Mental Systems Theory

By Juan Martín Figini

MENTAL SYSTEMS THEORY

This book offers a unique and extremely useful model of the mind mechanism and its connections with the soul and the body. It develops a set of concepts and laws that explain the mind phenomena and lay the foundations for a simple and highly effective method that improves the human systems' quality of life.

This model can be applied in several fields and disciplines such as Business Administration, Psychology, Sociology, Education, Communication, Sports, Medicine, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468524307

Juan Martín Figini

Juan Martín Figini ha dedicado su carrera a la comprensión y el desarrollo del ser humano en el medio social. Publicó la primera versión de la Teoría de los Sistemas Mentales en el año 2009 y su versión en inglés, Mental Systems Theory, en 2012. Esta obra ofrece un modelo sobre el funcionamiento de la mente y su relación con el alma y con el cuerpo, desarrollando un conjunto de conceptos y leyes que explican los fenómenos mentales y su responsabilidad en la gestación de las emociones y los comportamientos, con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de los seres humanos. Asimismo, ha desarrollado la Ingeniería de los Sistemas Mentales, una disciplina que tiene la finalidad de comprender y operar en el sistema mental para reestructurar el sistema de creencias de acuerdo al estado deseado que el sistema humano anhela alcanzar. Ha diseñado e implementado diversos sistemas de entrenamiento basados en la Ingeniería de los Sistemas Mentales, incluyendo el Programa de Desarrollo Vocacional, el Entrenamiento Mental para Deportistas, el Programa de Evolución Personal, entre otros. Se ha desempeñado como consultor de Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Inglaterra. Ha desarrollado diversos programas educativos para el British Council entre ellos: Successful Teamwork y Words create Worlds. Es licenciado en Ciencia Política de la Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. Realizó una tesis de licenciatura titulada Alienación en Rousseau: Crítica Social y Proyecto Pedagógico, que recibió por parte del jurado académico de la Universidad de San Andrés la máxima calificación de diez puntos. Cursó, además, la licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales en dicha universidad. Recibió una beca completa otorgada por la Weatherhead School of Business, Case Western Reserve University, USA, donde realizó el posgrado: Appreciative Inquiry Certificate in Positive Business and Society Change. Posee los títulos de posgrado en Modelos y Herramientas del Coaching Ontológico y posgrado en Técnicas y Dinámicas de Intervención del Coaching, de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Es master en Programación Neurolingüística, aprobado por el Southern Institute of NLP, The Society of NLP, International NLP, USA. Recibió la Certificación Internacional en Coaching de la International Coaching Community (ICC), habiendo sido evaluado y aprobado por Joseph O'Connor. Además, recibió la certificación en el Fundamental Course y en el Nivel Advance de EFT −The Emotional Freedom Techniques− por The EFT Certificate of Completion Program, USA. Además, realizó los cursos: “Fenomenología de la intersubjetividad y su importancia para la comprensión de las enfermedades mentales”, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA); “Yo, sujeto e identidad. El nacimiento de estos conceptos en la Edad Moderna (Siglos XVII y XVIII)”, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) y “El modo de ser del sujeto humano en la filosofía de Kant y Hegel”, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA).

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

THE MENTAL SYSTEM

CONCLUSION

GLOSSARY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To my wife and my family, for believing in me and for all their love.

To my friends, who express enormous affection for who I am and what I do.

To my patients, who fill me with gratification and joy in achieving their goals and their deepest desires.

To God for life, purpose, and his infinite love.

PREFACE

The Mental Systems Theory was created because I needed to understand myself in order to develop different solutions to several traumas I was suffering.

After years of research and reflection, I was able to finish this book, which is the first chapter of this philosophical theory about the mind.

I really enjoyed this process of creation and I love the idea that this work can help people to solve their mental and emotional problems.

This model can be applied in several fields and disciplines such as Business Administration, Psychology, Sociology, Education, Communication, Sports, Medicine, and more.

I believe that if we all achieve a better understanding of how our minds work we can find many solutions to a great number of problems in different areas of human manifestation.

Juan Martín Figini

Author

21/11/11

INTRODUCTION

The Mental Systems Theory was born with a clear purpose: to improve human beings’ quality of life.

Towards this end, I spent years of research in the study of the human phenomenon, being able to find a fundamental premise: both our emotional well-being and our whole reality are built around the thoughts we generate. In turn, our thoughts are the emergent property of our belief system.

If this statement is true, is there a way to redefine our belief structure? If the answer is yes, what resources do we need to accomplish this task?

A resource that is a necessary condition for being able to define our particular way of being, is an understanding of how the mind works. And that is precisely what this book provides.

Both our emotional well-being and our whole reality are built around the thoughts we generate.

This work has been designed to offer the reader a model of the mind mechanism and its connections with the soul and the body.

To fulfill this purpose I have developed a set of concepts and laws which explain the mind phenomena.

I hope that the knowledge about mental systems offered by this book will be useful to understand the power we all have to design our lives.

THE MENTAL SYSTEM

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERACTIONS

A system is an entity whose existence and operations are justified as a whole through the interaction of its parts.¹ Following this definition, the mental system is an energy field of information whose existence and operations are justified as a whole through the interaction of the mental sensory system and the belief system.

All that is captured by the biological system of perception is then decoded by the brain in the form of electromagnetic waves. Those waves are then transmitted to the mental system.²

This input received by the mental system is captured by the mental sensory subsystem whose function is to transform the electromagnetic waves into sensory images, through the auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and sensitive subsystems.³

The mental system is an energy field of information whose existence and