Chapter VII Mobilizing Energy 161
CHAPTER 7.
Mobilizing Energy
Cognitive processes and energy
Throughout this book we have been talking about cognitive processes, meaning any process that the brain organizes in order to accomplish a task or perform other cognitive goal-oriented activity. For example, thinking as a means of planning, envisioning or studying to learn something.
Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, distributed the mental system in two main functional cognitive areas: the area of perception and the area of judgment. According to Dr. Jung, every cognitive process contains elements of either one or both of these functional areas. Extending Jung’s idea into the field of cognitive energy, we might draw a conclusion that the initiative to launch an energetic cognitive process comes from either of the functional areas of the mental system.
Have you ever lain on your bed thinking that you will never rise up again? That you are no good and no-one needs you? And, that this is it, the end? Then suddenly something grasps your mind and you notice that you are creating or processing a thought of something? Or you have actually risen up and started to do something? Amidst your lolling, the brain has perceived something that has activated your energy to start a cognitive process that leads to a mental or a physical action (or actually both – there cannot be physical action without mental activity).
Mobilizing Energy
Cognitive processes and energy
Throughout this book we have been talking about cognitive processes, meaning any process that the brain organizes in order to accomplish a task or perform other cognitive goal-oriented activity. For example, thinking as a means of planning, envisioning or studying to learn something.
Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, distributed the mental system in two main functional cognitive areas: the area of perception and the area of judgment. According to Dr. Jung, every cognitive process contains elements of either one or both of these functional areas. Extending Jung’s idea into the field of cognitive energy, we might draw a conclusion that the initiative to launch an energetic cognitive process comes from either of the functional areas of the mental system.
Have you ever lain on your bed thinking that you will never rise up again? That you are no good and no-one needs you? And, that this is it, the end? Then suddenly something grasps your mind and you notice that you are creating or processing a thought of something? Or you have actually risen up and started to do something? Amidst your lolling, the brain has perceived something that has activated your energy to start a cognitive process that leads to a mental or a physical action (or actually both – there cannot be physical action without mental activity).
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