Pammy
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Does it happen that you decide to do something, to exercise, to study, to meditate... and don't do the thing you wish to do? ''I will start doing it at 11:00 A.M.'' and then you don't? No matter how much you want to do, and later blame yourself for being lazy? Do you self-loathe because of your inability to act?
There is a very interesting experiment that I find fascinating. Due to Yehuboric influence in the scientific field, I was worried about sharing this but NG Forores reminded me that behind every experiment and discovery, usually there is an entire team that no one will ever hear about, and Yehubor often steal the work of their subordinates to make a name for themselves. So I will leave the decision to you.
Back in 1980s in one experiment they used EEG (electrodes were placed on the scalp to record the brain’s electrical activity), EMG (electrodes on the muscles to record the exact moment the movement actually began), and subjective time reporting in which participants later reported the moment when they first became consciously aware of the urge or intention to move.
They found out that the brain’s electrical activity started before participants intended to move. The brain appeared to begin preparing the movement before conscious awareness of deciding.
In another 2008 experiment, while inside an fMRI scanner participants freely chose whether to press a left or right button whenever they wished. In this experiment, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) was used to measure slow changes in blood oxygenation (BOLD signals) across the brain, used as an indirect marker of neural activity as well as Multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) where researchers use pattern-decoding methods to see whether distributed brain activity patterns could predict which choice the participant would make. Also, again, subjective time reporting, participants reported when they first became consciously aware of their decision.
Brain activity patterns predicted whether the participant would press left or right above chance several seconds before the participant reported conscious awareness of deciding.
The debate has been going on after Libet (1983) and Soon et al. (2008) to this day on whether these findings mean there is no free will and so on. There are many who disagree, including me, but these help me to understand something entirely different. Many decisions are made before you think about them. If you start by thinking, rationalizing it, considering all the possibilities, making plans... You might never do it in the end. You need ''drive'' that comes before thought. You don't need to consciously decide to do the thing. You need to unconsciously decide.
So when you are suffering from depression and can't even take a shower even though you feel disgusting, you should remember this. When you want to meditate, exercise, study but don't and hate yourself for being lazy, you should remember this. What you need is not making plans. You need the drive, the urge, the energy, the electrical activity in your brain. We have tools in our hands, deprogramming and hypnosis. Mantras, Runes, Fehu especially. These runes are on the Temple of Zeus main website and in the Hall of Osiris.
When you are failing to act, trapped in a state of inaction, you should remember this. Aries initiates the zodiac wheel. In Tarot, Wands (Fire) cards come before Cups (Water) and Swords (Air). Passion, ambition, urges, ''drive'' initiate. Not thoughts or emotions. Also, 0 (unmanifest) is the first card, not 1. Things are in your subconscious, unmanifested. These can be programmed.
Finally, we pray to God Ares. O Andras, giver of courage and bravery, giver of drive and life red as blood, bless all who utter prayers in your Name.
Other implications of these experiments, such as the existence of free will and people deciding first and rationalizing the decision later - not reasoning first and decision later; I find these interesting too. Maybe on a different thread...
There is a very interesting experiment that I find fascinating. Due to Yehuboric influence in the scientific field, I was worried about sharing this but NG Forores reminded me that behind every experiment and discovery, usually there is an entire team that no one will ever hear about, and Yehubor often steal the work of their subordinates to make a name for themselves. So I will leave the decision to you.
Back in 1980s in one experiment they used EEG (electrodes were placed on the scalp to record the brain’s electrical activity), EMG (electrodes on the muscles to record the exact moment the movement actually began), and subjective time reporting in which participants later reported the moment when they first became consciously aware of the urge or intention to move.
They found out that the brain’s electrical activity started before participants intended to move. The brain appeared to begin preparing the movement before conscious awareness of deciding.
In another 2008 experiment, while inside an fMRI scanner participants freely chose whether to press a left or right button whenever they wished. In this experiment, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) was used to measure slow changes in blood oxygenation (BOLD signals) across the brain, used as an indirect marker of neural activity as well as Multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) where researchers use pattern-decoding methods to see whether distributed brain activity patterns could predict which choice the participant would make. Also, again, subjective time reporting, participants reported when they first became consciously aware of their decision.
Brain activity patterns predicted whether the participant would press left or right above chance several seconds before the participant reported conscious awareness of deciding.
The debate has been going on after Libet (1983) and Soon et al. (2008) to this day on whether these findings mean there is no free will and so on. There are many who disagree, including me, but these help me to understand something entirely different. Many decisions are made before you think about them. If you start by thinking, rationalizing it, considering all the possibilities, making plans... You might never do it in the end. You need ''drive'' that comes before thought. You don't need to consciously decide to do the thing. You need to unconsciously decide.
So when you are suffering from depression and can't even take a shower even though you feel disgusting, you should remember this. When you want to meditate, exercise, study but don't and hate yourself for being lazy, you should remember this. What you need is not making plans. You need the drive, the urge, the energy, the electrical activity in your brain. We have tools in our hands, deprogramming and hypnosis. Mantras, Runes, Fehu especially. These runes are on the Temple of Zeus main website and in the Hall of Osiris.
When you are failing to act, trapped in a state of inaction, you should remember this. Aries initiates the zodiac wheel. In Tarot, Wands (Fire) cards come before Cups (Water) and Swords (Air). Passion, ambition, urges, ''drive'' initiate. Not thoughts or emotions. Also, 0 (unmanifest) is the first card, not 1. Things are in your subconscious, unmanifested. These can be programmed.
Finally, we pray to God Ares. O Andras, giver of courage and bravery, giver of drive and life red as blood, bless all who utter prayers in your Name.
Other implications of these experiments, such as the existence of free will and people deciding first and rationalizing the decision later - not reasoning first and decision later; I find these interesting too. Maybe on a different thread...
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