Power of the mind can mean different things or phenomenons in different concepts. Thus, it can refer to the psychic powers that rare individuals possess or develop that enables them to perceive things from the environment that are otherwise not perceivable by the five ordinary sense organs. Such power of the mind is developed in the course of advanced meditation or in some cases during near death experiences.

Did you know that the human mind uses only 10% of its capacity? Going by this, it would be beyond our grasp, to gauge the actual extent of how much power the human mind possesses. The word miracle might as well lose its significance and would not appear in the dictionary as well, if the subconscious mind could be controlled and its power fully utilized.

Who has not heard about spiritual saints residing in the farthest of places, meditating higher up in the mountains for realizing the ultimate truth pertaining to spirituality, by releasing their power of mind to the fullest? By liberating the power of mind, impossibilities like rising in the air, causing downpour, foreseeing the future and moving substance can be achieved.

Some of the well known supernatural powers of mind are Telepathy, Precognition and Clairvoyance. Telepathy is mind-reading while precognition enables foretelling the future. By clairvoyance one can clearly see things or incidents occurring at the other part of the world, which is otherwise impossible to see. Another unusual power of the mind, Psychokinesis, is the power of thought by which physical substance can be stirred.

Apart from these psychic powers of the mind, new age concepts on spirituality are also centered around the concept of power of the mind of an individual instead of following a particular religious path. The Law of attraction can be mentioned in this regard which states that if a person wants something badly, he can manifest the object of his desire in reality through the power of his mind.

In order to make the law of attraction work, one must not only believe that the object of his desire is imminent, but he must also picture himself getting it, thereby centering all his energies into accomplishing the same. This is how the power of mind attracts the object of craving from the universe, which thereby actually materializes in the person’s life.

In complex and higher meditational practices, the power of mind takes one step forward with Astral Projection. Here, the conscious mind after separating itself from one’s physical body travels in its astral body form and makes a journey into another dimension or astral plane. By this out-of-the-body experience one observes himself and the world by being aloof.

Another practice of this same genre is known as Lucid dreaming. Here, while one’s body can sleep, it can also keep an absolutely conscious and alert mind at the same time, by using the power of the mind. A lucid dreamer by the power of his mind can consciously explore the dream world by going anywhere and doing anything according to his mind’s desire. Therefore, it can be concluded that the mind’s power is vast and one’s destiny can be contoured by controlling it.