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So many of us think about creativity in the context of being an artist or musician. However I prefer the definition that resiliency expert Frederic Flach uses. Creativity is “a response to a situation that calls for a novel but adaptive solution, one that serves to accomplish a goal.” That’s ... Views: 1756
What are "neurobics"? Actually, this is a term you may not be familiar with, but it's similar to aerobics. Aerobics are exercises your body takes part in, and they keep you healthy and fit. By the same token, neurobics are exercises that your brain needs to stay fit, too. And if you do this day ... Views: 6748
Design Human Engineering™ gives us the ability to do something more exquisitely, or to be able to learn something new. Simply put, it is a shortcut. DHE makes things easier and faster.
It is based on creativity and goes beyond problem solving and outcomes to setting direction. It is designed ... Views: 9715
How Your Brain’s Executive Network Wins
After You Surrender Control
Speed Reading Rules
In 5th grade, Mrs. Crawford screamed out to the class,
“Harold, stop daydreaming and pay attention. My 18-inch ruler
gives you five seconds to answer the next question or face ... Views: 2531
I felt like an idiot sitting in the restaurant on my own. Time ticked by and I tried not to look at my mobile for the zillionth time to see how long I’d already been there, looking like sad, middle-aged woman who’d been stood up. I wanted to stand up and explain to the restaurant that I was ... Views: 2168
It seems a long time since I was in grade school but I can remember having a science class where the teacher handed round a model of a human brain. It looked kind of creepy and I wasn’t keen to touch it. But I can still hear him talking about how we, at about eleven, had all the brain cells we’d ... Views: 1689
Those who read the story of Daniel Tammet, a few years ago, were totally stunned. We watched in jaw-dropping astonishment as Daniel Tammet calculated to the hundredth decimal, all in his mind and within a few seconds. Incredibly, he can also learn a new language in just one week. Scientists ... Views: 5617
Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my Brainpower Newsletter know that I’m a believer in safe self-experimentation. In fact, I regularly recommend trying things out that do not yet have scientific evidence proving their effectiveness. After all, why would science ever look into a new ... Views: 1596
Periwinkle is a European plant used by herbalists to treat nervous disorders, epilepsy, hysteria, and nightmares. Exciting new research into this delicately beautiful plant shows that vinpocetine, a derivative of vincamine, a natural compound in periwinkle, helps transport oxygen and glucose to ... Views: 7640
By reading this article, you will be well on your way to finding out the key to gaining an edge in life. This is done by using brainwave patterns to your own advantage and we shall delve a little deeper into the science of this first. Brainwaves exist in all of us, no matter who we are and they ... Views: 1149
While there is a lot of literature about how many brainwaves there are, we can conclude that there are four main types that we can talk about today, and this is with the exclusion of the SMR waves that are there almost all the time. So let us talk about the Beta waves and they are mostly active ... Views: 1251
Have you ever forgotten where you put your keys? Where you parked your car? Forgot to grab your wallet on the way out of the house or to send a birthday card to your mother-in-law? Sure you have, who hasn’t? To keep our memories sharp and to support normal brain function, mental health experts ... Views: 8753
Let me start off by asking you a question. Do you ever talk to yourself? When I ask this question in my seminars, I usually find that there are two types of people. There are those who take a few seconds and put their hands up. They quickly realize that indeed they talk to themselves by way ... Views: 1449
Dr. Yu-Min Kuo, of the National Cheng Kung University Medical College in Taiwan, has shown how exercise helps to preserve brain function as you age (The Journal of Applied Physiology, November 2008). Dr Kuo trained mice to run daily for five weeks on wheels at 70 percent of their capacity. They ... Views: 883
You may have read or heard the expression that "introverts are wired differently." That means, among other things, we process information differently than extroverts. According to Marti Olsen Laney in her book, The Introvert Advantage, the introvert's brain is "dominated by the long, slow ... Views: 6118
In this day and age, there are many names for brainwave technology, but the most common one is either brainwave entrainment or brain wave synchronization, which in the area of science and technology, is the practice and the method of forcing the brain to emit a particular frequency which then ... Views: 958
You can control your brain and make it a much more efficient and engineered machine for success. What this means is that there is technology available for the average consumer that helps you to boost your brain power and this is based on something on brainwave entrainment technology. The reason ... Views: 1148
Is there something more powerful than brain power, when it comes to making your business work? So often, people are raised to think their way through most situations, with the implication that we should stop feeling so much and use our heads more.
I love to read and ponder what the great ... Views: 2035
Is there a way to improve your subconscious mind? Simply put, there is, and the methods have been circulating around the world for about a few years now. First started in the early part of the nineteenth century as a scientific venture into the world of mental regression, practitioners have ... Views: 1033
“When the age is in, the wit is out…”
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
For years it has been generally accepted that our brainpower declines as we age and there’s nothing we can do about it. Even Shakespeare thought so. But the fact that something is commonly believed doesn’t mean it’s ... Views: 900
We all know that we could use some more exercise. As a society, we are entirely too sedentary, spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the web - and far too little engaged in physical activity. This kind of lifestyle leads to obesity and low energy levels. We all are ... Views: 3043
Our memory is so important since it helps us to keep those life events in our mind for the years to come. Of course when you remember a memory from 15 years before but you forget the grocery list, it can be so irritating. There are many who want to find a way that they can improve upon their ... Views: 3057
Every parent wants to help their child to do well in school. As you already know, helping your children with their homework is one of the most reliable ways to improve their academic performance. Things have probably changed quite a bit since you were in school yourself, but the basics will ... Views: 1962
When you think of the mind of a genius, what do you think of? Someone with lightning quick thoughts who can come to accurate conclusions instantaneously?
Actually, Michael Michalko is the author of a book called "Cracking Creativity," and he says that the difference between the so-called ... Views: 8017
Human beings are mental organisms. Everything we are or ever will be, will be as the direct result of the way we think.
Improve the Quality of Your Thinking
Human beings are mental organisms. Everything we are or ever will be, will be as the direct result of the way we think. If we improve the ... Views: 901
Anyone, Starting From Wherever They Are, Can Become Wealthy in America
Anyone, Starting From Wherever They Are, Can Become Wealthy in America
In one series of I.Q. tests given to children ages 2 - 4 years, 95% of the children were found to be highly creative with curious, questioning minds and ... Views: 907
Google, Facebook, iPod… take a look at the fastest growing businesses and brands in the world today and you’ll notice one thing in common – their customers are so in love with their products they’ve become a free sales force.
Just like a teenager experiencing love for the first time, these ... Views: 1377
If you listen to subliminal programs on your computer, iPod or other digital device, there’s a good chance you may be deleting the subliminal messages when you import – and thus destroying any chance of results.
Have you ever wondered how such a tremendous amount of music and other sound can ... Views: 13350
Good news. Your brain is not unchangeable. You can play with it, even grow new cells, create new circuits, remap attitudes. Suddenly, the new- ageish motto that you can be whatever you want to be, holds new scientifically meanings.
Your brain and it's interaction with environment creates your ... Views: 1800
It promises to help you think FASTER and SHARPER.
It says it can grant you LIMITLESS ENERGY, help you to think like a GENIUS, and enable you to RELEASE all stresses and tension.
I'm talking, naturally, about the latest self-development tool to hit the shelves.
It's called the Brain Evolution ... Views: 3200
Ask Dr. Z - Chronic Illness - There is HOPE - Fix Your BRAIN first
Content:
Quotes for Your Life
I get letters: Pat - 48 Years Old - Takes Action and Wins Big Time
Dr. Z's comments - There is HOPE - Fix your BRAIN first
Your First Step towards a Healthier Life
And don't forget ... Views: 2801
Can we call someone a liar if he or she believed in a statement to be true?, can we call someone a liar if he did not tell his wife that he is dating a male lover? He believed that he is telling the truth when he says ‘ I am not dating a lover, I am in love with my lover’ He believed in his ... Views: 1312
Brain development inside the womb, value of music- Baby Einstein…..
The bond between parents and babies is one of the strongest forces in nature. Romances come and go, but once you've fallen for your baby, you're probably hooked for life.
I have heard many mothers say that: having her in my ... Views: 16573
Brainwave entrainment is the new wave technology that has recently just hit the personal development industry. While it has not yet become a household name among aficionados of mind power and cerebral improvement, the technology is slowly but steadily making waves in many parts of the world. ... Views: 931
Learn faster. This is one of the tangible benefits of brainwave entrainment. You can have entire volumes of encyclopaedias in your head, with information at hand whenever you need them to be. The problem most people have is that they are struggling with the learning process and the understanding ... Views: 1704
I have good news and bad news for you in regard to your brain.
First, the bad news. After the age of 20, thousands of your brain cells die off every single day. The good news? Well, there wasn’t much of that until the late 1990’s. That’s when Elizabeth Gould at Rockefeller University ... Views: 1542
Any parent that is aware of the effects of stress from a number of factors and why upon taking a vacation it may be difficult to relax if a person is used to the stress load draining their adrenal function. If the adrenals area used to a certain output of the cortisol hormone and others then ... Views: 2672
One Heinrich Wilhelm Dove could be considered the father of binaural beats, having discovered them way back in 1839. Research on binaural beats followed soon after that and to where it is today in the scientific and personal development industry, the technology and the issues around it remained ... Views: 956
The brain is a powerful piece of machinery, and while we are each given just one brain, none of us actually know how to fully use this wonderful contraption at the crown of our noggin. This is because we have not been given a manual on how to fully optimise the potential power of the brain. Even ... Views: 1761
Thought mastery is so important to an individual’s success in life. However, most people are not fully empowering themselves with this incredible edge because they are not ready to commit to the mental make over required to achieve this unbelievable wisdom known as thought mastery. People are ... Views: 6706
Many don't work at all, most work only a little, but some really do give you the rapid, lasting results you've hoped for. So report the nation’s leading authorities on subliminals, Dr. Lee M. Shulman, Ph.D., and Dr. Joyce Shulman, Ph.D., the first to do comparative testing of the many brands ... Views: 2795
How mind tools can be incorporated in psychotherapy to facilitate and speed up positive change by reprogramming the subconscious mind.
"The unconscious has many faces: dustbin and reservoir, childish fantasy and wise vision, coward and hero, destroyer and creator." D. Glouberman
It is a ... Views: 3964
Are you lost in a "brain fog?" Living on caffeine and adrenaline? Having too many "senior moments"? Here's a Top 10 list of simple steps that can help people improve the health and function of their grey matter—and improve focus and concentration, reduce stress, lift “brain fog,” and reduce ... Views: 12094
It is my belief that brain chemistry disorders come to be when a brain functions at different energetic frequencies than the so-called normal brain. The names assigned to each type of frequency—attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar, autism—are simply ... Views: 8713
Before we get to the nitty gritty of brainwave entrainment, the first thing that should be done is to address the term subliminal perception. What that means is how your pre-awareness perceives your own internal abilities through external and environmental interactions defines the level of brain ... Views: 686
As youngsters, we were taught strategies to prevent illness such as washing our hands, not sharing drinks with friends who have the flu, and wearing a coat when it’s cold outside. These habits have served us well; however, they are not the whole story. They don’t tell us why we get sick. In this ... Views: 6174
Capture the Lost Art of Concentration
Did you ever wish you were “octo-mom” or maybe had three heads instead of one? Having one head for each thing we are doing at any given time would be a blessing in today’s fast paced society. multi-tasking is what our surroundings have moved us too. But ... Views: 1635
* Anne had grown up believing in the virtuous poor and the evil rich. Now, she feels guilty about charging her clients what her services are worth. How can she stop unwittingly sabotaging her own success?
* Bob had battled procrastination all his life. It had been difficult even with a ... Views: 1567
I truly believe that your thoughts create your life, but I don’t think that your thoughts are easy to change, at least, not by your own will. What you truly think about yourself, you perceive nonverbally before you are three years old. Trying, as an adult, to think positively when your gut feels ... Views: 896
My dad has been dead for almost half of my life, yet I think about him every day. I am grateful to have had a funny, loving, and wonderful dad, who left a legacy of decency and wisdom.
L. B. had a saying for almost any situation. Something about his style made these sayings stick—perhaps a ... Views: 1244