Conflict Of Ideas - Subjectivity Vs Objectivity (Fiction)

A little girl called her father, "Daddy, Daddy," and asked him, "Is it a bad thing to steal?" Her father, surprised at the question, hushed her, "Gosh! Darling, it is bad, very bad. It is a sin before God and a crime in the sight of man." "But Daddy," the little girl persisted, "If you happen to be very hungry and your means of getting food exhausted, then suddenly you stumbled on a basket of food dropped by someone, wouldn't you take the food?" The father turned and looked at the child, mouth wide agape in bewilderment. What could have prompted that little girl to ask such a paradoxical question? From general approach, the question is simple but it is not all that it seems. If you are to take a closer look at that question, you'll find out that it has a twist that cannot be straightened out so easily. How do we really view life? What is our approach to life? Our beliefs, ideas, principles and revolutions, are they based on our personal perception and feelings or are they rather based on true evidences of reality? How would you rather conceive the world we live in, in the subjective or objective sense? These are questions pertaining to our discernment and the reasons behind them. Before we go on, let's consider the following concepts in turn.

Subjectivity: this refers to the subject and his or her perspective, feelings, beliefs and desires. Subjectivity also refers to the specific discerning interpretations of any aspect of experience. It is a way of experiencing things from a personal viewpoint, these things experienced are unique to the person experiencing them and these experiences are based on personal consciousness. As humans and individuals, all theories and philosophies that dictate our understanding of science, art, literature and every concept we have about the universe is based on human and individual perspective. It is the judgment of issues and approach to the world that is rooted in personal conceptualism, influenced by one's emotions, feelings, rules, principles, beliefs, environment, what one thinks or feels is right and what is not. It is the experience and the perception of the world from within. On the other hand, objectivity refers to the concept of seeing the world exactly for what it is from a viewpoint free from human perception and its influences, human cultural interventions, past experience and expectation of the result.

Objectivity has to do with truths which are mind independent i.e. not based on the judgment of a conscious entity or subject. To be objective means to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein views are not based on personal perception as an individual but on laid out truth as a member of a scientific community. It pertains to the relationship of consciousness to existence. Now a conflict is born when these controversial questions are asked, "Are we to consider life from the subjective or objective sense? Can a totally subjective or objective viewpoint be achieved? Can each of these concepts exist independently, or do they need the existence of one another to function?"

I never finished my story about the little girl and the father. After moments of thoughtful hesitation, the father replied the child, "Honey, you can then term it to be providence. You can either wait for the person to return so as to gain permission or take a bit of the food and before leaving, drop a note explaining the reason for your action." Now that is a controversial case. Using the story above as a case study, there are two things involved; the existence of reality which is seen in the form of hunger and the consciousness of the person involved which is based on his moral disposition.

The situation is this; the man involved is torn between feeding his hunger as nature demands that he should and judging his action based on his moral beliefs. His action and opinion are controlled by his subjective sense, he is considering the situation from individuality based on his personal experience but that doesn't solve the reality of the hunger he is feeling. Now as to whether to view life from a completely subjective or objective sense, there is no known answer but one fact remains indefatigable and that is, these two concepts cannot be separated from each other. They actually co-exist. Without the existence of one, the other cannot function. For example, the life we live and everything in it all came through imagination and there is no how ideas from our mind would have been realized without reality itself. These concepts are self-conflicting and contradictory, the more you try to understand it, the more it gets you frustrated but in all these, for man to truly experience himself in the true sense, he should recognize the fact that his consciousness must acquire knowledge of reality. He should embrace the notion that truth is not automatically available to a human consciousness and can be obtained only by a certain mental process which is required of every man who seeks knowledge - that there is no substitute for this process, no escape from the responsibility for it. He should realize that man when it comes to knowledge decides what he chooses to do, according to what he has learned and his experience which therefore incapacitates him to look at life from the realistic viewpoint, however it is expedient for him to understand that he cannot create reality and can achieve his values only by making his decisions consonant with the facts of reality and also to always bear in mind that reality exists independent of one's perception of it. It is only then will he start experiencing the world in its uniqueness.

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101 Reasons To Use Brainwave Entrainment

Brainwave entrainment, simply, is the process of deliberately changing your dominant brainwave frequency, to feel or experience a certain effect or level of consciousness.

The brain naturally entrains or duplicates any external stimulus that is presented in a rhythmic, repeated consistent manner, thereby altering its brainwave frequencies, to match said stimulus.

The benefit of being able to change your brainwaves, is that, at your will, you can actually choose how you experience life.

You can change your brainwave frequency and change how you feel, at your convenience.

Here is a list of the first 101 reasons, in no particular order, to use brainwave entrainment.

1. Inexpensive and easy to use.

2. Can be downloaded on an i-pod, i-pad, mp3 player, compute, and much more.

3. Appeals to all walks of life.

4. Has an endless number of effects.

5. Is a viable solution to a huge variety of problems.

6. Is used by more psychologists, mental health clinics, coaches, teachers, and professionals everyday because they find it remarkably effective.

7. Can be used when you want to use it, as part of a routine or spur of the moment.

8. Within six months, you can reach an advanced state of mind that previously required decades of meditative practice.

9. Cutting edge personal advancement tool.

10. Beneficial for positive self-development.

11. Improves performance in personal and professional life.

12. Doesn't conflict with any meditation styles

13. Can be used in conjunction with any meditation style.

14. Optimizes your mind.

15. Great to use instead of drugs for pain or just feeling good.

16. Immediate and long-term benefits.

17. Instantly relaxed.

18. Deep sense of well-being.

19. Ability to handle stressful situations better within a few weeks of sessions.

20. Can create brainwave states that are impossible to experience consciously... normally.

21. Turn on any brainwave state.

22. Keeps a consistent frequency effectively entraining the brain.

23. Can access various levels of consciousness, easily.

24. Uses the whole brain to entrain.

25. After a few weeks of entrainment, you'll have an increased ability to learn.

26. Enhances creativity.

27. Helps you problem solve, using all areas of the brain.

28. Feel calmer afterward, more in control.

29. Boosts energy.

30. Lights up your motivation.

31. Takes 6 - 8 weeks to see measurable increase in I.Q.

32. Backed up by scientific research.

33. Immediate relief from tension

34. Immediate benefit for learning large amounts of information quickly.

35. Immediate relief for insomnia.

36. Meditation effects, immediately.

37. Use a few times a week for long-term improvement.

38. Can use every day.

39. Or once a week.

40. You get what you put into it.

41. Don't have to sit in a lotus position.

42. Is effective regardless of what you focus on.

43. Intensifies feelings of well-being.

44. Can still mind chatter.

45. Can introduce you to your higher self.

46. Can help you rewire your brain.

47. Will change bad internal programming.

48. Enhances visualization.

49. Helps learn new skills.

50. Removes anxiety.

51. Stops panic attacks right away.

52. Takes away fear.

53. Trains the brain to naturally go to a desired state.

54. Brings back repressed memories.

55. Helps increase memory.

56. Wakes up sleeping glands.

57. Increases libido.

58. Helps you sleep.

59. A session is equivalent to 4 hours of sleep.

60. Makes new neural pathways.

61. Really changes the physical structure of brain.

62. Can see changes on a brain scan.

63. Reduces muscle tension immediately.

64. Increases vasodilation.

65. Reduces gastric acid.

66. Reduces depression.

67. Lowers blood pressure, immediately.

68. Removes fibromyalgia symptoms.

69. Great pain reliever.

70. Releases natural morphine.

71. Is not about religion.

72. Considered very safe.

73. Is a therapeutic tool that can be used in conjunction with normal therapy.

74. Helps you process emotions.

75. Improves health significantly.

76. Can turn back the clock.

77. Gateway to other dimensions.

78. Fortune 500 companies use this with their top executives.

79. Makes you sharper.

80. Makes you happier.

81. Live longer.

82. More balanced emotionally.

83. Helps you concentrate.

84. Brings back hair.

85. Takes away wrinkles.

86. Helps you lose weight.

87. Stops the craving for carbohydrates.

88. Helps you develop unconditional love.

89. Gives you creative rushes.

90. Unlocks hidden talents.

91. Gives you insights.

92. Puts you in the zone.

93. Improves relationships.

94. Helps ADD/ADHD dramatically.

95. Diminishes social anxiety and phobia.

96. Gets rid of bad habits.

97. Reduces the time required to learn something.

98. Removes symptoms of addiction.

99. Strengthens your immune system.

100. Gets rid of anger.

And #101. Can help change you into who you want to be when you grow up.

That's just the first 101 reasons to use brainwave entrainment as part of your self-development journey.

Brainwave entrainment is a cutting-edge personal development tool.

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Brainwave Entrainment Definition

There is a neuro-scientific technology available today, that has been used successfully by the medical-scientific community for over the past 70 years, in the area of healing, and it is called brainwave entrainment.

This neuro-technological tool, is specifically designed, portable, convenient, and very effective in the areas of self-healing, cognitive function improvement, augmentation with traditional psychological therapies, the stimulation of hormones and pain relievers, and the enhancement of relaxation, making it the panacea for today's stressed-out, busy lifestyle.

What is Brainwave Entrainment?

Brainwave entrainment is a deliberate process that synchronizes, or entrains natural brainwaves to that of an external stimulus frequency, that is usually auditory and/or visual in nature. When the brain entrains, it duplicates the frequency of the stimulus, causing a change in the electrical activity in the brain. Each different electrical response produces a different brain state or brainwave frequency. Each different brainwave frequency has a specific pattern and can be designed to induce a certain effect or state of consciousness.

In effect, brainwave entrainment is the manipulation of the brain's natural brainwave frequencies, through the use of touch, sound and/or visual stimulus, to deliberately alter the brain's state of mind, inducing it to entrain at a specific frequency, for a specific purpose.

Entrainment can induce a desired psychological state corresponding with arousal or relaxation and all states in-between.

How does the Brain Entrain?

Entrainment is a physics principle that simply means, the process of where two cycles synchronize naturally with each other to work more efficiently. The principles of entrainment appear in chemistry, neurology, biology, pharmacology, medicine, astronomy and more.

When the brain is exposed to a frequency, it undergoes a Cortical Evoked Response, where it emits an electrical charge in response to the stimulus. The predominant brainwave frequency is said to move towards the frequency of the stimulus, matching its frequency.

Pulses and patterns of neural activity move through the brain in waves in a dynamic ocean of subtle electrical matter at all times. These patterns of electrical activity are called brainwaves and are responsible for different states of consciousness.

For instance,

· GAMMA WAVE-->40 Hz-is associated with higher mental activity, perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness.

· BETA WAVE-13--39 Hz-is associated with active, busy, anxious thinking, active concentration, arousal, cognition, and/or paranoia.

· ALPHA WAVE-7 - 13 Hz-is associated with relaxed awareness, pre-sleep, and pre-wake drowsiness, REM sleep, and dreams.

· THETA WAVE-4 - 7 Hz-is associated with deep meditation/relaxation, NREM sleep.

· DELTA WAVE--<4 Hz-is associated with deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness, and the state recorded when one is nearing death.

If a stimulus is introduced to the brain that repeats and is rhythmic and consistent, the brain responds by synchronizing or entraining its brainwaves to the external stimulus, using the Frequency Following Response principle. This means that the brain will naturally entrain to repeated, rhythmic stimulus, whether it is man-made or from nature (as in the sound of rain or ocean waves).

Entrainment uses the Frequency Following Response principle to alter brainwave patterns.

The brain rapidly entrains motor responses to auditory rhythms that are stable and steady, synchronizing states below and above conscious perception thresholds.

Different Methods of Brainwave Entrainment

There are three main forms of entrainment used today to alter consciousness.

· BINAURAL BEATS-one frequency is played in one ear and a slightly different frequency is played in the other. Each ear is connected to the opposite side of the brain and when each half hears something different, it compensates by creating a third beat, that is not really there. The sound only exists in your brain and causes both hemispheres to entrain at a single frequency. It takes 8 to 10 minutes to begin entraining. Because binaural beats don't entrain the thalamus, most of its effectiveness is in dissociation, making them good for meditative states, altering subconscious messages, and pain.

· MONAURAL BEATS--two tones are combined to create a perceivable beat, are played in each channel, resulting in a stronger stimulus because they mix together before they reach the ear. This form of entrainment is stronger than binaural beats but can be altered by outside noise interference.

· ISOCHRONIC TONES-the strongest, most effective entrainment uses pulsing tones to synchronize the brain to a desired frequency. The process is automatic and requires no particular effort or focus from the user. Distinct sharp tones are introduced to the brain, which the brain easily follows, causing a strong entrainment. Tones entrain in the thalamus and are very effective for deep meditative states, mild relaxation, high level stimulation, and cognitive enhancement because they cause the brain to form new neural networks. The entrainment effects are fast and permanent.

The Benefit of Using Brainwave Entrainment

If you want to create a brainwave state that is deficient or impossible to experience consciously, brainwave entrainment can allow you to access that brainwave frequency by guiding your natural brainwaves, using principles in physics.

Entrainment happens naturally, everyday, all day, to everyone.

Specifically designed brainwave entrainment (entrainment that is targeted), is a beneficial and effective way to produce specific brainwave frequencies, that induce various states of mind, at your will, making it a cutting-edge personal advancement tool.

Fond Memories or Life Influencing "Porky Pies"? Why Memories May Be an Unreliable Tale of Our Past

Have you ever wondered where your beliefs have come from or thought about the impact they have on your day-to-day life? It's said that we see the world not as it is but as we believe it to be. Our views develop over time based on our individual experiences - what we have seen, heard, done, been told and what we have read so they are unique for each one of us.

I've read that a detective gets suspicious if two witnesses have exactly the same recollection of what happened at a crime scene. He would expect the evidence to be slightly different because of the individual's view of the world and if they were the same, he might suspect collusion between the witnesses.

Our beliefs and our interpretation of events can affect how we feel, think and act - and can have a dramatic impact on what we achieve in life.

Let me explain what I mean by our interpretation of events. Have you ever heard your family talking about something that happened in your childhood and it is nothing like how you remembered it? It has certainly happened to me many times and I often wonder if I grew up in the same house as my siblings as our memories of childhood are so different. Let me share the "boiled bacon" story from my family.

I do not recall any specific incidents but have a general recollection of my parents being out working, leaving me to look after my younger siblings. I remember them mucking around while I was trying to get dinner finished so that I could wash up and get on with my homework. My younger sister likes to embarrass me by telling the story about me force-feeding her boiled bacon. It is an amusing tale for others, with me literally shoving food down her throat but it's not one I can relate too or remember. We were both there but have totally different memories that give a different slant and meaning to the events of our childhood. Those memories have no doubt shaped our beliefs and values in adult life - but which one is a true reflection of what actually happened?

Primo Michele Levi, an Italian Jewish writer, who spent a year as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp said that the human memory was marvellous but a "fallacious instrument" i.e. it lies to us! He wrote that our memories are not carved in stone; they are erased and changed as years go by and we add to our memories as we go along. Not surprising then that we often have different memories of historic events.

So my memories of being hard done by being left to babysit my siblings and my sister's memory of being force-fed are probably both false having been changed and added too over the last forty years. If we allow them too, these false memories could colour our values and beliefs and influence how we behave as adults. We need to take time to listen to our thoughts about the past and to question whether it was really like that - and if we can't be sure, to let the memories fade away.

Are you letting false memories influence your beliefs or values? Maybe its time to let them go and make sure they don't affect your current happiness or relationships.

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IQ Interpretation - What Does Your IQ Score Mean?

When it comes to interpreting IQ, also known as the "intelligent quotient", there are many variables used to determine the exact score. Along with a number of different IQ tests, there are also different scoring scales which gauge intelligence at different levels. A good IQ test will be composed of several different areas of intelligence and will help you pinpoint the areas in which you excel in. Two separate people can take the same exact test, get the same score but have entirely different strengths and weaknesses in the separate areas of intelligence.

The first IQ test was constructed by Alfred Binet, a French psychologist who lived in the 1900's. His IQ test was formed to initially to evaluate students and determine if extra assistance in school was needed. This led him to come up with the concept of mental age which meant that he developed questions that could easily be answered by certain age groups. Therefore, test subjects who answered questions that were designed for the average person of a higher age group were considered to have a higher mental age than their actual chronological age.

IQ should be considered a rough measurement of academic intelligence and does not take into account certain environmental or social elements such as home life, schooling, and community. One may also find that their intelligent scores vary test by test. Therefore, your IQ score should not be considered the end all be all, though it does help to provide a rough idea of your academic intelligence. It should also be noted that not all IQ tests are comprehensive and standardized. A standardized IQ test is one that finds the average by using a sample group of people consisting of individuals that make up the current U.S. census data, i.e. race, religion, gender and education level. You will find that most on-line IQ tests are not standardized, which means that the results should never be considered reliable.

When interpreting IQ, it has been found that the average score of most standard IQ tests is 100. The majority of people have an IQ level between 85 and 115. There are also various factors which can result in higher or lower scores. This can include the time of day the test was taken, distractions and other outside elements. The range is estimated to be within 5 points, plus or minus, on any given day and therefore means that if you get a score of 90 one day, you could score a 100 or 85 the next day due to different outside variables. As mentioned before, there are various IQ tests that one could take, all of which have slightly different interpretations of IQ level. Below is a basic idea of what these IQ scores mean. Keep in mind that these interpretations may vary, depending on which IQ test you take.

• 1 to 24 - Extreme mental incapacity

• 25 to 39 - Severe mental incapacity

• 40 to 54 - Moderate mental incapacity

• 55 to 69 - Mild mental incapacity

• 70 to 84 - Slight mental incapacity

• 85 to 114 - Average intelligence

• 115 to 129 - Above average intelligence

• 130 to 144 - Gifted

• 145 to 159 - Very gifted

• 160 to 179 - Extremely gifted

• 180 and up - Genius

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Use High Energy Mental Aerobics to Stay Mentally Fit

Studies by leading researchers into the reduction in memory loss and brain activity as the result of the aging process has shown that doing high energy mental aerobics considerably reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease in intellectually active people compared with their stagnant counterparts.

These activities can take many forms, cross-word puzzles, painting, reading, doing jigsaw puzzles, woodworking, playing board games are just a few ways in which to stay mentally active and healthy.

It has even been shown that people with mentally demanding positions such as managers etc. experience far less memory loss than those whose positions do not involve a great deal of mental activity.

A study by Dr. Joe Verghese and his associates at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York asked 469 older adults how often they participated in leisure activities such as dancing, playing cards or doing crosswords. They then tracked the memory loss of these people and found that those who were most mentally active had a 63 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared with those who rarely played board games or any other similar activity.

They found that people who did crosswords four times a week had a 47 percent lower risk of developing dementia than those who did them once a week. It translated into a fact that for each day of the week that people used their minds, there was a 10 percent lessening in the chances of them developing memory loss or full blown dementia.

So as you can see, just like we exercise our physical bodies to keep them young strong and supple, we do need to exercise our minds on a daily basis if we wish to reduce the effects of aging and avoid such debilitating diseases as Alzheimer's disease.

Make it a daily practice to do some form of Mental Aerobics and work out for your mind, as well as your body. By using high mental aerobics you will find that your memory, rather than deteriorating will in fact improve. Your mind is like your body, it needs a daily work out to keep it fit and healthy.

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The Power of Your Internal Voice

I've written on a number of occasions about the importance of objectivity and fact-based decision-making. In managing your business, it's critical that you make decisions based, as much as possible, on the evidence. Intuition certainly has its place in decision-making, but it has to be appropriate - somewhere between the facts and the fantasy.

Most people believe they are capable of complete and total objectivity. If you're one of those people, I'm sorry to disappoint you with what follows.

Objectivity is informed by a flexible world-view. I believe that by mid-life, many people's world-views have become hard-wired and inflexible. For most of us at any rate, recognizing and accepting the desire or need to challenge our preconceptions is excruciating.

My purpose here is to briefly examine how one develops psychic schlerosis (hardening of the attitudes) and to recommend a few actions you can take to improve your level of objectivity.

How it Happens

Here's how the "hardening" process gets started, matures and then gets in our way: The learning we receive in our youth is essentially written on a blank slate; that's why early childhood development is the most profound. Kenneth Boulding from Michigan State University called this our "image." The earliest experiences become the foundation upon which later experiences build. As life progresses, in an effort to bring order to chaos, our minds have an increasing tendency to automatically edit out information and experiences that do not conform to our preconceptions. As we get older, this inclination becomes stronger and more insidious, because it happens subconsciously and automatically.

Cut to adulthood. That evaluation and editing process - the voice in our heads - goes on constantly. Virtually all of us hear the voice. It comments, assesses, speculates, judges, compares, contrasts, complains, rehearses and worries. It interprets input within the context of our personal image. To each of us our own image is factual, so when we are confronted with an opposing perspective, we view it as wrong. We cling to our own view point in a futile attempt to impose order and control and to ensure predictability and certainty in our lives.

Rewiring Your Perspective

Significant personal growth requires a regular confrontation with what I call the brutal truth. In the case of developing more objectivity, that includes:

• becoming aware that most often, unfortunately, we do not control our minds; our minds control us.

• accepting that we generally take action based upon our feelings, which evolve out of the compression of our perspective with the facts.

• examining our thinking as onlookers and evaluating our feelings and reactions in light of the facts.

• habitually and continuously short-circuiting our automatic responses and then, after honest assessment, producing more productive responses.

Approaches and tools are available to help us move closer to objectivity. It takes practice and patience. We have been conditioned to seek answers and cures that require little time and a minimum of effort or personal investment, so what I propose is a modest and manageable starting point.

When you are in a meeting listening to an interaction, draw a line down the center of a piece of paper. Over the left column write, "What was said." Over the right column write, "My initial reaction to what was said." During the meeting, jot down a few of the comments made by others (especially those that irritate you) and your mental reactions, precisely. At the end of the meeting, review each of the comments in the right column and ask yourself the following questions:

• Was my reaction based upon facts? If not:

• What was the source of my reaction? Could it be my personal beliefs?

• Could I have reached another, plausible conclusion? What is it?

• What other incidents in my personal and business life have compelled feelings that grow from beliefs that may not comport with the facts?

For one month, every time you get frustrated or lose your temper, go through the process of documenting what went on in your mind to stimulate your response. Over time, begin to short-circuit your automatic responses.

The implications of this stimulus/response work are profound: better personal and business decisions, fewer impulse control problems and potentially better emotional and organizational health.

Copyright 2012 Rand Golletz. All rights reserved.

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