If you feel that in the depths of your being you keep an amazing ability that no one knows about, you are correct. And in fact, we are all closer to a superhero than we would think.
According to various discoveries, human beings have a series of amazing abilities, mostly unknown, that we can all take advantage of at the right time.
Here are 6 of those skills you probably didn’t know about.
Thinking about being strong makes you stronger
Brian Clark, a professor at Ohio State University, conducted a study in which he demonstrated the connection between the nervous system and muscular strength.
To do this, one group wore a rigid wrist fixator for four weeks. Another group did a similar experiment, but in addition, five days a week for 11 minutes they did mental exercises, focusing their mind on how to tense their muscles. The first group simply lived a normal life.
At the end of the experiment and removal of the fixators, they found that volunteers who imagined their muscles tensing had wrists twice as strong as those who did not.
voice and mood
French scientists discovered that people are influenced by the tonality of the voice, their own or someone else’s. The study they carried out led them to read aloud a story by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and then play the recording in front of them, which, modified with a computer program, expressed sad, happy or frightening tones.
The change was very subtle, however, so few noticed that their voices had been altered, but when asked how they felt after listening to the recording, most responded consistently with the emotion reproduced by the show. .
Your voice has more incredible power than you think.
We increase life expectancy by smiling
A study conducted in 2010 by Wayne University tried to test whether the smile had any particular power, and it was observed that it has the ability to increase life expectancy.
For this, the scientists analyzed baseball cards issued before 1950. The researchers found that players who did not smile, on average, lived 72.9 years; those with a slight smile on their lips, 75; and the players who smiled from ear to ear, 79.9 years.
Specialists determined that the intensity with which we tend to smile is a predictor of our life expectancy.
We distinguish more flavors than we think
The basic flavors that we all know are: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. But in the 1980s, the discovery of a new flavor shook the scientific community. It’s called umami, which means “tasty” or “pleasant” in Japanese. It was discovered by a chemist from that country and is characteristic of protein flavors such as meat, fish or broths based on these.
Scientists today continue to search for new receptors, and we may eventually discover other flavors that we didn’t know we’ve been perceiving all this time.
We can change body temperature whenever we want
Some Tibetan monks practice an art known as yoga tummó (or yoga of internal heat), in the cold of the frozen mountains of Tibet. This practice allows the body temperature to be arbitrarily increased.
In 1981, Harvard University professor Herbert Benson recorded how three lamas from Dharamsala, during meditation, raised the temperature of their fingers and toes by 8.3°C, allowing them to survive despite the cold of their surroundings and their lack of adequate clothing for the conditions.
Tummó must be practiced under the supervision of an experienced lama, otherwise one may die of hypothermia.
We can develop the musical ear in adulthood
Absolute pitch is the ability to recognize musical notes without the need for a reference, or to sing exactly the requested note without the help of a reference, that is, it is to reproduce and recognize notes accurately by one’s own criteria. Although it was believed that it could only develop in childhood, a study carried out at the University of Chicago disproved this belief.
In the experiment, the participants had a basic musical education. They were asked to reproduce the sounds they heard by naming the tonality. In the second stage of the study, they also tried to identify the sounds by ear, but this time it was made clear to them whether they were right or wrong, and they were allowed to listen to the recording again.
Months later, the tests were performed once more, with the result that the participants largely retained the ability and were able to determine the tone. The study thus revealed that the musical ear is a skill that we can all acquire regardless of our age or how minimal our musical level is.
And you, have you put into practice any of these superpowers? Tell us!
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