Think Yourself Healthy by Appreciating the Exercise You Already Do

So, this psyblog dealt with how a person could lose weight by thinking they were doing sufficient amounts of excercise already. In an experiment hotel attendants were told that the excercise they did for their jobs was sufficient for a large amount of their daily excercise. Without the people doing any extra workouts or eating more, the people were monitored for four weeks. At the end of this period, the people, on average, lost two pounds. The experiment then said it dealt a lot with mind over matter.

I totally believe that this is true. I am a firm believer in mind over matter. If you think something is true, or believe something will happen, it will generally happen. This experiment proved that point. Your mind has more control over people's bodies than everybody thinks, and it is amazing what your mind can do to your body by just believing something.

Current event chapter 9

I was thinking very intently today about why a act the way i do. Most people say i am a very nice, amiable person who loves life. My explanation is that it is because of the environment i was raised in. My family is a very happy family, even my extened relations. I grew up with little conflict, and therefore appreciate the little things in life, and treat people well. The book says many things about how people's personalities are formed, but i think what i said above is the correct answer?

Tom Nichols Chapter 9 blog

I found it extremely interesting how they showed how animals can be trained to develope vocabularies, whether audible or signed. Its really interesting to think that dolphins and chimps can understand what you say sometimes.
I thought when the book talked about framing, it stated it very nicely. When you get complimented or rewarded when doing something, it is more likeable, and the person is likely to do it again. It was an iteresting topic and i thought immediately about how you get stickers on your helmet in football for doing something phenominal.
Insight and instinct were very interesting to learn about as well. It really made sense of why some people are just smarter than others. Smart people have better instinct and can remember/store information better to be brougt up instantly easier. They also seem to have more flashes of insight, or inspirational thinking moments

Memory is very important to who we are as human beings. Who would we be if we were like Clive Waring, we couldn't remember anything 20 secs in the past? We would practically be non-existent because we wouldnt remember how to do anyting at all. Everything from reproducing to eating would eventually fail to be remembered, and we would cease to exist as people. It would be a humanless world if we were all like Clive

I see my memories differently, but not too much differently. it surprisede me to read how much our memories fabricate memories to fill in gaps in stories. I realized before this that our minds did it, but not to such an extent as this. I still truse my memories, but now its just a matter of do i tell them to people or not. I dont tell stories to people if i know that something if not right very often, and that will just reinforce my thinking.

The conceptof memory repression was interesting. i knew about how people in traumatizing events sometimes repress the memory and don't remember it, but i never realized that it actually isn't lost. Most of the time the memory is always there, the person just chooses not to remember it. Sometimes even, trying to forget something leads to creating persistant and vivid replays of it, such as veterans. God Bless Them.

Tom Nichols Chapter 7

I found the part about sexual arousal very interesting. It honestly stunned me to read some of these things. The part about being aroused by onion breath was very interesting, the man sounded very unintelligent to me. Besides that fact, it was cool to see how much this relates to my life. Something that you haven't eaten or whatever for a long time can be instantly remembered by the scent of something similar to it.

An example of conditioning that has happened to me is operant conditioning, i think. I am pretty good at sports, and with constant repetion i get the feeling sometime i can "do things with my eyes closed." Like with golf, i have golfed so many times, i can tee off without looking at the ball once. It just becomes ingrained in my mind, almost second nature.

Current event for chapter 7

So this week i learned about observational learning. It sounds very easy to comprehend, and it is. This week i taught a sunday school class, and we talked about TV's influence on them. It was pretty shocking to see how much TV had influenced them. When i read this chapter, i was surprised to see observational learning and its refernce to TV with anti social behavior. It made me think how bad TV actually is, and why so many older people don't like it because they see how it has change America.

Chapter 6 blog---Tom Nichols

This chapter was really long, and it took alot of will power to stay focused and pay attention. At times i found it pretty interesting, but at other times, it was insanely boring.

One thing that captivated me was how our sense of touch is actually several senses in one, those being pressure, warmth, cold, and pain. These combine in various combinations to form a feeling, such as hot, cold, or pain. Also, kinesthesis, the system for sensing the position and movement of individual body part, was fasinating to find that sensors in all over your body allow you to control your body, and knowing at what point your arm is at.
Another thing that was interesting was how we hear things. I never before realized that the soundwaves that reflect off of our ear drums to form sound are actually air waves. The air waves are actually bands of compressed and expanded air. When these travel at different frequencies, different speeds basically, they form a sound that form impulses that are brain turns into audible noises. It was just fasinating to learn how this actually comes about.
Yet another fact that intersested me was sensory interaction, the ability of one sense to influence the other. Before i read this, i never made the connection that other senses can influence how another sense works. For instance, everyone has smelled dead fish, its a horrible smell. The funny thing is that when i ate a jelly bean flavored dead fish it "tastes like it smelled." Through our sense of smell, we can partially understand how things taste by their strong odors. Another example is that the air above the blacktop on a hot summer day "rippling," shows us that it must be hot outside.