Do we control our Brains or Do our Brains control us?

 

Have you ever held you urine for a long time and on the sight of a means of convenience it seemed liked your bladder would burst that very second? Likewise when you hold your bowel movement for a long period of time...

I bet you have. 

So, what really happens at that moment?

Science explains that at the sight of a means of convenience the brain tends to release it's control on the external urethral sphincter. 

The bladder has two sphincters, internal and external which guard it's exit. The internal sphincter is entirely under the influence of the autonomic nervous system while the external sphincter is under the influence of the conscious mind (cerebral cortex), even when the full and the internal sphincter is opened we could still control our urination by our influence on the external sphincter.

But there is something rather strange about this phenomenon that makes us suddenly lose control of that sphincter when we see a place of convenience.

Could it be that our brain is in charge of us at that moment🤔🤔? That's a question for another day.

I happened to be involved in a reading challenge and among the books I read, I discovered that what we feed our minds with tends to create the limit our brain thinks and hence the manner of control on us.. Let me site an example, do you know that successful students (students who ace in exams) find it easier to do say, overtime and put in extra effort.

Why? This is because their belief in achieving success gets stronger each time they do well at school. But on the contrary a student who does poorly finds it more difficult the next time to do better.

Although both students have the same brain, their output is different. This stems from the limit they both have set for their brains through their minds. and their brain acts on those set abilities.

Upon success you tend to believe you can do it again and vice versa.

I was made to understand that we can reprogram our minds and brain through repetition, how? 

If you tell yourself each day you are a failure, it's very certain that you'll become one. But if you tell yourself you’re a success each day, you'll also become one.

This is how it happens, a person who feels he can't read for long will always be reminded by his/her brain that he can't read that long, and whenever he/she tries to do so he's convinced and stops his long reading, this instance can be applied in various aspects of life as well. 

This is also what happens to the two students illustrated above. We tend to develop a cycle which dictates our brain limits through what we feed it.

The message been passed across is you should be careful of what you feed your brain with, because it could someday control you... 

-Author, Richard pora.