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Get Smart-Boost for Your Brain, Habit and Memory Power

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:28:36 +0000

You can compare repetitious habits with the groves on a phonograph record that have recorded your habits with the needle of your subconscious mind playing them over and over. You can change your bad habits or get rid of them because they are your own thoughts being repeated by you. You brought them into existence and you can destroy them and smash them to smithereens with your willpower.

In our fast paced society, the “I want it now or my money back” attitude has obsessed the consumer. Humanity nowadays reads no more than ten pages of a book mostly because they do not want to go through the necessary steps required to improve. That is plain laziness in our high speed society.

Habits shape your future success. When you make a habit you are burning a groove like on a recordable CD in the computer of your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind believes a repetitive thought is a habit that it cannot remove or get away from. If you keep repeating the same action over and over it gives power to that new habit and it will burn a habit groove in your subconscious mind. The computer of the mind will play those CD’S of habits time after time just like if you are pressing the repeat button on a CD player. And your own body acts in response to those habits with obsession and compulsion without your permission. “Habit enemies” can force you against your will to act against your right behavior.

Habits can be formed like dough in a mold. When the dough is wet and soft it is pliable like your mind. When the dough is heated in the mold, it is set and becomes solid so as with your habits being firmly set with the repetitions of your thoughts. Refuse to feed bad habits by starving them the nourishment of additional wrong actions and with the help of visualization and repeating new good habits over and over, it will add fuel to your willpower, hence your success is assured in the amount of your new found strength.

Remember environment is stronger than willpower but your will power ought to be stronger to succeed in any endeavor. If you think you lack willpower, the way to develop it is by determination. “I won’t do this” or “I will do this.” Focus your will power on these simple but powerful thoughts daily. Now, I will explain to you the degrees and how willpower works and why it is so important to know how to use it properly to develop good habits. The principle of polarity explains that the difference between things seemingly diametrically opposed to each other is merely a matter of degrees of vibration; a matter of degrees of mental manifestation; two opposite poles of one thing. Let’s take willpower as an example. Concentrate your attention upon the vibration of your will power. Is it your willpower always weak or is it strong? A weak willpower is a robotic willpower. A strong willpower is a dynamic willpower. We are born with physiological willpower, which is automatic.

This automatic willpower is attached to all five senses and it can become semi-paralyzed by wrong behaviors, wrong decisions, and wrong activities. Automatic will power is the lesser degree of vibration; the lesser degree of thinking; the opposite pole of dynamic will power. But when your thinking is guided by discrimination; it revolves around a definite purpose and your purpose is worthwhile. When your actions bring about good, your will is guided by wisdom. Dynamic will power is the highest degree of vibration; the highest degree of thinking; the opposite pole of automatic will power.

Bad habits are like chunks of glass that look like precious stones, but will give disillusionment and dissatisfaction. Achievement is quickened or prolonged by your habits. I am talking about your daily mental habits that have sphere of influence over your daily life. These habits are like glue that attaches everything to it in your person, bad or good. Good habits attract advantages and bad habits attract disadvantages. When you arrive at work, for example, instead of getting down to business you say to yourself, “I need a cup of coffee before I get started and I also have a really important phone call I should make.” Habits like these are nothing but distractions. You are just wasting time that could have been well spent and you are robbing yourself from making significant sales which results in a smaller pay check and commission. It is better to get into the habit of having your coffee before work or at lunch time, and make your phone calls at lunch time. Refuse a bad habit by rejecting everything that arouses it. One bad habit I see happen continuously is leaving work early to go home when business is slow, but it could get busy the moment you leave! If this practice becomes a bad habit, just think how many sales you could lose by doing this over and over.

Keep striving until your hard work is met with success. You can be successful or not. It all depends on the quality and intensity of your thoughts and the degree of your will power. If you apply positive thinking together with dynamic will power, you will succeed. Let’s say that you do your visualizing in the morning and as soon as you finish you say to yourself, “I have probably just wasted my time seeing myself making all this money and I am pretty sure this technique is useless.” Or, “I just do not have the patience to do all of this; ‘patience is a virtue of the dead.’”

Negative thinking is the same as worrying. When you worry you are slowly killing yourself and it’s your funeral all arranged by yourself. Why die and suffer daily from worry? What ever you are experiencing in life, sorrow, ill health, poverty, someone else on this planet is suffering a thousand times more than you. Just give your worries to God and do not think yourself so ill-fated that you destroy yourself and block out the great light of God that is always trying to help you! Which shall it be victory or defeat? Therefore, if you adhere to a positive thought it will become real in form.

Good habits are the treasure troves that will bring permanent happiness. Habits are essential but we abuse their power. If you teach a parrot to talk and sing, it will duplicate what it hears over and over. If you teach it to use bad language, it will repeat profanities again and again upsetting you and others. Weak minded people can descend into bad habits effortlessly, accordingly tough- minded people can be taught to make good habits at will.

Habits can be made at will by concentration. Repetitive good habits together with positive daily affirmations can actually help you achieve wealth. The technique for destroying habits is by concentrating on the brain cells during meditation or when you are in silence. Concentrate at the third eye or the point between the eyebrows and intensely affirm that all the grooves of bad habits are being erased and destroyed. You should also be more cautious of the kind of company you keep and who you are living with. When you become more advanced spiritually you will notice you are more sensitive, sharp and energetic.

By: Gary Zalben

Want To Increase Your Batting Power? Use An Old Tire!

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:52:20 +0000

Is it so that you are able to consistently put the ball in play, but are never able to hit it hard?

If you are not able to hit the ball with authority and most of the time, you end up with groundouts and weak singles; all you need to do is increase your batting power!

Weak batting is the result of two major flaws. First, the player does not make proper use of his hips to generate the force necessary to drive the ball with power. Secondly, his wrists and forearms are just too weak to allow almost all of his generated energy to seep away at the point of contact.

Now, let me tell you about a very interesting way to improve your batting power.

All you need is an old tire! Amazingly, hitting an old tire every day can actually improve your batting skills. For instance, taking fifty swings from the left side, then fifty more swings from the right side daily can help you to groom yourself to be a switch hitter!

The mechanism involved is very simple. In order to move the tire and generate enough power to drive through the heavy rubber, the player has to rotate his hips using the large leg muscles. Similarly, weak wrists and forearms influences the force of the blow and the tire fails to move.

Bear in mind that while using stationary tires for practice, great care should be taken to make sure that players do not get into the habit of giving up on their swings. Otherwise, later on, it might become impossible for them to move the fixed object.

It is highly recommended that an old tire should be simply tied to a large piece of rope and hung from a tree branch or other suitable overhead object. Then, the players should be asked to take their hacks.

To conclude, short and tight swings are a must. They are easy to learn. This drill should be used regularly in order to improve the batting power.

By: Sumit Bhatnagar

Got Soft-Focus Yet?

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:22:09 +0000

How to Triple Your Reading Speed – Permanently

Our Eyes Automatically (instinctively), Follow a Moving Object

1. Baby Step:

a) To triple your reading speed, and double your memory (and comprehension), permanently – the first step is to create a habit of using a Pacer while reading.

b) A Pacer is one of three types: a handheld Laser Beam (RasterMaster),

a Pen – and a using a Computer Cursor – produced with your Mouse.

c) The objective when using any of the three Pacers is to underline the words of the
sentences as you read. When you use your pen as a Pacer – retract the point or underline with the Pen one-half inch above the paper itself.

d) You will notice that the Pacer (RasterMaster, Pen or Cursor), always moves
f-a-s-t-e-r than your visual reading speed. It sets the pace for you to speed up your reading.

e) You have been reading one-word at a time since 3rd grade, reinforced daily
for many years. The Pacer drives you to read two-to-three words at a time instead of
your usual one-word-at-a-time. Notice how your eyes automatically try to catch-up with the Pacer (the moving object). It is a instinct of your eyes and brain.

f) You are creating a new-habit of moving your eyes in a Soft-Focus instead of a narrow Hard-Focus. You are learning to read using your wide-focused Peripheral Vision – instead the narrow Foveal-Vision you learned in 3rd grade.

g) Your eyes are focusing on the Top-Halves of the words – not the movement
of the Pacer you are using. Your eyes take in the underlining of the Pacer’s movement using your natural Peripheral Vision.

h) You own two-basic reading systems – one is Foveal-Vision: reading one-word
at a time (6 letters wide). You have been reading foveally since 3rd grade and
it is s-l-o-w – about 200 words per minute.

The second is Peripheral-Vision: it is 36 letters wide, and it permits you to read up to six-words at-a-time. The word – peripheral – means outside of the center – seeing the left and right sides in addition to the center, and what appears above and below
the center.

i.) Soft-focus is relaxing your eyes and widen your field-of-vision to see two or
more words simultaneously. The opposite of soft-focus is a narrowing of your
field-of-vision, and called hard-focus of Tunnel-Vision. A horse wearing blinders
sees with Foveal-Vision and a Hard-Focus.

Hard-Focus is how you see when using your computer, typing on the word-processor, viewing a movie, playing a video game, or holding a conversation while looking at the other person’s eyes.

We concentrate on the page, screen or person by narrowing our eye-focus to give the behavior (reading, surfing the Net, and watching TV), our full attention.

Using a hard-focus while reading causes us to snail because we can see only a single multi-syllable word at a time. It limits us to up to 200 words per minute.

Profound Fact: we spend up to 80% of our waking-hours using hard-focus, squinting and narrowing our field-of-vision. It is the basic cause of chronic-stress and dry-eye.

The solution is not to stop using the computer or TV, but to exercise your peripheral-vision for sixty-seconds every thirty-minutes. Look away from the screen, page or person towards the horizon, and widen your field-of-vision.

In reading it means to soft-focus – and read two-to-three words at-a-time.

2. a) Pick a page with text and circle each single multi-syllable word in a sentence. Notice how slow and boring it is to read that way. In the average sentence there are ten-words, and you read and mentally hear all ten-multi-syllable words.

You eyes stop at each word, you hear it, and then move to the next one.
Each stop is called an Eye-Fixation-Pause.

b) Take another page of text and circle each group of two-words in the sentence.
If there are ten-words you will have five-circles of two-words each.

Notice that you can easily look at the circle containing two-words, and see
both words simultaneously. If you can see them – you are using Soft-focus and widen your field of vision.

Your eyes can see up to six-words at a time, and transfer them to your brain for comprehension.

If you read two-words simultaneously – you double your reading speed
and can cut your reading time by 50% or read-and comprehend two books,
articles, and reports – instead of one. Guess what occurs when you read three-
words-at-a-time?

3. Draw a line down the left-hand side of a new page of text and indent about two-words in width; do the same – indent by drawing a line down the page on the
right-side of the page of text – about two-words wide.

Now use your Pacer to underline the Middle-Section of the text using a soft-focus. Your Peripheral-Vision will pick up and comprehend the words within the two indented areas – (lateral-left and lateral-right), and even above and below the center of your reading focus.

Practice reading a page of text you have indented to improve your soft-focus (widening your field-of-vision), and to widen your Peripheral-Vision span.

Endwords

Practice improving your soft-focus and peripheral-vision until they becomes
habits. Use your Pacer to move your eyes faster, and in 21 days of practicing just 15 minutes daily – you will double or triple your present starting reading speed with equal or better comprehension.

Yes, it will be frustrating in the beginning because you have been programmed
since 3rd grade to read one-word-at-a-time, and to stop to hear it in your mind.

You are creating a new habit of widening your focus and reading two-or
more words at-a-time. It requires daily practice for three-weeks, and then will
register on auto-pilot. Once they are habits you stop thinking about them, and add them to your mental programming.

Once you turn soft-focus and peripheral-vision into a habit, you will be able to easily
triple your reading speed and improve your comprehension and long-term
memory.

The secret tool is always using a Pacer to trigger the instinct of your eyes and brain
to follow a moving object. Your hand holding the Pacer – the RasterMaster, Pen,
or Cursor – always moves faster than your snailing reading speed. Your brain
begins to play – Catch-Up – and your reading speed and comprehension double
and triple compared to snailing at only one word at-a-time.

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By: H. Bernard Wechsler