Our brains are composed of 80% water. The tangible brain contains the intangible mind filled with thoughts running through it instead of water. As contaminated water can damage our bodies, polluted thoughts can damage our minds as well. This presentation shows the network of intangibles that interact and affect our decisions. Turbulent thinking and the need to 'still' our thoughts are discussed with the derivation of lessons.

1. Clean
Your
Mind
CacheAli Anani, PhD

2. Information Flows
Like Water:
Water flow pressure and
information flow pressure

3. Information Flows
Like Water:
Water flow pressure and
information flow pressure
Very rapid information flow causes:
Stress
Feelings of unhappiness
Feeling at loss what to do and
Loss of direction

4. Information Flows Like Water:
Water flow pressure and information flow
pressure
Very rapid information flow causes:
Stress Feelings of unhappiness Feeling at loss
what to do and Loss of direction
Loss in productivity

5. Humans
are
bodies
of
water

6. Brain 80% water
Rest 20%
Remember
the 20/80
Rule?

7. Keep the
20% brain clean
to assist
keeping the
80% water
clean

8. Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away
rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. … This is another
paradox: what is soft is strong.
“ Tao Te Ching”

9. Is the quality of our brains and hearts
linked to the quality of water that runs
in our bodies?
With what do we fill this water?
Is the water turbid?
What turbid water will do to us?
How deep is this water?

10. We are aware of the
ecosystems of
tangibles and how
they interact with
each other

11. How about ecosystems of
intangibles and how do they
interact with each other?

12. And mainly ecosystems that have
water as a major component
How about ecosystems of
intangibles and how do they
interact with each other?

13. Let’s envisage an intangible
water-based ecosystem

14. Intangibles Ecosystem
1. Humidity in the brain decays
the “Thoughts Tree”
2. The deacying trunk provides
an opportunity for new
“Thought Plants” to grow
3. The tiny “thoughts plants”
feed the bugs that
disturb the mind
4. Bugs become
the food for
the “frogs in the Mind”
5. The frog becomes food
for the “Snaky Thoughts”
in the mind

15. I imagine that for every
tangible fact there
exists an equivalent
intangible one
Brain VS Mind
Eyes VS Sight or Vision
Hand VS Touch

16. I imagine that for every
tangible fact there
exists an equivalent
intangible one
Frog in the rain VS Frog in the brain

17. Intangibles Ecosystem
1. Humidity in the brain decays
the “Thoughts Tree”
2. The deacying trunk provides
an opportunity for new
“Thought Plants” to grow
3. The tiny “thoughts plants”
feed the bugs that
disturb the mind
4. Bugs become
the food for
the “frogs in the Mind”
5. The frog becomes food
for the “Snaky Thoughts”
in the mind
Bad experiences cause
tornados in the mind and
these cause “Frog Rain”

18. Intangibles Ecosystem
1. Humidity in the brain decays
the “Thoughts Tree”
2. The deacying trunk provides
an opportunity for new
“Thought Plants” to grow
3. The tiny “thoughts plants”
feed the bugs that
disturb the mind
4. Bugs become
the food for
the “frogs in the Mind”
5. The frog becomes food
for the “Snaky Thoughts”
in the mind
Bad experiences cause
tornados in the mind and
these cause “Frog Rain”
Thoughts decay

19. Bacteria in our brains
Until recently, scientists would
have said no way. Now, that view
is beginning to shift, with
increasing evidence that bacteria
do sneak in.

20. Bacteria in our brains
Until recently, scientists would
have said no way. Now, that view
is beginning to shift, with
increasing evidence that bacteria
do sneak in.
Bacteria in the brain and
bacteria of thoughts in
the mind

21. Mind Pond
1. Humidity in the brain decays
the “Thoughts Tree”
2. The deacying trunk provides
an opportunity for new
“Thought Plants” to grow
3. The tiny “thoughts plants”
feed the bugs that
disturb the mind
4. Bugs become
the food for
the “frogs in the Mind”
5. The frog becomes food
for the “Snaky Thoughts”
in the mind

22. Mind Pond
1. Humidity in the brain decays
the “Thoughts Tree”
2. The deacying trunk provides
an opportunity for new
“Thought Plants” to grow
3. The tiny “thoughts plants”
feed the bugs that
disturb the mind
4. Bugs become
the food for
the “frogs in the Mind”
5. The frog becomes food
for the “Snaky Thoughts”
in the mind
Pebbles change
the flow of thoughts

23. Stone minds
They are like pebbles in
water and change the flow
of your thinking
What happens when they collide?

24. How to clean your mind?
We’re learning more about why sleep is so important.
According to an interesting set of recent studies, sleep
provides your brain with the opportunity to essentially
clean itself. One researcher compares your brain to an
aquarium: “Think about a fish tank. If you have a tank and
no filter, the fish will eventually die. So, how do the brain
cells get rid of their waste? Where is their filter?” I’m an
insomniac with seventy-five open browser tabs. My
aquarium is a swamp.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/13/your-brain-is-
like-a-fish-tank-and-other-fascinating-news-on-the-web/

25. That pond of water in your
mind should remain clean
and free of negative
thoughts that grow the
weeds of evil

26. We empty the computer
cache to:
free up space and help
protect your privacy

27. We empty the computer
cache to:
free up space and help
protect your privacy
Likewise; empty the cache of your mind of bad
thoughts to protect your personality and
coherence

28. Don’t pollute the water
in your mind
Do you need healthy environment to work
productively and purposefully?
So does your mind

29. Who generates evil?
Evil minds are like the browser
cache if a virus or other parasite
has been downloaded without
your knowing it destroys your
computer or degrades its
performance. Then

30. Don’t let your mind download
negative (rain) e-thoughts for
they shall poison the water that
runs in your brain

31. If water is moving very fast, the
revealing ripples of a swimming
body dissipates so quickly such
that you may not notice them

32. If water is moving very fast, the
revealing ripples of a swimming
body dissipates so quickly such
that you may not notice them
You need to pause so that the ripples of
ideas don’t disappear fast

33. Brainstorm in a fast moving
environment is great, but it is
greater sometimes if you
brainstorm in a slow-moving
environment

34. Restful minds might be full of
“sleeping” ideas.
They are like a soft drink it forms bubbles
if you throw pebbles in the bottle

35. The Emotional Depth of the Pond
This proverb compares aspects of the human character to
hydro- dynamics. Where a river pools, the water is deep
and still — a metaphor for intellectual depth, profound
emotion or complex motives. Conversely, a superficial
person might be compared to a river’s swift, rocky stretch:
shallow and loud
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/go/article_c7919d62-1b47-11e3-9ac0-
0019bb2963f4.html?mode=jqm

36. when a sheep drinks from a
stream of water Sheep drink
from flat and still waters.

37. when a sheep drinks from a
stream of water Sheep drink
from flat and still waters.
Having a still mind might be the best way to
“water” some people.

38. The rise of a trout in still water is
entirely different from a rise in a
brook or a stream
Compared to the urgent rises of trout in moving water, still
water trout produce a more languorous (lazy) and sensuous
(affecting the senses in a pleasing way) disturbance
http://midcurrent.com/books/leadeth-me-beside-still-waters/

39. Ideas are like trout- they may
create more observable ripples in
still water than fast-moving
waters

40. If you put a frog in boiling water,
it will jump out and avoid being
cooked. However, if you put a
frog in cold water and slowly raise
the temperature to boiling, it will
happily hang about until it’s
cuisses de grenouilles soupe.

41. Your feelings affect the flow
of water in your brain
“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it
as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger
that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom
to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to
forget.
http://internal-acceptance-movement.tumblr.com/post/998
0920021

42. You need your mind to flow
and you need it to rest

43. Water in mind and in body
Emotions are like wind: mild, strong,
stormy…
Still water
Flowing water
Mind is
the container
of water

44. Water flow is the continuous
movement water molecules
from one place to another
The flow of water is smooth be-
cause all the water molecules
move, at more or less the same
speed, in the same direction

45. The flow of water is smooth
because all the water molecules
move, at more or less the same
speed, in the same direction

46. The flow of water is smooth
because all the water molecules
move, at more or less the same
speed, in the same direction
Opposing ideas means flow in the
opposite direction.
The flow of ideas in different
directions causes turbulence in
the mind

47. More Rush, Less Speed
Smooth running water flows faster
than turbulent water!
Turbulent
Laminar

48. Life Applications
New research indicates that these animals negotiate
turbulent waters using a special energy-conserving method
that allows them to go with the
Beneath its surface, a river is a chaotic and turbulent place.
Objects such as branches, rocks or moving fish produce
strings of small whirlpools, or “vortices” in the water
flowing past.

49. Life Applications
Mixing hot ideas with cold ideas fast creates turbulence.
It is not only creating ideas; it is also to navigate in the
turbulence

50. Business Applications
A decade ago, people were thinking about moving
through the water by brute force, trying to produce more
thrust. Now we understand how you can get through water
more efficiently by manipulating vortices.
http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1119754/all/The_Alt
ernative_Energy_Scam

51. Business Applications
The fish only need to contract their body muscles near the
head to change position among the eddies. They don’t use
all their body muscles to propel themselves forwards, as
they would in smooth currents.
http://blog.nus.edu.sg/lsm1303student2010/2010/04/09/clever-fish-really/

52. The force on an object that resists its
motion through a fluid is called drag
Material things resist changes in their velocity (this is what
it means to have mass) and no two material things may
occupy the same space at the same time (this is what it
means to have volume). The portion of the drag force that
is due to the inertia of the fluid — the resistance that it
has to being pushed aside — is called the pressure drag
(or form drag or profile drag). This is usually what
someone is referring to when they talk about drag

53. In sports we notice the effect of drag
Usually out of fear, the climber
clutches the rock with undue force,
becoming tense and burning through
her strength reserves
http://thestonemind.com/tag/efficiency/

54. Likewise; businesses may have “solid
ideas’ meaning these ideas have
velocity and volume and they may
experience the drag effect
Navigating our ways through the vortices to carry them
though with little drag is possible by emulating the way
trout do it

55. Business can keep its flow by
doing more for less

56. Narcissus, fell in love with
his own reflection
An empathic relationship is a relationship in which at least
one person in the relationship experiences and mirrors the
emotional state of the other

57. Narcissus, fell in love with
his own reflection
Your ideas and thoughts mirror your mind to the others.
Keep the water clean and the ideas clean so that you may
brand your organization with great reflections

58. Remember that:
Fusty thinking is a classic recipe for
general anxiety and unhappiness.

59. Remember that:
Fusty thinking is a classic recipe for
general anxiety and unhappiness.
Leading to fusty emotions and
turbid minds embedded in turbid
waters

60. Turn the Total Brain of Your
Organization into a great dynamic
force with great power

61. On a personal level clean yourself of
bad memories that tie you up to the
past and make your future look turbid.

62. Grudge, hatred and envy pollute the
water that runs in your brain and
mirror a negative attitude about you.
Grudge, hatred and envy pollute the
water that runs in your brain and
mirror a negative attitude about you.