All our mental faculties are important, with those perhaps best known to us being the ability to reason. to comprehend, to articulate, to communicate, to concentrate, and to imagine.
In addition we have special faculties and mental abilities that vary vastly with different individuals such as language skills, musical abilities, mathematical skills, and artistic abilities amongst them.

Insight, imagination and visualization are all involved in creating a mental vision.  It is our clarity of inner vision of our life plans that helps determine our degree of success. This applies to our daily short term plan or to our long term goals and to our most intimate picture of ourselves – our self image upon which our self confidence depends.

Another important faculty we tend to overlook is the ability to translate all sensory information that comes to us from the outside world through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch into material our mental system can best relate to.

We also possess subtler and somewhat mysterious faculties that have been recognized under the general term of Extra Sensory Perception. They have been named under terms such as pre-cognition, premonition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy and others being presently researched by science although acknowledged as human faculties since ancient times. Just as each one of us has acquired a different degree of use and sensitizing of our sense of sight for instance, observation varies considerably and the term extra sensory perception would seem appropriate for an extension of the normal faculties.

Within each of us resides a special and unique faculty that functions as our inner voice or guiding intelligence that we call intuition which is stronger than the other mental faculties as it represents our inner soul centre.  Here it is that we tend to withdraw to when confused or requiring inspiration and seeking wisdom.We do not always give a chance for this faculty to register upon our consciousness as quietude is essential  in order for us to be made aware.

It is this inner core of ourselves, of our soul that we experience contact with our own wisdom that knows true values of life and can direct us to appropriate use of all our other faculties.
 
The full extent of the wonderful human mental faculties has not yet been fully explored, but a certain fact is that our personal mental health and fitness determines the extent to which we
can utilize them constructively.

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