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We know what muscle memory is, muscle memory is your body adapting to become more proficient at a task the more you do it. It becomes second nature. the term I like to use for this is "Knowing" how to do something, Knowledge is something that you have acquired that you KNOW. Not just information that you can remember. But you know, like tell me how to talk? you can tell me what the body does when we talk, but you probably couldn't tell me "how" to do it. So you have the knowledge of how to talk, but you don't have an understanding. Information you can understand, but Knowledge can only be gained by doing! This is muscle memory, your body, actually your MIND knowing how to best handle the situation because you're done it so many times before that it becomes natural.
Okay moving on, The next little nugget of information I need you to understand, is that muscle memory is genetic, A professional athletes child will be more apt to become a "natural" at that sport. My belief is because the muscle memory is passed down from generation to generation. So then muscle memory would pretty much be evolution in action. Not freak mutations that we cling to, but rather ways that we used a trait and continued to build upon it generation after generation, because each new generation can master what their parents knew and did at a younger age than the parents, they then can take it further so that their children will be able to take it farther than they have, and so on and so forth.
If that's the case, then where is this muscle memory stored? this Knowledge as I like to call it. It must be stored in the DNA, I believe that DNA is basically the hard drive of our beings, and the mind is the motherboard that reads and writes to it. The 95% "junk" DNA I believe is where all this Knowledge is stored and passed down.
Alright now for the part that REALLY gets me excited.
Is the mind not a muscle in and of itself? So the mind has complete control over the body and records into the DNA what it learns through doing. How would that principal apply to the mind controlling itself? Thought and Decision. Decision is the "doing" of the mind. That is why it is so hard to break habits and create new ones. Because just like if you are a right handed batter in baseball, trying to swing lefty will be difficult until you train your body to do it. So what if the predisposition to always make the similar choice is part of who you are based on the information your mind has encoded into your DNA. It follows the same thought process all the time because you always CHOOSE to follow that thought process and so you record that muscle memory and it becomes easier and easier to decide that way. Like Jesus said, as above so below. What ever you decide in your mind you want to be, and you choose to act on it, and eventually you will become that, because your mind will eventually recognize the pattern just like it does with how to throw a ball, and how to catch, or ride a bike, all these things. It works the same for your mind.
Your mind decides, that is the action of your mind. I read somewhere that your decision was made before you were ever even presented with the decision and before i put it into context that was a scary thought. How can I make a decision without knowing all the variables. and in this context it explains, that basically choice is your pattern of analyzing the situation and taking in the variables and creating your answer. so if you decide with the same logic, you will always use that same logic, unless you CHOOSE to make the different choice, but just like everything else in the world, we do what we know, and I believe thats because what we "know" has been recorded as "muscle memory" on that 95% DNA that we classify as JUNK. How many tims have any of us thought at all that " I should do this right now" only to find yourself putting it off to procrastinate on something else.
Okay more fun stuff.
I think that "love" is the magnification of, hmm how to say this, maybe the desire to make sure the human race lives on. I forgot what its called, but basically its the grown up version of putting the well being of the species above your own well being. because if you Love, you put that person before yourself. So take all of this and put it all together.
The conclusion I came to was very powerful to me and I NEED to talk to people who can validate or dismiss this ginger. Put me in touch with the right people, because this is just a summary.

All we have to do is CHOOSE to live like this and I think we will learn this is the RIGHT way and will learn it and embrace it even faster. Because we understand all of this is right. we teach this information to our kids. but kids learn from example so even though everyone understands the information is correct, no one chooses to act on it. I believe that if we start acting on it we will transition to KNOWING it. because you can only KNOW from deciding to do it and following through, then it starts becoming a part of you after awhile. But if we keep living the examples of greed and individualism then we are just building upon what we have always done and we will never change, no matter how much information we remember and understand. Cause you cant KNOW it till you do it.

What you are is a dynamic which comes to point in any given moment, representing your entire life history. The only thing in control is evolution as one moment evolves into the next.
I don't agree with much of what you said, but I want you to know I did read it.


Delete muscle memory and say the rest of it. Muscle memory seems significant to you for some reason, but has nothing to do with other things you are talking about.
It's good to talk about action and think in terms of action, but this has to do with evolution and we tend to change in light of actions we do, over the long term, as a species.
Self is a good thing to talk about. The idea of self is supported in both neuroscience and psychology. If you rephrase your verbiage about control in terms of self instead, it might be more readable.

I read about an oral implant device that helped patients with balance issues. The implant was essentially a gyro that emitted 'champagne bubble' like feedback when the patient leaned one way or another. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Welcome, Matt! :)
Christian.

Matt wrote: "I need some help finding a reference.
I read about an oral implant device that helped patients with balance issues. The implant was essentially a gyro that emitted 'champagne bubble' like feedback..."
This was also discussed by Norman Doidge in his book The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Dr. Doidge was interviewed in BSP 26.
But since the original work was by Paul Bach-y-rita (as noted by Christian) you might Google his name. Also, as I recall people with this condition are called "Wobblers" so you might Google the combo.
I read about an oral implant device that helped patients with balance issues. The implant was essentially a gyro that emitted 'champagne bubble' like feedback..."
This was also discussed by Norman Doidge in his book The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Dr. Doidge was interviewed in BSP 26.
But since the original work was by Paul Bach-y-rita (as noted by Christian) you might Google his name. Also, as I recall people with this condition are called "Wobblers" so you might Google the combo.
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