Is it possible to use more of our brain?

[MindMover]

Yes! Though perhaps not how you might imagine. You can't put more of your brain to work. Your whole brain is working all the time, even when you think you're just being lazy. What you can do is make it work more productively.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-it-possible-to-use-more

My own focus has become more efficient thru meditation and proper diet.....

[Xipe Totec]

1. Yes, but you first have to extract it

chopped or diced with scrambled eggs and onions.... Mmmmmm!

[dickthegrouch]

2. Repubs couldn't use any less (could they?) /nt

[saras]

3. We're ALWAYS using all our brain. The question is "for what?"

The real problem is that our organism is a MUCH BETTER JUDGE of what to use our brain for than our conscious mind, in the vast majority of situations. Propaganda takes advantage of this by using our organism's responses AGAINST our conscious mind, setting up situations in which the organism's response is actually inappropriate.

So the process of stopping the intake of pollution will eventually produce results, while the process of attempting to process it all will not.

Most "positive thinking" is based on this. Napoleon Hill said that it's easy to become rich - all you have to is WANT to become rich MORE than you want anything else (meditating on wealth and power help), and then REMEMBER, in each daily decision, what you REALLY want, and ask yourself if this activity forwards that long-term goal or not.

It works, pretty much guaranteed. It has REALLY interesting side effects, though.