The Power of The Mind

In Montaigne’s writing, he mentions and gives examples on how powerful the mind and imagination is. It can be beneficial in a sense of healing, bringing happiness, and formation of something into reality. An example on how powerful our mind can be is, one of those ink photos, where many see either a duck, or a rabbit. In reality, it’s neither, it is simply, ink on paper. Our mind is so powerful that we can tell it what we want to see, which as why, some can see the rabbit, and some can see the duck. We simply see what we want to see, we tell ourselves what we want to believe. Which is why the in the writing, the doctor believed he was improving from his illness, through imagination, and seeing Montaigne. Now imagination is powerful, but not only positive, it can be negative. As we can see and believe what we want through the power of our mind, we sometimes fail to see and believe things that are seen differently from others.