The Psychic

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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The psychic, most often referred to as our ’soul’, is based on our ideal reactions to the outside world, which are perceived, sorted, combined and shaped in convenient manners, which are ultimately reflected in our behaviors. Its physical support is the brain, consisting of nervous cells called neurons. Science has not been able to explain so far how the neurons are able to provide such a complex system such as the psychic, just by transferring electrical impulses to each other. However, scientists could explain simple processes, such as how worms with a basic nervous system are able to feel pain.

The same neurons, by directing their electricity to specific parts of our brain, signal changes of the psychic and some of its functions switching place with others. As the physical basis of the psychic, our superior nervous system is the most important factor contributing to our mental health. We can clearly see that our mind’s performance from when we were kids has much improved until this point, and that was made not just by accumulating experiences, but also by developing and refining our mental processes to aid us put those experiences to better use.

Although each of us has a certain predefined potential, set by the genetic material given to us by our parents, the psychic development begins at our birth, when we first make direct contact with external factors, and reaches maturity when we are about 18-20 years old. Our mental status is at optimum performance between the ages of 25 and 65, and starts regressing afterwards.

The psychic is basically a way for us to adapt to the environment, fact proven by its continuous development through our lifetime. Not only that it creates and applies specific behaviors according to surrounding stimulations, but also enables us to adapt nature to our needs, using our consciousness.

Any psychic behavior has a cause and an internal processing. The cause can be anything - a visual stimulus, a memory - and always suffers a processing - turning the visual stimulus into a representation, associating the memory and activating an emotional component.

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