Think of the word, “Concentration” and the phrase, “from Concentrate”
“This juice is from concentrate.”
“I need to concentrate on my homework.”
Words are important in our society because they convey levels of meaning with minimal effort and cost.
When we think, we think. Some people think hard. Other people think about nothing.
But when we concentrate…everyone concentrates the same way. There is a focusing of the eyes. Perhaps a slight furrowing of brow takes place.
What is truly happening when people concentrate on a subject?
Some might say that chemicals are being excreted by the brain…and that’s true.
Others might say that the body becomes tense, and that could be true as well.
But if it has to do with chemicals and tenseness, then why isn’t the act called, ex-something or synth-something. Concentration is already a word for something.
And that word means compression.
When one concentrates, he or she compresses her focus. She compresses the surface area of which shall be affected by her energy.
When an archer concentrates and examines a target from far away, everything outside of the target area goes out of focus. It is much like a predator lion stalking its prey. It zooms in on what is wants to see.
So there is compression in the first sense, narrowing the focus, onto something either mentally or physically tangible.
But there is another level to concentration. And this is what I think is not talked about in great enough detail.
When one concentrates, it does not happen inside the mind. It is throughout the entire body…and most especially in the head/face area.
The muscles in the face tighten, the brow furrows and then the brain…which resembles finely fitted tectonic plates above an irregular planet…becomes squeezed.
Our physical brains become compressed during the act of concentration.
But what is the product of this concentration?
For juices it is simple. If you squeeze berries or fruits. You get delicious juices. Some manufacturers makes juices, “from concentrate” so they squeeze a great deal of fruits together and freeze it in order to preserve the stuff. It’s not as fresh and fresh juice. It’s from concentrate.
But what about people? What do we make?
Well, from the picture above, it looks like there’s little cute organelles or perhaps sub-units in the brain. Some of them even have names, pituitary gland, pineal gland and so on. And if you look at their locations, well, those locations look pretty darn close to geometric compression points within the brain.
That’s just another way of saying, if you squeeze the brain in a semi-uniform way…the brain is going to put pressure at certain points more often than other points. It’s kind of like how when you crumple a piece of paper as hard or as densely as you can, it almost always squeezes into a spherical shape.
So maybe our brains make chemicals when they concentrate.
Chemicals.
How dull.
-Tyler