Dr. Caroline Leaf

You've asked one of my favorite questions there.

That's a really great place to start.

I've got some props.

Is that okay?

Can I use some props to show you?

Okay, so here's a brain, not a real one, in a skull.

And the terminology for about the last 40 years is that the mind and the brain have been used interchangeably.

So most people think when you talk mind, you're talking brain, and when you're talking brain, you're talking mind.

And most of the popular literature, even the scientific literature that the media tends to put out, talks about how the brain produces thoughts or the brain produces the mind.

But your brain actually can't do anything on its own.

So if you did, and if I was holding up this, if this was a real brain and I just took it out of someone's head, which I wouldn't do, but if it was bleeding and whatever, and you looked at this brain, we could stare at this all day long, but it would never do anything.

So what is the difference between a dead brain and yours and mine and the listeners and the viewers is that you are actually thinking, feeling and choosing.

You're alive and your aliveness is your mind.

And your mind is this ability that of what you're doing right at this moment as you're listening to me, you are processing the auditory sound waves, the electromagnetic light waves through your ability to think and feel and choose, which is mind.

So your mind is like processing, unique, brilliant processing field, gravitational field around and through your brain and body.

And you convert what you're hearing and seeing into actual meaning.

And that meaning is formed from trees that you actually grow into your brain.

So 400 billion actions per second, you're using your mind to translate auditory and visual signals into protein tree-like structures in your brain to make sense of what I'm saying.

And then each new thing that I say, you're growing more and more.

And everything I'm saying is in the root section because it's the source of the information.