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Simple Ways
to Improve Your Memory
It's no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such
inefficiency and failure, given the busy pace of Western life and the
constant barrage of information that the hippocampus must somehow keep
up with.
Lifehacks.org
The
Amazing Story of the 256-Year-Old Man
According to the 1933 obituaries in both Time Magazine and the New York
Times, Li Ching-Yun was reported to have buried 23 wives and fostered
180 descendants by the time he died at the age of 256.
Environmental
Graffiti
How
to Create Complete & Perfect Freedom
But here is the point: I created this at a time when I could not afford
it. I didn’t wait until I had to money to do it. It was my core desire.
I believe anyone can live this way if they choose... You can do anything
you want if you set your intention and follow through.
By
Dr. Robert Anthony
Boost
Your Brain Power with Neurobics
"Neurobics" encourages people to take everyday activities and
make them different. Like "brushin' roulette" – instead
of brushing your teeth with your right hand, brush it with your left –
it's harder than you think.
CBS
News
Memory
Training Can Boost Your Brainpower
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more
intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
New
York Times
10
Things Your Body Can Do After You Die
From getting hitched to saving the environment, here's proof you can still
be a busybody long after you kick the bucket.
CNN
Video:
Is Your Dog Psychic?
Does your dog have the unexplained ability to know when you’re coming
home… even when you come home at odd hours… even when she couldn’t
possibly hear your car? If so, then we urge you to join our study.
DogsThatKnow.com
Six
Steps to Living an Abundant Life
You can reprogram your present reality, and begin creating your life by
design, manifesting everything you truly desire, just by taking six easy
steps. You can begin right now.
Dr.
Robert Anthony
Think
Yourself Thin: How Your Memory Can Cut Cravings
British scientists have shown that actively remembering your last meal
suppresses appetite and reduces the desire to snack on junk food. They
have also shown that concentrating on food while eating - rather than
grabbing a meal in front of the TV - makes you less likely to get hungry
later on.
Daily
Mail
The
Limits of Human Memory
Research originally suggested that our working memory cut off point was
around the seven items mark. However scientists are revising that idea,
when adding the limitation of no memory tricks, such as repeating items
over and over or grouping them together.
Daily
Galaxy
Lab
Studies Intelligence in Plants
"If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants
have a lot to teach us... Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow,
adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only
about having a brain."
Wired
Can
Your Dog Read Your Mind?
She said after carrying out a range of experiments which tested the cognitive
skills of dogs, she believed they were not only sensitive to human cues,
but also had the ability to think about what their human companions may
be thinking.
Brain
Mysteries
How
to Keep Your Highest Moments Permanent
Your thoughts control your life. But you control your thoughts. You are
free to think success thoughts — positive thoughts or failure —
negative thoughts.
By
Frank Tibolt
Are
You Being Influenced Without Your Knowledge?
It might seem shocking, but every single day people are trying to influence
and persuade you without your knowledge. Some of this is relatively harmless.
But a lot of it most certainly is not. It's not talked about a lot but
it's the dark side of hypnosis.
The
Power of Conversational Hypnosis
How
a Good Night's Sleep Can Make You Happier and Healthier
No
one questions the value of a good night's sleep. Whether you are biologically
programmed to sleep 4 hours, 10 hours, or, like most people, 7 or 8 hours
a night, failure to get the amount of sleep you need can impair learning
and memory, problem-solving ability, safety, emotional stability, immune
defenses, cardiovascular health and even body weight.
Digital
Sandman
Can
We Really Transplant a Human Soul?
The case might have remained just an isolated tragedy were it not for
the fact that Sonny had received a transplanted heart from a man who had
also shot himself - in identical circumstances. To
make things even more intriguing, shortly after receiving the heart transplant,
Sonny tracked down the wife of the donor - and fell instantly in love
with her.
The
Daily Mail
With
Age Come Happiness, Research Shows
A certain amount of distress in old age is inevitable, including aches,
pains and deaths of loved ones and friends. But older people generally
have learned to be more content with what they have than younger adults.
CBS
News
Sleep
Your Way to Better Sex
Sex is a built-in, god-given desire which floods the body with feel-good
hormones that improve our quality of life and ability to cope with what’s
coming next. Deep sound sleep is similarly hard-wired into us... Anything
that makes it easier to get good quality sleep has equal potential to
improve your sex life.
Digital
Sandman
11
Steps to a Better Brain
There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to
your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter
and get the best out of your brain cells. And here are 11 of them.
New
Scientist
How
Celebrities Quit Smoking
What do Drew Barrymore, Ellen DeGeneres, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron
have in common? They
all quit smoking with hypnosis.
By
Valerie Dawson
Hypnotist
Has Pain-Free Surgery Without Anaesthetic
Hypnoanaesthesia, where the patient enters a deep trance state and
is told they will not feel pain, has been used to ease fears over surgery
and childbirth, and to help burn victims manage their pain. Dr. Leon Gevertz
of the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis, said that heart
operations had been carried out under hypnosis.
The
Daily Mail
Miracles
or Madness?
Although many of these sensational events can be reasonably dismissed
as delusions, hoaxes or mere coincidences, does this mean that all of
them can be written off? Absolutely not. And for one simple reason: there
remains a hard core of mysteries that simply cannot be explained by any
conventional means.
The
Daily Mail
The
Spontaneous Healing of Belief
For 300 years, scientists have been arguing, and the controversy has
been whether or not this field exists. They have just arrived at the place
where there is a general agreement that the field is here. Now they are
asking: what do we do with it?
By
Laurie Nadel, Ph.D
Hypnosis
Speeds Healing After Surgery
Results showed, without a question, that the group who received hypnosis
healed faster than the participants in the other two groups. This study
opened the doors to the idea that hypnosis can have a positive effect
on the mind's ability to heal the body.
By
Steve G. Jones
The
Angels of Death
According to recent research at King's College London, around 10 per
cent of the terminally ill or those caring for them report some kind of
mysterious, inexplicable event that gives them a glimpse of an afterlife.
The
Daily Mail
Using
the Power of the Sun to Improve Vision and Boost Immunity
Results showed, without a question, that the group who received hypnosis
healed faster than the participants in the other two groups. This study
opened the doors to the idea that hypnosis can have a positive effect
on the mind's ability to heal the body.
By
Rich Stacel
Scientists
Probe the Secrets of Meditation
There is, of course, a distinct possibility that this research will
come to nothing and that interest in meditation will turn out to be a
passing fad, but for now this ancient discipline is being taken seriously
by scientists as a tool with potential to make each one of us happier
and more content.
BBC
Virtual
Immortality by 2050
Aeroplanes will be too afraid to crash, yoghurts will wish you good
morning before being eaten and human consciousness will be stored on supercomputers,
promising immortality for all - though it will help to be rich.
The
Observer
Europe
Plans Psychic Crackdown
Promises
to raise the dead, secure good fortune or heal through the laying on of
hands are all at risk of legal action from disgruntled customers. Spiritualists...
claim the new regulations will leave them open to malicious civil action
by sceptics.
The
Guardian
Text
Messages from Beyond the Grave
"I got a missed call on my mobile, but it didn't ring. The call
was from my own home number, but there was nobody in the house. Then when
I went inside there was a smell like cigarettes which Sadie used to smoke
and the smell of her perfume."
Blackpool
Gazette
The
Incredible Power of Contentment
So contentment isn’t a matter with being content with your situation
in life and never trying to improve it. It’s a matter of being content
with what you have — but realizing that as humans, we will always
try to improve, no matter how happy we are. If we don’t, we have
given up on life.
Zen
Habits
Viagra
For Y0ur Brain
Some scientists are warning that a generation of artificially enhanced
thinkers could soon become science-fact, as an increasing number of people,
from stockbrokers and soldiers to students and shelf-stackers, look for
something more effective than caffeine to boost performance.
The
Independent UK
20%
of Scientists Use Brain-Boosting Drugs
The most popular drug was Ritalin, used by 62% of responders. Provigil
was the drug of choice for 44% of those polled -- suggesting that many
of the users take more than one drug. Beta-blockers, such as Inderal,
accounted for 15% of the drug use.
WebMD
Medical News
Top
10 Ways to Seem Smarter Than You Are
We all want to seem smart around workmates and acquaintances, but
we often don’t have the time to put in to further study to achieve
this. Luckily, there are a few ways you can make yourself seem smarter
with a minimum of effort. This is a list of the ten best tips for appearing
smarter.
The
List Universe
TV
Challenge Proves Hypnosis Can Help You Lose Weight
Some scientists are warning that a generation of artificially enhanced
thinkers could soon become science-fact, as an increasing number of people,
from stockbrokers and soldiers to students and shelf-stackers, look for
something more effective than caffeine to boost performance.
By
Valerie Dawson
Army
Tests Yoga & Meditation for Post-Traumatic Stress
The Army just unveiled a $4 million program to investigate everything
from "spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation, [and] yoga"
to "bioenergies such as Qi gong, Reiki, [and] distant healing"
to mend the psyches of wounded troops.
Wired
Blog
Expensive
Placebos Work Better Than Cheap Ones
The results fit with existing data about how people perceive quality
and how they anticipate therapeutic effects... "The placebo effect
is one of the most fascinating, least harnessed forces in the universe,"
Ariely said.
Duke
University
The
3 Most Powerful Principles I Have Learned from Millionaires
I believe if all these three traits were applied to your life, they
would make such a dramatic change, that in a short time all the things
you desire would show up in your life...
including as much money as you desire.
By
Dr. Robert Anthony
Does
Puberty Cause Poltergeists?
Brovetto and Maxia hypothesise that the changes in the brain that
occur at puberty involve fluctuations in electron activity that, in rare
cases, can create disturbances up to a few metres around the outside of
the brain.
New
Scientist
Super
Powers of the Human Brain
It has been predicted that more advanced neurological studies may
someday discover how to allow "regular" people to tap into the
incredible latent powers of their own mind, and thereby unleashing some
of the "superhuman" potential in all of us.
Daily
Galaxy
7
Principles of a Shapeable Universe
Thought is the essence of power, and focused thought is focused power.
Much of the thought that creates our worlds is weak, scattered, and unfocused.
With practice, you can learn to focus your mind's power and create the
reality you want and deserve.
By
Christopher Westra
Video:
Brain Scientist has a Stroke of Enlightenment
And in that moment my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side.
And I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!"
And the next thing my brain says to me is, "Wow! This is so cool.
This is so cool. How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study
their own brain from the inside out?"
By
Jill Bolte Taylor
Subliminal
Messages Make Us Work Harder
People expend more effort on a work out when a little subliminal flash
of what he calls "meaningful" words such as "exertion"
and "vigorous" is accompanied by the presentation of a positive
word such as "good" or "nice".
The
Telegraph
The
Future of Telepathy
In the future, we will be able to read each other's minds... At first,
this technology will be very simple and only allow a limited vocabulary,
and it requires no implants or surgery, just some electrodes placed on
the head, perhaps in a hood or even a baseball cap, connected to a mobile
phone.
By
Vexen Crabtree
Amazing
Video Proves that Subliminal Suggestion Works
Here is a video of an amazing experiment carried out by the brilliant
Derren Brown. Using subtle subliminal suggestion he is able to guide the
creative ideas of two top advertising designers as they create a new campaign,
supposedly from their own imaginations... You will be shocked by the conclusion.
By
Derren Brown
How
to Buy Happiness
"Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent
money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more
on themselves did not."
Reuters
Is
There a Science of Faith?
For thousands of years, mystics and religious leaders have told us
that if we have enough faith, anything is possible. Pop psychology is
full of authors expounding the same philosophy - you'll see it when you
believe it. If this is true, then where is the scientific evidence? And
if the evidence exists, then why isn't it obvious?
By
Alan Tutt
Real-life
Case of Demon Possession Documented
An American woman who levitated, demonstrated paranormal psychic powers
and spoke foreign languages unknown to her was clearly demon possessed,
according to a board-certified psychiatrist and associate professor of
clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College.
New
Oxford Review
Tantrik
Death Spell Broken on Live TV
On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president
of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful”
tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the
beginning of an unprecedented experiment.
Rationalist
International
8
Ways to Buy a Little Happiness
Studies show, unsurprisingly, that money’s impact on happiness
is greatest when you have the least amount of money. But
if you’re one of the lucky people who has enough money to cover the
basics – food, shelter, even a car -- does that mean that money can’t
make a difference to your happiness?
The
Happiness Project
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