of our brain false?
Correct, in the words of the Argentine neurologist and neuroscientist Facundo Manes "We do not use 10% of the brain, we use the total, because it works even when we do nothing."
There is no empirical and scientific evidence that explains the theory that we only use 10% percent of the brain, but on the contrary we have thousands of scientific research that support the fact that we use the whole of our brain and not just a percentage of the same . It is necessary to comment that serious research and that meet all the parameters required by studies at this level, are very recent and thorough knowledge about certain issues that concern the functioning of the brain completely, are under development.
Starting from this question, neurological studies have shown that in the face of simple and minor activities, the brain only needs to use few areas and therefore is low in the percentage of functioning it needs to perform those . So only in this case, the idea of using a low percentage would be true. Despite this, even to sleep we use the whole brain.
Brain functioning example
For example, let's compare the functioning of the brain with the computer . When we have to do a work on the word of the computer on various topics, for example, we go searching on Google on the subject, so we are opening tabs and one is taking us to the other, so on so that a moment comes in which we have thousands of open tabs. And at the same time we have open folders stored on the PC, where we have more information previously saved, and surely we have opened our mail with more information and added to that we have open the music player so that it passes us slow and calm sounds to concentrate on our job. And other times, we just turn on the computer to check the mails and nothing else. So in the first situation, the computer needs to use all its parts (internet, speakers, speed, processor, etc.), so if it were our brain, it would also have to use all its parts to function, while to open an email I would only need to launch few parts of it.
Then, the more complex the tasks and the more they are, the greater the requirement for the use of the whole brain. However, the simpler and smaller the amounts of tasks to be performed, the smaller the parts that will have to be put into operation.
Most of the neurological studies conducted conclude that most people use almost 100 percent of their brain, both while they are awake and in moments of deep sleep. Yes! During the night our brain also works, this was demonstrated by studies that use images and have shown that more than 60% is active during sleep (REM), or Fast Eye Movement, when one is dreaming.
On the other hand, PET studies, that is, reviews of Positron Emission Tomography, confirmed that in the brain activity there are generalized areas that “light up” even during routine tasks, which indicates that a large percentage of our brain is active throughout the development of any cognitive task we carry out.
In addition to this, they affirmed that although many areas of the brain remained “dark or unlit” that is, the neurons were not turning on during the investigations, they pointed out that these neurons that did not illuminate are probably because they were receiving signals from others neurons So, although it seems that areas of the brain are inactive, they are actually only occupied, performing passive tasks such as receiving information.
It is very exciting and disturbing to know that we can expand our minds by using all the portions of our brain, although it still remains to glimpse and confirm if those areas of inactivity are due to the fact that they are receiving information or hide something beyond there. Although many times it seems that some of us are only using a small fraction of our mental abilities, humans take more than 10 percent of their cognitive abilities to be human . Feel happy! We are using our whole brain!
REDACTORA: Gisela S., editor of the great family of the White Brotherhood.
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