Mind Game

Brain is the physical identity for mind. But its not only the mind that makes a brain.
Brain has many functions to perform - voluntary or involuntary. It takes care of many activities such as maintaining the body temperature to heartbeat, breathing, sweating etc. But mind is blessed with the power of thinking. Sometimes segregating the information to remember or make a choice of forgetting it too. Mind is the reason for the great honour to be known as wise or otherwise :)

Mind includes:
Consciousness
Perception
Thinking
Judgement
Language
Memory

This takes us to the process of thinking. The platform to facilitate the abilities of humans. Thinking includes -
1. Recognise assumptions - recognizing the self made thoughts and collecting the facts
2. Evaluate information - Giving time to confirm the reality in our data and trying to find proofs to support our assumptions
3. Draw conclusions - Once we have the supported facts, we draw conclusions and make decisions
4. Plan of actions - Then follows making the various plans of action to achieve our task or go ahead in judging either persons or situations.

Language and Memory:
Since our childhood mind makes imprints of information practised by the child. This is contained in the form of imprints. The stronger imprints help the child in quick learning of words and makes the vocabulary for communication. The memory power connected with the mind's ability is the key element to drive us towards success. There are many techniques practiced by the students to increase their memory power and present their best in academics.
This deadly combination of will power and mind power is the key behind the making of a Sundar Pichai or a Satya Nadella. So belt your seats to achieve these two to make the best in the professional world.

BY WORDS THE MIND IS WINGED
Aristophanes

Mind is a power house of Imagination. It holds the power of recognition and appreciation. In our ways of speaking we have
a strong mind
weak mind
and a suspicious mind also.
A Criminal mind plans the crimes and the lawyers logical mind plays in the court of law - either proving it or falsifying it.
Another genre of mind is Open mind/minded/broad minded ones. This kind of open minded people are welcomed and appreciated by all. You know the reason why, I need not strain my mind :)

Best minds are those who are clever, intelligent and creative. I could see them in my mind's eye!

Bring Your Brain!

Which organ of our body do we use for thinking? Of course, pat comes the answer BRAIN. We are sure that it is the crowning glory of our physical appearance. This is the Grey matter that controls us invisibly and makes us execute the gimmicks of the rights and wrongs of our actions.
Then what is meant by this term/noun MIND?
Where is it located?
How much of this term is used in vocabulary?
Think... Think  :)
Thinking happened long ago even before we learned the word think.
Who forms the INK of our thoughts.
Writes our actions on the wall of time - present, past or even future?
Why should we bother at all to think about thinking? :)

Because we need thinking and its procedure. Understanding it makes learning the words easy and communication easier. Similar to the Oxygen in the air, water for our thirst, thinking is inseparable from being a human. And forms the basic layer of communication. Here comes the most important organ of our body BRAIN. So far no scientist is able to make a machine that equals or over takes the functions of it. Science is still awe inspired by its perfect mechanism.

Lets ponder over Brain for a while.
Let's get back to our forgotten Brain.
Make a list of words that include brain...
Brain storming is my favourite one to start with.
We sit together, talk and talk, argue with each other and all brains work together with a vengeance to prove whose brain has provided the best solution.
As I mentioned in the previous post, brain and mind are the two confused identities that people are prone to take one for the other. This confuses with our vocabulary and methods of communication. It makes issues clearer if we deal with each term separately.

Let's check on how much of the "brain" is consumed in words.

There are many idioms that include brain to focus on the tinkling use of vocabulary.

Thinking obsessively about something is expressed as getting it on the brain
To pick someone's brain is to  communicate the understanding of the ideas of others.

A "brainteaser" is a puzzle.

Someone who has a reserve of commonsense is called "person with brains"
"He got plenty of brains." - means to show the higher level of the intelligence of the person mentioned. 

The person who runs some activity/entreprenure is said to be the brain behind it.

Brain co-relates both life and death emotions. Here are the examples

Many of us think that a person is declared dead when the heart stops beating or the lungs stop breathing. But the hospitals have machines to support the patients in those situations. But once brain stops functioning nothing can save them. In general medical terms they are declared brain dead. So sad to hear such words.

But there is a contrasting term too.

When we create something or some establishment or a business we call it our brain child.

Words are so sentimental, aren't they? That's why I love this smaller frames that build a canvass of our thoughts into an admirable speech.

Here is some Food for thought

Brain is originally a noun, but also used as a verb in the phrase "to brain," to injure or kill someone by hitting hard on their head. I'm yet to find the usage of this in content either online or offline.

As a noun the word Brain relates to that part of the Central nervous system that consists of all the higher nervous centers; protected by the hard surface named skull; continues the connectivity with the safely procured spinal cord to control the physical functions of the body.


To keep the most sensible part of our body, always remember to consume/eat WALNUTS. They have the omega-3 fatty acids to strengthen the brain and make it work fast. They ensure the smooth working of our nervous system and bless us with great memory power.

Watch it close, those brown folded skin of the walnuts.
Doesn't it look similar to the folds of brain? :)

Let the topic rest its brains to catch up with the MinD tomorrow.
Drink loads of water and let the brain enjoy its loads of oxygen from the amalgam of our body i.e blood. Catch up with the words in my next post.

Welcome to kNoW English

Writing is similar to speaking. Speaking through words that rush through the mind. Its like raining thoughts on this white surface in letters of black. :)

Yes, today this blog post I dedicate to the thoughts that gave an occasional out pour while walking or cooking or eating or traveling or even teaching in the class. Some way to capture the points that make it easy to explain the finer points related to English - vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, fluency, communication skills etc.

Here I jot down the issues in informal as well as formal vocabulary.
Lets shake our hands in mind and happy to welcome you for my world of ENGLISH.
Yes... in this virtual world we find connectivity through the mind.
We don't mind if we do not connect with each other.

Let's take the examples how the word mind is used in English.



Mind your tongue (a rather harsh reminder)
Mind your business (definitely a warning )


We have some requests too made with it

Please don't mind my words.

A clearer expression of help

Please remind me tomorrow about the task

After all these minding about the mind, where does the brain stand?
How far mind is different from brain?
Are they synonyms for thinking?

We use these often spoken phrases
Brainless fellow not a mindless one
Brain drain ( a compound word that means the emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country)

But have we ever said - Body present brain absent?
Why it is - mind absent why not a brain?

Leave your mind/brain in comments...
and that's for today dears!