Mar 21, 2013

Eyesight to ‘I-sight’

foresight
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Vision
Vision is more than the meager ability to see. For those who are blessed with sightedness, intact eyes and undamaged brain receptors cells; it is an automatic, unconscious and effortless phenomenon.  However foresight is the knack at internalizing revelations that are beyond the realm of pure involuntary visibility. To foresee the impact that words craft, to envision impressions of emotions and anticipate the power of mindfulness.
Power to the mind
The human mind is more powerful than most individuals are cognizant of.  The mind models the entire universe that too in one’s own hands. Each one rules their world; and is king of their own intellect. The mind thinks, rethinks, appraises and reappraises events and occurrences and uses them to picture the appropriate options often for personal gain. That is classical intelligence and cognitive ability. Each is blessed with the same 1500-gram brain and a billion neurons directed towards this very purpose.
Premonition?
While premonition represents the aptitude to predict what will happen or what is needed in the future; it is not as unrealistic or enigmatic as is presumed. One doesn't need to gaze into a crystal ball or identify the positions of the stars to gauge what is going to transpire next in ones own life. Studies suggest that much of human daily contemplations are directed towards potential future events relating to themselves. The mind has an episodic memory that organizes and reorganizes information to make it of appropriate use in the future.
Power of foresight
Several commonalities have been identified in personal and interpersonal interactions in this sphere. Carl Jung insisted on a pool of unconscious thought processes in the world, common to every living being thereby connecting everyone together and allowing for inexplicable co-occurrences and coincidences. While neurological, developmental and cognitive studies have identified cohesions in the human ability to recall past episodes, the difference between the recall of past and foresight into the future remains a topic of discussion. There are obviously elemental differences between rationally travelling through time into the future versus the past. Nonetheless foresight is not a fantasy.
Use you past to modify your future
Memory stores in the brain are usually linked with the emotional arousal they have mitigated before. If you know that your boss passes snide remarks on your performance, you either avoid confrontation, change your work to please him or learn to accept the remarks gracefully without getting stressed. If forgetting your spouse’s birthday lead to an emotional showdown last year, it would be nicer to remember it and allow for positive emotion this time around. It may not always be proportional; outcomes often mismatch the effort, and hard work is not an explicit forecaster of victory. But it has significant correlations. Just like:
  • Exercise does improve your fitness
  • Smoking will decrease your stamina
  • Anger will raise your blood pressure
  • Meditation will alleviate your stress
  • Empathy will help your relationship
Mistakes may not be definitive reformers, yet they are the best teachers and when modified, they form superior predictors of future successes.
Time travel the past
When you are placed in an odd situation, use your imaginative time machine to delve into memory stores and travel back in time. Perceive the emotion that a similar event provoked in you before. Experience the colors of the previous event in this current experience. Identify the response you expressed before and the outcome of it and react accordingly. Usually the past ought to make you wiser; if the previous technique worked you can repeat it, if it failed you must act differently this time.
Time travel the future
This essentially utilizes a similar travel into the past and projects it into the future. Literally speaking every preceding incident restructures the upcoming response. An imagination of the past scenario, its outcome and possibilities of similar developments usually ought to be the guiding star to ones deemed goal. Time travel thus into the future and the past is identical. ‘I-sight’ is truly every individual’s ability to perceive, retain and predict appropriate behaviors. 

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