Imagine Goodness

Imagine using the power of your mind for good. Research has shown that the mind has a powerful impact upon our experience of life. Our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions can enhance or reduce the effectiveness of medical treatments, and influence the production of neurotransmitters in the brain and body. Neuroscience has demonstrated that our perception of ‘reality’ includes stories that are fabricated by the frontal lobes of the brain. And that everything we think we see ‘out there’ is an image that our brain has created, based upon the assumptions that our life experience has caused us to make. Furthermore, science continues to explore the quality of neuroplasticity - the brain’s natural ability to re-wire itself - and what it implies about the human capacity to change the physical structure of how our brains process information about life.

In our modern world, we are inundated with bad news about what’s happening ‘out there.’ Even the CDC has acknowledged the stressful impact that the news is having upon people living through the Covid-19 pandemic. But Covid has also demonstrated the resilience of the human ‘psychological immune system,’ further highlighting the power of the meanings we ascribe to our experiences. In fact, cognitive scientists name “increased elaboration of negative information” (negative rumination) as one of the major cognitive processes associated with depression.

We become depressed, apathetic and pessimistic about life when we believe that there is an objectively ‘bad’ reality out there, which we lack the power to do anything about. A lack of perceived Solutions disrupts our Peace. We use our minds to recreate problems we believe to be inevitable. We shake our heads in consternation, and long for the simple days of the past. We become so convinced that what we are seeing is “real,” that we dismiss any evidence that doesn’t match the patterns of doom we label “Reality.”

But if ‘Reality’ is a subjective experience created, in part, by the beliefs and stories that we choose to entertain, and if we have the power to reshape the way our brain perceives ‘Reality’, why not use our powerful minds to Imagine Goodness?

Benevolent Concepts is a connective hub for information, perspectives, tools, experiences, and inspiration that present reasons to Imagine Goodness - for Self, Family, Community, the World… and Beyond!