Category: Mind Management
Mental Workout
Posted by admin in Depression, Gray Matters!, Mind Management, Showcase, Sports psychology, Visualization Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:28 No Comments
We are next going to do some exercises involving your body and mind, some of these are derived from brain gym exercises, and some of them are what we call mental floss
This next series of steps are a most simple physical procedure, but they are very stimulating for your mind
Lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand.
Drawing the figure 8 in the air with the right hand, then left hand then both hands then draw it from your left eye to your right
Do double doodles, both hands in the air using index finger trace circles
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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
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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:
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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.
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Brain Performance Enhancement
Posted by admin in Mind Management, Self-Hypnosis, Sports psychology Tuesday, 23 June 2009 04:11 No Comments
The scientific basis for the effects of Brain Performance Enhancement
New neuronal growth is possible in the adult human brain. A very succinct description of this research is written up by Jim Robbins in his book, A Symphony in the Brain (May,2000).
Stimulation of the brain keeps dendrites reaching out and new neurons sprouting (at least in the hippocampus). Moreover, greater stimulation appears to serve us well in terms of enhancing learning and maintaining general health.
How can we use these findings to change behaviors, thoughts, and feelings, and more specifically to modify negative scripts in the right hemisphere? The right hemisphere is more likely to accept and implement the positive affirmation than is the left. Why? Because many of the defenses our brain erects to protect us are contained in this so-called conscious hemisphere. Each time we suffer a psychological or physiological trauma the brain erects a defense such that we are not so likely to suffer that trauma again.
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