How
to Instantly Boost Your Intelligence
By Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler
www.quantum-self.com
If
you suddenly realize you have a special capability –-
THEN that capability has an immediate potential to blossom
and grow! Make
sense?
For
example: If you have a hidden talent for singing, but never
tried to sing, would you ever “boost your singing skill?”
Of
course not!
Here’s
a fact you may have overlooked so far in your life: Your
brain contains the seeds of genius. You have personal potentials
so far beyond what you are achieving today that it is virtually
staggering!
Yes.
I am talking about YOUR brain … and YOUR potentials!
Once
you contemplate the following facts, your brainpower will
be permanently altered. The new neural tracts that will
be build while absorbing the implications of this knowledge
WILL change your physical brain – forever.
1.
Your brain has an unlimited potential to learn. It absorbs
an estimated 7 to 10 new pieces of information every second
-– and can continue to do so for the rest of your life,
yet still have plenty of room left to learn more. And each
time you have a new experience or learn something, your
brain physically grows new inter-neural (brain cell) connections.
Your brain is actually so conducive to growth, that it’s
growth potential now has a new scientific term – “brain
plasticity.”
2. Your cortex is “wrinkled” for a reason.
You have billions and billions of brain cells packed into
your 3-pound brain. If all of your brain cells were laid
out end-to-end, your mind would stretch at least 800,000
kilometers (496,000 miles). This is roughly the distance
to the moon and back.
3.
Your brain is not limited to your skull. Your intelligence
is actually distributed throughout the cells of your body.
The body-mind barrier does NOT exist. We are thinking beings
on every level. There is even a current scientific theory
that our brain is holographic -– and is duplicated
right down to a sub-molecular level.
4. You actually have TWO centralized brains. You
have more brain cells in your second brain than you do in
the portion encased in your skull. Where is that second
brain? In your gut. (Ed's note: Read more about this
in issue 39 of Mind
Power News )
5.
Your brain is as unique as your fingerprint. Of the
six billion people currently living, and the ninety billion
people who have ever walked the Earth, there has never been
a brain quite like yours. YOU are truly unprecedented and
totally unique.
6.
Your brain is capable of unlimited thought patterns.
Back in 1968 a student of the great Pavlov shocked the scientific
community when his research proved the smallest number of
potential thought patterns an average brain can create is
the number 1 -- followed by 10.5 million kilometers of typewritten
zeros.
7.
Intelligence has little to do with your IQ score. Neuroscientists
and neuropsychologists now know that IQ tests only measure
very limited “rational and logical” thinking skills.
Such skills may actually be the most limited portion of
your intelligence. We now know that there is also your emotional
intellicence (EQ), and your all-important higher intelligence
(HQ). Many researchers now identify as many as 25 sub-intelligences.
8.You
can learn to think like Einstein. Recent research clearly
demonstrated that the basic thing setting Einstein’s
brain apart was the number of connections between his neurons.
This is not a birth condition. Such a densely packed brain
is created by challenging yourself mentally!
9.
You can also learn to think like Leonardo da Vinci.
Your intelligence is NOT fixed at birth. A recent statistical
review of more than two hundred IQ by Bernard Devlin (published
in the "Nature" journal) established that your
genes account for only about 48 percent of your IQ. The
remaining 52% percent is a function of your prenatal care,
environment, and education. And, it should be added, this
includes education at any age!
10.
Your intelligence can be raised through appropriate training.
Although your early upbringing and genetic background “may”
predispose you to have certain “natural” talents
-- many researchers such as have shown that intelligence
scores can be raised significantly through appropriate training.
11.
This knowledge has already changed your brain. Just
reading this information created immediate synaptic changes
in your brain. If you actually contemplate what this information
means to you, you strengthen those new neural connections.
And the stronger they get, the more easily they will override
any old limiting thoughts you may have about your own mental
potential!
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Electric
Currents Boost Brain Power
By Jim Giles
Nature Publishing Group
Connecting a battery across the front of the head can
boost verbal skills, says a team from the US National
Institutes of Health.
A
current of two thousandths of an ampere (a fraction of that
needed to power a digital watch) applied for 20 minutes
is enough to produce a significant improvement, according
to data presented this week at the annual meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, held in San Diego. And apart from
an itchy sensation around the scalp electrode, subjects
in the trials reported no side-effects.
Meenakshi
Iyer of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, ran the current through
103 initially nervous volunteers. "I had to explain
it in detail to the first one or two subjects," she
says. But once she had convinced them that the current was
harmless, Iyer says, recruitment was not a problem.
The
volunteers were asked to name as many words as possible
beginning with a particular letter. Given around 90 seconds,
most people get around 20 words. But when Iyer administered
the current, her volunteers were able to name around 20%
more words than controls, who had the electrodes attached
but no current delivered. A smaller current of one thousandth
of an amp had no effect.
Iyer says more work needs to be done to explain the
effect, but she speculates that the current changes the
electrical properties of brain cells in the prefrontal cortex,
the brain region through which it passes. She believes that
the cells fire off signals more easily after the current
has gone by. That would make the brain area, a region involved
in word generation, generally more active, she suggests.
Iyer's
group, which is led by Eric Wassermann, was prompted to
run the tests after considering problems facing researchers
who were studying the effect of magnetic fields on the brain.
Some neuroscientists hope that magnetic fields could have
a therapeutic effect, perhaps by boosting activity in areas
of the brain that have suffered cell loss owing to dementia.
But magnetic fields can cause seizures and also require
bulky equipment to generate them.
Iyer
hopes that low electric currents will offer a safer and
more portable alternative. After running further safety
tests, she plans to test the effect of the current on patients
with frontal temporal dementia, a brain disease that causes
speech problems. "This won't be a cure," Iyer
cautions. "But it could be used in addition to drugs."
The
idea of using electrical current to boost brain activity
dates back to experiments on animals in the 1950s. The early
work showed some potential, but fell from favour because
of a perceived link to electroconvulsive therapy, a controversial
technique in which patients with depression are treated
by having short but intense pulses of electricity applied
to the brain.
Source: Nature
Publishing
Memory
Upgrade Chips Coming to a Brain Near You
Wired Magazine
In
this era of high-tech memory management, next in line to
get that memory upgrade isn't your computer, it's you.
Professor
Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering
at the University of Southern California, is creating a
silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area
of the brain known for creating memories. If successful,
the artificial brain prosthesis could replace its biological
counterpart, enabling people who suffer from memory disorders
to regain the ability to store new memories.
And
it's no longer a question of "if" but "when."
The six teams involved in the multi-laboratory effort, including
USC, the University of Kentucky and Wake Forest University,
have been working together on different components of the
neural prosthetic for nearly a decade. They will present
the results of their efforts at the Society for Neuroscience's
annual meeting in San Diego, which begins Saturday.
While
they haven't tested the microchip in live rats yet, their
research using slices of rat brain indicates the chip functions
with 95 percent accuracy. It's a result that's got the scientific
community excited.
"It's
a new direction in neural prosthesis," said Howard
Eichenbaum, director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology
at Boston University. "The Berger enterprise is ambitious,
aiming to provide a prosthesis for memory. The need is high,
because of the prevalence of memory disorder in aging and
disease associated with loss of function in the hippocampus."
Forming
new long-term memories may involve such tasks as learning
to recognize a new face, or remembering a telephone number
or directions to a new location. Success depend on the proper
functioning of the hippocampus. While this part of the brain
doesn't store long-term memories, it re-encodes short-term
memory so it can be stored as long-term memory.
"It's
an impossible task to figure out what your grandmother looks
like and how I would encode that," said Berger. "We
all do a lot of different things, so we can't create a table
of all the things we can possibly look at and how it's encoded
in the hippocampus. What we can do is ask, 'What kind of
transformation does the hippocampus perform?'
"If
you can figure out how the inputs are transformed, then
you do have a prosthesis. Then I could put that into somebody's
brain to replace it, and I don't care what they look at
-- I've replaced the damaged hippocampus with the electronic
one, and it's going to transform inputs into outputs just
like the cells of the biological hippocampus."
Dr.
John J. Granacki, director of the Advanced Systems Division
at USC, has been working on translating these mathematical
functions onto a microchip. The resulting chip is meant
to simulate the processing of biological neurons in the
slice of rat hippocampus: accepting electrical impulses,
processing them and then sending on the transformed signals.
The researchers say the microchip is doing exactly that,
with a stunning 95 percent accuracy rate.
The
team next plans to work with live rats that are moving around
and learning, and will study monkeys later. The researchers
will investigate drugs or other means that could temporarily
deactivate the biological hippocampus, and implant the microchip
on the animal's head, with electrodes into its brain.
The
team expects it will take two to three years to develop
the mathematical models for the hippocampus of a live, active
rat and translate them onto a microchip, and seven or eight
years for a monkey. They hope to apply this approach to
clinical applications within 10 years. If everything
goes well, they anticipate seeing an artificial human hippocampus,
potentially usable for a variety of clinical disorders,
in 15 years.
Read
the full article here: Wired
Magazine
Is
It Possible to Reduce Your Sleep by 3 Hours and Have More
Energy Than When You Slept 8 Hours or Longer?
There’s
actually a method to optimize your body’s inner
sleep system to sleep less, and have more energy in your
life than when you slept LONGER. Sleep expert Kacper Postawski
spills the beans in his fascinating new ebook “Powerful
Sleep.” While most people think sleep is just “sleep,”
it is actually a complex and fascinating system which
you can OPTIMIZE in order to sleep less, and create an
abundance of energy in your life. Learn more here: Powerful
Sleep
Foods
To Boost Brain Power
New Zealand Daily News
There
is a proven link between what we put into our mouths and
how we think and feel, says leading educationist, author
and brain researcher Dr Caroline Leaf.
She
heads the Johannesburg-based Switch on Your Brain Organisation,
and works with government education departments to train
teachers, students and business people on how to think and
learn optimally.
The right foods protect children's health in body and mind,
says Leaf. They also improve marks by boosting academic
performance on the exam day.
The
best diet during exams is the diet of our ancestors, says
Leaf. That means lots of fresh foods as close to their natural
state as possible, such as meat, fish, chicken and eggs,
fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, preferably organic.
These
foods optimise brain function, says Leaf. They provide the
sustained energy needed for hours of intellectual activity.
They activate memory by stimulating the release of neurotransmitters,
brain chemicals involved in receiving, processing, storing,
and accessing information optimally when needed most - during
exams.
The
worst foods are all the junk, processed, high-carbohydrate
foods - some breakfast cereals, breads, cakes, sweets, pies
and other foods saturated with sugar, salt, chemical colourants,
flavourants and preservatives.
They
inhibit brain function. They "cloud" the brain
and "fog" thinking by inhibiting the release of
chemicals needed for an alert brain.
Leaf
says the worst thing you could give your children is a bowl
of highly-processed breakfast cereal, pap or white bread,
because of the high-carbohydrate content. It suppresses
neurotransmitter functioning and causes spikes - highs and
lows - in blood sugar levels. This is bad news because memory
recall and optimum cognition (thinking) require stable blood
sugar levels.
A
good breakfast is boiled or scrambled eggs on wholewheat
toast, even bacon and eggs, because of the protein and fat
content.
Leaf
joins many international specialists, among them UK nutrition
gurus Patrick Holford and Dr John Briffa, in saying that
the worst diet for the brain is low-fat, high-carb
- the way of eating propagated and popularised by the food
industry for decades. Even saturated fat in moderation
is nowhere near as bad for our health as we have been led
to believe.
Fish
deserves its reputation as a brain food, Leaf says, especially
in its oily versions, such as salmon, mackerel and sardines,
that are high in EFAs.
Organic,
cold-pressed oils are excellent sources of EFAs, with hemp
top of the list, according to Holford. The oils must be
stored in dark glass bottles in the refrigerator, as they
are sensitive to heat and light.
Other
good breakfast options are mince, avocado or a white cheese
on wholewheat toast.
A
good liquid boost before an exam is a few almonds crushed
to a paste and blended with orange or grape juice and fresh
pineapple. Pineapple contains an enzyme, bromelain, that
activates neurotransmitters involved in memory.
And
the best liquid to drink before and during an exam is water,
because the brain is 30% water, says Leaf. "Fluidity
of memory comes literally from sufficient water in the brain,"
she says.
Water
speeds up brain function. Too little water slows it down
and dehydrates the brain. When the brain dehydrates, it
releases cortisol, a hormone that shrinks dendrites, the
tree-like branches in the brain that store information and
create memory. This is seriously bad news for cognitive
functioning.
Sleep
is another essential for optimum exam results, says Leaf.
It's
the time when the brain consolidates, refreshes and primes
memory stores. Too little sleep fades memory circuits, she
says.
Exercise
is another essential during exam time - as long as the workout
is not strenuous. Gentle walking, swimming, jogging, cycling
and jumping on a trampoline support memory function and
help to de-stress students, says Leaf.
Read
the complete article here: New
Zealand Daily News
Be
Inspired Not Tired
By Eva Gregory
Feel Good Guide To Prosperity
Do
you feel like you are just going through the motions and
nothing you truly want in life is coming to fruition?
Do you feel tired and drained more often than not? Are
there things you know you have to get done, but you are
lacking the motivation to do them? How about changing
things around so that they become "inspired actions",
and not "required actions"?
One
definition of inspire is "to exert an animating,
enlivening or exalted influence upon". Even the definition
sounds fun, does it not? I will go one further and say
that it is also powerful and empowering. I call it powerful
because it can create a great deal of positive energy,
and empowering because you will gain control back over
a situation.
Can
you image finding joy in everything, having life be lively
and exciting on a regular basis? Inspired actions are
those that you get so excited about that wild horses could
not stop you from doing them and will usually flow effortlessly
and quickly. Believe me, it IS possible.
How
does one become inspired and create a world of inspired
actions? It goes back to setting your intentions for what
you want, visualizing it, getting into the feeling place
"as if" it has happened exactly the way you
want it and let the inspired action "come to you".
Cool,
huh? Sounds easy? It is. But if you get stuck, you can
work backwards by focusing on what motivates you to complete
your project. Is it your family, having free time to play,
or perhaps just the satisfaction of having everything
checked off of your "to do" list? Better yet,
write down your tasks and your motivations. Things seem
to become more concrete, more "real" when they
are written down. These tools will help you turn a project
or task into something that provides you with major inspiration.
Just like Jack.
Jack
was in the process of writing what he termed his "great
American novel." In fact, he had been in the process
for four years and despite what he told his friends and
family, he was not feeling very inspired. His novel had
become the joke amongst his friends and the proverbial
albatross around his neck.
When
Jack decided to set his intentions and visualize the outcome,
he had a difficult time doing this. He realized that he
could not get into his feeling place because the story
he was writing did not fuel his passion. He could not
even visualize himself completing this book. His writing
had taken a wrong turn, and instead of backing up or starting
over, he had felt compelled to continue because of the
expectations of others. Jack was so surprised and energized
by this realization that he immediately started outlining
the book he wanted to write. Writing had become an inspired
action and Jack did not feel like it was a required one.
So,
what are you waiting for? There is NO time like the present.
Find a little quiet, turn on your favorite music, light
a candle, and get busy setting those intentions to create
inspired actions. Remember, inspired actions will make
you feel alive; before, due to the planning and anticipation,
during, as you will be relishing actually putting your
desires to action, and after, when you are remembering
the task and your feelings while it was being done. So,
get out your pen and paper and get busy. The time has
come to be inspired, not tired!
Eva
Gregory is the author of "The Feel Good Guide to
Prosperity," now available in paperback at www.FeelGoodGuideToProsperity.com
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