Powers of Mind

Kishore C.S.

October 2001

 

It always amazes to know wonders people can do by using powers of mind. Though the articles by Swami Vivekananda posted on my site, refers to use mind to achieve spiritual experiences, I want to recollect and share a few experiences where I wondered at powers of mind.

 

Flashes of Memory:

 

When I was studying in college, we had quiz competitions in our hostel. Though I was not a great quizzer, I joined one of the teams participating. During this I was happy with 2 answers I gave where I realized powers of my mind.

 

One question was related to a video clip: Showing Michael Jackson. Quiz master showed a piece of Michael Jackson video and asked us to name the album.

 

It happened like this. Couple of years before this quiz, I was at my home in Rajahumundry. My brother rented a video and was watching it. I was going through the TV Room. I stopped for 5 seconds and asked him what that video was. My brother told me it is Michael Jackson's "Moonwalker".

 

The small piece shown during quiz was exactly the same piece I watched at home couple of years back for 5 seconds. Immediately I knew that I know the answer and before the time was over, I answered "moonwalking". Our team was happy as we gained good points by that answer. But I was amazed at my own memory. Though I made a small mistake in the answer, how could I recollect something which I never thought I 'memorized'

 

During the same quiz show, in audio quiz, they played beginning music of a song and asked us to answer. Again in this case, just by listening to a short piece, I was able to recollect the song as "Aja, Aja Main Hu Pyar Tera" song just in time before the time ran out. My team was thrilled.

 

These are two simple examples that remained in my memory and some time I wanted to share these experience.

 

I realized that we have more powers than we imagine. We don't use them properly.

 

Counting number of letters in a word

 

When I started my work at Ramco 1994, I met one person by name Kannan. He had this remarkable ability to tell you number of letters in any word immediately after you say it. I was amazed by his ability. e.g. if you say 'Interoperability' immediately he would say 15 (number of letters in the word). The answer is always instantaneous. I asked him how does he do that? He said it is a matter of practice. For sometime he had to travel frequently by bus for hours. During this time he was getting bored and started practicing this. He explained cases where people always try to challenge him with long words but he always gave the correct answer. The answer he gave instantaneously had to be verified only after 5 seconds, because that was the time taken by others to verify the count.

 

I have also seen amazing feats of memory by my friends, relatives

 

More examples:

 

We have traveled so many times by auto in Madras. Once we were coming home from Central Railway station. Immediately after talking to an auto driver, my wife told me, this driver came on one previous occasion. I tried to discount her saying that this might be a different person. But the driver confirmed my wife's statement as we approached our house, saying that he has come to the same house some time back. My wife has the ability to remember faces and also names and other details. I keep teasing her with her ability, but I also wish I had this ability to recollect names.

 

Last year, another colleague of mine showed his ability to memorize numbers. We installed a software on my machine and my colleagues machine. We had to type CD Key which was 10 digits long. Two days later I was trying to install the same on another machine and I did not have CD Key with me. I went to my colleague and asked him whether he noted the CD Key anywhere. He repeated the number from his memory. I never expected him to remember such a trivial thing after two days. It was amazing. Wow, that is great. He also said, if he wants to remember - he can.

 

Recently again, one of my colleagues showed her memory power. I wanted a particular phone number. She repeated the phone number, thought it is not something we need everyday. She said that she can recollect by imagination of where and how she wrote that phone number. It is as if recollecting from a photographic memory.

 

There are many more examples that can come up. If you have some similar experiences and want to share them, write to me. I will post them. It is interesting to note such 'extraordinary' feats.

 

Summary

 

We are all blessed with lot of powers. But we don't exercise them properly. Some people gain control and use a particular skill very effectively and achieve feats like what I mentioned above. It always amazes me. In general I noticed women display keen sense of memory in recollecting what dress a person wore couple of years back for an occasion etc. Each one uses different method to condition their mind to perform tasks they want.

 

I realize our mind is like a big memory storage device and tremendous capabilities and it records each and every moment of our life. If we are use our mind properly, we can make it do wonders. Remembering important things in life which we use daily is normal to many of us, but what I narrated above are examples where it beyond normal situation.

 

Always remember: we are more powerful than we realize.