The Corridor of the Mind
The Universe spins off the Mind.
-Pius Yao Ashiara
Man/Woman and Mind
3. + 50 years – Upward
(Old Age or Senior Years)
(Accumulated Experience of Man and Woman: the fruit of Life)
2. + 20 years – 50 years
(Middle-Age -- The Growing Years of Man and Woman: the efforts and work of Life)
1. + Day 1 – 20 years
(Youth – base for Man and Woman -- Base of the Mind of Man and Woman: the ConcreteFoundation of Life)
There are three stages of life – 1. Youth (the ConcreteFoundation of life); 2. Middle-Years: The growing years -- the effort and work of life and 3. Old Age –Senior Years: The fruit of Life. Youth is the primary and the main stage of all the three. It is where the foundation of the mind must be laid at the start of life. It is the highway of the mind that must be tarred with bitumen to make traveling easy. Looking at a house, it is the ConcreteFoundation of life where all depend. This period must be the development of thinking and applied to the workings of the mind until it governs the mind. The GREATMIND Thinking Triangle: Thinking, stimulation and reflection should be the platform for the mind before any learning takes place.
The GREATMIND Thinking Triangle presents three great elements at the Corridor of the Mind – Thinking, Stimulation and Reflection. These elements build the mind into a tree: the roots, stem and the branches. The roots hold the tree in one place, but the ConcreteFoundation of a house holds the mind in one place. The stem holds the base (roots) and the branches together, but the middle-years hold youth and old age (senior years) together.
Thinking at the Corridor of the Mind: Thinking is work by itself. Thinking is authority on the mind. It is the steering of the mind. It is an active form of direction for the mind to be cultivated and grow the mind. Brain storming, Creativity, digging, searching, inquiry, investigation, studies are all building blocks of thinking. It is an active process. The mind’s path is to be lain with a Concrete Construction Foundation to make the mind strong enough to handle all works given to it.
Stimulation at the Corridor of the Mind: Stimulation is brainstorming of the mind. It is a searchlight that goes around the mind bombarding everywhere in the mind to create ideas. It is stirring coffee with its contents – sugar, honey, milk or marshmallow to blend into a whole. This is the path where the mind could be trained to be a master doer.
Reflection at the Corridor of the Mind: Reflection is a recall of the mind from the look at things in different kinds of modes. It is looking into the rearview mirror of the mind to catch a glimpse of what is by-pass. It is to question what the eyes have seen, but doubts, making sure it is the right thing.
On Mountaintop of Corridor of the Mind: old age (senior years). We have reached the top of the mountain, now we must look down and check the valley to discover our missing steps. Too late to fill the missing steps but they can provide guide and counsel to those behind and the next generation.
Parents and Guardians: Day 1 to 5 years should be the place to train children in mind development with the GREATMIND Thinking Triangle: Thinking, Stimulation and Reflection. Every moment should be used repeating these words to the mind. These three elements should be posted in a child’s room after prayer and cereal should be a recitation before a child goes to school in the morning. This should be learned and embedded in the mind before the alphabets which becomes the foundation of the mind. This constitutes a thinking class for a child. With this, he has formed a direction for the mind through the formation of the ConcreteFoundation.
 This is shown through the structure of a house: beginning with the foundation, then the walls and eventually the roof. The foundation is youth and the walls are middle age and the roof which could be seen anywhere is old age or senior years. Thinking must be developed before the alphabets. By so doing we lay the proper foundation for learning in life. We have 26 alphabets that are learned thoroughly in early life by a child before he begins to write words and then sentences. The same way the GREATMIND Thinking Triangle – thinking, stimulation and reflection should be learned by rote until it becomes familiar with the mind.
We should actually follow three steps in learning – the GREATMIND Thinking Triangle: thinking, stimulation and reflection, the alphabets, then ultimately academic education, but we skipped thinking, stimulation and reflection and went straight to learn the alphabets. |
