Brain Boosters
Mind Power Secrets - Lesson Two
This lesson has some simple brain boosters you can use to
prove to yourself how quickly you can increase the power of your
mind. More powerful techniques will be covered in upcoming lessons,
but for now, we'll start with some of the easier "quick-fixes."
(Hopefully you did the exercise from lesson one. It
was to write down four or more instances where you noticed your
mind working well, especially if it was an improvement in some
way.)
Try these Brain Boosters
You might have read about some of these techniques on the
website, but did you try them? For the course to work, and for
the other lessons to make more sense, you have to actually try
them, not just read about them. Also, not everyone is the same,
so not every method works well for everyone, but some
of the following will give you results.
Watch that Posture
Try doing math in your head while slouching, breathing shallowly,
and with your mouth hanging open. Multiply two-digit numbers,
add several numbers - just do something that is a challenge,
but which you can normally handle without pen and paper. After
a few tries, sit up straight, breath deeply through your nose,
and keep your mouth shut, while doing similar math problems.
Do you notice how much easier it is the second way?
This NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) "trick"
has to do with the state of mind created by how you use your
body. In general, you'll feel less capable mentally when you
adopt a posture that suggests depression or apathy, and this
affects your performance. The opposite is true as well. "Pretend"
to be smarter, both using your mind and body, and you'll find
that you can handle mental challenges more easily.
Avoid too Much Sugar
This one demonstrates how sugar is the opposite of a brain
booster. If you're familiar with the "sugar blues,"
and the brain fog it causes, just skip this exercise. Otherwise,
do any mental activity, from balancing a checkbook to reading
an article. Then eat a sugary donut or piece of cake on an empty
stomach, wait fifteen minutes, and try the activity again. You'll
find that your mind is not as clear.
The lesson will stick with you once you've related that feeling
you get to the sugar. Light meals with protein and complex carbohydrates
(whole grains, for example) are best before you engage in intense
mental tasks.
Challenge Assumptions
This is an exercise to show you how creative your mind can
be. Do it while driving, sitting on the porch, or wherever. Start
by giving yourself problems to solve in your head or on paper.
These can be issues in your life, like how to deal with a rude
co-worker, or fun business problems, like how to make fast food
faster, or how to design a better refrigerator.
Pick a problem to solve, and find any assumptions you and
others are making about it. Then find a creative solution by
challenging those assumptions. Look carefully for those assumptions,
though, because they aren't always obvious. If you are designing
a better light, you'll probably assume it needs to illuminate
the things around it, right?
Challenge that. Could the things themselves be lights? Books,
tables, and chairs that glow, so you don't need harsh light filling
the room? Could a light illuminate things in a way that only
people with special glasses could see their way around? That
might have security applications.
Does a table need legs? Do you really have to make more money?
Do cars need wheels? Challenge the framing of the questions themselves.
A "better chair" becomes "is there something better
than chairs?" Try this exercise, and you'll see how much
creative mind power you have.
Other Brain Boosters
Take a walk, and you'll probably find your mind works better
ten minutes into it. I like to carry a small recording device
to keep track of ideas I have when walking.
Sing the day's events, and see how much easier it is to rhyme
when singing. You've just accessed the power of your "right
brain," which is better at pattern recognition and spatial
reasoning.
Close your eyes, relax, and take three deep breaths through
your nose. Notice how your thinking is clearer afterwards?
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This Week's Assignment
This is a continuation of the first part of the process -
demonstrating the mind power you already have, so that your subconscious
mind is convinced, and starts to work for you.
Assignment: Review the "brain boosters" above,
find one or two that really work for you, and use them several
times this week.
Next Lesson: Not a "pep talk,"
but systematic self-motivation techniques to keep you on track.
P.S. If you haven't subscribed to this
e-course, and you want to learn the other secrets of mind power,
you can go here to subscribe: Mind
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