BRAIN POWER Our Genie to Success
Article By Michele Blood
Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of
Revolutionary Neuroscience Research discoveries that at last are proving
scientifically what us metaphysicians (positive thinking teachers) have been
teaching for years. 98% of everything Scientists know about the brain has only
been discovered since 1996. 80% of what they thought was true about the brain
before 1995, has now been found to be false. WOW!! Isn’t that amazing.
I am just so very excited about this new information about
the brain. Nearly all of the medical brain research findings have fantastic
proven results that prove that motivational tools and techniques to reprogram
the mind to Success and achievement, DO in fact work!!! How cool is that?? VERY
COOL! This way you can KNOW that all of the techniques you have been learning
throughout your life on positive thinking and motivation are teaching you to
achieve a VERY successful, happy life in this amazing and magical world of life
DOES in fact work.
Read what one of the leading research neuroscientists in
the world, Dr Richard Restak, has to say in his book, The New Brain (Rodale
Press, 2003)
"Brain Science is now capable of
providing us with insight into the human brain that only a few years ago would
have been considered the stuff of science fiction. An exciting consequence of
this research is that by following certain brain-based guidelines, anyone can
achieve expert performance in sports, any career, business, or academic
pursuits. Such findings of course run counter to the old traditional theory
that winners are born not made. This is not so. Instead, it is now
clear that by learning about and applying this new research, most of us can
reasonably expect greatly enhanced personal levels of achievement."
Isn’t this marvelous? Yes indeedy it is! You
see my friend, it does not matter if you have talent, experience etc (although
of course this doesn’t hurt, J)
it just matters that YOU WANT IT!! Then you
can achieve it by following all of our visualization methods, positive songs
EVERYTHING you can to fill your mind with over flowing good thoughts of WHAT
YOU DO WANT. You my friend CAN be a winner. You see you are not in a race; you
are winner, when you get what you want!!
Have you ever heard anyone say, “Oh, I can’t help it!
It’s just the way I am!” or “I’ll never become a star or get that part,
I should quit now etc or I’ll never lose any weight.” NEXT all of that
rubbishy talk NOW!!! Scientific advances are now being made in learning how the
brain works, no one is ever going to be able to use any of these old
negative self talk excuses again and that includes YOU my friend!
If you give up on your dream now you WILL not live a full
life that your powerful spirit bravely came down to earth for you to learn and
enjoy and then you will have to come back and do it all over again! So instead
of that simply remember that you could be just 5 minutes away from having your
dreams come true.
Now these 5 minutes could be 10 minutes or even 10 months
for others, however, if you follow through and USE these powerful mind
techniques you will find things shifting. For some this will be less obvious
and for others it will be blindingly obvious. Now an important note here, Once
we begin to shift our way of thinking it could seem that you go through a short
period of when things appear to be going terribly wrong (although not all
experience this!) so PLEASE do not lose faith during these times as this is
simply the Universe releasing stuff that no longer supports your new visions. (Including
old ways of thinking) Things will turn around quickly if you will just hang
in there. So allow this experience to NOT scare you off, IF you have this
happen to you. If you still intend being here on Mother Earth you may as well
be here bravely moving forward towards your dreams. Continue and you WILL WIN!!
And have a beautiful happy fulfilling Life.
There were lots of theories going around in the past about
positive thinking, affirmations etc, however until the development since 1996s
of the computer enhanced scan and imagery techniques and equipment such as
functional MRI scans and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) imagery equipment;
very few theories were proven as facts! NOW they are!! Now, scientists at the University of California and other institutes
have been able to take a look at some very dramatic, pictures by looking at a
scan of a slice of a normally functioning “live” human brain that is the
thickness of less than 1/100,000th of a human hair! Never before could
scientists ‘see’ so well how our brain functions!
What these scientists have recently learned, during a
process called Brain Plasticity, is that brain cells (neurons) are constantly
making structural changes in the brain, forming NEW synaptic connections with
other neurons, and NEW neuron pathway patterns at the very same time that we
are learning, or thinking or forming a NEW memory! (Like for example
learning your lines J)What this means is that your brain is CONSTANTLY CHANGING!
The fantastic news for all of us is that we can have great drastic positive
changes if we can simply create new positive thoughts and grow more neuron
pathways and DSP’s!
For many years, psychologists, scientists and authors have
written about and recommended what used to be called autosuggestion,
affirmations, self-talk, or incantations. But it was not KNOWN or proven until
just recently that this technique does work, why it works and how it works!
Brain-science research now has verified that indeed this process does work! All
of our MusiVation ™ songs and the visualization techniques can help you to
ENORMOUSLY and PROFOUNDLY expand your belief in the capacity of your
brain for SUCCESS! Plus you will be a much happier more positive person
and everyone wants to work with happy genuinely loving people. Your attitude
will be so dramatically changed that even YOU will not recognize who you are
anymore. Now that is COOL!! You will be bringing out into your personality the
REAL you that has been hiding. The confident, successful beautiful you that I
know you really are!!
No one was born with low self-esteem, our life experiences
and others experiences, including the negative media have simply have taught us
this negative self-talk. (Or some call it baggage) So let us all release
this old baggage and LIGHTEN UP from the inside out. Now you can revert
back to who you REALLY are. And you my friend are AMAZING!
It used to be believed that geniuses were born with more
brain cells than the rest of us. This is now known to be false! Each of us is
born with the same number of brain cells! (Oh just a few ONLY About 100
billion!) It used to be believed that your brain was “hard-wired” when
you were born; that you are a product of your genetics alone, and therefore
champions and successful famous stars are born not made. Not true! Your brain
is constantly growing NEW connections and NEW neuron patterns, every second of
every minute of every day of your life! This means that your capacity is almost
limitless! You are today a different person than you were yesterday! You are
not the same today as you will be tomorrow!
You are constantly capable of CHANGE! Your brain’s neuron
patterns and connections are moving and changing with every thought, learning
task, or memory that you experience! The total number and capacity of new
connections, and new skills and learning neuron patterns that EACH of our
individual brains can form, is the number 1 followed by 6.2 million miles of
zeros! No human being has ever been known, (Einstein included,) to use
more than 1% of this capacity! Phew!! WHO KNEW!!
What type of NEW neuron connections are you making? Are
they positive possibility thoughts and memories? Or are they negative, “That’s
the way I am” connections! Your brain-capacity for success is limitless!
And it all starts in that little 3-pound thing, we call our brain. Your brain
will “process” information (the “what”) and form new Dendrite Spiny
Protuberances (DSP’s) via repetition, association, and emotions.
Water and writers block!
You probably already know that water is important for your
body to function properly. But do you really know how vitally important it is?
You've seen marathon runner’s collapse halfway through the race due to
dehydration because they didn't drink at the first water posts because they
weren't thirsty at the time. And maybe you concluded that since you are not a
professional top athlete water isn't that essential for your performance and
general health. But that is false information. YOU must drink lots of water.
And maybe you've heard that we can live without food for a very long time, but
will succumb because of lack of fluids and brushed this information off because
you may have though the likelihood of you ending up in the desert without food
and water is miniscule. But we must to pay more attention to water. You know,
when we think we have writers block or are finding it a challenge to remember
our lines … well my friend it could simply mean that our brain is not
functioning correctly because it is simply not hydrated enough. So when we have
creative work to do we MUST DRINK WATER
J.
Your brain which only makes up 1% to 2% of your body
weight use over 30% of your water-intake, so it's no surprise that even
small water deficits has a crucial impact on your brain. And a poor brain
performance has a direct impact on how much new stuff that you can learn and
how well you remember it. And remember that less water will reach your brain
since 45% of the water in your body travels in your blood vessels and if your
blood pressure goes down, so goes the flow of water in your body.
Your concentration can drop as much as 10% and just 5% dehydration will drop
the performance of your brain severely, that's severely as in a 50%+ drop. And
don't count on thirst to be a reliable indicator of when you should drink your
next glass of water because by the time you are thirsty it's already too late,
you are 2% dehydrated and your performance has already dropped 10%.
You see, DSP's or Dendrite Spiny Protrusions or Protuberances grow in our brain
when we learn, or as we learn, it is vital to learn new stuff and in vital in
our creative writing process and to keep our memory healthy. And contrary to
common belief and scientific truths just a decade ago the ability to learn has nothing
to do with the number of brain cells, but with the number of DSP's you
generate. So even if your brain cells wither and die it won't affect your
ability to learn as long as you give your
DSP's the best growing conditions - water and
nutrients.
Memory
How many of you are worried about gradually losing your
memory? Well first of all, you need to remember to stop worrying about
those things you can't control! But you CAN control or even improve your
memory!
Losing your memory seems to be the great terror of our
age. We are constantly assessing the fitness of our memory, but one of
the great positives about this is that if you take steps to improve your
memory, it can be a shortcut to an even more tempting goal: improving your
intelligence! Yes we can become smarter!! And it in this area that research is
just starting to jump in and find some great results and ideas that can be
again applied outside the medical field into the self-motivation and
achievement field.
The most important finding from the research is that
memory is effected by the usage levels of our neuron patterns. In other
words, if we, as we get older, use certain neuron connections and patterns less
and less, those patterns literally atrophy, and it is much more difficult for
nerve impulses (thoughts) to go down those pathways. This is a
problem that is absolutely easily remedied! The old adage, "Use
it or lose it!" vital for you. As we get older, we become more
consistent in our daily lives, with certain patterns of activity developing.
We drive along the same routes and stuck in the same rut day after day, with
the same activities. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Foolish consistency is the
is the hobgoblin for a wasted life." This is bad for the
brain! And remember Emerson said “Foolish Consistency,” which to me
means doing the same things we have always done and then expecting things in
our lives to change!
It is like trying to be a world-class wrestler like our
good mate Rock was and by only exercising your left arm and nothing more. It
doesn't work. What can we you do about it? Get out of our so-called
rut. Drive a different way every day. Read different magazines,
take new trips, and try new things. And above all, exercise ALL of your
brain. Begin to REALLY listen when others are speaking. STOP yourself from
immediately cutting in with YOUR stuff. Listen and you will learn and grow more
DSP’s. And please do not waste your life.
Today is a beautiful Sunday and people are out and about
enjoying the sunshine. I am here in my office writing this article about Brain
Power as this is not only helping me grow new DSP’s it is also helping you. It
IS important to enjoy our lives of course however lets not waste our precious
time doing the same old stuff over and over again. And believe me I am in
heaven writing this now. I am ENJOYING my day immensely.
Let us all now get out of our old thinking boxes. Let
us ALL Learn about NEW things. Another thing that we can do is get
smarter that our brain! As we get older our brain tries to outsmart
us. It is a biological fact that the brain cannot store energy. It
constantly needs to replenish its energy after it performs a given function.
When we get a great idea or new thought from the universe, it is first placed
into short-term memory. Unless this thought or idea is then taken by us
and put into long-term memory, the idea will disappear or dissipate within 30
seconds to 12 minutes. So it is vital that we use artificial methods to
take down these new thoughts. Write it down or do what I do and carry a small
tape recorder with you wherever you go. Later I put these ideas into a tape
folder and then catalog them. When I do have time to write a new song or book
chapter etc I go to my tape file and have them transcribed.
It has been said that ALL of us, each year, have about
four great new ideas, that if we acted upon any one of them with persistence,
that idea could make us millions of dollars! I am sure there MUST have been a
time when saw a new product or business or book and you said to yourself, “Oh
my Gosh I had that idea. Someone has stolen MY idea.” Well my friend YOU
did not take action on an idea that probably quite a few others were given from
the Universe on that same day. So get all of these new ideas down before your
shot term memory loses them forever. I really think that these new ideas are
floating around in space and a few of us take in these ideas at the same time
however it is the individual THAT takes action first, who deserves the success!
Now back to some more brain power facts………….
New brain-research confirms that the repetition of
statements over and over forms new neural pathways (neurodes), that can
subsequently fire as a "belief", and that when this neural
"belief" pattern fires, it will trigger new activity or actions on
the part of the individual, directly in line and consistent with this new
belief! This was written about by Napoleon Hill in his book “Think and
Grow Rich,” Norman Vincent Peale in his book, “The Power Of Positive
Thinking” and Claude M Bristol in his book, "The Magic of
Believing” and these authors were all writing about this back in the
1920’s, 30's and 40’s.
It’s so wonderful to know that the things we’re speaking
about today as far as the metaphysical, and remember “Meta” just means beyond or above the
physical. Which
means whenever you are thinking, you are being metaphysical. It’s as
simple as that, it’s not woo woo stuff.
Now, let’s have a look at some of these statistics. We
have 100 billion brain cells. WOW!! Now, the brain is stimulated, no matter
what our age, when we begin to thing about something new or when we start
to create new thoughts. When we start to learn something new, the brain is
stimulated and it begins to form “Dendrite Spiny Protrusions”, which we will
call “DSPs.”
An individual may have just learned a new language or just
become emotionally excited about something new and they are starting to think.
They are thinking of something NEW (ideas and thoughts not presently in
their old subconscious list or memories) they are thinking, so DSPs are
being formed. When you are emotional or excited, even if you are pretending to
be excited and at the same time learning something new it is a powerful
combination and it has been proven that DSPs will then be formed irrespective
of what our present age.
You know even if we are just acting happy and emotional
and not really feeling it..... It STILL works. So, act as if and you will
become. This is extremely important to know. Even if you are just pretending
and you start saying out loud, “Whoa! I’m excited. I’m really excited.”
Even if there are doubts and fears lying underneath, you will still get new DSPs
growing in your brain. So keep doing that for all of your life so your brain
stays stimulated. Let’s repeat this about being emotionally excited, even if
you’re pretending. You can absolutely get this information instantly into your
long-term memory as well, which is also extremely important.
Now something else that is absolutely phenomenal that
they’ve found out recently is that we have 6 levels of thinking. But did you
know that only 1/6 of those six levels is the conscious mind. Where we think
we’re thinking all the time and it is only 1/6 of it, the other 5/6 of our
thinking is all done in the subconscious, which is where we are creating our
belief systems. That is why the information you are learning about your own
conscious mind, the subconscious mind, and how to change the thinking patterns
is vital. 5/6 of your thinking is done at the other levels and it’s going to
create for you stuff anyway even if you don’t consciously choose it so PLEASE
think about what YOU DO WANT and create a great life and new positive belief
systems.
Remember our past is not a precedent for our future!! I
too have to constantly remind myself of this. If someone in your past did
something you do not like it DOES not mean that others will also do the same.
We HAVE to learn to trust again and to be our VERY best with each and every new
audition or life experience. We have to GET over the past sad or negative
experiences in order to create a new happy successful life experiences.
So, isn’t THIS ALL EXCITING ? I love neuroscience because
it’s proven that even our doubts and fears cannot stop our success. We can
even pretend our way to success. Cary Grant said, “I pretended to be Cary
Grant for so long I ended up becoming Cary Grant.”
Note: For more information on the new discoveries of the
brain go to www.brainconnection.com
and also I HIGHLY recommend you invest in yourself by getting an amazing course
on CDS by an amazing fellow I have had the honor to meet Doug Bench at www.scienceforsuccess.com He IS
amazing and the way he teaches through his INTENSIVE studies of the brain is
fun and very easy to understand. Doug’s products are the most entertaining when
it comes to the topic of our amazing brain. Everyone thing else I have studied
about the brain although interesting has been a very laborious study. Doug
makes the brain FUN! I am all about us having fun while we learn as then we
take much more of the information into out long-term memories as there is the
emotion of joy involved. SO even FUN is in FACT important in helping us learn.
AGAIN how cool is that J!
1. Breaking News:
a. Neuroscientists are
experimenting with a chip placed in the brain that can act and
function similarly to the human hippocampus! Since your brain's
hippocampus plays a very active role in memory, focus, and attention, this
could become a revolutionary breakthrough in the treatment of memory loss.
Stay tuned! We will keep you informed.
b. There also is current
research being done (as reported in the August 8, 2003 issue of Science)
that indicates a possible breakthrough in the treatment of depression which may
very well be as simple as the creation of new brain cells (neurogenesis)
through a regimen of mental exercises. Stay tuned! We will keep you
informed.
c. New brain-research
confirms that the repetition of statements over and over forms new neural
pathways (neurodes), that can subsequently fire as a "belief", and
that when this neural "belief" pattern fires, it will trigger new
activity or actions on the part of the individual, directly in line and
consistent with this new belief! WOW! WHO DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS!
That’s it! Now my friend…. go ahead and use your brain
power and BE HAPPY!
