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- Title
- DISCOVERING THE UNKNOWN
- Author
- Balakrishnan, Sreejith
- Publisher
- WENDE
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798171734336
- Item weight
- 341 grams
A Journey into the Hidden Architecture of the Mind—and the Patterns That Shape Your Life
Why do you think the thoughts you think?
Why do you repeat behaviours you promised yourself you would stop?
Why can one person see opportunity where another sees danger?
Can you actually change the patterns that shape your life?
DISCOVERING THE UNKNOWN takes you on a journey beneath the surface of everyday experience—to explore the hidden architecture of the human mind and the patterns that influence how you think, feel, decide, learn, behave, and become.
Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, behavioural science, consciousness studies, sleep research, meditation, and ancient Indian traditions, this book explores a simple but powerful idea:
You may not have consciously designed the mind you live with—but you can learn to understand it, work with it, and train parts of it.
You will discover why your brain relies on prediction, how attention shapes what you notice, how childhood and experience influence behaviour, why habits become automatic, how emotions can arise before conscious reasoning, and why your memory is far less reliable than it feels.
But this is not simply a book about how the brain works.
It is a book about what you can do with that knowledge.
You will explore practical approaches to:
• recognize your automatic patterns
• understand your triggers and reactions
• build better habits
• strengthen attention and focus
• learn skills more effectively
• turn intention into action
• develop confidence through competence and courage
• understand motivation and goal pursuit
• use visualization without magical thinking
• understand why manifestation can sometimes appear to work
• recover from setbacks and use failure as feedback
• improve your relationship with yourself
• experiment with deliberate personal change
The book also ventures into some of the most fascinating questions we still cannot fully answer.
What is consciousness?
Where does subjective experience come from?
Why do we dream?
Can intuition know something before conscious awareness?
What is the self?
Can ancient practices such as meditation, yoga, breathwork, and Vipassana reveal something about the mind that modern science is only beginning to investigate?
And ultimately:
How much of who you are can actually change?
Rather than offering easy answers or promising unlimited control, DISCOVERING THE UNKNOWN invites you to become an observer of your own mind—and eventually, an experimenter.
Notice a pattern.
Question it.
Test it.
Change what you can.
Learn from what you cannot.
Because understanding yourself is not the end of the journey.
It is where the journey begins.
If you have ever wondered why you are the way you are—and whether you can become something different—this book is for you.
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PBShop.store UK
Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since June 11, 1999
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
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