Category: Gray Matters!
Learning is Learnable
Posted by admin in Gray Matters!, Mind Management, Sports psychology Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:35 No Comments
Learning is; knowing how to place information into your mind and knowing how to retrieve what you want.
‘the only serious method of education is to be an example.’, ‘if you cant help it, be a warning example
Albert Einstein
- Teaching/learning rewards Doing
- Strategy: Make careful decisions then proceed.
- Measure through results, not intentions
- Teachers/students create their own results
- Teachers/students do what works for them
- Identify the rewards driving teacher/student behaviour
- Teacher/student controls payoff to control results
Popularity: 23% [?]
Super Brain Foods
Posted by admin in Gray Matters!, Mind Management, Sports psychology Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:18 No Comments
We know that the foods we eat affect the body but they can have even more influence on how well our brain functions. What we eat can have a POWERFUL affect on our brain’s energy, how the mind handles tasks, and our general mood.
Our focus here is on those particular nutrients found in foods that enhance neuron firing and cross-linking in the brain. The foods listed below can help you: concentrate, increase memory, tune sensorimotor skills, keep you motivated, speed up your reaction time, control stress, and even slow down the aging of brain cells!
So here is a list of 20 different food types that we can add to our diet, their effects, and how they function:
Popularity: 50% [?]
Psycho Nutrients
Posted by admin in Gray Matters!, Mind Management, Showcase, Sports psychology Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:13 No Comments
POWER NUTRIENTS
You have a business meeting tomorrow, which requires that you be in top form. You have several reports to go over, many facts to memorize, and above all you have to get some rest.
Your first step? A trip to the health food store. A meeting like this is much too important to take on without fine‑tuning your biochemistry. You want to create the optimal neurochemical conditions for 1earning and creativity. So you head for the shelf of cognitive enhancement compounds and peak performance pills, and load up your basket with bottles of germanium, glutamine, ginseng, DMG, ginkgo-biloba, arginine pyroglutamate, phosphatidyl choline, DMAE.
You take the appropriate doses of these mind‑expanding nutrients. Within an hour you are relaxed yet alert and creative. Your brain‑wave activity has altered, and an electroencephalogram (EEG) would show that it has become more regular and has increased in amplitude in certain frequencies, causing you to feel simultaneously profoundly relaxed yet in a state of intense concentration, loose and creative as well as mentally quick and alert.
Popularity: 22% [?]
Body/mind Language
Posted by admin in Gray Matters!, Mind Management, Sports psychology Monday, 22 June 2009 00:45 No Comments
Pollution can be seen as a common factor in most illnessess
Pollution of the body with toxic waste and pollution of mind with negative
thoughts. Environmental pollution puts stress on the physcial body and reduces its resistance.
Language pollution comes from negative words and fearful thoughts(our
words manifest from our thoughts and feelings)that create harmful
stress. All three polllutions are usually present in disease. Everything
that isn’t in harmony with the body pollutes it. We get well by
releasing our pollution.”
“Long ago people recognized the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit, and its relationship to health. for centuries it was taken for granted that people could “die of grief”, —“pine away”,—that fear could make one “deathly afraid”.
Your Body Believes Every Word You Say
Popularity: 8% [?]
Mental Training, dreams and daydreaming
Posted by admin in Gray Matters!, Mind Management Monday, 22 June 2009 00:01 No Comments
Brain-wave tests have been conducted on sports professionals to determine what is the optimal performance state.
The most effective state for sports people generally is a low strength signal but wide-ranging, signifying that they are in THE ZONE Need Image of brain waves here to explain better click 5
They have managed to get their thinking mind out of their sport or game and allow their physiological and muscular memory to function unhindered.
Most of the time it is a good thing that we don’t use 100% of our brain as our brain is a series of specialised tools and using only ten percent is a sign of efficiency rather than incapability, a bit like an over drive gear for our mind.
Popularity: 4% [?]
