Tarek Kareem Harris – S1E2 – Overview Of The Muslim Mind. A Doctor (Psychiatrist) Combines Neuroscience With Religion

			It's mental health with Dr. tk Harris Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem.
		

			Welcome to Instant insights, part two. In this video, we will inshallah talk about the three main
parts of the Muslim mind and the various functions of those parts. Please, could you subscribe and
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			Allah has given us our brain, the main gift that separates us from the animals. How do we begin to
take control of our minds and our behavior in a way that is sympathetic to how we're made.
		

			We can't just do it with baseless hope. We have to do what you are doing now. We'll learn and
understand and apply what we learn. So let's take a look at the basic model. There are three parts
that we need to be concerned with. Let's start at the left, emotions and ego together make the
knifes at the top, you've got your true self, which is your heart, the seat of your wisdom and the
finest personality. To the right, you've got the intellect, which is the knowledge and the problem
solving part. This simple model of understanding the mind will appear repeatedly throughout all of
these videos, you should know that the heart that we're referring to is not the physical heart in
		

			your chest, but the heart of your mind. This is the highest level of your consciousness. And
medically we know Alhamdulillah that each of these three parts that knifes the intellect and the
heart can indeed be shown to map onto different regions of the brain.
		

			So let's examine how the brain develops. Because if we know this, then we can understand how the
different components can interact, and how we can use these parts of the mind to understand how we
grow and learn.
		

			In order of development over time, we can look at this picture. The first part that we're all born
with is the knifes it's permanent. So it's there from infancy from birth, and it stays with us until
we die.
		

			life could be said to be spent trying to make the best of our emotions and instincts, the so called
jihadi knifes the glorious struggle to be better than just our basic emotions, taming them from
going overboard. remember from the last video we talked about The Taming of the forces that knifes
the knifes can be to our benefit, or to our detriment, and we'll talk about that more in future
videos. The second part is the intellect. The intellect is like your minds computer or calculator.
It's dormant when we're first born in that newborn babies and infants aren't obviously intellectual.
But the intellect gets going pretty quickly in childhood. It's that part we use to help learn facts
		

			and rules. And where we learn how to solve problems, to work with others or to become skilled at
something as we get older. The intellect especially develops things that it's naturally good at. We
all have individual strengths and types of intelligence, to discover and to develop as we further
ourselves. It is a very adaptable and individual gift given to us, by God all praises to him. So
next we come to the heart or the true self. This is what we are measured on by Allah. It's the part
that comes along between childhood and adulthood. It's where we develop the sense of who we are, how
we really take command of ourselves and our destiny, how we relate to others, and how our character
		

			is the heart is the seat of our wisdom and our decisions. We can choose to develop it and if we do,
the rewards are magnificent, both materially and in matters of spirituality and religion. The heart
holds our purposes, our spiritual values. It's also like the inner eye, which gives us the ability
to look into ourselves, and to be mindful of our actions and our conduct. The better you understand
what's going on inside you, the easier you can bring out the better parts of yourself to be in
whichever situation you're facing. The picture here is that of an ideal scenario of how decisions
are made.
		

			As you can see, what we've got here is the knifes on the one hand, giving us the feelings, the
emotions and the instinctive reactions to things. And on the other side, we have the intellect,
which is knowing the facts and using logic to work things out to question and analyze them to find
the truth. And together, these two parts inform the heart your true self which is in the middle
		

			your true self then looks at these things, compares them to each other, and adds its own judgment
and memory and wisdom, helping you to make a decision that is hopefully the wisest way forward. You
calmly accept the chance that you're not aiming to be perfect. It's about trying to accept the
reality and knowing that we might be wrong, but doing the best we can. For now,
		

			all of this process doesn't happen automatically. In fact, for most people, things are a bit more
primitive. If we look at this little picture, you'll see what I mean. This is what it's like, for a
lot of human behavior, impulsive actions and decisions driven by the knifes, for most people enough
is quite a troublesome part. It's faster and more powerful than the intellect and it leads us to
make decisions, sometimes based on nothing more than temptations or impressions. It can occasionally
help because it's designed to deal with emergencies. But overall, it's quite a blunt and troublesome
way to live, if that's all you live by.
		

			So, in the next video, we'll look more closely at the knifes because we need to know its true nature
before we can hope to control and understand our emotions. It's neither good nor bad, but it is
powerful and we can make use of it if we take time to understand it. Again, please like and
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