Source: Alzheimer’s Society [link below]

This blew me away. Thousands of years ago (pre-recorded history!) Patanjali outlined the science and practice of Raja Yoga (mind control or meditation) distinguishing between the conscious “thinking”, and sub-conscious “acting/memory” aspects of our mind.

Modern science has identified specific areas of our brain responsible for each: the Hippocampus (logic) and Amygdala (memories). Mic drop – almost:

The bookshelf model is as brilliant as it is sad: our more complex, “energetically denser” conscious mind (the aspect we’re generally aware of) is the first to go. The last things to go are the most subtle “physical” aspects of each of us: our oldest memories.

The aspect of each of us that doesn’t leave until our body/mind dies is our awareness.

 

Learn how your mind works before it’s too late! Just kidding – but wouldn’t it be useful to quiet the voice in your head when you want and need to? Say – to get to sleep at night?

Here’s the original [huge props to whomever came up with the analogy]: “The bookshelf model of memory storage”

Need help sleeping at night? Focusing during the day? Stressed? Anxious?

Meditate. Look deep inside yourself. You already have all the answers.

God bless, Skip