Next time someone asks you ‘Do you have brains?’, tell them you have THREE of them. Yes you really do. We all have three brains, one in the head, one in the heart and one in the gut. No kidding! It’s a proven fact of neurological science. And it’s also proven that the brains in the heart and the gut are far more powerful than the one in the head!

What that tells me is that I need to use my head less often. Ah, what a relief! Have you ever faced a situation where you’ve thought and thought.. and thought and thought.. and the more you thought, the more confused you got? And you concluded.. “My brains are just not working!” Well, maybe the problem was not with the brain. Maybe, you just used the WRONG one.

I was fascinated when I read about the three brains’ theory. But then there was a bigger problem. How do you know when to use which brain? I mean… you’ll still need to use ONE of the three brains to decide WHICH of the three brains is best suited to handle a particular kind of decision!!! To be honest, I really don’t know the answer. But I definitely do know, and believe, that I have THREE brains, TWO of them are more powerful than the third (and are mostly underused) and the use of each ONE of them (and sometimes all of them together) will help me live up to my true potential.

The best thing about our mind (Whew! Another abstract concept!) is that it is so fast, it doesn’t really have to go through such an analytical process to figure out which brain to use. I suppose it simply taps into one of the three centers of intelligence and starts using it. It all happens so subconsciously.

And that is perhaps where our conscious mind comes in. That’s when we ought to pause and force ourselves to consciously ‘ASK’ our other intelligence centers to contribute to the decision. That’s when we need to be aware of how we FEEL rather than just about what we THINK.

Maybe one of the brains will dominate your mind when you’re taking a decision. To put it in simpler terms, maybe your rational mind will appeal to you more, or maybe the rational mind may present a strong case to you, but your emotions will overpower the decision. Or maybe there’s no rational or emotional thinking and you may just be guided by a HUNCH or a GUT FEEL!

And that’s really fine.. as long as you give all your three brains a chance. And better still help them to network amongst one another and make them work as a TEAM! Sometimes decisions happen in a flash of a second. Completely on impulse. And if you’ve trained your mind enough to be ‘aware’ and use the ‘POWER OF THREE’, a flash of a second is all they’ll need to concur between themselves and guide you on the decision.

So next time someone tells you something like “I-know-what-I’m-doing-does-not-logically-make-sense-but-I’m-doing-it-because-my-heart-tells-me-to-do-it..” don’t dismiss him as someone who’s not using his brains. Maybe he is. All Three of them.

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