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How to Double (2x) Your Memeory - Permanently 2011-07-14 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Double (2x) Your Memory – Permanently If you have a kid in school, or are in college or grad-school, this baby-easy strategy is guaranteed to raise your class rank - one-full-grade. Your exam scores will improve up to 37%, and your opportunity for a scholarship doubles. Works for executives too. Why? It’s because Memory is Everything. It’s the secret to academic success, right? V-A-K V stands for “Vision”, you have to see what you want to remember. A stands for “Auditory”, you must hear the word or phrase you want to recall. K stands for “Kinesthetic”, a fancy name for your sense of touch, (feeling, tactile). When you use a pen or type with your word-processor, you activate your sense of touch to double your memory, you must “feel” the word or phrase. Handy-Hand Strategy 1. If you are a lefty, use the index-finger of your left-hand to trace the word or phrase you want to permanently remember in the palm of your right-hand. For righties, use your right-index-finger to trace in the palm of your left-hand. 2. Before we start we must mentally announce our memory intention, and get the cooperation of your Inner-Child. Who is he/she? Another name is your Self-Talk, Stream-of-Consciousness, Internal-Dialogue, and Subvocalization. Your Inner-Child is the “still, small voice” within - that you hear mentally when you are reading. When you ask yourself, “Should I take an umbrella?”, who are you talking to? It’s your Inner-Child that sends you an answer (intuition). 3. Here’s what you do. Close your eyes and instantly go into Alpha (relaxation). “I want to talk to my Inner-Child (call it by your nick-name or Kiddo). We are going to play a little game. Help me. I want to permanently remember this word (phrase). Please play with me.” That’s all there is to it. You have created Attention-Interest-Desire in your own brain. Now we use V-A-K to make Handy-Hand work. You have the strength of your three-power senses for long-term memory. 4. Example: Occum’s Razor I just cannot remember the phrase Occum’s Razor, the law of parsimony. It refers to using the simplest approach – Keep-It-Simple-Stupid. We have the help of our Inner-Child, but he/she needs clues to remember. It comes from using multi-senses. a. Mentally – say in your mind, Occum’s Razor three-times (3x). If you are alone you can say the two-words out-loud 3x. Repeat the words with feeling, like you intend to learn them permanently. Your intention to remember - is everything. b. Notice that whether you repeat the two-words “mentally’ or aloud, you involve Your sense of hearing – Auditory sense. You hear - Occum’s Razor (3x). c. Trace the two-words, Occum’s Razor in the palm of your passive hand using your dominant index-finger. So What? You are using your Visual Sense by seeing the words as you trace them. You see them in your “mind’s eye” and with your physical Visual Cortex. d. Tracing the words Occum’s Razor in you other hand is a physical act that triggers your powerful sense of touch (kinesthetic). You feel yourself tracing the words to be memorized. That’s Kinesthetic. e. Ask yourself (Inner-Child), “Kiddo, what does Occum’s Razor remind me of? What does it sound like? What pictures (mental-images) come into my mind when I think of the two-words – Occum’s Razor? Wait two-seconds for an answer, it will come immediately. I get a mental-image of of my Gillette Fusion Razor. I use it daily, and see myself shaving with the Razor. That’s all I need because I am linking something new, “Occum’s Razor”, with Something “old” in my long-term memory. Gillette Razor to Occum’s Razor, right? What about a rhyme for “Occum”? Dock-em, Hock-em, Lock-em, and Sock-Em. The last one is very visual, I see a prize-fight and a lot of Rock-Em and Sock-Em. Okay, I repeat 3x the rhythm reminder for Occum. ‘Sock-Em, Sock-Em, Sock-Em.” That’s baby-easy, I can visualize-mentally, and even feel – ‘Sock-Em.’ Now I link them together, “Sock-Em, Occum!”. Now I add “Razor”, my own Gillette razor, the one I shave with daily. Fact: I will never forget the two-words, Occum’s Razor. f. Last thing, I must show my appreciation to my Inner-Child. “Thanks for playing the word-game with me. Is there anything I can do for you? A picture of a Hershey candy-bar comes to mind. “How about a diet Pepsi, or a sweet fruit, I’m want to lose five-pounds?” I hear the ‘still, small voice’ answer, “OK”. Endwords Your Inner-Child wants to play games all the time. He/she is available 24/7 to to help you learn, remember or discover creative ways to improving. Just ask in a nice way, and he/she will play with you. Want a new relationship, a promotion/raise in your career, lose-five-pounds? It’s doable, just ask him/her for help by playing a game. Here, you have an excellent memory strategy. It will get you better grades, and career success. Ask your Inner-Child, and use Handy-Hand-Memory to permanently Learn new vocabulary, phrases or creative ideas. Memory: Use-it-or-Lose-it. See ya, Copyright © 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Who is Your Inner Child, And So What? 2011-07-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler Who is Your Inner-Child And So What? The first Law of being human is asking questions. Open-Ended Questions, not just Yes-or-No, or What-time-is-it? Questions raise our intelligence by leading to new experiences and behaviors. There are seven powerful questions that will harmonize your left and right-brain. If content is King, Knowledge is his Prime Minister. If you ask these seven questions of the important people in your life, and of every book you read, guaranteed you will permanently raise your IQ up to 20%. Expect your memory to improve about 25%. Ready? Start Speed Reading or learn how to think faster. 1. Who? It gives you the back story on folks. 2. What? You learn the Cause And Effect of the occurrence. 3. When? Timing is everything, so get the timeline. 4. Where? Different places create different cultures. 5. Why? Digging into motivation is the trigger to events and personalities. 6. Which? Making better choices separates the winners from the rest. 7. How? Understanding how things fit together. ‘How’ unites your left and right brains. The second law of Homo sapiens is our “still-small-voice” in our brain. The answer to So-What - is we hear and consult with our mental companion almost 24/7. Stop. When you read, don’t you hear each and every word in the sentence, paragraph and page, in-your-head? It is a fact for 99.9% of humans. It has many names: Stream-of-Consciousness, Self-Talk, Internal-Dialogue, and Subvocalization. So What, Who Cares Your Inner-Child is the trigger for the part of your brain that makes all your significant decisions. He/she creates your mood and beliefs, decides your comfort-zone, and creates pleasure or pain in your life. Inner-Child triggers your feelings and emotions, reason and logic. It decides if you are shy (introvert) or outgoing (extrovert). It is where all your creative ideas come from. We call it intuition, inspiration, and revelation. Fame Carl Jung, one of the founding father of psychoanalysis, called I-C – the “Devine Child”. The “Wonder Child”, and the “Child Within”. It is also identified as your ECHT-Self, meaning our real, authentic, and genuine self. See: Echt in Webster’s; it’s from German meaning ‘real’. The opposite of Echt-self is your Ego-self, which is loaded with bias and prejudices. Echt- Self is your higher-self, with access to the knowledge within both your left and right hemispheres. Age Your Inner-Child is about 7 years old, and remains active through your teenage years. It gets crushed into silence when you hit adulthood – your twenties. Did you know that Adolescence is between puberty and adulthood. Puberty is reached when you can reproduce sexually. For males it is 14 years, and females at 12 years. Your Inner Child remains with you until you cash-in your chips. He/she evolves and becomes your Subconscious, Unconscious, and Non-Conscious mind. Its actions speak louder than words. Your Inner-Child is a little-kid and wants to please, but takes things literally. It’s you, but without your life-experiences, knowledge, and maturity. It uses imagination 90% of the time, while adults reject mental movies (imagination) 90% of the time. It doesn’t think, it imagines, and is the seat of your creativity. Consciousness Did you know that your brain operates using six-centers simultaneously? We are conscious of only one of the six, ‘Will-power’. The other five-sixth are called Non-Conscious, (Subconscious or Unconscious). They run 24/7, even when we sleep. Willpower (consciousness) turns off when we sleep. Non-Consciousness (Sub or Un) run your heartbeat, breathing, lungs, blood circulation, metabolism, and immune systems. When would you like to turn it off and give it a rest? Remember, 1/6th is 16.66%, that’s our consciousness (Willpower). Your Inner Child, (Non-Sub-Unconsciousness), activates 5/6th or 83.33% of your brain’s operating systems. What They Say About Our Inner Child 1. “He who can no longer pause to wonder, and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. A. Einstein 2. “In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to PLAY.” Friedrich Nietsche 3. “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.” Anonymous 4. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist, once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso 5. “One of the virtues of of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.” Sam Levenson 6. “The enemy of my Inner Child is the sense of how to do it. The sense of order imposed by the disciplined adult intelligence.” Norman Podhoretz 7. “We dread children because they show us the state of our decay.” Brian Aldiss 8. “My childhood may be over, but that does not mean Playtime is.” Ron Olson 9. “Children live neither in the past nor the future. They enjoy the Present, which very few of us do.” J.B. Bruyere 10. “Children ask better questions than adults. “May I have a cookie? What does a cow say? Why is the sky blue? Adults ask, “Why haven’t you called? Are you making money?” Tom Edison Endwords You can communicate with your Inner-Child now. It calls for going into a meditative-state. When we relax and release stress by going into Alpha cycles per second (brainwaves), we can mentally speak to our Non-Conscious mind (Inner Child). How and Why How is easy. Mentally say, “I want to have a conversation with my Non-Consciousness.” Yes, it is that simple because your Non-Conscious, a/k/a Subconscious, and Unconscious mind is always turned on and listening. You can ask it for help in personal healing, and it will search your experiences and long-term memory to answer healing or career questions. You can ask it for a solution to how to lose excess fat. It will steer you to knowledge in weight-loss, and strengthen your willpower to stay on a healthy diet. The secret is continuous visits. It accepts as true what it hears and sees the most. Dominant ideas focusing your Non-Conscious mind on your goals. Repetition in speaking to your Non-Conscious mind about your needs and goals, produces a higher priority in creating a solution. It thinks in mental pictures. But What If I Don’t Believe You do not have to believe that Non-Consciousness is listening to your mental comments for it to work. Do you have to believe in the law of gravity to see its results. There is no denying reality, right? Be a scientist and test the principle, and see what happens. If you get positive results, continue. We have taught this technique to many students who report healings and success in relationships, and their careers. Our experience is you will be shocked and amazed at your positive results. See ya, Copyright © 2011, H.Bernard Wechsler P.S. Google: Robert Najemy. www.holisticharmony.com hbw@speedlearning.org www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's the Law of Probabil 2011-07-06 By H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What’s the Law of Probability – And Why Should I care? 1. Do we have to BELIEVE in the law of Gravity (accept or understand it) to see its effects in action? Response: Get-otto-here! 2. Did you know that the Law of Probability is part science and part math? Response: Who Cares? 3. Quantum Mechanics (physics) uses the Law of Probability in tracking the Universe and its actions. It is part of the Field of Mathematics. Response: I’m really impressed. Not. 4. What else uses the Law of Probability that is relevant to your life? Response: Don’t-know, but what? Tournament Poker. The Law of Probability calculates the statistics on whether to Raise-Pass-or-Fold each and every hand you play. It helps your get rid of the R.A.T. That’s Resistance-Adversity, and Temporary-Failure. See: Odds-Stats Calculator. 5. Is this important? The Law of Probability permits you to discover in-advance, the Odds and Stats of the hands held by your opponents. How? Science and Math. Response: What’s the catch? 6. MADmike Tournament Poker workshops give you (for keeps) your own ODDS-STATS Calculator. It is not for sale to the public, we give it exclusively to our Apprentices. Response: How do I become an Apprentice? 7. If you want to take ‘chance’ (luck) and gambling out of playing, and start winning consistently in the casinos at Tournament Poker, get the Law of Probability on your side. Response: How? 8. Call me – MADMike- now, not later @ 1-516-315-8922. Let’s work together to help you WIN at Tournament Poker, instead of just Crash-And-Burn. www.madmikepoker.com See ya, MADmike. Copyright © 2011, 7.06.11 H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's the Number-Shape-System? 2011-07-04 By H. Bernard Wechsler What’s The Number-Shape System? Duh! Where numbers (0-9) look like common shapes. High IQ? The Mind hates remembering numbers because they are abstract instead of CONCRETE. Abstract numbers are hard to make a Mental Image in your Mind’s Eye. Brain likes Pictures and Associations for great long-term memory. Convert your numbers into tangible nouns and it’s easy to combine numbers into pictures that INTERACT with each other. 0. Reminds me of an EGG 1. Looks like a CANDLE. 2. Imagine a SWAN. 3. Reminds me of a PITCHFOLK. 4. I see a SAILBOAT. 5. Make-believe it’s your HAND. 6. Appears like my GOLFCLUB. 7. Reminds me of a SEMAPHORE (signal flag). 8. Looks like an HOURGLASS. 9. I imagine a TENNIS RACQUET. We tested one-hundred students (kids in school and executives) to learn the Number-Shapes. In five-minutes both groups owned the system – permanently. They tested themselves two- hours later and the following day, and the Number-Shape Systems was alive and well and retrievable from their long-term memory. So What We used N-S-S for a group of new NY Stock Exchange traders. They use it daily. Exxon-Mobil (XOM). Price: $82.01 (last trade June 30, 2011) Thousands of Stocks, all with numbers to remember. Example: Imagine an HOURGLASS with a SWAN inside instead of sand. The swan has an X in its bill to remind us of Exxon. Wait – what about 01 in the price? I see an EGG at a birthday party, blowing out a CANDLE. Price of XOM is $82.01 Now your assignment, if you want to become a Master of the Stock Market is to find five other stock prices and see how easily and quickly you can convert them to shapes and their prices. It will exercise your PreFrontal Cortex and harmonize your left and right Hemispheres. Oh yeah, your brain says, Use-it-or-Lose–it. See ya, Copyright © 7.4.11 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's The Difference between Gimmicks and Strategies? 2011-06-30 By H. Bernard Wechsler What’s the Difference between Tricks & Gimmicks And Strategies & Systems? Major Breakthrough: learning is connected to a Brain Rhythm So what? Add one baby-easy element to your reading and you triple (3x) your learning speed, and double (2x) your memory. You save up to 2-hours daily and become a human learning computer. You have heard about speed reading for years, but you were never sure if it was a gimmick. One sure thing, you never became a speed reader. In the next five-minute you will know Speed Reading is real, and Double (2x) your learning skills – permanently. Credibility Neuroscientists at UCLA, led by professor Mayank Mehta, June 27, 2011, and published in PLoS One, the journal for the Public Library Of Science, confirmed that there is a Brain Rhythm linked to Power Learning. Please Stay awake, this is not a long, boring scientific article. You will easily take this information and use it in both school or your career. It is for students and executives. How Does Your Brain Learn The average professional and/executive reads as slow as molasses, and gets distracted in a little as 10 to 40-minutes. How slow? About 150-200 words per minute, while a speed reader learns 3x faster, with better concentration and memory. Who cares? When you get distracted you lose your concentration and mentally Zone-out, daydream or let your mind wander into the stratosphere. You’re bored out of your mind and stop thinking and learning. 1. The rhythm of learning is called GAMMA, and is associated with Running speed. You have heard of a “runner’s high”, it means you move like the wind, effortlessly. Why? Your brain is using Gamma brainwaves (30-200 Hertz Hz) per second. The faster you move your body, the greater your reading-speed, learning skills, and comprehension. Huh? All that is required is Tapping with the index-finger of your passive hand. Tap on the desk or your shoulder. The faster rhythm you tap, the greater your learning speed. Weird, yes, but it works immediately because the tapping causes your mind to pay Attention and focus on concentration instead of daydreaming. 2. Stop and try tapping now. Please pay attention, this is the secret of speed reading and speed learning. You must use a pen to underline each sentence you’re studying with your dominant hand. For most of us, it’s your right-hand. That means you simultaneously TAP with your left-hand, right? Why underline the sentences? Your eyes must follow a moving object, so the lines made by the moving pen cause you to speed-up your reading-learning process. It is an instinct and works every time for everyone. Location of the Gamma Waves These Gamma waves are located in your brain, and measured by EEG instruments. Google: Hans Berger, electroencephalogram creator. Measuring Alpha-Beta-Theta- Delta brainwaves. The Gamma signal is located in your Hippocampus, which is critical for all learning and memory. It occurs when you pay attention and concentrate on the text. The researchers discovered that as your speed up your body’s rhythm, Gamma waves increase and your learning and comprehension improve. We suggest you use a steady, easy rhythm of tapping as you concentrate on the author’s ideas. You will absorb and retain this knowledge permanently. Remember, you underline as you read with your dominant hand, and TAP with the index finger of your passive hand. It’s baby-easy and like a brain game. Endwords “When we first saw the results, we were surprised and excited. We saw that the Gamma Rhythm was a Fast signal that occurs only when we are concentrating or learning. Gamma grows faster as your body rhythm increases. It is rare to find to find a relationship that is so clear.” Concentration No matter how smart you are, or your IQ score, everybody zones-out (daydreams and mind- wanders) after reading between 10-minutes to a high of 40-minutes. After that we are going through the motions but “nobody’s home” in learning or memory. Who Says So Erik Reichle, scientist at University of Pittsburgh, and published in Psychological Science, 8.30.2010. They are interested in how your brain controls eye-movements. Specifically, how does word comprehension and visual attention run your eye-movements? Your eyes do different movements when you are paying Attention, than when your mind is wandering. Get This In standard reading and learning, your eyes fixate on the words and sentences, and move from word to word, sentence to sentence. If the words are uncommon, you hang on them longer than with familiar language. When you are NOT paying attention (zoned-out), your eye-patterns change. You slow down and focus longer on each word. You become mechanical instead of fluid and fluent. No thinking is going on in your left-hemisphere. Endwords When we are reading and learning, our eye-movements are directly linked, connected and associated with the way your brain is processing language. Zone-out and your eyes disconnect from your language center (left-hemisphere). And? Garbage in, and Garbage-out. See ya, Copyright © 6.29.2011, H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. If you are intrigued and want our free speed reading report, it is the best of its kind. And it is free, with no-strings-attached. Find me – hbw@speedlearning.org : www.speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are You Still a Learning Machine? 2011-06-23 By H. Bernard Wechsler Are you STILL a Learning Machine? If you are finished with school, for 95% of us, we quit learning. The problem with that is a static brain begins to unravel and invites deterioration like Alzheimer’s. You know the expression, ‘Use it or Lose it’. Put your arm in a cast for 6-weeks and the disuse atrophies the muscles. You need Exercise to regain full strength, right? Stop learning, watch 5-hours of TV daily, and your brain gets stale and your ability to learn goes South. So What? The latest scientific research indicated an opening for dementia. See, you are going to live to over 90-years, so protecting your mind is critical to living the good life. Scientific American The May 21st edition of Scientific American published a great article called ‘Brain Boosting Tips For Speed Learning’. We know something about speedlearning: it covers speed reading and brain strategies for long term memory. If you use speedlearning, you exercise your brain and guarantee your cognitive faculties for a lifetime. Two Studies Published in the journal Science, researcher Jeffrey Karpicke at Purdue University concludes that repetition, and not fancy mind-mapping is the secret to learning science and other subjects. Retrival (testing your recall) is not merely a read out of the knowledge stored in our mind. This activity of retrieval itself enhances the process of learning.’ In plain English, self-testing to see if you really remember the key points of what you read, is a strategy to help your brain ASSOCIATE and remember better. Read the article; decide the 1-2-3 key points and repetitiously retest yourself to see your recall. Compared to What The Purdue researchers compared “simple recall exercises” better than Mind Mapping. They call it ‘elaborative concept mapping’. It is a creation of Tony Buzan, and is used by about 250 million people to learn new material. Personally, Buzan’s Mind Mapping is excellent because it combines mental-imagery (imagination) with ASSOCIATION, linking, connecting ideas. If you hear “up”, you brain retrieves “down”. Day is automatically associated with Night, and your brain fills in the links (associations) with all the things the keyword reminds you of. Important Your brain uses pictures (mental imagery) together with ASSOCIATIONS to produce memory. No memory prevents your “thinking”. Conclusion: imagination and association equal your memory and you thinking-brain. Is Buzan’s Mind Mapping a winner? Yes, in spades. Mind Mapping works the way your brain works. It is radient and takes an idea and branches out to form related ideas to the original. Mind Mapping take the Theme, the key idea of the article and builds Keywords using one-word for each major idea on each branch. Each key-word trigger the next supporting idea. Google: Tony Buzan. Contrary The researchers expected to find that elaborative diagrams of relationships between the author’s ideas drawn from the text, would help short-term and long-term memory. It does, but you must keep testing yourself to see if you remember the keywords. How? It sounds boring but stop every 20-minutes the first hour to retrieve what you learned in keywords. The next day, retest yourself twice more to prove you really own the keywords. One week later, And do a retrieval test. That really works. That is the significance of the Purdue research. Al Einstein Can you remember this brilliant comment by Einstein? If you retrieve it twice-a-day, it will improve your life. Here goes: “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to NEVER stop questioning.” Keywords: yesterday, today, tomorrow, questioning. Remember, create a mental picture or Movie, and let your mind ASSOCIATE the keywords with ideas already embedded in your Long-term memory. You own the Einstein quote forever. Fist-Noting If you can remember the following seven (7) questions, you will improve your long-term memory Up to 60%. Ready? 1. Who? (associate who with the picture of an Owl). 2. What? (see a Hat and ask what it is for). 3. When? Picture a Hen and ask it the date and time. 4. Where? Imagine a Hare (rabbit) and ask it for directions. 5. Why? Imagine an Eye and ask it a tough question. 6. Which? See a Witch on a broom, and ask her to choose between two-ideas. 7. How? See a COW and ask it how it produces milk. Endwords Read and question the author using these 7 questions and your long-term memory will vastly improve. 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That’s easy, so just do it. “Finished files are the result of years of scientific study Combined with the experience of years,” You say three? Count again knowing three is wrong. Next time we meet ask me the correct answer. You want to know now? Okay, Six, Count again. See ya, MadMike Poker Tournament Boot Camp O.K. How come 95% of all readers who count the number of Fs in the Sentence, “Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years,” submit an answer of only three (3), when the correct answer is six (6)? Answer They are counting in their mind using their Larynx (voice box), and not paying attention and using their EYES to read, not their inner-voice. Now take a pen and count the number of Fs, using your EYES to consciously count, and ignoring your Internal Voice (self-talk, stream of consciousness). Now you will notice the three (3) Fs you missed, they are “Of”, “Of”, and “Of”. So What, Who Cares People who are not speed readers suffer from Subvocalization, hearing every word they read recited in their mind. They do not use their eyes, but their internal-voice to read, They hear “of” as “o-v”, and miss the extra three (3) Fs. Subvocalization slows down your learning up to 35%, and reduces long-term memory about 38%. Is there a way to overcome Suvocalization? Absolutely, yes. It requires easy strategies and a little practice. It is well worth the effort in Poker and the rest of life. Now if you get it, say, “Ah-Ha!” See ya, Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Research on How to Learn 2011-05-27 By H. Bernard Wechsler New Research in How to Learn Do you hear every word of text you read, in your mind? Don’t say no! because 99.9% of the rest of us subvocalize all-the-time. The fancy terms for hearing the text mentally, are ‘auditory-reinforcement’ and ‘subvocalization’. So what? Reading and hearing your little internal-voice is like ham-and-eggs, inseparable. Problem: you will always be a lame reader, a slow-poke mentally hearing the text because you can never read and comprehend faster than you speak. Normal speech is a maximum of 250 words per minute, while speed reading permits you to learn at up to 1,000 words per minute. Choose Snailing verses Speedlearning to waste time. Secret Revealed The goal is not to extinguish subvocalization, but to reduce it to hearing just one-word from each three you see in each sentence. If there are nine-words in the sentence, you hear only three (3). You save up to two-hours daily and improve your comprehension and memory. How It takes twenty-one days of practice to create a new habit. Starting today read and simultaneously TAP using your passive index finger (usually the left-hand). Just read using your speed reading techniques, but tap, tap, tap in a simple rhythm. The secret is tapping with the Intention to hear only one (1) of each three (3) words your eyes scan, works automatically. It is baby-easy to do and to see immediate positive results. Attitude Your Attitude is critical. No magic, just the power of your mental intention, together with the tapping interferes with your Larynx (voice-box) to repeat like a parrot, each every word. Concentration and comprehension do NOT require hearing the words reinforced. Your eyes see and transfer what you read through your Optic Nerve, to your brain for understanding and long-term memory storage. Hearing the voice is not part of the equation. Oh yeah, where you tap is not relevant. Tap on the desk, your arm or your knee, they all work equally. Remember, you save hours, and improve your learning skills. Our graduates report higher grades and up to 30% higher exam scores using tapping and intention. Executives get more promotions and raises because they avoid ‘information-overload’ and own more knowledge. Google: the journal Cognitive Processing, 2004, A. Aleman, Vol. 5, #4, p.228-231. Mental Visualization Can you create a picture in your mind of a dog with stripes like a zebra, and a lion’s head? Easy right, you can do it with your eyes opened or closed? So what? Know how to visualize improves with practice, and is the key ingredient in improving long-term memory. Our mind learns by association, linking ‘new’ information and experience with ‘old’ knowledge, already loaded in our long-term memory. Connect what you want to learn to one or more of your senses of seeing, hearing or touch, in a weird, ridiculous way (a gorilla sleeping in your bed), and it becomes memorable and almost unforgettable. New research at MIT, May, 2011 led by Philip Isola, reveals the three (3) elements to creating a mental visualization (image) that sticks like glue in your long-term memory. It is counter-intuitive to scientific expectations. The researchers believed pictures of nature, mountains and animals would excite our mental imagery. They do not trigger neural networks, these three (3) images do. 1. Create images showing ‘people’. We like to see our own kind, not nature. 2. Mentally visualize static-indoor-scenes. Example: the inside of a library, with a librarian carrying a load of thick books. We identify with our own experiences, not majestic nature scenes. 3. Human-scale pictures click our comfort-zone. We relate to our own personal experiences, not stuff the size of the universe. So What Each time you practice creating mental imagery with these three (3) ingredients, you will improve your ability to learn and remember. After some practice, this makes whatever you choose ‘memorable’, and locks the new image into your long-term memory. You have a system to encode pictures for easy retrieval from storage, leading to speed Reading success and a powerful memory. It is the secret to becoming a learning genius. Endwords Two-words decide your success in school and career. It is your choice to trigger them into new behavior or let them sleep. Sure, they sound corny, but they decide you life’s experience. Patience and Persistence. Our experience with both students in school and in their careers is they quit trying after a single struggle. We all desire ‘immediate gratification’, and have a limited “attention-span” for practice. It is your “attitude” (state of mind) that decides your level of patience. The secret of being a ‘money-magnet’ and winning promotions is persistence. If you quit Define Persistence comes from Latin meaning to stand. When we stand fast, and refuse to quit, we persist. Often the difference between great success and early failure is whether we choose to surrender to fatigue and frustration. Persistence is not just an abstract word, but an ‘attitude’ of mind. It is continuing, doing the thing until we own it, that decides the winner. See ya, Copyright © 2,011 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What Really Matters in Persuading Folks? 2011-05-20 By H. Bernard Wechsler What Really Matters in Persuading Folks? If you want to save time and get to the next thing on your to-do-list, the answer is your Voice. How you use your voice-box makes folks listen intently or go blind to your pitch. This is not in an isolated area of your life; it covers sales (persuading), convincing your Significant-Other of anything in your relationship, and getting out the vote. Who Says So Jose Benki, lead researcher at the University of Michigan 5.16.2011. I believe him because his team reviewed 1,380 presentations by 100 male and female interviewers. It came down to three (3) criteria whether folks said yes or blew-you-off: speech-rates (fast or slow), fluency (phasing), and pitch (high or low voice). The scientists expected to find that folks who are animated on the phone or in-person, lively, using variation in their voice pitch, would be the winners. Not so. They sound artificial, phony, like TV commercials. Listeners hated them. Men with high-pitched voices were not believed; their deep-voiced colleagues won all the prizes for credibility. Get this, because it applies to all of us: speaking fast or talking too slow makes the listener question your brain-power or if you are a con-man. What’s the right speech-pace? Answer: 3.5 words per second. That makes people comfortable, and they give you the benefit of the doubt and agree with you. No, you are not going to count the words falling out of your mouth, but you will keep track of too fast and too slow. Pauses Ordinary folks pause (shut-up or slow-down) 4-5 times a minute. It is what we are used to, and expect to hear. Frequent short pauses when you try to persuade, influence or convince, brings home the bacon. Men or women who are fluent with perfect speech are just not trusted. Too many pauses in a conversation and you sound freaky; too few stops make you sound too scripted and phony-baloney. Test yourself and you’ll discover 4-5 stops per minute get your listeners undivided attention. But what does Dr. Benki know, he’s just the 800 pound gorilla in the psychology of language. Is This Important Many people are always learning, and never acting. Changing your Attitude is controlling your life because changing your mind requires you to change your behaviors (acting). Strengthen your desire and you are motivated to change your actions. Any diet will help you lose 20-pounds; but which diet program motivates you to start and continue? Success is taking responsibility for your reaching your goals. The buck stops here - in your head. Tiger Mother Effect Short and sweet, it aint bias or prejudice when it is a researched fact. Asians students get higher grades and win more scholarships than their fellow students. How come? Answer: Asian students study twice as many hours weekly as their counterparts. It accounts for everything. My Mother Made Me Do It They call them Tiger Mothers, and they lay down the rules for their children. They don’t want to be loved, but respected. Asian kids in the U.S. are disciplined for academic success, not for having fun. They are taught they must bring home “A” grades, and less is a sin. Their job is academic success and music lessons, and not sports, video-games or sleep-overs. When Western kids are not reading over the entire summer, Asian children are engaged in daily lessons. Guess which group wins the prizes in college and graduate school? Hard Numbers Non-Asians spend 5.5 hours a week on homework and studying, while Asian kids learn an average of 13 hours weekly. Does it really matter? They produce the grades and grab the scholarships, and are prepared for college and graduate school. What Else They are better prepared for successful careers, where they win promotions and raises way out of proportion to their own numbers and the competition. Shanghai, China, Japan, and Korea produce the best learners on the planet. The only non-Asian country in the winner’s circle is Finland. Now What We need American Tiger Mothers who with fathers, will lay down the rules for academic success. Will the U.S. be a second-rate power in the next twenty-five years because the next generation is engaged in cheering their football team or playing video-games five-hours daily? Late Starters Americans have always used the excuse they enjoyed childhood and their school years, and caught up later to be world class scientists and academics. Bull. Americans are specialists in being entrepreneurs, not scholars. The best thinking in this area is by Scott Adams, the writer of Dilbert cartoons. He called us “B” students, and recommends Americans be trained for business, and not take physics, math, and Shakespeare. Americans Should Specialize Here is Adams’ list of goals for American “B” students: 1. Combine Skills (know how to fill multiple roles). 2. Fail-Forward, use all your failures, and if we are take risks, we are failing 90% of the time, to gain new skills that will be useful in later life. 3. Find The Action. Move to where the action is, and you will discover your highest level of success. 4. Attract Luck. Why? Luck finds the doers. 5. Conquer Fear. Replace fear with enthusiasm. Get training in public speaking. 6. Write Simply. The clearer you can express your ideas, they greater your impact on others. 7. Learn Persuasion. It applies to sales, marketing, negotiating, and statistics. Google up: How to Get a Real Education at College. It was the lead article in the Wall Street Journal weekend edition on April 9, 2011. It contains hot-stuff from a wise man. See ya, Copyright © 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. If you would like a great report on How to Speed Read, contact us for a free, no strings attached, copy. It could change your academic or entrepreneurial life. Find us. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bullets & Poker Tips 2011-05-15 By H. Bernard Wechsler Read These Bullets – ™ MadMikesPoker.com LAG vs TAG (Loose Aggressive v Tight Aggressive Game) – Makes All The Winning Difference Discover Your “Next” Level of Play Sit-And-Go-Strategies Win Jackpots Win by Playing Aggressive Post Flop Poker What's Size Stack Got to Do With It? Master Stage #3 Hand -Reading How & When to Play Your “A” Game But Are You Ready to Play in a Pro Tournament? Winners Are “Betters”, Not “Callers” Neuroscience Techniques to Blindside Your Own Emotions Best Ten (10) Poker Tips of 2010 Only an Amateur plays every hand – consider folding more Only an Amateur bluffs just for Bluffing's sake Only an Amateur stays in a hand just because you are already in it Only an Amateur plays after five-drinks Only an Amateur calls at the end of a hand to “Keep-them-honest” Only an Amateur plays with a Bad attitude or negative mood Only an Amateur loses concentration off the cards on the table Only an Amateur wears a visor – you want to pay attention to the other players Only an Amateur plays a higher limits game than his/her experience commands Only Professionals pick games based on their proven level of Skills, Bankroll and Jackpot Copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler 2011 How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought? 2011-05-06 By H. Bernard Wechsler How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought? Do you have to understand the science of electricity, electrons and protons, in order to turn on the lights in your room, your TV or computer? Click the button, throw the switch, or wave your hand, right? If the public had to pass a test on how the internal combustion engine turns gas into driving, our highways would be huge parking lots, true? What Do You Make of These Scientific Statements 1. “Matter does not exist – it is all vibrational frequencies.” 2. “All physical matter is a result of frequency. It is ‘sound’ that turns energy and matter into form.” 3. “If you amplify the frequency, the structure of matter changes by how we think and feel.” 4. “The substance of the universe is ‘consciousness’, so behavior is everything.” 5. “In the Beginning was the Word (sound).” Every organ in our body resonates in a specific frequency.” 6. “Stress (distress) affects the vibrational frequency of our body, including our heartbeat.” After reading 1-6 twice, I would rather drink a Diet Pepsi. It is over my head, but that doesn’t mean these scientific statements are not truth. What is the practical value of understanding the Power of Thought? Scientists Prove You Can Steer Your Car With the Power of Thought Maybe it will help the disabled drive to work, or the rest of us to use our cell phones when driving or hold a conversation with our passenger without paying attention to traffic. The CEO at IBM could not see the benefits in manufacturing personal computers because he thought the market was non-existent. Let’s wait to discover the benefits of steering your car with your mind, using good old thinking. Freie Universitat, at Berlin 2.21.11 Using off-the-shelf sensors, the folks at AutoNOMOS laboratories can use our brainwaves (EEG) for four (4) control commands: left-right-accelerate-brake, to successful drive a car with their thoughts. I have trouble driving a car the old-fashioned way, so I’m interested. This may be the next big-thing. Remember when no one owned a personal computer? There is more. It is controlled by an interface between our bioelectric wave patterns and this computer-controlled vehicle. The computer was programmed to interpret human brainwaves for “left-right-accelerate-brake.” That covers “Please don’t run down that dog in the street, or those two pedestrians.” The computer scientists connected the car’s steering, accelerator and brakes to the sixteen sensors monitoring our Electroencephalogram (EEG). So what? The driver could influence the car movements using only their thoughts. Did you know our electro-magnetic brain produces Beta-Alpha-Theta-Delta brainwave patterns, each operating at different cycles per second? Google: Dr. Hans Berger, and EEG. So What According to Professor Raul Rojas, “the drivers wearing the EEG sensors had no problem controlling their cars. Even when the car was on auto-pilot (second test), the drivers successfully determined the direction to take when it was stopped at the intersections.” Next, may be the “hybrid” autonomous motor vehicle, people working in conjunction with your vehicle. Check-out this short video to see the Power-of-Thought experiment. http://tinyurl.com/BrainDriver Physicists Since Quantum Physics was introduced in 1900 by Max Planck, and Einstein took it the next level, we know that Mind and Physical Matter are connected. When we (humans) observe reality, we change reality. You can have Particles or Waves, but not both at the same time. How do we change reality? Answer: The Power of our thoughts (consciousness). Hard to believe even though it has been scientific fact for over a century. Our existence and thoughts (the power of thought) control matter. So What? Wait and see how we control matter in the future. Brainwave Vibrational Technique Would you take five-minutes out of your day to defeat stress, anxiety and worry? How it works is not relevant, just that doing these baby-easy exercises (at your desk) must be experienced to be believed. You can view these movements on YouTube, or check out the video at http:// rebootyourbrain.com.au/ What is Required The objective is to move your head around your brainstem and enhance the blood supply and oxygen to your PreFrontal Cortex, our executive brain. More brain power, better thinking and creativity, right? Close your eyes, and silently repeat the mantra OHM, with each deep (diaphragmatic) breath. 1. Move your head side-to-side, mentally say and hear OHM, and take a deep breath. Make the “no” movements - eight-times. 2. Move your head up-and-down, while mentally saying and hearing OHM, and take a deep breath. Make the ‘yes’ movement – eight-times. 3. Tilt your head side-to-side, while mentally repeating your mantra OHM, and take a deep breath. Tilt back-and-forth eight-times. 4. Make eight circling movements with your head. Simultaneously repeat OHM, and take a deep breath. 5. Patting the crown of your left-head, while moving your head side-to-side. Repeat your Mantra and deep breathe eight-times. 6. Move your head up-and-down, while simultaneously tapping your collarbone and move your hands down to your hips. Repeat OHM and deep breathe eight-times. 7. Cross your arms over your chest, and move your head side-to-side eight-times. No OHM, But deep breathe. 8. Move your head up-and-down, right-hand on back of your head and push forward gently. Eight-times. Deep Breathe. 9. Move your head side-to-side, while simultaneously tapping both sides of your collar bone. Eight-times and deep breathe. Now see the video, and try your own mind-experiment. Did you know that your three-pound coconut requires 25% of the oxygen in-take for your entire body? The greater supply of oxygen to your brain, the better your critical thinking and planning. See ya, Copyright © 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler If you would like the competitive edge in school and your career, contact us for a free copy of our killer Speed Reading report. It will raise your IQ for life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is There a Secret to Brainwave Vibrations? 2011-05-03 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is There a Secret to Brainwave Vibrations? I admit to being a life-long skeptic; my favorite personality in the Bible is Doubting Thomas. Worse than skepticism (disbelief & dissent), is Sarcasm. My first reaction to the unfamiliar is mocking, showing animosity, and being a nasty critic. Cause-and-effect and experimental proof is what shuts me up. It is the scientific method, right? The almost new, hot thing is California is practicing Brainwave Vibration modification. First things first, what is it good for, and what’s In It for Me? Dr. IIchi Lee, its founder makes the conventional claims of stress reduction, immune system improvement, and in some cases a dramatic healing. Question: what is the standard we should use to decide if Brainwave Vibration Modification is even worth discussing? Answer: what positive effects, if any, does BVM have on me, you, and the people who try it? One more thing – does Brainwave Vibration Modification have any bad side-effects? History Briefly, because you and I are “impatient” – ‘Get to the point or I’m going to hit the delete button’. My question is: how fast before I see change and genuine results? Answer: 7-10 consecutive days of practice for 5-7 minutes daily. Our brain shows four measurable brainwaves: a) Beta (13-40) Cycles Per Second (conscious alertness), b) Alpha (8-13) Cycles Per Second (relaxed daydreaming, mind-wandering, and zoning-out). c) Theta (4-7) Cycles Per Second (deeper relaxation producing intuition and creativity). d) Delta (1/2-4 Cycles Per Second (sleeping and dreaming). These brainwaves are measured in CPS also known as Hertz. They were discovered by an Austrian scientist in 1924 and accepted as legitimate ten-years later, after a lot of abuse of Dr. Hans Berger. He invented a scientific piece of equipment still used 80 years later called an EEG (Electroencephalograph). It measures human brainwaves in action and is called Neurofeedback. Parasympathetic Nervous System When we are relaxed or digesting our food, we are at peace. We close the door on our fight-or-flight programming which causes stress, physical pain and standard anxiety. When our Sympathetic Nervous System is agitated by traffic, office politics and panic, our Fight-or-Flight Reaction kicks-in. It pours out adrenaline (epinephrine) which gets our mind-body connection ready to protect our fundament from destruction. Problem: this occurs even when there is no good reason for fight-or-flight. So What The following baby-easy techniques click on our Parasympathetic Nervous System, and take us away from stress, angst, and panic. There is some scientific evidence that Brainwave Vibration Modifications produce improved health, healing, and a positive mental attitude. 1. Abdominal breathing: most folks living in cities are shallow-breathers, which causes headaches and lack of adequate oxygen for our brain. Did you know your 3-pound coconut (brain) uses 25% of the oxygen supply for your entire body? Deeply breathe by sucking in your gut, hold the breath for 5-seconds, and slowly exhale through your mouth. Do 6-8 inhalations to trigger a flood of new oxygen to your brain. 2. Close your eyes (you automatically go into Alpha) and focus your imagination (mental visualization) on slowly exhaling through your mouth. It lowers your heart-rate after 120 seconds. You feel better and create a healing energy. 3. Tapping on the top of your head (brain). Use the three-finger method, joining your thumb, index and middle-fingers of both hands. Start tapping at the front of your forehead, then middle of your skull, and finally toward the rear of your head. How long? Six-taps with the fingers of both hands, for each area of the brain is a good trigger. An exact count does not count. Why? According to some researchers, tapping on your Frontal Neural-Vascular Points (brain) causes new blood to flow to your brain. So? It unites your left and right hemispheres, and changes the flow of your Sodium-Potassium chemistry. It is the key to your heart rate, blood pressure, and energy. It is deeply involved with your Adrenal glands and Electrolytes 4. Shaking (rolling) your head to a rhythm. This is the stupidest technique of the four, except that it really works like crazy. Either listen to quick music or play a tune in your head. You want to get your entire mind-body-connection, particularly your head, neck, and shoulders into moving in a circular rhythm. Imagine seeing kids at a concert and mentally notice how their entire bodies move to the rhythmic music they hear. Sway your lower body with a connected movement to your upper torso. Your head is the key to this stress relief. Swinging and swaying your head, neck, and shoulders is the secret. Your lower body will naturally follow in tune with your upper half. And These four exercises of Brainwave Vibration Modification are to be experienced, not just text you read (learned knowledge). It is “doing” the movements and changing your vibrational frequencies, and not just reading these brilliant ideas, and nodding your head in agreement. What Does it Do For Me, Again It makes you use more of your right-hemisphere, instead of utilizing 95% of our left-hemisphere, which is normal for us. The healthiest people use both their left and right hemispheres, instead of depending exclusively on your left-hemisphere of linear logic. Why Do It Fact: Your brain is divided into three-sections: 1. brainstem (back of head) control instincts and body structures on auto-pilot. Heart, lungs, and blood circulation. 2. Paleocortex controls our ancient, reptilian complex brain. 3. Neocortex controls our cerebrum of thinking, planning and organizing. These four exercises help your brainstem, paleocortex and neocortex stay healthy and heal quickly when required. Remember this: your CONSISTENT thoughts and ideas control your emotions, and your emotions trigger your hormones. Hormones are the driving force for our behaviors and attaining our goals. Your greatest strength is your ability to be consistent until you reach your goals. Do a mind-experiment and try five-minutes on these four exercises at your desk in the office or home for just two-days. You have four new techniques that relieve stress, reduce pain, and make you feel excellent for up to four hours after you finish. It is a feel-good exercise, with no negative effects. You don’t know the power of these skills until you practice these techniques. “You have everything to gain and nothing .. ….” It will help you ace school and your career. See ya, Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. We have a dozen free speed reading reports that are yours for the asking. Request one and grow your genius at school and your career. Yes, really. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the Einstein Link System? 2011-05-02 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is the Einstein Link (Chain Method) System? Example: Cheese & Giraffe “Please DON’T think of a Pink, Striped GIRAFFE - riding on a wheel of CHEESE.” Your brain goes into long-term autopilot when it hears Giraffe and ignores the word – “don’t”. It pulls from our sensory memory the image, odor and shape of a Giraffe riding on a wheel of Cheese. Your brain decodes the word Giraffe using your (V-A-K-G-O) - Visual-Auditory- Kinesthetic (touch)-Gustatory-Olfactory senses. Your hippocampus loads it from old movies, visits to the zoo, and a kindergarten book you read. That is called the law of Association; it is activated by your thinking. Einstein a) Create an Association – how one idea CONNECTS to another in your imagination. Synonyms for ‘associate’ are: join, relate, blend, unite, and lump together. b) Ask a questions about this association – “Well, what happened to it? Now you have a Link (connection) between the two words that sticks in your Primary Visual Cortex as long-term memory. Why? You encode the two words, and can decode them when you come across the associated words again. Story to Improve Your Brainpower is Called Visualization Ten Links: 1. Cheese 2. Giraffe 3. Battery 4. Water 5. Space-Shuttle 6. Rose (not the flower) 7. Tire 8. Saw 9. Grass. 10. Telescope. Use creative imagery to ask & answer the following questions. 1. What happened to the Cheese? The Cheese wheel was ridden by a Giraffe. 2. What happened to the Giraffe? It ran out of Battery life. It’s a toy Giraffe. 3. What happened to the Battery? Short-circuited by Water. 4. What happened to the Water? Blasted by a Space Shuttle 5. What happened to the Space Shuttle? It Rose 10,000 feet into the sky. 6. What happened to the Rose? It is run-over by a 15’ Firestone Tire. 7. What happened to the Tire? It is cut-up into rubber bands by a Saw. 8. What happened to the Saw? It was used to cut the Grass into the perfect lawn. 9. What happened to the Grass? It is examined under a Telescope. (Not a microscope?) 10. What happened to the Telescope? I don’t remember! Absurd, Ridiculous and Stupid You brain remembers best the unusual, unique and weird. Which will you remember seeing – a cars driving on the highway or a twenty (20) vehicle collision with bodies lying all over the road? Whatever looks, sounds, feels, tastes or smells – unnatural, eerie, unearthly – is Weird and sticks in your brain like chewing gum on your shoe. We said the ‘space shuttle’ Rose 10,000 feet, and in the next breath that the Rose was run-over by 15’ tire. See how you remember the weirdness of the contradiction. It will stick in your 3-pound coconut forever. Auto Didactic (self-taught) Did you know that whatever you learn at a lecture, you forget 95% of that knowledge or skill in about 24-hours. After reading a book or an article on the Internet, say good-bye to 90% of information within one- day. Wait! After seeing an Audio-Visual presentation your recall is a high 80% after 1-5 days. Why? You are using multiple senses to remember. Now, if you learn something new, and TEACH your new knowledge or skill to others, you will retain 90% of that knowledge and skill, for up to one-year. Why? Doing-is-Everything. The secret to maintaining your long-term memory is testing-yourself after one-day, a week, and one-month. Now it is locked into long-term memory – permanently. Google: RETENTION of Information: National Training Laboratories You don’t remember much because you heard it at lecture by a professor or expert. You do recall because you continue to use that knowledge or skill. All learning is auto-didactic, (self-taught). How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, and testing yourself. REMEMBER, listening to learn knowledge or skills brings you a lousy 5% retention; reading text for retention retains only 10%. Audio-Visual retention is a low 20% recall. You need a Group Discussion to break the cycle and retain 50% of what you learned. Practice-practice-practice reaches 75% retention, and finally, teaching others hits the 90% retention mark. OTHER Applications For The LINK System The next time we meet ask me to recite the Presidents of the U.S. from George to Barach in 60-seconds. I used the link-system to remember them in order from one to forty-four. Why Bother? Lincoln is the sixteenth president, and the Civil War was from 1861 to 1865. It gives me a historical prospective to judge today’s politics. The Link System works to remember chemical elements, anatomy (body parts), and math equations. How about the 50 U.S. State capitals? Infinity. Endwords Most folks who are told about the Link System are not impressed. It seems like too much work. “It sounds hard, and so far I have done fine without it.” If you want to ace school and your career, win promotions and raises – for the rest of your life – take the time to learn the Link System. It exercises your brain like most of us exercise our muscles, tendons and ligaments. Do it to discover how to be creative and imaginative. Do it to earn Cognitive Reserve, brain- power, and to reduce the odds of Alzheimer’s up to fifty-percent. Google: Yaacov Stern, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. See ya, Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. We have a few copies of an excellent How-to report on Speed Reading. Ask us for it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can Specific Words Change Your Body's Behavior? 2011-04-29 By H. Bernard Wechsler (Don’t Laugh) - Can Specific Words Change Your Body’s Behavior? The latest neuroscience research makes skeptics nervous. And you and I are both skeptics, right? The normal (standard) mind-body connection for interpersonal communication is? All information transfer between humans is managed by our five (5) senses. If I cannot see, hear, touch or feel it, smell or taste it – I don’t accept it. Now that’s standard science like cause-and-effect. Maybe not. Today, brain science says: two types of information can pass between us, and affect our mind-and-body. First, is human perception of EMF (Electro-Magnetic-Fields). We are electrical beings. We’ll give examples down the page. Second, is too complicated for my simple brain. They call it Long-Distant, Non-Local Effects. So What We’re talking about energy healing techniques like Therapeutic Touch. I know, you don’t believe in it. Hans Berger, Austrian scientists and creator of the EEG (Electroencephalogram) said back in 1924 that our brain is active 24/7, even working on stuff when we are in Delta cycles per second (1/2 to 4 cps) – sleeping, but not so dead to the world. International scientists laughed until they plotzed (exploded), when Dr. Berger wrote and lectured that humans are fancy electrical systems. He said he could prove it by showing different brainwaves (Hertz) like Beta during alert wakefulness, Alpha in quiet relaxation, Theta during creativity and imagination, and last Delta, during sleep and/or dreaming. Ten-years later (1934) EEG brainwaves studies were standard science. Almost eighty-years later, EEGs are used in Neurofeedback conditioning internationally. So don’t laugh. You Gotta Try This To Believe It It requires two people for the experiment. On stretches his/her arm out straight and keeps it rigid. The second person attempts to force the arm down. Huh? Number 1 uses the Power of Words in their imagination to strengthen or weaken the outstretched arm. The secret is your INTENTION not to be moved. Mentally repeat for ten-seconds any ONE of the following words. They cause a flow of energy into the arm. The explanation is Electro-Magnetic Fields. He/she mentally repeats the single word, (either) STRENGTH, Energy or Power. Equally affective is Vigorous, Vitality, or Toughness. Now the other party to this experiment does everything to pull that arm down. They can try to hang from the arm, but it will not drop down. The Power-Word reinforces your Intention not be moved. You are doubly energized. Stay with me – there are BENEFITS for you coming. Now the person with the stiff out-stretched arm changes their mental affirmation. He/she repeats for ten-seconds, any ONE of these words: weak, frail, impotence, fragility, or vulnerable. Their intention cannot overcome the power of the word. Their arm is pulled down easily and instantly. Remember, this is no magic trick, this is a real competition. The owner of the outstretched arm does NOT want the arm to come down. It does not matter how hard the puller tries. The power “weakening” words always win. This experiment has been tested and successfully replicated for fifty-years by Kinesiology departments at universities. So What The applications are serious. Your Mind-Body-Connection is affected by your imagination and the power of words. These power words are encoded in your long-term memory. Your brainwaves use your senses (V-A-K-T-S) visual-auditory-kinesthetic-taste-smell, to reinforce or weaken your ”psycho-behavioral model” energy system. Some call it Vibrational-Frequency, our electricity. Example If it is 3:00pm and you are daydreaming, mind-wandering and zoning-out. Your eyes are closing. You can drink a quart of coffee or take some pill or you can change your brainwaves (cycles per second). Aloud or mentally, repeat for 10-20 seconds this phrase: “Strength-Energy-Power”. Say it and mean it. Remember you control the volume of your internal voice (stream-of-consciousness). Shout mentally – “Strength-Energy-Power!” for 10-seconds. Now, put a phony smile on your face – widen your cheeks, and make-believe (Act-As-If) you just heard a hysterically, funny joke. Laugh, and think about how silly you look laughing. Get-into-it. Force yourself to giggle for just ten-seconds. Each laugh or giggle inhales gulps of new oxygen. Your 3-pound brain requires 25% of the entire oxygen of your body. You eyes widen, your brain triggers a Beta (alert) stage, and you feel better-and-better. Good-bye somnambulance (sleep-walking), you are good for another five-hours of alert consciousness. Going out? Do it again five-hours later. Another Example Use either your right or left hand to make a ring between your thumb and index finger. Now use your opposite hand to BREAK (pull-apart) that finger-ring. But simultaneously, whisper aloud or mentally – “Power-Energy-Strength” for 10-seconds all-the-while using all your vigor, vim and vitality to pull the two-finger-ring APART. You cannot do it. And neither can anyone else break-apart your two- finger-ring. Now whisper aloud or mentally, the phrase or any one of these three words – “Weakness, powerless, or Hopelessness.” The words have signaled your muscles and your two-finger-ring to immediately release its grip. This occurs even though your Intention is not to permit the ring-fingers to separate. Power words rule. Another Example Most of us who have to go to the hospital for a medical procedure are not in the happiest of spirits. You can change this by repeating aloud of mentally any ONE of these Power-Words, “Courage- Bravery-Energy”. Repeat the power-word rhythmically, and simultaneously Tap, Thump, Knock, or Rap a fast rhythm on the top of your knee or front of your shoulder. Time? Ten-seconds. After ten-seconds you will feel a change of attitude about the operation. Your mind accepts it for the benefits it offers you in health and extended life. The Power Words strike again. Last Example Sooner or later we find something to be seriously afraid of. It can be going to the dentist, a phobia toward crowds, or a recurring nightmare about imminent death. Use a Power Word to extinguish this fear. Step one, imagine and mentally visualize the circumstances you most fear. See it happening as you dreamt or experienced it in living color. Now SHOUT out aloud or mentally – the single Power Word, STOP! It instantly takes the energy out of your fear and it dies a horrible death, never to return. Do the words Terminate, End! or No-More! work? Yes. They are based on your intention to stop this negative mental attitude, so they work too. End words Please remember this: our conscious mind, our left-hemisphere, the one we give credit for all the inventions and engineering of our culture and civilization, has a very low broadband capacity – a maximum of 100 Bits of Information per second. Our brain and lives are based on the high broadband capacity of our right-hemisphere, our non-conscious mind. It can process eleven-million bits of information per second. Creativity, imagination, and the use of metaphors are right-brained, based on the unconscious structures of our brain. These include the medial parietal cortex, the pre-frontal cortex, and the lateral temporal cortex. DMN (Default-Mode-Network) Google: M. Raichle, Washington University School of Medicine When we let our mind wander, and stay unfocused, it goes into a rest (daydreaming) mode called DMN. It continues working on keeping all our systems and controls in good working order. So what? The Default Network is our right-hemisphere and it helps make us creative, imaginative and successful. Its function is planning future actions, and prepares the brain for conscious activity. If we discover how to use it, the DMN will attract the right people-ideas-and-money. Our brain is never inactive. The conclusion is Power Words and our imagination create our rhythm of life. See ya, Copyright © 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. Ask for our free Speed Reading report. It can help you triple (3x) your learning skills, and double Your long-term memory – permanently. What is Laughter Yoga And Why Should I Care? 2011-04-27 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is Laughter Yoga, And What’s In It for Me? Imagine a baby-easy exercise to feel good for no reason at all, and to improve your immune system. Science believes stress is the major cause of most diseases, and laughter stomps out stress. Key Element: your body cannot differentiate between make-believe, pretend, and FAKE laughter, and the genuine article. So what? You get the same physical and psychological benefits from phony laughing, as from watching a Broadway Comedy where the audience is falling in the aisle hysterically. But So What It means you can choose to feel good any time you desire. If you fake laughing for even thirty (30) seconds, your body takes your behavior and turns it into genuine, authentic, real laughter. Remember when you were a kid and looked into the eyes of your best friend, made a funny face and fell-down in a fit of giggles? Sometimes it kept up for what seemed like an hour. What happened after that? You felt s-o-o great you wanted to do it all over again, right? What really happened was a flood of brain cells called Endorphins (neuropeptides), entered your mind-body connection. It contains a blueprint to give great pleasure to your body, and you feel happy and delighted for up to 120-minutes AFTER a bout of laughter. Oxygen Did you know that laughter increases your net supply of Oxygen? Each time you laugh you improve your energy level, and suck up more oxygen. Our brain uses 25% of the entire oxygen supply for our body. Laugh and you are invigorating your body and enhance your Attention Span. If your career requires persuading others, sales meetings, and making presentations, you want your brain acuity - to be sharp, focused and concentrated. Scientific research indicates concentrations levels flop after the first twenty-minutes of a meeting. Laughter raises your state-of-mind for concentration up to 60-minutes. Then what? Laugh again. Cortisol The stress hormone is called Cortisol and it registers in our saliva. When we lose our emotional balance and go ballistic, it is stress and in particular, Cortisol. Guess what? Five-seconds of laughter, false or real, and your body and brain begin balancing. In sixty-seconds stress is yesterday’s news. No side effects from this medicine. Mental Movies Humans can create mental movies during the day. We call it Daydreaming, creative imagination, or lost-in-thought. A sense of playfulness stimulates our Right Hemisphere, which is your seat of creativity. It allows us to be open to hunches, gut-reactions, and intuition. It is the trigger for new ideas and novel products. Secret of Laughter Ho-Ho-Ho, Ha-Ha-Ha, and He-He-He make us giggle and snort in just 5-10 seconds. It is the sound of the vowels. The sounds of A-E-I-O-U tickle our Primary Auditory Cortex. If you show your teeth and crinkle your eyes into a smile, and give yourself permission to laugh, you are learning the secret code of healthy Yoga laughter. A smile turns into a giggle, and soon you are snorting laughs from your nose non-stop. Laughter becomes contagious when you see how silly you look, or even better, someone else looking goofy. Start by faking your first smile; now give a little giggle (like a child), & intentionally do a slow laugh. Remember, you control your laughter from a single “Ha” to a flood of “Ho-Ho-Ho”, by choosing to raise your tempo and volume. Don’t be afraid to fake it until you make it - real. It’s S-O-O Easy And Fun Get the sound of the “A” in “hat” – “E” in “he”. Next is “I” in “hiccup”. Now do the “O” in “Otto”, and end up with ”U” in “soul“. Whisper to yourself it is OK to break-up laughing, it is not just OK, but great for your mind-body connection. Healing and repair by your leukocytes, phagocytes and lymphocytes improve with laughter and deep relaxation. How Do We Feel After Laughter “Light-as-a-feather”, “ready to apply for the Santa Claus job.” And? “I feel totally relaxed, calm, vibrant, new-as-a-baby, joyous, warm, and fresh. “ Three Laughing Myths 1. You do not have to have a good reason to laugh. We have been taught that laughing people are somehow suspect of not being serious or diligent. The most successful executives give themselves permission to laugh at almost anything. They know it feels good and keeps them healthy, and in the flow. 2. You and I do not need to be HAPPY to laugh – we can instantaneously laugh on command. We live in a FEAR and in a RULE based society that hates seeing folks happy. We usually laugh at other people’s mistakes or accidents. How funny, she slipped on a banana peel and broke her hip. Now learn to laugh for the sake of feeling good and being healthy. 3. You and I do NOT require a sense-of-humor to have a belly-laugh. Just use your will-power and decide you want to feel good this minute, and stress disintegrates and life improves. Laughing is about our INTENTION to feel good. We already know how to diaphragmatically (belly) breathe through our nose, and release our exhalation from our mouth. Google: Laughteryogaamerica.com and watch the teaching laughter video. Students When students from sixth grade to graduate school (law school) take an exam, they are automatically stressed out. Their hearts are beating excessively, blood pressure is high, and their state of mind is negative. IT is called fear and causes our Central Nervous System to shift to our Sympathetic Nervous System. Adrenaline pours out and we are ready for the Fight-or-Flight reaction. The balancing nervous system we really require is our Parasympathetic Nervous system because it relaxes our mind-body connection by the neurotransmitter – acetylcholine. A peaceful, non-emotional mind tests much better. So? Go somewhere private and spend 2-3 minutes laughing. It will permit you to ace the exam. Gamblers What if you are about to play Poker in the Bellagio casino in Vegas? What would be your winning mindset? The more emotionally you are in winning, the worse your decision-making power. Do you need to be comatose? Play to win, but without emotionalizing it. Snapping Strategy The secret of winning is deep relaxation with a powerful INTENTION to reach your goals. So? Mentally imagine sitting with your cards in front of you, and now close your eyes and mentally visualize playing out each hand. Tiger Wood does just that before his golf tournaments. See yourself throwing in hands that suck, and winning the jackpots when you hold strong hands. Now make a snapping sound with the fingers of each hand, as you bring them up to your ears. Do one set of three snaps, left-ear, right-ear, left-ear, right ear, left-ear, right-ear. Do another set, and a final set. This activity triggers your nervous system to attention and deep concentration. Takes 60-seconds. Second Act, Tapping Keep your eyes closed; this entire strategy requires only 60-seconds. Now, still mentally visualizing the poker game process, with you winning the jackpot, TAP your left-hand to your left-ear, and right-hand to your right ear simultaneously. Do a set of three, and second set of three, and a third. Now take a deep diaphragmatic inhalation through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. When the time comes to play in the actual tournament, you will feel totally relaxed using self-control to pick and choose which hands to play and which to fold. The secret of winning is a powerful INTENTION and following your intuitions and gut-instinct. One last thing – it is a secret. It is called the BAGHA, keep the tip of your tongue touching and pointing to the roof of your mouth. Why? It keeps you focused and in-the-flow. When? Answer, during the entire tournament. This combination strategy is by “Mad-Mike, Casino Poker Tournament Boot Camp” ™ Endwords Laughter releases your stress, and Snapping and Tapping maintain your Parasympathetic Nervous System in deep relaxation. See ya, Copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. Ask us about our free Speed Reading report, it helps triple (3x) your learning speed and double (2x) your long-term memory. ----------------------------------------------------- What is Peripheral Vision? 2011-04-26 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is Peripheral Vision? Normal, everyday vision is called Central vision, it produces high resolution vision. So what? We use it for reading, TV, internet, and driving. Anything requiring maximum acuity (sharpness) of vision required Central (foveal) vision. This is not a biology lesson so briefly; it is produced by our Fovea (pit) Centralis, located in the middle of our retina (back of the eyes). The other kind of vision is called Peripheral Vision which is outside of the center, and is at the sides of what we see. Foveal vision is filled with 6-7million Cones (photoreceptors) which is responsible for COLOR vision. The other type of photoreceptors is called Rods which greatly outnumber the Cones, about 17-to-1. What are photoreceptors? They convert light (electromagnetic radiation) into nerve signals that our brain turns into what we see. We do not see through our eyes, but through our BRAIN. Here is something worth knowing, our ancient ancestors, even a couple hundred years ago, lived and died using their peripheral sight. It helped in hunting because they saw the holistic (big) picture. Reading is a recent human endeavor – it was for priests, nobility, and the wealthy class up to the U.S. Civil War (1851-1865). Internet Today our brain is based on our need for close, sharp vision. How many hours do we spend daily watching TV? About 5 hours daily, on the computer (4-5 hours), and reading, maybe two-hours of our work day. This not only makes us totally dependent on acute vision for our career, amusement and learning, but it changes our lifestyle and the way our brain works. When we ran around the woods hunting and gathering to survive, we approached everything from a wide point-of-view. We had to see and communicate with the other hunters, and see the moving prey. Peripheral vision was the only way to react to life. Did you know that It is impossible to hold negative feelings of anger, fear and stress, when you INTENTIONALLY maintain your wide, peripheral vision. Why? Experiment and you will discover that after even 15 seconds, you go into an ecstatic state of mind and relax, when you see WIDELY and not narrowly. HA Breathing Take a deep, diaphragmatic breath (abdomen) through your nose, and exhale it slowly from your mouth. Now make the sound HA, but drag it out. You are reconnecting with the breath-of-life, and triggering your peripheral brain. It relaxes you deeply and moves you into a peripheral state of mind. You are looking at the horizon instead of using a narrow focus. It makes you feel better, and work easier. What’s Wrong With Central Vision It is connected with Beta cycles per second, (13-30 cps), your Left-Hemisphere, and stress. Go peripheral and you are using your Right-Hemisphere, Alpha cycles per second (7-10 cps), and deep relaxation. Peripheral vision accesses your Non-Conscious mind, where you avoid your Fight-or-Flight reaction, and relax because of the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine, not Adrenaline. Who Cares If you are in a Casino playing tournament poker, or getting ready to take an important exam, go peripheral for better memory, smarter decision-making, and non-emotional thinking. You can switch into high-resolutions vision (foveal – central) when you need it to take the exam or read your cards, in a millisecond. But to be in a WINNING state of mind, always stay in a wide-angle peripheral vision. How When you are focused on reading this page you have zoned-out what is going on your left and right side, and what is above and below you. You are in the narrow flow. For peripheral vision intentionally WIDEN your eyes (soft-focus) and see what is going on your extreme left, extreme right, above and below your frame of reference. Easy right? It is just that we are on the computer or watching TV so often; our automatic focus is Central (foveal). See, that produces tired eyes, road hypnosis when driving, and a stressed out state of mind. If you want to persuade people, be relaxed, add up to 25% to your long-term memory, and make better decisions, go peripheral. During reading, using your peripheral vision helps triple (3x) your learning speed, and double (2x) your long-term memory. We highly recommend this vision strategy. Ask us how. Decisions Our best decision-making occurs when we use BOTH our left and right hemispheres, and that occurs when we intentionally choose not to use our central vision 100% of the time. Switch to your peripheral sight for two-minutes every thirty-minutes, and your brain fires away using both consciousness and your non-consciousness. It is normal to exclusively depend on our left hemisphere (prefrontal contex), but that weakens your ability to access hunches, gut-reactions and intuition. Creativity and imagination require input from our nonconscious mind, so we suggest you intentionally switch to peripheral vision every half-hour. Did you know that our conscious mind controls only one-sixth (16.33%) of our brain. Our non-conscious mind is on automatic and runs the other five-sixth (83.33%)? It is critical to pay attention to our non-conscious because it has a bandwidth of 11 million bits of information per second, and our conscious mind has a bandwidth of 15 to 60 bits of information per second. Huh? Go where the power is. Yoga Exercise to Improve Your Peripheral Vision And Save Your Eyes To really get this eye exercise and its benefits, please imagine that you are teaching this strategy to your son or daughter. Mentally visualize a child or adult actually executing these baby-easy eye exercises. Eye close, take a deep breath and slowly release it through your mouth. 1. “Look to your extreme left, and now to your extreme right, once, twice, five-times.” 2. Take a deep breath from your abdomen and mentally visualize sending it to your eyes. 3. Now use your eyes to look upward to the ceiling, and downward to the floor, once, twice, five-times. Now, take a deep breath, and send an exhalation from your abdomen to your eyes. 4. Focus your eyes at your Upper Left, and down to your Lower Right, once, twice, five times. Breathe deeply and Send the warm air from your abdomen to your eyes for relaxation. 5. Now focus your eyes at your Upper Right, and down to your Lower Right. Deep breath and send warm air from your abdomen to your eyes. 6. Please move your eyes Clockwise in a full circle (left-to-right) once-twice, three-times. Deep breath and feel the warm sensation in your eyes. 7. Now move your eyes Counterclockwise (right-to-left) once-twice-three-time in full circles. Deep breath and feel the warm sensation in your eyes. 8. Stretch out your right arm with your Thumb upright. Now focus on your Thumb, at a distance, and on the tip of your nose. Again, focus on your thumb, at a distance, on the tip of your nose. Do it five-times for best effect for healthier eyes. 9. Rub your palms together briskly and feel the electric friction you have created. Do it for five-seconds. Now take the heels of both palms and place them on your left and right eyes. Feel the warmth filtering into each eye with healing energy. Do it a second time. Rub your palms and then place your hands touching each eye. You are energizing each eyes for better vision. End words If you do these Yoga eye exercises daily for seven days, you will feel your eyes getting stronger. You may notice that you reduce headaches from dry and tired eyes to almost nothing. These simple eye exercises also release stress, anxiety and tension from your entire body. You are strengthening your peripheral vision, and exercising the six muscles in each eye. This particular exercise may even produce a healing from any physical challenges to your eyes. We have trained our students to perform this five-minute exercise until it becomes a habit. Corporate executives who use these nine Strategies tell us they stop getting tired in the afternoon. Ask your physician first. 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But does science (neuroscience, really brain science) claim to have all the answers to how human think and act? Not yet. Should we keep an open mind on brain techniques that future research may prove to be valuable? Example: to be at your sharpest, using the most of your mind, raise your VIBRATIONS. What are vibrations and how do you raise them? We all have brain vibrations 24/7 that change our attitude, state-of-mind, and decision-making power. The proof goes back to the 1924 when an Austrian psychiatrist named Hans Berger created (invented) the EEG (Electroencephalogram). It was the first proof that humans are at core - electrical systems. Our brain runs on electrical vibrations based on our activity. Example: when we are awake the EEG records Beta cycles per second (13 to 40 Hertz). This Beta operates when our eyes are open and we are alert and thinking. It is human consciousness. Second is Alpha brainwave cycles producing 8-13 cycles (Hertz) per second. When we are relax, effortlessly alert, and close our eyes and daydream, we immediately enter Alpha. Meditation is 90% in Alpha. Third are Theta brain vibrations producing 4-7 cycles per second. We go into deeper relaxation which creates creativity, intuition, imagination and inspiration. Great inventions, new ideas come during Theta. Fourth are Delta brainwave vibrations, 1/2 – 4 cycles per second. It switches on during sleep and later in dreaming. Consciousness rests and Non-Consciousness takes over. Last point on Dr. Burger and something to remember. When he tried to publish scientific articles about the electrical, vibrating brain, he was not just ignored by the medical and scientific community; he was ridiculed and considered a crank and a freak. Ten years later in 1934 his EEG was considered “the most surprising, remarkable and momentous development in the history of clinical neurology.” Now, almost 80 years later scientists still use Berger’s EEG for brain research. Today even 8th graders know there are four different types of electrical activity in the human brain. Each has different wave patterns, rhythms and functions. Electricity makes us human. So What Read this carefully or you will miss its significance. You can easily raise your vibrations from slow-to-fast and improve your decision-making powers, analysis and intuition. Intuition and inspirations are hunches and gut-reactions that come from our Non-Consciousness. What exactly is non-consciousness? See, there are six (6) brain structures operating when we are awake and alert. Only one of them makes us aware of its existence – Consciousness (Beta). The other 5/6th (83.33%) of our thinking-brain are on auto-pilot. Huh? Your heart beating, blood pressure, body temperature, and immune system operate automatically (auto-pilot). Wait -Consciousness has a bandwidth (capacity) of just 16 to 40 Bits of Information Per Second. Not a lot, right? Non-Consciousness (5/6th) has a capacity of 11-MILLION Bits of Information. What a comparison. Our job is to use the bandwidth (capacity) of our Non-Consciousness to attract health, better healing, wealth, protection from danger, and better relationships with brain techniques. Huh? Casino Let’s say that you are at the Bellagio casino in Vegas. You are there to try to hijack the Poker Tournaments. You know how to play a decent hand of poker and maybe even win a jackpot or two. If you can control your attitude, your mental state, and not be an emotional better, you improve the odds in your favor. How Get this: many successful decisions are NOT based on logic and reasoning. They are neuroscience based on your thoughts and emotions. The research indicates - how your control your mind, brainwaves and rhythm, will improve the odds in your favor. There are baby-easy techniques to slow down your rhythm (vibrational frequency) and deepen your attention and concentration for better decision-making. Rhythm Technique Sitting down, speed up your vibrations by signaling your brain by thumping both your hands on your knees – rapidly. Tap a quick-rhythm for 15-30 seconds and relax. Every fifteen minutes do another 15-second set of tapping. You are raising your brain vibrations. That’s easy, right? Stay with me, the second element in raising your brain Rhythm (vibrational technique) is using your imagination (mental visualization) to create a cognitive map to reach your goals. How? Imagine as you tap your quick rhythm, the cards being played out at the table. See yourself making the smartest decisions, and winning the jackpot. Huh? See the process of you taking in the jackpot. Crazy? Ask Tiger Woods or other professional athletes how they mentally practice their skills. Mental rehearsal imprinted your goal, just as physical practice does. They imagine, visualize and mentally see the exact steps they will take to win (score) in tennis, baseball, and golf. They create a mental-map how to play, and it is changes the odds of winning. The tapping creates a focused ATTENTION and concentration, while your mind-movies use Memory Neurons to trigger your winning techniques. This strategy is called POLARITY meaning incoming and outgoing. You can use your Will Power to raise your vibrational frequency (brainwaves) to improve your odds. Some scientists believe your brainwave rhythms can attract what you focus your mind on. Can you imagine staying in the flow of winning jackpots? Stop analyzing the logic and reasoning, and do a mind-experiment. Attract your goals. Sounds Dumb “We humans have the ability to imagine something in our mind (brain). We use our Primary Visual Cortex, the same brain structure we use to see our environment and have experiences. Humans can imagine things that do NOT exist, and then go out and create these ideas. Examples: a hand ax, a flute, the internet, and next year’s Cadillac. We recombine bits of information from our experiences and knowledge into NOVEL forms. The variations are infinite.” John Hoffecker. University of Colorado, Archaeologist. You say you believe in cause-and-effect? Do a “mind experiment” and learn to win. New Technique to Attract Success There are two types of smiles, showing our TEETH alone, or combining showing our teeth with having crow’s feet at our EYES. Have you ever seen a display advertisement of employees (not actors) who are smiling solely with their teeth? It is called PanAm smiling, and they are forcing themselves to smile. A real smile is called a Duchenne Smile, after a French neurologist, and combines showing our teeth and squinting our eyes. Smiling triggers our Zygomatic Major muscle used in facial expressions. Real smiling uses your RISORIUS muscle to draw out the muscles of your mouth. Finally, your Orbitocularis Oculi, muscle makes your Eyelids squint and produces crow’s feet at your eyes. So What Can you create a phony smile on your face right this second? Just show your teeth in a wide grin and you are there. When you maintain this make-believe smile (PanAm smile) for 1-2 minutes, it becomes a real (genuine) smile (teeth and eyes). When you have a smile on your face, REAL-Or-PHONY, you trigger your brain to feel happy and attract positive experiences. How? You raise your vibrational frequency – it’s electrical brainwaves at work. You cannot have a phony-smile on your puss, and feel and act negatively. Try it now. How does this act of Will Power help us? The act of artificial smiling, acting-as-if you are happy just because you choose to, affects your nervous system. Your brain switches from Sympathetic to your Parasympathetic Nervous System. Listen up – your Sympathetic Nervous system contains your Fight-or-Flight reflex, (adrenaline) while your Parasympathetic causes relaxation (acetylcholine) produces better decisions and intuitions. When your brain is excited by adrenaline it does not think clearly or make good decisions. To attract your burning desires you want deep relaxation, which is your Parasympathetic Nervous System and the neurotransmitter – acetylcholine. It even improves your eyes by improving your peripheral vision. So Maintain a phony smile on your face until it becomes a genuine Duchenne smile. It requires 1-2 minutes. The benefits are a release of stress, anxiety and fear, and the ability to make winning decisions in your life. Play the role of a smiling, happy person, (stay-in-character) and your mind-body connection will reproduce a new, better mental attitude. Some students swear you become a Money-Magnet. Want to win in casino Poker Tournaments? Smile instead of frown, and other players cannot read your TELLS. How? Show-them-your-teeth. Resource for this information: Mad-Mike’s Casino Poker Tournament Boot Camp. They teach students brain techniques to win jackpots. See ya. Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. If you would like an excellent free report on speed reading, find speedreading101.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three Strategies to Attract Wealth 2011-04-18 By H. Bernard Wechsler Three (3) Strategies to Attract Wealth 1. Bagha 2. Positioning 3. Rhythm For Money-Magnet You and I are skeptics, and that means we disbelieve most of what we hear and read, unless we are presented with proof. We consider ourselves followers of Cause-And-Effect, not superstition, right? This is plain common-sense. Einstein said, ‘Common-sense is the accumulation of our prejudices for the first eighteen years of our lives.’ But common-sense is better than believing nonsense, and being a fool. We are and remain practical folks, skeptics. Skeptic is Latin for thoughtful, inquiring, and to examine, look. Synonyms are: doubters, unbelievers, cynics, leery, and questioning. Nice traits say I. But with a background in law, we have been trained to absolutely reject beliefs and ideas without controls. We support the scientific method. Show me the verified results of experiments. We need and demand evidence before we give away our mind, right? Has it been replicated by others? Why not? We are skeptics who read and listen to ideas and beliefs, no matter how outrageous, and ask for proof. Bagha The Bagha is over four-thousand years old and a part of ancient Yoga. What is it? You place the tip of your tongue for a split second to the front area of the roof of your mouth. Why? When you trigger this physical (conscious) act, and simultaneously produce a mental-movie (visualize) a goal, you improve the odds of attracting and manifesting your dreams and goals. So What If you use the Bagha for protection from negative energies surrounding you (sick people in a hospital), It affects your Emotional reactions to your circumstances. We are social emotional animals, and using the Bagha plays into both those human traits, instincts, and programming. Wait a minute – what happened to manifesting? Einstein also said, ‘Do your own mind-experiments.’ Use the Bagha (touch the tip of your tongue to the front roof of your mouth) when you feel stressed, panicked, or anxious. Say, “Bagha – Protection”. Does it work? It is your experiment, so you decide. Is it scientific? Wrong question. Does it work for you? Is it merely a coincidence? Results are the only proof we all accept, right? Napoleon Hill said, “What we can conceive and belief, we can achieve.” He was an arch skeptic, but he tested the effectiveness of many weird ideas. Gambling Huh? Five-minutes prior to entering the Poker Tournament room do a Bagha. Shut your eyes without being obvious, create, visualize and imagine a time in your life when you were outrageously successful with regards to money. For me it was in the vault of my bank, counting my municipal bonds and stacks of Ben Franklins. Capture that incident again for 10-seconds. See the mental-movie and feel it. But what if you have never had a wealth moment of outrageous success? Follow Professor William James, who produced the Law of Acting-As-If. He said, mentally pretend as if you did have such an experience, and visualize it now. He taught at Harvard Medical School and believed in the power of the mind to use expectation to attract success. Now visualize from where you are now – in the casino. Use your V-A-K senses (visual-auditory-kinisthetic) and add if appropriate, Gustatory (taste) and Olfactory (smell). Oh yeah, Kinesthetic is tactile, haptic, your sense of touch (feelings). Visualize what? Mentally visualize the process of the Poker tournament as you want it to play out. Use your senses to imagine yourself taking in the Jackpots often. See yourself smiling and laughing and raking in your chips. How long? Ten-seconds are good, twenty-seconds are better. Thirty-seconds, broken up into two fifteen-second segments are excellent. Now visualize the hostesses bringing you wine and caviar, and feel and taste them as if you are actually consuming them with relish. The Bagha is giving you a sense of emotional confidence. You are feeling sharper going into the Poker room. Pay strict attention to your mind experiment. Will this Bagha nonsense attract wealth, money and success to you? It is your mind-experiment, you decide based on the results, right? Positioning Every thought human have are located on a specific territory of your mind. Positioning is discovering these locations to use in the present to attain your goals and burning desires. Huh? Make-believe (law of Acting-As-If) you have a large clock in your hands. Think of a food or drink you dislike and avoid like the plague. For many folks that thought (emotion) is located at 7pm. That is its mental position. Now think of foods or drink you absolutely love to consume. For many it is positioned on your mental clock at 1pm. If you want to lose weight you avoid delicious but fattening foods by reversal. When you get the desire for say, chocolate, use your imagination to tune into 7pm – the foods you hate. Now your desire and taste for chocolate disintegrates emotionally. Gambling Imagine a time you were very lucky and maybe won the Jackpot. It could have been when you were a kid at a game or sport or playing poker. Bring back that emotion with all your senses, see it, hear the sounds, and feel your sensations of success. That mental location is just above your forehead – say, 12 noon. Now enter the Poker Room, and intentionally move your eyes ‘Upward’ toward your forehead. How long? Two-second is nice, five-seconds is better. When you Position your mind to previous success you trigger your brain to bring about similar circumstances. When I witnessed an experiment with Positioning, she won the first jackpot. I attributed that to coincidence and random luck. After she won the second Jackpot, I was surprised. There was more to come but I do not want to create a gambler’s mindset that would destroy your mind experiment integrity. Money Magnet Wealth is totally (100%) about your attitude. So is winning at the Poker Table. There may be such a thing as money-consciousness. What is it? A Rhythm (vibration) that attracts dinero to some fortunate people. Some say it is the use and regulation of your Electro-Magnetism. That is your vibrational-frequency. Is it real? Google: brainwaves, beta-alpha-theta-delta. See: Electroencephalogram. How Can you tense your shoulders, neck and head and maintain it for about ten-seconds? Do this in the Poker Room. Simultaneously see, visualize and imagine yourself winning the Jackpot. This is a process, so see the entire hand being played out in your mind, not just the end product of winning the Jackpot. Release the stress in your shoulders, neck and head after each hand. Hold the tension for no more than ten-seconds at a time, and then release. Wait until the next hand and do it again, while visualize your burning desire. You may be affecting your electro-magnetic vibrational frequency. Can you visualize money flowing, flying and attracting itself to your hands? That’s exactly what mental gamblers do. They call it being a Money-Magnet. Does it really work, you must decide if you are willing to do a mind experiment. What I have seen threatens my status as a skeptic. Check out ‘Mad-Mike, the Poker Pro’. He trains students to ‘Hijack Casino Poker Tournaments’. Who cares - we are skeptics, right? Endwords You and I are not gamblers. We do not spend $20 weekly on winning at Lotto. We believe in cause-and-effect, coincidences, and are not superstitious. In fact we are skeptics. If something works that goes against our mindset, do we deny it or want to know more? More to come. See ya. Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler. N.B. Our area of expertise is speed reading and we have a free offer, no strings attached to those who have a need for a unique competitive advantage. Our graduates triple (3x) their learning skills, and double (2x) their long-term memory – permanently. If you are interested, find us and request a copy of our special report on How to be a super Speed Reader. We are Speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Answer: Scott Adams, DILBERT 2011-04-15 By H. Bernard Wechsler Read Message From: Scott Adams [ add to contacts ] To: hbw@speedlearning.org Cc: Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:16 am Subject: RE: Dilbert.com "Comments/Questions" Inquiry It sure makes a difference. I spent a lot of time self-studying speed reading methods and use it all the time. Scott From: Hal Wechsler Reply-To: Hal Wechsler Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:51:21 -0500 To: Dilbert Service Subject: Dilbert.com "Comments/Questions" Inquiry An inquiry has been submitted through the dilbert.com contact us form. User's Name: Hal Wechsler User's Email: hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------ 4.14.11 Loved your article in the Wall Street Journal. Evelyn Wood was my business partner and we taught 2-million folks to speed reading. Included was the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents: Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Carter. So what? Entrepreneurs need to overcome Information- Overload and still keep up with the massive stuff we need-to-know to be effective. Your article touched a nerve in practical knowledge verses the stuff that comes from a bull's fundament. Do you agree that speed reading can make the difference between giving up on reading the tons of stuff out there, and feeling confident you can handle it easy-as-pie? Thanks, Hal Attachments: Text version of this message. (1KB) What is Speed Reading 101.org? 2011-04-14 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is Speed Reading101.org Boot Camp & What's In It For Me? 1. Do you 'subvocalize'- mentally Hear every word you read? It slows you down about 35%, and causes lower test-scores, and makes you fall asleep. 2. Do you still read "one-word-at-a-time", as you were taught in 3rd grade? It reduces your comprehension and concentration, and causes reading 'boredom'. 3. Do you 'regress' - repetitiously, and return to the previous sentence or paragraph because you lost-your-place? It wastes up to another 30% of your reading time. 4. Do you sometimes find that you cannot remember what you read - within five (5) minutes after finishing? We call it - Porous-Concentration - and it reduces test-scores up to 35%. Would it help you to add triple (3x) your reading speed, and add up to 40% to your core learning-skills? Who would benefit from a Speed Reading101.org Boot Camp? What grade students take Speed Reading101.org? We start at 6th to 12th graders (ace the SAT), plus College & Graduate Students. Why? They want to ace the SAT- LSAT- GMAT- MCAT. Who else? Executives and Professionals (teachers included) They come to win Promotions and Raises. Companies pay for executive 12-hour workshops to help increase corporate profits. It's a lifetime skill that keeps on giving for school and career. Results? Graduates permanently triple (3x) their learning-skills, double (2x) their long-term memory. Comprehension? Raise it up to 15% . Would it help you to save up to 2-hours daily? Our Background: Our educational director was the business partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of Speed Reading. We graduated two-million students, including the White House staffs of FOUR U.S. Presidents: Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Carter Discover Speed Reading101.org Boot Camp. How? Get the Do-It-Yourself (At-Home) program, or take a one-or-two-day LIVE workshop - we call it a Boot Camp (basic training) in Speed Reading101.org and Long-Term memory improvement. How? Please Call Gene as-soon-as-possible to reserve your seat. It's Gene at 1-877-567-2500, ext. 2 We promise you Speedreading101.org will absolutely improve your education and career. Media Click HERE to See Johnny Carson and Speed Reading "How to Get a Real Education" Scott Adams 2011-04-14 By H. Bernard Wechsler Scott Adams: Transforming Nothing into Something (DILBERT cartoons) “How to Get a Real Education” WSJ Sat. 4.09.11 1. Combining Skills: entrepreneurship how to make yourself VALUABLE. “Each of these Modest skills are combined in one-person.” 2. Fail Forward: “failure is a process, not an Obstacle.” 3. Find the Action: “Distance is your enemy, move where the Action is.” 4. Attract Luck: Do something, do something else. Luck loves doers. 5. Conquer Fear: How? Relax and enjoy the experience. On this subject you are the expert, not the audience. 6. Write Simply: use direct sentences and lose the excess verbiage. Tell stories, use metaphors. 7. Learn Persuasion: influence means convincing others your ideas work. 8. Remember the George W. Bush proof. The grand majority of us (98%) are “B” students. We are not going to be professors, scientists, Einstein-like thinkers, Or engineers. We can still be “shakers-and-movers” who thrust civilization forward. 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Dated: _____________________________________ Licensor: Speedbraining Licensing , Inc. by Licensee:_______________________________________________________________________ By_____________________________________________________________________________ Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) for Learning & Critical Thinking? 2011-04-05 By H. Bernard Wechsler Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) For Learning & Critical Thinking? Neuroscientists estimate about 83% of students and 76% of executives are missing the link between knowing and doing. It is called the “critical-thinking” step. Use-it-or-lose-it. My Pop used to say, “Something for nothing? Nix it, kid.” At the end of this blog is a free, no strings attached offer that helps your kids ace their grades, classes and exams (including SAT, LSAT, GMAT & MCAT). Don’t nix it. If you are concerned about career promotions and raises (regardless of age), we got something valuable for you too. Why should executives in the middle of their successful career care? Two-words – Information-Overload, the need to keep up with the latest technology and creativity without stress and anxiety? Are you the Go-To person in your division or team? Is it costing you promotions to stop learning & growing? There are baby-easy strategies in Boot Camp to discover how-to be that guy. What Are Endorphins and Dopamine and Who Cares See if you can permanently remember Endorphins. When you are excited with joy, having an exercise- high, eating spicy food, in love, or through an orgasm, Think Endorphins. They are act like natural morphine and come from the brain and body. They overcome pain and affect your emotions. Good stuff. Dopamine is a flood of chemicals – neurotransmitters when you have desires and the anticipation of potential rewards. Get this: when we are curious, just gotta know more, want something (new car, new relationship), dopamine levels rise. It permits us to be open-minded and seeking discovery. Dopamine flow lets us hold a new idea in our Prefrontal Cortex, the brain structure that causes our thinking. PFC decides which thoughts are important and deserve triggering for action. If you want to use critical thinking for winning decisions, increase your levels of dopamine. How? Trigger your PreFrontal Cortex. How? Increase you’re your curiosity and create a sense of desire or need? Make-Believe is The Law of Acting-As-If If you “make-believe” new ideas are going to get you a promotion and raise, it has value, and your PFC starts to over-produce Dopamine. Wait – but what if the new stuff is irrelevant, boring and dull? If I ask you to “make-believe” ‘smile’ right this second, can you do it? Put a phony happy smile on your face. Show the world your teeth. Sure, and a weird thing happens to your mind and body. You automatically feel better and better (if you continue phony-smiling) even though it is false – meaning there is nothing to be happy about. The Law of Acting-As-If (Professor William James) Actors do it instantly and so can you. Get this: if you decide to put a nonsense smile on your puss and keep it there for 30-seconds, you cannot, once more – you cannot - feel depressed, angry or stressed. If you maintain this Pan-Am smile (just teeth showing, not eyes squinting) for 50-seconds, you will forget whatever was creating negative emotions originally, and feel new positive feelings. Your brain turns the make-believe (phony) smile into a real smile. Will you remember this? It is now your new secret strategy to dispel negative forces from your mind and body. Can you teach it to your kids, Significant-Other, and career peers? Wait – if you have a continuing pain in say, your shoulder, getting rid of the emotional blockage can often eliminate the negative physical symptom. You Control A Lot More of Your Physical Symptoms And Feelings Yes, our knowledge and experience is that your non-conscious mind (5/6th of your brain) believes whatever you put on your face that indicates joy and happiness - is the real-deal. Phony is only known by your Conscious mind (1/6th) of your acting brain. If you Act-As-If you desire to learn boring stuff, your mind accepts those new ideas and knowledge as valuable and necessary to your survival. Why? Because your conscious mind sets the goals and the non-conscious carries out the learning activity unquestioningly. Principle is a Law, Instinct or Reflex If the principle of Acting-As-If can eliminate negative emotions and even negative physical symptoms by using your PFC and flooding Dopamine, go the extra-mile and do a mind-experiment. Decide you are going to be curious and want to be an expert about a new idea that is ordinarily dull and you think stupid. Make-believe (Act-As-If) you want to be an expert about any new subject, and your brain and Dopamine will make it so. They will double your long-term memory and creativity. If you use the Act-As-If principle often, your IQ will rise up to 15% - and that’s a lot. Students ace their exams, classes and grades – in high school, college and graduate school, many increase up to one entire grade. Executives we teach speedlearning101 get this strategy and brag about its effectiveness in the corporate world. But How Thinking so and Acting-As-If - makes it so - for 83.3% (nonconscious-mind) of your functioning brain. Your conscious mind (16.7%) programs and conditions the non-conscious to react to Act-As-If. You activated your PreFrontal Cortex to make it happen, and your brain is flooded with Dopamine by the activated smile or desire to learn new stuff. Yes, that happens with a real, legitimate smile or becoming an expert about whatever your choose. Most folks are unaware of their personal - strength-energy-power to create hopefulness. It is part of the rhythm of life that you control. If you know the secret strategy and use it, you will be inspired by the revelations that occur in your mind. Now use this principle to get curious about earning a $50,000 bonus or learning Spanish. Offer We really want you to know the strategies to win promotions and raises and for your kids, how to ace their grades and exams. A boot-camp is like basic training in the military, you get all the how-to principles you need to survive and thrive. Find us at www.speedlearning.org and ask for information about the LIVE Boot-Camp or Do-It-Yourself At Home workshop. Don’t miss out on your new skills. They lead to better health, creativity and longevity. Ask us how. See ya, Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What E.W Whispered in My Ear For Your Benefit 2011-03-30 By H. Bernard Wechsler What E.W. Whispered in My Ear For Your Benefit I was sitting in my freshman contracts law class when a drone from the administration office walked in the room. He whispered something to the instructor who pointed at me and wiggled his finger to follow the administrative assistant. My stomach rumbled because I was certain it was not a notification of being chosen Freshman of the Year. We silently rode down the elevator to the Dean Reppy’s Office. This was my second semester and it was not going well. I could not keep up with the class assignments (homework) and had failed two of my midterm exams. Last semester I barely got by with “c’s” and “d’s. “Mr. Wechsler, have you considered accounting or your father’s chocolate empire?’ “No, Dean Reppy, I am going to be a contracts lawyer.” “I am not a gambler, but the odds are not in your favor.” “I was an “A” student at university, but at law school keeping up with the class assignments is a holy terror. There is no difficulty in briefing what the cases stand for, and I enjoy all my classes, it is the totality of keeping up day-after-day.” “You recite well in my English Common Law class, but your Midterms have done you in. Give it up, son.” “If you can suggest anything at all – a full-time tutor – test-taking training, I am up for it. Money is no object. I know I have the right stuff to be a great contracts advocate.” Cut to the chase – not the bank. Dean Reppy gave me until the finals of this semester to prove myself – or else. He was from Missouri and an international scholar, and I was a lowly freshman, so his suggestion was my command. “Contact Evelyn Wood in Washington, D.C. She teaches a new 16-hour course in speed reading, it could change your academic life. Take it on the weekends and make it work for you before the finals. Are you certain you would not like to be a CPA instead or a candy baron?” Kennedys Speed Reading was brought to the White House by John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. It happened this way: JFK was U.S. Senator for Massachusetts and was a natural speed reader of two- to three-books daily. He demanded Bobby improve his reading absorption and long-term memory In 1954 both brothers commuted from D.C. to Baltimore, Md. every Tuesday for a rapid-reading class from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. It was held at John-Hopkins University (night-college) by Professor Elton Y. Mears (Big-Ears-Mears) and called “How to Read Better And Faster”. Both Kennedys discovered new strategies in text-reading and finished the program at about 1,500 to 2,000 words per minute in complex material, with 85% comprehension. What does that mean? The average U.S. College graduate then and today reads complex (tough) text at an average of 100-125 words per minute. Their comprehension is only 60%. Some educators call it Snailing along, not reading. Professionals read even slower because of their fear of error or loss of comprehension. History JFK was the 35th President of the U.S. and was sworn in at noon, January 20, 1961. He immediately required all White House staffers, including his wife and brothers to take the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics course. She coined the term – ‘Speed Reading’ and taught her classes at the White House. JFK wanted his staff to digest and absorb articles, reports and professional books at his own astronomical rate. The Kennedy staffers became Speed Reading addicts. Ted Sorenson, his aide and speech-writer, surpassed the President in Speed Reading skills to 2,500 words per minute. Sorenson created the phrase, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” As you know, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas at age 46, on November 22, 1963. Five years later RFK was assassinated June 6, 1968. Sorenson lived to support Barack Obama. The Kennedy legacy made Evelyn Wood and Speed Reading part of executive education in the U.S. H. Bernard Wechsler was business partner of Evelyn Wood (1909-1995). She graduated 2-million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents: Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Carter. Her Secret “Let me tell you this Hal, you can omit all my strategies and schemas about speed reading and still get students to triple their learning skills, if you do this one thing.” She paused for theatrical effect. Give them a Pointer, Pacer or their finger to follow. We repeat it endlessly but speed reading is the art of a visual reflex – our eyes must follow a moving object. See, if a fly is buzzing around your head and never enters your peripheral (side) vision, it is an invisible irritant. But let it move that extra inch or two into your field-of-vision, and instinct (reflex) wakes up and your head automatically turns to follow the flying path of that critter. The scientists call it Vestibulo-Ocular-Reflex, you eyes must speed-up and follow a moving object.” I sort of got it, but not 100%. “But so what? How do you translate that to teaching students to speed… Hold it, your metaphor with the fly is using your finger as a pacer, right?” She smiled at me like my Grandma at an Aha-Moment. Frankly, I always hated using my finger or spread-hand because it felt uncomfortable and covered up the words around it. “Evelyn, the success of Reading Dynamics is use of the finger as a pacer, I get it. But could you use something else as a Pointer or Pacer for the eyes?” “Sure, but if you quote me I’ll deny it because it has been tough enough getting students to use their finger or hand. The point is that getting anyone over the age of 21 to change anything in their daily rituals, and reading is a custom, habit and procedure – a ritual, you are THREATENING them. The human reaction to threat of change is to be defensive. It activates their Fight-or-Flight reaction and they hate you. It is in their Nervous System – the all-powerful Sympathetic Nervous System. Go to the office and tell you secretaries you have a new way of filing papers, adding a computer to her job, or new job description. The result is stress, panic and fear in their minds. You are threatening their standing operating procedure. Humans are most comfortable when they are operating on Auto-Pilot. We really hate, not even a strong enough emotion, when we must CHANGE our habits. They are stressed in the pit of their stomach. The stress will not cease until the new system of doing things goes on automatic. Folks hate to think about what to do, their comfort-zone is auto-pilot.” “I got it, Evelyn. Just our secret, what could you use as a Pointer or Pacer if you had never come up with the finger or hand sweep?” Her Answer “How about the Stylus of a writing instrument. The first form of writing was on wax or clay with a short branch of a stick. It was by the ancient Sumerians, and kept tract of the Lord’s property and chattle. Call it a nub or stylus and point at the page and underline the words of the sentence.” “It works as well?” “Perfectly, because it is a teaching instrument for the eyes. It makes us avoid distractions, and forces us to focus on the text. Use the stylus and you cannot REGRESS. You know professionals and college graduates regress 5-7 times per page because they lose their place on the page or their mind gets distracted. That’s it, Reading Dynamics is using your finger or hand as a Pacer. Cancel anything else as foolishness, right my friend?” She was done with that subject and never brought it up again. I was just at the beginning of my own research. It ended with a handheld Laser Pacer (pointer) used in Speedlearning. Last thing, today we spend more time reading on-line than in books. Internet articles, reports and textbooks can be learned three-times faster with better comprehension using the CURSOR as your pointer/pacer. It produces the 20-minute hour, meaning you triple your learning with an increase of about 15% in comprehension and double their long-term memory. We teach it to students to ace their grades, classes and exams, and to executives to win promotions and raises, and produce powerful corporate profits. It uses our instinct and reflex, your eyes must follow (speed-up) when confronted by a moving object. The result is competence and confidence. See ya, P.S. If you are turned on by having a competitive advantage over your peers to win the rewards of your career, contact us and ask for a Free, no strings attached, Speed Reading report on how to triple your learning skill. We really want to help you with Evelyn Wood’s dream of how to 3x your reading speed with better comprehension for life. She is a Hall of Fame teacher. Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org How to Turn Your Brown Eyes - Blue (weird) 2011-03-20 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Turn Your Brown Eyes - Blue: A Technique For Health & Longevity Stop: I lost you because you do not want to change the color of your eyes – right? It’s a metaphor, a figure-of-speech for turning the impossible on its little cabeza. Wait. Visual The secret I am revealing is best explained by Burt Goldman, the American Monk. He is all that and more. If you do not follow his “Dear Burt” on YouTube, you are yesterday’s news. Creative Imagery You have to use your divine imagination to mentally visualize my words. You have to do more than read, you must create a mind-movie of my inadequate words. We Homo sapiens read three-ways – simultaneously. Google: Dennis Pelli, NYU Professor, 8.03.2007 a) Phonetics: we decode letters into sounds 62% of our reading time. Slower than a broken clock, but the busted timepiece indicates the correct time twice-a-day, right? Did you know the average university graduate (including professionals) read text only 100 words per minute with a lousy 60% comprehension). b) Holistic Word Recognition: we also decode words by their physical SHAPE. We use our Shape-Shifting strategy 16% of our reading time. Slow as molasses, but it works. c) Whole Word: we also decode a word’s meaning by how it is used (CONTEXT) in a sentence. We use this strategy 22% of the time. Slow as a snail, but still useful. Power of Our Mind Example: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Joe Gonzales had his life ruined while a soldier in Saddam Hussein’s War in Iraq. Specifically it was the same day President Hussein was executed for war crimes: December 30, 2006. He was steering an upgraded Abrams tank which was smashed to smithereens by a well-placed Iraq landmine. Joe had both legs broken and thirty-stitches in his puss, and crawled away half-blind but alive. Not quite. It was now March 5, 2011 and Joe had not had a good night’s sleep since the third week in December, 2006. He constantly hallucinates during his waking hours about his tank’s explosion and how all his military buddies cashed in their chips that day. His problem has a medical name recognized by 98% of the U.S. population – PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). No Help, No Hope He is a relentless “compulsive thinker” about that tank incident. He is unhappy, stressed, and useless to himself and the universe. He is racked with mental and physical pain 24/7. The U.S. has given him a 100% disability discharge, and a full-time psychiatrist, but he cannot function in our society. Joe cannot focus for more than five-minutes before he is attacked by a Technicolor replay of the landmine explosion of 1:10 P.M. 12.30.2006. He has been told that he will recover, but Joe studied accounting and can still count. It is the first quarter of 2011. The score is PTSD 21, and the doctors, zero. Wacked-Out Medical Treatment We are the end product of a couple of hundred years of scientific thinking and conditioning. We do not believe in Witch-Doctors, Voodoo or Zombies. We believe in the scientific method, cause and effect, and drugs certified by U.S. Food And Drug Administration. Sure, we use Chiropractors and others practitioners without an M.D. degree, but they are usually a last resort. It has not been that many years that even Chiropractors were considered suspect and refused payment by insurance companies. Don’t you expect your general physician to solve your medical conditions or else refer you to a legitimate medical specialist? Joe stopped going to licensed physicians, surgeons and psychiatrists. They all told the same story about healing PTSD, but could not begin to cure him or even reduce his symptoms. Each physician had his/her favorite drugs or creative imagery strategies, but they all ultimately ended as a non-starter and a failure in his case. Listen-Up Here is the entire treatment that is used and recommended by Burt Goldman. He has no credentials, and disclaims any medical knowledge or experience. Burt does not use Tarot cards, the entrails of a chicken, nor hypnosis. He offers his strategies without evidence or scientific research, with no claim of a miraculous cure. If you wish to test his approach, he provides the simple instructions and demonstrates what you should do. He claims that if it works – and he makes no direct or indirect claims of a successful conclusion – it will happen almost instantaneously. The entire two-tiered treatment requires less than a minute. No change in your belief system is required (faith is not a requirement). Just do the steps and you will decide if his Double-Double (Duo System) has any merits for you. Mama Mia Spicy Meatballs This is not a medical procedure with any protocols, controls or statistics. Take it or leave it. You can always go back to your primary care-giver for more drugs. Is there a recommended treatment for PTSD with evidence of success? The American Medical Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have not certified any to date. Maybe next year. Treatment One. Eyes closed. Mental imagine your worst fears. Let your worst mental movies commence. Bring ’em on. Keep your eyes shut and let your Abrams tank blow-up again in your mind. Experience the same emotions including the searing pain to both legs, your bleeding head and half-blind eyes. See your comrades scream and die in front of you. “Same-old, same-old”, thought Joe. Two. Tier #1 procedure. Alternatively (first use your left-hand, then switch to using your right-hand) snap your fingers next to the ear on the same side of your body. How? Move your Left-Hand-Up to your left-ear. Snap your fingers at the level of your left-ear, with your left-handed fingers. Now drop your left hand. This is baby-easy so don’t complicate it. Move your right hand up to your right-ear; make a snapping sound with your right-handed fingers, and drop your hand back. Alternate, left-right, left-right. How Long Maximum of 20-30 seconds total time of alternate snapping at your ears. Tapping on The Sides of Your Head Tier #2 procedure. Eyes-closed and let the mental panic proceed. Listen carefully, tap on the sides of your head. You use your left-fingers (thumb-index and middle-finger bunched together) to tap at your left-ear level alternatively. Now switch to using your right-fingers ((thumb, index and middle-finger). Left-right, left-right. Alternate your tapping, right? If it works it takes no more than 10-20 seconds. If it is not effective for you, tapping for 60-minutes will not help. Wait a minute. How can any strategy accomplish anything worthwhile in 1-2 minutes? Skepticism We do not believe the President, Congress or the Supreme Court, accord to Gallop research. Why should you believe anything as ridiculous as what you have just read? Excuse me, but did anyone ask you to open your wallet for a donation? Is there anyone with a gun forcing you to do this strategy? Click the delete button and choose to play a game. The alternative is to do your own experiment and make your own judgment of the results. Oh yeah, it also works for losing 1-15 pounds. Ridiculous. Did it work for Joe? If I tell you yes, you may be prejudiced and create a mental expectation of success. You know the two-tiered procedure. Make your own determination. What do you think? Me too. But I would try it as a last resort. Maybe you are more rational and unforgiving. Maybe pigs can fly and deliver their milk. See Ya, Copyright© 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. If you are interested in a free copy (no strings attached) of our special Speed Reading report, find us and ask for one. It may just help you obtain your next promotion, raise or profit. Check it out in order to 3x your learning skills and 2x your long-term memory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Secret Strategy - now 2011-03-17 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is The Chain-Reaction For Personal Success If you learn this baby-easy system to use your electromagnetic field RHYTHM consciously – you have a strategy to change (improve) almost anything and everything in your life. Right, and cows can fly and drop off their milk! What is your Rhythm? First, we have a rhythm for everything we love and a different one for everything we dislike. Wait – do you want change in your life of health-money-better relationships? If you can switch to a positive (love) rhythm to things you hate in your life, you change your thinking, feelings and attitude. That changes your behaviors – how you do stuff to produce a reality in your life. How Every morning on rising and just prior to sleep in the evening, you must spend about two-minutes on TAPPING out your love (positive) rhythm and visualize what you want in your life. Example: you are unhappy with your finances – you want to earn $250,000 annually and not your present $60,000. If you tap the side of your thigh or beat your rhythm on a table about your present electromagnetic field reaction to your present finances – you will notice it is very, very SLOW – tired. Now imagine your life in a new home, with the best of the best, and see your income tax statement for $250,000 annually. Start tapping. You will notice your Tapping Rhythm is twice-three-times faster. Forget why or how your electromagnetic field accomplishes the difference – do you have to know all about how a car engine works to successfully drive your vehicle? Do you have to know Electricity to throw on the light-switch and produce a well-lit room? Nada. Discovery Whatever we like (love, desire) produces a rapid Rhythm (electromagnetic field). Hold it – whatever we dislike (eating veggies that taste like mush) a job we hate to go to daily, but force ourselves for the money, and people who treat us like dirt. When we think of our dislikes – our Rhythm slows down by up to two-thirds. SNAILING. So What To obtain our goals we must increase our Rhythm (electromagnetic field) when mentally visualizing our goals. Example: every A.M. and P.M. (hypnagogic before sleep, and hypnopompic on awakening) we must practice the new Rhythm for 2-minutes each session. We visualize our goal and tap-out the faster rhythm on our leg or on a table simultaneously. It engages our mind-body-connection. How Long For some of us it works in 1-2 tapping session, for others a maximum of 21 days. It requires that to become a habit. This tapping rhythm works through our Mind-Body-Connection. Some researchers claim it is activated by using our Temporal-Parietal cortices. Who cares, if it brings us our goals? Try it. According to the best of the best – Bill Harris of Holosync – there are four ways that solve our problems. They all required AWARENESS of what you are doing. Why? “Awareness always creates Choice.” Do we all have internal-maps of our reality? 100%. Watch yourself TODAY as you create your life-experiences. Remember, specific examples solidify your ideas permanently. Why Awareness permits us to see the CHOICES we make in our lives. We are always choosing between being on Auto-Pilot and using our Conscious mind to seek options. What does this mean to you? All STATES of mind and being have brainwave-signatures. Awareness, never non-consciousness - should be utilized in making Decisions-Specific Strategies-Owning Values-Maintaining Positive Beliefs. But it is harder than being programmed by auto-pilot. Auto-Pilot is always easier on the brain, but we have been Programmed and Conditioned to repeat these old ways. Try the path least travelled. Why? New levels of success, happiness and great relationships can enter your life. The Four-Ways a) How do your DECISIONS make you FEEL – why not choose feeling good? b) How do your choices make you BEHAVE – could you do better? c) Which people and situations are you habitually ATTRACTING? Happy about it? d) What MEANINGS do you assign to what occurs to you? Not your fault? So What 1. BEHAVIORS, not words. Our actions (behaviors) control our success or failure. Example: How do you learn to drive a car in highway traffic? We forget the separate steps and manipulation of not just our vehicle, but of our linked physical activities. Analyze each step in driving your car to work. 2. FEELINGS: What drives our Behaviors? Answer: our FEELINGS – emotions create our behaviors. Does how you feed control what you do? Comfort-zone is the path of least resistance, and governed by our Non-Conscious (automatic mind). Doesn’t our Ego create our behaviors by our feelings? 3. ATTITUDES: What creates our Feelings? Answer: our ATTITUDES, our view of our life, health, love and expectations. 4. BELIEFS: What creates our Attitudes? Answer: our BELIEFS are what accept as our reality about the world, our lives and our future. Automatic-Positive-Thoughts and Ants (Automatic Negative-Thoughts. We are on Auto-Pilot (Non-Consciousness) up to 90% of the time. 5. THOUGHTS: But what creates our Beliefs? Answer: THOUGHTS. Thoughts are biological –physiological electrical properties. Whatever is accepted by our mind through our experiences or possibilities enters from within or without may be accepted as thoughts. Once we accept these brain connections, they enter our mind as active thoughts. N.B. Neurons: nerve-cells in our nervous system –process and transmit information by Electro-Chemical signaling. Are our thoughts, brain connections linked by synapses? a) Our conscious mind is approximately 1/6 of our active brain. The other 5/6th (83.33%) are controlled by our Non-Consciousness. However, our conscious mind can influence, persuade, and convince the other 5/6th. How? Active programming and conditioning. b) Consciousness has a broadband capacity of between 16 to 60 bits of information per second. Non-Consciousness has a broadband capacity of 11 million bits of information per second. Who has got the power? c) Non-Consciousness systems and structures include: 1. Immune System 2. Nervous System 3. Limbic System 4. Brainstem 6. Basal Ganglia 7. Cerebellum 8. Thalamus & Hypothalamus 9. Insula Cortex. 10. Perirhinal Cortex. d) Consciousness systems include: 1. Parietal-Frontal lobes 2. PreFrontal Contex 3.Cerebral Cortex 4. Medial Temporal Lobes 5. Central Thalamus. Google them. Endwords If you choose to remember One section of this stuff - let it be your FEELINGS about decision-making. Two: What BEHAVIORS do your feelings produce on a daily basis? Three. What are you ATTRACTING in your life? Four. What MEANINGS do you assign to the events of your life? What’s it all about, Alfie? Awareness can change each one of them. Copyright 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. We have some free, no strings attached, first-rate speed reading reports for those few who want to have a unique competitive advantage in school and in your career. Written by the author of the famous – Speed Reading For Professionals, published by Barron’s, the financial paper. Find us and ask for it. Oh yeah, start TAPPING your raised RHYTHMS today to improve your life. Our students and executives Highly endorse it. Tell me, what you have to lose? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What the Hell is Buzzing of the Bees? 2011-03-16 By H. Bernard Wechsler Buzzing of the Bees 2 By H.Bernard Wechsler March 21 2007 Buzzing of the Bee There are three skills you can develop through the Buzzing of the Bee strategy created by Emile Coue` over a century ago. Our experience with thousands of students is that it is practical and effective. Benefits a) reduce and eliminate pain, b) eliminate stress and replace anxiety with feelings of pleasure, c) learn and remember like an Einstein. Emile Coue` (Kway), a French chemist and psychologist (1857-1926), discovered how to help fix emotional and physical disruptions of the human mind and body. He is the father of conscious autosuggestion and the first Do-It-Yourselfer for personal healing. Google: Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion, 1922. He was an early believer that physically and mentally upset (pain and stress) causes our electrical energy system to breakdown (suffer a disruption) in its bioelectric neuropathways. Coue` trained patients to help heal their minds and bodies through a simple system of autosuggestion. It worked quickly and consistently. So How do we know Coue` was not just another crackpot or scam guy? Neuroscience A disruption of the human energy system is scientifically measurable with an EEG (Electroencephalogram) indicating the brainwave rhythms in cycles per second (Hz). The electrical metric of our heart is clearly visible with an EKG (Electrocardiogram). If your circuit breakers pop, your ten-watts of electricity stop flowing causing physical (pain or stroke) or mental (depression) disorders. fMRI Today, a fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) scan produces computer views of our brain in action. It shows the flow of blood into the structures of our brain as we react to our relationships and environment. Our brain triggers instinctive reactions when we are stressed, filled with angst, or excited with pleasure. The brain causes our body to react with fight-or-flight or relaxation through the release of hormones and neuropeptides for survival and self-preservation. Coue and his autosuggestions register positive brainwave changes through conditioning (programming). The First Step Coue` offers a strategy and specific instructions to program you own mind through repeating his unique Target Affirmation. Every Day in Every Way, How Can I be completely healed of my stress and discomfort and feel Better And Better? It must be repeated five-times with your eyes closed prior to falling asleep (hypnagogic), and five-times on awakening (hpynopompic), and during a midday 10 minute meditation. It takes about two-minutes to repeat the Target Affirmation five-times. It reaches both our conscious and non-conscious minds; and our left and right brains. Every Day in Every Way, How Can I be completely healed of my stress and discomfort, and feel Better-And Better? The Second Step The secret of first reducing and then eliminating physical or emotional pain in our body is tapping the area with the index and middle fingers of the hand on the opposite side. It is called decussation and chiasma, a crossing over of the fibers of our nervous system causing your right brain to control your left side of your body and vice-versa. Example Your left kneecap is throbbing with pain and giving you a powerful headache. You use your right hand (index and middle finger) to tap gently seven-times in the center of your kneecap while reciting your Target Affirmation. Do the Coue` strategy once with your eyes closed, and once with your eyes opened. It takes up to two-minutes. Mental Visualization To produce a permanent improvement, mentally see a healing beam of light penetrating your kneecap as you tap seven times and repeat your Target Affirmation for two-minutes. Quick Fix A Chicago attorney sent us an email about his practical use of the Buzzing of The Bee. He was skiing alone at Vail and slammed into a tree and buried over his head in the icy white stuff. He was conscious and scared for his life listening to his heart racing like death was knocking at his door. No one came, it was 6 am, and he was getting frostbite in his hands and feet. He decided to try the nutty Coue` Buzzing of the Bees to take his mind off his pain and anxiety. Later he said this was the first time he had ever use the strategy since graduating. And he thought it really dumb and uncool. He closed his eyes, gathered up his attention and intention, and began to hum his Target Affirmation – Every day in every way, how can I save my ass right now, and feel better and better? Danny got up a head of steam and began to sing it louder and louder and started sweating. He began to manipulate the fingers of both hands causing him more pain. Soon he was rolling the fingers across the two thumbs faster and faster and the circulation seemed to improve. Now he began to mental visualize a team coming to dig him out. He pictured himself sitting in front of a roaring fire at the lodge giggling about his adventure, with a beautiful companion. Soon he was smiling and within minutes laughing at how stupid he was to believe in such an insane thing as Coue` and his goofy Every Day… Now he started pushing himself around the buried space using his hands and feet as if he was swimming. He concentrated on a different Command Affirmation that went, Its going, going, going …gone. It sounds like a bee buzzing as you crunch the words together. The last time you add, And-it-is-so. He did it for five more minutes. Nobody came. He was feeling like an ass repeating these incantations. It was not lawyer-like and his partners would have him disbarred for being superstitious. He push upward, the ice cracked and he could see the sunshine. It took another half-hour of singing Every Day in every way how can I save my dear-old-ass and feel better and better? He was tapping with his fingers. He continued with the crazy mind pictures because it made him feel better. He thought, what could it hurt? Finally he was actually feeling better and he decided to recite the B.I.N.G.O song. There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his Name-o. He thumped the letters, B-I-N-G-O against his sides and widened his snow-trap even more. No one came. It took another 60 minutes and Danny worked his way upward and outward. Yes, really; look, it is his experience. He dragged himself to the lodge singing Every Day…and crying every step of the way. Took another hour. He had a broken left ankle, a severely sprained wrist. Go figure. copyright © 2007 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Close Window What Really is The Buzzing of The Bees? 2011-03-15 By H. Bernard Wechsler The Secret strategy of Buzzing of The Bees We trained a NYC attorney in Tripling (3x) his Speed Reading and Doubling his long-term memory. That was not what he emailed us about. One of the side-issues in the 12 hours of sessions includes a strategy called The Buzzing of The Bees. This is a simple strategy that most students and executives totally ignore. It was created by a French Psychologist called Emile` Coue` (pronounced Quay) in 1922. So What Please pay attention and see if you can mentally visualize this powerful procedure. But what is it for? Buzzing of The Bees activates accelerated healing and according to some advocates, produces almost miraculous results. Wait: disclaimer – we are not physicians and this is not scientific stuff. Most normal folks go to a medical doctor or hospital when their body fails them. We recommend exactly that, but maybe there is a place for knowledge about Coue’s secret strategy. What Happened Danny the lawyer was skiing in the evening with his group at Vail. Suddenly he was buried in a six-foot pit – his right leg mangled, in searing pain, and only semi-conscious. He was not afraid because he knew the area was crowded with his friends, and sooner-or-later his crew would come searching for him. It was not to be that easy. He tried to extricate himself, but the throbbing pain in his right leg argued back. Danny’s three-pound coconut joined in the ski-party with a massive migraine headache. He knew he was in trouble when he could not think of anyone to sue for damages for this negligence action. “Someone must pay for my pain and suffering,” he thought. He never wore his watch when skiing, so it felt like a year had passed since his fall. He could hear no surrounding noise, and not a human came searching for the buried lawyer. Danny could only hear his pounding heart, as his fears invented new dangers for his present predicament. Oh yeah, to add to his misery he was feeling frostbite in his both hands and feet. “I think I am going to cash-in my chips,” entered his mind multiple times. Magic He said in the email, “Out of no place, an idea crossed my mind. I actually heard Dr. Coue’s mantra, ‘Every day, in every way, I am feeling better and better.” It was like a song that just kept repeating itself endlessly. The weird part was that I actually smiled and felt better as I got into the swing of paying attention to this Affirmation – for 60-minutes. It was some kind of self-fulfilling prophesy – I was feeling better and better. It was weird and dangerous because I was down a hole with a probable broken leg, and as alone as a stone.” In Speed Reading we explain the power of “Every-day-in every-way, I am feeling better and better.” The secret was not paying attention to the meaning of the words, just let the mantra form an umbrella over your brain. It must seep into your Non-Conscious mind. How? Hum the words under your breath, and expect a positive change. You mind-body connection will calm down your agitated brain, and send you some ideas to help yourself. Or you could sue us for malpractice – if you live. Buzzing of The Bees This is a two-step strategy. One, you repeat very fast, in an almost Mickey Mouse voice, (while touching the injured area), “It is Going, Going, Gone.” This is separated in three- sections. The first - two are repeated – “It is going-going-gone (rapidly for about 40 seconds). The final and third section ends with, “And, It-is-so!” What is Optic Chiasma You use physical reversal to involve your right or left brain. If you are healing your right-leg, use your left-hand to trigger your right-hemisphere. The right brain controls your left-side, and vice-versa. You very quickly reach your tipping-point – your Critical-Mass. If you do Buzzing-of-the-Bees twice, sixty-second each, a total of two-minutes – strange things occur. You must emotionalize what you want to occur, right? Do not repeat it like an accountant running numbers. Easy when you’re dying. One more thing: you must create a mental image (mental movie/picture) of the healing and repair you desire. Use 1, but 1-4 is better. See: 1. Shrinking and Shriveling of an enlarged area, uniting a broken bone or damaged tissue. Example: visualize an enlarged prostate gland et al shrinking and shriveling. See: 2. Dissolving a bleeding or pimply growth, or eliminating a painful area. Example: facial growth. See: 3. Pac-man Like: Chewing it up, and spitting it out. Example: killing all Cancerous-Tumorous-Toxic cells. See: 4. Hammering the nuclei and cell bodies. Example: see: Cancerous-Tumorous-Toxic cells being smashed to death by your mallet. (visualize your 3-pound mallet totally destroying all the negative growth cells). Back to Danny The Lawyer in The Snow-Bank “Well, I said to myself, I have nothing to lose, so I began doing the Buzzing of the Bees to my right-leg, tapping with my left-hand. I visualized my foot healed, and did not stop to think how stupid and unscientific it really was. I had nothing but time, so I did it for maybe 15-30 minutes. Later I went back to Coue’s mantra – Every Day in Every Way, I am Feeling Better and Better, for another 15-30 minutes. I say, If you got the time – I got Coue’s affirmation. “I am not going to try and describe what happened next because the men in the white coats institutionalize you for such ideas. Let’s just say I felt better and saw an improvement in my condition. Oh yeah, I had never tried these crazy strategies since learning them in Speed Reading classes. Desperate times require desperate measures, right? The next thing I knew I was sweating like a pig and moving around the pit in spite of the pain. Get this: I started crawling upward, one inch at a time. If you are expecting a miracle and the ski parole coming to save my ass, forget about it. You remember the Bingo-Song you teach to reduce stress – “There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name O.” Each chorus you clap or shout to replace a letter in the name B-I-N-G-O. It helped distract my mind from pain, fear and anxiety when I tired of “Every-Day” and “Buzzing of the Bees.” I am coming to the point. I began to feel better and made slow progress as I attempted to creep out of the snow-trap. I dragged by broken body inch by inch, but move I did. It took maybe two-three-hours. More “Every-Day-in-every-way”, sing-song, more “Buzzing of the Bees” about my right leg and migraine headache. I went back to the “Bingo” song too, and you know what? It all worked to calm my racing heart and broken body. Maybe that’s it. I don’t know how I did it, but I ended up out of the snow-trap. My law partner would have me certified for reciting this stuff in writing. I do not remember how or when, but I started crawling down the slope. Some ski-cop found me. I was bent over the ski ramp. The Ski Patrol guy said they had been on a search for my fundament for over four-hours. That’s it. It really happened like that, and you have my permission to use my words. No normal person would believe a word of it anyway. Thank you SpeedLearning.org - I will always believe Coue’s mental strategies saved my injured fundament. Best of Luck, Danny Esq.” Endwords: This is the gist of it. Did it really work because of Emile Coue’s strategies – you decide. As for me, if I was in a hopeless situation, and I wanted to trigger my mind-body-connection… I suggest no one rely on any of the aforementioned ideas, but then I also suggest not falling into a ski-trap. By the way we have about 25 free, no strings attached speed reading reports. If you want one, find us and request one. Copyright 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Are People's Judgments Rational And Stable or What? 2011-03-13 By H. Bernard Wechsler Are People’s Judgments Rational And Stable or What? 21st Century Science: If you are a lifelong learner and want a healthy mind-body connection and longevity, you have to consistently and persistently use your brain to keep learning. What does that really mean? How? Did you know up to half of folks over 80-years old either have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia? You are going to live into your nineties so a healthy brain and longevity matter to you, right? Read everything in sight includes labels. Get an Amazon Electronic Reader (Kindle), and read a minimum of one-hour daily. Read what? Grab an exciting novel or a great How-to textbook, but read. Why? All reading and new learning has a cumulative effect in your brain and produces Cognitive Reserve. Cognitive Reserve What’s that and why should we care? Cognitive Reserve is a protective shield in your brain to reduce the incidence of ALZ and dementia up to 80%. It comes from years of active thinking, learning and reading. In November 2008 the first scientific research was published in the Archives of Neurology. So what? You and I care because the heart of this research using brain scanning concluded: the greater our Cognitive Reserve from learning and reading, the less damage from Beta Amyloid Plaques – causing reduced loss of mind-power from Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. How Learn the rules of New board games, play Bridge, teach something you know to kids or adults, engage in Jeopardy TV questions, and don’t laugh, study the vocabulary of a new language. Thinking, reading and learning is your Silver Bullet to mental health success. Who says so? Google: Yaacov Stern, professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the international expert on avoiding ALZ through Cognitive Reserve. Wait - only Google him if you want to live into your nineties with a healthy brain. Remember Stupid Stuff, But Use Your Long-Term Memory What is the population of the U.S. on 3.11.11? Answer: 310 million folks. What is the population on the planet Earth? Answer: 7 Billion people. Can you remember that to win a PRIZE? Well the prize is your healthy brain and longevity. How many people in the world are LEFT-HANDED? Answer: 11 percent of the population. How Do We Remember Stuff There are three-ways to feed information into your long-term memory: the most common is repetition. Start by repeating the new idea, word or name silently or out-loud to yourself 10x. Now test yourself to see if you really own the new knowledge. If you repeat this new stuff up to 10 times today, and test yourself, and another 10 more times tomorrow, you almost got it. Test yourself again a week from now – repeat it another 10x, and you own it permanently in long-term memory. Just remember – do it like you mean it, not as a boring chore. Association Strategy The second strategy for long-term memory is Association. It means connecting something NEW with information already located in your long-term memory. Ask yourself questions like - what does this new idea or word remind me of? What does it sound like? Link (connect) the new idea, name or a word with old-stuff you already know and own. Example: I met a new friend named Dennis Kennedy, and normally I would forget his name in sixty-seconds, just like you. I remembered the old TV show – Dennis-the-Menace, and I will never forget his name because of the law of association. Kennedy was easy; I pictured him in the White House. An association is a Link from one new idea, word or name - to an old one I already know, right? Your brain and everybody else’s love images (pictures). That is your easy LINK to long-term memory. We remember in pictures. Listen: we remember in mental images (pictures or mental-movies). I can see (imagine) that bratty TV kid – Dennis-the-Menace. I will always identify my friend with that mental image. Never will I forget his name because I associate it with a picture in my long-term memory having emotional relevance. And I know John Kennedy was the 35th President. Dennis Kennedy – locked into my long-term memory. Third Strategy Third, go to Radio Shack and get a Digital Electronic Recorder. Speak what you want to remember into your recorder. Now make it a habit to review your new ideas, words or names for just five-minutes toward the end of your day. Really, we use the high-tech recorder and capture (remember) tons of new interesting stuff. Why bother? Fact: Cognitive Reserve is your brain’s resiliency (bounce-back) to damage from ALZ and other forms of dementia, right? Thinking, learning and reading produce positive rewards. Choose to win the Prize of an active and protected brain. You will absolutely live better and longer. Yes, really. Oh yeah, it is absolutely today’s Science, not mere superstition. Do you care about your brain? Improve your mental-resiliency – give your brain bounce-back power through fun learning games. Right-Handed About 90% of us are right-handed, but so what? Listen up: we associate the right side of space with all things good, and the left-side with lousy stuff. Concepts of good and bad are locked into our bodily experiences. Our dominant hand creates how we decide what to choose. Science When folks who were right-hand were asked what to buy either the item on their right-side or their left, guess which one they consistently and repeatedly chose? Wait. When asked which person to hire in a Job interview, the person on their right or left – they always went with the applicant on their right. One more – when asked which person appeared to be more intelligent, the woman on their right or their left – predict which one they decided was smarter? They identified all things good with their dominant hand. Lefties did just the opposite. The key point is that it was all on auto-pilot, deciding and choosing without having any conscious knowledge of WHY they loved all things – on the right. Who Says Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania offer the evidence, and their work was published in the journal Psychological Science, March 9, 2011. The lead author was Professor Daniel Casasanto, and even he was surprised by the power of our dominant hand. Think of ordinary English – we love to be “in-the-right”, and hate to be “out-in-left-field”. Lefties see the exact opposite. The professor says, “People can act more fluently (flowing – smoothly and easily) using their dominant-hand. We come to identify – unconsciously associate good-things - with our fluent side of space.” The scientists clinched their argument by putting a large glove on the dominant hand, and righties changed to lefties after a short while of using their now dominant left-hand. Your fluent, dominant hand changes how you make decisions and choose. Now think of how you want to arrange things because the world is 89% righties? This is practical stuff and can help you win promotions, raises, and more profits. Knowledge is power. More knowledge is greater power than your peers. Maybe you want to specialize in promoting to lefties. How? See ya, Copyright 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. We have about two-dozen free, no strings attached, excellent reports on how to be a speed reader. We have many experiences that those who learn speed reading win more promotions, raises and profits. Ask us for a free copy. The author wrote the best-seller, Speed Reading For Professionals, published by Barron’s – the financial magazine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Did You Know You Are an Expert in At Least Three Skills? 2011-03-10 By H. Bernard Wechsler Do You Know You Are an Expert in at Least Three-Skills? Wait – how do you define “expert”, and what exactly is required to be considered an expert in a field? I hate glittering generalities and require specific information to learn something new. There are three (3) ways to qualify to be an expert in most professions and areas of talent. The Ten Thousand Hour Rule The creator of this rule is K. Anders Erisson, professor at Florida State University. He first saw it played out in Berlin, Germany at the German Academy of Music. He concluded it was nurture more than nature, and not natural genius or innate talent, but hard work. Regardless of talent, it took deliberate practice (daily) to master any skill. Competence, proficiency and knowledge requires practice. Ten Thousand Hours is the equivalent of three-hours daily for ten (10) years. More hours daily reduces the number of years, right? Take your pick – ten-years or ten-thousand hours is the minimum to acquire expertise in a field of knowledge or skill. Dr. David Shanks Professor Shanks picked up on this theory while at University College, London from Erisson in 1990. He saw the merit in disposing of the argument you have to be born a star. He was more comfortable with the practical application of effort and diligence to attain expertise. He liked the idea that it is not Innate (inborn) talent that ultimately decides who is an expert. Stephen J. Dubner & Steven Levitt In 2006, these two published “Freakonomics –the hidden side of everything” It is now a standard that is a annually best-seller. Professor Dubner is an internationally recognized economist, teaching at University of Chicago since 1997. Levitt is a super-star journalist in NYC and a major contributor to the on-going website on Freakonomics. They gave lasting fame to K. Anders Erisson by popularizing his Ten-Thousand Hour Rule. So What There are three-ways to gain a reputation as an expert – putting in 10,000 hours, ten-years, and one more. If the expert has absorbed 30,000 chunks of knowledge in his field, he wins the title. What is chunking? Chunking is a psychological term – meaning organizing items (ideas) into manageable units. Example: Which is easier to remember – 5165551212 or 516-555-1212? That’s chunking. This is an example of a long-term memory strategy. What are you really doing? Answer: recoding information into short-term memory. Get this: you have only 43 seconds to take short-term and turning it into long-term memory. How? Three-ways: repetition – association or artificial use of a digital recording device to remember the new information. If you waste time, your new short-term memory disappears and you lose it. What’s her name again? For Smart-Alecs: check out an article called The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, by George A. Miller, 1956. Explains short-term human memory. Remember – you have about 43 seconds to save it to the Hippocampus or your Amygdala chews it up. You Said We Have Expertise in Three-Skills Glad you reminded me. One is Eating – at least ten-years or ten-thousand hours. Second is Sleeping, we are all experts in that talent. Third is reading. Most of us have piled up the ten-years or ten-thousand hours because we started at age five or six and read daily. There are Three Ways to Win Comprehension in Reading One: Phonics – the sounding of each letter in a word. It is so-o slow, and is used 62% of the time by college graduates. Two: Holistic Word Recognition – that means we comprehend words by remember their shape. Repetition imprints the shape in our long-term memory. We use it 16% of the time college graduates read text material. Three: Whole Language – we comprehend words and gain meaning by seeing the CONTEXT of the word as it used in a sentence. This strategy is used 22% of the time by college graduates. We use all three of the aforementioned simultaneously, not just pick and choose one. How fast do College Graduates Read? The average lawyer, doctor and college graduate reads easy material at approximately 210 words per minute, with a comprehension of only sixty (60%)percent. That is about 100 words per minute in reality. What about tough, text material? Cut it in half. Face it, we are s-l-o-w, slow readers, which explains Information-Overload, and the low U.S. student rates in Science and Math. When you read that slowly, with Porous-Comprehension, you get easily frustrated, and want to quit. The high school and college drop-out rate because of lousy reading skills is a minimum of 35-40%. Sad. There is a solution – it is called Speed Reading, a series of learning strategies for kids and adults. Zoning-Out More than 50% of students and executives zone-out after reading more than five-minutes. Some of us can go up to 20-minutes before falling mental asleep while reading. Your eyes take in the words, but your prefrontal-cortex is not paying attention to meaning and comprehension. For cool folks: Goggle: Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area for semantics - the meaning of what you are reading. Reading not just perusing sentences down a page, you must be able to get the ideas that the writer is submitting in the book, article or report. Attention is everything and add to that recalling the gist of new knowledge. Less than that is Zoning-out. Endwords The good news is that you can become an expert in a specialized area of knowledge without being a genius to start with. Find an area of knowledge or even a hobby that turns you on, and put in the time. See ya, Copyright 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler N.B. If you would like to win promotions, raises and company profit, change you way of learning. We have about 40 copies of a great article on how to speed read. Question: would you have a great unique competitive advantage over your peers if you could learn and remember three (3x) times better than other folks in your organization? Contact us for a free, no strings attached winning article on how to be a great speed reader. Only contact us is you are interested in promotions, raises and profits. The author wrote “Speed Reading For Professionals”, published by Barron’s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to Add to Your Health and Longevity 2011-03-03 By H. Bernard Wechsler How New Scientific Research Adds to Your Health And Longevity If you are like me about wild medical claims, you are a skeptic and contrarian and believe almost no authority or expert without proof. Sure there are breakthroughs, but the drug companies are the last one to believe. But then again there are exceptions to even the best rules. But what about stuff that sounds like good old common sense? Al Einstein said, “Common sense is just conventional wisdom with the prejudices we learned up to age 18.” So who do you believe? The Journal of Applied Psychology, March 1, 2011 This article by lead author, Professor Ed Diener, University of Illinois, reviews one-hundred and sixty (160) separate scientific studies about the effect of happiness on our health and longevity. Wait, are the scientists implying just being generally delighted with your life is a great strategy? It appears that positive, happy folks absolutely have less diseases and live longer than pessimistic people. Again, they straight-out have a longer lifespan. Example: one study followed 5,000 students at the University of Illinois for more than forty-years. They were annually tested for their attitudes, moods and states of mind. The students were classified as Positive, Negative or Moderate minded. Get this: those who tested as stressed-out, depressed, and pessimistic about their lives, tended to get more diseases, and die younger than their peers. Makes sense, but it is more because it has evidence to back up these claims. Tested What People evaluate their lives based on personal relationships and their career. If you are dissatisfied with your life-partner, cannot handle your finances, and hate going to work every morning, it is very easy to be depressed and pessimistic. Nothing happens in a vacuum, and your unhappiness (stress and distress) has major consequences for your life and health. Subjective Well-Being The scientists concluded with this cliché sounding comment: “Feeling positive about your life, not stressed-out, not depressed, contributes to both longevity and better health among healthy populations.” In a long-term study of 678 Nuns from the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Dr. David Snowdon concluded: “those who wrote positive autobiographies in their 20s, tended to outlive those who wrote more negative life stories (accounts) of their present and future lives.” More: those who used their brains daily to read, learn, teach, and play mental games, lived the longest and most satisfactory lives. Life-style accounts for health, longevity, and avoidance of Alzheimer’s, and other diseases of the mind and body. If you suffer daily bouts of anxiety, depression, a lack of enjoyment of daily activities, and pessimism, you can expect to have a higher rate of disease and a shorter lifespan. Animal Studies Stress is not just a human experience. When you place too many animals in the same space (cages), poor health and even death follows. Stressed animals are more susceptible to heart disease, have weaker immune systems, and tend to die earlier than those with more space to roam. Stress The term stress was coined by Canadian endocrinologist Hans Selye, in 1936 at McGill University in Montreal. He was the first scientist to see stress as biological. He described stress as affecting cognition (thinking and learning), emotions, and our physical and behavioral patterns. He said stress (distress) was involved in poor judgment, excessive worry, moodiness, and produces aches and pains. Cortisol Stress produces a hormone called cortisol. It is produced by the adrenal gland, increases blood sugar suppresses the immune system, and decreases bone formation. Professor Selye discovered that there Is a positive form of stress he called EUSTRESS. It produces a low level of excitement that permits us to be creative and do our best work. It is DISTRESS that is the negative force in our lives. A positive mood overcomes stress and reduces the production of cortisol. Endwords The researchers evaluated the 160 studies on health and longevity and commented, there is clear and compelling evidence, happy folks (less stress than unhappy people) tend to live longer and experience better health. So What It is your job to be aware of excessive stress in your life and change your behaviors. Who cares more whether you live a healthy, long life than you? You may want to stop rationalizing about your personal relationships and career. If you make difficult choices to reduce and eliminate distress in your life, you change the odds in your favor to avoid diseases and increase longevity. Special Offer: free, no strings attached. We have available about 40 special speed reading reports. If you believe tripling your reading and long-term memory can aid in winning promotions and raises, contact us for a copy. Copyright 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the Law of Expectation? 2011-02-28 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is the Law of Expectation, And Who Cares? Now you are an intelligent person, wise in the ways of the world. If you do some quick internet research on the Law of Expectation, what will you find? Answer: Google has to remove this drivel. These articles contain facts a first-grader would not believe. Example: “Whatever you believe and expect to happen, with confidence, are most likely to occur.” Life is a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’, you get what you expect. So expect all positive stuff and you will receive it.” What else? “Change your expectations, and you change what happens to you.” Huh? Up to now, there has been no science documentation to justify the Law of Expectation. All the articles say, “Believe it because I say so”, and no evidence is offered. I call that drivel. On top of that, all the writers on Expectation refer you to the Law of Attraction. I don’t believe that one either. Hold It Researchers from Britain and Germany wrote an important article on the Law of Expectation published in the Science Translational Journal on 2.17.11. They used brain imaging (fMRI) to show “expectations can cancel out the benefits of Pain Killing drugs.” Who cares? Two drug makers: Abbot and GlaxoSmithKline. Why? If patients can destroy the power of the drugs they take by their Expectations, the clinical trials must be changed to overcome this problem. Why? The U.S. Food And Drug Administration can reject their application to offer the drug for sale in the U.S. Each drug must pass tests to prove it is more effective than a mere sugar-pill. No scientific proof, no Approval. Read-And-Remember Fact: Patients who do NOT believe in the effectiveness of the drug proscribed by their physician, can reduce or even cancel out the power (force) of the pill or injection. They may distrust the doctor who offers the solution to their pain, or the hospital treating them. Maybe they hate drugs in general, or the treating nurse in particular, and their brain (scans) show exactly how they are doing it. But So What Today, there is absolute valid scientific evidence to prove that our feelings and past experience, can influence, persuade and convince our mind-body-connection to cause positive or negative results, just by the power of our brain to expect good or bad conclusions. We will work harder and longer to get what we want, if we expect the results to be what we choose. The Law of Expectation changes the odds in our favor to win because our brain motivates us to do whatever it takes to reach our goal. If Expectation works with powerful pain-killing drugs – then if we are PRIMED to win in problem-solving, selling, or creating original software, the mind-body-connection is also a powerful tool for success in school and your career. 1. Drugs Consider this: our brain can enhance (double) the effectiveness of drugs or make it appear the most powerful drugs with proven biological effect, fails to register any effect in our body. Our brain can override the reality of the analgesic effect, and show the drug is not working at all. According to the lead author, Irene Tracy of Oxford University, “The brain imaging is telling us that patients really are switching on-and-off parts of their brains – through the mechanism of Expectation.” When the patient has doubts about the doctor’s strategy and choice of treatment, for any reason at all, justified or not, their own brain rejects the pill, injection or bodily insertion as toxic. Viewing the brain scans, the researchers discovered that the brain’s pain networks responded in different degrees based on the patient’s (volunteer) amount of EXPECTATION of a successful treatment. What Is Important About this Scientific Break-Through? “We should control for the effect of people’s Expectations on the results of any clinical trial.” Drugs in any form may be unconsciously manipulated and rejected by patients (volunteers) through their feelings (emotions) and past experience with drugs, doctors or hospitals. Valuable, powerful drugs may be rejected, while lousy, ineffective medicines may indicate they are the latest Silver-Bullet (Penicillin) breakthrough. How? The Power of Expectation. Your Career How do we apply the principle of Expectation to students at school, and advancing your career by winning promotions and raises? Three areas of your brain are involved: 1. If you create mental imagery in your primary visual cortex of your expectation of promotions and raises, by making mental-movies, and repetitiously running them, they active your brain to motivate you strongly. 2. You emotionalize the desire and expectation of promotions and raises by excitation of your Limbic (emotions) system. The wilder and crazier you get about your positive expectations (repetition is Mandatory). Jumping-up-and-down or throwing your arms in the aim are nice. Applause works too. 2. 3. Affirmations are statements that remind your mind to be on the look-out for ways to succeed in obtaining promotions and raises. Putting you affirmation in the form of a question is very effective to trigger your brain. “Why is my winning Promotions and Raises in my career, so easy and effective? or Why am I enjoying my thriving career with new promotions and raises? Repeat either one of these affirmations prior to falling asleep – twenty-five (25) times. Do another 25x upon awakening while brushing your teeth, or while lying in bed. During these times of the day, we can access and convince our Non-Conscious mind, Right-Hemisphere, and Emotions to create positive strategies to win promotions and raises. Endwords We have about fifty copies of a great report on how-to-speed-read. It’s free, no strings attached, and we believe important to those who are interested in promotions and raises in your career. Why? It raises you career to a new height because you have a unique competitive advantage read and remember three (3x) times fast than your peers. Contact us at www.speedlearning.org Copyright 2011 by H. Bernard Wechsler 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Make Conscious Decisions 2011-02-23 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Make Big Decisions Consciously – Instead of on Auto-Pilot It is an insult to tell anyone living that they make their most important decisions non-consciously. Homo sapiens pride ourselves on behaviors using logic and reason, math and science, right? Neuroscientists until 2008 concluded our consciousness (reason, logic and thinking) was the basis for western civilization and its progress. Imagine an executive at Apple being told his conscious mind is almost an illusion, and all their success is the product of non-conscious (auto-pilot) decision-making. Ridiculous. In the journal Nature Neuroscience, April, 2008, distinguished scientists submitted hard evidence that almost all serious decision-making is a product of the unconscious mind (non-conscious mental activity). This seminal work was hard, tangible evidence, done at Charite University Hospital, using computational neuroscience. They are located in Berlin, Germany. Professor John Dylan Haynes, lead author was NOT taken seriously for years. Why? It was too horrible to believe that humans did their best and most important work without being conscious of WHO makes their major decisions. Will Power What happened to will-power, freedom of choice? Forget math and science, and 2,500 years of planning using logic and reasoning? Was all that experience an illusion and urban myth? The latest research using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) in 2011 has scientists successfully predicting our decisions 7-8 seconds prior to the decision becoming conscious to the person making it. In brain science that is a huge amount of time. How Come Conscious decision making is too damn slow for evolution. If we have to decide whether a stick-like item lying in front of us is good for a game of stickball or is in really a poisonous snake considering us for dessert, we need an instant decision. If we draw two columns of pros and cons to decide, it will be too late. Goodbye to our descendents, right? So You already know our brain is divided into two halves, a left (conscious) hemisphere, and a right (non-conscious, automatic) hemisphere. Specialization begins in our mind. Our conscious mind has a broadband capacity of just 16-40 bits of information per second, which is exceedingly small. We do not easily multitask because of our limited brain power. Yes, really. But what about Righty (Non-consciousness)? It has available broadband capacity of – get this: 11-millions bits of information per second. That is more like it, right? Non-consciousness can simultaneously control our blood pressure, heart rate, eye movement, respiration, and mobility et al. It makes decisions using historical experiences and long-term memory before Lefty recognizes the existence of a problem. 1. What For Nature's reason for dividing our brain into two-halves, left hemisphere with consciousness, and right hemisphere with non-consciousness – is to unburden our left brain with its slow consciousness from being OVERLOADED with simple routine tasks. How? Put in on auto-pilot. So What The fact that scientists can use fMRI scans to successful predict from brain signals decision-making, is considered astonishing. Why? Because western culture and science are still convinced the secret to human progress is will-power (free-will), logic and reasoning. Remember, science and math are left-brain skills dependent on consciousness. All technology is still considered a left-brain skill, not some mumbo-jumbo intuition. Only Einstein differed. “Imagination ia more important than knowledge. One fades into obscurity in five years, the other connects to the cosmos.” Ein said all his relativity theories came to him in imagination. How Micropatterns of activity in the Frontopolar cortex are predictive of the ultimate decision up to 7-8 seconds before the thinking person has (conscious) awareness they had decided. This means our non-consciousness prepares ahead of time, and controls decision-making. Exception Our will-power (free-will) consciousness has a VETO power over implementing the decision. Remember – left and right hemispheres work together, as does consciousness and non-con, as well as logic, and reasoning works with emotion and feeling (Limbic System). It is never either/or, but both functions acting together. But, Consciousness (left-brain) can still change its mind and decide not to implement the decision. Importance Beyond Vanity Homo sapiens are great learners, therefore they are easily programmed and conditioned by other people and experiences. Some call it brain-washing, others use this instinct to influence, persuade and convince voters, buyers and negotiate treaties. Advertising is based on the power of programming the minds of viewers, readers and listeners. How to Avoid Programming Programming and conditioning are not illusions or myths. Strengthening our decision-making is a basic strategy and easily learned. When we use the Ben Franklin Close to decide, we take control over our non-conscious mind. Draw two-columns, one with all the Pro reasons for deciding yes! Now list all the Con reasons for deciding No! 2. Add up the number of each column, and give weight to the more powerful reasons, and decide. You have taken logic and reason to another level. This permits input from both left and right hemispheres for balanced thinking. You maintain your veto power to resist the power of our non-conscious mind to go on auto-pilot. The power of programming is repetition and a desire not to be responsible for a decision. You and I are always responsible for all our decisions. The more research we do before deciding, permits us not to play follow-the-leader, even if the leader is our own brain and our past experience. Experience is Same-Old, Same-Old Times change, people change, and what worked in the past is not guaranteed to work today. U.S. unions contained almost 35% of factory employees up to the 1950's. Today they contain under 10%. The past is no guarantee of future success, right? Fact: what we believe as a culture about will-power and left-brain consciousness aint true, so let's do a reality check. Imagination and intuition create our ideas and technology, and science and math given them reality. It is a partnership, not a dictatorship. Fact: our conscious mind has the power to program and condition our non-consciousness or accept it as a full, working partner. Science requires a working partnership. See ya, Final word: speed reading is a right-brain skill, while snailing – how we all read – is a left-brain technology. You need both skills. Would it help your career to read and remember three (3) books, articles, and reports in the time you and all your peers can hardly finish one? We have just 36 speed reading reports to offer our readers. Free, no strings attached. Contact us at www.speedlearning.org to score a copy. It will change your life and career. Copyright 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler 3. How to Save Your Back From Computer Injuries 2011-02-12 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Save Your Back From Computer Injuries "Look chief, I am not coming in tomorrow because of an orthopedist visit. That is a bone doctor, as you know, and my back is destroying my mind." "Is it because of the hours behind the computer?" "For sure, maybe six-hours daily. Haven't had a good night's sleep in a month. If I don't go now, I'll be crippled for life. Is it okay with you?" "Absolutely, our HMO covers you for everything, plus you get paid. Maybe you can come back with information to help the rest of us computer nerds. Ask the doctor for some posture-diagrams and any back and neck exercises to avoid frozen back muscles." Boring If you can avoid pain, I mean ongoing serious pain in your neck, shoulders and back, by spending five b-o-r-i-n-g minutes reading this research - well you decide. Back You have three normal back-curves when sitting: 1. Cervical, the neck muscles, 2. Thoracic (upper spine). 3. Lumbar (lower spine). Just look around the office and see if you notice folks - a) slumping/slouching in front of their computer. b) Forced upright (L-angle or 90 degree angle) at their desktop. c) Poised and relaxed while word-processing. Good one. Who Cares The winner is called Neutral Spine. Your feet are flat on the floor, and your knees are at right-angles Get this: your body weight is even on both hips, and your buttocks touch the back of the chair. Sit with your knees bent at at right-angles. Rule of Computing You must stop every 20-30 minutes to shift your feet and posture - to avoid cramping. Dr. A.C. Mandall, M.D. (Copenhagen) says you must balance your sitting position on a forward sloping seat. Get a lumbar-roll behind your back, it can save your life. It is not the chair (seat) that counts, but your posture in the chair. Leaning Back in The Chair A healthy - Neutral Spine has a 45 degree angle with the back of the chair. Frankly I have no idea what Dr, Mandall means about a 135 degree back-thigh sitting position. Just get, and stay relaxed and comfortable. Latin The word Posture is Latin for: to put or place. Your job is to have your ears, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles - in alignment (straight-line). Too much to remember? Ask people with spinal pain what they would give to lose it. The goal is to avoid stress to your joints-muscles-vertebrae and tissue. I am selfish and want you to avoid adding to your medical bills and losing days from work at the computer. How Many Hours Do You Spend at The Computer I know you are not average, but most adults who work for a living in an office spent a minimum of four-hours - to a maximum of six-hours at the computer in 2010. Consider that spending that much time with the wrong posture in your office chair can half-kill you. Negativity If you remember to repeat this short Affirmation after saying something negative silently or out-loud to yourself, you are telling your mind (non-conscious, right-hemisphere and emotions) - to skip and ignore it. It is like saying I'm sorry to your mind. "Cancel-Clear-Delete" Repeat it three-times (3x) quickly - and move on. Remember, we repeat Automatic Negative Thoughts throughout the day and half the night. Once more - say the secret words and win-a-duck: CANCEL-CLEAR-DELETE. Sounds like New-Age crapola or voodoo, but we hear negativity from our internal voice (stream of consciousness) a minimum of thirty-percent of our waking-hours. Google: Automatic Negative Thoughts and discover the neuroscience behind contradicting negativity. Just do it - it protects your Mind-Body-Connection for health and longevity. Double Boring How important is worrying about your spine while using your computer? No exaggeration, just the facts Sir or Madam. How important is your breathing? 1. Negative sitting posture at your computer turns you into a shallow-breather. Continue for 4-6 hours daily for a year, and your diaphragm stops working the way it was programmed. 2. Bad Posture: Your left and right hemispheres stop communicating with each other. There is a switchboard in your brain called Corpus Callosum to allow cooperation between your left and right brains. No harmony, no learning nor long-term memory. 3. Tightens your voice-box (larynx) and you get squeaky. Yes, really. 4. Blocks spinal nerve force. Don't ask me - but it is deadly. 5. Your heart: inhibits blood flow from and to your Cadillac (cardiac) muscle. 6. Stresses your lower back permanently in one-year. 7. Places pressure on your kidneys. Ask if they visit - you know where, often. 8. Google: damage to cerebrospinal fluid. It is serious stuff. 9. Originates osteoporosis. Scary. 10. You habitually bend forward. Weird looking. Do you want to reconsider straightening your sitting posture? --- Endwords: We have 14 remaining free, no strings attached reports, on how to discover the secret strategies of speed reading. Consider it important. It produces a unique competitive advantage in your career. Contact us and request one. www.speedlearning.org copyright (c) 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Use Influence Principles For Personal Success 2011-02-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Use Influence Principles For Personal Success And Win Big She was a ten-year old girl scout selling their annual stale cookies. Cut to the chase - she looked up at me and said, "Would you please make a $300 donation to the Girl Scouts of America?" If she were an adult salesperson I would have pointed at the door with a mean look on my face. Instead I looked down at her and said in my kindest voice, "Not a chance in the world, kid. In fact I am not that crazy about your organization." She looked sad, and I swear a tear ran from her left eye. "But your neighbor Mr. Miller said you loved this community and wanted to help the children grow up with good values." She got a reprieve for that one, but she still was not getting no $300 out of my wallet. "Then go to Mr. Miller and ask him for the money." "He would donate, but he was just laid off from his company," she said sadly. "Your other neighbor Mrs. Woods said she would think about it because her daughter was a scout, would you reconsider making the $300 donation?" Before I answered, she threw in - "I live down the next block and my father is donating one-thousand dollars to the GSA." I stopped myself from losing my temper, she was a little girl in uniform and just doing her job. "No, absolutely no, so move on down the road and find someone with a name like Rockefeller." She did not blink an eye and said, "Sir, I will not mention the $300 donation again. But would you just purchase three boxes of our great chocolate chip cookies for $5 per box?" Ask Big And Have a Fall Back Position I could not pull the $15 from my wallet fast enough. She whipped out the three cookie boxes from her backpack, and made a perfect grab of the bucks from my hand before I changed my mind. She left with my money for three boxes of stale Girl Scout cookies, which I never would have bought at the local supermarket. I swore I saw a smile on her little puss as she closed the door behind her. Maybe not. I hate to get beat, but she pulled it off in a very professional way. Commitment And Consistency Human beings have instincts or at least principles that will not be denied. One of them is that we must maintain our self-image at all costs. Asiatics call it loss of face. One of the most powerful laws in our brain is called Commitment and Consistency. If we give out word verbally or in writing, we must honor it, unless we get run down by a Mack Truck. What do you think of folks who violate their commitment? We call them stuff like welshers , bums, and unreliable, right? Do you want to have your neighbors think you are untrustworthy? Most folks would crawl down a street of broken glass rather than have a reputation for a turn-coat, a deadbeat, and being inconsistent. Believe it. Google: psychologists Freedman and Fraser. Their research indicates that once someone goes on the record verbally or in writing (past performance), they must do what it takes to appear consistent with their previous behaviors. Using Commitment And Consistency Amway, a great marketing company, and very slick about motivating their representatives, gets their people to set down goals in writing. They work with a supervisor and write up their annual expected sales, get it typed and sign their name to it. It is a contract between the rep and Amway, but it is also a mental contract with their self-image on the line. Theses folks will work 24/7 to honor their commitment because they gave their written word to others. Secret Get your team to make an oral or written commitment to specific goals. Why? One person will give up if the going gets too tough, but a group has its own dynamic and will continue working after rational minds would surrender their effort as impossible. What is really on the line that makes Commitment and Consistency so powerful a tool that executives refuse to quit? You gave your word as a rational adult. You will be embarrassed in the eyes of your peers if you fail to fulfill your agreement. It is more than an ego thing, it is a public record for all to see your blunder. History The King of Influence is a professor at Arizona State University, who wrote the definitive books called "Influence" See Amazon. It sold 3-million copies for Robert Cialdini. He spend three years interviewing salespeople, executives and scientists on the principles of Human Nature. Research since his book has confirmed the six principles he discovered. The first law you already know - the principle of Commitment and Consistency. 2. Law of Reciprocity - we feel guilty and have a sense of obligation when someone does something for us - even if we never asked for it. And it must be repaid. Invited to a party, you must make pay-back. 3. Law of Social Proof - we play follow the leader. If enough people eat at a restaurant, drive the brand of car you are considering buying, vacationing at a particular resort, that is where we want to go. Most of us look at the parking- lot of a new restaurant to see if it is crowded. Makes sense to me. 4. Law of Authority - we are trained from childhood to respect the boss. Your Mama taught you to respect the policeman, teacher, and priest. Anyone with initials after their name (MD, Esq, Phd.) are experts and we have a built-in desire to accept their opinion as fact. 5. Law of Liking - Homo sapiens are comfortable doing business with people who are like themselves. We like folks who are attractive, dress, speak and look well. We consider them smarter, talented, honest, and better than people we do not have a liking for. Even a particular accent charms us, and we will choose to hire or do business with them non-consciously because of their unique speech patterns. 6. Law of Scarcity - the harder it is to get something, the more value it has for us. Get this one: fear of loss is greater than desire for gain. Advertisers will offer a sale for one-week and the joint is jammed. We love a bargain, and do not want to miss out. If a product or service is scarce, and we have a desire for it, we want it twice as much and will pay a premium to own it. Use it yourself. See ya, --- Endwords We have just 15 special reports on Speed Reading left. Ask us for a free, no strings attached report. Just contact our educational director and request it. Copyright (c) 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ welshers How to Stamp Out Personal Fear And Anxiety in Ten-Minutes 2011-01-19 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Stamp Out Personal Fear And Anxiety in Ten-Minutes Do you ever read articles or listen to experts who sound so slick you discount their knowledge as just old common-sense? What we are too nice to say is their great solution to your problem is too good to be true. When the answer is too-easy, something a ten-year old could come up with, we say, No thanks, I will do it myself. U of Chi The University of Chicago is a great school, it was started by John D. Rockefeller in 1890 to make folks love him and do good works. It was a religious thing, pushed into reality by the American Baptist Educational Society with the Rockefeller oil dinero. Marshall Field the department store czar, donated the land for the campus. The goal was to be different, more European than American schools. How? The departments crossed educational boundaries. I am getting there – their first President was William R. Harper, who demanded professors take the less traveled road and produce scholars, not job seekers. The money behind them delighted in controversy – imagine that. Today Professor Sian L. Beilock of the University of Chicago just wrote a book on Choking (up) by folks facing adversity playing golf or making financial decisions. She came up with simple, but effective solutions for not choking up in the middle of life’s challenges. Stupid – but they work. Simultaneously she wrote an article on how to avoid anxiety and stress in taking exams. Again, simple strategies that just plain work. Get this – her scientific solution enable students to improve their test performance one-full-grade. Example: B- to B+. Solutions 1. Write out (keyboard is nice too) your worries and fears for ten-minutes before testing, making a presentation or doing a job interview. Five-minutes does not work, and glittering generalities fail – you need to express your deepest emotional fears and anxiety in print. It shifts your brain from Left Hemisphere (brain) to Right-brain functioning. Use words that produce mental imagery (movies) and really get into it. You move forward a winner. It never fails, works like a charm. 2. Instead of concentrating on your worries, anxiety and stress - Sing. That is exactly what Dr. Beilock discovered in her experiments. If you sing, you brain cannot worry about failing the exam or blowing the presentation or interview. It causes your brain to shift hemispheric dominance. Your move your thinking from left-brain dominant to accessing your powerful right-brain. Righty specializes in pictures, emotions and holistic thinking. You are empowered and win all the --- 3. Instead of being a perfectionist, and attempting to control all the factors in your environment, literally Stop! - let go of control over all the circumstances. Avoid Paralysis Analysis by letting go of trying to control each and everything going on. Let your right brain take over accessing your Procedural Memory. It owns all the rules and instructions for implementation at a non-conscious level. Stop putting your nose into the pot and just perform. How? Humming and smiling simultaneously. Three smiling facial muscles kick in: a) Risorius – angle of mouth is drawn outward. b) Zygomatic Major – raises the corner of the mouth. c) Orbicularis Oculi – closes the eyelids and forms Crows feet on the sides of your eyes. Can you remember Risorius is called the Laughing or Smiling muscle? I knew you could. Hint: Lady Risorius is just Glorious. In psychology there is a concept called Cognitive Dissonance. It says our brain gets agitated when we have conflict between two sets of feelings or ideas. The brain freezes up in the face of conflict. If you put a dopey smile on your face or force yourself to imitate laughing, your anxiety, fear and stress are locked out of your brain as foreign invaders. You win, and move forward to fulfill your objectives. Who Needs Speed Reading Graduates of speed reading remain healthier and maybe even live longer than the slow-pokes (snailing). You accomplish one thing for a certainty, you avoid regressions. What are Regressions? The typical college graduate, including professionals, lose their place on the page they are reading - a minimum of five (5) times. Wait – five-time PER page. It slows you down to a crawl. Your brain is disrupted and you lose your attention-span and focus. S-L-O-W. What is Subvocalization? If you are a Homo sapiens, when you read you hear each word in your mind (through your larynx – voice box). It is as if you have a sportscaster reading to you. Slows you down to a snail. What is Porous concentration? You read the whole page and do not have even a vague idea of what the writer meant. If you have porous concentration, did you really read the text or are you merely faking it? See ya, If you interested, we have a free, no strings attached article to explain speed reading. Just 13 copies left. Contact us. copyright 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Dissolve, Destroy and Chew-Up Anxiety and Stress 2011-01-18 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Dissolve, Destroy And Chew-Up Anxiety & Stress My grandma told me something at our Thanksgiving Day feast that I will never forget. For those who don’t know me, I am a skeptic, doubter and contrarian, and those are my positive character traits. Would you believe a close relative (middle 80s) who suddenly announced she was a healer with special knowledge? She said I should know I have two angels – not baseball players – but the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel as my personal guides and guardians. They accompanied me 24/7 on either side as my protectors, (psychic helpers and cosmic friends). Bodyguards. Thomas My favorite personality in the New Testament is Doubting Thomas, also known as Didymus, Greek for twin. He is the one who when told Jesus was resurrected, said in effect – Who says so? If I cannot put my hand in his side and feel the hole. I do not believe it. When J.C. came back to visit Thomas – the operative words were Have faith and believe. After doing his own test of authenticity, only then did Thomas believe. Believe, but verify, said President Reagan. Meditate On this Grandma pulled out this sheet of paper and shoved at me to read. I decided to humor her and go along with gag. Here it is: Every day in every way, you are getting Better-and-Better. It is through God’s help, through his agents-servants, the Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel. The Archangels work together with your doctors and their assistants, and your own participation, to heal and repair your Mind-Body Connection. It is occurring 24/7, on a daily basis ad infinitum. I stopped and looked up and wanted to giggle, but bit my lip. She had a look in her eye that said, Continue reading or you will be cut out of my estate (a large one). I complied. More Thank you Leukocytes, Phagocytes, Lymphocytes, Macrophages, Microphages, T and B cells, Natural Killer cells, and Cytokines, emanating from my Immune system. Thank you for dissolving, destroying, and chewing-up all Cancerous-Tumorous-and Toxic cells, 24/7, and on a daily basis ad infinitum. And it is so. Still More Further, thank you Leukocytes, Phagocytes, and Lymphocytes et al. for Expelling all living, dying and dead Cancerous, Tumorous, and Toxic cells with each evacuation of your urine and/or feces. This creates a Benign (B-9) Mind-Body Connection, and a perfect healing and repair of your left kidney and prostate-gland. It is occurring 24/7, ad infinitum. And it is so. Endwords The ravings of an old lady? She never heard any of that stuff from me. Where she got it from is irrelevant. I was not giggling any longer. I made up my mind that I was calling my doctor for an immediate appointment. Grandma said to read aloud her Incantation (chant) three-times daily, with feeling if I wanted a healing. I asked her where she came up with that material. Her answer: none of your business, but she did leave me with three thoughts. a) Use it or lose it (the knowledge) b) What we resist persists. c) Analysis-Paralysis (action, not words). Doodling Do you doodle on a slip of paper at meetings or while on the phone? Most people consider doodling a loss of attention, and a form of day-dreaming and mind-wandering. Bosses at boring meetings and lectures rant and rave that doodling is insulting. Recent research on Doodling at the University of Plymouth (England) by lead author professor Jackie Andrade appears in the journal - Applied Cognitive Psychology, March 2009. Other researchers often cite it. If you are attending a boring meeting and feel your eyelids slowly fading from your control, grab a pen and start doodling. The results have been replicated internationally. Doodling increases memory on average just under 30% compared to those who make-believe they are giving their full attention, but are really dozing with their eyes open. How come? Doodling requires a large amount of brain processing power. The effort to sketch and scratch requires you to focus your attention between your doodles and listening to contents of the lecture. There is a conflict doing on in your brain between paying strict attention to the boring material and Daydreaming. Doodling spars with daydreaming and wins because your right-brain is concentrating on sketching the picture, and not snoozing. Exercise Your Brain If you want to improve the function of your brain as you age, exercise your right-hemisphere (brain) by using your non-dominant hand every chance you get. If you are a righty and 90% of us are, purposely brush your teeth with your left hand. If you fork your food with your right-hand, intentionally switch to using your left-hand for one day a week. You are exercising your right-brain and improving integration of both halves of your brain. It excites your corpus callosum – the seat of communication between your left and right-brains. Avoid Alzheimer. Anxiety And Stress Discharge If you are going for a critical job interview, or giving a presentation to the Board of Directors, or a kid in school taking the SAT, you are stressed out from prepping and anxiety, right? We like baby-easy strategies to overcome the challenges of life. Sooner or later we are scared of embarrassing our self at an important event. Secret: ten-minutes of relaxed conversation ignoring test-talk-interview advice, and your presentation. Your stress hormones fade. It Works - How come? Your brain switches from your Sympathetic to your Parasympathetic Nervous System. Goodbye Fight-or-Flight. Your adrenaline stops pumping and you relax. Research tracked 3,510 folks, ages 24 to 96. Google: University of Michigan, professor Oscar Ybarro, 2008. See ya, (ask me for our free speed reading report, we have 15 left). copyright © 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Fool Yourself Into Health 2011-01-13 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Fool Yourself Into Health If you were told by your doctor that he was giving you Sugar Pills for your (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome, would you expect any improvement in your condition? Would you take them twice a day as he/she prescribed? Wait – printed in large letters on the pill bottle was – Placebo. In New York – folks would say, GetOUTTAhere. Placebo Effect Scientists know the power of placebos (Latin for - I will please you), for patients, and are embarrassed by it. The U.S. Food And Drug Administration knows that about 30% of folks tested with sham or simulated medicines show a very positive result. Drug companies must show their new product - tests better than the results offered by Placebos to get federal approved for public consumption. Doctors and scientists always attribute the great (30-50%) results of placebos to the power of positive thinking. They means you are fooled into believing you are taking the real thing (drugs). It is all just a mind trick. Harvard And Placebo Theory Dr. Ted Kaptchuk professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School working with Beth Israel Medical Center tested the concept of Placebo, but without the deception. They worked with 80 patients suffering with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Half were the control group and given no pills at all, the other 50% got the bottles of Sugar Pills, and told to take them twice a day. The thing is the patients were directly and un- conditionally told the pills were inert, with no active ingredients. In case they missed it, the pill bottles were labeled – Placebos. One last thing, the doctor told each patient that they did not have to believe in the placebo effect, just take the pills. 1 What Happened 59% of the 40 placebo-taking patients, compared to the control group that took no drugs, reported active symptom relief. One more bit of craziness, the placebo-takers doubled their rate of improvement, compared to the most powerful IBS drug. Google: December 22, 2011, in the journal PLoS ONE. “These finding suggest that rather than mere positive thinking, there may be significant benefit to the performance of medical ritual. Placebos may work even if patients know it is a Placebo,” said Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard. Better Explanation Homo Sapiens believe in authority. The uniform of the police, the white jacket of scientists are their gear of power and knowledge. This belief occurs at a nonconscious level and conscious awareness has nothing to do with it. When a physician gives you a bottle of pills, and tells you to take them twice daily, you believe in the efficacy of the treatment, in spite of her/his disclaimer the pills are Sugar-Like, inert, and have no active ingredients. Your conscious mind, (left prefrontal cortex) hears the disclaimers logically and reasonably, but it bows to the will of your right hemisphere (nonconsciousness). Symbols like a stoplight, initials after your name by professionals, and the power of celebrity, override logic and reason. Remember the authority figure defines who can control, command or determine. He/she is anointed by our culture as an expert, specialist and wizard. Mere mortals cannot overcome this power by our simple logic and reason. The power of authority is far more than the power of positive thinking. Thinking is left-brained, linear, organized, and based on reasoning. The right-brain (hemisphere) controls our limbic system (emotions and feelings), holistic beliefs and pattern recognition. It makes the important power decisions in life. Sure, both halves of our cerebral cortex work together, but who is in charge? The right brain is in charge of our life motivations; it gets the point of metaphors, and runs everything past our powerful emotions before implementation. Mark Twain “The power, which a man’s imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick - is a force which none of us is born without. The first man had it, and the last one will possess it.” 1903. Boustrophedon The ancient Phoenicians, Romans, and Greeks wrote and read using Boustrophedon. It is in the dictionary, meaning as the Ox plows. Huh? The animal goes up one row, turns around, and comes down the other. Wait – left to right, and then right to left. When you and I READ we do not use boustrophedon. We read left to right, come to the last word on the right, GO BLIND, and see nothing until we return to the first word of the next sentence on the left side. We stop reading when we get the last word of the sentence, and do not start reading again until we reach home base, the left side. 2 Speed Reading Your brain can read left to right as you and I do, but it can easily read from right to left. No? How about the 1.5 billion Moslems and 7.5 million Israelis? Our brain converts meaning from either top-down (Asia), left to right, or a right to left system. So What By reading using boustrophedon, you will increase your learning speed up to 40%. There is additional improvement in attention span and long-term memory. We have trained executives and students in this system and it is as easy as pie to learn, and produces instant results. See ya, --- Would you have a competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Ask us for our free, no strings attached, important report on the power of speed reading. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org copyright © 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 How to Think Quickly And Why It makes You Happier 2011-01-10 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Think Quickly And Why It Makes You Happier If you know this – you are one-in-two-million. What? If you are feeling depressed (discouraged, disheartened or distressed), you own a tool that works 100% of the time to extinguish the four Ds within 10-seconds. If you pay attention and practice, you may dissolve your distress permanently. Answer If you can put a fake smile on your puss and keep it there for up to ten-seconds, you cannot continue to feel Depressed (discouraged, disheartened or distressed). Do not run to a neuroscientist to prove it – do your own Mind-Experiment. What is a fake (phony) smile? A Duchenne (French neurologist, 1856 – Guillaume Duchenne) Smile is the opposite of a phony smile called a PAN-AM. The Duchenne activates your mouth plus your EYES – while a PANAM (Pan-American World Airlines) smile just shows a lot of teeth. You cannot activate a Duchenne (genuine) smile, or a Pan-Am Airline hostess fake (phony) smile, and remain feeling lousy and negative. Did you know two-wrongs cannot make a Wright, but two-Wrights can make an airplane? Smile. The next time you feel distressed at work or home, test your internal tool and intentionally Smile. Make the personal discovery that mental and physiological conflict - cancels, clears and deletes your negativity. You will pump up your self-esteem and feel better almost instantly. Use it with kids and adults. Google: Cognitive-Dissonance for the psychology of Fake Smiling. Three Smiling Muscles How do you remember names or ideas? Most people do not remember well, but if they do it is by conscious repetition. Too hard and boring. Get this – your brain and hippocampus (memory site) thinks in IMAGES – pictures and symbols, not repetition. If you want to double (absolutely double) your long-term memory – you must use your imagination and create a mental picture to connect what you want to remember to something you already have loaded in your long-term memory. Can you remember the three (3) smiling muscles in your face? Why? Every time you exercise your imagination and memory, you improve your Cognitive Reserve. So what? It reduces your odds up to 50%, of getting Alzheimer or other forms of dementia. AND you improve your longevity potential up to ten-years. Smiley Muscles – Z-O-R Remember the name of ZORRO, the TV series, movies, and eight books super-hero. 1. Z is for Zygomatic (major) the muscle that raises the corners of your mouth to smile. Make a mental picture of Zygo – a tiny zebra with white stripes on a black body. Add your watch battery because it runs automatically. Mentally picture the Zygo wearing an automatic watch – Zygomatic. Do it now or you lose it forever. 2. O is for your Orbicularis Oculi muscle which raises your cheeks and forms Crow’s Feet around your eyes. Now imagine the planet Earth ORBITING and see a CUTE LORIS (like a monkey) with her popping Eyes (oculi). Do it, it is good for your brain. Orbi-cu-laris Oculi. Intend to remember it and you will. 3. R is for your Risorius muscle. It stretches your mouth in a lateral direction. Create a simple mental picture of your favorite person laughing hysterically. RIS is from Latin meaning to laugh. Now add to your 3-pound coconut the thought – it is GLORIUS to laugh. You got it – RIS+Glorius = Risorius. Now that is easy to remember. Intend to remember it and you will. Thinking Quickly If you are feeling depressed and refuse to smile through it, try this sure thing. Yes, it is researched and recommended by neuroscientists. Think quicker, speak faster, and speed read and you leave depression in the dust. Want to feel more energetic, self-assured, happier, and more creative at work or school? The scientific secret is FAST THINKING. Who says so, anyway? Emily Pronin, professor at Princeton and Daniel Wegner at Harvard. It appeared in the September issue of Psychological Science, 2006 and is cited as fact by other researchers. Pacing The Reading of Statements Half the participants read the statements twice (2x) faster than normal. The other half read the material twice (2x) as SLOW as normal. The goal was to check out their mood, energy level and self-esteem reading faster and slower than normal. Result: regardless of the contents of the written material (positive or negative), people felt HAPPIER, more creative, and more powerful, when they read the contents FASTER. The speed of cognitive processing (thought) is just as important as the contents of what they read in determining MOOD. Wait – even thinking sad (negative) thoughts faster (speed thinking) produce happiness. The simple manipulation of speed thinking vs. slow comprehension is a basis for changing your own and other folks’ mood, feelings of power and level of energy. Did you know that depression is characterized by S-L-O-W thinking, lack of energy, and a negative mood (mind set)? Endwords Accelerate your thinking, speaking and reading speed, and you affect your mood and energy level. Speed reading is not just practical, it improves the function of your brain patterns. There is a hidden secret: you must practice often enough to reprogram and condition your nonconscious mind using your conscious volition. Why? Reading, speaking and even thinking are dominated by our nonconscious mind. Our conscious mind – prefrontal cortex, parietal-frontal lobes, and medial temporal lobes – have power, influence and persuasion over our nonconscious agenda. Our nervous, immune and limbic (emotions) systems, brain stem and cerebellum, (nonconscious mind) operate in cooperation and harmony with our conscious mind. Get this: our consciousness has a capacity of just 50 bits of information per second (cycles), while our nonconscious mind has a bandwidth of 11 million Hertz (cycles per second). They work together, but nonconscious mind does the heavy lifting. Brainwaves include Beta (arousal), Alpha, Theta and Delta (sleep). The last three are areas of non-arousal. Consciousness is not all-dominant, it must persuade and convince nonconsciousness to follow its dictates. Remember, 50 bits per second, vs. 11 million. Who has the power? See ya, Question: would having the skill to read and remember three (3) articles, reports and professional books be a competitive advantage in your career? Contact us for a free; no strings attached copy of our speed reading report – only if you desire promotions and success. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mem-Hey-Shin For Healing 2011-01-05 By H. Bernard Wechsler MEM-HEY-SHIN (Mem = Wisdom Source) (Hey = Dynamic: Run/come-back) (Shin: the Eternal Fire) The power of this Name brings the energy of healing at the deepest and most profound level of my being. As healing light fills me, I focus on the Wexlers, Senecis, all-those-whose-lives we have touched, do touch and will touch, including Alvin M. Natkin. We send them the healing light of the Universe and the Creator – filling us with Healing-Love-And-Protection (Shield). And it is so through Pure Spirit, Accelerated Healing- And- The-Life-Force, 24/7, and on a daily basis ad infinitum. Incantation 2 2011-01-04 By H. Bernard Wechsler Incantation 2 (chant) Every day in every way with God’s Help, through His/Her Agents-servants the ArchAngel Michael and the ArchAngel Gabriel, together with doctors and assistants, and my participating, my Mind-Body Connection is HEALING and getting - Better-And-Better. It is occurring 24/7, ad infinitum. And it is so. Thank you Leukocytes, Phagocytes, Lymphocytes, Macro and Microphages, T & B cells, and Natural Killer cells of my Immune System for dissolving, destroying, chewing-up all cancerous, tumorous, and toxic cells 24/7 ad infinitum – and it is so.. Further, thank you Leukocytes-Phagocytes-Lymphocytes et al. - for EXPELLING all dying, dead and living cancerous, tumorous & toxic cells with each urine flow and feces, creating a benign (B-9) Mind-Body Connection – producing a perfect healing and repair, 24/7, ad infinitum. And it is so. Dated: ------- --- 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Incantation Part 1 2011-01-04 By H. Bernard Wechsler My Incantation (Affirmation) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #1. I-KNOW - I-AM experiencing a MIRACLE of Life-And-Health through MY Benign (B-9) Mind-Body-Connection. And Feeling Better-And-Better, on this - - of --------------, 2,01 1 24/7, and on a daily basis Ad Infinitum, with the help of Your agents/servants – the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel and my “Higher-Guidance”. #2. I-Am Happy-Healthy-Safe-Secure-Well And Whole, 24/7, Ad Infinitum. It is through Pure Spirit, Accelerated-Healing and the Life Force, the Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel as my Guide and Guardian, Psychic-Helpers and Cosmic Friends - with the help of myHigher-Guidance. #3. a) Release: “I Know and Release ALL Karmic, Past and Present problems with my …” b) Affirmation: “I Know – I Am Going to Survive and Thrive.” c) Principle: “I Know My Higher-Guidance is Helping Me Survive and Thrive.” #4. I Know My Nonconsciousness And Consciousness are working together in Harmony and Cooperation for the good of the whole. Thank You - a) Nervous System b) Immune System c) Limbic System d) Brain Stem e) Basal Ganglia (substantia nigra) (nucleus accumbens) f) Cerebellum g) Hypothalamus & Thalamus h) Insula et al. i) Parietal-frontal lobes j) PFC Prefrontal Cortex k) Cerebral Cortex et al. l) Medial Temporal Lobes m) Central Thalamus et al. #5. Requests For Healing, Repair, Wellness And Wholeness. 1. Thank You for EYES that act with Youthful-Vigorous and strong Life-Force. Thank you for all past, present and future required healings and repairs 24/7, Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 2. Thank You, for creating and maintaining my Blood Pressure within a 10% range of 130/80, 24/7, (without pills) Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 3. Thank You Immune System: Leukocytes-phagocytes-lymphocytes, macro and microphages, T and B cells and Natural Killer Immune Cells et al. - for dissolving, destroying and chewing-up all blood clots from the Past-Present-And Future, and EXPELLING them in urinating and defecating – 24/7 Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 4. Thank You for eliminating (dissolving, destroying and chewing-up) all cancerous, tumorous, and toxic cells appearing on the surface or within structures, tissues, systems, organs and cells of MY body – without-exemption – 24/7, by our Leukocytes, Phagocytes & Lymphocytes et al. - Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 5. Thank You, Leukocytes-Phagocytes-Lymphocytes - for dissolving, destroying and chewing-up all abnormalities, including cancerous, tumorous or toxic cells from my skin. Both on the surface and within my skin, and both, particularly on the right side, 24/7, Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 6. Thank You, for Healing my Prostate system, Kidneys et al. Healing and Repairing all glands, adjacent structures, systems, tissues, organs and cells. Registering a range of: 0 – 0.03 Prostate Specific Antigen, 24/7, Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 7. Thank You, for restoring all gross and fine senses to youthfulness, vigor and strong life force – through a Benign Body And Mind Connection – 24/7, Ad Infinitum. And it is so. 8. Thank You, for uniting Consciousness and Nonconsciousness, Left and Right Hemispheres, and Rational and Emotional sides of my Mind-Body Connection, 24/7, Ad Infinitum. Further, I appreciate acting with usefulness and benefits for the good of Our Whole by healthy dieting & exercise, and being useful to all those whose lives I touch. And it is so. #6. Healing and Repair of all Organs, Systems, Structures, Tissues and Cells. Thank You, for Electrochemical Signaling using (a-d) to communicate with Nonconsiousness, Right Hemisphere, and Emotional System through The Archangel Michael and The Archangel Gabriel and Higher- Guidance helping with my Healing And Repair. a) Ideo-Motor-Effect (Rosetta Stone) b) Buzzing of the Bees (Philip Emile Coue) c) Remembrance of past successes (self-confidence and support). d) Chanting Ribono Shel Olam (Master-of-the-Universe) I-Am-Experiencing a Miracle of life-and-health. #7. Key Phrases a) “Anticipating Future Pleasurable Experiences.” Goal b) “I Know I Am Going To Survive and Thrive.” Affirmation c) “I Know And Release All Karmic, Past And Present Problems…” First-Principle. d) “I-Know Higher-Guidance Helps Me With Necessary Healing And Repairs.” Second-Principle. e) “BPH – Benign-Prostatic-Hypertrophy / Hyperphasia (enlarged and healthy) (pron: pro-stat-tik). Enlarged, but healthy Prostate System. f) “I am experiencing a MIRACLE of Life and Health, and my Healing is getting Better and Better – 24/7, ad infinitum, And it is so. How to Learn Something Important You Never Knew 2011-01-03 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Learn Something Important You Never Knew What is more important to your personal success, knowing HOW to do what it takes to succeed, or WHY you want to succeed? Is it the skill-set or your motivation? Are we talking about opinions or scientific research? Does This Help The LEFT frontal region of your brain is directly involved in experiencing POSITIVE emotions like laughter and happiness, while the RIGHT frontal region of your brain causes you to experience NEGATIVE emotions like fear and blame. Don’t say, So What - yet. Motivation Direction The LEFT frontal region of your brain allows you to experience emotions related to CLOSENESS to other folks. Your RIGHT frontal region is linked to emotions that cause WITHDRAWAL from folks. Happiness and joy are linked to the motivation of closeness, while fear and blame are associated with the motivation of withdrawal. There is an exception to these rules – anger. Anger The emotion of anger is experienced as negative, but it searches for CLOSENESS, not distancing. Anger causes a greater activation of your LEFT (logic and language) hemisphere. Maybe Anger saw Godfather I – Always keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Symptoms of Anger During anger our heart races, arterial tension rises, along with a testosterone increase. Get this – cortisol the stress hormone – decreases. Your left hemisphere (brain) gets over-simulated in anger. Inducing emotions create powerful modifications in our autonomic nervous system. Anger excites our brain activity, especially in our frontal and temporal lobes. Your entire 3-pound coconut goes wild in anger. It activates your Sympathetic nervous system, and in particular the Flight-or-Fight syndrome causing adrenaline (epinephrine) to flow. 1 Remember This Your motivation WHY you want to lose 10 pounds is the key to weight loss success. Tell yourself enough WHYs, and you will stick to any weird diet. If you are going to your twentieth class reunion, and you want to dazzle those who mocked you back then – excellent and very sticky motivation. If you are job interviewing and want to impress the Human Resources department, or if you are going to your sisters wedding or preparing for a trip to Australia – you are highly motivated to stick to less eating and drinking, and doing more exercise. The time spent in a class to learn a specific system of how-to lose ten pounds of ugly fat - is less effective than WHY (motivation) because it does not engage your right-hemisphere (brain) and your emotions (limbic system). School And Your Career Does a powerful motivation to learn, take precedence over a list of how-to rules in school? How about motivation vs. how-to in your career? Motivation wins hands-down, according to Professor Julia Bayuk, University of Delaware, 12.04.2010. Google: Journal of Consumer Research: Ask Why, not How. Focus on WHY you want to reach your goals, not how to do it step-by-step plan of attack. Planning may often close your mind to other ideas to succeed. We miss out on other opportunities if we are locked into only one exclusive way. Often there are numerous routes to your objective; how important the goal is to you - is the essential element. Motivation excites both your left and right hemispheres to work in harmony and cooperation. In your career - motivation is paramount. Promotions often come to those who want it the most, and are willing to do almost anything to make it happen. Abstract or Concrete Mindsets Abstract mindsets focus on WHY they MUST achieve the goal, while Concrete mindsets think they have all the brains and ignore motivation. The Concrete makers worry exclusively about How-To make their goals a reality. Concrete thinkers who planned every detail - fared the worse. Google: the journal Hormones And Behavior, 2010, 57 (3) 276, lead author Neus Herrero, University of Valencia. Anger. Six BAD Habits Read these six lousy habits and see where they apply in your life and career. 1. You are trying to influence, persuade and convince folks, but you are ashamed of what you are doing, you feel embarrassed and uncomfortable in asking others to do things. Get out of selling. 2. You aim your arguments and reasoning of Why to do it – based on selling to yourself. You aint the customer – what benefits are they looking for? 3. You believe in your feelings and emotions (intuition) and ignore the facts. This makes you use too many glittering generalities. Our Knowledge Economy believes in specific details. 4. Decisions are best based on knowledge, not FEAR of what may happen in the future. The fear emotion screws up your ability to analyze, and produces weak decisions. 5. Tired of the OLD, and desire for Change. The public take years to get comfortable with slogans and advertising. Change often occurs because the insiders are tired and bored with the promotion – not plain folks. Leave well enough alone, mostly. 6. Fear of Change: nothing lasts forever because your market changes their needs and desires. Do you love the same stuff as your father and mother? Mostly we see their hot-stuff as old-fashioned and out-of-style. Review and consider change annually. See ya, Copyright © 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler Do you have a need to read and learn three-times faster than your competitors? Contact us for our special free; no strings attached speed reading report. hbw@speedlearning.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Control Your Body by Alternate Nostril Breathing 2010-12-31 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Control Your Body By Alternate Nostril Breathing You are a practical person; guess how long it takes executives to become frustrated and annoyed attempting to solve a problem, before they just quit? Wait – same question for a high school student? Answer: two-minutes flat for both people. After two-minutes - the executive and the student throw their hands up and start cursing the one who asked them to solve the problem – in the first place. What if it takes three-minutes to solve and they gave up too soon? Loser. How come? It is human nature to look for shortcuts and ways to escape anything too complicated. Power breathing Did you know that humans do NOT breathe through both nostrils simultaneously? Bear with me – I would not waste your time because your life and health are deeply involved with balance breathing. You have a DOMINENT nostril for breathing 24/7.They alternate every 2-3 hours from left to right, and there is a significant difference between left-nostril and right- nostril breathing. Would you consider spending five-minutes daily doing this Yogi breathing exercise, for improved health and maybe more longevity? Google: Applied Psychophysiology & Feedback, vol. 33, #2, 65-75. The scientific research indicates a very important bodily change by alternate nostril breathing – switching from the Sympathetic to Parasympathic Nervous system. More later. Google: Nepal Medical Journal 10 (1) 25-7 lead researcher: U. Dhungel. Decrease in pulse rate, decrease in respiratory rate, decrease in Diastolic blood pressure by the use of alternative nostril breathing. So What If your nostrils are not functioning because of a cold, allergy or disease, you are not clearing your breathing passages. Your vitality is reduced and you become sluggish, and your immune system becomes ineffective to destroy toxic cells, bacteria and viruses. Breathing Controls Our Emotions Get this: breathing adjusts to what you are thinking (positive produces diaphragmatic – deep breathing), negative causes shallow, short breathing cycles. Breathing reflects your senses – including what you are seeing-hearing-feeling. Even your eating and what you smell in your environment affects your breathing patterns. According to Dr. Phil, your thoughts control your body. Imagine biting into a crisp dill pickle – your brain knows it is sour and prepares for the taste by causing excessive salivating in your mouth. Even as we speak, and you mentally visualize the sharp dill pickle, your mouth is watering. So? Your mind controls your body – it is called the mind-body connection. Does this mean you can use alternative nostril breathing for accelerated healing? What Benefits You are oxygenating your entire body and your brain in particular. Did you know your three (3) pound brain requires up to 25% of all your oxygen? Your brain is only 3% of your body mass and uses a quarter of the oxygen. Moreover – if you are learning, the brain adds another ten-percent. Insomnia If you are lying in bed wide awake when you want to be dreaming up solutions to career problems, do this. Close off your right nostril and breath exclusively through your LEFT nostril. Why? You turn off your right hemisphere with its emotions by triggering your Parasympathetic Nervous System. Who Cares Your Sympathetic Nervous System contains your Fight-or-Flight response. It triggers your body by the release of Adrenaline (epinephrine). Your Parasympathetic Nervous System contain Acetylcholine which relaxes you, and overcomes stress. Parasympathetic slows your heart beat, decreases your pulse rate, slow your breathing, and lower your blood pressure. You will fall asleep after two-minutes of Alternative Nostril Breathing. How to 1. Close off your right-nostril with your right thumb. 2. INHALE through your left-nostril (deeply). 3. Release your thumb from your right-nostril, and EXHALE through your right-nostril – while covering your left-nostril. 4. Close off your left-nostril, and INHALE exclusive through your right-nostril. 5. Close off your right-nostril, and EXHALE exclusively through your 6. Left-Nostril 7. Repeat 1-6 – a total of three-times. Inquiring Minds Must Know Your brain has two separate hemispheres, a left and a right. The left-brain (hemisphere) controls logic, order and verbalization. You right brain (hemisphere) controls emotions, pattern recognition and holistic-thinking. They work together through your Corpus Callosum. Wait – your left-nostril operates with your right-hemisphere (brain), while your right nostril cooperates with your left-hemisphere (brain). There is a cross over effect. This exercise produces optimal balancing of both hemispheres. Give your mind something to do – inhale at a count of FOUR, and exhale to a count of EIGHT. Why I Bother With Another Stupid Exercise It takes under five-minutes, some executives report health improvement – more vitality and less fatigue – doing it for only two-minutes. You know it is working when you are diaphragmatically feel your belly pulling inward. The secret is that you are taking in more oxygen. Good for all the cells in your body and in particular, your brain energy. Endwords Unless you can motivate yourself to spend 5-minutes for better health, you will not work more than two-minutes on a challenge before your surrender. It is a matter of willpower. Do a mind-experiment and see the results. Our experience is a positive one. Please take NOTICE: This is not a website that claims expertise in medical matters. We do not make a diagnosis, nor recommend cures. We are not competent. This is a review of articles on Alternate Nostril Breathing. We strongly recommend discussing this matter with your medical professional before attempting it. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler If you are excited by quickly learning to read and remember 3x your present rate, contact us for a free, no strings attached report on Speed Reading. www.speedlearning.org How to Double Your Memory in 11-Minutes 2010-12-30 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Permanently Double Your Memory in the next 11 Minutes Did you know that after finishing an important article, report or non-fiction book, both students and executives retain about 10% of the key points after 8-hours, and around 5% after 24-hours? So reading alone is not the secret of LEARNING. If we cannot retain the key points – did we really READ the material? What is the secret of converting information to long-term memory? Ya gotta have a system, a strategy, a schema to encode the new knowledge, and later to instantly decode its meaning. Double Your Memory Using Mostly Verbs Can you substitute eight baby-easy verbs for the numbers 1-8? I knew you could, but can you do it automatically? Wake up your Comfort-Zone and give this your attention – it will make you a learning fool (genius). 0. = (Zero) remember - #0 is a Hero! See the medals on his chest. 1. = Running #1: you are running in a marathon. Running is #1. 2. = Throwing #2: is throwing the ball – And she’s out! 3. = Peeing – #3: the dog is peeing on the tree. See it mentally, right? 4. = Scoring – #4: the Referee raises his arms vertically – Touch Down. 5. = Fighting – #5: the boxing match was world-class fighting. 6. = Striking - #6: the workers are on strike or striking him with her sign. 7. = Sleeping - #7: he was sleeping in his Math class. 8. = Mating - #8: the elephants at the zoo were mating in public. 9. = Swine - #9: the huge swine won the ribbon at the county fair. 10. = Hen - #10: sound-alike. The hen was ten-months old. Verbs are easy to mentally visualize because they contain ACTION. Practice with the stock market prices – Exxon-Mobil closed at : $73.20. Substitute words for numbers because as Mark Twain said, the brain hates numbers. When bears hibernate they are Sleeping (#7), but not Peeing (#3) – they are Throwing (up) (#2) like all Heros (0). You can imagine the activities of Sleeping and Peeing because they create ACTION. You got the $73, and the 20 cents is just throwing by the Hero. So What Our graduates have one thing in common whether they are students attending school or executives managing a division. They have more curiosity than normal and exercise Inquiring Minds. We gotta know where the FEET grow from. This is important because we live in the Knowledge Economy where information is POWER. If you have a lousy (untrained) memory, you lose promotions and dinero over your career. Verbs Are Very Different Than Nouns Get this – the verb is the heart and soul of a sentence. Please pay attention: when you are reading an article or report on-line or on paper – you are hearing each word in your mind (larynx) – as if you were tuned in to a lecture. Imagine a homunculus (little man) in your brain acting as a commentator – reading the article to you. So what? He/she reads each and every word and that makes you learn slower than molasses. Verbs Are Unique Verbs have multiple meanings – based on the context of the sentence. Examples: the verb GO – I am Going (departing) away for two-weeks. How about – We had to Go (move to act) pick up the kids from Grandma. Try this: Thousands of jobs had to Go (discarded/eliminated) at General Motors. One-size does not fit all. Verbs express the ACTION in the sentence and give us information about the person or event involved. Nouns have a clear basic meaning, you do not have to decipher it. Folks have problems with decoding the verb, not nouns. Google: Dutch researcher D. de Goede, January 31, 2007. Staying Awake Nouns are learned in a part of the brain called the Fusiform Gyrus. Verbs are formed in the left Frontal Gyrus (processing Grammar) or the left Temporal Gyrus. (meaning and concepts). So what? This is important because we are learning verbs all our lives – based on the context of the sentence. Get this: we INFER the meaning of verbs. Google: Antonio Rodriguez-Fornellis, 2.25.1010 published in the journal Neuroimage. Remembering Better Which is easier on the memory to recall – I solved the math problems or I was solving the math problems? The brain loves the Imperfect – where the action is continuing – I was solving. The way a statement is phrased – how the verbs are used – affects our memory of what occurred – and influences our behavior. When we think of our past behavior in the Imperfect (what we were doing) we imagine the behavior has not been completed (ongoing) yet. It makes it easy to recall what went into the activity. Better memory. Google: William Hart, University of Florida in Psychological Science March 13, 2009. Remembering More Numbers Substitutes Twenty = Virginia (< Latin) Thirty = Tri (Triangle) Forty = Quad (Quadrangle) Fifty = Quin (Quintet) Sixty = Sex (Sextet) Seventy = Sept (September) Eighty = Oct (October) Ninety = Nov (November) One-Hundred = a century Example What is 85? Answer: October-Fighting month. You revert back to #0-10 and add it to tens above. What is 61? Answer: Sexy Running (at the NY marathon). How to you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice-practice-practice. See ya, --- Ask us for a Free, no strings attached very valuable speed reading report. www.speedlearning.org copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to Hum Your Way to Health 2010-12-27 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Hum Your Way Back to Health Can you keep an open mind about knowledge that is NOT scientific? I have to force myself not to giggle at beliefs and practices of non-scientific cultures. But, recent research on Tibetan practices have proven as real as a heart attack. Do you have to be a computer scientist to surf the Internet and make satisfying discoveries? How about being an electrical engineer in order to throw the light switch? Do you need a degree from Ford on auto mechanics to drive your car? Physical Healing Your own voice can MASSAGE your internal organs (mind-body connection). The objective is using your Electromagnetic Field in furtherance of healing and repair. Wait - an EEG (electroencephalogram) invented by Hans Berger, German scientist, measures brainwaves including Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta in cycles per seconds. Discovered in the 1930s, it is still a valid area of research of the human electromagnetic field. It was originally dismissed by science as Science Fiction. So What The Life Energy (Chee) located in meridians (channels) is the animating force of humans. So far, science has not pinpointed it and considers it Science Fiction. You can do your own mind experiment and decides if it has personal value in healing. Elongated Vowel Sounds Humming vowel sounds are recommended by Tibetan priests as vibrations that relax your mind, reduce or eliminate pain, and aid in healing body structures and systems. Test the premise because it is easy as pie to learn and implement. Why Two-minutes of Toning (humming) conditions and programs your Nonconscious mind. It is your Nonconsciousness including your Nervous-Immune-Limbic systems that excite your mind-body connection for healing and repair. It is your consciousness that sends your goals for healing to your nonconscious systems, and humming is part and parcel of using your conscious mind. Did you know that our conscious mind has broadband capacity of up to 40 Hertz (cycles per second) - while your nonconscious systems (Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems) have a capacity of 11 MILLION cycles per second. Yet, we consider ourselves driven by consciousness, right? Vowels U - vibrates in your Pelvis, hips, feet, legs, and LOWER body. Prostate gland. O - vibrates in your abdomen (solar plexus to groin) and LOWER trunk. A – vibrates in your body as a whole – including your Chest and Heart. E – vibrates in your head, back of your skull, throat, chest and brain. How Breath is inhaling energy that communicates a mental movie or image to our Nonconscious mind – the right-hemisphere that with emotion, produces healing. Wait – our goal is to use humming (toning) to restore our healthy vibrational frequency (electromagnetic field) to our Mind-Body connection. Remember, your voice belongs to your physical body. Experiment a) Find your sound Volume comfort-zone. Is it loud or soft? b) Discover your sound Length comfort-zone. Long or short? c) Test to find your natural PITCH. d) Test U-O-A-E vowels – we learn more by doing, not guessing. e) Notice how your fears and stress dissolve in two-minutes. f) SECRET: When using a vowel: mentally visualize before and during inhaling, the part of the body you wish to heal. The objective is to use your humming the vowel, as a laser beam to aid healing in your specific mind-body connection. What Else Pay attention to your vowel sound patters. Do not go on autopilot. Feel the sound in a specific structure of your body. Describe to yourself how it feels – warm, cold, sharp or dull? What occurs when you soften the vowel tone or raise it louder? Do you react the same? Do you feel calmer – expel your fears and stress? Can your mix the short and long tones? Do you feel a sense of harmony, balancing and cooperation? Remember, you control your vowel vibrations, so play with it. Endwords Each vowel opens a specific structure or system of your body. If you spend two-minutes (daily) on toning your humming, you are will see a difference in 7-days. The secret is mentally VISUALIZING the area of your mind-body connection you are trying to affect. It is not humming alone or visualizing alone, you need to combine both. And add emotion for maximum effect. When you EXHALE – make the humming audible. Feedback 1. Smiling while you hum changes your mindset and emotions. Sure, it is a phony smile, but your nonconsciousness accepts it as reality. 2. A great Mantra is OM (pronounced AOM). Try the mantra HOOM like the word WHOM. Two-minutes and you are connected. 3. Humming will seriously improve your thinking, learning and both short-term and long-term memory. 4. See if humming improves your blood pressure rate up to 15%. 5. Use earplugs to discharge distractions when toning. That is enough – the folks who will try this experiment are Inquiring Minds. Start and you may be surprised at the interesting results. This article is NOT given as medical advice. It is a review of material that appears to support humming. We do NOT suggest you attempt to heal yourself. Consult with your medical physician, not use this or any article as a model. Se ya, --- If you are interest in self-improvement, we suggest you contact us for a free (no strings attached) report on Speed Reading. Would 3x your present reading and memory be good for your career? www.speedlearning.org copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Learn to Love Your Mistakes 2010-12-23 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Learn to Love Your Mistakes Why do executives suffer emotionally when the world discovers they are not perfect and make mistakes? Making mistakes, errors or failing makes them feel stupid, embarrassed and worse – incompetent. These emotions lead to chronic stress, a weak immune system and even heart attacks. The negative feelings about making future mistakes make them gun-shy about decision-making, that leads to the Unemployment line. Stop Mistakes force our brain to concentrate on discovering solutions. Mistakes and learning are like ham-and-eggs. Mistakes, errors and failure force us to focus on new learning. Mistakes linger in long-term memory because they excite the fear of failure. Get this: real learning does not come from reading, listening to lectures, watching educational videos or demonstrations. Learning new ideas or skills comes from doing, making mistakes, and remembering both our errors and our solutions. The Most Important Knowledge for 2011 If you remember only 5-10% of something you finished learning – is that the same as never learning it in the first place? Retention of what we learn is everything, right? If you read an article for information and retain 5 or 10% or even 20 or 30% - did you really get it? Comprehension in school is at least 65%, right? The Learning Pyramid: Adapted from National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine The following is as real as a heart attack, so remember it. Average Retention Rates 1. Listening to a lecture by a teacher, specialist or professor – after 8-hours we retain just FIVE-PERCENT of it. After 24-hours - we remember just One-Percent of her brilliant research. No good. 2. Reading a textbook for knowledge and motivated by future testing, we retain just Ten-Percent of the key points after 8-hours. After 24-hours - we keep only Five-Percent of it. Reading alone does not cut it, right? 3. Watching and listening to an Audio-Visual presentation: after 8-hours, all we retain of the material is Twenty-Percent. After 24-hours - it drops to Ten-Percent. 4. Seeing a Demonstration of an idea or new skill: after 8-hours, we retain Thirty-Percent of what we saw. After 24-hours – we get to keep Fifteen-Percent of it. 5. Participating in a Group-Discussion to learn new ideas or skills: retention is Fifty-Percent - after 8-hours. After 24-hours, we get to keep up to Forty-Percent in long-term memory. 6. If you become involved in PRACTICING what you are learning (ideas or skills) after 8-hours - we retain Seventy-Five Percent of the new knowledge. After 24-hours, we still own up to Seventy-Five Percent of the information. 7. If you take the new knowledge and TEACH it to others – after 8-hours, you retain 90% of the information. After 24-hours you still retain up to Ninety-Percent of the knowledge. Wait – after one-month – you still retain up to Ninety-Percent of this learned knowledge. Conclusion: Participating Teaching Methods like group-discussions, practice and teaching others - is way superior to Passive teaching methods like Lectures, Reading, Audio-Visual, and Demonstrations. Emotions of Mistakes To destroy the power of mistakes over your mood, mindset and self-confidence, do this: a) identify the emotion you are feeling – embarrassment – frustration – shame – (not being perfect, and feeling incompetent). b) say it out loud, it gives you control over your negative feelings. c) affirmation: repeat three-times. “I release my negative emotions about how other people see me. I learn from my mistakes and get better and better.” d) Add emotion to this affirmation: raise your arms vertically like a Touch-Down in Football and give yourself a cheer. e) Type this affirmation on a card or sheet of paper and tape it to your computer. Trial-And-Error Real learning comes from analyzing our mistakes (choices) – errors and failures. Why? It triggers our emotions, which activates our long-term memory for the correct answers. Trial-And-Error is a powerful tool. The Secret is implementing Listening, reading and watching a demo are not real learning. When we implement what we learned in the real world, it gets sticky and useful. Mistakes come from implementing new knowledge or skills. Define: implement. It is to start, put into action, and to use it. Synonyms are execute and perform. Antonyms are to cancel and stop. Implement means to follow-through, apply and enforce. When you implement the new ideas or skills – mistakes are natural. Now you have choices to make, and that is when learning occurs. Implement is from Latin, meaning to fill-up. Making mistakes is never negative because it is necessary for real learning. In physics, power flows from Negative to Positive. All you require is to extend your Comfort-Zone and learn from your mistakes. Afterwords Choose to remember that listening – reading – an audio-visual - and seeing a demonstration – do not cut it as learning. You need to get your hands dirty with implementing the new knowledge or skills. Got it? I knew you would. See ya, --- Tell me, if you could read and remember three-times as much as your peers at school or work, would you have a powerful competitive advantage? Contact us for a free, no strings attached speed reading report on how to 3x your reading. There are just 15 left. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Stay Happy 24/7 Starting Now 2010-12-20 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Stay Happy 24/7 & Add 10-Years to Your Longevity Did your Mom walk around the house singing out loud half the time, and smiling the rest? See if you remember this: a French lady named Jeanne Calment died in 1997. Her birth and death were documented. She was the oldest person who ever lived – documented, not hot air. How old was she? Age 122 years. My Mom lived to 92 – not bad right? Mom had three sets of facial muscles she always exercised: Risorius (laughing muscle), Zygomatic major (upper lip for smiling), and Orbicularis Oculi (raising eyelids) – the key smiling muscles. Reporters asked Jeanne Calment her secret for longevity at age 121. Her answer was drinking cheap French wine all day and a happy attitude. My Mom claimed her secret was the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel who order her to sip fatty chicken soup daily. It worked for her. Two Proverbs George Orwell said, - Men can only be happy when they do not assume happiness is the object of life. Maxim Gorky said, - Happiness always looks small when you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. How about this? Humans are hardwired to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. We are built for immediate gratification and rapid feedback. Yet we adapt ourselves to folks and circumstances that offer PAIN and unhappiness. Huh? Peak Performance Happiness is being totally involved body and soul in your work. The happiest folks love going to their office because it is PLAY, not work. They enjoy the experience of being creative and imaginative, and hate to leave at the end of the workday. Abraham Maslow (Hierarchy of Needs) coined the expression Peak Performance. When you get in-the-flow, (your zone) you lose track of time and making money. You are enjoying yourself in the pleasurable activity, and produce your best work. Living in The Present Moment What we RESIST – persists. The more we fight the situation or person we encounter the more we get STUCK. We are fighting with ourselves. Get this – what we refuse to feel – never goes away – it festers. The solution is living in the present moment – not thinking about the past or the future – right? Look at your feet – image you are a tree and your feet are roots. Now press your feet downward as if planting them in the soil. Ground yourself into the present moment and forget figuring out the future problems – today. In less than 60 seconds you are living in the PRESENT and you stop mental movies of your future troubles. What we resist (denial of fear) causes us to lose the joy of the present moment, lowers our immune system, and makes us feel stressed out. Be the grounded tree. How to Improve Your Love With Life Professor Steven Toepfer, Kent State University produces scientific research on capturing happiness on November 27, 2008. Please pay attention – it can turn your life 180 degrees for the better. Fact: ink was first used in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The royalty used it to educate their children to take over wealth. The original writing was not poetry or music, it was receipts for merchandise people owned. The first writers were the priests who kept accounts of what the royal family owned in real estate, slaves and valuables. Their receipts were the same as money because it proved their wealth. Gratitude When you thank some for a kindness or gift, you engage their Limbic System, the emotional part of our brain. It you write your gratefulness – they will remember it 20 years later. Does that go for your parents – boss – friends? Every human has a section of their prefrontal cortex that is ego-driven for the emotion of gratitude. The word gratitude is from Greek, meaning – pleasing. Compliment folks with a letter of gratitude for something they did, and they are yours for life. How To Do It If you sit down a write a heart-felt letter of gratitude – sure it make the receiver happy. Guess what? The writer of gratitude gets a feedback of joy and happiness in her/his brain, and the feeling lasts for up to a week after the original letter. Try one-letter every two-weeks. It must be positively expressed, no glib, glittering generalities, get personal, and show a high level of appreciation for the action of the recipient. It is an emotional episode of love for the receiver and the sender. Social Network Listen – the number one most powerful thing in our lives – is our Social Network. Sure, Facebook is nice, but rarely do you meet in person. One or two friends, not a million, is enough to make a difference in your life psychologically (sense of confidence and self-sufficiency) and physically. What do I mean physically? Consider this: gratitude letter writers suffer fewer health problems, have an improved immune system, and eliminate their own emotional problems. Real statistics back this up. Students with a few close friends get higher tests results and grades. This is based on hard scientific statistics. Want to release stress and depression at work? Express gratitude to each and every person you interact with. And smile – it will not break your face, right? If you choose to experiment with a happiness creator by writing letters of gratitude, you will improve your quality of life within five-days of beginning and mailing. Keep it up for a few months and it will become a habit. The results are stunning for so little effort. One thing – Emails do not count, you can either use an old fashion pen your computer keyboard. Emails are too filled with money offers, so send a letter. You want to fry their brain? Send your letter of gratitude by Federal Express. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org Question: would you own a unique competitive advantage by reading and remembering 3x the amount of your peers – who can hardly finish one? We have a limited amount of Free – no strings attached – speed reading reports on How-To-permanently double your reading and memory. Find us and request a copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Save Your Brain By Playing Dumb Word Games 2010-12-16 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Save Your Brain By Playing Dumb Word Games If it is dumb, why should I do it? Because you are going to live into your late eighties or nineties, and you want to have all your cognitive (senses and memory) skills. See, fifty-percent of seniors past 85 live with Alzheimer or other forms of dementia. No good. What about helping your brain now – in the present? Ready? Word games, learning to improve your working vocabulary by regularly using your dictionary, playing crossword puzzles, and maintaining social relationships with verbal folks, create COGNITIVE RESERVE in your brain. A great working memory NOW, improves your grades and tests in school, and extends to winning promotions in your career. It is a scientific reality. Active Braining CR – Cognitive Reserve means you have the result of an active brain. Reading, learning and thinking creates a buffer against disease related dementia like Alzheimer and Multiple Sclerosis. We suggest being a lifelong learner now is a gift to your brain later. Who Says So The Cognitive Reserve study appears in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology June 15, 2010. Lead author is James Sumowski, of the Kessler Foundation. The results have been repeated by other scientists. See the accompanying editorial by Pennsylvania State University professor Peter A. Arnett who said, “There is the potential that people can improve their Cognitive Reserve to reduce or prevent cognitive (mind) problems later.” Folks with Cognitive Reserve live with other problems, but do not develop loss of memory and difficulty in learning until their nineties – or NOT at all. That is a blessing. The secret is a mentally active lifestyle. It can overcome brain Atrophy (degeneration, wasting away and decline) in mind functioning. So it helps now and in your senior years. Placebo Effect is Real as a Heart … Many scientific articles in the past disparaged the Placebo Effect. They just did not believe in it. They called it just the power of suggestion, as if that was nothing. The power of suggestion is a powerful force in influencing, persuading and convincing people, which is what most of do all our lives. Hypnosis which is approved by the American Medical Association is generated by the offering of accepted suggestions by our Nonconsciousness. Hypnotic suggestions have proven in effective in relieving and removal of pain, weight loss, removal of phobias. Latest Science The brain’s reward system helps drive the Placebo Effect. Google: Dr. A. Jon Stoessi of Pacific Parkinson Research Center, British Columbia, August 4, 2010. The U.S. Federal Food And Drug Administration fully accepts the Placebo Effect. Drug companies must prove by hard evidence they new product has a greater validity to the public than the typical 30% Placebo Effect. If not, no approval. When a physician or nurse suggests to a patient who is part of a test group, that they have a decent change of getting the REAL treatment (not the placebo), it raises their expectations by keeping them guessing. Seventy-Five Percent Chain Hearing from medical personnel that they had a 75% of receiving an active drug (not saline solution or a sugar pill) physically causes Dopamine (neurotransmitter) to flow in their brain. Seventy-five percent is a magic number, Dopamine does is NOT produced by the patient’s brain when they are told their chances are either 25%, 50% nor 100%. Placebo works when you keep them guessing. Dopamine What is the chemical key to your brain’s reward system? Answer: Dopamine. What is the Scientific Principle? It is the patient’s expectations that directly regulate the strength of the Placebo Effect. How come? It causes the brain’s Reward System to become active. The number 1 form of Reward is to be healed and repaired, but second is to experience an Expectation of Improvement, which is an Expectation of Reward. Get this: scientists tracked the release of Dopamine using PET scans. The results indicate the patient’s expectation of receiving the active drug produces the amount of Dopamine released in the brain, after they took the Placebo. The placebo is directly related to the expectation, which releases the neurotransmitter – Dopamine. Bottom line When the patient is told the OUTCOME is certain (100%) – there is no good reason to have an expectation of reward. When the suggestion is you have a 25% or even a 50% change, you do not get excited with expectation. The magic number for brain activity in the form of the expectation of reward, is 75%. Question: does this Placebo Principle of 75% influencing, persuading and convincing other folks to expect to win, apply to your career, industry or business? What does it take to activate the Reward pathways located in the Nucleus Accumbens and Ventral Tegmental Area? What is the Tipping Point (critical mass and chain reaction) to trigger the flow of Dopamine – the reward neurotransmitter? Could it be the 75% expectation? See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler Question: would you own a serious competitive advantage over your peers if you could read-and-remember triple the knowledge in articles, reports and specialty books, while they could hardly finish one? We have a small number of free – no-strings-attached reports on the secrets of speed reading. Find us and ask for your copy. www. speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Air-Writing Doubles Your Memory 2010-12-13 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Air-Writing Doubles Your Long-Term Memory You have seen kids play the AIR (make-believe) guitar, while listening to music. Strangely, each time they ACT like performers playing a genuine guitar – they IMPRINT the music and fingering on their long-term memory. How come? They are using V-A-K, the three most powerful human senses, Vision-Auditory-Kinesthetic (touch). The brain principle is: the greater number of senses you use to learn and remember, the easier your future recall and access of specific knowledge and information from memory. So What What can you do with the Air-Writing principle to advance your career at school and the workplace? How to remember NAMES of new folks you meet. When you hear a name for the first time, be sure you repeat it aloud at least three-times during the initial conversation. That fixes the name in your long-term memory using your primary auditory cortex (brain). You don’t sound weird repeating their name, they love it. Remember, each time your REPEAT the new name, you are using your brain’s auditory cortex to HEAR it. Now the goodies – use your mental imagery (imagination) to see the new name spelled out on the FOREHEAD of its owner. Now you have used V-A (Vision and Auditory) for long-term memory. One last zinger – use your dominant hand – the index-finger – to AIR-PRINT their name on a make-believe SCREEN in front of you. We teach this strategy to executives of major companies, and they are never embarrassed to do the Air-Printing in front of their new client. Why? Humans love the sound of our own name, and can never get enough of it. When we see someone working to remember our name – it is a great compliment. So just do it. Let me be redundant: always air-print the name of a new acquaintance or client because you are adding your SENSE of TOUCH (kinesthetic sense) to vision and auditory sense. Remembering clients names makes you a hero to them, you will produce a better relationship, including influencing, persuading and convincing them – you are the man or woman they want to deal with – not your competitor. Count them: you used three of your five senses involved in creating new memories. How to Lose Weight Use your imagination (mental imagery) to gobble up your favorite candy bars, chocolate cake and ice cream. See yourself chewing up every piece of the desserts because it actually SATISFIES your real desire for sweets and sugar. The act of imagining and devouring these prohibited fat foods reduces your actual cravings and yearnings for them. It has to do with your Mirror Neurons and works because your mind cannot tell the difference – between reality and when creative imagery (imagination) depicts mental movies of glomming the junk stuff. Seeing your goals in your Mind’s Eye is what professional athletes use to hone their skills in golf, tennis, baseball and football. Spending ten-minutes in mental visualizations is the equivalent to ten-minutes of reality (in the field) practice. It works and has a thirty-year track record of productivity in pro sports. Science The latest scientific research sounds totally weird (contrary) to what we have always believed. The research appears in SCIENCE journal, December 2010 by scientists from Carnegie Mellon University – lead author professor Carey Morewedge. The old theory was thinking about prohibited foods and desserts INCREASED your cravings and led you to consumption of them. Not so. New principle: perception (attitude/judgment) affects mental imagery, links your neural machinery, and affects your Emotions, responses, and motor activities. This makes Virtual Reality into plain old – Reality. The research stands for the scientific proof – imagining your consumption of food and desserts DECREASES your appetite and desire for it. Goal When you repeatedly imagine yourself devouring the prohibited foods and desserts, (M&Ms, Hershey Bars), you crave and actually eat less of it. Wait – this principle applies to imagining about drugs-cigarettes-alcohol. When you permit your mental imagery to indulge the prohibited things – it satisfies your desire and reduces the need to do drugs-cigarettes-alcohol in reality. Say, Aha. Habituation Mental movies cause a gradual reduction in motivation for chewing up the real thing. It feels satisfying to the mind, and you lose your yearnings and cravings. Habit determines how much we consume of a food or product. Habit also decides how much we chew up of a particular food or dessert, when we stop craving it, and when we switch to something else. Habit is governed by our five-senses, but also by how the eating is mentally represented. The mental movie of eating the prohibited stuff is an acceptable substitute for the actual reality. So see yourself consistently enjoying the candy, cake and ice-cream because the greater your enjoyment, the less you crave it in reality. Career What if you are deadly afraid of giving a presentation? Mentally visualize yourself standing up and giving that talk to the board of directors – repeatedly. The more you see the mental movies, the less you remain afraid. Why? Each time you imagine that which you fear – you reduce its impact on your emotions. Remember this phrase – What you resist – persists. What you fear remains and festers. What you experience in reality or virtual reality (mentally), permanently loses its sting. Inquiring Minds use this strategy for success in school, career and relationships. What about you? See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler P.S. Would you own a huge competitive advantage if you could read and remember triple (3x) of specialty books, articles and reports, when your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us and request a free, no-strings-attached Speed Reading report, that will change your life for the better. www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to Overcome Fear of Change 2010-12-08 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Overcome Fear of Change Does this make sense to you? Humans are wired as a species to have Danger-Avoidance functions take precedence over our Pleasuring-Seeking functions. What does it mean? Fear overrides our desire for pleasure. Is it hard to believe 40-million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health suffer from Anxiety Disorders – Panic Attacks? According to UCLA professor Michael Fanselow - “Fear is the most powerful emotion.” It spreads out to Fear of Failure, of looking stupid, criticism, and appearing incompetent. U of Michigan Research: Very Important According to lead researcher Ted Able, 60% of what we fear – never occurs. You waste your worry time over nothing. And 20% of your remaining fears is about the past – over which you have no control and cannot change. Another 10% of all your fears are petty stuff, which makes no difference at all. The last 10% of fears – only 4-5% are based in reality and worth thinking about. Mark Twain said, “I have been through some terrible things in my life – some of which actually happened.” Less Fear, More Curiosity When you override fear that stops other in their tracks from taking action, you are following natural curiosity that leads to creativity causing success. Huh? It is normal to encounter fear of newness and change, but overcoming fear is the leading cause of career success. Why? Leaders have a strategy to leap over their fear of failure. They are risk-takers and win promotions. Normal folks have forty justifications for the status-quo. Misoneism and Cainophobia are in the dictionary meaning fear of new things or change. It goes back to the Greeks – caino means newness. Life Means Change Life is all about change and how we prepare and react to it. Stubbornness – refusing to face the need to change – is resistance to life. Get this: your core knowledge decays every five-years and must be upgraded. This applies to lawyers, doctors and companies. How about you? Comfort Zone We fight hardest to avoid intrusions to our comfort-zone. Newness requires we open ourselves to unsteady and unfamiliar ground, letting go of old energies and confronting new circumstances and relationships. Scary. Self-Image There are three faces to our self-image. It’s easy and it helps you to remember the dangers of relying on our comfort-zone. a) how we see ourselves – with all our illusions. b) how others see us – without those same illusions. c) how we think others in our relationships – see us. Who Are We Afraid Of a) blaming personalities b) criticizing personalities c) complaining personalities d) threatening personalities e) punishing personalities f) nagging personalities Teaching Speed Reading “The first thing you must know about speed reading is – you will always own and be able to use the reading system that got you here. The reading skills that you have been using since the first-grade to learn everything you know.” Why is that statement so important? Fear of loss that their slow, snailing reading strategy will disappear and they will lose a very precious skill that is familiar and comfortable. We mention that their first-grade skills are permanently hardwired in their left-hemisphere. It can be accessed for use instantaneously. It will accompany them forever. Speed reading is hardwired in their right hemisphere – there is no conflict, it is like being bilingual, speaking English and Spanish. Does one cancel out the other? Wait-a-minute, why are they concerned about snailing, when they have just learned how to read and remember three-times faster, with the same comprehension or better. Don’t we love improvements to our skills? Students took before-during-and-after-tests throughout the workshop. They have internalized the new speed reading skills. Fact: they still have a Fear of loss of the familiar, which is part of our Comfort-zone. We like what we know – it is an old friend. Peripheral Vision Snailing reading uses foveal (central) vision for sharp viewing, about five letters wide, which is why we read one-word-at-a-time. Speed reading focuses on the use of peripheral vision, which is a right-brain skill. It permits us to see up to 36 letters wide, or about 5-6 words at a time. Big difference, huh? When you activate your peripheral vision you trigger your Parasympathetic Nervous System which does the following: a) relaxation of muscles b) lower heart rate c) lower blood pressure, with the ability to feel calm A healthy nervous system balances both branches of the Autonomic Nervous System Sympathetic (fight-or-flight syndrome) and Parasympathetic Nervous system (relaxation). Acetylcholine The Sympathetic produces Adrenaline and the Parasympathetic makes Acetylcholine – which is a neurotransmitter active in the Central and Parasympathetic nervous systems. It increases digestion, insulin activity, and resistance to infection. So What Speed Reading uses your peripheral vision and triggers the relaxation through your Parasympathetic Nervous system. It promotes coping and concentration. Remember, speed reading is not for reading a novel, Shakespeare’s plays or poetry. It is for textbook material and specialized articles and reports. Now you are bilingual in having two strategies for learning: snailing and speed reading. Welcome change into your life in order to boost your career to the next level. Speed reading is just one additional skill to improve your core talents. See ya, Contact us for a free; no strings attached speed reading report - that will help produce self-growth, and may well lead to career promotion. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to Gesture And Double Your Communicating Skills 2010-12-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Gesture And Double Your Communication Skills Adults are learners too, so how do we get our point across (comprehension) without sounding like a dominating school teacher? If you visit your doctor and he says your x-rays are Benign, you are a lot happier than if he says the results are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal. But you know that. What if your doctor says the results are Benign, and air-writes with his index finger the capital letter B plus the number Nine (B + 9), and smiles? Speech plus gestures places the experience in long-term memory and improves communication up to 3x. Whether you want to influence, persuade or convince a kid or adult, using gestures together with words (verbal representation) almost triples their learning function. Hunter-Gatherers Our ancient ancestors about 200,000 years ago broke away from chimps and apes by cooperating on the hunt and bringing home the bacon. They used their fingers, hands and facial expressions to become organized predators that could take down a Hairy Mammoth. Imagine one small Homo sapiens attacking an animal the size of our present-day elephant in Siberia, North America or Northern Europe. Our solo ancestor was not coming back from the hunt. Put a band of us with spears and communicating (before speech) with hand signals like pointing and waving, and we bring back meat for the entire tribe for a month. Later we used whistles, grunts and yells to surround the prey and snuff them. Still later, combining speech and gestures prevailed and we became King of the Savannah Rude Not To Point Whatever makes folks understand better and encode new knowledge for long-term memory, makes you a smarter communicator in your career and personal relationships. Our brains learn best from mental pictures. If you want comprehension of a new idea or plan, you require an image or mental movie. If you read or hear the word Cow, you brain produces a picture of one. If the concept or word is new to you, (say – rejuvenate) your PFC (Prefrontal Cortex) must imagine a new image to link the idea to a picture or you do not understand or remember the concept. If you hear Rejuvenate it may mean nothing, but if you link a picture of a youngster to the verb, you got it locked because it means to be young. When you are referring to a person, location on a map or an object and use words alone, you are under-performing. Use your index finder and point to the spot and say aloud – There! Now you have made an emphatic statement. Dr. Spencer Kelly, Colgate University has published in Psychological Science, 2010, 01.05 an article called Speech And Gesture Mutually Interact to Enhance Comprehension. Examples Good speakers who want promotions in their career will consciously use hand gestures. It may be ludicrous, but pointing to your throat and making a gagging gesture conveys your opinion of your competitor better than verbalizing along the phrase, “They do bad work.” Which will be remembered 12 months from now – the words alone or the gagging gesture plus the single word “ugly!”? Chopping and washing are easy hand gestures. How about calling someone a Nose-Picker and pointing to your own nose. One that we use in speed reading is tracing in the air with your index finger – underlining the words of a sentence on an imaginary page. The tracing is equal to the real experience of practicing. Very serious stuff: it involves Memory Neurons and Motor Neurons for improved learning and memory. Using your imagination is equal to practice, repetition and self-assessment. It produces mastery of a subject. Congruent Means Agreement When the spoken words and the gesture MATCH each other, comprehension is doubled for both students and adults. Your brain becomes integrated (unite, combine, merge), in Alignment (like a car) and Synchronized (in-sync). You are smarter because you are a great communicator. Who Cares Teachers, students, political speakers, TV advertisers, and executives who want to motivate, influence and persuade, right? What about your career? One-word answer – promotions. Remember the old commercial for the Yellow Pages – “let your fingers do the walking?” Here we learn to let your HANDS do the talking. Math The University of Chicago and lead author Susan Goldin-Meadow produced research published 3.06.09 in the journal Psychological Science. The title is Gesturing Gives Children New Ideas About Mathematics. Kids were separated into three groups: first: taught the words, “I want to make one side (of the equation) equal to the other.” Second group: the same aforementioned words plus hand gesture of a V-shape with their fingers, point at the answer space (blank). The third group were taught the words, but focusing attention on the wrong set of numbers. It really is not complicated and the results were powerful. Use the correct gestures and link it with the right words and you win all the marbles by almost 3x. The gestures permitted the kids to extract correct knowledge from what they were taught. Learning is summarizing (abstracting) the key information from what you hear or read. It was their own hand gestures that produced positive results, not the brilliance of the teacher. Coda: gesturing influences and expands learning and memory. We have recommended the use of gestures to executives in Fortune 100 companies. They now suggest it to all their people as a positive strategy. Endwords: If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be a competitive advantage to obtain promotions in your career? Could your knowledge skills use a boost to make you an expert instead of just an average learner? Ask for our free report on speed reading strategies to improve your personal productivity. Only do this if you are going to use your brain for the next ten-years. Move on it now, or forgetaboutit. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org--------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Dissolve Information-Overload 2010-12-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Dissolve Information-Overload Do you experience information-overload from too many daily emails, telephone calls, books, articles and reports? If your career is in the Knowledge Economy and requires updated information to stay competitive in your industry, you are suffering chronic stress from constant interruptions and disruptions to your concentration. Numbers There are 310 million folks in the U.S. in December 2010. In the world, there are just under 7 billion people. Wait – we just hit one-billion people who use the Internet daily, so we are going digital internationally. Get this: digital information just reached One-Zetta Bytes – which is a 1 with 21 zeros after it. In the U.S. newspapers and magazines are suffering an average readership loss of up to 15-18% and about 20% annual loss of advertising pages revenue. Folks are getting digital and getting their information from the Internet. So What You have two choices – ignore and delete new information that your competitors are reading and reacting to, or change your style and tools to absorb a flood of new stuff. Question: if you read an article, report or book, and cannot answer core questions about the knowledge contained in it, did you really read and understand the text? In law school the professor would call on students and say, “You read this particular case, tell me sir, What does this case really stand for? What is its meaning to lawyers and judges? If you could not respond, you were told to consider becoming an accountant. Who Cares If you are in the Knowledge Economy, it is your job to keep up with - What is new? What is happening to change the future in your field of interest? Will there be a shortage of the supplies you require to fulfill your agreements? Where will your organization be next year, two-years – five? So I ask you, how many hours daily do you spend maintain the expertise you have for your career? That includes specialty industry newspapers, business books, and updated reports about your organization’s divisions. Our research of human resources departments concludes that the average executive is one-three months behind in keeping up with his/her required reading. Many admit to hiding reports, articles and business books in the closet – unread – since last Xmas. Coping There is an application on I Phone called My 6 Sense that creates an algorithm (step-by-step) of your likes and dislikes, links you click, how long you look at something, and sharing the contents. It then puts your favorite contents on top of your streams and make predictions about what you want to read. It makes decisions based on your past behavior. Research in December 2010 concludes, that executives are losing the ability to concentrate and pay substantial attention to what they read, losing long-term memory skills, and have no time to reflect (analysis) on the context of important new information. Solutions Do you take any notes about interesting article, reports or books in your field? We suggest you have a journal with new ideas you discovered. Secret: if you ask yourself these seven questions about what you have read or heard in a presentation, and record the key points in a few words, you will guarantee your personal Knowledge to expand. Who? What? When? Where? Why? Which? How? Just answering this seven questions about your latest learning experience imprints them on your mind and for future review. Start a journal and do a mind experiment and discover the benefit of questioning for your self. It aids your concentration, comprehension and memory. Aggressive Impulses Some interesting research by professor Brad Bushman, Ohio State University on avoiding aggressive impulses. This knowledge fits in your general fund of information that makes some of us powerful leaders. First, energy is a product of metabolism of Glucose, blood sugar, providing the energy for the brain to operate. Second, avoiding aggressive impulses requires self-control, and self-control needs a high expenditure (level) of energy. Three, drinking a glass of lemonade with one spoonful of real sugar (not sugar substitute) provides instant energy for self-control. Want to control yourself from losing it? The secret is one-spoonful of sugar. How does this play-out? Diabetes has tripled (3x) from 1980 to 2008, from 5.6 million folks in the U.S. to 18.1 million. So what? The U.S. has the highest incidence of diabetes and also has the highest rate of murder, assault, rape and robbery. Why? No energy because of diabetes to avoid aggressive impulses. Diabetes means there is less energy available for self-control because of the inability to metabolize glucose. Worldwide 400 million people do not have the enzyme Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenises and cannot metabolize glucose. The countries with highest diabetes rate have the most violence. World Peace requires more energy for self-control and the ability to metabolize glucose. Quick Story A elderly gentleman enters a numismatic shop (coin dealer) to sell an antique coin he owns. The dealer looks at the coin with his magnifying glass and reads the following: 106 B.C. He picks up the phone and calls the police. Why? Answer: a) Arabic numbers (106) did not appear until the year 976 CE (Common Era). Wait. The use of the term B.C. did not occur before the birth of J.C. It first appeared 525 CE (Common Era). Something is not working, right? --- Would you have a competitive advantage if you read and remembered triple (3x) what others in your organization can learn? If you are interested we have a free (no strings attached) report on how to speed read and triple your reading and learning. Contact us at www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Your Career Is More Than Making a Living 2010-11-28 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Your Career is Emotionally More Than Earning a Living It was Thanksgiving Day, the clan gathered at my Mother-in-law’s home to eat and drink triple (3x) their normal calories, but all is forgiven because it is a sanctioned feast day. Why? It is a ritual for God, U.S. and the Family. I have not watched a football game from beginning to end since high school, and I did not miss it. Today I will suffer through four complete games, two- college and two professional. I really hate it. Why? Thanksgiving Day football is a legally required ritual – for God, Family, and the American way. Even Tangy the Collie sat watching the humans giving each other concussions after feasting on the fat, dead bird. So What Help me out. If you own a pen and use it to sign your Debit Card, but the clip shows a Harvard logo, does that get your juices flowing? We’re talking about human psychology now – does the Harvard emblem on the pen make you smarter, taller, stronger? Personally I respect Sarah Pellin because she is an old-tyme peddler using her book to open doors to the White House. And if all does not go according to plan – she’ll just make $30 million for her efforts at self-promotion. God bless America. Two professors at the University of Minnesota (Roedder and Park) have done extensive research concluding certain brand names like Cartier, Harley-Davidson and Nike, emotionally change the way some folks feel about themselves. Have you ever seen a 50-year old executive riding his Harley on Sunday? He feels fifteen-years younger, is attracted to females young enough to be his granddaughter, and will consume enough alcohol in one-day to qualify for Alcoholic Anonymous. Back to that Harvard logo. The pen owner never smelled the grass at Cambridge, did not have the grades to be hired to mow the Harvard lawns, but he suddenly tests better, feels like a scholar and a gentleman. Call it illusionary or fantasy, but the logo boosts the ego of the user, makes him feel like a leader of men, and much smarter. Logos Got Personalities The Journal of Consumer Research article says “absolutely” – when a consumer uses a name brand with a hot personality like Victoria’s Secret – something rubs off on the way the consumer sees herself. Like what? The ladies carrying their bag feel more glamorous, more feminine and better looking than the rest of humanity. Fixed or Flexible Personalities Half the population believes their qualities are fixed and cannot be improved by by their own efforts of self-help. They need another way to shout out to the world, “Look at me, I am the real McCoy”. They do it by using tested and proven brand names like driving a Cadillac, living in a rich community, and wearing phony Harvard sweatshirts. You know we pay up to twice-as-much for the same item with a screaming popular brand name like a ring from Tiffany. What happen to the other 50% of the population? They believe in self-help and will spend up to thousands of dollars for books, specialty magazines, courses and workshops to bring out the gifts and talents hidden within from birth. Their last day on earth they will think, “ If only I took that SpeedLearning course, I could have been a contender for the promotion to vice-president.” Placebo All the smartasses want to pierce the bubble of unreality of those who are positive thinkers. “So stupid to believe in that cancer-quack in Mexico, save your money, it is bunkum and will do nothing but steal your money.” Fact: up to thirty-percent of Placebo takers get serious relief and healing. Why? First up, our U.S. Federal Drug Administration believes in the power of Placebo Effect. If your new drug is no better than a 30% Placebo, you are not permitted to sell it to the public. What is a placebo? When you deeply, strongly and repetitiously program yourself to believe in the effectiveness of the doctor, minister or drug (Google: Laetrile), your Nonconscious systems may produce amazing and unscientific results in your mind-body connection for healing. Nonconscious systems include Nervous- Immune-Limbic et al. When you bring the light of reality to a true believer in a Placebo – no matter how crazy it is – like kissing-a-cobra for a great cure, you are interfering with a potential healing. If folks are willing to put their life on the line with cancer- quakes – they are going to be right some percentage of the time. The secret is total trusting in the unfolding, by the true believer. Remember, even a broken clock is Right - twice a day. Team Spirit You must know at least one or two die-hard sports fans. They don’t have to suffer from a case of arrested development, some of my family who are intelligent and super successful will sit and view up to three entire football games on Sunday. Dr. Daniel Wann, Murray State University, Kentucky says, intense emotional interest in a team can overcome depression (temporarily) and even raise test results for students. They identify with their team whole-heartedly and when it wins – they take it personally and test over their heads. Seems crazy to me, but the scientific results are unqualified. Die-hard fans are emotionally driven to personally excel when their team wins. Of course they crash emotionally with each defeat. How Come Humans all require escape from a tedious reality, and rooting for a team is one avenue of possible support. Where else but sports can we curse the opposition aloud in public? There is a sense of belonging when we identify with a sports team. We are accepted by other fans as an elite member of their club. It is a social experience with serious emotional undertones. Many folks today remain single all their lives, and live without close family ties. They give their strongest emotions to the team of their choice. Sports fans treat their teams with a religious respect. There are special dates that are meaningful. The life of a fan has a purpose and meaning all its own. Leave them alone, says I. Believe it or not true believer fans pity you – the non-believer in the fate of the team. Google: professor Edward Hirt, Indiana University. Improvement in physical and mental tests by team worshipers. What if they really have something? This article is NOT intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. See ya, --- Question: would you have a major competitive advantage by learning and remembering up to three-times faster than you do now? Would it help in school or your career to get a promotion? Request our free, no strings attached Speed Reading report by contact us now. We have a limited number of reports available. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler, www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ So What? 2010-11-18 By H. Bernard Wechsler So What? Did you ever notice that there is an endless conversation going on in your mind called Self-Talk or Internal Dialogue? We stopped being aware of it because it has always been there. It is called – Thinking or Steam of Consciousness. We hold conversations between our – I, (personality) and our – Me, (mind-body connection) 24/7. Don’t you ask yourself questions before making decisions? How about searching your mind for alternative ideas or suggestions? Well, tell me, who are you talking to? So What “Sew buttons on your nose, and see if they stick,” is what our Inner Child would reply. Inquiring-Minds want to know to answer to – So What? (why are you wasting my time?) If you learn how to persuade your right-brain, you control your destiny. Example If you are not a speed reader, you are wasting two-hours daily and losing up to 50% of new long-term memory. Subvocalization is hearing each word you read in a report, article or book pronounced in your mind. It slows you down to a snail. Subvocalization is self-talk operating when we are reading. Slow as molasses. There is a strategy to reduce subvocalization up to 80%. You triple your learning. Control Homo sapiens are brainwashed to believe we run our life, the world and ourselves - using our Will-Power, volition, and left-brain. NG (No Good). Get this: humans are run by our automatic functions called Non-Consciousness, not our Consciousness. Wait: the power is in our Right-Hemisphere, non-conscious mind, and the Emotional elements of our brain. Will-Power, left-brain consciousness and reasoning, only control one-sixth of our brain’s mind-body connection. The other five-sixths are on auto-pilot. Score The brain score is 83.33% for non-consciousness and 16.67% controlled by consciousness. Stay with me: our conscious left-brain has a Broadband width of a maximum of 40 Bits of information per second. Aha. Our non-conscious, right-brain has – get this – 11 million Bits of information capacity. No joke. Google: Broadband brain capacity. That’s 40 for leftie, VS 11-million – righty. So What Twice But, your conscious left-brain can Reprogram, Recondition and associate your non-conscious right-brain and emotions, through repetitious persistence. Whatever you most often think about consciously – your goals, burning desires, and emotional needs, are automatically accepted by your non-consciousness as Its goals, burning desire and emotional needs. The secret of left-brain power is our ability to Influence-Persuade and Convince our right-brain to pay attention to our needs and goals. How? Repetition Your Mama was right – Repetition is the mother of learning. Not once or twice, but consistently 24/7, use Affirmations (Every day in every way, I am speed reading better and better, and it is getting easier and easier.) Insert whatever your goal is and it works. Your right-brain believes what it hears, sees and feels the Most. What else? Flashing Mental Imagery from your conscious to non-conscious. See yourself winning the race, getting the prize, winning the promotion – repetitiously. Seeing is believing. What Else Emotional Intelligence includes flashing your powerful Feelings from conscious to nonconscious by smiling and applauding or jumping up and shouting. This convinces your non-conscious, right-brain you mean business about obtaining your goal and desire. Use it or lose it. Convince your right-brain or forgetaboutit. New Story If you want to persuade, influence and convince folks, you must sound more like them. We all have an accent – even if it is the standard accent of middle-America. We trust people and want to deal with them when they sound more like us – huh? I once had a buyer of a $30,000 preschool center in Florida tell me: “the real reason you convinced me is you sound just like my brother in law, and he is a great guy and trustworthy.” It turned out great for him for the next 20-years. Foreigners When we listen to folks – even if they just won the Nobel Prize – with a foreign accent – we straight out do not believe them. We are hardwired with an internal unconscious bias because we cannot easily understand their enunciation of English. When you listen to someone with a regional or local accent (New York has many) we decide they are not believable based on their sound, not the content of their ideas. So what? If you are in the business of convincing others your product or service is best, record yourself and see how differently you sound from your prospect. You will be shot down not because someone else is better, but because you sound funny. Practice before a presentation, to sound more like the locals than a Harvard professor. Even President Obama aims to sound like the citizens, not an Ivy Leaguer and Harvard Law School graduate. It makes him more believable. Fact A foreign accent undermines a person’s credibility in ways both the speaker and the listener are unaware of consciously. The reason is it takes more effort from the listener to understand the speaker’s meaning. It causes distrust. Recent research indicates we do not believe in the competence of folks who speak differently than we do. It applies to hiring, firing and promotions. Take speech lessons, and be aware of the negative power of accents. ELF English is the Lingua Franca of the world. People in commerce use it when both parties need a language in common. It is derived from Italian meaning Frankish Tongue, and was originated in Eastern Mediterranean ports to expedite trade. ELF (English as Lingua Franca) When both parties to a conversation use English, it is not the perfect grammar we learned at University. It is a hybrid English that gets the point across. Remember, we trust our own accent, and everything else scares us. Practical. It is all about group identity and in-groups, and not the outs. The more you fit into how locals sound, the greater your power of influence and persuasion. You want to be part of the In-Group, and practice makes perfect. They will love you for sounding like them. Google: professor Patricia Bestelmeyer, University of Glasgow, appearing in the Journal: Society For Neuroscience, Nov. 18, 2010 See ya, Question: would you be more competitive for promotions in school and career by reading and remembering up to three-times better than your peers? Ask us for a free, no strings attached report on How to Speed Read. Act now. copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Work or Fun - Do Words Change Minds? 2010-11-16 By H. Bernard Wechsler Work or Fun – Do Words Change Minds? Are you in the business of influencing, persuading and convincing folks to use your product or service, and not your competitor? We all have a boss, someone to report to, even if it is the Board of Directors. Decisions are not mechanical or mathematical – they are at least 50% and more likely up to 85% emotional. If you are depending on your Will-Power, you left-brained logic and reasoning to make the optimal decisions or convince others – NGH it is Not-Going to-Happen. Homo sapiens are emotionally-driven by their right-hemisphere. Obligation to Work or Have Fun If you want to motivate your team or division or even one-single-person, there is one-word that tickles our brain to listen to your appeal. It is F-U-N. Folks will instantly decide to pay attention and be aroused to at least listen, if you first convince them your proposition is NOT 100% business (obligation to WORK). Inner Child It takes about five-seconds to get the hardest headed executive to switch from studying statistics for an important presentation – to thinking about playing and having F-U-N. If he/she loves golf and you throw a golf ball at them to see, or just say – Tiger Wood, their brain automatically shifts to PLAY mode. How do you know? Watch their face and particularly their eyes – they instantly smile using three sets of muscles in particular: a) risorius muscles b) zygomatic muscles c) orbicularis oculi (eyelids). They show crow’s eyes and raise the sides of their mouth, which is an indication of a genuine (not phony) smile. Our inner child is about 10-12 years old and he/she is always ready to play a game. Toss a rolled up paper ball and in 60-seconds you have a group basketball game. So What A new study in the Journal of Consumer, September 2010, Professor Juliano Laran, University of Miami, made this vital point about persuasion. Folks spending money lose emotional self-control; they have difficulty exercising self-regulation. They see it – they want it, and not later, but now. The ability to postpone Immediate Gratification is about 10%. It is on par with a 10-year old seeing a toy he/she wants. Often, this is the wrong decision and wasteful. Who Cares To get folks to stop-look-and-listen, we must reframe our proposition from An Obligation to Work (act like an adult), stick to a healthy diet, finish their homework, to an Opportunity to have F-U-N or play-a-game. Get This When they tested both low and high self-control people in various studies, when the word – F-U-N is included in the instructions (aloud or in writing), even the immediate-gratification folks perceived it as F-U-N, and not work. Result: they changed their mind, their mood, and motivation. They stopped complaining and acting like noisy preschoolers. They used their left-brain, and consciousness (will-power), and stopped their emotions from hijacking reason, planning, and logic. One-word did it – F-U-N. Prizes Humans are hardwired for pleasure. We want a Reward, a Prize, and it is caused by our Basal Ganglia (brain), and specifically in the Substantia Nigra and our Nucleus Accumbens. The neurotransmitters that trigger it are Dopamine and Nonepinephrine (attention and arousal). Do not use money because it reminds us of our obligation to work. Offer the equivalent to money – a two-hour paid lunch – a horse-and-carriage ride around the park, or a three-day weekend. Contests are great, but make it a game. Teams are great, and all share in the prize (weekend cruise to Nowhere). Mindset And Willpower You can program and condition your nonconsciousness by repetition - to do what your conscious mind (willpower), left hemisphere, and logic and reason set as goals. Scientific research is clear that the reason we cannot change our mind and behaviors is because we refuse to use enough repetition to convince our automatic non-consciousness to do it the new way. Google: Psychological Science October 2010, by Veronika Job, Stanford University Refreshing or procrastinating is a mindset, not a physical necessity. It means your belief in Will-Power as a non-limited resource makes you stronger in your ability to continue to work through challenges. Some folks must stop every 15-minutes for a drink, snack or a break, other can be powerfully productive for up to 90-minutes without the need for a diversion. The research indicates it-is-all-in-your-mind. If you believe you use up will-power like a car uses up gasoline, you will be proven correct and you will have to stop every 10-15-minutes. If your mindset is that you are engaged in an exciting, interesting project – you never quit until you are done. You can resist more temptations. This is evidence in the power of personal beliefs as a driver of volition, emotion and behavioral outcomes. How? Repetition convinces your non-consciousness that your conscious mind decides when to stop – not some biological signal. Endwords You can condition, program and associate both your left and right hemispheres, logical and emotional areas of your brain, by combining consciousness with non- consciousness. Consciousness is your Will-Power and it must lead your automatic processes (nonconsciousness) to change and follow a new paradigm. How? Three-ways: repeat your affirmation 100-times, (Every day, in every way, we are speed learning better-and-better, and it is getting easier-and-easier). Visualize mental imagery (brain-movie of your success) 100-times, and lastly, add emotion by applauding for your success, jumping up and cheering 100-times. Do these things repetitiously over 21 consecutive days, and it creates a habit. Why? You want to Condition-Program-Associate your mind-body-connection for improvement. Your consciousness leads nonconsciousness to change and success. See ya, If you believe reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, in the time your competitors can hardly finish one, help you with school and career success, ask us for our free, no-strings-attached speed reading report. copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler, 2010. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning .org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Secret of Speed Reading 2010-11-13 By H. Bernard Wechsler “The Secret of Speed Reading” “Acoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabriigde Uinervtisy, it ddeosn’t mttaer in wttht order the lteers in a wrrd are, the ollny ipmoetnt tihhng is taaht thr frrist and lssat lttteers be at the rgghit pcclae. The rsset cnna be a tooatl msses and yuoo can sittl raaed it wuotthit a poorbelm. Thhis is bceeause the huammn mnnid deeos not raaed ervey ltteter by istlef , but the wrrod as a wllohe.” (Holistic) This was concocted at Nottingham University, UK by Graham Rawlinson, PhD in 1976. The point is to show how you can speed read a lot faster than you think, and still get the meaning and not lose comprehension. (Peripheral) See ya, hbw@speedlearning.org - 11.2010 So What There two key elements to making you a speed reader. Learn them and you will absolutely 3x (triple) your reading speed, and double your long-term memory. 1. Read with your Peripheral Vision (wide) and not your Foveal (central) vision. Foveal vision is close reading used for watching TV, playing video games, and viewing movies. You have been taught to read books, articles and reports using this narrow, foveal –central vision. Wrongo – you need your wide, peripheral vision for reading. It is easy to learn and turns ordinary students into “A” getters – really. It gets you promotions in your career because you learn quickly and have all the information at your fingertips. 2. Always, and we mean – always – read holding a pen or a rastermaster (handheld laser pacer) to underline every sentence you read. More later. Reading on your computer, use your Mouse cursor (tip) to underline each sentence you read. What does it take to master? Answer: persistence and about 15 minutes daily for 21 consecutive days. After three-weeks, your new speed reading skill goes on autopilot and becomes a habit. See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler, 2010. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do You Zone-Out 46.9% of the time (at work)? 2010-11-12 By H. Bernard Wechsler Do You Zone-Out 46.9% of The Time (at your office)? Although I am a Contrarian (trained at law school) I have done the research about Mind-Wandering, Day-Dreaming and Zoning-Out. Result: you and I are OOI (Out Of It) a minimum of 30% (at school) to 47% of the time (at your career). Weird. Google: the journal Science by Daniel T. Gilbert, Harvard University, Nov. 2010. So What Mind Wandering is a lack of attention and loss of comprehension. Like being seriously overweight – when I got on the scale I was dumbfounded with the reading. Who knew? I nonconsciously chose to not weigh myself in two-years. Sigmund Freud would call it my defense mechanism. Homo sapiens are masked from noticing the reality of our insistent Daydreaming by being actively engaged in other distracting activities. Like what? Three-things. a) setting long-term goals and evaluating our success and failure. b) receiving insights and intuitions about our activities. c) balancing our mind between our conscious and non-conscious information flow, V-A-K ( Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic – feeling ), and focusing on our mind-body connection for healing. Blinking When you see other people blinking their eyes repetitively, they are shutting out new information from entering their mind. They are mentally snoozing while you are explaining. Blinking is a direct result of Mind-Wandering (Day Dreaming and Zoning-Out). It is a physical wall (barrier) erected between the world and us. We are either on-task or OOI (Out Of It) and it involves both your mind and physical body (eyes). Inquiring Minds need to know: we average 15 blinks per minute, one every four-second. A blink last one-tenth of a second, while reading a book reduces blinking to 3-5 times per minute. The greater your concentration, the less your eyes blink away. Secret of Power Attention (Concentration) We call it - Six WHs and One How - Please focus on remembering and using the following mental-images. 1. Who? Mentally picture an owl and remember his limited vocabulary. Associated the wise old owl and the Question – Who? 2. What? Pick out the word Hat from the question – What? Create a mental image now. When you see the word What? you mind associates a Hat. 3. When? Now mentally withdraw the word Hen from the question – When? From now on always associate a egg-laying hen when you see of hear the word When? 4. Where? Just imagine a hare (rabbit) when you see or hear the word Where? Pull it out of the magician’s bag – a hare out of Where? Sounds-alike, right? 5. Why? Let the word so a sound-alike. Why? reminds you of Eye. Why? answers our need for meaning with out all-seeing eye. 6. Which? automatically creates a mental-image of a Witch riding a broomstick. Witch? is associated with Which? 7. How? sounds like Cow, right? Do it, don’t suppress your 12-year old inner-child – make a mooing sound. Associate How? with the sound-alike cow. So What When you ask questions of yourself – it’s called Think-ing. Wait. When you are engaged in thinking – linking your left and right hemispheres, conscious and non-conscious, and reason and emotion, you are planning and evaluating. So what’s wrong with that? It is not Mind-Wandering, Zoning-Out, and Day Dreaming, right? It is a question of timing. When you Day Dream at the office or in school – you are not on-target with business goals and learning. Day-Dreaming 47% of the time is way, too much. Ask the - Six-Wh’s and One How questions - and you keep on-track and reduce blinking and Day-Dreaming down to only 10-15% instead of 47%. Now mentally review and say aloud the visual substitutes for the word questions. How? is a Cow, Why? is an Eyes, etc. A Human Mind A human mind (majority) is a Wandering (Day Dreaming, Zoning-Out) mind. So what? Get this: a wandering mind is an Unhappy mind. When we mind- wander we are using our Default thinking system. Either concentrate or Day Dream. This losing our place when reading (we Regress 6-7 times per page) causes a loss of self-esteem, personal confidence and comprehension. When we Regress we lose attention and concentration our long-term memory loses track our the meaning we take from what we read. Learning is affected negatively. “Our mental lives are pervaded to remarkable degree, to not being present.” Happiness Humans are happiest during these three activities: 1. Making love – we are really present. 2. Active exercising. 3. Engaging in pleasant conversations. We are least happy doing these three things, sorry but it is a scientific fact – when we are Working, Resting, and or on the Computer. If it feels like Work, we take it as being controlled by others, and we hate that feeling. The greater percentage of Mind-Wandering, the less happiness we bring into our lives. We are hardwired to being-present, and not having a competition between switch back and forth from being in-the-moment and day-dreaming. Endwords Our goal is to pay attention, concentrate on being in the here-and-now, and quickly becoming aware of our mind-wandering. Once you are aware you are day-dreaming, you can start asking yourself questions, and get back on track. Remember: mind-wandering is a major cause of our unhappiness. It is something you can physically and mentally do something about it. Start now. --- Last point: you are wasting a couple of hours daily by reading and learning like a snail. Speed Reading can eliminate Subvocalization (hearing each word you read in-your-mind) and Regression – losing your place on the page and loss of concentration, both required for effective long-term memory. Contact us for a free, no-strings-attached, How-To report on speed reading hbw@speedlearning.org See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler, 2010 – www.speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do You Start Yawning at 2:30pm? 2010-11-05 By H. Bernard Wechsler Do You Start Yawning At 2:30pm And Finish At 5pm? If you are still breathing and own a TV you have viewed a commercial for 5-Hour Energy Drink. Each dose contains 2-ounces in five different berry flavors. This is an alternative to coffee crashing with its tired, dopey, and sluggish feedback. Does this new gimmick work? Are there side effects, and when can I start? Energy Drink claims to consist of healthy amino acids, B vitamins, and stuff. Researchers believe up to 85% of first-time users continue taking 5-Hour on a regular basis. The only complaint we hear is that it is habit forming, and not natural. Eat the bark off a tree – that is natural, right? Health And Longevity Give us 5-minutes for the boring stuff, and well give you baby-easy strategies to help shine in your office – without PM drowsiness. It is magical for students too. Inquiring Minds need to know the secrets of alertness, arousal and self-motivation. Why? Your next promotion or successful presentation depends on being In The Flow (in the zone), and avoiding tired self-gratification. Yawning We know yawning is an automatic reflex because we have computer records of 11-week (unborn) fetuses stretching and yawning. We come hardwired. What is it for? It is a mystery, but the best answer is to take in more oxygen, get rid of carbon dioxide, and join into a tribal ritual of imitation. Huh? You know yawning is contagious, monkey see, monkey do, but it is on auto-pilot. Just reading about yawning or seeing a video or picture causes a storm of team-yawning. Each single yawn last 6-seconds. Fact: yawning increases your blood pressure, heart rate, and flexes your muscles and joints. Nice. There is a word for yawning and stretching simultaneously – pandiculation - from Latin, to stretch oneself. It covers yawning while stretching. Only Inquiring Minds Care: the brain structure mostly involved with yawning is your hypothalamus. When the brain produces Dopamine, yawning is the next step. Dopamine The latest research indicates for the first time, dopamine regulates brain cycles like waking, sleeping and eating. They call it circadian rhythms. Now – get this: dopamine is the neurotransmitter that regulates pleasure and reward – motivation. Google: October 20, 2010, Concordia University (UK) See: the Journal of Neuroscience. Acupuncture or Acupressure If you ask and read – and we do – medical doctors, specialists and top-gun scientific researchers throughout the world – ‘Do you accept the effectiveness of acupuncture as a medical treatment?’ The answer by 95% is – ‘Acupuncture, Acupressure and Dancing With The Stars - are con jobs that are dangerous to the public, and use nonsensical methodology. The Breakthrough Original research at the University of Michigan (Richard Harris), and in the UK at the University of Southampton – (Dr. Peter White), May 10, 2010 completely accept Acupuncture and Acupressure as legitimate healing modalities (methods). The difference between acupuncture and acupressure is the former uses needles they twirl upon the surface of the skin. Acupressure uses the fingers and hands to affect the Meridians (power points) along the body to stimulate healing. There are 14 meridian channels (highways) for human energy called CHI (chee) to flow. When there are stoppages through injury or stress, chi stops circulating and pain attacks the body. Why This ancient Chinese medicine has one goal, the flow of Endorphins. They want to stimulate the release of Endorphins to overcome pain and open blockages of bodily energy. They use the 7- major charkas and nodes along the meridian channels. After a nice nature walk, or smiling and laughing at a funny show, or sex, your body releases endorphins that counteract pain, overcomes stress, and make us feel good. These bodily chemicals are neuropeptides (opioids) that are involved in the healing process. Did you know dopamine flows when we get a tiny or great reward? Get this: a 30-minute Acupressure treatment is not forever, but it does cause relief for between 12 to 24 hours. It does not come with aftereffects. DeQi This is the sensation the patient feels when the acupuncturist uses needles to stimulate the flow of chi and open stoppages. The latest research by Dr. Peter White at the University of Southampton concludes: the presence or intensity of DeQi has no effect on the pain relief felt by the patient. Acupressure works just as well. Is it Real Medical physicians and their associations have not accepted the usefulness of Acupuncture and Acupressure. It took generations and legal action for Chiropractors to be accepted by the medical community. Hypnosis is still considered a funny Placebo, not a medical treatment in the U.S. The truth is that Placebos results are seen by fMRIs. They are tangible and measurable. Physicians have not acquired a liking for competitors for government or insurance company checks. Would you? Practical Stuff You are in the office, and it is 2:30pm. Yawning and feeling sleeping, dragging your fundament, your team is acting half-asleep. Wait – the quarterly financial report for your Board of Directors is due within 48 hours. Coffee causes negative after-effects, Pot is still illegal, and that 5-Hour Drink cannot be legally recommend by the company Human Resources department. Secret of Acupressure To produce demonstrable acupressure results, you must devote a minimum of 5-8 minutes to baby-easy specific strategies. It is called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping on your meridians. Now I will admit it looks really weird, so to avoid a mass round up of your team for the loony bin – close the door for privacy. We recommend each person practice alone in his or her cubicle. Step one: sit down at your computer, close your eyes and take three deep diaphragmatic breaths. Focus on each inhalation through your nose, and exhalation through your mouth. Relax and pay attention to your chest rising and falling. Step two: place three fingers together (thumb touching index and middle finger) of each hand. Eyes closed, gently rap on the middle of the roof of your skull. Simultaneously repeat this short affirmation as you tap-tap-tap on your skull. ‘The Feeling is Healing, the feeling is healing, and the feeling is healing.’ Continue… Tapping and your affirmation trigger your imagination. Do you know your Crown is the seventh charka (energy center) - and it is the center of wisdom and your sensing of the world (environment). Step three: Now move from your crown to tapping on the back-of-the-neck, later below the back of your thumb, and finally tap and affirm at the back of your knee. Why? Stimulating these pressure points for a few minutes release endorphins and producing pleasure to reduce or eliminate pain. It is baby-easy so try it now. Endwords Our research with acupressure led us to recommend it to corporate executives and college students. Experience has reinforced our belief in its efficacy in arousing the brain for attention and productivity. It quickly works to stimulate your alertness for at least six-hours. Time: about five-minutes, result: attention and better comprehension. Google: Charkas - for a list of the big seven. Google: tapping EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) videos. This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It is for information only. See ya, -- Contact us for a free, no strings attached speed reading report on how to double your learning skills permanently. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org copyright © 2010, H. Bernard Wechsler ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Synphony Conductors Live Longer 2010-11-01 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Symphony Conductors Live Longer. If you read the obituaries for fun and as social history, the #1 occupation producing healthy, long living folks – I mean into their 90s – are musical conductors making ridiculous arm gestures. Can their secret of healthy, long lives, work for others? Inquiring Minds need to know because we want to be around for the fun and games. The critical exercises are easy to employ at your desk and requires a miserly five-minutes to implement daily. We have recommended these baby-easy exercises to a legion of executives who have made it part of their normal routine. We receive positive feedback and not one negative comment. We can just throw these exercises at you – they are so uncomplicated – they seem stupid. However, humans make 80% of our decisions based on Meaning – do we get it or not? Inquiring Minds want reasons and always ask – why should I? Some Details Have you ever heard of Detoxing The Thoracic Tract? Neither did we. The 12 thoracic vertebrae are the chest and contain your lungs and heart. It is located between the cervical (neck) and the lumbar (torso). Stay awake, it gets better. We know medical stuff is boring and not practical in your life, but if you read this stuff, it will tell you why you might want to start and continue Detoxing Your Thoracic Tract. It only matters if you require longevity. First, Detoxing is filtering out poisons. See: toxicum Latin = poision. Second, Lymph is the fluid part of your blood. So what? The Lymphatic system is part of your Immune system and the cells are called lymphocytes. These cytes protect your body from viruses, bacteria, and antigens. They filter out waste and remove excess fluid, debris, and dead blood cells. If this stuff hangs around they get poisonous and can knock us off. Wait. I don’t remember high school biology, but it turns out your lymphatic system is a partner with blood circulation and delivers nutrients, oxygen (nice), and hormones to your cells and the tissues spaces between cells. The Hot Stuff Of course you know the heart pumps the bloodstream. It circulates the body and is cleansed by your kidneys. Here it comes – the lymphatic system does not own a pump to keep it in the flow. The designer of this lymph system set it up so it only flows upward through the body, traveling from your feet and hands and upward through the body toward the neck. So what? Do the lymph flow or cash in your chips sooner than later. Magic Words The lymph ends up passing through the lymph nodes where filtering occurs. Now it is returned to the veins as plasma in your bloodstream as the Sanitation Department. Not important? These poisons (toxins) cause disease and guess what else? How To Close the door to your office to avoid folks thinking you flipped. You can do the five minutes standing or sitting at your computer. Ever see the football referee signal a touchdown or field goal? He raises his arms straight upward parallel to each other, right? Your assignment, if you accept it Mr. Phelps, is to start with your arms down, and quickly raise them to the sky – parallel to each other. How many times? I do 250 consecutive repetitions in 2.5 minutes. Nothing to it, easy, fun and it is quickly completed. Next, arms stretched outward, and moved inward looking like a bridge opening and closing. Easy as pie doing 200 reps in about 2 minutes. I do both exercises with my earphones on, listening to meditation music. Result You are Detoxing your thoracic tract by circulating your lymph. Are you cleaning your lungs and heart? And cells, organs and tissues. Create a mental image of a symphony conductor waving his/her arms around. He is pumping the lymph around his body and particularly his/her Thoracic tract. That is exactly what you want to imitate with these baby-easy two exercises taking just five minutes. Look, I know you have a busy day and who needs another stupid thing to add to your routine. We do not recommend exercises outside the areas of speed reading and memory. You may want to test this – but it is your choice, of course. Disclaimer We tell you this for informational purposes only, not as medical advice. Consult your medical professional before any lifestyle change. The reader assumes the risk from the use, nonuse or misuse of this information. See: Dr. Stephen Sinatra, M.D. www.drsinatra.com Brainstorming This is a quickie, but a goodie. If you want to get the juices flowing of your creative team, excite their motivation by giving them a small (no monetary significance) gift. You are awakening the emotions leading to a different set of behaviors. Humans cannot help reacting positively to a gift or prize regardless of its value. Inquiring minds know that pleasure is triggered by dopamine and norepinelphrine. One more scientific term: the nucleus accumbens of the basal ganglia is known as the Pleasure tract. It kicks in when rewarded. It excites motivation and a sense of play when rewarded. We have seen a tiny package of M&Ms handed out to a creative team – work magic. Why? We are hardwired to seek Pleasure and avoid Pain. Giving out a ten-cent prize like you find in a box of Crackerjacks, will motive hardened veterans to get in the flow with new ideas. Get this: imagine showing a ten-minute Three-Stooges comedy to a team of PhDs. It changes their mood, and you awaken their motivation to cooperate and create. The larger the screen the better because it is a reversion to good times as a kid at the movies. Play with this scientifically validated idea and you will be pleasantly surprised. We don’t expect to be entertained at work, so our mood improves. See ya, We have about 15 Free (no strings attached) powerful speed reading reports to help double your learning skills. Contact us and ask for one. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Inquiring Minds Care: Health And Longevity 2010-10-28 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Inquiring Minds Care: It’s Health And Longevity Do you find that 95% of all Internet articles never teach you anything practical? Can you even remember the last useful strategy or schema (diagram/pattern) you implemented to improve your life? Inquiring Minds read books, articles and reports to learn, remember, and apply knowledge to improve their lives or they take-a-nap. I am a Contrarian – a skeptic who has great difficulty believing information because an Authority Figure (expert) or Ancient Book (Bible) tells me to have faith. Not-good-enough, sir. Law school teaches one thing along with legal precedents and principles – without substantial proof by way of documents, witnesses and motive – For-Get-About-It! and go find a Mooch (true believer) for your knowledge. Science Scientific Facts to Remember For Health And Longevity: if You hear a statement 27- times in close proximity – your brain accepts it as authentic-genuine-real. Hitler used it for his agenda, but it is also true in self-improvement for your Mind-Body-Connection. Negative and positive are equally accepted by your brain. Wait. If you intentionally repeat a thought, idea or belief aloud or silently (Internal Dialogue) 45-times within a short period of time – it sticks like glue as a mental HABIT. The idea affects your thoughts, emotions and behavior – get it? Exercise Are you are tired of reading about the benefits of running and boring repetitive exercises as I am? Neurobiologist Fred H. Gage sums it up. “There is a physiological (body) link between regular exercise and neurogenesis (birth of new brain cells).” Why? It produces more Oxygen through your carotid artery flow to the brain for improved thinking, memory and activity. Oh yeah, our brain requires 25% of all the Oxygen the body takes in. That is a bit much for a 3-pound coconut. Even baby-easy exercise at your desk pumps out Endorphins (pleasure chemicals). They produce greater attention, arousal (alertness), improved Immune System, well-being, and better learning and memory. Nice. How The more complex your activities, the greater number of (cell) Synapses are firing in multiple areas of our brain. So what? They stave off Alzheimer and Parkinson. What do you have to regularly do for brain priming and security? Play chess, bridge, do crossword puzzles, or learn a new subject or language. Remember, mental exercise is as important as physical workouts. If you become a life-long reader, you improve the odds up to 80% to avoid dementia in your later years. More neuro-blood vessels appear with exercising and are associated with neurogenesis, the birth of new neurons (cells). Do emotional changes in life affect our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors? All change is stressful. Even good changes like a promotion – upset your mind-body connection and emotional relationships. Does poor emotional health weaken the Immune (exempt or protected) System? Heavy-Duty. Google: Dr. Amir Soas, Case Western Reserve Medical School, in Cleveland. Use it or lose it - is a scientific fact for muscles and neurons (cells). Cleveland Clinic Heart And Vascular Health “The mind-body connection means that you can learn to use your thoughts to positively influence some of your body’s physical responses to decrease Chronic Stress.” Get this: if you can recall and bring into memory as a thought or feeling, a time you were HAPPY, grateful or calm, this mental image causes your mind-body connection today - to make you relax and lose stress, eliminate panic and anxiety. Mental movies and relaxed happy thoughts give you control over your present thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Your imagination, thoughts and (facial expressions) permit you to eliminate frightening, upsetting and panic-causing events in the present. If you are going in for an operation, or testing for disease, you and I need to activate our Higher Self (positive thoughts) and our High-Guidance (nonconsciousness) for healing and repairs. Weird But True Sounds weird, but you can trigger your immune system and Sympathetic Nervous System for healing and physical repairs, and to avoid chronic fears and panic. How? You have already read some of the strategies, and more are coming. Please remember this statement not by some money-hungry guru, but by Cleveland Clinic – they have the proof and research. Relaxation and imagination exercises strengthen your Immune System (you heard that before), and enhance your mind-body connection to HEAL and repair. Goal We want you to have strategies and schema (diagram, plan and patterns) to beat chronic stress, anxiety and fear of death and dying. How? Replace negative thoughts and emotions with lively positive ones, and learn how to Release existing scary bad feelings. “I Know and Release Karmic, Past and Present problems with my mind-body connection 24/7, ad infinitum.” Repeat this three-times. Breathing Take control by switching fast, shallow CHEST breathing, to slow, deep diaphragmatic (abdominal) inhalation and exhalation. Do not complicate this: put your left hand on your chest, and your right hand on your navel. Now imagine you are inflating a balloon in your abdomen with each breath. Exhale and imagine your balloon losing its air. You will see and feel your abdomen fill quicker than your chest. Exhale and permit your abdomen to fall naturally. Keep on track for about 4-5 minutes. Experiment and take control. Mantra Repeat the same single word on each exhalation. Sit down, close your eyes and silently repeat the word – Guidance. Inhale and on each exhale, say and produce your Mantra – Guidance. A Mantra (to think) is a chant, an incantation for attention and focus. Five minutes of deep breathing while simultaneously reciting Guidance, releases your body and mind. It also activates your immune system for repairs and healing. Rotating Your 3-Pound Coconut Step 1: sit at your desk, close your eyes, and lean your left ear to your left shoulder. Now, rotate your head left to right in a circular motion. Step 2: when you reach your right shoulder, lean your right ear to it and rotate around to your left. Move left and right in circular motion for 5-6 minutes. Step 3: Continue relaxing your neck muscles, but stay awake. Step 4. Keep a continuous Smile on your face – even by forcing a fake smile because it produces healthy dopamine and serotonin. See ya, N.B. Contact us for a Free, no strings attached speed reading report – only 15 left. Copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@speedlearning .org www.speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Get Hired For The Right Slot in This Economy 2010-10-24 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Get Hired For The Right Slot – In This Economy Is it a scientific fact that whatever is measured – improves? Does Attention create Concentration and Comprehension, leading to learning strategies and a better working-memory? Your attention varies based on your motivation to learn and remember a particular subject. Bricklayers are rarely interested in learning Greek. They may be motivated to spend years to discover the intricacies of an internal combustion engine. But what Personality Traits control the length of our Attention Span, concentration and being in the Focus Zone? Do these Five-Traits produce success in school and in our life career? Which of These Five Personality Traits Are Dominant in You? a) Extraversion – lively, gregarious, assertive, while enjoying action. b) Self-Esteem – trust and confidence in your personal skills and strategies to achieve winning results. c) Conscientiousness – paying attention and aroused. Attention to short and long-term goals. Delayed impulsivity, and avoiding being a perfectionist (micromanaging). Not watching the clock, but the results. d) Emotional stability – feeling safe and secure. Team-Player using strategies emphasizing Emotional Intelligence. e) Agreeableness – cooperation and active imagination open to learning from new experiences. Plays Well With Others. So What Let’s be practical, unless you see personal meaning and value in Personality Traits, it is, in-one-ear, and out-the-other. If you are interviewing for a position or a promotion - or are the interviewer for the hire – you need a winning strategy for the job or to choose the best candidate for the slot, agreed? If you really understand the aforementioned five-traits you increase your potential for success up to 45% - according to Human Resources studies. Did you realize up to fifty percent of hiring decisions lead to repeating the process because the chosen one does not fit in the company’s culture? They don’t make the cut or the probationary period for the slot. Study the Big Five Personality Traits again - to avoid choosing the wrong woman or man for the specific position. All hiring and promoting is subjective because we are humans not robots. Human Resources experts suggest using a checklist to evaluate and record your opinion of each candidate’s Emotional Stability-Extraversion-Conscientiousness-Self-Esteem-Agreeableness in their Interview. Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results Do we put too much emphasis on a candidate’s educational background and past employment experience, and not enough on their emotional intelligence? Does every Harvard graduate have an ‘A’ in Emotional Stability-Agreeableness and Conscientiousness? We have interviewed Community College graduates whose personalities overcome all our prior beliefs and expectations because they are motivated to learn and improve. It is their personality traits that win the position. Does being a successful stockbroker (salesperson) on Wall Street, guarantee the talent required of a Sales Manager for IBM? Wait Can a shy, introvert be a killer member of top-management because they bring Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness to the table? Which is the dominant factor required, social intelligence (skills), advanced education or past work record? Life experience never produces the perfect candidate with all Five Personality traits, who is an A+ scholar, with excellent work experience. It always remains your subjective decision, but not a crapshoot when you understand the five winning personality traits. Inquiring Minds Must Know Where does Attention start? The brain chemicals that create Attention are Dopamine and Norepinephrine. Now remember the following brain structures involved in exciting Attention are: Parietal and Frontal cortices and the Thalamus. Who Cares? The secret of focusing your Attention and eliminating auditory distractions is to study and take all exams wearing earplugs. There is no rule against this simple solution, and it adds up to 65% to your final work product. Experiment now. Emotion Signaling Your Nonconsciousness You have probably read that adding emotion to your Affirmations and Visualizations influences their success as a cue to nonconsciousness. The omitted element from all gurus is how to emotionalize your desires. Simple and Easy You are required to use your Body Language and make a loud clapping noise to emotionalize your requests for bodily repairs or help to reach goals and desires. You know the football Referee’s signal for a Touchdown and a Field Goal when you see it, right. It is both arms raised to parallel to heaven. The same signal in baseball is for a Time-Out. The only thing missing is to create an Emotional exclamation point. How? Loudly slapping both hands together at the top of the parallel arm-raising symbol. One More Once When you use an Affirmation or a Visualization to reprogram your Mind-Body connection, you are using non-verbal language to reach your nonconsciousness. You are exciting your Right Hemisphere, Nonconsciousness and Emotional decision making. No words in isolation work. You need non-verbal action symbols. When you wish to active benign repairs to your organs, structures, systems or cells, you must end each request with your emotional signal – arms-raised parallel for a touchdown and loudly slapping (clapping) left with your right hand. Only use the Hands-Up gesture for those goals and behaviors you wish to realize. If you do a great job of mental imagery and/or affirmations, and omit the Emotional non-verbal gesture, nothing happens. Got it? Endwords There are three major muscles that create an authentic Smile. Only Inquiring Minds must know: Zycomaticus – raises sides of mouth, Orbicularis Oculi – creates crows feet at the sides of each eye, and Risorius – pulls the lips horizontally apart. When you fake a smile – intentionally forcing these muscles to activate, there is no physiological or mental difference in the secretion of hormones, enzymes, and neuropeptides from a real, genuine, authentic smile. It is good for you. Smiling activates your immune system for healing. It produces Endorphins that reduce or eliminate pain. Your blood pressure is lowered, and chronic stress is put on hold for up to ninety minutes by one minute of smiling. Experiment, it is fun. N.B. We offer no medical advice just opinions, based on our personal experience. Always follow the advice of your physician. See ya, --- For a free, no strings attached first-rate How To Speed Reading report, please contact us. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@ speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Doubling Your Memory is Hot Stuff 2010-10-22 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Doubling Your Long-Term Memory Leads to Longevity Did you know your brain is always using multi-senses, not just one, for comprehension? When we are listening to anyone speaking to us (giving a lecture, or movie dialogue), our brain is using a variety of senses, not just our ears, to make heads or tails of their ideas and contents. So what? In order to get our point across when we are communicating with one person or a group of folks – we must consciously use our face-teeth-lips and hand gestures, body-language, and even posture to emphasize our ideas. Do you forget that up to 50% of what we say is ranked important by the tone of voice we use? How about smiling or frowning? The listener is watching your face for cues (bodily signals) to deeply comprehend the meaning of your ideas. Who Cares? Inquiring Minds need to know how to communicate better, to win promotions in their career, improve their relationships, and gain self-esteem. Knowing what influences and persuades folks (facial cues and body language) is the difference between success and failure. So, you have to care, right? Dr. Lawrence Rosenblum whose article appears in the journal – Current Directions in Psychological Science – Multi-Senses in Brain Perception – 2.13.09 – says we all read lips when listening to someone speak to us. It is part of paying attention. We integrate hearing of course, but also use our vision and kinesthetic sense (feeling) for optimal perception. Doing this improves our Memory and learning skills. Speech is to be seen and felt, as well as heard. Cool lifelong learners know the McGurk Effect is integrating what we see-feel-hear senses when we listen to Homo sapiens speak. Awareness gives us the winning edge. Peg System to Double Your Memory Fact: the human brain has great difficulty in remembering numbers – Mark Twain said, “The mind hates remembering numbers.” How do the stock brokers at the New York Stock Exchange do it? Answer: they substitute keywords for numbers and tell themselves a little story. Example: Exxon/Mobil is selling for $65.19. They have to know a couple of hundred other stock prices and this one can fall between the cracks without a memory system. The Peg Words (number substitutes) for $65.19 are: Striking (#6) and Fighting (#5), and Running (#1) and Swine (#9). They mentally commit to memory an Exxon gas station with the mechanics on-Strike (#6) and Fighting (#6) with scabs (strike-breakers) and the police. Easy. Then they imagine Mickey Mouse Running (#1) after a 600 pound Swine (#9), while yelling -Bacon-Bacon!” Remember this, the brain always thinks in P-I-C-T-U-R-E-S Using Kinesthetic (feelings, touch) Sense to Remember Here’s how to remember #1: Running – dangle and move your fingers back-and-forth, as if they were racing along. Nothing to it, right? #2: Throwing: – Have your dominant arm make a pitching a baseball –motion. Easy. #3: Peeing : – In the air – use your index finger to make a symbol of the capital letter – P. #4. Scoring: - You know the baseball umpire’s sign for Safe? Both hands moving laterally. Hey, you scored. Now try it. When you see the number four, you mentally picture the umpire signaling – Score! It even rhymes. #5: Fighting: - Use your kinesthetic sense and make a Fist. Pump your fist and your will always remember the number five is fighting. You integrate multiple-senses. See- Hear-Feel #5 is Fighting. You will never forget it. #6: Striking (either on-strike or striking someone over the head). Slap both palms together with a loud noise. Some folks use the symbol of raising one-finger , which stands for – Strike One. Either one locks Striking as #6 in your long-term memory. #7: Sleeping: Easy – Raise your index finger and make a large Z in the air. Zees for snoring when sleeping. The more ridiculous the easier to recall. Zees for Sleeping = #7. #8: Mating: Unite together both your thumbs and twiddle them back and forth. Mating = # eight and you picture your thumbs in action. Never forget your Peg word. #9. Swine: Swell you cheeks full of air to remind you of a big, fat Swine. It rhymes too – the Swine is #9. Now it is in your long-term memory for eternity. #10. Hen – the kind that lays eggs? Ten is a Hen is the rhyme. Cup one hand over the other as if you were holding an hot egg in the middle. Do it now, please. It works. Last one: #0 (Zero) In the air, use your index finger to print a capital Z. I remember Z is for Zoro, and that reminds me Z (zero) equals the #0. Locked into your three-pound coconut, right? We suggest you go back to the Exxon example of $65.19 and make it happen kinesthetically according to the Peg Word substitution list. Do it 3x and it is in your mind for life. Oh yeah, memory improvement helps increase your longevity and the quality of your life. Endwords Repetition is the mother of memory – particularly when the reps are in mental pictures. Executives of Fortune 100 companies use this baby-easy strategy. Students at U.S. universities and graduate schools send us emails of gratitude for acing their classes using our Peg Word system. We know you own an Inquiring Mind and want to add this strategy to your learning skills. Who would not want to double their memory? Start now. See ya, --- Question: would you have a major competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free, no strings attached copy of our special Speed Reading report to learn to triple your reading skills. copyright 2010 © H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Are the Top-Ten Worst Human Fears? 2010-10-20 By H. Bernard Wechsler What Are the Top-Ten Worst Human Fears? Who cares? Inquiring Minds must know. #10. is the mind-boggling fear of Public Speaking and being unprepared. # 9. is the stomach-churning fear of Heights and maybe falling off the roof. # 8. is the panic attack by the thought of Claustrophobia (locked in a small space). # 7. is creepy insects like roaches, spiders and bedbugs. # 6. is Dr. Frankenstein inserting a 2-foot Needle (hypodermic) in our …. # 5. is the touch of Rats chewing on your body. # 4. is not flying, but crashing while a passenger in an Airplane. # 3. is being eaten alive by a pack of vicious Dogs. # 2. is the fear of being struck by Lightning – and sliced down the middle. # 1. is the heart-throbbing sensation your Doctor is going to say - the Big-C. Weird Knowledge Want to 2x (double) your long-term memory? All it takes is learning how to use this baby-easy Peg-System. It is exclusively for Inquiring Minds. #1. is Running. Make a mental-movie of you running the NYC Marathon. #2. is Throwing. Produce a mental-visualization of you throwing-out the runner. #3. is Peeing. See an elephant releasing his urine and flooding the river. #4. is Scoring. See the athletic you - crossing the goal line carrying the winning football. #5. is Fighting. Imagine what Mohammed Ali would have done to your kidneys. #6. is Striking. Picture Striking your worst enemy with a karate kick. He stays down. #7. is Sleeping. View a mental-movie of 8-hours of dramatic sleep. #8. is Mating. Can you picture two porcupines very carefully Mating? #9. is a Swine: See a 600 pound prize-winning Porker driving a Spaceship. 10. is a Hen. Remember the rhyme – ten is a hen. Now remove two-eggs. 0. is a Hero. Zero is our Hero. Originated by Arabic mathematicians. How To Substitute According to Mark Twain, “the mind hates remembering numbers.” 90% of adults screw up numbers, but can encode verb substitutes and double their long-term memory. Exxon-Mobil closed today at $65.19. If you are not Jim Cramer of CNBC, the price has already disintegrated from your 3-pound coconut. Picture your local Exxon station with the following digits attached. See the mechanics striking (Striking is #6) and fighting (Fighting is #5) with scabs (Strike-Breakers), and the police. ($65). That’s baby-easy, right? Add the change: See Mickey Mouse running (Running is #1) after a 600-pound swine (Swine is #9) screaming “Bacon – Bacon.” That’s the 19 cents. Remember, the brain thinks in Pictures, not numbers. Too much trouble? Practice turning digits into the Peg-words for only ten-minutes, and it becomes a Game, Fun, and Play, not work. Your brain loves memory strategies. Remember you only have to learn the Peg Words once, and they work for 10,000 different memories. Your Single Greatest Daily Decision New research at the Universities of Miami and Florida contain Killer! knowledge for Inquiring Minds: whether you see activities as either an obligation to work or as an opportunity to have fun (play-games) decides success or failure. One-more-once: your attitude, mood, and belief whether what you are attempting is an obligation-to-work or an opportunity to experience ‘fun-play-games’. Example: losing ten-pounds of ugly fat through self-control. If your nonconscious mind sees dieting as Work, a Job, or a Demand, your effort at self-control is 90/10 guaranteed to fail. Hold it – we have all experienced failure in long-term dieting and its maintenance – how do you turn it into Games-Fun-Play? Make your significant-other join you in the contest to win a real prize. Smile and laugh together about the pitfalls of dieting. Celebrate diet-free weekends together. Career Outcomes If you run an office team to produce solutions to company challenges, you need a committed team dedicated 24/7 to creativity, right? Google is presently selling at $601.45. Experts expect Google to reach $900 per share in early 2011. Google management ‘walks-the-walk’ of Games-Fun-Play. What has their price got to do with Games-Fun-Play? They treat their executives like precocious ten-year olds. How? The company provides Free lunch and healthy snacks 24/7, extra days off, and ping-pong tables in the Entertainment center. What else? Contests and Prizes to the most productive executives. Wait – is this work or play? Imagine have one-day weekly to research your own thing at work, not the company’s projects? Google implemented a Free (Do Your Own Thing) Day since their inception. The CEO and Board of Directors believe it drove their stock to over $600. Self-Control Dr. J. Laran, University of Miami and his team had their latest research published in the scientific Journal of Consumer Research – 9.21.2010. Bottom Line: Executives with low self-control (immediate or postponed gratification) perceive days in the office as an Obligation to Work. Successful executives look forward to the daily office experience as an opportunity to meet their pals, and have Games-Fun-Play. Emotional Vocabulary The words - Games-Fun-Play are emotionally charged. Like producing a smile on your face (genuine or fake), these words and a smile excite your hormones, enzymes and neuropeptides for health and longevity. They improve your mood, attention and arousal for success. When the word Fun is included in the initial project instructions, even executives with low self-control improve their end product and drive outcomes up 30%. These power words contain an electrical signal to the brain to Play not Work. Examples of incentives that motivate executives to greater creativity and success are: a) two-hour lunch hours. b) three-day weekends c) free company weekend cruise to Nowhere. d) paid up day at the spa or gym for your significant other. e) $1,000 donation to executive’s favorite charity. Endwords There is a conflict in our lives between what we actually control, and our illusion of control. The fact is family, society and friends program (condition) us. What about the media (5-hours of daily TV), schoolteachers, and management? We do in fact control our thoughts and whether we act on them. It is of prime importance to remember that our thoughts produce our emotions, and emotions lead to our outcomes and results. Your conscious mind can VETO objectional thoughts and operate in harmony and cooperation with our powerful nonconsciousness. It is yourconscious choice and decision. Your beliefs, principals, and thinking patterns, together with your judgments, convictions and deeply held opinions – create your moods, attitudes and feelings. See ya, copyright © 2020 H. Bernard Wechsler --- N.B. We have about ten Speed Reading reports left. Contact us for a free, no strings attached system to 3x your speed reading and 2x your memory. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Mindfulness 101 is a Career Saver 2010-10-18 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Mindfulness 101 is a Lifesaver Are you curious about new scientific research on baby-easy meditation that can help overcome chronic insomnia, reduce high blood pressure, and support self-control over anxiety? Would you be interested in scientific research on how about 9 minutes of Mindfulness meditation can seriously help reduce backaches, and even chronic arthritic pain? We do not offer medical advice, so Google Mindfulness, and then discuss it with your physician. Science - Not Quackery Scientific research on the results of meditation on our mind, body and emotions started at Harvard by Professor Herbert Benson in 1968. He called it the Relaxation Response. Forty years later researchers call it Mindfulness meditation, and report it offers evidence of your ability to help overcome chronic pain without the dangers and side-effects of drugs. Our Experience With Executives We have recommended Mindfulness to hundreds of stressed out executives who rate it indispensable in functioning in our high-powered Knowledge Economy. They use Mindfulness because it is brief – about nine-minutes – and produces immediate relief from chronic stress. Some executives suggest it increases their creativity. Executives can practice Mindfulness at their desk. VPs often suggest it to their peers to improve attention span, help double long-term memory, and elevate self-confidence. Many credit it with their promotions because it improves their presentation skills and self-esteem. They walk around the office with a sly smile of competence. We offer our research for your approval – with no strings attached. How To Do It All you need to gain the benefits of Mindfulness is a pair of Earplugs. Why? It shuts out office distractions for the 9 minutes, and increases the sound of breathing through your nose. Step 1: post a “stay out!” sign and turn off your telephone and computer alerts. Sit down, kick off your shoes. Place your outstretched fingers on top of each knee. Now insert your earplugs and close your eyes. Why? We want you to move from Beta brainwaves (13-40 cycles per seconds) of alert, arousal activity to comfortable relaxation of Alpha brainwaves (8 –13 cps). How? Close your eyes for 10 seconds. Step 2: focus your internal attention on the sound and feeling of breathing through your nose. Be a witness (observer) to thoughts that pass through your mind, but pay no attention to them. Your job is to notice the rise and fall of your chest and the movement of air through your nose. If you lose your concentration, take one-diaphragmatic (deep, slow breath) and kick back into non-arousal (relaxed) Alpha again. Step 3: Make your thumb; forefinger and middle finger gently touch while remaining on each knee. Why? It is a somatic (bodily) signal to your brain to stay in Alpha brainwave cps. Step 4: Each time you exhale through your nose, mentally (silently) hear the sound OM (Oh-Mmm). Stretch out OM by separating the Oh! from the Mmm! If you forget to execute the OM, just return to it on the next exhalation. Why? It gives your left-hemisphere an activity to concentrate and permits access to your right-brain creativity. Step 5: For optimal results of creativity and increased immune function – maintain a wide smile on your face. It sounds easy but forgetting to smile is common, so return to smiling each time you notice you stopped. Why? Smiling affects your mind-body connection and creates positive mental movies and mood improvement. Most of us rarely smile from 9 to 5. We recommend smiling because it releases healthy endorphins (opioid peptides) that reduce pain and anxiety. Smiling during Mindfulness meditation has a long-term effect after you return to your Beta activities. It happily lingers in your Muscle Memory and increases problem-solving and a positive attitude for up to 90 minutes. Coda: a) Sit at your desk, insert your earplugs and close your eyes. b) Focus on your breathing (nose and chest) and ignore Self-Talk. c) Fold your fingers into two separate circles and maintain those gestures. d) On each Exhalation hear the sound OM mentally. e) Most importantly, S-M-I-L-E as often as you can remember. Anticipation Mindfulness meditators learn to ignore anxiety signals and minor aches and pains. It keeps you in a positive, happy mood. Adults anticipate certain daily aches and pains, but with Mindfulness chronic pain anticipation is dissolved. According to researchers at the University of Manchester, Meditation trains the brain to be more Present-Conscious and to avoid anticipating future negative events. Folks who regularly meditate, control their attention and thought processes. Their Prefrontal cortex shows different activity than non-meditators. Scientists show results of reduced chronic pain, for example, arthritic disability, with continued Mindfulness sessions. Google: Pain journal, 2010. DOI “Meditation increases attention span, and helps you self-regulate your emotions.” See: Katherine MacLean, lead author, Psychological Science. Pain And Emotion “Depressed Mood drives pain and causes it to feel worse.” It causes maladaptive changes in the brain function associated with chronic stress, anxiety and pain. Google: Dr. C. Berna, appears in Biological Psychiatry, 2010, 67 (11) 1083 DOI. “All you have to do to alleviate pain is use your mind, change the way you look at the perception of pain and affects the feeling of pain.” Dr. F. Zeidan, University of North Carolina (Charlotte). Mindfulness reduces awareness and sensitivity to pain and increases ‘pain-management’. Frowning A fancy term like Facial Feedback Hypothesis scares the public. An example explains it all: when you’re smiling the whole world smiles with you. New research led by David Havas, University of Wisconsin- Madison, offers evidence that when we are NOT frowning, the world (environment) seems less angry and less sad.” Smiling, even when you do not feel like it, creates a positive change in your bodily processes of perception (understanding), action and emotion. We are convinced that intentionally smiling like a grinning baboon, improves your health and makes folks love you. Smile every time you think of it, even when you are faking it. Why? It produces scientifically positive results. After 21 days of Mindfulness, it goes on Autopilot, and you become a conditioned Smiler. The benefits are extensive and scary, including promotions in your career and better personal relationships. Check it out. See ya, --- Speed Reading Report – no strings attached. It helps triple your brain power. Contact us for one of the remaining 50 copies. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule 2010-10-17 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule Do we see reality as it is, or as we feel at the time? Don’t we all believe that we are objective - while others are emotional? The world is right-brained and only I am rational and left-brained? Wait. In a scientific study of physicians – 90% stated confidently they were in the top 10% in knowledge and effectiveness. Aren’t half of them average? No one rated himself or herself in the lower half. They were shocked to learn 33% of them were ranked below average by their hospital administration Do the medical schools before graduation electrocute all the “average” students? The Infamous 70/30 rule Lawyers believe self-aggrandizing fantasies too. My experience is that some of the most winning trial lawyers I know got a couple of “Fs” and “Ds” in law school. Two of the best failed the Bar exam more than once. They got better with experience. But their confidence is built on a fantasy of reinforcing successes. Educators never discuss the tested and proven 70/30 rule. It reminds us that 30% of professional learners are “unsalvageable”. They just never get it. Yes, that high. In Accounting For Lawyers – I tried twice and quit twice before they failed me. Fact: what we Think has a dominant (up to 60%) effect on our Perceptions (insights and intuitions). Example: you witness a Chase bank robbery. Your bias toward certain groups will influence your memory for the bum’s face and emotional expression. Sure, “seeing is believing”, but remember that “Believing-is-Seeing!” about other people’s emotions. Our beginning interpretation strongly influences our later memories. So What? Fact: our body is the interface (merge/unite) where thoughts and perceptions (insights and intuitions) meet up. We got embodied “cognition” and embodied “emotion” linking up in our mind. There is no isolated “thinking” or “feeling”. There is a blend of HOW and WHAT we think and feel. Please remember: Emotions are contagious and virus-like; monkey see, monkey do. Pay Attention to what you see and hear from your peers because they invade your mind and you become copy-cats of their emotions. Not you, because you pay attention to your environment, right? Google: UCSD: 9.03.2010 Professor P. Winklelman. Anger Management Read this twice: your left-Frontal region of your brain is involved in experiencing Positive emotions like joy and happiness. Lefty cooperates with your right-Frontal region of the brain, which processes Negative emotions like anger and stress. One more step: your left-Frontal region is involved in experiencing emotions of “closeness” (bonding). Wait. Your brain’s right-Frontal region is linked to emotions where you experience “withdrawal”. Throwing Grandma under the wheels of the moving bus is an aggressive form of withdrawal, right? Ten Levels of Anger We experience low levels of anger from 9-5pm, and so do our peers. Our power of anger-management separates the successful executives from the other guys who never get the promotions. Backwards Level Ten anger is where you are totally Emotional and zero Rational. You are a danger to yourself and others. Ever see “red”? Your retina uses the cone and rod photoreceptors and ganglia cells to blank out the other colors in our electromagnetic field. Loss of vision (seeing red) occurs because the Optic Nerves have stopped communicating with the brain. Level Nine anger: acting out your angry thoughts and feelings. Screaming, cursing and using insulting words. Level Eight anger: focus on getting even and retaliation. We lose the ability to analyze facts and modify our behavior. A split occurs between left and right hemisphere, reason and emotion, and consciousness and nonconsciousness. Left brain maintains a veto-power over emotion which must be supported. Anger Anger increases hear rate, arterial tension and testosterone production. But, Cortisol, the stress hormone decreases. Our left hemisphere gets more stimulated. Anger activates an instinct to get closer to what caused the original anger. Why? We want to eliminate it; we experience a greater activation of our left-hemisphere. Reward Feeling anger makes us want to seek rewards. We pay more attention to rewards than threats. Emotion affects what we pay attention to. When a peer at the workplace goes berserk which should be offered, words from the manager to calm down or get out or a remembrance that he or she is up for a promotion? Google: Hormone and Behavior journal 2010 (53) 276 DOI. Sympathetic Nervous System, and activation of Fight-Or-Flight response. See: Dr. William DeFoore on Anger Management. Endwords In a recent survey of corporate executives, 87% voted that their emotions are a result of an external causes like “behavior of other people”, circumstances and situations. Fact: how we feel is a reflection of how we Think. Emotion expresses outwardly what we Believe about our lives. Wait. Negative thoughts (mental imagery) produce Negative emotions of anger, hate and anxiety, and vice versa. Emotion is not something that falls down on our head, it is caused by what we are doing and thinking. Get this: assuming health, feelings follow thoughts, not the opposite. Control (veto) negative thoughts leads to neutral or positive thinking. Follow me – our feelings produce our behaviors. Our behaviors are (90%) responsible for our outcomes, huh? Conclusion: habit is based on repetitious experiences; it turns many of our behaviors robotic. Pay attention to your typical reactions and exercise your willpower and cognition (thought processing) to create better habits. Fear Fear is creating a fantasy of Danger that is not happening in the present moment. Behavior is motivated by both conscious and nonconscious desires. Our job is to link (unite) left and right hemispheres, reason and emotion and consciousness and nonconsciousness. It is brilliant to request counsel from your Internal Dialogue, and accept responsibility for our emotions, thoughts and behaviors. Start now. We are all a work-in-progress. Start now. See ya, Q. Would you own a powerful competitive advantage if you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free, no strings attached special speed reading report. We only have fifty (50 copies available. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Resistance to Change? 2010-10-15 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Resistance to Change is Painful We are not philosophers but like you – very practical folks. Half our job is holding workshops for executives at major corporations to train them in two- days to 3x their learning skills and 2x their long-term memory. What that means is these up-and-coming divisional VPs and heads of departments can read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time their peers can hardly finish one. Are these new skills beneficial for soon-to-be corporate top guns? Companies seem to think so – they pay up to $15,000 for the SpeedLearning live training classes, and give up their executive services for two-full days. Surprise The thirty executives sitting in front of us hate being there. They would rather be back at their desks working on their own projects. Yes, they volunteered for the workshop, with its two-days off from regular work, but it was because they were told by Human Resources it would enhance their opportunity for promotion. Oh yeah, the company CEO sponsors our learning program and is following their progress. They have good reasons to want to shine, right? So why were the 30 workshop attendees acting like noisy, twitchy kids in high school? They wanted the world to know they did not want to be in class and were not going to learn this new, stupid stuff. Change Before we could teach these folks how to tripling their learning skills and double their memory, we had to overcome their typical executive resistance to change. Five Reasons We All Hate Change 1. We all believe the cliché` - “Don’t fix what aint broken!” If the participants were not quick learners with great memories; they would never have gotten this far in their careers, right? Therefore – “don’t try to fix (change) me.” 2. We all believe the whopper – “Past experience is a guarantee of future results.” Even though the U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires all brokers and option specialists to place a disclaimer on their reports – “Past Experience is NOT a guarantee of future results” – intelligent, successful folks still believe it to be a fact. No? Why do sports franchises pay millions to veterans and not rookies? How about hiring a new CEO – do we go to Harvard Business School or want a tried-and-true winner who has proven his mettle? When you need a surgeon – do you want a new med school grad or a guy who did a thousand of your operations? 3. We respect Science and it is a principle of scientific knowledge - “repetition is the mother of learning”. We get hardwired through repetition and build ‘neural networks’ (circuitry) in our brains. 4. We may not be able to locate it anatomically, but we know when other folks try to invade our comfort-zone. Don’t we all get defensive and resistant about what feels wrong? 5. In the past we (the class) have been rewarded consistently by schools with high-grades and diplomas, and in our career by promotions, money and bonuses, for our learning skills and memory? The scientific word is “reinforcement”. What Works So you see, before we can teach them anything new, we must allay their fears about change. Secret: only 20% of Homo sapiens do NOT fear and resist change – but 100% percent of us resist being changed by others. Why? Parents-Teachers-Significant-Others-and Career-Mentors like to push around our fragile egos. We react with a big sign reading, “Don’t tread on me!” We are willing to change (improve) only when what we VALUE is threatened. Huh? If you intimate we are incompetent and cannot learn new stuff – you are calling us stupid. That’s a threat to our hard-won identity. We stop resisting. If you are a women executive and are told: “scientifically, women have more cognitive skills than men, and learn faster,” you may choose to learn to prove them right. What if you hear that only folks with ‘high IQs’ can learn SpeedLearning 101? Your reputation for being quick-witted and in the zone is on the line; we start learning. Where is Change Happening Humans think and act the way we do because we have been conditioned, programmed and reinforced by our parents (“say Please and Thank You!”), teachers (“stand up to speak”) and relationships (“help with the baby, and wash the dishes”). Wait – it aint over. We are conditioned daily by TV, Newspapers, Internet, and in our careers, by management and our peers. Does it work? It shapes all our behaviors. a) First, change must occur in our left and right-brains (hemispheres). Both halves work together and must cooperate for change (habits) to become permanent. Examples: losing 10 pounds, extinguish the smoking habit, and becoming a lifelong-learner. b) Second, change must occur in our reasoning (Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas of brain), and in our Emotions: amygdala, hippocampus and hypothalamus. New behaviors and decision-making are products of our thinking and feeling. We need strategies to arousing our attention. c) Third, change must happen in both consciousness (attention and awareness) and nonconsciousness (subliminal perception and auto-pilot) areas of the brain. Nonconsciousness includes Immune-Nervous-Limbic (emotions) systems, brain stem, basal ganglia, and thalamus & hypothalamus. consciousness: parietal and frontal lobes and PFC Prefrontal Cortex. Example: change is viewed as a threat by our brain. Our Sympathetic Nervous System contains our potent Fight-or-Flight response. It we are threatened by a snake or have to change our habitual ways of reading, our mind and body reacts as if our very survival is at stake. We have a mental scale to evaluate the level of threat (danger). Humans can override fear-of-change and our resistance to it, but it requires self- analysis and adding up the benefits and negatives of making change. Endwords: resistance to change stops us from implementing new positive behaviors and creative decision-making. When we become aware of our nonconscious defensiveness, we can start to do something to remedy this false-positive reaction. Start now. See ya, --- P.S. For a special free – no strings attached speed reading report (we have only 50 printed) contact us immediately. It will triple your learning skills. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I Read Your Book" 2010-10-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler ---------------------------------------- I Read Your Book From: Whitey Ellis September 30, 2010 To: H.B. Wechsler Dear Mr. Wechsler: I was a public school educator for 36 years and now reside in Naples, Fl. I spent 36 years as a teacher/coach, principal and Associate Superintendent for Anderson Community School Corporation in Anderson, IN. My wife was a media specialist and English teacher in the same school system for 34 years. She has always been able to read much better (faster) than I. I have admired her reading skills and wished that I could do the same. Now that I am 73 I am training myself to improve those skills. I just finished your book Speed Reading For Professionals and found it to be very helpful. I also read the book by Pal Williams – Read for Your Life. I am accepting your challenge to read one book each week and will have read 500 by my 83rd birthday. Thanks again for your excellent book; it should be required reading for every student in our schools today. E. Franklin Ellis, Ed.S Retired educator. --------------------------------------- Why Paying Attention is The Only Thing 2010-10-06 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why Paying Attention Is The Only Thing When Vince Lombardi, star football coach was asked about winning in 1959, he said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” So what? Reading is everything and it is also the only thing to learn Math and Science. Even Engineering and Computer-Science depend on reading to understand the problem and then attempt to solve it. It aint funny, but bear with me, “Our family was so poor when I was a kid, we couldn’t afford to PAY attention in school.” When you don’t pay attention your brain zombies (zones-out) and nothing is going on in your brain. Choice Attention is a choice and a variable. Have you ever caught yourself re-reading the same paragraph two, three-times without comprehension? We have all had the experience of mind-wandering or non-existent attention. Hello - you have just zoned-out. Now remember back to the time you stopped yourself and paid attention and your focus changed. Suddenly you were back in the game understanding the sentences in context. You got the details and deciphered the Big Picture too. Brain Attention, arousal and focus are controlled by our Frontal Lobe and specifically our PreFrontal Cortex. When we are stressed or overtired the level of hormones (neurotransmitters) norepinephrine (a/k/a noradrenaline) and dopamine begin to tank. How Attention Operates Researchers at Northwestern University, lead author Professor Marcia Grabowecky have discovered that sustained attention makes us process information more effectively with a sharper focus. Attention causes a population of cells (cell assemblies) to work together coherently. How? They synchronize for a team effort. “The cells that fire together, wire together,” Donald O Hebb. Now you get a vivid conscious experience. Meditation “Oh, my attention span is that of a fly.” Wrong. Attention is easily improved with just four 20-minute sessions. The result is a permanent increase in concentration. The mind changes and is highly influence by short practice sessions focusing on one thing for a few minutes. This type of meditation is called Mindfulness. Meditation is focusing your mind on a single action such as repeating a word-mantra, chanting or paying attention to your breathing. Mindfulness offers the benefit of improving your critical cognitive skills. Google: attention span, professor Zeidan, University of North Carolina. Blinking Have you ever noticed that people who are daydreaming tend to blink their eyes a lot? They are not paying attention and their mind is wandering. It is not just a mental symptom but creates a physical one – blinking. Why the blinking? Blinking creates a physical barrier (wall) between the blinker and the outside world. Huh? You nonconsciously shut your eyes more by blinking. Meaning? People who are not paying attention, letting their mind wander, blink more than folk in-the-zone (in-the-flow). Blinking closes the eyelids permitting less information processing in your brain. The result is a mind-body connection – producing the result of out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Google: Daniel Smilek, Psychological Science, 2010; DOI University of Waterloo. Eye Movements When we are reading and suffer mind wandering, our eyes continue to move across the sentences and down the page, but nobody is home to pay attention. The eyes had a different pattern when we pay attention compared to mind wandering (daydreaming). Normal reading is when our eyes fixate on a word and then zips over to the next word. Remember, our eyes spend less time on familiar words than new, complex ones. Three Eye Movement Effects: Microsaccades – Quakes – Tremors. Microsaccades are the rapid eye movements that create 80% of our vision. In daydreaming our eyes slow up and spend more time on deciphering each word in context. Fact: language processing in our brain is linked to eye-movements. Google Erik Reichie, University of Pittsburgh, 8.30.2010 Psychological Science. How to Influence Neurons to Act as a Team Our brain loves rhythm when it comes to complex activities. If you want to unite neurons in different areas of the brain for coordinated activities, give them a beat. The latest research finds that electrical spikes (action potentials) followed a rhythm of neuronal assemblies occurring across the brain. Like a conductor commanding her orchestra. It is synchronization; the brain cells are tuned in. Who Cares? The #1 tune in the U.S. and maybe the world is Happy Birthday!. You know the tune and can hear it mentally instantly. You can tune it on this instant with or without the words, right? Goal: improve attention up to 50% and avoid daydreaming. Step one: sit at your desk; close your eyes, hand on top of your knees. Step two: set each hand spread our on each side of your bellybutton – parallel. Step four: inhale five (5) slow, deep diaphragmatic breaths and slowly exhale. Step five: focus your attention on your normal breathing and inhaling (not diaphragmatic). Step six: exhale as your mantra the tune to Happy Birthday! Not the words (lyrics) just the tune. Do it slowly, ten-times. Inhale and only on exhaling – the tune to Happy Birthday! The entire exercise takes under five-minutes. If you repeat this five-minute exercise for 21 consecutive days your attention will increase up to 50% and remained high. Happy Birthday! is a tune you do not have to anyalze to hum, it is hardwired in all of us. Practice this exercise and make daydreaming a nonstarter. See ya, --- Would you own a competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly read one? We have 50 available copies of a special report on speed reading. Contact us for one now. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why You Should Care About Daydreaming 2010-10-03 By H. Bernard Wechsler Inquiring Minds Want to Know About DayDreaming In elementary school Mrs. Crawford yelled at me, “HB – stop daydreaming and pay attention to your test questions.” She woke me up. In college Dr. Abbot screamed out, “Mr. Wechsler – stop mind-wandering, and join the economics class.” Later in Law School Professor Reich hollered out, “Herr Wechsler, arouse yourself from the Twilight-Zone or leave my torts class.” It took decades for science to prove that we do our most original (creative) thinking during business hours – when we have zoned-out and are daydreaming. Science Fact: Homo sapiens spend up to 66% of their waking hours in Beta consciousness, awake and active with our brain ripping at 13-40 cycles per second. Beta produces an internal sense of alertness, and receives input from all five gross senses, long-term and working memory, uses logic, linear and organized thinking. It’s our conscious ego at work, with a little help from its friend – nonconsciousness. Fact: humans spend up to 33% of their waking hours DayDreaming in the Twilight zone. Important: our brain cycles between 8-12 cycles per second in Alpha and 4-8 cps in Theta. Wait. Alpha and Theta are good at inspiration, visualization, and intuition. They shut out Beta consciousness to receive nonverbal information from our right nonconscious hemisphere. Theta These Theta brainwaves control our deep inward thoughts (metaphors and complex ideas). What else? Our ability for high mental concentration, visualizations and intuition is Theta based. It’s where we get our creativity and imagination. Who says? Professor K. Christoff, University of British Columbia What’s the difference between Mind-Wandering, Daydreaming, Hypnagogia and the Twilight-Zone? Answer: nothing, they are the same. They are part of the human condition and its standard mental processes. Professor Kalina Christoff stands for Mind-Wandering, with or without conscious awareness. Her original research was the first on spontaneous thought processes. She used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to reveal the default network and executive brain system causing mind-wandering. So what? It is published by the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (5.13.2009) to show that one-third of our waking hours – we are zoned-out in Alpha or Theta. We are not paying attention, but our Nonconsciousness (right-hemisphere of the brain) is making new connections with creativity and imagination with stuff we learned during Beta alertness. It’s not sleeping, just integrating and synchronizing new ideas to solve old challenges. Well, maybe a snooze or two in between. Edison used his nonconsciousness (daydreaming/mind-wandering) to invent the electric light, movies and the phonograph. He took a 20-minute daily snooze specifically to daydream for inventions. So What You can intentionally daydream solutions to your toughest challenges. Allocate 20-minutes without interruption. 1. Sit with your eyes closed. 2. Place your outstretched fingers of both hands parallel to your bellybutton (both sides of your navel). 3. Take 5 deep, slow diaphragmatic breaths to oxygenate your brain. 4. Repeat aloud (whisper) the problem you wish to solve. 5. Picture mentally your optimal outcome. Examples: giving a great presentation, interviewing well, or testing in the top ten-percentile. 6. To go deeply, mumble the words to Bingo! “There was a farmer who own a dog and Bingo was his name.” (Bingo! distracts your left-conscious brain and permits your right- nonconscious brain to signal nonverbally with original insights.) Set an alarm clock for 20-minutes to end the daydream. Immediately write or type whatever you just visualized no matter how trivial appearing. What you visualized after analysis is 90% relevant to solving your problems. Endwords Professor Christoff discovered a second neural network was mentally triggered to discover answers to complex problems. It is part of our Executive brain function and unites left and right brains. It uses Semantic memory (knowledge) and nonconscious (intuition) memory to solve your problems. This National Academy of Sciences article has been cited frequently. Meaning Our brain retains information by recalling its meaning - not its sound or visualization. When we learn a new skill (called a procedural memory), it is different than learning new information (called Semantic Memory). Skills like typing or surfing the Internet are right-brain functions. They are non-verbal and nonconscious. When you learned to type and became excellent at it, you recall finger positions by triggered both Pattern Recognition and Spatial learning. To learn new skills rapidly, do not seek meaning, (why it works) that is second stage thinking. People who fail to learn procedural skills like typing, driving or riding a bike are perfectionists and left-brain dominant. Failure is caused by a conflict between left and right brain functions. Simultaneously learning to perfect the skill and understanding why it works causes cognitive dissonance known as brain-stress. First learn to do it, later research the science of learning about your specific strategy schemas. Combining the two causes slow learning. Speed Reading Students are concerned with understanding how they can read three-times faster without loss of comprehension and use their left conscious brain to intrude on mastering the skill itself. The skill is a right-brain nonconscious product. The secret is letting go of analysis. In fact the reason they fail is called Analysis-Paralysis. In typing or speed reading, expertise requires practice and experience, not intellectualizing. Consider golf, tennis or pitching or kicking a ball. Do not over-think the skill, just seek your Pattern Recognition. Micromanaging causes choking, tension and stress. Q. Would you have a valuable competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free, no-strings-attached speed reading report. They are just 50 copies printed so move to capture one now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@speedlearning.org www.speedlearning. org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chiasma Means Crossing, So What? 2010-09-29 By H. Bernard Wechsler Chiasma Means The Opposite Side, But Who Cares? Wanna be in-the-know about a two-minute exercise to instantly wake up your learning skills and long-term memory? Wait. Do you have trouble getting invigorated and creative at 9 am? Do you suffer from the 2 pm blues when your brain is running on empty and half-asleep? Forget about a learning curve and six-months to master the complicated steps, this baby-easy exercise makes you feel like Superman on steroids. Insomnia A week ago we gave the secrets of Instant-Sleep to our readers. The knowledge had been tested by students in school and corporate executives for 12 months before we released it to our readers. No guinea pigs for science here. “Priceless”, was the gist of one email. “It is the death of insomnia” claimed another. “Where has this magic potion been all my life?” asked an executive. Chiasma does for learning and memory – what speed reading does for absorbing new information – it triples (3x) your power to perform. Ready or not, here we go. Meaning Did you know that less than 40% of memories are stored as Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic representations? What about the 60%? They are stored in your brain circuits as MEANING. What kind of meaning? We want the gist, end, purpose and significance. It is called Semantic knowledge. School, life and your career quickly forget what stuff looks, sounds, or feels like, it’s irrelevant. The secret to new knowledge is what it MEANS to you, in the real world. How do you use new knowledge to be creative and improve your work product? How do we gain (win) meaning? Ask yourself Seven questions: What? Who? When? Where? Why? Which? How? Start an Internal Dialogue (subvocalization: self-talk) – “What does this new stuff remind me of? The answers produce MEANING. Goal Your brain is divided into two halves, your left-consciousness, and your right- nonconsciousness. The left, as you probably know is logical, organized, linear and language-oriented. Humans have given the 80/10 (Pareto Effect) rule to our brain. Follow me closely, although 80% of our lives are run and controlled automatically (nonconsciously) by our right-hemisphere, we give all the credit for our lives and knowledge to our left-hemisphere. We are scared of our right-brain because it contains our EMOTIONS, habits and instincts. It controls the most powerful force in our brain-body connection – our autonomic nervous system. So what? The Sympathetic Nervous System contains our FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT system, and its primary job is to protect us from chronic STRESS and insure our SURVIVAL. Stress is part of life, but chronic stress is a killer. Decisions Very few laymen know 95% of our decisions and behaviors are created in our right-hemisphere - not our left. Our right-brain commands deep understanding, including the meaning of METAPHORS, complex intentions and non-verbal body language. Empathy and self-esteem are based on nonconsciousness. Our right-brain controls spatial understanding, pattern recognition and parallel-processing (multi-tasking). It is HOLISTIC and concerns itself with the CONTEXT of the big-picture. Sympathetic and Parasympathetic systems work in parallel to protect us. How come we devalue our right-brain, if it is so smart? It operates without our knowing about its work because it is nonconscious and is not under our willful control. Ever hear of Silent-But-Deadly! It scares us. Secret: we must distract (inhibit) our conscious mind by giving it busy work in order to communicate with our nonconsciousness to create change and new habits. What kind of busy work? Counting numbers, reciting a mantra or singing a little ditty like BINGO! When we distract our left-consciousness, it opens up our right-nonconsciousness to follow our desires for new programming and employing new associations. Example: wanna lose 20 pounds on your new diet – permanently? You must reprogram your right-nonconsciousness. Willpower alone is a sure loser. How about attracting wealth or healing your body or mind? The answer is reprogramming your Right-Brain and its nonconsciousness. The 1-2 Minute Exercise 1. Either stand up or sit upright while sitting at your desk. “Straighten Up-And-Fly-Right”. 2. Get used to this: grab (gently) your right earlobe with your LEFT thumb and index finger. Continue to hold your right earlobe and simultaneously grab your left-earlobe with your Right-thumb and index finger. You have just performed an act of CHIASMA (< L crosspiece) a/k/a DECUSSATION – meaning a crossing. So far your arms are crossed. 3. Bend forward at your desk or do a standing squat – and inhale a slow, deep diaphragmatic breath with each bend or squat. Continue your deep breathing for sixty-seconds while bending forward or squatting. So far, we have our arms crossed and we are doing Diaphragmatic breathing. Did you know that Optic Chiasma occurs when the inner half fibers of our left and right Optic Nerves CROSS OVER to the OPPOSITE side of our brain? Eh, who cares? In plain English, your right-brain controls the left-half of your body, while your left-brain runs the right side of the body. Unite them. N.B. To ACE new knowledge and double your long-term memory, use both halves of your brain. Crossing your arms and grabbing you earlobes acts as ACUPRESSURE involving your body and mind. We want you to activate both halves SIMULTANEOUSLY through diaphragmatic breathing. Why? It causes deep Oxygenation of your brain for more energy. 4. When you exhale on bending upward or standing after squatting (mentally) count, one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, etc. The counting distracts your left-brain and permits both halves to focus on Attention and Concentration. Now try it until it feels sort of comfortable. Remember this exercise only requires 1-2 minutes total time. Do it daily for 21 days and you have created a new habit for powerful learning and long-term memory. Start now. See ya, this is a new beginning. --- Question: would you own a major competitive advantage over your career peers by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free; no strings attached speed reading report that will jump you to the front for promotions and success. Only 50 copies are available. Copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Know How to Destory Insomnia? 2010-09-21 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Shrink Insomnia to 55 Seconds If you are over the age of 35 you already have an intimate relationship with Insomnia. Sleep difficulties are SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). From Latin “somn” means sleep, and “in” translates to Not! I asked a class of 30 high schoolers if they ever experienced stress or insomnia at age 16. There was a tone in my voice that whispered the obvious answer was a big – “Of course not – that’s for old people like you!” The laugh I got did not conclude for seventy-five seconds on the classroom clock. “Stress” they yelled out is our First, not Middle name. We get it 24/7 from parents and teachers to excel on exams and win admittance to the best schools. We dream about failing and its consequences. Sleep is a non-starter.” I asked an innocent question. “Wanna know how to fall asleep in 55 seconds without hitting yourself over the head with a large hammer?” They screamed out – “Pills – Alcohol – Rock-and-Roll - Electric Shock”. They were really into this Insomnia thing, and not one of the thirty students believed this was not a trick question. Remember, they were sitting here to discover the secrets of Speed Reading, not a non-academic common sense function like – how to fall asleep. So What “Who knows where your diaphragm is – and another name for it?” Fifteen kids screamed out – “Stomach or Belly – so what?” They respected my knowledge as a world class expert on speed reading, but sleep was a subject they knew nobody could produce at will. I asked them if they want to take five-minutes to learn how to fall asleep in less than one-minute, or get back to the secrets of reading-and-remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish – one? They did a Team Cheer – “Sleep! Sleep! Sleep!” Step One Place both spread out hands parallel on either side of your stomach – in the middle is your Omphalos. It’s Greek for the Army – uh no, the Navel. That is educational humor. “What’s another name for it?” They got the joke – “Belly-button”. Step Two “Tell me how to do Diaphragmatic Breathing?” They knew their biology – “deep, full, slow breaths!” “Now kick off your shoes, close your eyes and do five Diaphragmatic Breaths – each lasting about two-seconds. Keep your hands parallel on either side of your belly-button. Now, I want you to FEEL the rhythm of each slow breath – get it?” “What do you mean feel?” “Focus your complete attention on inhaling and exhaling. Focus is the operative word. Focus means – Con-Cen-Trate < from the same center – right? Latin of course. “My family was so poor, when I came to school I could not PAY attention!” Nobody laughed, but they got it – concentrate on the Diaphragmatic Breathing. Step Three “When you Inhale – consciously hear the three-words – “Ha -Ho-Hee”. When you exhale do not hear anything. Inquiring minds will understand we are distracting our Consciousness with the internal-dialogue of the three silly words “Ha-Ho-Hee”. Now Inhale and Exhale deeply, hearing your Mantra only on inhaling. Our nonconsciousness is focused on following the rhythm of our Diaphragmatic Breathing function. Both left and right hemispheres are united with their own work. We have created a Unified Mind, a Brain-Body Link. Coda “Who does not understand the directions?” One snot-nose answered, “We can walk and chew gum simultaneously, sir” “The final step is to practice destroying Insomnia while seated in your chairs before you use it in bed. Close your-eyes, relax all your stomach-shoulder-facial muscles..” “How?” “Just let-go and test your stomach, shoulder and facial muscles. When they are tight from stress and anxiety, all you have to do is physically – let-go! Just focus your attention on those three (3) sets of muscles, and permit them to relax. Now test them.” “Who can summarize the steps to relaxation or sleep?” The class clown answered. “First, hands parallel on either side of your Navy. Second, deep, slow diaphragmatic breathing. Third, on inhaling mentally and silently say, Ha!-Ho!-Hee! Silence on exhaling. Oh yeah, relax the muscles of your stomach-shoulders and face.” Endwords This works to dissipate stress and anxiety while awake, and to draw in sleep when insomnia attacks your comfort-zone. This system will always get you back into the Zone (flow) for sleep, prior to exams, and for interviews. When they awoke, the class gave me a standing ovation, and I cannot even sing. See ya, --- Would you have a powerful competitive edge in your career if you could read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one? We have fifty (50) valuable speed reading reports – free, no strings attached. Contact us before they run out. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org Can You Keep a Secret? 2010-09-14 By H. Bernard Wechsler “Can You Keep a Secret?” “Sure!” you say, but my Pop used to claim the only way three-folks can keep an important secret is – if Two of them are dead! OK, I admit it - I am a genetic and trained Contrarian (law school does that for people). When I read scholarly reports or listen to brilliant folks try to explain their scientific research - two opinions bubble up in my tiny brain. First, “So What?” (like WIITM – What’s In It for Me?). Second, “Who Cares?” – meaning if it’s NOT relevant to my own interests – Go-Fly-A-Kite! My best friend calls me a Miscreant – I had to look it up – it means evil, a villain, and depraved. Comes from Latin meaning, Mis (not) and Credent - to be believed. Cool. What’s Secrets This week I finished a book called The Divided Mind, John D. Sarno, M.D. at NYU Medical Center. He is a lecturer to medical students plus physicians, and has a private practice for patients. Bottom line: the medical community does not believe in nor practice, Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Sarno says there is an epidemic of mindbody disorders because doctors and hospitals push surgery and drugs, and ignore the research about the origin of most illnesses. Psycho is mind, and somatic equals body. So? After finishing his book and researching his arguments, I’m a believer. In what? We have serious pain and disability because it is our defense mechanisms against our repressed emotions. Folks would rather suffer years of backpain or carpal tunnel syndrome, surgery and pills, than deal with their scary emotional issues. Second Book Speed Readers are never intimidated by a bunch of books to read and analyze. We own a secret that instill self-esteem and confidence. It is called a RasterMaster, a handheld laser pacer that trains our eyes to at least triple (3x) our learning time, and doubles (2x) our attention, concentration and memory. Not for reading novels, just text. Simultaneously, I finished “Emotional Intelligence”, by Daniel Goleman. It is 15 years old classic about the meaning of “smart”. He documents research that IQ aint all of it. Goleman explains why feelings are the hidden persuaders that produce decisions and behavior 80% of the time. Don’t snicker yet, he opens the door to understanding our Nonconscious mind and how to influence, persuade and convince folks. Fact: it’s not the Valedictorians who run the world, it is the socially intelligent (middle-level) graduates who become CEOs and win the big bucks. His follow up books, Social Intelligence and Ecological Intelligence expand his ideas that using our Left-Hemisphere (Consciousness) alone are not enough to make it in the Knowledge Economy. If you read Social Intelligence, you cannot ignore his findings about getting promotions, personal relationships, and happiness. It opens your eyes and changes your mind about yourself, and everybody else too. Relationships And Survival Wanna predict your odds of living or dying? Longevity is based on genes at least 50%, but Social Relationships “improve your odds of survival by 50%”. Who says? Brigham Young University, lead authors professors Lunstad and Smith. Google: the journal PLoS Medicine, July 28, 2010. Get this: friends, colleagues and relatives raise your statistical chance to hang out alive and well about 50%. The researchers show that lack of a safety net of people who care about you, is a risk factor for death. They use the word “social” endlessly so I looked in up in the dictionary. It’s Latin for partner, companion and comrade. Wait. Social is our life, welfare and relations with folks in the community. Does Instant Messaging count? Some scientists believe Not having a social life is worse than smoking, obesity, drugs and alcohol, and being a couch potato. “Bad” means it’ll kill you early. My friend’s Mother divorced and married seven-times, his sister, nine-times. Is it because they like to socialize? This report followed the subjects for seven and a half years and covered 148 previous studies. Maybe it is a kind word, a pat on the back, even tickling. These gestures add meaning to our lives. Do you believe this? When we take responsibility for folks (let them in our lives) we find a sense of purpose which translates to taking better care of ourselves. Last gem from the professors: this survival effect applies across all ages, not just old folks. Relationships are a safety net providing an additional level of protection. Goleman in his Social Intelligence, cites 18 separate studies to indicate powerful links between Social Connectivity and Mortality. That’s ‘mors’ from Latin, meaning Death. Don’t scratch your head and complain about all your jerky friends and relatives and wish you could sell at a discount, they help improve your odds of survival by 50%. Money And Happiness Social rank is where you are economically in your community, at work, and among your relatives. Don’t say you don’t know because we all keep track of social standing, it is the human scorecard for happiness. So what Dinero (casho) makes us happy only if it makes us richer than our neighbors or peers. The raise at work or winning the Lotto counts emotionally only if it differentiates us from our work colleagues, neighbors or relatives. Who Says? University of Warwick and Cardiff University, both in the UK, by lead researchers professors Chris Boyle and Simon Moore, March 22,2010. Who Cares Homo sapiens measure their life satisfaction based on their financial earnings. If you earn one-million dollars annually, but your peers earn two-million, you are unsatisfied. We carry a mental scoreboard that socially ranks our peers. It is based on education, residence, and age. This research is published in the journal of Psychological Science. It is the rank of income, not income itself. The secret: we have to know our income is More than others around us to get satisfaction from the money. One more time, we relate to money Emotionally, mostly at a nonconscious level. George F. Kaufman said, “Deep down - we are really shallow!” Who cares? Management must care about your feelings to properly reward their top producers. We need to have a higher income than other folks – people who matter to us. That is what counts. Knowing this massages our mental comfort zone. Know Thyself – right? See ya, --- Would you own a powerful competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, when your peers can hardly finish one? Would it improve your chances for promotion and life satisfaction? We have 50 copies of our special Speed Reading report. It is free, no strings attached if you quickly contact us. It can change and improve your life. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Six Speed Reading Secrets 2010-09-13 By H. Bernard Wechsler 1. Home 2. Education 3. Continuing Education About.com Continuing Education Search * Continuing Education * Non-Trad Students * Teachers * Lifelong Learners * Share * Free Continuing Education Newsletter!Sign Up * Discuss in my Forum 6 Speed Reading Techniques from Wechsler Evelyn Wood's Former Partner Shares Speed Reading Secrets By Deb Peterson, About.com Guide See More About: * reading * studying * speaking * non-traditional students Learn 6 speed-reading techniques, one a week, from the former business partner of the famous Evelyn Wood, founder of Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. H. Bernard Wechsler shares six of the techniques successful speed readers use. Wechsler is director of education at The SpeedLearning Institute and is affiliated with Long Island University, the Learning Annex, and New York schools through the DOME Project (Developing Opportunities through Meaningful Education). He and Wood taught 2 million people to speed read, including Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Carter. 1. Week 1: Hold Your Material at a 30-Degree Angle Hold your book, or whatever you're reading, at a 30-degree angle to your eyes. Never read material lying flat on a table or desk. Wechsler says reading from flat material is "painful to your retina, causes eye fatigue, and after about two hours often leads to dry eye and irritation." Adjust the angle of your computer screen to 30 degrees also. Sponsored Links Create a Learning CultureTips for Building a Culture of Learning in your Organizationwww.mindleaders.com Empire State CollegeEarn Your Degree For $207/Credit At a SUNY College. Sign Up Now!www.Esc.edu Learn How to StudyUnderstand the Basics of Learning Try Our Free Online Course TodayVolunteerMinisters.org 2. Week 2: Move Your Head Left to Right as You Read This is not the way I was taught to read, but Wechsler cites scientific evidence that moving your head slightly back and forth while you read helps stabilize images on your retina. It's called the vestibulo-ocular reflex, or VOR. Moving your head while you read also helps you to stop reading individual words and read phrases instead. Wechsler says, "The secret of reading multiple words at a time and doubling or tripling your learning skills is widening your vision by using your peripheral vision." "Relax the tiny muscles on either side of your eyes," Wechsler says, "and soften your focus." This practice alone, he says, will help you increase your speed from 200 to 2,500 words per minute, the difference between speaking and thinking. 3. Week 3: Read with a Pointer Wechsler calls on your survival instinct in Week 3: the instinct to follow a moving object in your field of vision. He advocates using a pen, laser, or pointer of some kind, even your finger, to underline each sentence as you read. Your peripheral vision will pick up six words on either side of the point, allowing you to move through a sentence six times faster than reading each word. The pointer helps you create a pace and focuses your attention on the page. "When using a (pointer), never permit the point to touch the page," Wechsler says. "Underline about ½ inch above the words on the page. In just 10 minutes of practice, your pacing becomes smooth and comfortable. Your learning speed will double in 7 days and triple in 21 days." 4. Week 4: Read in Chunks The human eye has a small dimple called the fovea. In that one spot, vision is clearest. When you divide a sentence into chunks of three or four words, your eyes see the center of the chunk most clearly but can still distinguish the surrounding words. Think of reading a sentence in three or four chunks instead of reading every word, and you can see how much faster you would get through the material. "Chunking makes it easier for your retina to use central vision (fovea ) to offer you sharp, clear words to read," Wechsler says. 5. Week 5: Believe The mind is far more powerful than most of us give it credit for. When you believe you can do something, you usually can. In Week 5, use positive self-talk to reprogram your belief system. Wechsler says repeating positive affirmations 30 seconds a day for 21 days "creates linked brain cells (neurons) in permanent neural networks." Here are the affirmations he suggests: 1. "I release my past beliefs/perceptions/judgments and now easily and quickly learn and remember." 2. "Every day in every way I'm speedlearning faster and faster, and getting better and better." 6. Week 6: Exercise Your Eyes for 60 Seconds Before Reading Before you start reading, Wechsler suggests you "warm up" your eyes. "It sharpens your vision and activates your peripheral sight to speed up your learning speed," Wechsler says. "This daily one-minute exercise may help you avoid eye-muscle fatigue." Here's how: 1. Focus on a single spot on the wall 10 feet in front of you, keeping your head still. 2. With your right hand extended in front of you at eye level, trace an 18-inch infinity symbol (a sideways 8) and follow it with your eyes three or four times. 3. Switch hands and trace the symbol with your left hand, effectively awakening both sides of your brain. 4. Drop your hand and trace the symbol 12 times in one direction with your eyes alone. 5. Switch, moving your eyes in the other direction. 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He quacks at the clerk – “I need an allergy spray to stop my sneezing.” The druggist puts the medicine in a bag and says, “$4 even with city sales tax.” Donald quacks, “Oh, I forgot my Debit Card, please put in on my BILL!” Repeat after me – “Ha-Ha-Ha, Ho-Ho-Ho, Hee-Hee-Hee!” 2. The young lawyer dialed 911, the Emergency Police number. “My wife is unconscious and I think she is dead.” “First, be calm and follow my orders. Go back to her body and be sure she is dead.” The 911 officer hears a gun shot. “Okay, said the lawyer, what do I do next?” Repeat after me – “Ha-Ha-Ha, Ho-Ho-Ho, Hee-Hee-Hee!” 3. Desk signs: “Old accountants never die – they just lose their balance!” “Old lawyers never die – they just lose their appeal!” “Old drummers never die – they just get beat-their-brains-out!” Repeat after me – “Ha-Ha-Ha, Ho-Ho-Ho, Hee, Hee, Hee!” What’s So Funny Laughing, even at jokes that six-year olds find stupid, acts like an antidepressant and anxiety-reducer. How? A chemical Insulin-like growth factor in our brain. So says professor Jeffrery Burgdorf, Northwestern University. Dr. Margret Stuber, UCLA Medical School finds laughing, giggling and smiling is a distracton from life’s seriousness and improves our mood. It causes us to go to a Positive Emotional Response, and cancels automatic negative responses. Inquiring Minds want to know what structures in the brain are involved in Ha-Ha-Ha, Ho-Ho-Ho, and Hee-Hee-Hee? Look at the Limbic System and specifically our Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Hypothalamus. Laughing is an instinctual behavior programmed by our genes. But, we can veto the laughing neuronal circuit when we decide it is wrong, dangerous or inappropriate. Solitude We smile and laugh twenty-times more when we are around other clowns than in isolation. See, the laughing button is pressed when we are socializing. The cause is other folks, not the bad joke. We want to let the joke-teller know we are in a friendly mood. Laughing indicates to the joker we are playing along and not going to be aggressive. Playing the audience means we are Bonding (connecting, uniting) with others. The opposite – not laughing or smiling is called Distancing. It is like throwing grandma under the wheels of the bus because she is too old. Cardiovascular A Stanford University researcher, Dr. William Fry says laughing makes our brain’s PFC (PreFrontal Cortex) release Endorphins (En-dogenous + Morphine. These Peptides block the pain sensation and resemble opioids. So What Inquiring Minds: Endorphins make us feel happy and orders the body to release Nitric Oxide, which relaxes and dilates (widens) blood vessels. Wait. Both heart attacks and strokes occur because of Blood Clots. A few minutes of daily laughter helps prevent the formation of these clots. It lays down a safety net for our cardiovascular system for health and long-life. Who Cares Listen to this and see if you care. Research on laughing at minor puns or witticisms by the interviewer at job interviews increases hiring success. “He laughed at my jokes, I like him already.” The result: “You’re hired!” Google: Dr. Philip Glenn, Emerson College Fight or-Flight Our powerful Fight-or-Flight System is triggered by hearty laughter. It raises our heart rate and blood pressure. Fact: our immune system is improved and stress and anxiety is reduced. Quick Story: surgery patients who watched comedies videos and not dramas, required less aspirins and tranquilizers. Google: James Rotton, researcher at Florida International University. It lulls our nonconscious mind to give up stress. Laff Tracks Why do TV shows use phony laff tracks that a six-year old knows is not real. Answer: our nonconscious mind does not know the difference between a real audience laughing and virtual (make-believe) giggles. Our brain goes along with the pretend and relaxes deeper with each dopey joke. Endwords Babies start smiling and submitting a few laughs to parents from their third-week of life. By age three-months babies can laugh effortlessly and often. The syllables – Ha-Ha-Ha! – Ho-Ho-Ho! Hee-Hee-Hee! are associated in our brain through conditioning. When we hear them – as silly as it sounds – we want to laugh or at least smile and giggle. Bad joke? If we hear or think those three magic syllables, we’re hooked to laugh. So what? If you decide to improve your health and longevity, take two-minutes daily to artificially smile and laugh. Do the Ho! Ha! & Hee! and you trigger real, actual laughter. Your nonconscious mind cannot tell the difference and hits all the right neuronal circuits. See ya, --- Would you own a competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, while your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for one of just fifty powerful speed reading reports. You’ll thank us. copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why You Should Not Pay Attention to Einstein 2010-08-30 By H. Bernard Wechsler Why You Should Not Read Einstein Time Magazine called Al one of the most important figures of the 20th Century. If you put up a prize of $10,000 to discover the only scientist the public knows by name – think about it for a second – yeah it’s Al. So what? Al said: “If “A” is a success in life, then “A” equals x+y+z. Work is “x”, play is “y’, and “z” is keeping your mouth shut.” Smart or what? Wait. Aside from other scientists (and not all of them), who can explain in plain English what Al stands for? Who really knows the meaning of E=MC2? Forgettaboutit. Edison had over a thousand patents – Al had none. We remember his light bulb, maybe the first movies, and the first recordings. Problem: Edison was replaced in electricity by Tesla. Who is he? Tesla The super scientist was not Edison but a Croatian (next door to Hungary in Central Europe) called Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). He knocked Edison out of the electricity game by inventing Alternating Current, which left Direct Current with no market. Now we all know you don’t have to understanding how a car motor (internal combustion) gets you from home to the dentist’s office – to successfully drive. Same with electricity, all you do is touch the light switch, right? Inquiring Minds will remember this. It takes a rotating magnet to run ‘electric motors’, and AC beat out DC because it can raise or lower voltage as required. DC cannot produce electricity over long distances, Tesla could. Two last things Inquiring Minds must know: George Westinghouse hired Tesla and gave him a piece of the action which would have made him a billionaire. Bad-Luck Tesla said, “No-thanks, buy me out for cash upfront.” Second, U.S. Supreme Court in 1943 ruled that Nikola Tesla (not Marconi) invented radio. Gotta make you rich, right? Never made a dime and died that year. Al Einstein Tea Baggers are great believers in “common sense”, and like all good con men they start off with stuff their audience agrees with. Common sense works in some things, but not others. It was common sense that the earth was flat and if you sailed far enough your ship would fall off the end. Columbus had no common sense and won the Gold Ring by finding the new world. Chris was no genius – he was certain he discovered China or India, but at least he didn’t drown by falling off the edge. Who Cares Al said, “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” Maybe next time we will not be so proud of our brilliant common sense. Al won the Nobel Prize in 1921. He gave all the winnings to his first wife as a lump sum alimony settlement. “Cheap at twice the price”, he said. What Else Al once wrote, “Not everything that COUNTS can be counted, and not everything that can be COUNTED – counts.” He went on to say – “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He explained that by the fact that within five-years, 90% of knowledge becomes obsolete, but imagination lives forever. Al lived in Princeton’s Institute of Advanced Study. He arrived in 1933 stayed until 1955 when he cashed in his chips. Al left his brain for study to Princeton. He made the following comments: see if they work over a half-century later. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” Al got U.S. President Roosevelt to invest billions during World War Two to create an Atomic Bomb. It wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki – about a quarter of a million Japanese and ended the war a couple of years sooner. He was nervous about the future of nuclear energy for weapons, which made him even more intelligent. Intuition Al believed in Play, recreation time. He knew that the more he played the stronger his imagination which produced ideas through spontaneous intuition. He believed in hunches, gut-reactions and insights. Intuition is from Latin meaning to gaze at and contemplate. It is the opposite of reasoning. He once said, “The only real valuable thing is Intuition.” He credited intuition with his theory of relativity. He did not believe in thinking about the future – “I never think about the future, it comes soon enough.” He owned a sailboat he used on Long Island sound, took long walking tours, and tried to play golf and tennis unsuccessfully. But he Played regularly. Philosophy What the secret of your genius, professor? “The important thing is to NEVER stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” What else? “Two things are INFINITE: the universe and human stupidity. And I am not certain about the universe.” About your education? “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he has learned in school. I look at it this way: you cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them (the problems).” Do you have a secret to put yourself in a creative mood – like Buddhist meditation? “No reporter has ever asked me that. Yes, and it is simple but effective. I am serious. I chant three-words – they originate in Hebrew and mean Master-of-the Universe. Ribono-Shel-Olam.” How? Do not complicate it, just chant out loud Ribono-Shel-Olam, Ribono-Shel-Olam- Ribono-Shel-Olam etc. for four minutes. It is another version of the Buddhist mantra – OM – pronounced in three sounds A-O-M. It really works? “No, I do it to train myself to become an Opera Singer like Caruso.” I’ll try it. “Do your own mind experiment and be a scientist. OM has a history of a few thousand years, and Ribono Shel Olam was used in ancient Israel to arrest stress. I recommend both Chants for relaxation leading to intuition.” Thank you Sir. --- Would having a competitive advantage over your peers improve your schooling and career? Speed readers can read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one. Contact us immediately to claim one of the fifty speed reading reports available. copyright © 2010 hbw@speedlearning.org www.speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emotional Intelligence - Wow! 2010-08-25 By H. Bernard Wechsler Emotional Intelligence Aint Common Sense If you are involved in leading executive teams, the sale of product or services, or teaching, you need the knowledge in a 15 year old book called Emotonal Intelligence, by Daniel Golemen. So What Fact: decision-making is only 20% logical and reasonable, and 80% emotional. If you have not connected with the feelings of the person you want to influence, persuade or convince – you fail. Fact: decision-making requires seeing in your mind’s eye owning and enjoying the new product or service. Mental movies involve your right- hemisphere – the seat of emotions and pattern recognition. No picture, then no – Yes-decision. The brain operates chemically and decides through mental imagery (pictures) using our Limbic System (emotions). Name Memory If you want to alienate clients, avoid new social relationships and make enemies, just mispronounce or fail to remember their name. It is a high-order insult. Most of the memory tricks to remember names is too complicated for folks who have a life. Here are a few that are easy-as-pie and really work in the real world. 1. Affirmation: if you mentally repeat three-times – “I Am Remembering the names of people I meet today because it is important to my career,” your attention is fixed on this goal. Enter the room and quickly repeat 3x – “I am remembering the names of people I meet today because it is important to my career.” Your non-conscious mind doubles your concentration to enhance this behavior. 2. As-If: If you Think-Feel-Act As-If you have a great working memory, your brain accepts the challenge and makes it a reality. Thinking and feeling so, in fact helps make it so. You activate your attention and concentration. Make-believe you are an Actor and choose to influence and convince others. 3. Crazy but true: imagine the name of the person you meet Printed on their forehead in large-sized letters. Repeat it silently as you read it from his/her forehead – three-times and you own it. 4. Rhyming-Simon: John F. Kennedy used this memory trick to recall the names of folks he met daily. The name of his speed reading teacher was 5. Elton Y. Mears. He associated the name Elton with Elvis, Y with the symbol for a question, and he mentally imagined the professor with Big Ears! He whispered mentally (internal dialogue) “Professor Mears has Dumbo’s big-ears!” He never forgot Dr. Mears’ name because he associated it with Disney’s character – Dumbo’s gigantic ears. The rhyme makes it easy and fun. Seven Ways to Get Folks to Hate You – Forever First off, figure out how to remember these dangerous characteristics. a) Blaming b) bribing c) complaining d) criticizing e) nagging f) punishing g) threatening Answer: put them in alphabetical order – B comes before C etc. Next, create a simple, baby-easy mental picture of each negative tactic. Example: “You did it. It is your fault. You’re guilty!” Blaming. Bribing: picture patting someone on the back and smiling at them, when you would rather strangle them. We bribe others by false praise, not just with filthy lucre. See yourself filing a report Complaining about their behavior. Create your own imagery (mental-pictures) with the last four. It is easy will stick like glue. Remember this, when someone says to you, “please tell me the honest truth about my article, speech or talent, folks will never, I mean NEVER, forget or forgive your Criticism – especially if it is true. They will hate you forever. If you are a parent and tell the truth (negative criticism) to your child, it will require five-years of therapy from a certified psychiatrist to wipe out their anger and hatred. School In a recent research study of attitudes toward school – in excess of 90% admitted they HATED almost every day in class, and each of their teachers. You are not supposed to admit you hate school because it is a principle of faith in our left-brain Knowledge Economy that all you have came through education. Maybe not, I would be bet on experience. Why do we hate school and remember it as torture? Answer: We were always in a subordinate, inferior, submissive position. How do you like feeling humble and being controlled? The teacher is the dominant person, top-dog, and master. That make us the slave, subordinate and controlled, right? So What When we have negative feelings and moods our ability to learn and remember is reduced up to 25%. How do you feel in an adult situation when others are judging you leading to a positive or negative review? Emotional intelligence requires a self-understanding and a powerful under- standing of how others react to you. Mood and emotions are formed based on how we see others treating us: we see their facial expressions, gestures, posture and body language. We copy what we see in others. Emotions are like a virus or the flu, it is “catching”. When we smile and are outgoing – it affects others in how they react to learning and memory. Endwords: There is more practical, useful knowledge in the book Emotional Intelligence than two more college degrees. Check it out. --- Would it give you a competitive advantage to read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one? Would it affect you studies and career? Request our free –no strings attached report on Speed Reading. It can change your life for the better. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Breakthrough 2010-08-18 By H. Bernard Wechsler Breakthrough: Synthetic Blood And Longevity On August 16, 2010 British “scientists have proven the principle that from embryonic stem cells lines, red blood cells can be generated”. Professor Marc Turner, Edinburgh University. Synthetic blood is coming. So What? Inquiring Minds are interested in extending their own longevity and that of the rest of us. Every year in Great Britain 2.5 million donations of blood are required for transfusions and medical blood products. Shortages of blood are annual challenges in GB and the USA. The cost of one pint averages over $500 when finally used by a patient. A price drop of up to 65% is possible with synthetic blood. Wait, there is more. Who Cares Synthetic blood is automatically free of infections, viruses, including Mad Cow disease. Synthetic blood will not be rejected by the receiver. The final product is O-Negative blood, the Universal type transfused into 99.9% of humans without fear of rejection by the receiving body. Only 7% of the donor population has O-Negative. Now up to 100% will be O-Neg. It has been about seven years in the research stage. Well-meaning folks are already complaining the scientists involved are baby killers. Red blood cells are created from spare IVF (In Vitro Fertilization). This is well before life is created. IVF means eggs cells are fertilized by sperm outside the womb. In-Vitro is Latin meaning “within the glass”, in test tubes or Petri dishes. And The breakthrough consisted of 100 spare embryos as stem cell lines. They were converted into Red cells containing Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying pigment of the blood cells. Before you say, Who Cares? – the next step is to create synthetic (artificially produced) liver, eye and heart cells. Imagine the end of heart disease and the Big C in your lifetime? Now we all care, right? It will take up to five years before clinical tests on humans. Why so long? In the U.S. the Federal Drug Administration has extensive protocols before approval. Maybe C. Craig Venter (the Human Genome) could speed it up. Could synthetic blood end all Vampire movie and TV shows? Who is This Venter Here we go again. On May 21, 2010 synthetic (artificial) life was created by biologist C. Craig Venter and his team. Get this: the first living organism with a completely synthetic Genome leading to artificial life was verified at the Venter Institute. Inquiring minds and working pathologists be aware: the Venter Institute team in Rockville Maryland has created the first synthetic life form. So? “The cell’s lineage is the standard Computer, not any other genetic code.” Daniel Gibson, lead author of Science journal article. What did they do? Built a genome of a bacterium from step #1 and inserting it into a cell. The Guardian (G.B.) said, “it paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.” These are the same great folks who brought the world ‘sequencing the first human genome.’ Practical Use It is called KGF-2 and hospitals purchase it from commercial laboratories. What it does is start human healing artificially, instead of waiting for Mother Nature. Think about it for a second, if new gene therapy can introduce healing during an operation, the next step is turning off heart disease and cancer genes. Huh? Quick Biography Venter is up for a Nobel Prize. He is a pariah in the scientific community – they hope he cashes in his chips. Why? He has scooped government scientists and those at universities trying to break the genetic code. Venter’s team did it faster by years, and much cheaper by millions of dollars. Nobody (scientists included) likes a competitor that works harder and better. Venter’s team dominated the Human Genome Project. In the year 2000, he mapped the human genome three-years ahead of schedule. In 2010 Venter again beat the scientific community by producing the first cell with a synthetic genome. No one is betting the Venter Institute will not create further breakthroughs in creating synthetic life. What kind? He doesn’t want to alert his competitors. That makes him a bad competitor, but a world-class scientist. So What This technology will create better diagnostic tests and new tools for analyzing diseases, and the best form of treatment. Get this: Venter says the Institute’s work will have applications in new vaccines, pharmaceuticals and even improved water. Endwords Some scientists claim Venter’s work is dangerous to mankind. They fear the Frankenstein Effect because he is playing too loose taking precautions with his synthetic life program. They demand he use a level 3 containment laboratory and dispose of his yeast culture with greater care. He arrogantly responds, we solved that problem five-years ago, thank you very much. I am betting on C. Craig Venter for future successes – after his Nobel. --- Would having a major competitive advantage help your career or studies? Would reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, while your peers can hardly finish one, improve your changes for promotion? We have a major report on speed reading which is free, no strings attached. Contact us immediately for quick results. Find us now. See ya copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acing Interviews 2010 2010-08-04 By H. Bernard Wechsler Acing Job Interviews in 2010 You live in the Knowledge Economy so expect to face psychological warfare in winning your career. The chief thing Human Resources want to know about you is not your education, practical experience and business knowledge, but if your personality fits into their corporate style. Today one person does not make the final hiring decision, you must convince a panel of experienced executives. Did you know the Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator (MBTI) personality assessment (test) is used about two million times annually? Think it might be a good idea to know what the test is looking for? If you are part of the hiring process or seeking to be hired, knowledge is power. Is it unethical to study how to ace the M-B-T-I test? Testing The SAT, MCAT and Law School Entrance Exam require preparation. Fact: prep tutoring can add up to 25% to your score. Passing the Medical Boards, Bar Exam and CPA Board of Accountancy requires a through understanding of the questions and essays. It is a choice between Specific Guidance or Random Spacing in your life. You can leave it to chance or get professional help to review the last ten years of previous exams. Only 1% of applicants choose to avoid prep tutoring. Carl Jung In 1921 Jung wrote a book called Psychological Types, it was published in English in 1923. Corporate Human Resources departments use the Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator exam (since 1962) to dig into your personality. M-B-T-I is based on Jung psychological types. Purpose Are you an Extrovert-Introvert-Thoughtful-Relaxed/Rational dominant individual? The tests picks one of these four temperaments. Sure, we have all four-temperament styles, but one is your permanent lifestyle-nature-predilection in life. Focus on what the HR department and the panel want to know. Will you fit in with our corporate culture? Will you be an asset to the organization? Personality tells us if you can play well with others and team play is the deal-breaker. Attitude You and I have a hardwired attitude toward our workplace, career, and peers. It is part of our emotional makeup. We are Extroverts or Introverts (outgoing or a loner) at heart and these feelings reflect the way we communicate at the office. Are you a computer video game player or find satisfaction in solving corporate problems? Your Attitude will decide whether you rise on the corporate ladder or never pass their probationary trial period. Condition yourself for success. Perceiving Is your dominant system of thinking through Sensing or Intuition? Do you need the project broken down into tiny details to function or delight in using your Intuition to experiment with new ideas and theories. “Just gimme the facts” or chunk the specific objectives for me in advance? Judgment How do you solve problems? Are you a pure (deductive/inductive) thinker or let your feeling guide you. Sure we use both our left and right brains, but one style runs your life. Companies need both kinds of folks, but different departments require specific judgment styles. Lifestyle Which makes you happy? Do your juices flow by using your judging skills or perception function of sensing or intuition. Are you an observer or an experimenter? Certain jobs require one function more than the other. Temperament Temperament is your disposition, make up and nature. It combines your mental, physical and emotional traits. From Latin: to mix properly. This list was used by the Greeks in the 5th century B.C. a) Sanguine: self-confident and extroverted. Leader? b) Choleric: doers with ambition, energy and passion. Organizer? c) Melancholic: (literally Black-Bile) thoughtful, pondering. Geek? d) Phlegmatic: self-content, accepting, relaxed and rational. Snail? Hyperthymic Temperament It comes from Greek meaning Spiritedness. It breaks down to hyper: meaning Over, excess, excited and keyed up and Thymic (thymia) meaning Mind, Spirit, Soul. What are the traits of a hyperthymic personality? (hi-per-th-eye-mik)? Create a mental image using the following ten personality traits. 1. Extroverted 2. Risk-Taking 3. Low threshold for boredom 4. Breaking social norms. 5. Controversial 6. Combines generous and spendthrift. 7. Emotion-sensing 8. Short sleep patterns 9. Extreme productivity 10. Powerful libido. Folks exhibiting the personality of Hyperthymia are leaders in their organization. They appear to their peers as very productive and pathfinders for solutions. They are the Alpha male and female in their troop. Wait. This personality type does NOT show dysfunction in communication, decision-making, and social circumstances. They are leaders looking for followers to implement their plans and objectives. According to Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator, Hyperthymic personalities are considered ENTJ – Extroverts-iNtuitive-Thinking-Judging. They scare Human Resources, but delight CEOs and boards of directors. Hypomanic Temperament The origin of the term is Greek: Hypo mean below (hypodermic needle), and Manic (mania) loss of reason. If you are Hypomanic you often switch MOODS from Highs and Lows – elevated to irritable. It is a SOFT form of Bi-Polar Disorder. Please Take Notice: Hypomania is not full blown mania, but below it permitting them to function successfully. Hypomania Traits 1. Grandiosity – they compare themselves to Jesus, George Washington, and Bill Gates and believe it. 2. Decreased need for sleep. They are always thinking and conceiving new ideas. 3. Racing mind. In with the old ideas, they are boring, in with the untried new ideas. 4. Easily distracted and indicate attention deficit discorder. 5. Often reckless and risk-takers without caution. 6. They generally do not suffer prolonged depressions and can function in business. Difficulty with social relationships. Outspoken. Endwords Hypomania is worse than Hyperthymia, but Columbus was hypomanic and made it work for him. Google: Professor John D. Gardner, John Hopkins University. Contact us for a free speed reading report (no strings attached) – available for the next 50 callers. It is important for your successful career. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is It a Law? 2010-07-28 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is It a Law That Teachers Must Be Dominant and Students Subjugated? In a recent executive survey, 84% of executives voted NO to company Continuing Education programs, post-graduate seminars, and lifelong- learning classes. They consider it a waste of time and money. Were they negatively influenced because it was ordered by management, and classes held on their personal time? A long-term survey of students from 6th graders to Graduate-School pronounced their educational experience filled with fear and loathing, negativity and loss of self-esteem. It was intentionally anonymous to protect the vulnerable 91%. Were the reasons they devalued school because they felt passive, subservient and subjugated by the teachers? Memories Would you mentally visualize a typical day in your junior year in high school? What is your overall emotional memory of the learning experience? How did they treat you? Remember, there was a time when your full time occupation was being a student. Did fairness enter into those times or did you feel like Pinocchio on a string? Were you the one in 50,000 who was certain of their future career? Was your primary goal to get a good job based on your education, or to emerge a well- rounded clear-thinking citizen? The Past And Today From the 1960s to the end of the century, more than half of college students surveyed clicked for being all they could be, a well-rounded intelligent citizen. Imagine, they were not attending school to get a better paying occupation. Surveys of students over the past ten-years vote 90% for career skills as their primary motive for attending school. Education for education’s sake is dead and buried. Careers And Higher Education What is the number of full-time students (from kindergarten to graduate school) in the U.S. in July 2010? The answer is 76.6 million out of a total population of 308 million. That’s 24% or about one-in every four citizens is a full-time student. High School vs. College Graduate Even during this powerful recession unemployment of high school students is 10.8% compared to only 4.9% for college graduates. School is a money issue. Google: Eduventures.com is a private organization compiling data, analysis and consulting services to over 300 institutions of higher education. They have advised their clients to expect higher than normal attendance at their colleges because of this extended recession. In July 2010 there are 154.2 Million full-time employees in the U.S. labor force. Unemployment is about 10% or 15 Million to date. It almost mirrors the Great Depression. Entry level jobs for college graduates is approximately 16% less than required for full employment. Excuse me, but those lost jobs are NEVER coming back. They have been replaced by new technology like computers and robots on the assembly line. Either be a Knowledge worker or hit the street is the new law. Dropouts During the past decade the average U.S. high school dropout rate is about 30%. Those who enter college intending to graduate in four years no longer dropout to earn income. The lack of available college level slots has reduced the dropout rate to 12% instead of 30%. People go to school because of lack of alternatives. Many students remain in school for advanced degrees because of this recession. Decision-Making Homo sapiens pride ourselves on being left-brained logical thinkers. We plan, think linearly, and guide ourselves by organized reason and experience. Or do we? Our right-brain (hemisphere) is the basis of our emotional thinking. It is located in our brain’s Limbic System consisting of our Brainstem and Midbrain. The Limbic (Latin for border or edge) System includes our Amygdala, Hippocampus, Hypothalamus, Cerebellum and is connected to our Cerebrum. It regulates our Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System, the basis for our Autonomic Nervous System, and in particular the Fight-or-Flight response. These structures control our emotions and is deeply involved in our decision-making. Dr. Damasio Google: Antonio Damasio, world-class neuroscientist. Decisions are dependent on our feelings, values, beliefs, values and past experience. He used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to discover that even though some decisions appear to be purely logically and based on reason 2+2 = 4, they commence in the Right (emotional) hemisphere. Wait, I though logic is the preserve of our left-brain? We are hardwired for emotion to dominate our reason in almost 95% of our important life decisions. Initial electrical activity, according to Dr. Damasio, begins in our Nonconsciousness (right-brain) no matter how logical. Should I eat an apple or drink lemonade becomes a subjective decision involving our feelings. Career Choices Money (wages and bonuses) is not the primary goal in maintaining a successful career, according to the majority of executives. Contentment, pride and recognition decide job satisfaction. Promotions and the approval of peers is not the primary goal. Research indicates that Personal Satisfaction in one’s daily activities is our dominant motivating force. The key element in career satisfaction is Autonomy – self-determination and independence. Dominance by management without self-governance is the major cause for leaving the organization. Does the company trust you to produce without constant supervision? WIIFME? What’s In It For Me? It is emotional. Memory Who were the Seven-Dwarfs? Excuse me, who cares? Answer: Memory exercises create a shield (firewall) to protect your brain from Alzheimer. Read on. BaDD G-HoSS? B stands for Bashful (forget the vowel) and D is for Dopey, the second D is for Doc. G is for Grumpy, H stands for Happy (forget the vowel). The first S is for Sleepy and the second S is for Sneezy. Make an effort to create a made-up word or phrase with the initial letters of what you choose to remember. It improves memory up to 125%. Vowels are free, try it. Bashful-Dopey-Doc-Grumpy-Happy-Sleepy-Sneezy. Got it? I knew you could. --- Question: would you have a competitive advantage in your career or in school by reading-and-remembering three (3) books, articles and reports compared to your peers who can hardly finish one? We have a important free report on speed reading to the first fifty readers who contact us. Do it now. See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@ speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Change Your Affirmation 2010-07-20 By H. Bernard Wechsler Change Your Affirmation, Change Your Destiny “I AM experiencing a Benign (B-9) body and mind, and feeling better-and-better, on a daily basis infinitum.” If you repeat this affirmation (oath, testimonial) for five-minutes before falling asleep, and three-minutes on waking, you will change your brain and nervous system. Say again? It is scientifically proven to work, Do What? Increase your longevity up to nine-years, and reduce the risk of senior dementia up to 50%. If it is a fact how come Affirmations are not used in schools to turn our kids into geniuses? Teachers want to teach, not chant slogans. Brain And Affirmations You are being bombarded with Self-Talk (Internal Dialogue) 24/7. The result is a pattern of behavior, beliefs, and attitudes that affect your relationships, career, and motivation. Your worldly success is determined by your long-term belief system. “You don’t have the smarts to head the department.” “You can try again to lose ten-pounds of ugly fat, but it is a waste of time. It will just come back, right? You have a track record for lose/gain. Give it up.” “Look, you have reached your glass-ceiling, stop wasting your time trying for V.P. Get a hobby Dude.” “She is out-of-your-class – it is a no-win game for you.” Hypnagogic, Hypnopompic And Brainwave Rhythms If you know about human brainwave rhythms – you are one-in-a-million. Beta brainwave rhythms. We spend our conscious waking hours (when we are not daydreaming) in Beta Cycles Per Second. That is 13 to 40 Hertz (cycles per second). It is your Left-Brain in control using reason, logic, and planning. It is an intense state of alertness. Consciousness is for learning, memory, and organizing. Alpha brainwaves – 8-13 Hz (cps) is relaxed alertness. Call it daydreaming, meditation, creative visualization and autosuggestion. Close your eyes for half-a-minute and you are there. Beta fades out and is replaced by Alpha. Theta brainwaves – 4-7 Hz (cycles per second) occurs during creativity and dreaming. Your Intuition and creative imagery uses Theta Hz. Delta – 0.5 – 4 Hz (cps) occurs during sleep and particularly dreaming. Last thing: inquiring minds want to know: the discoverer of brainwave rhythms was Hans Berger, psychiatrist from Austria - in the 1930s. He developed the first working EEG to prove (measure) his science – the Electroencephalograph. It is improved and now called NeuroFeedback. So What When you are in bed and getting ready to fall asleep, your brainwaves are changing. You are leaving Beta (left-brain consciousness) and moving into Alpha (right-brain auto-pilot). This interim period of up to five-minutes permits you to Program (condition) both your conscious and non-conscious minds. For an extra prize – remember this transition is called Hypnagogic - a twilight zone between being awake and falling asleep. How If you motivate yourself to silently recite your Affirmation during this transitionary (conversion, passage) period of five-minutes – you create a neuronal network in your cerebral cortex. Both hemispheres of your brain are programmable during this twilight-zone. Scientists call it Neural-Plasticity. After about a week it goes on Autopilot and continues to affect your nervous system. Google: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System. These control your Fight-or-Flight programming. More Homo sapiens experience a second Twilight Zone prior to waking in the A.M. It is a called Hypnopompic. During this time your left and right brains are amenable to conditioning and association. You can insert Affirmations (computer commands) that are immediately accepted by your left and right hemispheres for action. Affirmations require repetition (p.m. and a.m) to become a neural network, but it’s easy because there is no resistance. It becomes programmed code and changes your brain’s motivation, beliefs and attitude. Who Cares Whatever you insert a Command Affirmation during Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic times your brain is rewired. It requires a relaxed attitude of mind over 21 consecutive days to make your affirmation a permanent goal. It used by students and corporate executives to overcome competition. Emotions, Mental Imagery And Repetition Association is linking your Affirmation with creative imagery summarizing your desired outcome. Can you create a mental picture of graduating and receiving your diploma? How about a mental movie of being promoted and receiving a bonus check of $10,000? It is not enough to repeat your Affirmation like a ventriloquist’s dummy. You need to surround your words with strong feelings and emotions. Now add your mental movies of attaining your goal. See it, feel it, say it, and it becomes your map. Secret: you are conditioning both hemispheres for long-term success by overriding the negativity of most Self-Talk (Internal Dialogue) through positive Association and Conditioning. Students and Learning Professor Geoffrey Cohen, University of Colorado-Boulder did a series of tests with Affirmations. His research appears in the journal, Science in 2002. It has been successfully repeated to date. The goal was to mentally condition (not brainwash) African-American middle-school students for learning success. These self-affirmation exercises (tested over two-years) helped boost their grades. It did not fade, but was the gift that kept on giving. Google: to discover the power of Command Affirmations over our brains. Endwords Health and longevity. “I-Am experiencing a Benign (B-9) Body-and-Mind, and feeling better-and-better on this 1st of January, 2011, and on a daily basis Ad Infinitum. And it is So.” “I-Am experiencing a Benign Body-And-Mind, and feeling better and better on a daily basis Ad Infinitum.” et al. --- Would you own a major competitive advantage by permanently reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports compared to your peers, who can hardly finish one? Contact us for your free (no strings attached) important speed reading report now – while you are thinking about it. See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surprise Broca or Else 2010-07-14 By H. Bernard Wechsler Surprise “Broca” And Stop Boring Folks to Death Did you know our brain deletes, distorts and generalizes incoming information using Filters to avoid Information-Overload from frying our mind? If you want to get Attention from one (1) three-pound coconut or an audience of them, you must overcome CLUTTER by the media and emails. It has a name: Surprising Broca. Too Much or Too Little Most of us err on the side of offering way too much detail. That’s you and me, TV, print advertising, and the Internet. You know what you do when there is too much clutter in your life – hit the Delete button, distort what we hear and see, and generalize that they-are-all-the-same anyway. I have CNBC on all day spitting the latest financial news at me. Our brain revels in the stimulus of new information, but funny thing, facts are NOT knowledge leading to expertise. Problem: we take in tons of information, but our poor Jello brain cannot process 10% of that clutter input. What we got is an Illusion of Discovery. I don’t know the difference between Illusions and Delusions anymore than I comprehend “too much, too little and just enough” detail. I’ll ask Goldilocks and the Three-Bears. Google: Dr. J. Grahn, 6.20.2010 appearing in the Journal, Nature. Less is More This is brain science. Testing 11,430 folks with six-weeks of cognitive (mind) exercises, scientists know that training does NOT work if you want to improve intelligence. It is N.G. for brain improvement and has no carry over for thinking and learning. Just the facts, folks. But wait, there is more. Those folks who are lifelong learners, who continue to read books, articles and reports as a hobby – not because their teachers whipped them – developed Cognitive Reserve which reduced the risk of Alzheimer and other forms of dementia – up to 50%. Ah Hah. Lifelong learning has another benefit. You gain longevity compared to the other 3-pound coconuts. Continuous Learning appears to help you live longer and healthier. It is based on experience, not just genetics. Get this. Homo sapiens accept without question information we personally discover. So what? When we go on a Treasure Hunt (Hide-And-Seek) for Information, we triple the value of those facts. Why? Who are you doing to believe if not your own research. But 50% of what we discover is not proof, just evidence. Example: half the scientists believe learning and memory training produces new Dopamine Receptors, the other 50% think they’re nuts. Secret: go long-term investing vs. short term trading because Attention is fundamentally SELECTIVE, and our brain can only process 10% of what we get. Google: The Nuns Story, and Dr. Yaacov Stern, Columbia University Medical Center. Surprise Broca’s or Shut Up Fear of failure causes us to say and do things in the same old, same old way. Even your significant other won’t tell you that you are a Replica and Clone of yourself. You are telling the same stories, holding the same opinions and have not changed in ten years. And where has it gotten you? Secret to Success We are brow-beaten with the same commercials 24/7 and even dream of eating the bargain Papa John pizza and drinking Coke. Does it work? Sure or the advertisers would not be spending billions annually. Does it change your mind? Contrarians mentally delete repetitious commercials and make it a point to intentionally not purchase what they pitch. We can be reached only by being unique and interesting, and to do that they must Shock and Surprise Broca’s Area of our brain. When Back in 1871 a French surgeon, Paul Broca, discovered a structure in the brain that controls speech production, syntax, language comprehension and facial neurons. Broca’s Area is linked to Wernicke’s Area for speech and comprehension. In 1874 Carl Wernicke, German Neurologist discovered a structure of the brain linked to written and spoken language and named for him. When we bore Broca - to death, Wernicke joins the funeral and ignores the message. Lucky or What Which do we remember more – success or failure? Answer: we learn and remember from Success. A lucky win is retained by our brain better than a probable loss. For brilliant stars: Our Dopaminergic brain system helps produce learning and memory. It kicks in when something unexpected occurs, not when things are predictable. How come? A surprise is a Reward, and our brain works for rewards. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in rewards and the anticipation of reward. Surprising Broca is like winning a Prize. We pay attention. For geniuses: remember the latest brain research: the Hippocampus (memory formation) and Nucleus Accumbens (rewards and novel information) work together when there are unexpected outcomes. So what? Humans ignore the common place and pay attention to the extraordinary. Google: University of Bonn, Dr. N. Axmacher. 2.25.2010 Listen to this note: “I was here and you aint, now you is there and I isn’t.” Your brain has marked this silly one-liner for long-term memory. Why? It has surprised Broca with lousy grammar and grandpa too. Endwords If you wish to be labeled creative, interesting and ready for success – your job is to communicate with your associates and clients aggressively. How? Surprise and Shock Broca in word-and-deed. Fear of failure makes you commonplace and ordinary. When you have the nerve to Surprise Broca – you are memorable and cool. Try it and discover the secret used by winning students and executives. --- Question: would you stand out from your career competition by having a unique talent in reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports compared to your peers who can hardly finish one? We teach speed reading at schools, corporations and to individuals because they want to Surprise Broca with their skills. Contact us for an important free speed reading research report – no-strings-attached. Time-is-of-the-essence. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler. www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Who Has The Right Skills? 2010-07-06 By H. Bernard Wechsler What Are The Right Skills For Both Job Hunting And Career Promotions? Even though you are working or self-employed, we believe success is a life-long learning-game. Google: New York Times on 7.02.2010: Jobs Go Begging in The Hunt For the Right-Skills. So What, Who Cares, I am OK What are the Right-Skills anyway? Keep it simple – Simon. Basic skills means your can read and do arithmetic at a 9th grade level. Sure, it is harder than that TV show – Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, but the test for basic skills is not looking for a reincarnation of Al Einstein. Recession or Depression The depression of the 1930s lasted over ten-years – from 1939 to the beginning of World War 2, December of 1941. The present honest rate of U.S. unemployment, June, 2010 is 16.5% not the newspaper number of 9.5%. How come? In addition to the 14.6 million without work are another 11.02 million who Washington admits have given up the fight to find a job. These figures are equal to the low end of the Great Depression unemployment. Wait. How many of U.S. citizens are Employed? Answer: about 154.2 million. Nothing to sneeze at, huh? Unemployed among teenagers is presently 25.7% and for Black-Americans, 15.4%. Really, these numbers fit the Great Depression – in 2010. Last numbers you should know. How many citizens in the U.S.? Almost 310 million How many in the world? 6.9 billion. Learn these two population figures – U.S. - 310 million, World, 6.9 billion. Lifelong learning means knowing this. Training Wait. Human Resources departments say they are seeking Aptitude, not just specific skills. Aptitude is a talent, cleverness, and the smarts to learn new skills. They want new hires to have the right attitude, mind-set, and IQ to pick up new knowledge and the right working behaviors to succeed. President Obama wants new Stimulus money to train for these new jobs, but Congress has rejected training appropriations. Now what? How do we grab up the demand for new hires – “going begging”? They pay $18-23 per hour – up to $800 weekly. The Power of Reading as an Employment Asset Human Resources departments take reading for business purposes very seriously. They pay thousands of dollars to train their employees from factory level to executives to improve their reading and comprehension levels. Are you aware of how slowly you presently read? The average adult reads about 200 words per minute and wastes hours daily because they struggle with the fundamentals of decoding, storage and retrieval of information. Silent or Aloud When we were kids in school the teacher read aloud to us. Later we were taught to read silently without moving our lips or making auditory verbalization. Today 98% of adults read one-word-at-a-time, and hears each word pronounced in their mind. So What? It slows us down to a crawl – we call it snailing. Aloud Even though reading should be silent there are times to alternate by reading some paragraphs aloud in a whisper. The only listener is you. Why read aloud? Reading is a visual process starting in the rear of the eye, the retina. Light is detected and the eyes create electro-chemical impulse in the neurons. It is the photoreceptors – the rods (120 million) vs. the cones (17 million) that transmit the impulses to our Optic Nerve on the way to our brain. It is then sent to the Primary Visual Cortex (V-1) in our brain for image creation and sight. A duplicate of what we read in V-1 also registers in our Larynx. It is as if we are verbalizing each word we read. Memory Thinking, using our PreFrontal Cortex, plus repeating aloud what we are reading creates Neuro-Muscular Memory. Using both areas causes engrams – memory traces that improve retrieval of information. When we add our Vocal Chords by reading aloud, to our left-brain neurons of comprehension, our neurotransmitters enhance our long-term memory of what we read. V-A-K Powerful reading occurs when we use our three (3) dominant senses – Vision by seeing the words, Auditory by hearing the words we read in our mind’s ear (auditory reinforcement), and last Kinesthetic (touch) when we use a pen in our hand to Pace and Underline the words we read. We use our Ear plus our Vocal Chords to read and remember better. When we read (whisper) aloud, the sound passes from our larynx (voice box) and bone to our brain. The sound to the brain exclusively from our ears is not as good as utilizing both structures. The additional memory neuropathway (ear and vocal chords) helps double your long-term memory. Reading Skill Read silently for 15 minutes and stop. Now summarize the gist of what you have read in a loud whisper. The combination of silent and aloud reading improves your attention and recall of what you have read. In 21 consecutive days of practice your reading speed will double and memory improve up to 50%. Fusiform Gyrus The structure in your brain that registers and stores the shape of words in your vocabulary is located in the fusiform gyrus of your brain. The same area contains the faces and body shapes of all those we recognize. Understanding metaphors also occurs in the Fusiform Gyrus. Endwords Speed reading begins with using a Pacer to force your eyes speed up. A pen or a laser pointer is the tool to double or triple your reading skills for your career. You can go from about 200 wpm to up to 800 words per minutes with 15-minute daily practice for 21 days. You will be prepared for a new hire or a promotion in your present career. --- Would you have a major competitive advantage over your competitors by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, when they can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free, no strings attached major report on speed reading. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How To Be Smarter Than Your Competitors 2010-06-28 By H. Bernard Wechsler How To Be Smarter Than Your Competitors What do Nike, Harley-Davidson and Tiffany have in common? They have powerful personalities just like famous folks, and we all want to be associated with successful (winners) people. Why? It is our emotions (right-brain) hijacking our logic and reason (left-brain). We feel good about ourselves and others are impressed with us because our connection with Nike, riding a Harley and having the Tiffany name on our watch. Call it brand-name “validation” of our status. Wait! And we will pay extra U.S. greenbacks for the privilege to impress others. Example: the identical two-carat diamond ring or expensive wristwatch (Patek Phillip) you buy at Tiffany cost up to $6,000 more than at your local jewelry store. People pay the extra tariff with a smile just to be able to show their friends and associates – “I bought her engagement ring at T-I-F-F-A-N-Y!” The brand name adds prestige to your reputation and makes you feel like a millionaire. What is the retail value of good feelings? Driving a Chevvy gets you there, but a Mercedes flies you on the wings of an eagle. Endorphins Please remember this – Endorphins are our bodies’ narcotic (morphine) a neurotransmitter to overcome pain. So what? It is what produces happiness and pleasure. Endorphins improve our mood and attitude. Oh yeah, it is released by sex and laughter. It improves our physical and mental reactions. To know more - Google: Mu Opioid Receptors. Dopamine What motivates Homo sapiens to work, love and improve? Rewards. Would you go to work without a weekly check? Two motives are hardwired in our brain: to always seek out pleasure, and to constantly avoid pain. Key Neurotransmitter Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is central to our human nervous system. It pumps out rewards during enjoyment in the form of pleasurable emotions. It is a reinforcement to repeat acts that originally produce it. Do it again, please. We are conditioned (programmed) by rewards to reinforce specific behaviors. No check, no work. Love motivates us to bring gifts to our Significant Other. Repeat after me – “ Endorphins produce good feelings, the emotions of happiness. Will work and produce for powerful emotions.” Scientific Research on Brands Recent studies (6.22.2010) at the University of Minnesota, Deborah Roedder, lead author indicates: when consumers drink an iconic brand like Coke, ride a Harley or shop at Tiffany, they improve their self-esteem, confidence and mood. The brand’s personality rubs off on their emotions. Get this: we perceive ourselves as more exiting, glamorous, cool and successful when we are using a national hot brand. We get more than just another good product, we get an emotional hijack away from beta brainwaves of logic and reason, to alpha brainwaves of imagination and creativity. Two Attitudes Folks fall into one of two ways of thinking about themselves: one: our personalities are fixed and locked in at birth. They are convinced we cannot change our personality through anything we do because it is genetic – hardwired. The second group believes our personality is constantly changing and growing based on our experiences in life. Can knowledge, study and determination change how we see ourselves and how others see us? Flexibility (neuroplasticity) permits us to change the characteristics we work on. Can an introvert become a loud extrovert? Why do we wear a fraternity pin or college ring decades after graduating? It is a personal advertisement of our special status. Examples: lawyers will inevitably mention how hard passing the Bar Exam was, PhDs always mention their thesis. It shows us they are decisive, conscientious and brilliant stars. Yes, we are walking advertisements for our personality. Pulling The Trigger When do we decide to buy? Is it when we add up all the benefits and decide if the purchase price is worth owning the product? Logic, reason and left-brain consciousness are a disguise for the reality of emotional decision-making. We decide everything significant at a nonconscious level of mind. Buying decisions are always emotional, coming from the Limbic System of our brain. We use our imagination to predict how we will feel (emotions) once we own the purchase. Dazzle the troops; dazzle us. Our brain can Forecast and Backcast, by predicting our emotions in the future, and creating mental imagery of our feelings after the event occurs. If we do not form a a positive mental pix of our feelings about the decision, we produce a negative decision. “Imagine your neighbors envy when you first park that new Mercedes in the driveway.” How you feel about the decision is the make-or-break element. New, New Research Remember: circuits in the adult brain are constantly engaged in Neuroplasticity. They are continually (always) being modified by new experiences. Your brain’s wiring is never static, synapses turn over at least 7% per week. Your experiences cause both inhibitory and excitatory connections in our cortical (brain) functional maps. So what? We are constantly establishing new memories to draw on for behaviors, emotions and creativity. Circuit changes are standard operating procedure (SOP), not the exception. We are learning machines that put new knowledge and experience into practice. The Prime Directive is Lifelong Learning. You are never too old to learn new tricks. Google: Charles D. Gilbert, Rockefeller University, journal PLoS Biology, June, 2010. --- Question: would you own a competitive advantage in your career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports when your peers can hardly finish one? Who get promotions is based on knowledge, experience and practical use in your career. Find us and request a free (no strings attached) report on how to be a lifelong speed reader. Where? www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org When? Now, before we discontinue this valuable service. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Do Critics Influence Us? 2010-06-21 By H. Bernard Wechsler How Do Critics Influence Behavior – And So Should You Half of the major theater critics said they liked Jersey Boys, while the other half called it 1970s corny. The NY Times gave it a moderate rave on November 7th 2005 and in the middle of June 2010 it is still a major hit on Broadway. George Orwell said, “We are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.” NY Times is More equal than the other critics. Addams Family opened April 9, 2010 to lousy reviews. NY Times was begrudging in its appreciation. The public voted with its wallets and stood around the block to buy tickets. How come? Familiarity Breeds Success Addams family cartoons first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in 1935 and terminated in 1989 – when the cartoonist cashed in his chips. Wait: this celebration of death and the macabre produced a successful TV show 1964-66, and two very internationally popular movies in 1991 and a sequel in 1993. Therefore, the Broadway show was a guaranteed hit because we follow our friends. We like the critics who agree with out likes and dislikes, but there are exceptions. Key Point: the opinions of others – critics, friends and associates really matter even to independent thinkers like You and Me. It physiological and mentally feels good when others agree with our opinions. Career And Relationships If we want to Influence, Persuade and Convince our peers, superiors and the public, and obtain future promotions and leadership positions, we must know how to get their Agreement. The first step to influence is agreeing with the opinions of others, before we ask them to agree (big-time) with our opinions. If we have a personal history of past (small) agreements, that credibility escalates to future agreement. Who Says So Researchers at University College London ((UCL). When? 6.17.2010, published in the journal Current Biology. Google: lead author, professor Chris Frith. How Come Get this: the Reward structure in our brain is activated (blood flows) when seen under a fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) – when others AGREE with our opinions. Motivation Why do we buy that fancy car when all we really want is cheap transportation? What characteristics (personality) entice us to choose a Significant Other? Sure motivation, but what motivates our final decision? What Does Our Brain’s Ventral Striatum Do? The latest scientific research indicates our VS is the key to Emotion and Motivation and delivers Dopamine, the neurotransmitter that produces Pleasure. Inquiring Minds Need to locate our VS: it is in the Limbic System, near the Basal Ganglia, and consists of the Nucleus Accumbens and Olfactory Tubercles. Gamblers Compulsive Gamblers have a high-jacked Ventral Striatum. They experience a runaway Dopamine flow and obtain pleasure from Risky Decisions, Novelty and status. They gamble to keep up with the Joneses, not for the money. Who Cares Most Scientists agree 95% of all serious decisions are based on Emotion not organized planning and logic. Is it a fact that Homo sapiens have two goals in life – we seek Pleasure (motivated to compete) and avoid Pain? Yes. Question: Are decisions made using Will Power (conscious thinking) or the Nonsconscious mind (brainstem-basal ganglia and our nervous system)? Approximately 16.7% is made by our Conscious mind, and 83.3% by our Autonomic Nervous System (Nonconsciousness). I did not believe it either. Money Listen closely: when we anticipate Financial Gain – the neurotransmitter for reward in our VS – Dopamine increases, which increases our Pleasure. When we contemplate Loss, Dopamine reduces its flow – decreases our pleasure. “Fear of loss dominates our desire for gain – it is called Risk Aversive.” Researcher, G. Senise. “Gamblers overcome Risk Aversive by secondary Pleasure, a belief in their personal Status, and Positive Potential. Even after losing, they find pleasure in the gambling environment. They have a need to be different and do not contemplate losses. They control their Fear of Loss until it overwhelms them. Endwords When critics (reviewers) agree with our own choices – our brain’s Ventral Striatum (reward center) is activated by an increase in Dopamine, the pleasure neurotransmitter. When we get confirmation (validation) by a higher price on the stock market we feel the emotion of pride and high status. When we sell our real estate for more than we paid, dopamine flows. We work for rewards. We are hardwired to be influenced, persuaded and convinced by the opinion of others. Words and status change our mind. More or less dopamine flows in our VS. How come? It has evolutionary survival value in being a member of the tribe. Agreement on the hunt in the savannah leads to cooperation and success in bringing back the bacon. It still works. We call it a ‘team effort’. --- If you had the ability to read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers could hardly finish one, is that an important competitive advantage? Contact us for a free report on speed reading. It may be responsible for your next promotion. No strings attacted. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org See ya, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full of Shadenfreude? 2010-06-15 By H. Bernard Wechsler Full Of Shadenfreude? To win promotions, you have to learn what makes executives and staff tick? Question: Does President Obama know what makes the public feel warm and fuzzy in the Gulf oil debacle? Why do the polls show him going down-down-down? Are you a Blamer-Criticizer-Complainer-Briber-Punisher-Threatener-Nagger? Is it “us” against “them”? Do we want to put the third largest petroleum company in the world - O-O-B (out-of-business)? Will the U.K. still be our war pal? Oxytocin (ox-si-toh-suan) There is a brain hormone/neurotransmitter that makes Homo sapiens sacrifice to win for their side, and lash out against their enemies (opponents). We are chemically programmed for both trust-and-benevolence for our side, and aggression against our competitors. Oxy Defensive-Aggression is how humans neutralize the threatening “others”. It is Oxy that does double-duty – first as a Bonding (altruism) hormone toward our team, and second a neurotransmitter producing the emotion of Aggression against “them” - making “us” stronger. Huh Aggression against “others” is an indirect form of Altruism (loyal behavior) toward “us” (our side). It is evolutionary and has survival value for our species. Get this: being altruistic toward “us” helps our side to proper, survive and spread our genes. Oxytocin (made by the Pituitary Gland) is a neurobiological mechanism (hardwired) with a dual purpose. First, Bond with our own group to add our benefits to them, second be aggressive toward competing other groups. So What This is the first scientific proof for Tribal-Conflict evolving to modern Warfare. And the winner is …Oxytocin. It is not just the Bonding hormone – it is the Aggression neurotransmitter . In fact Oxy acts in opposition (reduces) Cortisol, the Stress hormone. Oxy strengthens Positive behavior and empowers Negative behavior toward our group enemies (outsiders). In Practice In your career it is best to create imagery (imagine) a specific enemy not an abstract one. You may be competing for the next promotion against one or more peers – mentally visualize winning the promotion and raise, and humbling your competitors. See a corporate enemy and create strategies to send them into bankruptcy. The more vivid and repetitious your mental imaging, the greater the emotional affect on your brain and its neural circuits. Winning is 90% your feelings leading your behaviors. This not a moral issue, it is hardwired biologically. Google: University of Amsterdam, published in the Journal – Science. Lead editor: Dr. Carsten de Dreu. 6.14.2010 Envy And Gloating Oxy (known as the love-hormone) affects Trust-Empathy-Generosity. It is equally operates (affects) its opposite behaviors – Gloating on winning and Envy when losing. Remember: when our association is Negative, Oxy increase negative feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Check U.S. Webster’s dictionary for Schadenfreude. Originating from German – schaden (harm) plus freude (joy). It describes satisfaction (pleasure) at another’s misfortune (suffering). Admit it, we are all hardwired to enjoy the frontrunner being trashed. Synthetic And Natural Oxy is a natural hormone from the Pituitary Gland occurring childbirth and during sex. Synthetic Oxy has been used to triggers childbirth. Recent research at the University of Haifa (Israel) lead author – Professor Simone Shamay-Tsoory, published in the Journal Biological Psychiatry. Inhaling synthetic (artificial) Oxy causes higher levels of Altruistic feelings improving human relationships between folks. Synthetic Oxy inhalation also produces higher levels of Aggression. Are there military applications? What about negative social (tribal) feelings? Can it help avoid decimating enemies? Holocausts? Inhaling Oxy produces higher levels of Envy when the opposition is winning the game. Guess what? Inhaling when we are winning produces higher levels of Gloating. Synthetic Oxy is an interesting scientific weapon. More research. Endwords: Would you own a dominant competitive advantage by reading-and-remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? We are offering a free (no strings attached) speed reading report to those who contact us immediately. See: www.speedlearning.org hbw@ speedlearning.org See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trial-And-Error? 2010-06-10 By H. Bernard Wechsler Trial And Error? Is recent research on our 3-pound coconut worth knowing? You decide. Brain cells (neurons) O-n-l-y learn from experience when we are successful in Trial-And-Error. Wait. How do you spell Basal Genglia ? What is it? It’s the part of the brain that runs “movement control”, emotion, cognition, and reward based learning. Spelling Answer: Basal Ganglia. So What When we make an error (fail to get it right) MIT researchers have proven that our brain keeps track of it. We see the correct answer and know we spelled it wrong. BUT, there is no Change (improvement) in our future behavior. Now, when we get it RIGHT, that ‘trial experience’ helps shape our spelling knowledge in the future. “Trial” with the correct answer and our brain is reinforced (rewarded). Do we learn- from-experience? “Error” – choosing the wrong answer and there is no learning from experience. Wait, Successful repetition helps improve your brain circuitry for future learning and memory. T-r-i-a-l, yes; e-r-r-o-r, noted but no improvement. Where Both the Basal Ganglia and our PFC (prefrontal cortex) play key roles in our brain for learning-and-memory. They learn how to process new stuff and improve our behavior - exclusively through winning (successful) trials. How? Both Basal Ganglia and Prefrontal Cortex send out brief neural Signals after Trial-And-Error (both). The error signal is weak and shorter, while the successful trial is both stronger and longer. The next time - your knowledge and memory behavior is improved. Huh? Learning-from-experience means we learn more from our successes than keeping track of our errors (failure). And? We live in the Knowledge Economy where science is personal power in your career. Google: MIT research published in the journal Neuron, lead author professor Earl K. Miller. Dementia New research on learning, memory and education is downright exciting. This concerns your life because you are going to live into your nineties. So? We want good, healthy, fun years of longevity, right? Get this: learning-memory-education delays the early symptoms of dementia, including Azheimers. So what? Lifelong learning delays and helps avoid the development of many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer. Mild Cognitive Impairment (Senior Moments) occurs to 80% of those over eighty years old. Learning, memory exercises and education help keep you in the healthy 20% that avoid it. Conclusion: lifelong learners tolerate more brain disease without showing it, and sustain less nerve (neuron) damage. How come? Learners have more Cognitive- Reserve to throw-off the symptoms of dementia. Your brain stops the progress of the disease. Google: Dr. Yaacov Stern, Columbia University Medical Center. Alzheimer and Cognitive Reserve. Google: University of Gothenburg (Sweden) 5.31.2010. Lead author: professor Sindre Rolstad. Losing Your Temper Anger causes stress, and stress lowers our Immune System resistance to cancer-heart disease and stroke – the Big-Three. Here’s what happens when we get angry and stressed: Heart Rate, arterial tension, and respiration rise to the roof. Cortisol – the stress hormone, decreases. Our autonomic nervous system (cardiovascular response) goes wild, causing our left hemisphere to overwhelm our frontal and temporal lobes. We cannot think in an orderly, reasonable, logical way. There are profound changes in our state-of-mind because we think negatively about everyone and our circumstances. Our left-brain (frontal lobe) is involved in experiencing POSITIVE emotions; our right-frontal region of the brain is involved in NEGATIVE emotions. We live in negative feelings. Motivation: our left-frontal brain is involved in emotions related to CLOSENESS with others. Our right-frontal brain wants to WITHDRAW (distancing) from people. Happiness evaporates, and fear and sadness take over. One-more-once: anger and stress reduce (weakens) our Immune System. The secret is in our Sympathetic Nervous System – releasing epinephrine (adrenaline) and strengthening the cancer virus, heart disease and clots causing stroke. Google: June 1, 2010, University of Valencia (Spain). Lead scientist – professor Neus Herrero. It appears in the Journal – Hormones and Behavior. --- Endwords Would you own a competitive advantage over your peers (in you career) by permanently reading-and-remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, while your associates can hardly finish one? We offer a detailed report on how-to-speed read and double your long-term memory. Contact us for this free (no strings attached) powerful report to discover this career advantage. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is Memory the Enemy of Learning? 2010-06-08 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is Memory The Enemy of Learning? Did you know that Cursive (connected letters), Printed Lettering, and Spelling are being slowly eliminated? Many teachers in elementary schools have already stopped giving writing and spelling lessons leading to these ancient skills. The use of our ubiquitous Word-Processor and Texting are the modern replacements, right? Plato (not Mickey’s Dog) In a dialogue by Plato called Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE) Socrates says, “Theuth the Egyptian invented writing. The god, King Thamus suggested, ‘Writing would only spoil Man’s memories and take away their understandings.’ Before writing knowledge depended solely on a trained long-term memory. Did writing destroy memory as a learning tool? So What In ancient times memory was trained to retain encyclopedias of information. Today only Moslems will use positive and negative reinforcement (severe punishment) to get their young scholars to memorize the entire Koran. Memory came first, then writing. Cuneiform Five-thousand years ago (3,000 BCE) in Sumer, Mesopotamia (Iraq) the local priests invented a new form of writing. Why? The church (religion) was receiving large and numerous gifts of land, gold and silver and cattle and they could not keep track of it all. Memories fail, and when it comes to money do you trust Priests? They used wedge-like letters printed in clay with a Stylus (stick). They baked their accounts (writing) in ovens and the results lasted for eons. It worked so well most of the surrounding countries used Cuneiform (wedge-like) for the next thousand years. Writing was invented for purely entrepreneurial (business) reasons. Better Memory Fact: we read 4x faster than we can speak. Speed reading permits us to absorb knowledge (not skimming) up to 12x faster. We teach both speed reading and memory skills to 6th graders, high school students, college and graduate school attendees. Law school students require both speed reading and powerful memories. You can speed-recite the English alphabet like a whiz because of repetition and that silly song. Why would you want to know the same alphabet – backwards? How Learn the backward-alphabet in order to exercise your hippocampus and PreFrontal Cortex. After use three repetitions your 3-lb. coconut creates a new neural circuit exclusively devoted to the ‘backward-alphabet’. Fact: the more you use your memory, the greater your Cognitive Reserve. So What? It creates a defensive-shield against many forms of dementia – including Alzheimer. Learn the backward-alphabet will make you look like a genius in school and your career. Oh yeah, there is scientific evidence active cognition (learning) can increase your longevity up to ten good years. Google: The Nun Story, Dr. David Snowden, University of Kentucky. Break the alphabet into 3-letter chunks; use some common abbreviations and acronyms (initial letters from words) as Mnemonics (memory aids). Easy-As-Pie ZYX West Va. (WV), followed by Utah (UT), now an Acronym – Some Reporters Quickly Pee ON (milk) MLK (doing a JIG) JIHG – FED (Cost-Benefit-Analysis) CBA. Using Imagination To Memorize I am reading a tough book by the late Harvard professor B.F. Skinner. He never used his first or middle name – only B.F. It stands for Burrhus Frederic. I remember the weird first name by closing my eyes and going into Alpha brain rhythm in 3-seconds and visualizing Jefferson’s vice president, Aaron BURR. He was the guy who killed Alexander Hamilton (Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury). Next I link BURR in the White HUS dining with George. ‘Burr was Fed (reminds me of Frederic) at the White Hus.’ It is on autopilot – call up the name Skinner and memory produces B.F. which stands for “Burrhus Frederic”. Once you create a mental image three-times it is a permanent Engram, an independent memory-trace in your brain B.F. said the follow: “One has most effectively helped others – when one can STOP helping altogether.” Avoid ‘learned helplessness’ in your student by quit helping. Peg System Mentally picture these ten Pegs (hooks) to substitute for numbers. Mark Twain said, “The mind hates numbers, it remembers in pictures.” He was right because numbers are Abstract while pictures are Tangible. Remember ‘abstract’ as ‘theoretical and immaterial’, while ‘pictures’ are ‘Concrete and real’. Verbal Pegs One (1) is Running – imagine the NYC marathon and thousands of runners. Two (2) is Throwing – mentally visualize the quarterback throwing a touchdown. Three (3) is Peeing – see a mental picture of a dog peeing on a fire-hydrant. Four (4) is Scoring – See the Yankee sliding into home – safe! Five (5) is Fighting – See the prizefight at Madison Square Garden. Six (6) is Striking – call up a mental scene of a union teacher using her sign to strike the principal over the head. Seven (7) is Sleeping – visualize a baby in its crib in deep sleeping. Eight (8) is Mating – imagine two hippopotamuses mating. Nine (9) is Swine-ing – see in your mind’s eye a huge pig winning first prize. Ten (10) is Hen-ing – imagine a hen laying an egg. Zero (0) is a Hero – See President Obama pinning a metal on the war Hero. EXXON-Mobile is selling for $60.83 . Convert the numbers to these Pegs Imagine a movie: see the Striking (6) of the Hero (0) by the villain. Now do the change – 83 cents. See the Mating (8) of the hippos, and the male Peeing (3). Close your eyes and automatically relax. You immediately go into Alpha brainwave rhythms. Maintain the picture one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, and three-one-thousand and it is placed into your long-term memory – permanently. All it takes to retrieve the $60.80 price is to let your imagination see a huge EXXON sign. The sign drags the price along with it. Practicing stock prices using these 10 Pegs and it becomes second nature. It is baby-easy to learn and use. Start now. --- Would you own a valuable competitive advantage by reading-and-remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free (no strings attached) detailed report on speed reading before they are discontinued. See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader? 2010-06-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader? President Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for 12-years (1992-2004). He was a Senior Lecturer, on the faculty as a part-time professor, specializing in constitutional law. He was asked to teach full-time, but his law practice and work as an Illinois state Senator, and later U.S. Senator, caused him to decline the promotion. Professor Obama had a reputation as a lively lecturer with an almost photographic memory for law citations. Fact: he uses a baby-easy memory strategy that instantly associates (links) two unrelated pairs of words. These simple cues (triggers) make it appear the 44th President has a photograph memory. So reports Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary. Personally I like Gibbs because he is overweight, and esteem the President for his special intellectual property, which brings us to Obama’s secret memory strategy. Fact: did you know that John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy studied rapid reading at Johns Hopkins University under professor Elton Y. Mears? They traveled from D.C. to Baltimore every Tuesday for the night class 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm while JFK was sitting in the U.S. Senate in 1954. The class was called – How to Read Better And Faster. President Kennedy told Evelyn Wood (1907-1995) creator of speed reading, he learned the trick of remembering names (critical for a U.S. Senator) by the strategy of associating a joke with each new name. He still remembered professor Mears from John Hopkins University by the mental image of Elvis (Elton Y.), and the pun, “Dr. Mears has Big-Ears.” He called Evelyn to the White House to teach his White House staff to speed read. Play This Game And Look Like a Genius Examples: you are reading or listening to a substantive lecture and want to remember Key-Words in long-term memory. a) Three/Computers b) Cow/Bed c) Constitution/$100 d) Marketing/Beard e) Dieting/Death f) Non-conscious/Alzheimer In a) Three/Computers: mentally visualize a Redwood Tree with computers hanging off the branches instead of leaves. What does a Redwood Tree have to do with the number Three (3)? In Brooklyn many of us still pronounce the number ‘Three’ as T-R-E-E. There was even a book and movie called “A Three Grows In Brooklyn”, sorry – “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn”. Google it. Time Please pay close attention: you hold the visualization of the Three/Computers for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand. This creates an Engram – a memory trace in your cerebral cortex. Verbalization Last thing to imprint the Three/Computers for long-term memory: Think or whisper aloud a personal comment about Three/Computers. Something like, “Native Brooklynites dentalize and say Tree-for-Three.” Summation You have three (3) things going for you: first, brain visualization, second, a mind-association cue (link), and last, a Verbalization (by you). Your comment is important because your subconscious (non-conscious mind) pays primary attention to your conscious voice. You’re first in the hierarchy. If you say it, it must be true for purposes of storing for memory. So What You have focused your Attention and Concentration, and used both left and right hemispheres in a learning partnership. Get this: every time you think of the word, Tree, your left-brain will trigger the picture of the Redwood and the word – Three. Your hippocampus (long-term memory) will always drag along how you physically linked the two-ideas, Three/Computers. Your right-brain will instantly prompt you with a visual cue of Computers instead of leaves hanging from the branches. You can stand on your head and spit nickels but you will always associate and remember the silly link between the two ideas, Three/Computers. Test: Remembering Unrelated Pairs of Words What the secret again? Visualize a ridiculous connection between the two unrelated key words. How? Mentally weave a silly story or pun joining the two ideas in your mind’s eye (imagination) as a picture or mental-movie. Examples: out-of-proportion (see a 5-foot banana sleeping in a bed); substitution: see a dog “me-owing” to be let out. Use anything to link the two unrelated ideas you find humorous. Use your senses: how does it smell, feel, taste etc. You effort locks the two-ideas together for eternity. Hold the image for three-seconds to make an Engram (memory-trace). Make a sarcastic, irrelevant, wiseass comment to yourself about the linking. When you analyze an association it sticks in your mind like chewing gum to your shoe. You are involving your Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic gross senses in seeing, hearing and touch (typing) the key-words. Practice We teach this linking system of unrelated terms to sixth-graders. They “get-it” in five-minutes because they make it a G-A-M-E, not education. Right now, use your imagination to link Constitution/$100 in a nonsensical picture. See: Benny Franklin (on the $100 bill) printing the first bills in Philadelphia and wrapping each one in a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Can you see Benny sticking a few $100 bills and Constitutions in his back pocket? He was keeping some samples just-for-fun. “I seen me opportunities and I took ‘em.” Did you know he signed both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the U.S. Constitution in 1787? Benny also signed the Treaty of Alliance with France, 1778, and the Treaty of Peace between England, France and the U.S. in 1782. He was the only citizen to sign all four documents. --- Would you have a competitive advantage in your career if you could read-and- remember three (3) books, articles and reports, while your peers could hardly finish one? Contact us for a free (no strings attached) speed reading report to give you the competitive edge in getting promotions. See ya, copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@speedlearning.org www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is Your Memory As Good As a 5th Grader? 2010-06-04 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is Your Memory As Good As a 5th Grader? If you got five-minutes, you can discover how to remember abstract (tough-stuff) permanently. We teach this long-term memory strategy to ten-year olds (5th graders) and they get it. How about it? Now if your life centers on ditch digging – this is not a big-deal. But if you are involved in the Knowledge Economy as an executive or entrepreneur, student or smart-ass, maybe this five-minutes is worth your while. Tell me, just between us, when was the last time you learned something practical for your brain’s sake? Let’s do it, huh? What Facts: our DNA & RNA are made up of five chemicals (molecules) called Nucleotides. Without them we all D-I-E. Yeah, we know you forgot any science along with algebra and Shakespeare ten-years ago, but this memory game is called recall – not using the knowledge. Facts: the five chemicals to be remembered in order are: 1. Adenine 2. Guanine 3. Cytosine 4. Uracil 5. Thymine How For inquiring minds: this strategy combines Visualization (creating mental pix) and Association (links). Your job is to link (associate) the 5 mental pix in your 3-lb coconut. Step 1: we come up with baby-easy words that SOUND-LIKE these abstract, hard to pronounce and remember five-words. Why? When we remember the easy word substitutes, they drag into consciousness the tough words we want to remember. Remember – this is a memory strategy, not meant to gain comprehension about the science of these five Nucleotides (whatever that means). You care? Google it. Step 2: the visualizations and the substitution with baby-easy words. a) How do you remember the term: Nucleotides? Imagine, using your mind’s eye a nuclear bomb explosion – in the ocean tide. See it now and remember it. b) Adenine: remember Add-Nine (+9) and link those two words to your original mental pix of the nuclear bomb in the ocean tide. c) Guanine: remember Gong+Knee. Create a mental pix of a bronze disk or bell that makes a musical sound. Aha, it is attached to your left-knee and rings when your clamp both knees together. Link the “gong-knee” to the “add-nine”. That is association. d) Cytosine: remember: Sy (Simon) Seen. Simon is looking through binoculars, get it? Now associate “Sy-Seen” with “Gong-Knee”. e) Uricil: remember: “You-Are-a-Window-Sill” See yourself (mentally) lying flat under the window. Why? Because ‘you-r-a-window-sill’. Now, associate (link) “You-R-A-Sill” to “Sy-Seen”. f) Thymine: remember “Thigh-Meet” In Kentucky Fried Chicken, where the “thigh meets” the chicken-feet. Now associate “thigh meets” with “You-R-A-Window-Sill”. So What See the Visualization and Associations in review. I see the nuclear bomb going off in the tidewater = nucleotides. Now I visualize the letters in the alphabet: A-G-C-U-T (Ag-Cut) A (Adenine), G (Guanine), C (Cytosine), U (Uracil), T (Thymine) Now mentally see: Add-Nine, Gong-Knee, Sy-Seen, You-Are-A-Window Sill, and Thigh-Meet. Why Does It Work You are concentration your attention on making mental pictures and association (link) between our funny-words. Silly is better than literal. Your brain is where your inner-child resides and he/she loves silly, ridiculous, out of proportion, substitutes, colors, senses, 3-D. Our brain remember the abnormal not the boring normal stuff. Which is more memorable driving silently on a country road, or stopping to gawk at a highway accident where two decapitated heads are rolling around? Your brain loves to freak itself out remembering the weird and ridiculous. Always create mental images for long-term visualization and association that are weird and outlandish. Got it? More Your brain is divided into two hemispheres, a left and right brain. The left-brain (hemisphere) is usually dominant. It is attracted to logic, reasoning, spelling, numbers and language. Our right brain (hemisphere) specializes in music, emotions (limbic system), imagination, and pattern recognition. It is not either/or because your left and right brains work together, each adding its own specialization. The two halves communicate through a structure called the Corpus Callosum (< Latin: firm body). Google: hippocampal commissure, and anterior commissure for hemispheric communication. Endwords The secret to long-term memory success is doing (repetition), not talking about a new strategy that make remembering information baby-easy. If you go out and teach this system to an underprivileged kid, you will change his/her life forever. Guaranteed – you are going past Purgatory and straight to St. Peter at the gate. Send him my regards cause I’m going the other way. Take this teaching assignment and you will double (2x) your own long-term memory permanently. See ya. --- Would you be more competitive in your career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free (no strings attached) speed reading report to make you a brilliant star and win your next promotion. See ya, copyright 2010, H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Dare You 2010-05-29 By H. Bernard Wechsler I Dare You To Use the “D” Word With Someone If President Obama used the “D” word on TV – he would be impeach by the following week. I didn’t say convicted – but surely impeached. See, the House of Representatives is the Grand Jury and the Senate does the actual trial. Don’t get nervous about the economy tanking, the stock market dumping two-thousand points or losing your personal source of revenue – it will never happen. How come? It is a Conspiracy of Intelligent Folks not to use the “D”. We all know that saying so does NOT make it so. Except using the “D” word. No politician or economist wants the responsibility for starting the ball rolling down the mountain to oblivion. Would you? Facts to Have At Your Fingertips The U.S. population as of May 29 2010 is over 309 million. Remember it please. And the world population is 6.8 billion. Got it? Now the U.S. unemployment is 15.3 million folks, and the number employed is 140 million. That is 9.9% unemployed and 58.8% employed. Huh? Long term unemployed is more than 27 weeks and that is 46% - almost half. What about folks who are working part-time because they cannot get full-time work? Add another 9.2 million citizens. What about those who surrendered seeking a job? Add another estimated 15 million. Wow. Do you care that teenagers have a 25.4% rate of unemployment? Bad sign. Black Americans have 16.5% unemployed and growing. Conclusion: we are creating a long-term underclass. How long? Well, the last “D” lasted from 1929 to 1940 – eleven years. Fact: 50% of the long-term unemployed will NEVER be hired full-time again. Maybe they are seen as too old, too outdated, or too expensive. Is this a recession? Internship Who wants to work for nothing? Smart young people do. One major consideration for not hiring is lack of experience. Not specific experience in a similar job, but in the basics of working on a daily basis in a business environment. When an interviewer looks across the desk at a possible hire, he/she is considering whether that person will embarrass her department. That’s right, the principle is ever thus – take care of #1 - the department of Human Resources. Parts of Every Job Are Boring Even the CEO must spends hours daily doing what he/she finds boring and tedious because it is part of governance. We must hold certain board meetings because legal counsel requires it. The top executives must be recorded as present even though it is a total waste of their time. If boring is part of the CEO’s job description, each hire must be trained in the humdrum trivia of busy work. If you cannot stand the heat of boring stuff at your first job (initial entry), you cannot be promoted. Crazy or logical? Internship It teaches you to show up on time or be fired from a non-paying job. Can you follow directions or are you so creative you are considered unmanageable? Can you motivate yourself to find things to do as an intern that are not assigned to you? People are evaluating and validating your work – yes, really. If you pay attention to the business or institutional environment you are assigned to, you will discover the system that organizes the joint. If you ignore the layout, department to department that makes it all work, you have lost a valuable work experience. Your choice. Open Door An internship can produce a permanent position. You have the right to ask for a meeting with any executive to ask questions about how the company works. The more you ask, the greater your knowledge base, if you choose to win a spot with the organization. People remember those who have the nerve and ambition to want more from an internship than a listing on your resume. Oh yeah, it is flattering to be answer questions about your expertise. Will some executives brush you off? Sure, but 75% will listen to you and answer your inquiries. They will remember you. The Kid At the NYC Library He was in high school and took an internship with his local library. No dinero, and really boring? He sucked up to the chief librarian and asked her about an idea he had. The kid wanted to start a business collecting borrowed books that were overdue. His idea was $1 for each overdue book he returned. It saved the library from buying a new edition to circulate for about $20+ each. He would also have the right to collect a fee from the book borrower (50cents) for avoiding fines. He would save them travel time returning their books. Nice benefit, but too expensive? Where’s The Money? The Kid would hire other students with bikes in different neighborhoods and make an override. It was like the old newspaper delivery service. Bottom line: the chief librarian said, “ No Deal. There is no money in our present budget, but Kid I like your smarts, and you are now getting paid to work here after school and Saturdays.” Years later when he needed a testimonial for his law school entrance, the librarian supplied it. Life works for those who figure out how to work it, huh? Endwords Winston Churchill said, “Never – Never – Never give up. The turning point is just ten feet away.” One more quote please – Joseph Stalin of Soviet Russia said, “One single death is a tragedy, while one-million deaths is a Statistic!” Careers: we live in the Knowledge Economy – unless you are a ditch-digger. Sorry, even that job has gone to motorized equipment. Want a powerful competitive advantage to move your career forward? If you could read and remember three (3x) books, article and reports, while your peers can hardly finish one, is that a career competitive advantage? Contact us for a free (no strings attached) report of how to be a speed reader and win your next promotion because you are the Go-To person in your company. Time-is-of-the-Essence. See ya, copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonding or Distancing in The Workplace 2010-05-17 By H. Bernard Wechsler Bonding or Distancing For Career Success Baby-Easy Scientific Research Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (1901-1980) father of Modern Clinical Hypnosis. He is credited with the creation of One-Session Therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming, and Story-Telling cures. Dr. Erickson paid attention to patient experiences that other medical personnel often ignored. Working in his first hospital he noticed that children who had long visits from relatives reacted with a higher rate of blood pressure, heartbeat and body temperature for up to four hours after the visits. He concluded that visits at the hospital by close relatives caused patient self-pity, fear and anxiety. Whatever was discussed caused pain and anger in the patient and ten-minute visits were ten-minutes too long. His original research was rejected by both the medical staff and relatives. University of Connecticut Health Center Research Professor Robert E. Cone discovered in December 2009 that our Fight-or-Flight response (activated by fear, stress and anxiety) is also responsible for central immune police cells called Regulatory T-Cells. New research is underway to comprehend how our Nervous System controls the T-Immune Cells. Understanding how the two different systems interact may produce new treatments to control arthritis, lupus, and eczema – all autoimmune diseases. Get This Stressful situations like hospital visits and holidays with your extended family make folks ill by intensifying, inflaming and worsening latent infections and existing autoimmune diseases. The magic word is Stress and it occurs when we attempt to inhibit Fight-or-Flight. Google: Journal of Leukocyte Biology Dec. 2009 Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems Humans are controlled by our Autonomic Nervous System for both our behaviors and the Immune System for health and longevity. ANS is divided into our Sympathetic Nervous System for our Fight-or-Flight system and the Parasympathetic Nervous System, which creates relaxation and rest. Who Cares Our body and mind balances Fight-or-Flight (adrenaline and Cortisol – the Stress hormone) with Rest and Relaxation (Parasympathetic Nervous System). Chronic stress causes serious diseases including Heart-Stroke-Cancer when our daily experiences are out-of-balance between Cortisol and Acetylcholine. When the stressful episode ends, acetylcholine inhibits the production of Cortisol when we are in a balanced state. Wait – Inquiring Minds Need to Know A telephone conversation with Mom produces a powerful stress-reducing hormone. New research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison led by Dr. Leslie Seltzer: An unannounced stress test for 7-12 year old girls got their hearts racing and increases Cortisol – the stress hormone soaring. The experiment consisted of three controls: 33% were hugged in person by their mothers to relieve the stress. Another 33% telephoned and spoken to their Mom for comfort. The final 34% watched a 75-minute neutral video. Results Telephoning their Mom for support was identical to an in-person hug, smile and kiss. Why? The girl’s level of Oxytocin – the love hormone (emotional bonding) washed away the Cortisol levels of stress. What happened was an inhibition of the Sympathetic Nervous System and a switch to rest and relaxation from the girls Parasympathetic Nervous system. These findings were published in the journal – Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Does Oxytocin apply only to women? It is best known during Labor in childbirth, however, the neurotransmitter Oxytocin is also involved in orgasm, social recognition, pair-bonding, anxiety, trust and love. Career and the Workplace University of California at San Francisco researchers find that the hormone Oxytocin influences our ability to Bond with others. Further, it is associated with the necessary skills to create and maintain interpersonal relationships. Human attachment and bonding are emotional experiences facilitated by Oxytocin, according to lead researcher Rebecca Turner. Different levels of Oxytocin in women appeared based on distress and anxiety compared to security in their relationships. Women in the Labor Force Did you know that in 2010 women constitute 49.1% of the nation’s jobs? More men than women are laid off in a recession. Maybe it is because they are paid 80% of what men receive. What is a fact is that women are moving up the ladder for executive promotions. Career relationships at the office produce physical changes in the bloodstream Oxytocin levels of women. How you speak to them will produce different results. Check it out. Endwords Would you have a unique competitive advantage by reading 3x faster and remembering 2x better than your peers? Contact us for a free detailed report of Speed Reading – no strings attached. It will give you a leg up for your next promotion. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Day I Forgot How to Breathe 2010-04-21 By H. Bernard Wechsler The Day I Forgot How To Breathe “Allergy season may be the worst ever. A monster allergy season is in store for Spring 2010, according to experts. Our alert allergy level is 10.7 out of a maxium of 12.0.” Providence (R.I.) Examiner. Fact: an allergen is a substance, often a protein that causes an allergic reaction from pollen-grasses-trees-dust-mold and some medications. Humans and some animals suffer fits of sneezing, coughing, vision problems and itchy throat during Spring and Fall from allergens. In NYC (my town) the forecast for Thursday 4.22.10 is 11.1 (out of 12.0). Active pollen: Maple-Cedar-Juniper-Popular-Aspen-Cottonwood. Get out the Kleenex. Two-Days In Hell The best allergy medication is Loratadine 10mg – an antihistamine. It is the active ingredient in Claritin and a dozen brand-name prescriptions. It claims to be 24 hour relief from sneezing; running nose, itchy, watery eyes, itchy throat and nose. It worked but had with a mild collateral damage – it shut down my lungs and caused my heart to race 24/7 - Mama Mia Spicy Meatballs! Personally, I run away like Paul Revere on his horse from folks who regale me with their symptoms. I respectfully request your indulgence because you may discover a SECRET that one day may save-your-life or win you a vital career promotion. What-In-It-For-You? Stay and find out because I am not selling you anything and what you read is as real as a stroke after a bad heart … Monday and Tuesday It began Monday and continued all day Tuesday. No exaggeration, I could not move more that ten-feet off the bed without slumping down in a chair in total exhaustion. One-more-once: my lungs were not inhaling and my heart was racing during the ten-feet I could maneuver from the bed. Next my voice lowered to a rasp, and an unremitting cough continued awake and asleep. No sleep. I tried to eat and had no appetite. My ears could not sustain the sound of the TV. I was alone and alienated. I was ten-feet from the telephone to call 911 for oxygen, but I was saving that as a last resort. Mental movies showed me permanently wearing miniature oxygen tank. The phone ran incessantly but I refused to answer it – I couldn’t produce coherent conversation. I hit the switch-off. You Don’t Think You Replay Somehow business and making a ton of dinero did not rank high compared to sucking in the next breath through my mouth. My mind drew a list of high priority tasks: finishing the book they paid me a hefty advance to write, closing on the dream house in Florida by the Oceanside, and returning an urgent call to my son Philip. I went from a cool legal mind, with things to do and place to go, to signing up with Dr. Death (Jack Kevorkian) and asking to be at the head of the line. All hope was gone with waiting for my next breath, and all my goals were less than trivial. You’re smiling and cannot believe 48 hours can be the end of your life. Why Not? A stroke or heart attack can kick-in faster than that taking us to the finish line. My brain did a replay of my life experiences and dwelled on my failures and lack of responsibility. My Mom and Pop showed up a lot, wife and kids – I really suck. Meditation In my past life I studied neuroscience – the brain and how Homo sapiens adapt to their environment. Love to write and teach about neuroplasticity (brain changes) and how to get sharper thinking skills and long-term memory. Now – who cares? I was sucking in air through my mouth (top-breathing) and forced myself to read an article on how a new meditation program makes folks smarter in just 4 days of 15 minutes each. Guess I’ll take that with me on the long trail to hell. Distraction. It Says A new technique called Breath Mindfulness requires a lousy 15 minutes each for four sessions to produce serious improvement in Concentration-Attention-Comprehension-Long Term memory. “It goes to show the mind is, and in fact, easily changeable and highly influenced, especially by meditation.” The big deal is that prior to this research it took years of meditation for hours at a time to produce any measurable, permanent results. The secret is closing their eyes and relaxing (no big deal) and focusing their entire attention on the air inhaling and exhaling through the tip of their nose. The tests on 63 students resulted on a 10x improvement in concentration in meditators compared to the control group. Taking class tests after meditating increases their scores as if they were cheating from the textbook. Result: focusing on the breath teaches you how to regulate your emotions. How? It makes you raise your awareness of mental processes that would normally distract you including your Internal Dialogue – the “still-small voice” that talks and reads to you. Wow, that normally would get my brain flowing. It reminded me of another form of Mindfulness called Mantra-Meditation. Instead of focusing on each breath, you repeat a phrase on each inhale and exhale. Example: But-Mom, OHM, Mem-Hay-Shin or She-Rim. Google: meditation mantras. Journal: Consciousness and Cognition. Mindfulness meditation improves cognition. 4.2010. Fadel Zeidan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. So What I could not shut off my left-brain (logic, order and reasoning) from the meditation article and what it really meant. Remember – your right-hemisphere is basically non-verbal and thinks in pictures and association. Right brain controls our emotions and imagination and Fight-or-Flight reaction. Who Cares It was great to turn off Rightie and its hallucinations and negativity, and focus on thinking and memory. I thought about Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic visualizations. Who knows why? Hypnagogic is a vivid dream-like state between being awake and falling asleep. It occurs five-minutes before we fall under Morpheus the Greek God of dreams and sleep. The alternative is Hypnopompic Effect which is a hallucination (dream) occurring just prior to awakening in the A.M. In both we get mental movies (pictures and sounds) and hints about our lives. They go amnesic within seconds of awakening. That reminded me of… About two-years ago I attended a one-day workshop by a New-Age California Guru who claimed Hypnagogic and Hypnapompic effects were the real-deal. You could program your Nonconscious (righie) Mind to answer questions you asked before falling asleep. The alleged answers occurred on waking – if you were a true believer. I had paid my bucks so I maybe I was eligible to test the principles. Short and Sweet Coughing and wheezing I finally fell asleep text-messaging to my Non-Consciousness. “What the hell is going on with me? Is this the end of Rico? Will my parents be waiting to greet me? Delete that last thing. OK, here goes. Challenge to Non-Consciousness Q. What can I do to change my present circumstances of no lungs and a rapid heartbeat? Am I cashing in my chips? Give me a solution – and fast. If you are tuned in to me – save my ass – what can I do to survive this night? I slept. Just prior to awakening I saw a short-mental movie. I was sitting on my bed and deep breathing a/k/a diaphragmatically sucking air on autopilot, while my stomach expanded with each inhalation. My mouth was closed and I was not Top breathing anymore. My racing heart was not in the equation. Wait – maybe I had forgotten how to breathe naturally. Oh yeah, I was smiling and walking all around the joint. Get this: breathing is a nervous system automatic process. You don’t breath consciously (volition/will power) from your mouth, but inhale from your diaphragm by your NonConscious mind. It’s your brainstem, immune, nervous system and cerebellum that inhales and exhales. Not Top-Breathing stupid, Diaphragmatic breathing, smartie-pants. Endwords: I jumped off the bed and started diaphragmatic (deep) breathing with my mouth shut. It worked. In a half-minute my full-throated voice was back. I walked three-times around the room – briskly. No racing heart, no slumping in a chair. Thanks a lot your Honor, I am hanging around. Survive and thrive says I. copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do You Use Words That Motivate, Persuade & Convince? 2010-04-15 By H. Bernard Wechsler Do You Use Words That Motivate, Persuade And Convince? You know the expression – All-Talk, No Action. Recent neuroscientific research proves that when you use Direct-Action verbs the listener feels and visualizes the meaning in the Supplemental Motor Region of their brain. They tend to comply. So What Fact: A metaphor is Figure-of-Speech, not to be taken literally, but to make a comparison. Examples: Man-of-Steel, Motor-Mouth, Looks like Ten-Miles-of-Bad-Road, and Fat-As-A-House. You may impress editors with metaphors, but the brain ignores clichés and does not react to them. Metaphors become clichés (frozen-metaphors) and the brain pays little to no Attention to these old-time stereotypes. When you call someone a Snake, Viper, or a Mule, you are not getting anywhere but creating an enemy, Clichés do not work because they have been overworked, overused and lost their power to create mental imagery in the brain. Stereotypes are rejected as meaningless. Literal Action Words If you want to get a powerful reaction from the brain, use Action language – verbs that offer movement, behavior, or performance. Power-words create mental-movies, creative-imagery that moves the brain. Good examples include: Running, Throwing, & Pitching; Mating, Striking & Fighting; Sleeping, Snoring & Scoring. What do these words have in common? They all produce literal effects; there is a sense of movement, action and happening. Which phrases create a mental image in your brain? a) Knocking-His-Socks-Off, b) Biting-Off-More-Than-You-Can-Chew, c) Kicking-Off, d) Biting-The-Apple, e) Strangling-The-Victim, f) Swallow-Your-Food The first three (a-b-c) are clichés, metaphors and figures-of-speech. Forget them. The last three (d-e-f) are Literal Action Verbs. They work to move the brain. If you want to cause things to happen, get strong results and produce success in your career and relationships, you must change your language to Literal Action Verbs. Hearing & Reading, Scientists have used fMRIs to see brain activity when action, movement & doing occurs. When we hear or read the word Grasp, Kick or Throw (literal action verbs) our brain reacts identically to physically accomplishing the activity itself. No difference. Inquiring Minds Have to Know The Supplemental Motor area (medial temporal and medial frontal cortices) of the brain is triggered by the performance of actions and behaviors. Second, the brain is activated by seeing (observe) folks execute behaviors and actions (lifting a 500 pound barbell) - for example. Third, hearing and reading these Action Verbs lights up our brain like a Xmas tree. Who Says So USC professor Michael Arbib’s article was published by the journal – Current Biology and in Science Daily. Google: 9. 19. 06 Brain Action Center Is All Talk. Using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) researchers compared the brain reaction to observing an action, to hearing words describing the same action. No difference. How come? Mirror Neurons are located in our eyes, memory, and medial temporal and medial frontal cortices. They Fire when we execute an action, behavior or activity. They also Fire when we observe others executing these behaviors. They also fire when we HEAR or READ descriptions by action verbs. This is a link, connection and mental Association between the way we describe action and the Mirror Neurons in the brain that support those actions. So What Direct action statements using Action Verbs cause mental visualizations in the listener’s brain. They understand and feel the meaning of your words. You motivate, persuade and convince with Action Verbs. Do not use clichés to get folks to produce results, stick with live-action-verbs. Benefits: what we see with our eyes – we believe. What we see internally in our mind’s eye – we are often compelled to do. Imagination is the basis of taking action. We must mentally see ourselves driving in the new car before we say yes and make the purchase. Science for the first time now accepts the principle that our premotor cortex (mirror neurons) also processes Verbal descriptions. Endwords There is another benefit to this scientific knowledge. If you mentally visualize repetitively and with strong feeling, you can affect your results in reality. Your brain has the ability to change your future? Examples If you are taking a test, giving a presentation, or interviewing for a promotion, practice (rehearsal) is invaluable, agreed? But there are two kinds of practice: conscious left-brain analysis and memory, and right-brain mentally practice visualizing your performance in advance. Your Right-Hemisphere helps control pattern recognition, memory (hippocampus), and your emotions. Google: limbic system. Skills Learning new skills by Creative Imagery (imagination) and playing them out in your mind again and again with emotion, works almost as well as physical practice. Doing both physical practice (tennis, golf, testing) plus mental visualization of the steps required to succeed is taught by coaches and used by superstars. Some executives tell us they spend fifteen minutes daily visualizing winning promotion to CEO. Golfers meditate pre-game on perfectly playing each hole. The results are gratifying or they would not continue year-after-year. Do your own Mind Experiment and be pleasantly surprised. See ya --- Could you use a competitive advantage in your career? What if you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers could hardly finish one? In the Knowledge Economy would this skill lead to career success? Contact us to grab a free report on how to be a speed reading genius in 21 days. Copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are Mirror Neurons Going to Make Your Career? 2010-04-14 By H. Bernard Wechsler Can Mirror Neurons Make You a Star in Your Career? Athletes in football, baseball, soccer and golf swear by the amount of physical practice they put in. Superstars spend almost as much practice time on conditioning their mind for winning. Is this just more New Age weirdness? You can use Creative Imagery to become an expert in your career. Some CEOs believe they won and maintain their position through insights gained by Mental Conditioning. Is there scientific evidence to prove the value of Mental Practice? History In 1980 a group of scientists at the University of Parma, Italy headed by Dr. Giacomo Rizzolatti, discovered the existence of Mirror Neurons in Macaque monkeys. Placing electrodes on their brain’s premotor cortex, whenever the monkeys used their hands or mouth, these Mirror Neurons fired. Wait! When the monkeys saw other creatures use their hands or mouth – the Mirror Neurons fired. No scientific journal would publish their research. Key point: there has been no proof of Mirror Neurons in Homo sapiens - until 2010. So What Mirror Neurons firing is the gist of Creative Imagery. In the 1980 Olympics the Russians (Soviet) team did the following scientific experiment to boost the skills of their athletes: I) Group one did 100% of physical training. II) Group two did 75% physical training and 25% mental training (visualization). III) Group three did 50% physical and 50% mental training. IV) Group four did 75% mental and 25% physical training. Results: The fourth group showed the greatest improvement in performance. The Russian Olympic coaches concluded that mental training (creative visualizing) produced the following: a) Increase in personal motivation. b) Boosted athletic confidence because they visualized themselves winning their events. c) Improved Attention-Span by eliminating distractions from intruding on their training sessions. Who Cares We have been teaching Creative Visualization for ten years to train executives and students for positive results in acing exams, making presentations and winning promotions. The most effect approach is 50% cognitive and memory training and 50% Creative Imagery. Athletes use the system of Creative Imagery internationally. The justification is Monkey-See-Money-Do in your brain. Some coaches call it Muscle Memory. It still sounds ridiculous to attempt to affect the outer world via changing one’s thoughts. We believe it follows in the footsteps of professor Ivan Pavlov and his work on Conditioning and Association. Mentally seeing yourself successfully performing (sinking the hole, throwing a touchdown) repetitively, creates a mind-map for reality. Who Says So Reporting in the April 2010 edition of the Journal – Current Biology, First Direct Recording of Mirror Neurons in Humans. The team of Dr. Itzhak Fried, UCLA professor produced evidence Mirror Neurons fire not only when we perform a particular action, but when we watch someone else perform the same action. Get this: many researchers conclude that Mirror Neurons are what makes us Human. Why? Mirror Neurons permit us to empathize and feel what others are experiencing including pain and pleasure. We are reading the minds of others. Inquiring Minds must know: Mirror neurons are located in our Medial Frontal and Medial Temporal Cortices, and in our eyes and memory. The Point Is Mirror Neurons fire in our eyes when we receive information from our Retina, Optic-Nerve and brain. They also fire from our imagination using virtual reality – what we choose to create through volition (will power). Mental Imagery is equal in Mirror Neuron firing to seeing reality. The firing occurs is the Motor regions of our brain as well as vision and memory. Different brain areas control separate functions such as movement – seeing – and memory. We see what is in front of us in conscious reality, while asleep and dreaming, and awake while daydreaming. They are all SEEING. When watching others perform actions (throwing, running, grabbing, eating) we can automatically interpret and decode their emotions and intentions. Humans are linked with each other through our Mirror Neurons – think about it. What about learning by Imitation, verbal and non-verbal communication and empathy (rapport, emotional understanding, & insight)? Right, it is our Mirror Neurons in action. How To Do Creative Imagery: 1. Sit down and please close your eyes. It helps you go into Alpha Hz (cycles per second) and out of Beta consciousness. 2. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath and hold it for a count of three-seconds – “one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand etc.” Exhale slowly and do it twice more. 3. Mental visualize a positive scene in your office for example, being congratulated on a new promotion. See all the details of the scene, the colors, the smells and sounds. 4. Feel the emotions as-if you were experiencing the successful event in reality. How would you feel about it? 5. Maintain a broad SMILE on your face throughout this pleasurable exercise. Experience and feel it happening. How Long Each Creative Imagery exercise requires a minimum of 5 minutes of visualization. To create a mental habit required 21 consecutive days of creative visualization meditation. A certain golf superstar spends 30 minutes daily mentally visualizing each hole. He also physically practices and says he would never give up Creative Mental Practice. He claims it gives him the winning edge. Endwords Mirror Neurons have been a pleasant myth up to April 2010. The scientific evidence has arrived and labeling Mental Visualization, New Age foolishness is dead and buried. Our personal experience teaching corporate executives and students (through law school), suggests cognitive practice alone is not as efficacious as adding mental visualizations to the mix. Together, major strides in achievement can occur. Do a Mind Experiment as A. Einstein did and judge for yourself. --- See you. Question: Would you have a competitive advantage in your career by reading and remembering three (3) articles, reports and books in the time your peers can hardly finish one? We suggest Knowledge is Power. Please contact us to grab a free speed reading report Now, not later - is best. copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can Side-Effects & Collateral Damage Make You Healthier? 2010-04-12 By H. Bernard Wechsler Can Side-Effects & Collateral Damage Make You Healthier? Do you cringe when TV commercials list the negatives of their drug products? After hearing how the prescription can lower blood pressure or help your heart – the U.S. Federal Drug Administration requires a list of Side-Effects. “Notify your physician in the event of blindness or deafness.” (Viagra). Huh? “Possibility of stroke or death.” What did he say? “Paralysis or disability.” Oh. Oh yeah – an allergy medicine offers these side effects: dizzy spells, loss of balance, nausea and vom… Maybe I should keep the symptoms I have and not trade them in for a new set. Immunity Recent scientific research at the University of British Columbia – lead author Mark Schaller – indicates there are serious benefits from triggering your immune and nervous system intentionally. Get this: when we see pictures, video, or live examples of sick and diseased folks, our brain hollers to our body – an Attack is coming – call in our immunity fighters the White Blood cells: T-Cells, B-Cells, and NK (Natural Killer) immune cells. So What When we are confronted with diseased looking pictures of folks, Homo sapiens take it very personally. We react with fear, anxiety and stress and activate our Amygdala. Located in the temporal cortex of our brain our amygdala protects us from danger, infections and potential death, by exciting our Sympathetic Nervous System for Fight-or-Flight. The amygdala is part of our limbic system and controls our emotions. Stress Stress excites our Fight-or-Flight system, getting our body and mind ready for war. Evolution has provided us with this mechanism for survival. The most important part is our White Blood cells which manufacture Interleukin-6 (IL-6) to detect and destroy microbial intruders. In English – they attack and kill infections and disease. Experiment Showing a 10-minutes slide show of diseased folks to college students and measuring their blood samples before and after viewing, indicates an increase of 23% (highly significant) in their IL-6. Pictures showed victims with rashes, tumors and pox and viewers automatically react with real fear, anxiety and stress. The control group was shown threatening pictures of murderers aiming guns at the viewer. It produced only a 6% increase in IL-6 reaction. Seeing diseased folks causes Stress, (23% IL-6) while visual threats pointing a gun cause a mere ripple of fear (6%). We believe in disease and not in fantasy threats. How Threat of infection triggers hormone production of adrenaline (epinephrine) and cortisol – the stress hormone. Seeing scary pictures, watching horror movies, and even reading about symptoms of disease, awaken our Fight-or-Flight system to a state of defense and protection. What else? Your brain releases neuropeptides and neurotransmitters to activate our immune cells to fight and destroy the invaders. Why There is no answer yet, but under consideration are Empathy, Placebo Effect and Mirror Neurons. What humans see, we feel. Seeing a weightlifter raise a 500-pound barbell causes us to inhale and hold our breath. We actual feel as if we are doing the lift. We mirror their behavior. It is a learning experience. Mirror neurons play a role in imitation, language acquisition, and empathy. It is Monkey-See, Monkey-Do and produces benefits in relating to the feelings of others, as well as learning skills like typing, reading, operating your computer, and driving your car. Scientific Conclusion: “mere visual perception of other people’s disease symptoms triggers an aggressive immune response by our body and mind to the threat.” It prepares us to survive threats, dangers, and disease. Google: Psychological Science: 2.2010. Schaller-Miller-Chen U.B.C. Happiness “Happiness does not heal, but happiness protects against falling ill. Result: happy people tend to live longer.” Glittering generality? This is a follow-up study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies. Chronic unhappiness causes Stress, which in turn causes a reduced Immune Response. Lousy immune activity lowers our defense mechanisms to illness, and disease. According to Dr. Alexander Weiss, University of Edinburgh, 50% of happiness (mood and feelings) is genetic, while the other 50% is based on relationships, health and career. Successful people focus on improving the 50% we can control. Published by Association For Psychological Science. Overestimated Failure Personality is genetic, while external influences, relationships with other folks, one’s career success, and health are often a personal choice. Further research indicates humans tend to overestimate the effect of negative events on our lives. Loss of relatives, occupation (firing), bankruptcy, foreclosure, even major illness are overcome during one’s lifetime. Negative mood, and depression are temporary states for 80% of people. Humans are hardwired to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. Still, it is a choice. Endwords: We own a Psychological Immune System in addition to our physiological one located in our Sympathetic Nervous System. Synchronizing our left and right hemispheres to pursue happiness and avoid pain is our biological inheritance. Cognitive Reserve produced by learning and personal growth protects our brain from dementia including Alzheimer. Immunity Reserve is produced by reducing chronic stress in our daily activities. Both reserves lead to health and longevity. --- See ya, Question: Would you own a competitive advantage if you could read and remember three (3) articles, reports and books compared to your peers who can hardly finish one? Contact us to grab a free speed reading report for personal growth and promotions. copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humming is The Poor Man's Viagra 2010-04-07 By H. Bernard Wechsler Humming is The Poor Man’s Viagra This is Not an April Fool’s joke. Humming is so healthy for you that we suggest you Hum while sitting at your computer. A lousy five (5) minutes daily will do the following: a) increase airflow to your lungs up to 38%. b) improve the health to your sinuses (hollow air-filled spaces in back of your Nasal cavity) by reducing infection up to 32%. c) reduces pain, headaches and congestion from Sinusitis. d) causes brainwave rhythms (electrical cycles per second) to Change from Beta (13-40 Hz) for alert concentration – to Alpha (8-13 Hz) for deep relaxation integrating left and right hemispheres of brain. Viagra When you hum for a minimum of five minutes – you begin to increase Nitric Oxide (NO) in your paranasal sinuses. NO is 15 to 17 times higher - than those not humming. Please read it again: 15-17x greater - compared to non-hummers. So What Humming causes improved sinus ventilation (purified air) by circulating oxygenated blood into your lungs. Great, but the Viagra thing? OK, Nitric Oxide signals the smooth muscles in your body to relax. It causes vasodilation (widening) and increase blood flow. Specifically NO produces more blood circulation to your nether organs. Guess which one? Nitric Oxide aids in the circulation of more blood, stronger erections, plus signaling your smooth muscles for orgasm. It is an Aha experience. Who Says So Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, lead author John Lungberg, M.D. Published in American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. There is more – the nitric oxide research produced the Nobel Prize for three U.S. scientists – Furchgott, Ignarro and Murad in 1998. Dr. Louis J. Ignarro (UCLA) said, “The research indicates Nitric Oxide helps prevent heart attacks and stroke.” Dr. Lungberg was quoted, “Healthy sinuses have a high concentration of NO.” Scientists are embarrassed by the sexual benefits. Conclusion: humming appears to be more than just replacing the words we forgot to that song. Humming Exercise We know you know how to hum, but here is what we found teaching this strategy to students and executives. It takes 5-10 minutes of daily practice humming for 21 days for the benefits to kick-in and become a habit (autopilot). We teach this humming strategy to students and executives to increase their learning skills, and in particular long-term memory and speed reading. Can you remember the tune of Happy Birthday? Right, stick to humming Happy Birthday compared to a new song or humming random sounds. The reason is to ignore the entire process and permit it to go on automatic. You do not have to analyze the humming rhythm of Happy Birthday; it has its own neural network in your brain through repetition since you were a little kid. 1. Sit at your computer: eyes open, now start Humming. 2. Discover you can hum to Happy Birthday while reading text and even when typing on your word processor. 3. Do one-minute of conscious Humming and stop. 4. Put an intentional SMILE on your face and hum H.B. for another one-minute. It doubles the Humming effectiveness. 5. Roll in a circular pattern in your seat and hum H.B. for just one-minute. Move left-to-right in a circular orbit. Can you hum with your eyes closed? And chew Wrigley’s gum and walk at the same time? Sure you can. When you hum with your eyes closed you begin to Daydream and get drowsy. Is that bad? No – humming for even a couple of minutes switch your Brainwave rhythms from your left-brain activities to your right-hemisphere automatic functions. You go from Beta to Alpha and even to Theta as you hum and daydream. It appears that in Theta (4-7 Hz) cycles per second, your brain is better at learning, memory and speed reading. It consolidates into long-term memory what you have previously learned. Study-learn-long-term memory. Subvocalization When Homo sapiens read they hear the words in their brain through their larynx (voice box). We hear each and every word pronounced and it slows us down to a snail crawling. Ready? Humming while you read activates your Peripheral Vision and inhibits your Foveal (central, narrow) vision. You visually take in more letters and words with each eye-fixation with Peripheral vs. Central vision. You can save up to two hours daily in reading time by Humming while you read articles, reports and books. In-The-Flow Our research with students and executives indicates Humming to Happy Birthday creates Peak Performances of learning and analysis. Your brain goes into your Zone, also called In-The-Flow. You may discover how to ace exams and produce better presentations. Oh yeah, Humming is a low sound only you should hear. How Remember you do not have to concentrate or pay conscious attention to Humming to the tune of Happy Birthday. H.B. is flying on autopilot and appears instantly when you think of it using your Will Power (volition). It is like reaching your hand out to grab an apple. Thinking alone creates the desired behavior. Make-believe you are preparing for an interview, presentation or a test. Find a corner and take 1-2 minutes Humming with a Smile on your face. Our results based on graduates from our workshops is relaxation and loss of stress. Your self-confidence expands based on homeostasis (equilibrium); the familiar tune creates mental and physical harmony. The law of Association of the tune you hum and past experiences of joy and happiness, produces positive thinking and positive behaviors in the present. Happy Birthday is the tune everyone carries in his or her long-term memory for instant activation. No one ever says, How does H.B. go again? You get instant replay, right? Our brain likes the familiar and routine because it feels comfortable. Do a Mind Experiment, be your own scientist and discover the power of Humming. A. Einstein recommended Mind Experiments for personal creativity. You decide. Endwords There are so many reasons to test and discover the power of intentional conscious Humming. We recommend it to all our students for improved health and learning. You might want to invest five-minutes daily and discover it for yourself. --- One last thing – would you own a competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? If you believe in self-help and personal growth, contact us and grab our free speed reading report that can improve your life. Now, not later. See ya, copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Avoid Back Pain For Life 2010-04-05 By H. Bernard Wechsler How to Avoid Back Pain For Life I didn’t know that back pain was the number 2 neurological ailment in the U.S. Up to 8 out of 10 folks have a disabling vertebrae disorder during their life. By age 65 only one in twenty people have NO complaints about their back. So What Would you spend about five minutes daily at your desk to strengthen the vertebrae in your spine? It’s easy, takes 20 seconds to learn and is relaxing. You don’t have to know anatomy to conclude a bad back knocks you out of the game. Can you remember these four things about your spinal column? a) Never sleep on your back, always on your side. b) Soft mattresses are an invitation to back ailment – a hard surface is good for your back. c) Smoking reduces the blood circulation to your lower back causing pain. Smoking also causes your spinal discs (shock absorbers) to degenerate. Google it. d) Lift with your Knees, not back. Pull-in your stomach with each lift. Inquiring Minds need to know: you own 33 separate vertebrae in your spine. a) C1-C7 cerebral vertebrae (neck) b) T1-T12 thoracic vertebrae (middle back) c) L1-L5 lumbar vertebrae (lower back) d) S1-S5 sacral vertebrae (lowest back) e) CO1-CO4 coccygeal (fused). Small tail-like bone at bottom of spine. Oh yeah, the #1 neurological ailment for folks is the headache. On April 5, 2010 office building vacancies are at a 16 year high. It gives me back pain and a headache. Secret 5-Minute Strategy 1. Sit at you computer and pull back your chair. 2. Move forward and begin to ROCK back and forth gently about 6-8 inches. You are relaxing you intervertebral spinal discs (shock- absorbers). Stop after about one-minute. 3. Now raise your arms vertically (Goal) and continue to rock back and forth. Stop after about one-minute. 4. Now start a CIRCLING motion with your back. Sway back and forth in a circle. Left hip forward and around to your right hip, and now backward moving right-to-left. Roll, not rock and make an elliptical (egg-like) orbit with your upper body. Stop after one-minute. 5. Continue Rolling your back in a left-to-right circle, but with your arms raised straight up. Stop after about two-minutes. Improvise and mix-and-match the Rock and Rolling back motions. Each rotation creates flexibility in your vertebral spine and increases you protection. If you are presently suffering back pain use your own discretion to decide if you want to experiment. When in doubt immediately consult your medical professional. Do You Sway Enough? You know we specialize in learning, memory and speed reading. We tested a new principle in long-term memory improvement. Bottom line: students and executives reported that rocking back and forth improved their memory retrieval and speed reading new knowledge. Do You Care We live in the Knowledge Economy and business changes are the currency of success. If you suffer from Information Overload you forfeit your opportunities for promotions in school and your career. In our private study, 80% of CEOs spend almost half their day reading to keep up with changes in their industry and the business world. If you are searching for a killer position or moving from one organization to another, how you handle knowledge is highly relevant. Major HR departments expect you to be able to stay ahead of the inflow of information in your industry. How to Swing and Sway for Fun and Money Let’s be sensible, if you cannot give me a pretty good reason to sway my body during learning, it is too ridiculous to even start, right? Beta to Alpha OK, after just 20 seconds of swaying (rocking) your body back and forth while reading or preparing a presentation, your brainwave electrical rhythms (cycles per second) Change from Beta Hz (Hertz) of 13-40 cycles per second of Alert- Concentration (arousal) - to Alpha brainwaves of 8-13 cycles per second. Alpha consists of deeply relaxed brainwaves. You are fully awake, but in a state of Non-Arousal. Walking in a park, meditating, or humming a song are examples of Alpha cps. When your mind and body are synchronized in Alpha you think clearer. Switching from active Beta to Non-Arousal Alpha relaxes your entire body and makes learning and remembering easier and faster. You lose all distractions and give all your attention span and concentration to what you focus on. Theta CPS When you relax too much – with your eyes open, you may experience DayDreaming and even Road-Hypnosis. Theta cps is 4-7 Hz (cycles per second). When you are determined to learn new knowledge or put information into long-term memory, you need Alpha, not Theta or Delta (sleep – ½ to 4 cps). How to Sway None of the students or executives got seasick from swaying and rocking; some called it self-hypnosis. It does not interfere with reading after 10 seconds of movement and in fact improves your reading speed up to 30%. Truth. Your altered state of consciousness to deep relaxation - makes memory repetition easy to concentrate on. It becomes like a song you heard but you find hard to get out of your mind. Do a Mind Experiment, and be your own scientist. Our results indicate an extraordinary improvement is probable. You be the judge, right? Swaying (rocking) works whether you are standing or sitting. Some folks like to stand up and read to create a variety of experiences. Please Take Notice: swaying requires no more than a rocking motion of 2-3 inches forward to be effective. If you read a book and rock 9-10 inches forward you are rocking yourself into Theta and your eyes begin to close. No good. Just a slight swaying motion back and forth increase your learning, comprehension and memory. Last thought: your brain generates up to 10 watts of electrical power. Why not use swaying to Alpha cps to improve your learning skills and long-term memory. Once you commit to practicing swaying and rocking for 7-21 days – it becomes a habit and goes on autopilot. Endwords first, we want to offer you a baby-easy strategy to help your back and vertebrae. Now you own it if you choose to use it. Second, we want you to test for yourself the relevancy of Swaying your body to improve your learning skills and memory. Fact: change is a principle of life and life consists of change. Would you have a competitive advantage over your peers in school and career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one? Contact us to grab a free speed reading report to release your learning genius. See ya, copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler – www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do Run Away From Toxic People? 2010-04-02 By H. Bernard Wechsler Do You Run Away From Toxic People? Empathy (sympathy, compassion, rapport) sounds like a nice thing, right? We use the word Empathy as a positive character trait, a compliment. Keep reading and discover how to influence and persuade by using the right words. The wrong words standing alone trigger painful memories. When you empathize (deep emotional understanding of another’s feelings or problems) with another’s P-A-I-N, you trigger your OWN pain centers. Huh - Come again? You heard that Misery loves Company right? And P-A-I-N wants you to experience the same suffering as the one you empathize with. Who Says Professor Tania Singer, University College London used a fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner to discover when we witness someone about to suffer pain – the empathizer’s brain experiences a dose of the same hurt. Monkey see – monkey do. Pain Matrix Pain is experienced in our brain in the following areas called the Pain Matrix. a) anterior Insula b) anterior cingular cortex (ACC) c) brain stem d) cerebellum The higher we score on the Balanced Emotional Empathy scale, the greater the activation of our Pain Matrix (a-d). You do not have to see the facial expressions of the one experiencing the pain to empathize (feel their pain), it is enough to to notice a hand tensing up or accelerated breathing. Random cues of another’s pain are enough to turn on our Pain Matrix. The Good Part When the victim has an expectation of pain relief by the words of a doctor or physiotherapist, or a placebo analgesic (phony painkiller), the one empathizing is NOT pain activated. The empathizer experiences reduced pain through the power of the same placebo as the patient. The brain pain areas are NOT triggered once there is an anticipation of relief of pain. Hope – it is wonderful and a pain-killer. Instead, our PreFrontal Cortex is activated. Get this: cognitive control (thinking less pain, causes less pain) can significantly reduce the pain. Don’t let anyone tell you that Placebos are for the fools and superstitious. Believing is often seeing positive results. The U.S. government (Federal Drug Administration) says placebos are as effective as new drugs in up to 30-50% of the tests. How come? If your Prefrontal Cortex (thinking brain) believes you are being helped (cured) – your central nervous system responds positively with healing hormones, peptides, and enzymes. The fMRI proves the power of the Placebo. Call it the power of suggestion or plain being gullible, but if you believe you are being healed – you are on the road to recovery. Conclusion: your mindset, mood and beliefs rule your physical body. Skeptics deny the power of Placebos like injections of water, inert tablets and sham surgery. This research offers evidence: placebo (I shall please you) painkillers alter (changes the course) the pain experience. It pays to be Ignorant and believe. Google: Science journal 303: 1162-67 The Power of Your Words What we imagine based on past experience, is enough to trigger a pain memory with all its original emotions. When we hear or even read words associated with P-A-I-N, our Nonconscious (right-brain) steps up to the plate and changes our Central Nervous System. Important: pain related words activate our powerful Sympathetic Nervous System, which pours out Adrenaline (Epinephrine) and triggers our Fight-or-Flight Syndrome (collection of effects) to help us cope and survive. It also activates Cortisol the stress hormone. What’s good about Cortisol? Improves memory, lowers sensitivity to pain, increases immunity and brings quick energy to Fight or Flight. It can save your fundament. What Words Words descriptive of pain and suffering like Grueling, Tormenting, and Punishing. What about Exhausting, Plaguing, and Agony? How about Suffering, Excruciating, and Unbearable? Magically they activate your Pain Matrix and suffering. Some folks have to describe in detail their pain and suffering. “I am Tormented with violent, blinding, torturing headaches.” Others use the expression – “It is killing me, it’s unendurable, I’m want to die to end this misery.” Our nonconscious mind believes these pain words are a potential Attack on us. Fight-or-Flight is our evolutional system to protect our survival. Words are seen as an assault on us, and our Sympathetic Nervous System responds with Fight-or-Flight in defense. It has your back in the fight for your life and limb. Survival. So What “Verbal stimuli lead to massive reactions in certain areas of our brain (Pain Matrix). These words activate the corresponding pain.” You hear, see or read it, and your brain accepts it as a real (actual) experience. We go on the defensive. That’s why our heart will race and blood pressure accelerates watching a horror movie on the big screen or even a murder mystery on TV. Is Fight-or Flight important or not? It is our survival mechanism 10x faster than our conscious logical reaction time. Seconds make the difference of life or death. Who Says So “It is possible that conversations to a physician or physiotherapist intensify the activity of the Pain Matrix of those who have chronic pain.” Maybe – ‘shut-up about your pain’ - is a powerful prescription. Professor Thomas Weiss, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. Google: Do Words Hurt? March 30, 2010 – Journal: Pain – pages 198-205 Cursing Would you believe there is scientific evidence that swearwords actual reduce even temporarily eliminate pain and raise your pain tolerance? Remember Fight-or Flight? Your Sympathetic Nervous System and adrenaline make it happen. When we curse we feel empowered and in control. It inhibits the link between the fear of pain and our perception of pain. Cursing is a hypoanalgesic – a pain killer. Google: Dr. R. Stephens at Keele University, UK. Endwords Words are critical in your career and health. Choose carefully what you view on TV, read and the people you hold daily conversations with. When you are in the presence of toxic (poisonous) verbalizers – run, don’t walk away. Words hurt. --- Would you own a unique competitive advantage in your career (think promotions) by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish even one? Contact us to grab a free report on how to speed read like a professional. copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is The Secret of Speed Meditation - Scrunching? 2010-03-29 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is The Secret of Speed-Meditation – Scrunching? Incredible Benefits of a five-minute meditation continue for up to three-hours. a) lower blood pressure b) improve blood circulation c) better immune function d) improve cardiac rate e) lower cholesterol Google: Harvard Medical Center – On Meditation research See: Herbert Benson, M.D. See: Dr. Sarah Lazar – research. Scrunching Exercise Remember: three synonyms for Scrunch are: squeeze, compress and contract. How do you create deep relaxation? First, close your eyes: create body tension by scrunching your face, neck and shoulders. Hold this tension for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, and three-one-thousand. Wait. Second, simultaneously deeply inhale from your diaphragm and hold your inhalation for the same three-count. Third, “unscrunch” your upper body and release the tension (contraction) in your muscles, tendons and ligaments, as you exhale slowly. Fourth, scrunch (contract), inhale and hold the tension in the lower half of your body (legs, hips and feet). Scrunch and inhale for a three-count. Now release the tension in your lower body, as you exhale slowly. Rule: It’s Scrunch-Inhale, Hold. Then Release & Exhale. All it takes is five (5) minutes and offers great Cost-Benefit-Analysis. See: (a-e). Secret of Meditation: Count Your Breaths You know why you should invest 5-minutes of your time in deep meditation. The real question is how? You believe in the rule of – Keep-It-Simple – Me too. Pay attention and count each breath. Inhale and exhale equals a count of One. Don’t think about breathing because that awakens your conscious mind (PreFrontal Cortex). If you focus your attention-span to feeling and counting each inhalation and exhalation, you activate your right-brain. Your right-hemisphere is king of your Nonconscious Mind; it controls your Autonomic Nervous System and all your emotions. You’ll notice deep relaxation releases stress and anxiety and you feel better-and-better. You are responsible for lowering your blood pressure, improving your heartbeat rate, and better blood circulation. How? Relax and spend 5-minutes on healthy autopilot. Why? It activates your Parasympathetic Nervous System for health. When you are awake and in Beta activity you are often stressed out and activate your Sympathetic Nervous System. Remember it as the Fight-or Flight program because it pumps out Adrenaline (Epinephrine) and the Stress hormone – Cortisol. So what is the foundation of Meditation? a) Switch off your conscious (left-brain) and turn on your nonconscious (right-brain) b) Eyes closed, focus your attention exclusively on counting your breaths. An inhalation plus exhalation counts as one. What is the Law of Opposites (Polarity)? Is everything a combination or unity of opposite forces? Electricity combines positive and negative charges and atoms consisting of protons and electrons. Are Homo sapiens a polarity (resistance, antithesis and contention) of thinking and emotion, pride/humble, selfish/altruism, and masculine/feminine? Our brain thinks in categories using the Law of Association (links between ideas) like - Up and Down, Good and Bad, Long-term and Short-term, and Winning and Losing. So what? Great memory secret: what does this new idea or phrase remind me of? Combine the New concept (idea) in a mental category with an Old memory. Example: the word Cornea (eye) reminds me of eating Corn. It is derived from Latin, meaning horny. Imagine holding an Ear of Corn in the shape of a horn. Now, mentally picture a ridiculous link between the new and old – eating a corn that looks like a trumpet and tastes like an ear of corn and you own the word - Cornea. To create relaxation in your mind and body, you must use the Law of Polarity by scrunching and unscrunching, and counting inhalations and exhalations. Contraction and relaxation release tension and stress. Now try a 5-minute meditation and notice the improvement of your daily health. Subvocalization (Sub-Vox) How do you keep your brain from distracting your meditation by Subvocalization? Inquiring Minds: subvocalizing is the still, small voice that reads and speaks to you. We call it SubVox, it is your internal, inner, silent speech (dialogue). As you read these words your Larynx (voice box) is articulating (divide into distinct parts) the sound of the printed words and phrases. SubVox helps reading through Cognitive Reinforcement by using two-senses – seeing (reading) and hearing instead of just one. But it also slows you down to pronounce each word you read. Discovery of Speed Reading: we teach that hearing one-word-at-a-time reduces learning and long-term memory. You are not a tree – you can move (faster) and read too fast to pronounce each word in your mind. How? Choose to Speed up! Our students and professionals read every word but only pronounce (Sub-Vox) one-word of each three. Benefit: you improve your learning up to 38% and save time. This only matters if you want to ace exams and win promotions in your career. Google: wikipedia.org/wiki/speed reading Self-Improvement Would you have a competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Grab out free (no strings attached) speed reading report and double your learning and recall within one week. See ya, www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org copyright 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Like More Brain Ram? 2010-03-25 By H.Bernard Wechsler Like More Brain Memory Today? If you have a baby-easy strategy to deeply relax that requires 1-2 minutes maximum, you can improve your long-term memory up to 40%. That’s a lot and we know three ways. So what? Relaxation releases chronic stress and even adds to your mental health and longevity. Three Facts 1. Fact: deep relaxation helps you receive new information and improves your personal learning and memory skills. Improvement will aid your career and finances. 2. Fact: learning is based on long-term memory. Get this: learning is directly related to your attention-span. The more impulsive and anxiety-prone, the worse your attention and memory. Relaxation reduces impulsivity and stress and improves learning and memory. 3. Fact: we live our waking hours in Beta brain cycles per second – we are electrochemical beings and either awake and alert, sleeping or relaxed and daydreaming. Inquiring Minds For Inquiring Minds: Beta is 13-40 cycles per second, Alpha: 8-13 cps (Hz), Theta: 4-7 cycles, and Delta: ½ to 4 cycles per second. EEG scientific research was discovered by Austrian scientist Hans Berger; he created the first working EEG (electroencephalograph) to measure human brainwave rhythms in 1908. Who cares? What if more knowledge improves your career opportunities? It does. The EEG measures the electricity (brainwave rhythms) operating in our brain during waking hours, sleep and light (Alpha) and deep (Theta) relaxation. Google: Neuro-feedback for learning and memory. In Sync (Synchronization – Simultaneously) - < L together at the same-time. When our brain’s memory neurons are relaxed – in harmony, agreement and accord – with our Theta brainwaves – you create and maintain stronger, lasting memories. You become smarter in learning and remembering. Theta cycles per second (brainwave rhythms) occur when you are DayDreaming, drowsiness and enjoying deep relaxation. When you close your eyes for just 20 seconds your brain shifts from Beta cycles of alert attention, to Alpha cps of not so alert concentration. Hippies used to call it an “altered state of consciousness.” Who Says So Google: Ueli Rutishauser, California Institute of Technology, published in the journal Nature, March 2010 produced this new research. This is a direct link between our neural networks (brain circuits) and results in human behavior. How we think and how we feel affects our behavior, our final results. Remember: Theta produces creativity, imagination and dreams. For the first time, scientific research offers evidence that when we link memory-related neurons to Theta brainwaves (for relaxation) during learning, encoding new information (memories) is stronger and long-term. Aw, just relax and learn better. Define Memory: specific patterns of activity across a network of neurons. Synapses are connections (links) between neurons (nerve cells). They become more active during learning. Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuroscientist (1905-1985) is famous for the principle that synapses are the mechanism for long-term memory. Dr. Hebb showed, “The cells that fire together, wire together.” The more your use it (repetition) the better your memory becomes. Strategy You can sit at your desk and within two-minutes add up to 40% to your memory and learning skills for the next ninety-minutes. That is a good CBA (Cost-Benefit- Analysis) particularly before a presentation, interview or exam. Important: attention is the fuel of memory. Add more oxygen and glucose to your mind and body and you just fill up an empty or low tank. Attention Span controls brain power in learning and memory. Diaphragmatic Breathing Close your eyes – the whole thing requires two-minutes – and slowly deeply inhale from your diaphragm. You got it right when your stomach slowly expands. Count one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand. Now hold the breath for a three-count, and exhale (eyes closed) slowly for another three-count. Repeat this breathing pattern twice more. Now drop your shoulders and feel lightness in your toes. Use your imagination to see and feel your feet, legs and lower half of your body. Change your mental imagery to release all the existing stress. Consciously S-M-I-L-E. Create a smile on your face by raising the sides of your mouth, and crinkle (crow’s feet) the sides of each eye. It is critical you maintain this forced smile for 20 seconds because it triggers a relaxed state of mind. Inquiring Minds: Google – Zygomatic Major (draws the angle of the mouth), Risorius muscle – raises the corner of mouth for smiling, and Orbicularis Oculi – creates Crow’s Feet at the sides of the eyes. Eyes still closed, create a mental movie of the upper half of your body. See a relaxation of the six muscles (extraocular muscles) in each eye. Feel your neck muscles, tendons and ligament release their stress as you exercise your will power. Mopping Up Slowly breathe and consciously feel the oxygen entering your lungs. Mentally visualize yourself at the beach on a summer weekend, stretched out in the sun. Smile and feel the warmth of the sun on your body as your mind releases all stress and tension. The two-minutes are up and your mind and body are rejuvenated. See ya. --- Endwords Would you have a competitive advantage in your career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Knowledge is power in our economy. Contact us to grab a free speed reading report with detailed information to become a speed reader. It will raise your career to a higher level. Start now. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Ace the Interview 2010-03-24 By H.Bernard Wechsler How to Ace The 2010 Interview Common sense would tell us that a job interview whether for your first employment out of school or for CEO of a NYSE company, requires planning and research. This same famous - common sense - tells us that holding a seashell to our ear retains the sound of the ocean. Scientists disagree. Many believe you are hearing the sound of your own blood moving through your ear’s arteries and veins. Maybe not. Some scientists explain that the seashell (by the seashore) is really a resonating chamber. It produces a louder sound when your background is near the waves. Anyway, why would She (Sally) sell seashells by the seashore when her customers could bend over and pick them up free? Common sense, right? The University of Missouri researchers – Dr. Daniel Turban lead author, finds that of 327 job seekers, common sense is not their strong suit. Few have a job-seeking plan, less evaluate whether the plan is working, and it is considered an interview Sin (felony) to have a strategy to impress the interviewer (decision-maker). Getting in Front of The Competition So What? So – make a marketing plan to obtain employment and don’t wing it. Reevaluate how your plan is working continuously, eliminate strategies that are not working and rework your resume by industry. Wait. Be aware of your emotions and their impact on the interviewer. Human Resources Do you believe the tone of your voice and your facial expression can cause a job offer or a turndown? The personnel interviewer is not demented, he is human and like other Homo sapiens reflects the emotions he/she sees on the face across the desk. We are copy-cats and are influenced and persuade by facial expressions. Get this: you are being evaluated for the following four (4) characteristics: a) Attitude – your use of language, facial expressions, gestures and body language speak louder than your words alone. Words alone create comprehension less than 20% of the time, 80% is caused by the tone and use of your voice and body language. b) Aptitude – your are being dissected to see if you are a team-player, and fit into the organizational culture. Are you an IBMer or a Googler, or too entrepreneurial? Aptitude is fitness for the position – while Aptness is whether you are likely and inclined to be a company asset. c) Knowledge and Understanding – Are you a rapid learner with a powerful memory? IQ and EQ (Emotional Quotient) include what you know and how you will feel about your team peers. Do you show conscientiousness also known as self-discipline and dependability during the interview? Is job-satisfaction important to you? Creative folks rank Job-Satisfaction #1 on their list of needs to successful function. Fact: interviewers will hire a Less qualified candidate with limited job experience, if she/he indicates a high level of inquisitiveness, an extroverted attitude and strong aptitude for the position. Don’t you like lively, positive people around you? So What How does that play out? Attitude means the new hire will be a great fit for the organization, and will learn the team rules and strategies quickly and easily. Interviewing is always a matter of predicting good hires based on limited evidence. What about credentials like grades and top-10% of your class? Scribbled evaluations by your professors or corporate HR departments do not override what the interviewer intuits. Decision-making is intuition and visceral (gut) in the end. Expect Rejections I have been on both sides of the interview. It was painful to be rejected for my first dream job because your brain turns on your amygdala and its fight-or-flight signal. You get a hot dose of epinephrine (adrenaline) and cortisol – the stress hormone and feel worthless and devalued after experiencing failure. Years later I interviewed law graduates and lawyers – some for their first job and others to advance to law firm partners. I always chose candidates who understood the principles of how to influence, persuade and convince others. Underline this: no matter your title – including v.p. of the division, you are a sales person – you are always in the business of selling someone something. We sell ideas, products and dreams of a better and more comfortable life. What to Do It is your job to make the life of the interviewer easy and fun. Mild, retiring candidates are boring. People who try to take over the interview are too threatening. Ask questions and never depend on your resume. Yes, acing the job interview is a personality contest. But so are life, relationships and your career. Breathe-Stretch-Shake – And Let It Go When we are searching for employment our self-image is lower than an ant’s belly. We must have a simple strategy (quick and easy) to move from feelings of worthlessness and stress to expectations of career-success and long-term wealth. If you breathe deeply (diaphragm) just three (3) times, stretch out your limbs and exercise your muscles for 20 seconds, and shake off stress like a dog does water, you change your mood instantly. Stand up and take a deep inhalation and hold it for a count of three seconds. Release and do it twice more. You add new oxygen to your blood circulation and access mental attention and alertness. Picture in your mind a dog or cat stretching out its bones as far as they can go. Gently draw out tour arms as far as they can go. Now - Stand on your right leg and extend your left leg, and reverse and spread out your right leg. Now - slowly S-t-r-e-t-c-h each leg for 20 seconds. Mentally picture Pluto (Mickey’s Dog) shaking the water off his body. Do the same vigorous shaking. It improves your circulation while triggering your brain for up to a 49% increase in Attention-Span. Last cue: Shout out (if you are alone) or whisper it to yourself – “Let-it-go!” This verbal shout adds up to 15% to your energy output. It raises your vibrational frequency for exerting a stronger effort for up to 30 minutes. Remember the grunts you hear by tennis player when serving the ball. That’s what we want. Breathe-Stretch-Shake And Let it Go! is a very powerful stress-buster. Use it in the future – it only requires two-minutes of exercise and keeps on giving. See ya. Endwords Would you own a competitive advantage in your career by reading and remember three (3) books, articles, and reports when your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free report on How to speed read – it contains powerful information. We suggest you email us now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is This Your Metaphor For Success? 2010-03-17 By H.Bernard Wechsler --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is This Your Metaphor For Success? 1. “The Itzy-Bitzy Spiderlings climbed up the water-spout. 2. Down came the rain and washed the Spiderlings out. 3. Here comes the sun and dries up the rain. 4. Now the Itzy-Bitzy Spiderlings – Spinning - 5. They climb up the spout – a-gain.” Inquiring Minds Need to Know New research: your healthy brain is continually and consistently at war between learning new experiences and retrieving long-term memories (of past experiences). Every time we hold a conversation or listen to a lecture, our brain is struggling between learning information and recalling past memories. Why? We are listening while spontaneously preparing to respond with an intelligent answer, right? Even in a lecture, we are pay attention but questioning what we hear. Who wins the contest, new learning associations or old memories? Responding is what makes it a conversation or learning - and not a monologue. Aha! Most (90%) of humans cannot learn new ideas and remember old concepts at the same time. It may be on the tip of your tongue, but it is stuck there until your choose either learning or memory processing. What about using your Cell phone while walking down the street? Multitasking is an arduous challenge. Get this: the mental process of using your memory Suppresses the brain structures involved in learning. It is one-or-the-other. But there is an exception. Switchboard Your brain has a switchboard to move from learning to remembering and from memory to learning (new information). Located in your Frontal Cortex this switchboard permits switching from one task to the other quickly. Speed of processing can be slow-medium-fast. Smart folks can switch channels almost instantaneously. Good news – it is a learned skill not hardwired. How Come? Integrated, connected and linked brains combine your left-hemisphere with your right-hemisphere through the Corpus Callosum (< L – tough body). People who are using both halves of their brain are synchronized, correlated, and harmonized for learning and memory encoding. Their mind works faster than other folks. How to Upgrade Your Switchboard Sharp (effective) thinkers are speed learners with a creative speed memory. What if you could discover a baby-easy strategy to improve your brain’s switchboard? Your goal is to maintain your left-brain and right-brain In Synch. The Infinity Symbol a) Can you play an Air-Guitar? Let’s talk about the Infinity Symbol, which looks like a sleeping (reclining) number eight (#8). The entire daily exercise for 21 days requires about two-minutes daily. b) Start by sitting down, looking straight ahead and using the index finger of your right-hand, to trace a two-foot by two-foot sleeping 8 – the infinity sign – in the air. Move left-to-right in a large stroke (cut) half to the left of your face and half to your right side. c) The objective is to cover a lot of area of your eyesight – specifically your Peripheral (side) Vision. Take a deep inhalation as you beginning tracing the Infinity symbol and exhale when you have completed the exercise. See the tracing with the sides of your eyes. Each air-tracing takes about 10 seconds. d) Now do another repetition – deep breath and use your right index finger to trace the sleeping #8; hold it and exhale. Be holistic and see the big picture. Do a total of ten (10) reps of the Infinity Symbol. e) Now use your left index finger switching to trace the Infinity Symbol with your left hand. Same size (2’x2’) and repeat tracing a total of ten (10) repetitions of 20 seconds each. Total: two-minutes. Why Each Air Tracing unites and synchronizes your left and right hemispheres. Your goal is to create a Neural Network of communication between your left and right brains. After 21 consecutive days of this 2-minute exercise it goes on autopilot and becomes an automatic habit. You are working your Corpus Callosum. Benefits This exercise helps double your reading and learning speed, attention-span and concentration. You will also begin to access your long-term memory up to twice as fast. We teach it to corporate executives and law students because it works well. Endwords “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody else has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” Edwin Schrodinger, German physicist “Small changes lead to massive-reactions. Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil, set off a tornado in Texas?” The Butterfly Effect, Edward Lorenz, MIT Would reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one - be a valuable competitive advantage in your career? Contact us for a free speed reading report – no strings attached. We recommend doing it now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can Exposure to Symbols Make You Smarter? 2010-03-16 By H.Bernard Wechsler Can Exposure to Symbols of Achievement Make You Smarter? Don’t you pride yourself on being practical, useful and factual? Me too. When I read new research my mind keeps questioning how the new-stuff stacks up against what I already know and practice. Is it practical and sane? Exposure to the Letters A & F Get this: if you are going to take an exam (sixth-grade, high school or law school) and prior to testing see the letter A or F - you are influenced for a better or worse performance. It gets weirder – you don’t have to consciously see the A or F letters because your nonconscious mind automatically registers these representative test scores. It’s the law of Association linking memories of every test you ever took. Your brain has a neural network of words associated with test-taking and A means success and a positive self image. F is part of your long-term memories linked to an evaluation of your work as a personal failure. The Negative F reinforces shame, guilt and a personal sense of worthlessness. Our emotions cause the dominant influence of A and F on test performances. How we feel affects how we think and how we perform. A dispute, a fight or bad mood rattles the mind and our test performance. Research Google: Dr. Keith Cian lead author at the University of Missouri, published in British Journal of Educational Psychology March 2010. The research stands for the likeliness of a student to improve his/her exam result when exposed to the letter A or F before the exam. Exposure to the letter F makes the student more likely to fail. We have been trained and conditioned to associate (link) these two test grades to emotional success and failure. We use our left-brain (consciousness) with its reasoning and logic and our right-brain (nonconsciousness) with its emotional power of both fear and joy. Nonconscious Motivation Letter A primes the student to exercise effort, pride and the intention to perform well. Letter F primes him or her to access memories of past failure, rejection and defeat. Like Charlie Brown in Peanuts, the student feels doomed by the F letter and plays out that role. Remember the term – “motivational state”. Fact: when folks approach any task with the desire to succeed (win an A) they perform better than when their mindset (attitude) is striving to avoid failure (getting an F). Motivation is both conscious (will power) and nonconscious (unawareness) of their emotional state of mind. Which is dominant? Answer: Nonconscious motivation based on emotional school experiences. We have internalize the emotions and feelings of A and F over years. Fact: this research is further proof that Subliminal Perception (below the threshold of consciousness) exists and influences our decisions, actions and beliefs. Not knowing Why, How or even of the existence of the Letters A and F - influences our behaviors and ultimate results. It is an adaptive autonomic nervous system function. Practical, Pragmatic and Logical What if a high school teacher decorated a classroom with 25 past A tests? Have you ever noticed that after a while everything hung on the walls becomes “wallpaper”? It stops registering on our consciousness. I stop once a week and really look at my Picasso and Vincent van Gogh to refresh both brain halves. What if you adorned your office at home and at work with images of financial success? Imagine posting pictures of your dream home (paid-in-full) in Florida by the Oceanside, a Chase debit card with $50,000,and a Patek Philipps ($18,000) wristwatch? Might you be consciously and nonconsciously motivated to succeed? Auto-conditioning The scientific research indicates that you can condition your mind to succeed. It requires daily positive reinforcement and is called Operant Conditioning. The secret is daily repetition to build a positive habit through a neural network of experience. Scientific research indicates Conditioning works to improve health, learning, memory training, and personality. Corporate Team Playing is a learned strategy. Ninety-percent of us will never attempt auto-conditioning because of the requirement (effort) of daily reinforcement. LazyBones need not apply. Best Bet: combine both conscious (stop, stare & smile) and nonconscious motivation. Nonconscious strategies include meditating, creative visualization and command affirmations. Would you invest 6-10-minutes daily for personal growth? Even if you do nothing but randomly come across the priming A or F, you will be influenced, persuaded and changed by them. We want to improve your odds of success by the use of specific strategies like meditating-mental-movies-command affirmations. Example: Speed reading is the difference between Random Spacing and Specific Guidance (having strategies) while reading. Which is better, a proven system for personal growth or hit-or-miss, arbitrary or accidental occurrences? Speed reading will permanently 3x your learning skills and double (2x) your long-term memory. You decide if you are perfect just the way you are. Secret: strategies. Meaning Sense Stay with me. When you are exposed to something that makes NO sense (unexpected associations) your brain gets scrambled and searches for certainty and order. Examples: checkout a movie directed by David Lynch (abstract and mysterious) or read a nonlinear book by Franz Kafka (unexpected and brain rattling). Result: your attention-span is disrupted because you cannot predict what happens next. Result: you automatically get smarter by turning on your Prefrontal Cortex for complex meaning. Benefits: you compensate by doubling your comprehension, concentration, & attention to make sense about your environment. Life requires meaning and purpose; we are motivated to learn new adaptation patterns. Google: UC @ Santa Barbara, Dr. Travis Prouix, published in Psychological Science. Endwords We are conditioned by our surroundings and culture. Does this make sense? a) Our feelings are the result of our behaviors. b) Our behaviors are the direct result of our convictions. c) Convictions must be challenged and based on proof. Would you have a competitive advantage in your career by reading three (3) books, articles and reports in the time it takes your peers to hardly finish one? Contact us for a free speed reading report on how-to. The time for personal growth is now. See ya, copyright © 2010, H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is Touching Unmanly or a Success Strategy? 2010-03-11 By Hal Bernard Wechsler Is Touching Unmanly or a Success Strategy? Bob Lieber was a two million dollar a year lawyer. His unique competitive advantage was a talent they do not teach in law school. Bob could persuade stubborn mules to change their minds and close the deal. How? There comes a time at every real estate or contract closing when both sides distrust and hate each other more than they want to close the deal. Each side gets emotional and irrational and checks their reasoning brain at the door. If nature takes its course you have a dead deal. Bob would stand up and walk around the room silently. He would stand behind the lawyer for the opposition and (get this!) start to massage the lawyer’s shoulders and neck. No conversation – just non-verbal communication to relax. That’s right, even if he hardly knew the other counsel, he would knead the person’s shoulders and neck. Not done, he moved behind the opposition client and without asking permission – massaged (manipulated and stroked) the guy for another sixty seconds. The mood in the room changed and the transaction closed without another hitch. Physical Contact Your voice (auditory sense) can have calming tones that persuade and convince. Your face can either create rapport or alienate folks because our sense of vision triggers emotions based on the facial expressions we see. Lastly, comes our sense of touch (kinesthetic, tactile or haptics). Physical Contact has received new scientific research indicating it is an emotional powerhouse. Examples: a raised high-five, pat on the shoulder, bumping fists, chest ramming or even a smile influences results, relationships and success percentages. Get this: physical contact changes how folks think and behave. It creates star athletes and teams that win the Title. What works in sports works equally in your career to ace a job interview (we teach it to corporate executives and lawyers), winning presentations, or successfully closing sales or agreements. Placebo Doctors and nurses who pat your arm or touch your shoulder double the power of drugs to relieve your pain, set the stage for miraculous healings, and satisfy the emotional side of their patients. Some scientists believe the Placebo Effect is nonsense, just the power of authority (physician in the white coat) and suggestibility. In 2009 research using FMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) discovered our brain changes when we have confidence (faith) in our medical team. There is an increased activity by our Immune and Nervous systems, more dopamine (relaxation) is released, and a triggering of our Mu Opioid Receptors. The Mu receptors are located in our brain, spinal cord and intestines and release endorphins to overcome pain. It is the body’s form of opium (opioid) to initiate healing. It is not just the power of suggestion (like hypnosis) but physical imagery readouts showing bodily changes. Google: Professor Dache Keltner, UC Berkley: physical contact as wordless communication. What’s In It For Me Fact: a warm friendly touch releases Oxytocin a powerful hormone that creates trust and empathy (belief) between humans. Wait. Oxytocin counteracts Cortisol, the stress hormone causing us to relax instead of activating our fight-or-flight complex. When we relax instead of emotionalizing our experiences, and use strategies to help others reduce their tension and release chronic stress, we both think and remember better. It’s a win-win prospective leading to agreement. If your career involves persuading, convincing and influencing your peers and superiors for promotions, or executives for successful sales, you need physical contact strategies because they smooth the way for cooperation. If you have a significant other or kids, using physical touch produces winning relationships. Touching can be intimidating, but it is too powerful an asset to be ignored. It beats words (verbal communication) by up to 75%. Touch their hair, better yet, smile and touch their hair or hand. Get this one: massaging a hand for half a minute is like hypnosis causing trance. Simple hand stroking reduces pain up to 75%. Why? You are accessing their right-hemisphere, specifically Spatial patterns. Emotions, positive long-term memories and cooperating thinking come from our right-brain. Result: you are someone to be trusted and not the opposition (enemy). How come? Your right-brain intuition says so. By the way, the couple that massage, stroke and pat each other, statistically – stay together. Yes, it is like the grooming of our ancient ancestors the chimps. It is genetic and hardwired. They report more satisfaction. Talking With Your Hands It is a fact that residents of Italy appear to use their hands to communicate more than folks in other countries. Is that a good or bad thing or even something to be embarrassed about? The University of Chicago reports research indicating pointing and gesturing with your hands and arms create positive communication between folks. Animation is emotional and triggers a need to pay attention to the gesturing party. Results: gesturers have a higher retentive memory and their thinking (left prefrontal cortex) is more complex and effective. They plain communicate better. Gesturing while speaking improves how you (speaker) feels and paints positive mental pictures for your listeners. Wanna make your point (reasoning) stick? Gesture, point, touch and speak. Emblem is Pantomime There are gestures that are immediately decoded by the brain of the other party as symbols that express whole volumes of ideas. Example: using your index finger like a windshield wiper across your forehead to indicate – “it is hot as a furnace in here!” It is called an emblem, which is pantomiming what you mean. Another example of an emblem is your index finger perpendicular to your lips meaning – Shush! So what? Teachers gain attention more by gestures than words, and so should you. Giving a presentation – pointing, gesturing and using symbols are better than Power Point. They are more human and less didactic – folks hate being taught but love to learn. Google: Hofstra University School of Medicine, Allen Braun, M.D. Endwords Fact: science has proven that to make your point clear and persuasive, link your verbal brilliance with our ancient language of gestures. Let your words and hands do the talking – it is a neuroscientific partnership. Would you have a strong competitive advantage in your career to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free speed reading report with details of how to triple your learning skills. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are You On Top of The World? 2010-03-09 By H.Bernard Wechsler Are You On-Top-Of-The-World or Down In the Dumps? After studying (not just reading) “Motor Action and Emotional Memory”, either the scientists at Radbourd University, Netherlands have made a monster discovery or they need a minimum of one year of therapy to recover their healthy minds. This Dutch research stands for the principle – “Bodily Motion - Triggers Emotional Memories”. Upward Motor Movements retrieve Positive (happy) long-term memories. Downward motor activates retrieve Negative (distasteful) long-term memories. Both Up and Down physical activity affect human behavior, action and success. Real Life Examples 1. In sports – we see winning athletes pumping their Right arm upward in a victory salute. They nonconsciously maintain that pumping arm mental-movie BEFORE they win as a roadmap of their future goal. Maybe it is their visual pathway to finding the Wizard. 2. The Head Referee in football raises both his arms parallel (railroad tracks) to declare a score. Watch field judges and other officials – arms Upward indicate a winning effort. 3. Thumbs UP! from a clenched fist means Yes! History: Medieval custom to seal a deal in business; also used by U.S. pilots in WWII to signal – ready to ascend to the skies. Bull-fighting? 4. Pointer: the computer symbol signifying Pay Attention! is a symbol called a FistNote. It appears as a closed fist with the Index finger extended Upward. History: < Heb – Yad meaning “hand”. See: Point-And-Click symbol on your computer. Index finger pointing North and Upward. Google: neuroscientist Daniel Casasanto the lead author, of this article appearing in the prestigious international journal – Cognition April 2010. Nutshell For Inquiring Minds Only: You know the expression “in-a-nutshell” which permits us to hope and beg the writer to be brief and condense the adjectives? The cliché comes from an alleged copy of Homer’s Iliad, so tiny it could fit in the shell of a nut. One-more-once: moving your limbs Upward triggers positive life experiences memories. Downward cues (prompts) negative memories. So? Up or Down movements set a mood and improves your success percentage in whatever you do. Examples: interviews, tests and human relationships. Upward motion creates Mood. Spatial Words When we remember happy experiences we think in term of Spatial metaphors. My Mom used the figure-of-speech, “in-seventh-heaven”, kids used the “metaphor”, “I’m on – top-of-the-world.” Being depressed (blue), we used the spatial metaphor expression - “beneath a bedbug’s belly.” Brainiacs used the “figure-of-speech” – the ”9th Circle of Hell”. For Inquiring Minds: Dante (Italian poet) wrote The Devine Comedy around 1308 about sin and Hell. The worse neighborhood downtown was the 9th Circle of Hell – a celestial sentence for one’s malicious sins. The under (after) world was divided in three sections: Inferno-Purgatory-Paradiso. Some Chinese writers claimed there were 18 separate condominiums in Hell. Vertical Space And Emotion Experiment: moving both hands upward participants are asked, “tell me about a time you felt proud of yourself”. Positive stories were double (2x) the amount of Negative memories when moving both hands simultaneously. Conclusion: memory retrieval was most efficient when the physical motion upward MATCHES the positive memory recalled. Moving upward (Vertical Direction) prompts a Positive memory like - Acing a test or winning an award. When we are physically moving in a Downward motion, we trigger a Negative emotional memory of Failing an important exam or NOT getting picked for the team. Simple motor actions Upward appear to access (trigger) happy positive emotions. Moving your limbs downward trigger long-term memories of loss and failure, got it? So What, Huh? There is practical knowledge you can use before going for an important Interview, taking an Entrance Exam, or prior to giving a presentation to a Board of Directors Secret: Don’t try to change folks mind – change their Mood! A win-win prospective creates a positive emotional attitude for both sides leading to mutual success. Fact: If you want to encode long-term memories for ease of access, look upward toward your left upper quadrant. To retrieve long-term memories, look upward toward your right upper quadrant. It works; try this proven strategy. The secret is creating vivid emotional mental-imagery of your goal – upward. Google: Milton H. Erickson, MD and Neural Linguistic Programming. Longevity Without Dementia Did you know up to 50% of Senior Citizens over 80 years of age, are affected by Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia. Don’t laugh; you are going to live to ninety-five, so I am talking about your longevity not some abstract stranger. Direct quote from Archives of General Psychiatry, March 2010 issue, lead author Dr. Aron Buchman, Rush University Medical Center. “People who say their lives have a Purpose (feeling good about themselves) significantly reduce their risk of Alzheimer’s up to 50% and other forms of dementia up to 60%.” They stay disease-free and without disability way above average. Research: 951 Seniors without dementia and followed up over the next four years. Folks who responded most positively about their lives having meaning and purpose did not kick-the-bucket as quickly as the negative minded. Those who seemed to like it here did not want to give up their seat, stayed longer and healthier at the fair. Biological Reason Maybe, just maybe, positive folks do not access their Sympathetic Nervous System (Autonomic Nervous System) and their “Fight-Or-Flight” response. They’re not at war with themselves and their environment. So what? Fact: Fight-or-Flight triggers two serious hormones: Cortisol – the stress hormone, and Epinephrine (adrenaline) the neurotransmitter for activating bodily defense mechanisms for survival. The obverse (other) side of the Sympathetic is our Parasympathetic Nervous system which releases Acetylcholine – the relaxation neurotransmitter. Get this: positive, purposeful folks make a habit of being on the side of their Parasympathetic Nervous System. They trigger both relaxation and digestion – not their survival mode. They are not into chronic stress leading them to Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke. Get this: more social and physical activity, plus higher cognitive use of your mind are linked to longevity and better health. Having a higher purpose in life, being of service to others, reinforces your desire to live longer and happier. The result – is not easy to believe – lower mortality, less frequent disease, and reduced mental and physical disabilities. Now get with the program – smile and laugh easily and often and “thumbs-up” in your daily life experiences. Endwords: would you like a competitive advantage in your career? The skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Remember, we live in the Knowledge Economy. Contact us for a free speed reading report on how to double your knowledge skills in just ten-days. It is important – move on this now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is Replaying an Emotional Trauma Good or Bad For You? 2010-03-08 By H. Bernard Wechsler Is Replaying An Emotional Trauma Good Or Bad For You? Who Cares – But Why Controlled mental replaying of your negative experience (event) is excellent therapy. Repetition with new understanding deadens, dulls and benumbs the pain from the original occurrence. Mental repetition of a traumatic event desensitizes your emotions. Examples: a severe car accident, the boss firing your fundament, a dirty divorce, war battles or personal physical attacks (rape). The secret is in your cognitive strategies. If you don’t have special desensitizing strategies you fall into PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and depression for years. Inquiring Minds need this scientific core knowledge. It’s baby-easy to learn and use for yourself and those who touch your life. You can teach it to others. So What Normal folks use Escape Mechanisms like getting drunk, bar fights, drugs or make life miserable for those around them to eliminate negative feelings. PTSD is receiving more notice today because of thousands of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. And it applies to 308, 802, 372 U.S. citizens and almost seven billion world population so it is important to Inquiring Minds. Many of us experience chronic stress because of a bullying boss, disruptive kids, and an emotional Significant Other. These strategies help control our emotional reactions to stress. It works for corporate executives, law students and the military. Scientific Research A new study published in Biological Psychiatry by Dr. Christine Hooker, proves that how we react to painful trauma and stress is located in our LPFC (lateral Prefrontal Cortex). That’s right, locating the brain site is a new discovery. What does your PFC do all day? You trigger it voluntarily for your problem solving, decision making, learning and memory. It is your Executive function for goal setting and works Top-Down, using your volition (free will) to organize and create a successful career and relationships. Get this: our LPFC is the control center for our emotional reactions to negative facial expressions by others. Sounds weird? Homo sapiens react emotionally and behave negatively based on the antagonistic (angry) looks on the puss of those whose lives we touch. Can you ignore the puss on your significant other, boss, or kid? Stop and remember the facial expression on your significant-other just before your last prize fight (conflict and altercation) with him or her. That is what sets the mood for loss of control. Yes, their expression affects you and you may be the causative factor that enflames their emotions. Operant Conditioning Remember this secret – your mother told it to you and you forgot. Repetition is the Mother of Learning and Memory. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice and more… Would it be a valuable personal skill to avoid chronic stress at home or in your career? How to short-cut emotional traumas and stress is a learnable talent. Fact: facial expressions of emotion are hardwired into our Genes. Fact: your Lateral PreFrontal Cortex can raise your threshold of tolerance and avoid reacting irrationally. Fact: your brain can be conditioned (Operant Conditioning) through Positive Reinforcement. You get more of what you want, and less negative punishment (avoid what you dislike). It is not brainwashing, but a scientific system to reinforce positive behaviors. Fact: humans are hardwired genetically to achieve two goals in life: the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. For Inquiring Minds Whatever is reinforced (rewards or punishment) is enlarged and increases. There are emotional rewards like a smile and loving affection, a gold star on the refrigerator, and financial rewards like a weekly salary, bonus and promotion. Your brain gives you a dose of Dopamine – the pleasure hormone triggered by rewards – and we are conditioned (programmed) to repeat the behavior because we choose to be further rewarded, right? It feels good. Four Consequences to Any Behavior a) Reinforcement: the behavior is repeated and increased. b) Punishment: the behavior is eliminated or decreased. c) Positive: something is added to increase the behavior. d) Negative: something is removed (you desire) and the behavior is decreased. What’s the secret? Answer: cause and effect; there are consequences to our actions. Use Positive reinforcement in Operant Conditioning to get more of what you want and less of what you want to avoid. Two Strategies a) sit at your desk and take a deep diaphragmatic inhalation and slowly exhale. Do it two more times to set the mood. b) place you attention and concentration on your face and your facial expression. Can you tell if you are smiling or frowning? Of course. c) inhale and place a make-believe (fake) smile on your face, There are three muscles groups involved, but basically your eyes and the sides of your mouth. d) use your will power to raise the sides of your mouth and show some teeth. Simultaneously crinkle the sides of both eyes. Create crows-feet and feel your eyes smile. e) Hold your eyes and mouth smile for twenty (20) seconds and release. Deep breathe and do it for another 20 seconds. Do the third rep (repetition) for the last 20 seconds. The second strategy adds one thing to the a-e smiling exercise. Ask your students to close their eyes and imagine their significant other, child or best friend smiling, laughing or giggling in delight. Hold that Creative Imagery for three reps of 20 seconds each. It is short and sweet and a fun learning experience. When you and those you teach become aware they are responsible for their own emotional responses, and they can control the pain of chronic stress and depression, they are amazed and motivated. Who needs painful PTSD in our lives? Repetition: success requires this one-minute exercise for 21 consecutive days to turn it into a habit. Our corporate executives and law school students call it life altering. Endwords Mouth and eyes muscles create our facial expressions, but we can either put them on auto-pilot (autonomic nervous system) or take voluntary (will power) control. The second way avoids high levels of stress and depression and even becomes a habit. You do not have to remember the brain location is the Lateral PreFront Cortex, just do the simple routine. Make it a daily ritual like brushing your teeth and you will improve your mental and physical health for life. --- Would a unique competitive advantage over your peers improve your career prospects? Our corporate executives and law students read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports while their peers can hardly finish one. Knowledge is power, huh? For a free speed reading report with all the details, contact us now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can Tickling Dramatically Improve Your Health? 2010-03-03 By H.Bernard Wechsler Can Tickling Dramatically Improve Your Health? Is Nature wasteful or thrifty? Evolution uses the same structures by Adaptation for human survival over the millennia. You read that fish gills evolved into the human face and neck, while dinosaurs with tiny feathers evolved into present day birds. Is laughter just a waste of time? How about tickling? Fact: six (6) year-olds laugh on an average of 300 times daily Fact: fourteen (14) year olds laugh an average of 160 times daily. Fact: adults – twenty-five (25) year olds to senior citizens - laugh on an average of only 17 times daily. So What Maybe human adults have less to smile and laugh about with 10% unemployment, the highest rate of foreclosures and bankruptcies since the 1930s? Nyet, nada, negative: smiling and laughing is part of our human nature and instinctual. Humans, chimps and other mammals are hardwired (preloaded) for smiling and laughter. It is part of our grooming process that creates emotional communication between men and women, mothers and offspring, and empathy for others. How come kids smile and laugh up to seventeen (17) times more than adults? Answer: conditioning. We are programmed by our culture, media and career experience to believe those who smile and laugh are lazy, inattentive and indifferent. We suppress smiling and laughter until it becomes inhibited and weak because it is not often triggered. The neural network containing experiences that made us giggle, chuckle and guffaw in the past is just not firing their synapses as we age. Disuse (abstinence) extinguishes neural networks, while rewards (other people joining in) induce a greater number of daily smiles and bouts of laughter. But So What Two things for Inquiring Minds: one: when we were kids and went to the beach, we always found a seashell by the seashore. We put it against our ear, right? Sure we did, and were told the shell scientifically retained the sounds of the ocean, right? We never questioned that explanation then or since. Fact: the sound is the noise of blood surging through the veins in our ears when we clamp the shell to it. Saying so does not make it so, right? Another myth destroyed. Fact: Warren Buffett said: “Never ask a barber if you need a haircut!” He was talking about lawyers having a vested interest (conflict of interest) in a Merger or Acquisition culminating successfully because they get a percentage instead of just an hourly fee. Is the lawyer (or barber) going to say No! Don’t do the deal or get the haircut? Will your counselor warn you this deal is a clone of the Time-Warner merging disaster with AOL? Only Saints and Angels don’t look after Number One first, right? Twelve (12) Benefits of Smiling & Laughter Caution: you must read this list at least twice (2x) to get the guts of it. 1. Blood Circulation produces up to 12% more oxygen and glucose (energy) for body and mind when you smile or laugh often. 2. Speed of brain functions: up to 15% higher for optimal cognition. 3. Stress: reduced from mind and body (up to 18% by MRI reading). 4. Abdominal muscles and digestion strengthened by laughing. 5. Left and right brain: synchronized and integrated to work together. 6. Blood pressure lowered up to 10% based on how many smiles & duration of our daily laughing. 7. Diaphragmatic (deeper) breathing for up to six hours afterward. 8. Immune System produces a supply of Dopamine -(neurotransmitter) the pleasure hormone. 9. Attentiveness, heartbeat regularity and pulse rate are improved. 10. Long-term memory and learning skills enhanced up to 2x (double). 11. University of Maryland research: protection from stroke and heart attack. 12. Pain (physical and mental) is reduced up to 50% and your healing rate increases by a surge of Endorphins. Read the dozen rewards of smiling and laughter one more once. Now smile because you have added to your health and longevity core knowledge. You Cannot Tickle Yourself Recent research at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and published in Nature Neuroscience. Google: 4.15.09, Professor H. Olausson. Touching the skin can relieve pain. Your skin being stoked has an express line directly to the brain. Pain signals cannot block skin impulses of someone stroking our skin. Tickling overcomes pain – it deadens the pain stimuli. Inquiring minds should know that being slowly tickled (stroked) activates specialized nerve fibers in our skin. Pleasurable feelings are produced by our brain by these nerve fibers called CT nerves (C-Tactile). The longer and greater frequency of stroking (tickling) – the greater the pleasure. But you cannot self-tickle, the sensation (emotion) must be created by another. Cerebellum Monitors Our Bodily Movements Our little brain (cerebellum) prevents us from tickling ourselves. Why? It can distinguish between Expected and Unexpected sensations. Tickling is 90% triggered by unexpected sensation. Your brain knows (somatosensory cortex) who is doing the tickling – you or a stranger? An example of an expected bodily sensation is the feeling (pressure) of your fingertips while typing on the computer keyboard. Unexpected is a stranger tickling your neck with a feather. Endwords Tickling causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. The brain releases endorphins (brain morphine) that cause euphoria and pleasure. It is called an Opioid compound (opium-like) produced by your Pituitary gland and hypothalamus. The affect, according to Alan Hirsch, M.D. lasts up to 12 hours. Exercise You remember the 12 benefits of smiling and laughing, right? How can you create them on demand and improve your health and longevity? a) Inner Child: if you see yourself making ridiculous faces in a mirror, your instinctive reaction is to smile and even laugh. b) We teach corporate executive and law students to fake (make- believe) smiling. Google: orbicularis oculi (face muscles) risorius muscles and zygomatic major. These three muscles cause your eyes to squint and face to raise sides into a smile. c) Mentally visualize (with strong emotion) a scene that you saw on TV that tickled your funny-bone. Set a mood of relaxing with a positive attitude of humor. Google: Funniest Videos. d) Get your significant other to tickle your feet (bottoms). Remember – two-minutes of tickling triggers up to 12 hours of endorphins and dopamine – the pleasure hormone. Would reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports, while your peers can hardly finish one, be a powerful competitive advantage – in your career? Contact us for a free detailed speed reading report. Now is the time. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Double Your Memory - Permanently. 2010-03-01 By H.Bernard Wechsler How to Double Your Memory Permanently Is Intelligence the other side of the coin of Working Memory? When kids and adults have poor working memory, are they automatically stupid? What’s “working memory”? Is it’s your brain’s ability to hold information and manipulate it mentally? Some examples please: how can we understand the idea in a sentence unless we remember the first half and combine it with the last half? What is the 5th letter of the English alphabet? You can hear (subvocalization) them in your mind and count them simultaneously. A-B-C-D-E and convert it to a number – 1-2-3-4-5. Aren’t you holding information and manipulating it in your cerebral cortex? If you have a poor, weak, untrained Working Memory – goodbye to learning, including answering baby-easy questions like – what is the 5th letter of the alphabet? Durham University, England (U.K.) Dr. Tracy Alloway, lead author tracked over 3 thousand students and discovered ten (10%) percent from ages 6 to 12 experience lousy and ineffective working memory. So what? It stunts their learning: reading, writing (typing), science and math. What’s left – recess? In England, they figure 500,000 kids cannot learn because of defective working memory and not low intelligence. If you can retrain their memory you turn dropouts into engineers, computer scientists, lawyers or just happy, productive citizens. Key point: working memory is not genetic and can be trained and improved. Change their self-image from under-achievers in school and you change their careers for life. Teachers Three minor changes in classroom teaching can improve weak working memory ( smaller storage capacity) up to 49%. 1. Repetition is the Mother of learning and working memory. Repeat instructions three (3) times. 2. Intentional speak in short, simples sentences. 3. Use small Chunks of information in each sentence. Do not combine ideas, separate them. The Alphabet Backwards Every time you exercise your brain there are firings of neurons and strengthening of neural networks. “The neurons that Fire together, wire together”, D.O. Hebb. Help me out: The last three letters of the English alphabet are ZYX (backwards). Next remember the abbreviation for West Virginia – WV and add to that the initials for Utah (UT). Read this silly sentence three (3) times and reduce it to an Acronym (first letters of each word). “Some Reporters Quickly Pee ON MLK (milk) JIHG (jig)” FED CBA. Stop: FED is Fed Ex and CBA is Cost-Benefit Analysis. Check it: ZYX-WV-UT-S-R-Q-P-ON-MLK-JIHG-FED-CBA. You got the 26 letters of ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. So what? You just exercised your Working-Memory and increased its storage capacity. The Roman (Latin) alphabet rules. Linking Verbs For Long Term Memory According to Mark Twain and neuroscientists, the brain (hippocampus memory storage) hates remembering numbers. Numbers are abstract, not concrete and hard to associate with other knowledge. The secret is to convert numbers into creative imagery – specifically Verbs. Our memory codes new ideas in Pictures and recalls best in Associations. Promise: if you take ten minutes to learn to convert numbers 1-10 to PEG words, you will have a Magic Bullet to double your long-term memory – permanently. It is a game and fun – B. Franklin said (again and again) “When you FINISH changing – you’re finished!” Learn and you trigger and change your inquiring mind. Verb Conversion 1. One is Running 2. Two is Throwing 3. Three is Peeing 4. Four is Scoring 5. Five is Fighting 6. Six is Striking (hitting or on-strike) 7. Seven is Sleeping 8. Eight is Mating 9. Nine is a big, fat Swine. 10. Ten is a Hen. 0. Zero is a Hero. Exxon On March 1, 2010 Exxon stock sells on the New York Stock Exchange for $65.30 at 1:12PM. The number 65 is tough for civilians to recall from long term memory storage. Use your imagination – mentally visualize the double XX for Exxon. Now see folks marching ‘on-strike’ (Six) at an Exxon station and a fight (Seven) breaks out with flying bricks and the cops. You will remember the scene permanently because it is active and has only two verbs – strike and fight. See, the PEG Words never change. Six is always Striking (someone) or On-Strike. Remember the picture of a striker taking her poster and Striking the boss over the head with it. Five is eternally the verb – fighting, fight or fought (pick one). The 30 cents requires your imagination to visualize ‘a peeing hero’. What was the price of Exxon at 1:12PM? See it now in your imagination - $65.30. For Inquiring Minds Only: Twenty (20) is Virginia (the state). Thirty (30) is Trio. Forty (40) is Quartet. Fifty (50) is Quintet. Sixty (60) is Sexy. Seventy (70) is September. Eighty (80) is October. Ninety (90) is November. One hundred (100) is Century. For Brilliant Stars only: how else can you remember (Peg Words) $65 for Exxon? Sixty (60) is Sexy and five (5) is Fighting. Imagine - women fighting in the ring. Repeat three times (3x) as you see a creative image of a Sexy Fight at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Sexy-Fighting is $65. What if the price tanks to thirty-nine ($39)? Thirty is Trio and nine (9) is a Swine. Mentally visualize a Threesome (trio) of huge Swine (pigs). The Peg Words are very visual and easy to recall - $39 is a trio of swine now and forever. Endwords Would it help your career to have a unique competitive advantage over your career peers? What if you can read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports, which your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a powerful, free, speed reading report that can double or triple your reading and learning speed. Time is of the essence for Inquiring Minds. Contact us now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are There Legitimate Gimmicks? 2010-02-26 By H.Bernard Wechsler Are there Legitimate Gimmicks, Tricks, & Illusions? When I lecture corporate executives or college seniors about the Ideomotor Effect using Ouija Boards, Dowsing for water (oil too) and Automatic Writing, they laugh and ask if I also believe in Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny? My background is law and that makes me a professional skeptic. Ideomotor Effect is getting in touch with your nonconscious mind for visceral (gut) reactions. Of course the response comes from your own body and mind, but not from our normal left-hemisphere thinking brain. The secret, gimmick and trick are in your right-brain and NOT in the magic of the Wizard in the Ouija Board or spirit in the dowser forked stick. Holistic Thinking “The secret of Intuitive Thinking is finding the strongest cue in your environment and ignoring the rest”, says Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer, researcher at Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany. Analysis has created technology and engineering and our Knowledge Economy. Intuitive Thinking has shown scientists what is worth researching in the first place. Success in the stock market, your career and personal relationships combines A.T. and I.T. - Analytical (statistics and charts) Thinking and Intuitive Thinking – (gut instinct). Together we have HOLISTIC Thinking, sort of like mind-and-body as a single entity. Examples of Gut Reaction (Intuition, Sixth-Sense) Question: How can we find the best school – the highest graduating rate, with lowest drop-out rate in New York City? Answer: Computerized statistics is the basis of Analytical Thinking, but takes time and software effort. Do it. Another approach is listening to your gut instinct which suggests finding the school with the HIGHEST daily attendance rate. Together we have Holistic Thinking. Question: Which stocks on the Dow Jones are the safest and most likely to rise in value in Bull markets, and not fall in a Bear market? Answer: Analytical Thinking will research past annual statistics and stock prices. Intuitive Thinking will find the public acceptance of the best companies. How? What are the most popular names that come to your mind (instinct) on the D-J index? Proctor-Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, Exxon, Amazon, and the Chase Bank. Guess what? They are steady moneymakers and maintain their value in adverse times. Been true for decades for 95% of them. Ouija Use the Ouija Board and start with an “As-If” possibility, if not a probability that you can communicate with your nonconscious mind. Einstein said, ‘Do your own Mind Experiment.’ Suspend your left (Judgmental) brain and go with the right-hemisphere – seat of your sixth-sense, intuition and gut instinct. Stupid But Do I use or vouch for the Ideomotor Effect? Imagine this: people who invest (gamble) on the future price of Oil Per Barrel. Options are a legitimate investment vehicle. The spread has been between $55 and $137 (7.30.08) per barrel. That’s a lot. Three lawyers I went to school with have a syndicate that buys daily options in barrels of oil on the New York Stock market. Yeah, they are skeptics, contrarians, and Doubting Thomases – but they make option buys (gamble) based on the stupid Ouija Board. They were up a few bucks in 2009 – allegedly $1.5 M in U.S. dinero. Yesterday a barrel of oil sold for $80 plus change. Ouija said it would drop two-bucks on 2.25.2010. It closed at $78. On-the-money. How many option contracts does it take to make $12K in one day? Tomorrow it is supposed to go …Forget it, you don’t believe in the stupid Ouija anyway, right? Based on Ouija (Yes-Yes! in French and German) the legal-beagles won the marbles 26 times out of 30 buying decisions both up and down in price. Do they care that you may think it is superstitious nonsense? No Scientific Proof? Not replicable by others? Do they care the winning advice comes from their own nonconscious right-hemisphere or a Persian Genii in a bottle? Nada, Nyet, Forgetaboutit. Want to follow the price of Oil Per Barrel on CNBC just for fun? Ouija says it will tank to $55 from over $80. The stupid Ouija Board says so, not me, so do NOT bet on it. Me? Holistic Thinking – A.T. plus I.T. Google: Gut Feelings (visceral, intuitive brain) experienced by General Practitioners Play a Substantial Role in The Diagnosis Reasoning Process (9.20.09 published by BMC Family Practice, Eric Stolper, lead author.) Russian DNA Discoveries Explain Human Intuition (Sixth-Sense) DNA reprogrammed by words and frequencies. www.fosar-bludorf.com index_eng.htm Crossed Earlobes Would you invest 90 seconds daily for 21 days to create a new habit that integrates (synchronizes) your left and right brains (hemispheres)? Why? It claims to raise your long-term memory up to 45%, and improves your learning speed up to 3x. It raises your career productivity, is baby-easy to do and produces quick demonstrable results. 1. Please move back in your seat at your desk. 2. Grab your Left EARLOBE between your Right Thumb and and Index Finger. Your arm crosses over your body. 3. Holding on to your left earlobe bend your body forward as far as you can toward your knees. You do ten (10) repetitions. 4. Time: maximum is one-minute. Why do it? Synchronize and integrate your left and right hemispheres. Google: Optic Chiasm, decussation (cross-over) 5. To double the power of this exercise – maintain a SMILE for the ten reps. 6. Switch: grab your Right EARLOBE between your Left Thumb and Index Finger. Do an arm cross-over. Do ten (10) bending repetitions. Maximum time is one-minute. It triggers your hippocampus, nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex for up to six hours. It is your personal brain energizer. Endwords: Crossed Earlobes is almost as ridiculous sounding as the Ouija. Do a mind experiment before you make a permanent judgment. Would owning a unique competitive advantage advance your career? How about reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free detailed report of speed reading for professionals. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@ speedlearning.org www. speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Do They Want? 2010-02-22 By H.Bernard Wechsler What Do They Want? In the Knowledge Economy, what is more important than verified information? Nada – problem solving and decision-making is built on the bedrock of facts, proof and double-blind evidence. Researchers at UCLA interviewed 400,000 incoming freshman from 1971 to 2009. “Which is your goal and purpose for going to college – to become very well off financially (career and money) or ‘developing a meaningful philosophy of life’?” In the 1970s 37% want ‘money-career-success’, while 73% respond, ‘Knowledge, thinking and cognition’ – that’s what College means to me. Again, 37% vs. 73%? In 2009 – 78% of incoming freshmen at UCLA reported “wealth and success” is their goal for going to college. Only 48% suggest they were there to get a “meaningful life philosophy”. Right – how times change, or is it that folks change? What Do Human Resources Departments Want? The Association of American Colleges asked HR departments coast to coast and internationally – what do you want us to teach students to make them corporate- career ready? Get this: 89% listed as number one – effective communication orally and in writing. Can the graduate work within a team? Does the new hire have clarity in what they say and write? 81% of hiring agents checked off “critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills”. 70% of HR directors want from college graduates: “the ability to innovate and be creative.” The new graduate starting his career lists as his primary goal – “Is this degree going to help me get an executive slot with a growing organization?” The second most common questions is: “Is my degree going help grow my career position?” Personnel interviewers often ask: “Can you clearly articulate in 90 seconds your area of mastery – what your degree enables you to do? How can your skills complement your new employer? Some HRs are very specific: ‘How would you write an advertisement for our company to market our latest ‘gizmo’? No more talk, show us your talent. “We don’t care that you are not interested in advertising – you may supervise advertising and PR folks in the future.” Show us a good ad. Conclusion: The totality of business and technical skills you graduate with, and your internships and summer experiences are often equal to the value of your Major field of study. Why? Division VPs, presidents and CEOs are well-rounded executives beyond their own area of expertise. Google: Debra Humphreys, The Association of American Colleges. Focus Groups Millions of dollars and thousands of hours are spend by companies annually listening to responses about their company and their products from paid consumers. “We want their critical comments, not complements. They help us choose the direction of advertising campaigns and future products and services to market.” Companies want feedback on the public’s perceptions, beliefs and opinions on the organization’s image, position among competitors, and consumer loyalty. Focus Groups have a history of at least 75 years. The father of ‘Focus Groups’ is Ernest Dichter, who coined the term in a 1938 book. He gave Exxon the logo – ‘Put a Tiger in Your Tank’. Henry Ford on Focus Groups Not everyone agrees that asking the consumer is so brilliant. If those folks were so smart – we would be working for them, not buying their day for a couple hundred dollars each. The hotshot advisors of Henry Ford ask him to fund a two-year million dollar Focus Group to tell his marketing department about why folks like cars. Ford turned it down flat. He reasoned differently. He was quoted as saying – “If I asked my customers what they wanted in the beginning – they would have all voted for a F-a-s-t-e-r horse.” “They never saw a motor vehicle so why would they want one? Only after they saw cars in use and maybe owned one, did they think of the internal combustion engine in terms of transportation. An entrepreneur has to teach the public what they want, before they know they want it.” Endwords Change 1.“To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete, and look ‘old fashioned’.” Richard Bucminister Fuller, designer. 2. “In times of rapid change experience could be your worse enemy. You have a vested interest in the past and status quo when you should be inventing the new present.” J. Paul Getty, 3. “When you are finished changing, you’re finished.” Benjamin Franklin, (Check the front of a $100 Richard) 4. “If you tried everything and cannot change something, change your own stubborn attitude and wait for folks to catch up with you.” Gene Sinise, financier Would It help your career by having a competitive advantage over your peers? Our graduates read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time their peers can hardly finish one. It leads to promotions and success. Contact us for a free Speed Reading article with the details for personal growth. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler, www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Associative-Conditioning? 2010-02-17 By H. Bernard Wechsler What is Associative-Conditioning And Who Cares? Have you checked out Mental Movies.com? Hold it – not yet. They use basic psychological laws to create new habits for success, health, and personal growth. It takes six-minutes daily and is corny, but it is the Real-Deal. I know you don’t believe in New Age rituals, me neither. Don’t be stubborn, you snooze, you lose. Mental Movies is the sleeper that breaks the rules. Disclaimer: we have absolutely NO financial affiliation with MM. We recommend them because their strategies are baby-easy to use, and produce results Gurus only dream about, but cannot duplicate in their students. Our graduates use and love it. For Inquiring Minds Only We have tested their three two-minute videos on executives, students, and our teachers. Results are so good it is scary. They use the Law of Association (linking) with the Principles of Behavior Modification – the Law of Conditioning - to produce new habits. Forget the fancy psychological terms – test it out – it is free. So what? It gives you the competitive edge for promotions, to maintain winning relationships, and attract large sums of dinero into your life. Suspend your skepticism and sarcasm; in this case being a Contrarian hurts. Videos Can you find six (6) minutes daily to view their program? Why should you? It takes 21 days to Condition (influencing your behaviors and thinking) your mind with their positive ideas about Health, Relationships, and Money. Mental Movies consists of simple photos, quick cuts linked to Command Affirmations. The background is rapid, rhythmic music. Sounds stupid? It creates new long-term memories in your own Neural Networks of experience and emotion. Each time you view the three two-minute videos (daily) you Fire your specific synapses and strengthen the connections. Google: “The neurons that fire together, wire together.” Donald O Hebb. Habit Most of you know ‘Habit is stronger than Reason’. It really means – our Right-Brain (pattern recognition, spatial skills & feelings) is more powerful than our thinking, reasoning Left-Hemisphere. Emotions always beat Will Power. Get this: “We ARE what we repeatedly DO (rites and rituals). Excellence, then, is NOT an Action, But a HABIT. Aristotle: 384-322 BCE Command Affirmations What is the number 1 voice your brain immediately accepts without question as correct and factual 100% of the time? Your parents? Spouse? Boss? Government? Media? The answer is of course your own familiar voice. It has its own link in your brain in the area called Fusiform Gyrus as a neural network program. Your Prefrontal Cortex (Executive Brain) consults your Fusiform Gyrus for planning, problem-solving and decision-solving. And Whatever you repeat aloud or read in your own words – repetitively – with feeling and emotion – is accepted by your Executive Brain (top-down) as true and correct. The operative word is repetition. Your brain is impressed with multiple impressions that are emotionalized. Seeing six minutes of videos daily register in your Prefrontal Cortex. In 21 days they create positive habits and change your behaviors and thinking. Examples 1. “I am Ageless and Unlimited.” 2. “I am Alert and Motivated.” 3. “I am Rejuvenated Daily.” 4. “Money flows Effortlessly to me.” 5. “I Attract Money Like a Magnet.” Repeat 1-5 three-times each with feeling as you view the videos. They appear on the screen linked to action photos, with rhythmic music. The secret is the repetition daily for six-minutes forming a Habit that changes your attitude, emotions, mood and beliefs. Stress In the last ten years – with the growth of the Internet – we have contacted a new area of Chronic Stress – Information-Overload. Admit it – you cannot keep up with the flow of knowledge in your field. Solution: ignore books, articles and reports. SpeedLearning If I tell you a tested and proven baby-easy strategy to Double your skill to read and remember, will you make it part of your life? It will improve your daily fortunes. Reasons: we live in the Knowledge Economy and we need a strategy to keep up with the flow of new information. This Speed Reading skill leads to promotions and financial success, together with personal satisfaction in your career. Credibility We helped Evelyn Wood – 1909-1995 (our business partner) graduate 2 million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents: Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon- Carter. The secret: Always read while underlining with a retracted pen – all the sentences on the page. Your movements across and down the page with the pen acts as a Pacer for your eyes to drive you to speed up your reading. Sound hard? Not. In the beginning it is annoying and you will want to surrender. Practice for 21 days for 15 minutes daily and it becomes a new power habit. Endwords Only Inquiring Minds will implement the speed reading strategy, just as I.M.s will go to Mind Movies.com to check out baby-easy positive habit creation for personal success. Conclusion: More oxygen for the rest of us Inquiring Minds, and none for them. Google: Edward Vogel, University of Oregon, “Filtering out useless (irrelevant) information helps us increase our capacity to remember important information.” Journal – Nature. How? Discover how to Skim-Scan-Screen long-term memory information. To get our free detailed report on speed reading – a mighty competitive advantage permitting you to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one - Contact us now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Five Universal Questions You Need 2010-02-14 By H.Bernard Wechsler Are There Five Universal Questions For Success? Homo sapiens are left tongue-tied and brainless under emotional tsunamis like failure-rejection-defeat (loss of love-occupation-health). When we most need input from our PreFrontal Cortex, Executive (Top-Down) Brain with reason-logic-meaning – there is Nada – Noting – Nobody Home. Have you ever experienced the feeling of worthlessness after a career termination, rejection in school, or the loss of an emotional relationship? We all have. To avoid Going-Postal or taking the next plane to your Seventy-Two dark-eyed Virgins in paradise – discover how to analyze-synthesize-and-summarize the Pros and Cons and your options. Wake Up your PreFrontal Cortex (Executive Brain – Top-Down) to plan, decide and choose your next healthy, appropriate behaviors. The sooner-the-better. How? Ask yourself power questions to inhibit your wild uncontrolled Emotions. Five Killer Questions – Write/Type The Answers 1. How can I Overcome this? 2. How must I think Differently? 3. What Opportunities am I not seeing? 4. What is an Alternative way of looking at this? 5. What Resources could assist me here? How do I remember the above five questions? O.D. (overdose) for Overcome & Differently and O.A.R. (oar in water) for Opportunities, Alternative and Resources. Baby easy after 2 minutes practice. Homo sapiens Are Physically And Mentally Drive by Two Life Forces a) we must pursue pleasure in our relationships, career and experiences. b) we must avoid pain in our relationships, career and experiences. “But I Have to Know Why She/He Doesn’t … me anymore.” “There aint no answer, there aint going to be any answer. There never has been an answer, and that the answer.” Gertrude Stein, writer Stop consulting your Right-Hemisphere (limbic emotional system) for planning, problem-solving and decision-making – that is the realm of our Left-Brain. You will only reinforce your feelings (right-hemisphere) of inadequacy, loss and failure. Dr. George Santayana Jorge was a professor who was educated, taught and wrote books at Harvard. His words have withstood the test of modern times – died in 1952 at 89 years old. Read and decide if his aphorisms are still relevant to our planet. 1. “Wisdom comes by Disillusionment.” You aint supposed to win ‘em all and never feel emotional pain. You R not a tree – move-on. 2. “Habit is stronger than Reason.” If at first we don’t succeed – maybe it is time to consider using a different, smarter strategy. 3. “Only the Dead have seen the end of war.” 4. “Value is judged by the extent to which they facilitate human happiness (pursuit of pleasure vs. avoidance of pain).” 5. “Those who do Not learn from history are Doomed to repeat, repeat and repeat it.” Question Which of the aforementioned five maxims are most quoted in the Middle East – by the Palestinians and the Israelis? Number # 5 is on the tongue and word processors of literate Israelis. Number # 3 wins the heart and souls of Palestinians. The former thinks of history as their teacher, while the latter contemplate Death as the ultimate end of war. Edwin Schrodinger, German physicist “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” Butterfly Effect “Small changes lead to massive reactions. Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” Edward Lorenz, MIT professor. New Neuroscience We (fools) seek, quick, simple answers (a-b-c, yes/no, agree/disagree), instead of using our Prefrontal Cortex to analyze and seek complex answers to tough problems. Google: Dr. Wendy Suzuki at NYU, Neuron: 2009 – page 920-30. Secret: Use Trial-And-Error to discover complex Learning solutions. For Inquiring Minds: trial-outcomes influence new learning by changing our neurons sensitivity to the Stimuli being learned. The brain remembers your Correct and Incorrect answers (trial-and-error) and keeps them in Long-Term Memory for future experience. It is how we “learn-from-experience” – right? It occurs in our Hippocampus, located in our Medial-Temporal Lobe. Scientists’ call it Associative Learning (linking new facts & events with old Declarative Memory). Homo sapiens learn from Listening (lectures and other hot air), Observation (we learn by Imitation as we watch others. Last and best of all for improving our brain is Trial-And-Error because it creates permanent new neural networks through active, working experience. V-A-K = Vision-Auditory-Kinesthetic (touch and feelings). Endwords To own a competitive advantage that helps produce career success like promotions, financial rewards and Personal Occupational Satisfaction, consider this: We offer a free detailed speed reading report to our readers. It is limited to 25 monthly. Contact us now if you have an Inquiring Mind for personal growth. See ya, Copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do You Have a PhD in Breathing? 2010-02-11 By Hal Bernard Wechsler Do You Have a PhD in Breathing? Einstein made the next three comments at family gatherings. None has been previously reported. Proof? I heard them with my own two little ears at the time. You decide if they are humorous, sarcastic, or just ironic. 1. “Hard work never killed anybody, but still it is a risk.” 2. “Your Mother taught you Honesty is the best policy. But your attorney says Insanity is your best defense.” 3. “Most of our family has a strong Will, but a weak Won’t.” A second cousin, once removed (another clown) responded – “I have discovered in America I am a Nobody. All Americans know – ‘Nobody is Perfect’. Conclusion – I must be perfect!” Al giggled at the syllogism. The second cousin continued, “In Germany I was told by my elders I was Indecisive. Here in America I have had time to consider this critique of my character. Now I am not so sure.” Aha! Family humor lives. Exhaling Until recently I have given a total of two-minutes of thought out of a lifetime of breathing, to inhalation and exhalation. Today – “I am Not so sure!” Magda Proskauer, M.D. “Most of us have an inability to fully exhale.” Have you ever thought about? Me neither. She explained, Exhaling releases stress physically and emotional baggage mentally. So what Dr. Proskauer said, Inhaling requires tension upward and a movement of our ribs and shoulders. She pointed at our Diaphragm as the key to inhaling. But exhaling requires Letting-Go! This requires a physical relaxation and a mental release of negative feedback. It is harder than it looks and requires conditioning exercises. How Come Civilized Homo sapiens often hold-their-breath throughout the day when they experience Information-Overload, anxiety, angst and chronic Stress. Please Take Notice: when we are experience Emotional fears, it triggers our Brain’s limbic system. When we engage in Self-Pity, Self-Importance and fears, we go on autopilot and stop inhaling normally. Guess what? We also hold our breath longer and do not exhale completely. Bad for body and mind. So What Your posture and facial expression affect your body and mind. Get this one: how we SIT at our computer all day NEGATIVELY influences human breathing, health, well being and even longevity. Don’t laugh it off – read this partial list. a) shortens the muscles in anterior (front) of body. b) inhibits long-term memory in hippocampus. c) reduces learning effectiveness (need more oxygen). d) reduced cardiac blood flow. e) pressures your kidneys. f) slows nervous and immune systems. g) screws up your enteric nervous system (intestinal brain). Secret Health and long-life require an ERECT SPINE while seated at your computer. Your posture must be totally relaxed, not bent over like a Charles Dickens bookkeeper. 2-Minute Exercise 1. Stand up and look ten feet ahead of you for this two (2) minute exercise or do it sitting facing your computer looking forward. 2. Interlace the fingers of both hands flat and cover your navel (bellybutton) a/k/a Umbilicus. You are now aware of your Diaphragm located below your lungs (largest respiratory muscle). Diaphragm contracts (flattens) during Inhalation, creating a vacuum and causing your chest cavity to expand and suck Oxygen into your lungs. Exhalation causes your diaphragm to relax and forces air out of your lungs. Right? 3. Take a d-e-e-p diaphragmatic inhalation slowly counting 1 to 5. 4. Stop and hold your full inhalation for a count of one-one-thousand to five-one-thousand. It is easy and focuses your attention. 5. Slowly exhale all of the air from your lungs by pushing outward at the end of your exhalation to squeeze it all out. 6. Repeat this exercise five (5) times for best effect. 7. To double the effect on body and mind – create and maintain a side-to-side SMILE on your face during the entire exercise. Breaths Per Minute Normal healthy folks have six (6) breaths per minute, each lasting ten (10) seconds. During sickness or fever breathing increases up to twelve (12) breaths per minute. Infants have up to 44 breaths per second. Inquiring Minds need to know: the slower your breathing, the higher level of blood Oxygen. That’s good. When learning or testing we need an additional 10% of Oxygen in blood, raising it to about 32% of total supply. Our 3-pound brain requires about 22% of all inhaled Oxygen and 33% during stress including learning and testing. Endwords 89% of the adult U.S. population spends a minimum of three-hours in front of their computer daily. Humans are conditioned by whatever they repeat daily for a minimum of 21 days. The Conditioning goes on autopilot and becomes almost hardwired. The best conditioning for health, longevity and success in your career is Self- Conditioning. Doing this two-minute exercise daily at your computer for 21 days can improve your breathing delivering more blood oxygen to your brain. If you want greater success in your career, have a competitive advantage over your peers. If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports while your competitors can hardly finish one, would that help your career? Contact us and ask for our free speed reading report. It is that important. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is Listenting The Secret Weapon? 2010-02-08 By H.Bernard Wechsler Is Listening The Secret to Helping Others Improve Their Productivity? How many times do we want to talk things over with a Silent Partner, compared to hearing what he/she thinks or knows? Is silence Platinum, Golden or Silver? Neuroscientific research has proof. I heard – if you give a JackAss a Harvard education, all you end up with is a SmartAss. Law school degree too? Easy come, Easy Go You read the front-page stories of your favorite newspaper or Internet news site, and 10 minutes after you finish, you cannot recall the gist of the articles. Unless you activate your PreFrontal Cortex to kick-in, your reading articles, reports, or books does NOT turn information into long-term memory. But, there is a solution and Inquiring Minds want to know – how. Feedback Loop When we listen to someone explain his or her problem, looking for a practical solution, we really believe they came to us because we are a genius. We just cannot wait for them to shut up so we can steer them to the obvious answer they are too blind and dumb to see. Wait. We do not want to dominant the conversation, so we just keep asking them questions – relevant ones they are too involved to ask themselves. No good (N.G.) it does not help them as adults and did not help them when Mom or Dad did it when they were kids. They do not want or need a feedback loop to figure out the answer, just a positive, smiling look on your (listener) face, and a nod or two at the right time or place. Secret 1. When we mentally hear (subvocalization, Internal Dialogue) our own thinking about solving a problem, it produces sharper comprehension, better reasoning and long-term memory. 2. Hold it. If we really understand the problem and search for a practical solution, explaining the details of the challenge and our reasoning to a second party, increases discovering a successful strategy by up to 76%. The secret is NO external Feedback. They want to hear themselves think. Silence by the listener is the secret. Mom, I’d rather do it myself. 3. If we explain OUT LOUD our understanding of the problem and our strategy for a successful answer – and there is no one around to hear us. The feedback is personal (auto-didactic = Self-Taught) and improves our comprehension, concentration and consolidation for our long-term memory retention. Important. Read it once more, please. 4. If we are alone and seek a solution or use another for a Silent springboard – and write a 3-4 sentence explanation and summary, we improve our problem and decision-making skills up to 62%. Why? You have involved the Big Three Senses: V-A-K (vision- auditory-kinesthetic (tactile, touch, feeling). Google: Vanderbilt University, Dr. Bethany Rittle-Johnson. We tested this listening strategy on executives and students and the results indicate a 62-76% improvement. Is this strategy worth learning? Please take notice: when folks explain their understanding and solution to a peer, the learner (discoverer) develops self-confidence to use and APPLY this strategy in the future for similar problems. Moms And Executive Thinking See if this headline means something to you. Moms Influence How Children Develop Advanced Cognitive Functions. Google: University of Montreal and U of Minnesota, Dr. Annie Bernier, 2.08.2010. Hold it. Our Executive Functions control Impulsive behaviors, need for immediate gratification, problem-solving, learning from experience, decision-making, long- term memory, and mental flexibility to reach our goals. Important for success? The neuroscientific research indicates: how Mom answers a request for help (accurately and timely), encourages use of personal solution strategies, and shows respect for their children thinking using trial and error. Mom conditions our Executive (top-down) Thinking for our adult career experiences. Guess what? You can ignore this if you do not own an Inquiring Mind or make it part of your PFC (Executive Brain). Ask yourself these five questions and write down the answers. a) How can I best OVERCOME this problem? b) How must I think DIFFERENTLY about this obstacle? c) What OPPORTUNITIES am I not seeing here? d) What is a practical ALTERNATIVE way at looking at this? e) What RESOURCES can help me solve this challenge? How can I remember to remember these five questions? Answer: O.D. (OverDose) + O.A.R. (moves the rowboat) Opportunities – Alternative – Resources. Endwords Google: Abraham Maslow, said in 1944: If all you have is a hammer, wherever you look, you see nails (sticking up). Homo sapiens are kings of adaptation, in Africa we are dark-skinned, and in Alaska we wear furs. Got a hammer? If at first you don’t succeed, hide the evidence of failure, and say the test was irrelevant anyway. If at first you fail and fail again, maybe you are the Standard Deviation to set the Mean. You should be appreciated for your contribution. Have you ever noticed that wrong-numbers are always home? “First get your facts; you can distort them at your leisure.” M. Twain Would you be better off if you had the skill to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time it takes your peers to hardly finish one? Those with unique competitive skills win raises and promotions. Ask us for our free detailed report on speed reading – but only if you are an Inquiring Mind and need to succeed massively. See ya, copyright © 2010, H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How Different Are Lefties? 2010-02-03 By H.Bernard Wechsler How Different Are Lefties? Are folks hand-eye-foot Dominant? Yes, but more important, handedness influences our decisions on good or bad, clever or ordinary, skillful or clumsy, and positive or negative. Judgments often hang on our Attitudes, Aptitudes, and only third, Intelligence. Get this: left-handed people associate whatever is on their Left side as good, smart and correct, while the majority (90%) Righties, identify the Left with death, females, clumsiness, and negativity. Weird, but it is based on neuroscience research released February 2 2010. So What – Who Cares Right-handed folks are left-hemisphere Dominant, and Lefties right brained. It plays out when we make purchases (more from the right side), hire people (seated to our right), see and hear (believe) sharper by our right eye and right ear. Only 10% of us are lefties, and 1% are ambidextrous (mixed handed), but with a 6.8 billion-world population, and 308,610,0000 in the U.S. - 10% of the U.S. is 30 million, and 10% internationally is 600 million folks. We run into lefties constantly. And Our beliefs are affected by conceptual (ideas, thoughts) associations and show up in our language and customs. Fact: the word dexterous - meaning skillful, clever, and smart is derived from < Latin: Dexter for Right-Handed. Sinister: meaning evil, bad, and dishonest, has an etymology (history) meaning Left-Handed. Prejudice in language becomes tangible in relationships. On a Nonconscious level we favor things associated with the Right, and distrust and fear stuff related to our Left. Remember, it is not a conscious bias, it runs on autopilot. It is a habit, a way of thinking and acting from our autonomic nervous system. Who Says so Researchers at the University of Granada and Dr. Daniel Casasanto, Stanford University confirmed the differences in thinking between lefties and righties. We tend to favor our personal hand dominance and abhor the opposite handedness. An article in Pediatrics, a medical journal by Imperial College London reports on Eight thousand kids of which only 87 were ambidextrous (mixed). Followed for decades, these children showed a higher incidence of ADHD (Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder), and language and learning problems. They were impulsive, jumpy and inattentive, leading to difficulties in learning. How Come Our sensory-motor experiences on a daily basis (hand dominance) exert a super powerful influence on how we think and form beliefs. It applies to both abstract ideas like kindness, intelligence and honesty, and concrete ideas including choosing a candidate for a job or making purchases at a mall. Inquiring Minds want this knowledge because it gives us a competitive edge in understanding personal relationships, business decisions and financial choices. Knowing how people react permits us to influence, persuade and convince smarter. Integrating Left And Right Hemispheres We are most creative and exercise our reasoning when we use both sides of our brain. Communication between our left and right hemispheres are signaled (transferred) through our Corpus Callosum. It is our brain switchboard. Remember – our brain uses Association (links between long-term knowledge and new ideas) to learn and remember. It communicates through our senses – Vision-Auditory-Kinesthetic (tactile). Two-Kinesthetic Baby-Easy Strategies If you want to power your thinking, learning and memory – use all three (3) senses simultaneously – seeing-hearing-feeling (touch). Do you remember the Air Guitar – make-believe hand movements in tune to the music you heard? When you trace in the air certain symbols (B-9) for the power word Benign (good, healthy, successful) you are integrating (synchronizing, alignment, organizing) your left and right brains to work optimally. How 1. Stand up if you are alone – the act of standing is healthier than sitting because it exercises muscles and circulates oxygen and glucose (energy). It still works while seated at your desk. 2. Place your left thumb up against your left index (pointing) finger about 12 inches in front of your face at eye-level. You are going to do the same exercise with your right thumb and right index finger. 3. Simultaneously maintain your face in a wide smile while Air Tracing the symbol B-9 (Benign). 4. Mentally think – while smiling and producing B-9 in five (5) repetitions the following Command Affirmation: “Every day in every way I am experiencing a Benign (B-9) body and mind, and feeling Better- and Better on a daily basis ad infinitum.” 5. The entire exercise requires two-minutes. A total of 5 reps. The size of the symbol – B-9 is one-foot tall, executed by your left-fingers, then right fingers, and finally using both hands simultaneously. Air-Trace the B-9 twelve inches in front of your face, and about one-foot tall. This is a Kinesthetic exercise combining with Vision and Hearing your own voice aloud or hearing it mentally. It is a powerful sensory experience for learning. 6. Once a day is good, it is only 2-minutes, twice-a-day is excellent to imprint this Command Affirmation on your Nonconscious mind for success in whatever you do. Air-Tracing the Infinity Symbol Another powerful Kinesthetic exercise for integrating left and right brain is Air-Tracing the large symbol for Infinity. It looks like a reclining number 8. Same instructions – one-foot tall and 12 inches in front of your face at eyelevel. This is a two-minute exercise that links the specializations of your left and right brain. Get this: you start with your Left hand (thumb next to index finger) and produce a two-foot wide trace of the sleeping number 8 (infinity symbol). Smile and repeat the Command Affirmation as you Air Trace the symbol. Repeat with your Right Fingers (five repetitions), and finally Center your Air Tracing the infinity (reclining #8) symbol. Left-Right-Centered. Twice a day is the beginning of a habit uniting (integrating) both hemispheres. Your learning, memory and creativity will improve up to 35% within 14 days. You will experience a more powerful mind particularly in your career activities. Endwords Would it help your career to have a competitive advantage of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Contact us for a free article on speed reading. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Human Nature, And What is Not? 2010-02-01 By H.Bernard Wechsler What is Human Nature And What is Not? Whatever is reinforced - improves. Praise raises the probability of a behavior being repeated. Two rules govern human existence: the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain (punishment). How? One is called Operant (operating) Conditioning and the second, Behavior Modification (B-Mod). Wait. We want to influence, persuade and convince others to modify their behavior to favor us, and we want to improve our own behaviors for personal growth in health, success and better relationships, right? Both require Conditioning and B-Mod. Stress All of us react to stress on a daily basis even if it is just annoying traffic driving to work. How we respond and adapt to instances of stress in our environment affects our health, longevity, state of mind, mood and attitude. In other words our lives. Stress is the basis for the Flight or Flight Syndrome – it is an alarm the body and mind sound for survival. Stress is from Latin meaning to draw tight. Any physical or emotional act from seeing an unexpected snake crawling by, to nasty words from your peer at the office - trigger Fight-or-Flight. Inquiring Minds need to know: stress triggers your Sympathetic Nervous system (adrenaline – epinephrine) and your heart speeds up, blood pressure rises and you get ready to fight back or run the other way. Stress is overcome by your Parasympathetic Nervous System producing Acetylcholine – the relaxation neurotransmitter. Stress overload appears to open the body and mind to stroke, heart disease and cancer – the Big Three of an early demise. Self-Hugging If you use this baby-easy exercise twice-daily for one-minute each, you condition your body and mind to overcome Stress. 1. Stand up if you are alone or sit at your desk if you are among others. We do not want your peers to believe you are strange. 2. Wrap your arms around yourself in a tight Hug. Aw come on, you have seen folks hug. This time grab your right shoulder with your left hand and vice versa with your right hand and squeeze. 3. Hold the hug for ten seconds and release, arms down. 4. Do another three Hug repetitions for ten seconds each. 5. Simultaneously create a teeth revealing smile by intentionally pulling both sides of your mouth tight. Feel it in your throat and neck. Yes, create a fake smile on your face for as long as you self-hug. Why Self-Hug And Fake-Smile The act of self-hugging is a psychologically power behavior. How do you feel when you give or receive a hug from another? It changes you state of mind and mood immediately, right? Your body releases endorphins the Pleasure hormone and for the next three-hours you body and mind replay the positive emotional experience. Get this. Your body and mind do not know the difference between self-hugging and being hugged by a loved one or friend. Proof? Neuroscientific research using a fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery). No difference, all the same hormones, neurotransmitters, immune cells, and enzymes are activated. Your body and mind does not make any distinction between genuine (real) Smiling and Fake-Smiling created by your will power (consciousness). So what? When you smile you change your facial expression, which affects your body-mind response to move from static or negative to powerfully positive. If you do the Self-Hugging and Make-Believe Smile twice-a-day for 21 days you create healthy Self-Conditioning and a new Habit. Google: “Neurons that Fire together, Wire together” – in a neural nework. Donald O. Hebb. So What Fact: there are over 400 specific human behaviors that we all own. The first is not wanting to die – self-preservation and survival. Hold it. The mind can overcome this primary directive by choosing suicide, right? We come hardwired (genetic and instinctual) with common ways of thinking, feeling and acting, but the mind (consciousness) can change them. How? Conditioning and habits. Conditioning starts by our parents at birth, and continues by society – peers, teachers, and the media throughout life. How? A behavior followed by a consequence that modifies the probability of that same behavior - recurring in the future. If you call Mom and get aggravating complaints about why you never call or laughter, joy and positive feedback, which stimulus modifies your behavior for the future? Leading Instincts Moving right along after a) Survival and Security is b) Territoriality – the stuff we own is as precious to us as our left arm. How about c) Sex – it has top priority and is biologically driven to maintain our species. d) Aggression is the power instinct of competition for everything from mates to war. e) Hierarchy and f) Rituals are power instincts that motivate, influence and persuade folks to live in a particular culture and society. Freedom – the best governments both protect and leaves their citizens alone. They are based on the authority we give by elections in a democratic society. Voting is a ritual. Hierarchy is the chain of command, pecking order and where we rank rank. The Principal – Teacher – Student, and CEO - Division VP – Executive – Staff. Consider the authority we give to the Police, Judge and President. That is hierarchy in action. Rituals are procedures, rites, ceremonies and customs. Would you even consider not saluting the Flag on hearing the national anthem? How about arriving at your office at 10am instead of 9 in the morning because you feel like it? Conditioning And Habit The human brain is designed to learn by Association of something we know and have experienced in our environment, with a new idea or skill. “If this – then that!” Cause and effect, stimulus and response. Our memory operates by pictures, mental imagery and mental movies. Habit is second nature, and according to William James Harvard Psychologist, ten-times stronger. Conditioning is based on Behavior Modification (B-Mod) operating on the environment. Just remember – when a behavior is followed by a consequence, it modifies our probability to repeat this rewarded behavior in the Future. Two kinds of stimuli: reinforcing or extinguishing stimuli. The Good do good because good is rewarded more than doing bad - is rewarded. Endwords Students and executives are being tested all the time. If you have a unique competitive advantage over your peers, you often win all the marbles in your career. Would reading and remembering three (3) books articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one - be a career changer? Ask us for our free speed reading report to discover how to be a power learner. www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are You Sedentary or Active? 2010-01-27 By H.Bernard Wechsler Is There a Prize For The Sedentary Life? Do you know the name for that little gizmo that meters (measures) the amount of walking you do? Anyway my pal Joe Barber (not Joe the barber) decided to track how much normal exercise he gets after getting off the bed in the AM to hitting it again in the nocturne. Fact: folks under the age of 24 walk an average of 10 miles daily. That is 20,000 steps daily, including jogging, workouts on the treadmill, and ordinary walking. Fact: Homo sapiens age 30 to 50 using the gimmick around their waist produce an average of 10,000 steps or 5 miles daily. Fact: Joe Barber, lawyer extraordinaire, and his firm’s rainmaker (big money producer), recorded a total of 2,500 steps daily. That is about 1 mile plus daily. So What Oh yeah, they call it a Pedometer or Step Counter. Some of us are on-the-go daily, we call them Active, their opposite are Sedentary, and finally Joe Barber who is a slug, snail or maybe a corpse. Couch-potato is a nice metaphor creating a comic book picture in your mind. In Victoria, Australia, David Dunstan, at Baker Heart Institute conducted a serious research project on the moving around habits of 8,800 folks they followed for 6 and a-half years. All were over age 24 and conditioned to watch tv, live on the computer, and play videos for amusement. Would you believe there is a scientific correlation between the hours in front of the screen and death from cardiovascular disease. You are not going to remember the percentages, but cashing in from heart disease was over 18% higher, and cardiovascular – 80% greater than 2 hour tv viewers. A lot of difference. How Much Those of the 8,800 who spent at least 4.5 hours and up in front of the tv were the winners – they got to the autopsy finish-line first. Not funny? Joe B recorded 6.5 hours on tv and another 6 hours word-processing or surfing the Internet. Did you know Autopsy comes from Greek and means - seeing with your own eyes? It is an analysis after something has been done – including the cause of one’s demise. After Joe revealed his lousy score, I put on the Pedometer and looked at it again when I removed my shoes at about 10pm. My word of honor – it had not moved. That could make one nervous-from-the-service (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). You can Google the Ozzy research at January 11, 2010 online version of Circulation, a medical journal of the American Heart Association. Look, articles, reports and books about being sedentary have nagged you and me (Sedentary < Latin for Sitting) since we were 12 years old, to date. We just get annoyed and get more resistant about being told what to do, right? This time I took notes about how much I move around after waking. For me, not you, it was a revelation. I go from bed to the breakfast table where I sit and dissect the financial news, entertainment reports, and what the President said about the economy. Then I drive to the office – sitting of course – and move to my computer to check email. The hours move along to sitting at lunch…Well, you get it. Back home, there is tv, a nice movie or two. So What, I Feel Good The husband is the last to know. It is what is occurring to our blood sugars and blood fats, and the 63,000 miles of our blood vessels. Is there anything sluggards like me can do not to become fodder for medical students studying anatomy? Yeah, And it is Baby-Easy Would you invest two-minutes every 90 minutes for survival, health and longevity? Breathe, Stretch, Shake and Let-It-Go! Look, if you wear the Pedometer and walk around your environment 10,000 steps or 5 miles daily, you are in the long-living minority. You got it knocked. But, I am not going to do that because it is too sweaty, and I am a member of the snail family. What to do? Once every one and a half hours stop! Take two-minutes to get your oxygen and blood sugar (glucose) into vascular circulation. Do your Alveoli (gas exchange sacs in your lungs releasing CO2 and absorbing Oxygen) a favor. 1. Stand up – that is a novelty in itself. 2. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath and hold it for five (5) seconds, and slowly release it – three-times. You just awoke 300 million Alveoli to spit out Carbon Dioxide and take in their share of new Oxygen. 3. Raise your arms over your head and s-t-r-e-t-c-h as far as they go without hitting the wall or your computer. Keep them out- stretched and lift one leg in front of you and like a crane stand on a single leg. Move the leg forward and back 3 reps. Now switch and do the same with the other leg. Put some energy in it. 4. Legs down and begin to shake your upper body like it is a bowl of Jello. Feel it in your bones. Now focus on your lower body and shake your posterior, hips and feet like a mechanical mix-master. How long? Would a total of 90 seconds kill you? 5. Now give yourself a Command Affirmation to release stress & rid your body of Cortisol – the stress hormone. “Every Day in every way, I am experiencing a B-9 (benign) body-and-mind, and feeling better and better.” And end it by Slamming down on a desktop and saying aloud, “Let-It-Go! Let-It-Go! and Let-It-Go!” Time Is Up I started this Breathe-Stretch, Shake, And Let-It-Go! exercise a total of 30 days ago and offered it to a group of corporate executives as an experiment. Forget me, they universally reported weight-loss and greater productivity. They find two-minutes once every hour and a half fits into their busy schedule, so they do it. 65% reported a longer Attention-Span and deeper concentration. We asked how many would continue a second month – it is totally voluntary. Over 90% voted to overcome sedentary (sitting) behavior by triggering – Breathe-Stretch, Shake And Let It Go. There were no fatalities from over-exercising. Endwords Did you know that laughter increases your blood circulation and speed of flow? Research indicates consistent smiling and occasional belly laughs lower the risk of cardiovascular problems significantly. Second law of anatomy. When you laugh you exercise your stomach, legs, arms, and even face. Get this: 30 seconds of laughing produces one-hour of Acetylcholine of stress release. How do you get yourself to laugh? Answer – fake it by making funny faces in the mirror till your burst into a smile – laughter follows. Oh yeah, laughter raises your Immune System level, and it reduces pain by releasing Endorphins – the pleasure hormone. Contact us for a free speed reading report to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports while your peers can hardly finish one. It works quickly to give you a competitive advantage for promotions and financial rewards. See ya, copyright © 2010, H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do You Use Your Kinesthetic Sense? 2010-01-25 By H.Bernard Wechsler How Your Kinesthetic Sense Integrates Left & Right Brain Joe Barber was a rainmaker law partner; we worked in the same firm. The guy earned north of two million for each of the last ten years. It said so in an internal memo. Age 43, a family guy and an adept (expert) at entertainment contracts for the rich and famous, I avoided him like bedbugs in my mattress. We had lunch once a month because he was assigned as my office mentor. When they handed out small talk and a smiley face he was absent with the flu. At our first meeting I listed neurology (brain science) and Mudras (Zen hand gestures) as hobbies and philosophy. No reaction. Maybe fourteen months later he summoned me to his office. He asked my medical advice. Desperation is a strange motivator. Please Take Notice, I am not a people-person and mind my own business. Disclaimer – Do NOT Listen to Me. Disclaimer: like any good lawyer I started off by telling him I did NOT have any mastery, knowledge or experience in medicine. Zen was just a diversion, exercise and amusement. Go see your medical physician. Me? I couldn’t cure myself of hiccups. He said he knew that but wanted my input anyway, he had visited all manner of specialist and alternative medicine practitioner. Helplessness and fear lead him to his Mentee (me) of all people. Four more excuses did not get me a pardon. Symptoms Insomnia, panic attacks, pain in both feet when attempting to stand. Walking was hyper-painful after the first step. His eyes were watering way too often. Weak attention span and loss of comprehension was rendering his law practice uncomfortable and the source of executive comment. Stress chimed in too. Stalling For Time I recommended three thick books on the nervous system, six articles on Google and some illustrations of Buddhist Mudras (Indian hand gestures). Between us, I was hoping he would mark me down as a crackpot and go find a medical solution. Nada, he started taking Zen lessons and began to converse with me on his daily progress. I really hated it. Considered resigning, but the gelt was too good. Maybe he would just die. He was totally recovered from his symptoms after eight weeks and I was his designated Guru (spiritual mentor) thereafter. Disclaimer Again I am going to let you in on two (2) discoveries (not solutions) I have made through brain-science and Buddhist ancient medicine. Do NOT believe a word of it. Affirmations You can help run your body and mind by self-conditioning (auto-suggestion) or you can surrender to hetero-conditioning – by the world. Who? Parents, teachers, tv, society, culture, your environment, peers, the government and management. Call on Dr. Phil for your mind and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta for your habeas corpus. I Find When you use daily repetition of a Command Affirmation for at least five minutes, once on awakening, and again on going to bed, you condition your body and brain to activate nonconsciously, what you are drumming into it consciously. What for? Healing, health and longevity, personal relationships (motivate-persuade-convince), and career success including self-confidence, state of mind and deep beliefs. Who says so? Me, myself and my shadow based on personal experience in ways too wild and ridiculous to set in print. If you want the scientific method, citations and double-blind research, N.A. (not available) here. Secrets To make Command Affirmations work you must use V-A-K (Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic) senses. You must emotionalize the goal by feeling a previous memory sensation of super success. I conjure up how I felt on hearing I passed the Bar Exam on the first crack. Gives me a high, which translates to the Command Affirmation. More. You must visualize yourself DOING your desired goal, not watching a movie or video as a performance. See yourself moving around your new waterfront, paid-for home, throwing a party. Now go to the mailbox and read your own name in capital letters the mailbox.. Be the actor performing the actions, not a passive viewer. Command Affirmation “Every day in every way on this 24th of January 2010, I am experiencing a Benign body-and-mind, and feeling better-and-better, through accelerated healing and pure spirit (infinite intelligence and cosmic consciousness) on a daily basis ad infinitum.” Repeat: read or say the aforementioned Command Affirmation three (3) more times silently (mentally) or aloud - slowly and with emotion. Here’s the killer – you must also trigger your Kinesthetic sense (motion plus touch – muscle memory). K requires your use your left and right fingers to TRACE in the Air the non-verbal symbol – B-9 (benign) in order to link your Visual and Auditory senses. Benign means good, benevolent, and favorable and is the opposite of Malignant – meaning bad, deadly, and destructive. Benign is a power-word! Your job is to use your left and right index fingers and thumbs (simultaneously) like an Air Guitar to create a capital letter B, plus the number 9. The reinforcement by your Mudra (finger gestures) to seeing and hearing the power word – “Benign”, activates your entire Nonconscious Mind. “Benign”-is-a-power-symbol. How Make believe there is a blackboard at your eye level. Point - using your Thumb and adjoining (linked) Index finger as if you are holding a long piece of chalk, and produce the symbols B-9, B-9 and B-9. Where? In the air - Air-Write “B-9” because “Benign” is a power-word to trigger your Nonconscious mind and body & mind). Baby-Easy Solutions Using Nonconscious Mind Just before you fall asleep – you can tell 60 seconds before you start to Snooze – repeat these five (5) questions (or any one or more of them) to your Nonconscious which never sleeps and works 24/7. On awakening intuitions will arrive with potential solutions. Key Words: remember O.D. (overdose) to trigger 1. Overcome 2. Differently, and OAR (for rowing) to trigger 3. Opportunities 4. Alternative 5. Resources. 1. How can I OVERCOME this problem, (challenge and dilemma)? 2. How can I think DIFFERENTLY about this problem? 3. What OPPORTUNITIES am I overlooking? 4. What is an ALTERNATIVE way to view this problem? 5. What RESOURCES could I use to win all the marbles? Endwords: If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that give you a competitive advantage for career success and more dinero? Contact us for our free speed reading report. Will it improve your life? You decide. Google: Donald O. Hebb: “neurons that fire together, wire together.” copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org Do Five Streams of Consciousness Run us? 2010-01-22 By Hal Bernard Wechsler Are There Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us? You probably know Home sapiens come with a switchboard between our left and right brain to process new sensory information. Remember its name and you win a prize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A sessions with one or more of our five (5) Section Chiefs in order to problem-solve make important decisions, reading and thinking. CC The Corpus Callosum translates what the right hemisphere learns through pattern recognition (spatially), how we feel emotionally (intuition and viscerally – gut reaction), and our Nonconscious instincts – hardwired from our genes. CC text messages all this nonverbal information (facial expressions, motives and feelings) to our left hemisphere (brain) for analysis, synthesis and summarizing (thinking) for problem solving and decision-making, planning, speaking and remembering. CC works both ways – information from left-brain to right too. Why? To talk out potential solutions in our Mind’s Ear using mental movies, past conditioning, together with past human and environmental experiences. Hear Them When You Read, Listen, Think Call it Self-Talk, Internal Dialogue, and Stream of Consciousness or brain chatter, this the fundamental core for all our judgments about people, ideas and our own behaviors. These Interior Monologues creates our beliefs, states of mind, and working behaviors to run our lives, relationships and experiences. Dialogues These are the same still, small voices we hear when we are reading and thinking, listening and writing. When does self-talk shut up? Dreaming? Nah. Meditating? It snoozes 50% and comes back stronger. At any given hour, one of five voices is Dominant while the other four are hanging our in the background waiting to put in their two-cents. There is a continuous Conflict and Resistance between these five War Lords causing anxiety, depression and stress, or pleasure, relaxation, happiness and joy. It is all about human conditioning. Conditioning From birth to death, specifically ages one to eight, humans are being conditioned (changed, trained, educated) by our parents, siblings, peers, experience and the environment about how to think, react, and feel. The media, your relatives, and your company (organization) all have a vested interest in how you act, vote, perform and use your brain. They use your Vision-Auditory-Kinesthetic senses to train you to do it their way. The environment and your experiences use Cause and Effect, (a dog bite, hand on the stove) and Stimulus/Response (nonverbal facial expressions or a raised voice) to remember how to react in a future encounter. We are being programmed (conditioned) 24/7 by our society (culture) with their code to control our Central Processing Unit. The environment and our relationships are in on the game, but only 5% of us even know it is occurring. A silent conspiracy of control of our nervous system (brain and spinal cord) is the result. Robot The origin of the word is Czech for slave and Latin for agreement, to-say (what I want). Remember these other words for the human condition: bionic ($5million man), cyborg (cybernetic organism), golem (mechanical zombi), android, and automaton. Are we puppets? Wait. Conditioning (self-programming and hetero-programming) is the law of Association of Pleasure or Pain (rewards or penalties) to create specific behaviors, attitudes, states of mind, reactions and habits. It is their power over us. We can condition/program ourselves for personal growth, success, learning and improved skills. You and I can change from a frowning, procrastinator to a smiling and happy producer. Society, your significant other and management can use rewards and penalties to keep us in a their favorite box. Stimulus and Response. How? 1. Fear Reactions (Google: amygdala – seat of emotions) are stimulus and response by past conditioned experiences. Our amygdala has memories of past experiences and their results. Are we Hardwired by the past? Indeed. Can we change? It is also called conditioning. 2. Attachments: love of family, satisfaction with career, familiarity. 3. Resentments: we hate who the government tells us is our latest enemy. We do not question or care why we have negative feelings to countries or groups including races. It feels comfortable. 4. Prejudices: 90% of us vote like our father, marry partners who look like our mother or father, and think like our economic class. 5. Coping Mechanisms: we overeat instead of punching out our boss, or Significant Other. Alcohol and narcotics help us cope with life. Study, learning and new skills are self-coping mechanisms. Five Separate Dialogues a) Inner Child b) Inner Mom c) Inner Dad d) Inner Persona (Ego) e) Inner Anima (Echt – genuine, real, authentic Self) What is Our Inner Child Let’ make it baby-easy – can you remember back to when you were 8-years old? I recall it because of the birthday party and my first big-boy two-wheeler. For most of us it seems a lifetime ago and a forgotten dream. The thing of it is we never really grow out of our 8 year old Inner Child and his/her needs, desires and thinking. It remains an intricate part of our body/brain and tries to influence, persuade and convince what to do for the rest of our lives. Where is it located? Point it out! The kid lives in our Nonconscious Mind. It is part of our Nervous System, Basal Ganglia and Brainstem. He/She hears through our Primary Auditory Cortex, sees through our Primary Visual Cortex, and feels (kinesthetic) through our Parietal Cortex (and amygdala). It is real, right? Inner Child mentally (silently) speaks using our Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas together with our Larynx – Voice Box. It activates our Amygdala (emotions) and Hippocampus (memory), both located in our Limbic System. We cannot ignore Inner Child. We hear it when it reads to us (subvocalization – Sub-Vox). Inner Child Wants to Have Fun The Inner Child is different than your Adult Self because he/she is always thinking about pleasure, wants to laugh, scream and dance, and punch out your enemies. You are aware that he/she must be reined in or folks will know you for a freak, irresponsible and a useless fool. Did you know the #1 fear of folks is Rejection and dismissal of our thoughts and ideas? Why? Survival. We want Bonding so someone protects our back, and to avoid Distancing, being deserted and no one caring about our survival and protection. The thing our Inner Child remembers most (8 years old) is being told No! Do Not do that, go there, say that. We were last in the pecking order without rights. Parents told us when to sleep, what time to awake, and teachers what to think, and whether we were Good Enough to pass their damned tests. Dominance was never us. Think back, we had no money and they fed and sheltered us as they chose. No power, no control and of little value. They controlled (conditioned) us from year 1 to 8 - one hundred percent of the time. We had to live up to the expectations of others. No One Apologizes Folks rarely if ever said – I am sorry I hurt you! Sorry we forget about your feelings! Sorry we ignored your input, took you for granted, and treated you like a demented misfit! Oh yeah, sorry we kept telling you to Grow Up! so much, and wanted you to act your age and stop wanting to have fun and play games. It was not all bad – your Inner Child got some Unconditional Love from Grandma and Grandpa. At least they ask us what we wanted, thought and needed. But in school the teacher threatened, punished, blamed and nagged. What about criticizing and complaining about our work habits, character and hand writing? Somehow we could never meet the teacher standard, and she treated us like dirt. Do you remember it like it was yesterday? Forever more. Endwords If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports while your peers can hardly finish one, would that be a competitive advantage for career success? Contact us for a free speed reading report. It can improve your life. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler: www.speedlearning.org hbw at speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could You Make One Personal Change? 2010-01-19 By H.Bernard Wechsler Could You Make One Positive Change? Do you have a seer, mentor or commentator you automatically believe based on past experience? It is called the Law of Association – meaning there is a LINK, joining and union with their ideas or beliefs. Association (from Latin) means soci(us) – partner or comrade. So What? We Homo sapiens work 24/7 to find people and ideas that make us comfortable, enforce the status quo, and are predictable. What does that describe? Repetition. Even the word sounds boring, but it is the mother of learning, habit and memory. What is stronger than that? Call me retarded, but to understand deeply, we need some synonyms to produce a Picture (mental movie) in our 3-pound coconut. Repetition – we know you know repetition, heard and used it all your life – but it comes from Latin – to attack again. See one army with tanks and aircraft smashing their opponents to smithereens – that is a positive visualization of repetition: to-attack-again. Science of Repetition Get this: neurological research in 2009 indicates: understanding the Why? and How? of new ideas, concepts and beliefs adds up to 15% to your thinking skills. You learn new stuff faster and lock it into long-term memory easier, if you understand its context and background. Knowing How? and Why? links to a deeper mental Association. Repeat in your mind – Only by practicing new behaviors, strategies and methods, will they become permanent HABITS to influence, persuade and convince me to improve my lifestyle. If I Am Lying, I’m Dying We Humans tend to STOP trying ten-feet from the top of the mountain. How come? We HATE discipline, whether it come from the dominance of others or Self-Discipline. Both forms of learning make us feel attacked and submissive. Example: the reason 98.2% of kids and adults secretly hate school, teachers and learning is – the dominance of the leader in front of the room. It activates our Sympathetic Nervous System – and its Fight-or-Flight syndrome. We cannot flee from the situation, but we can fight by closing-our-mind to learning. School, learning and education are a battleground between the Predator and its Prey. Who is the Prey – the subordinate, submissive, underling in the learning and education environment? One Positive Change – Two-Minute Exercise Can you produce a fake ear-to-ear SMILE? Do it now and hold that silly grin for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand up to eight-one-thousand. Now set your lips and face muscles to active a SILENT OH! and hold that expression for one-one-thousand up to eight-one-thousand. Do five more reps – call it under two-minutes and you are finished. Why? When you feel the muscles in your neck and throat resist the SMILE – you are exercising your facial expression muscles, you automatically resist a Double Chin and Sagging Throat in the present and in the future. For Inquiring Minds: you are exercising your PLATYSMA (muscles that connect your neck to your chest) for facial expressions. Specifically, it spans your lower jaw, neck, and throat. Platysma starts at the Pectorals (chest) to the Deltoid (shoulder). Each repetition stretching your smiling expression (ear-to-ear) and feeling it hurt in your jaw and neck, strengthens your facial muscles and avoids a Double (sagging) Chin. Tell Me Why would young people (college students) be concerned about Double Chin? Vanity, egotism, and sex are good for starters. Your first impression with folks stays permanently as their judgment of you up to 98% of the time. Don’t we all want others to think well of us for social and/or business purposes? Taut (tight, not slack) facial expressions create a positive impression to new acquaintances. Students and senior executives want to preserve their impression of being Ageless and Unlimited until they cash in their chips. Results We challenged a class of college students and a workshop of executives to learn and put into practice on a daily basis one (1) new behavior that would produce tangible results in their personal appearance. Are males less vain, conceited, and egotistical about their appearance than females? Did you know VAIN is derived from Empty in - guess- what? Latin. One hundred percent of students and executives chose to test this daily exercise – was it vanity, ego or good business? Follow up six-months later indicates up to 87% of each group has created a behavioral habit through repetition. They continue to trigger this 2-minute exercise at the office or in class at least once daily because they see results in the mirror after 10 days. Oh yeah, after 21 days No Double Chin exercise goes on Autopilot as a hardwired neural network. Why don’t they stop doing it? It is easy to execute, takes just 2 minutes and has long-term benefits on self-confidence. Repetition Work out your Facial Expression muscles with this two-minute exercise. Sitting at your computer, in class or at your desk, make-believe you are looking in the mirror and make a funny-face at yourself by a Ear-to-Ear smile. If you don’t feel your neck and throat muscles stretching tight so it hurts – (no pain, no gain) you lost the exercise. Remember, SMILE broadly and hold it for 8 seconds, and repeat it a total of six times. Wait – after each SMILE rep change your facial expression to a pointy OH! and hold that for 8 seconds. The entire shebang takes two-minutes. Want to double your health and longevity – with each rep inhale and hold a Diaphragmatic breath. Inhale-hold-exhale simultaneously with each 8-second repetition. Same two-minute exercise, more benefits in oxygen and glucose. Here is the challenge; can you install No Double Chin as a new Neural Network for positive physical improvement? You don’t care? We understand – you have no ego or vanity issues, and do not care about how you appear to yourself and others. Our experience: 95% of our students and executives want to surrender before they create a new habit. They love the familiar, status quo, comfort-zone and homeostasis (same-old-same-old) equilibrium. We call it calling off the wagon ten feet from the top. Get your PreFrontal Cortex to analyze it. Be a 5% er now. Endwords Would you have a positive competitive advantage by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? If you are a growing entity – ask us for our free report on speed reading strategies. It will change your career for the better. Your choice. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler speedlearning.org and hbw at speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do Inquiring Minds Know This? 2010-01-14 By H.Bernard Wechsler Do Inquiring Minds Know This? A hobby that feeds my sense of curiosity is collecting facts and definitions nobody else knows or cares about. Statistics 1. The human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels for circulation. If you Google it, scientific research papers quote this number for the past decade. How do they know? Vas You Dere Sharlie? That’s almost three-times around the planet. We must be very important entities. 2. Our lungs are filled with Alveoli – tiny air sacs that exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. Good idea. According to the latest research there are 185 million alveoli (singular - alveolus) in both lungs. Wikipedia publishes the figure of 300 million in each human lung. A dozen other reports cite 300 million. Research “Question: by a show of hands – how many here had a college graduate in their immediate family? Why? Research in 2009 indicates that children who have at least one parent who graduated college – were 53% more likely to graduate themselves. Does that principle hold up? My Mom was very proud she graduated from 8th grade before she had to go to work to support her brother and sister and unemployed parents. She could read and write and functioned perfectly in her environment. My Pop did not get to kindergarten, let alone 8th grade. He started employment at age eight – please believe this was not uncommon in 1905 – even though to your ears it sounds like science-fiction. His few kopeks keep the family afloat. He taught himself to read and write, and was a numbers wizard. Pop read the NY Times daily, and operated a profit-making candy factory. The next thing my parents did was cram down my throat first college and next three-years of law school. They worked long and hard at the factory so I was an easy sell to sit in school instead of sweating. It was mostly boring, but I doped it out and learned to study and aced the Bar exam on the first crack. What about the educated parents principle? My three kids – daughter is a lawyer, and both sons graduated college and own their successful businesses. New Employment Study A survey of 6,624 executives were asked what motivates them to increase their personal productivity in an anonymous project. Four choices: a) More money and promise of raises b) Recognition (awards and bonuses) by their organization and peers. c) Promise of promotions with hot perks of four week vacations etc. d) Personal Satisfaction Results Promotions received 5% - Recognition won 18% - Money moved 29%, and Personal Satisfaction – being creative and doing interesting projects received 49% of the votes. The sponsor was Monster ca. largest personnel organization. True Story I want to a family affair when I was about 12 years old and sat facing Albert Einstein, a third cousin once removed. He spent his time speaking to a 9 year old kid seated next to him who was a math wizard. And I listened and was jealous. Boy: “Professor, I intend to be a scholar like you, and discover something valuable.” A.E. “Excellent indeed.” Boy: “Professor I just discovered a long Hair in my soup.” A.E. “What are its length, width and color?” Boy: “I do not have the instruments to take precise measurements.” A.E. “Make an probable estimate and Predict. That is what scientists do.” Boy: “It will take me some time.” A.E. “For the present, I suggest silence or everyone at the table will want a similar Hair to yours for their soup. That would compromise the experiment.” I didn’t get it for about six years, then I smiled. End Story: For the rest of his life the man would tell this story. How he associated with Albert Einstein in a Capillus experiment. Capillus is Latin for Hair. No one ever laughed at him or the story. I think it was the fancy word for Hair that intimidated listeners or A.E. winning the Nobel in 1921. I vote for Capillus. Einstein said these three-Cool- things: a) “We teach to the mind – but we are shaping the brain.” b) “Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted – counts.” c) “Two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure of the universe.” He passed over 4. 18. 1955 at age 76. The autopsy of his brain revealed 40% more Glial (brain cells) than is normal. Cool. Endwords Five Enemies 1. Cynicism is Skepticism with hardening of the arteries. 2. Negativism is listening that still, small voice that says no you can’t. Shut up. 3. Defeatism – “if you don’t know you can – you probably won’t try.” 4. Escapism – watching T.V. and videos 12 hours daily may be excessive. 5. Delayism – procrastination is from Latin (cras) for tomorrow. More Avoidances a) Blaming others is as bad as blaming yourself. b) Bribing with gifts raises the ante the next time. c) Complaining is talking to the wall. d) Criticizing always makes lifelong enemies. e) Threatening is giving up the edge of surprise. f) Punishing takes too much emotional effort. g) Nagging is finding one bedbug and waiting for the invasion. Can you remember these seven avoidances? It can change your mind forever. Q. Would having a major competitive advantage help your career escalate? If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one – is that a major competitive advantage? Ask us for our free speed reading report – it is for college students and executives. Did you know college graduates earn up to one-million dollars more during their work career than high school graduates? See ya, copyright © H. Bernard Wechsler see: speedlearning.org and hbw at speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Would You Invest Six Minutes For Your Health & Longevity? 2010-01-12 By H.Bernard Wechsler Would You Invest Six-Minutes Daily For Health & Longevity? Have you ever noticed that you and I require Immediate Gratification in order to continue doing daily rituals and practices - for our own best interest? How long can you stick to a diet before falling off the wagon? How about daily physical exercise? My number is about 7 days. Question: how can we have Immediate Gratification if it takes practice and repetition to develop Mastery-Autonomy-Purpose of new skills? Fact: the smallest new habit requires 21 consecutive days of usage to put it on Auto-Pilot. If we practice for 18 days in a row and quit because we are impatient – we go back to Point Zero in making the habit permanent. This 21-Day Principle is physiological and psychological. Our Killer Nemesis to new skills, learning and long-term memory is Impulsivity. It makes us impatient for Immediate Gratification, lazy (compulsive, rash) and susceptible to instant quitting. Isometric Exercises For Health And Longevity These are baby-easy movements that are muscle contractions using tension without changing muscle length. It is about resistance – pushing against a wall or pushing your left hand against your right hand – called the Bear Grip. Isometric is from Greek meaning equal measurement. Your mind controls impulsivity and the need for I. G. There are two secrets to extend your Attention-Span and long-term concentration: Mental Imagery and Command Affirmations. Details next time. How to Avoid a Double Chin If you can stretch you mouth wide, and tighten the muscles on both sides, you can reduce, eliminate, and prevent a double chin. Try it now; produce a wide smile and SQUEEZE your facial muscles so you feel the tightening under your chin and in your throat area. Hold the squeeze for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand and stop at Eight-one-thousand. Now relax your face contractions for 10 seconds. Start again and do another repetition (rep). Each daily exercise takes 2-3 minutes to complete. A set requires only five reps, and shows improvement in seven (7) days. Stay with the Avoid Double-Chin exercise for 21 consecutive days and you have created a habit. Once you have created a habit you can reduce your Double-Chin exercise to just twice a week and still have a youthful face line. You can do it at your desk as your stealth-training program without anyone noticing. What is a Bear-Claw Exercise? About 2pm every day at the office, my shoulders get sore and neck becomes tight. Two-minutes doing the Bear-Claw training program and the shoulder and neck pain cease-and-desist. Would you settle for that? Step one: reverse your left hand so the top is facing you and your Palm is away from you. Now take your right hand and interlock your finders by gripping your left hand. Your right palm is facing you with your fingers arranged against each others. Your goal is to have neither hand dominant, so your left hand is pulling against your right hand equally. Raise your hands below your chin about 12 inches in front of you. Now pull to a count of One-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand and stop at eight-one-thousand. Stop for a ten-second rest and start another repetition. A set (complete exercise) required 5-6 reps. It takes 2-3 minutes of the Bear-Claw training to strengthen your shoulders and neck muscles for the day. It works for executives and students. To double the benefit use diaphragmatic breathing which doing the Bear-Grip. Inhale deeply as you start the Bear-Claw, hold for five-seconds and slowly exhale. Synchronize the Bear pulling with your breathing. It is baby-easy and strengthens your stomach muscles simultaneous. Please Take Notice: Isometric exercises do cause an immediate rise in Blood Pressure. If you have any health issues please consult your physician before you start this regimen. Breathe-Stretch-Shake and Let It Go There is a famous Rapper called Mase who wrote a hit song called Breathe-Stretch- Shake and Let it Go. We use this concept as a kind of Aerobic (with oxygen) exercise to trigger learning and memory. It takes 90 seconds to circulate Oxygen and activate Glucose for additional energy in your blood supply. Did you know that your body has 63 thousand miles of blood vessels? Google it. First step: stand up straight and look ahead, and take a deep diaphragmatic breath (feel your stomach rise inward) for a count of five. It takes five-second of inhaling, hold the breath for another five-seconds, and exhale for another five-seconds. Do this rep three times. Takes only one-minute to influence your nervous system. Second step: stretch out each arm and rotate it widely, moving it as high and low as possible. Feel the movements in your arm muscles. Stop and raise each leg upward toward your stomach and down again. Deep breathe simultaneously. Rotate your head left and right and feel the result in your neck muscles. It takes one-minute total. Third step: separately shake your head, shoulders, and arms in a circular movement. Stamp your feet down as you inhale, hold the breath and exhale. Spend no more than one-minute on shaking. Fourth step: Let It Go! Move your head in a circular movement and focus your mind on feeling your body and ignoring any thinking. Your job is to avoid Self-Talk, Internal Dialogue, and Stream of Consciousness. You are shifting dominance from your left to right hemisphere. The benefits of Breathe-Stretch-Shake and Let It Go is an increase of up to 10% in the Oxygen and Glucose supply in your bloodstream. You clear your conscious mind of self-importance, self-pity and negative feedback fears. How? You let it go through focusing on the discipline of kinesthetic movements. Endwords: Would you have an important competitive advantage in your career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? We live in the Knowledge Economy. If you want future promotions and job satisfaction contact us for our free speed reading report. If it is important to you, move on this now. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw at speedlearning.org See our website at speedlearning.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Queensborough 2010-01-11 By H.Bernard Wechsler Queensborough 1. Form Buddy Teams of 2 students each. 2. “First Question: Class – by show of hands – Who is the teacher in your Buddy Team?” That’s right all-of-you! – Hear the Click!” 3. “Second Question: Class by a show of hands – Who is the student in your Buddy Team?” “That is exactly right – All of you!” – Hear the Click!” 4. So we agree you take turns being the teacher and then the student to learn the strategies of a SpeedLearner. What strategies? a) 3x your reading skills – speed reading b) 2x your speed memory skills c) Note Taking: the Tree-Of-Knowledge (7 key questions) d) StressBusting – isometrics (simple exercises) and baby-easy meditation e) Neuroscience – how your brain learns and remembers. 5. “Question: by a show of hands – how many here had a college graduate in their immediate family? Why? Research in 2009 indicates that students who had at least one parent who graduated college, were 53% more likely to graduate themselves. Does that always work? My mother was very proud she graduated from the 8th grade. She quit to bring in a salary to help support her family. She could read and write and learned new skills all her life. My father did not get to the 8th grade, he started working at age 8 – as weird as that sounds today – to help his family survive. No school at all. He taught himself to read and write and was a regular reader of the NY Times. Pop started his own businesses and was wildly successful. Both he and his wife decided their only son would get more formal education. College first, than Law School was stuffed down my throat. No one can force you to study, but I saw how hard they worked and decided school was easier. I taught myself how to learn, ace exams and passed the Bar on the first crack. Oh yeah, I have three children. My daughter is a practicing lawyer, and two sons graduated college and own their own successful businesses. 6. Question: what does it take personally to stay in school and graduate? A 2009 study of 6, 624 employees by Monster Ca. - largest personnel organization: what drives employee to career success? a) More Money b) Recognition by their peers and organization c) Promotions d) Personal Satisfaction Results: All responses were anonymous so there was no need to please their superiors. Promotions got just 5% Respect from their peers motivated only 18%. Money moved 29% to improve their personal productivity. The #1 reason to learn and improve was Personal Satisfaction with 45%. copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw at speedlearning.org - speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clicking Strategies 2010 2010-01-09 By H.Bernard Wechsler Clicking Points For Speedlearning101 (speed reading) 1. First step in Speed Reading is using your Pacer to underline the words of each sentence, and move vertically down the page. It requires focusing your eyes using your wide Peripheral Vision, instead of narrow Central (fovea centralis) Vision. Why? Your Pacer focuses your concentration and you do not lose your place on the page. And you absorb up to six-words at a time instead of the normal one-word-at-a-time. That’s your Peripheral Vision kicking in. It takes about 15 minutes of practice to learn and will help 3x your learning and memory for a lifetime. When we get a comfortable rhythm – hearing a CLICK! means – “Yes, that’s correct!” If students are NOT moving linearly (across sentences) and down the page, there is NO Click, which means, “Self-Assess, Try Again – with a corrective action!” Clicking is Non-Verbal, positive reinforcement. You condition your nervous system to self-correct. After 21 days of use, it becomes a habit and goes on auto-pilot. Clicking avoids criticism, complaining, blaming and NAGGING. We normally read One-Word at a time and hear it spoken ‘mentally’. It is called Subvocalization (Subvox), and is your “self-talk”, “internal dialogue”, and “stream-of-consciousness”. It slows you down to a crawl. 2. Second step is widening our vision to read two-words at-a-time in the first sentence. Separating words into sections is called CHUNKING. CIRCLE each two-words in the first two sentences. If there are 10 words in the first sentence – CIRCLE 5 sets of two-words groups, right? Now expand your vision and see each CHUNK of two-words at-a-time as you silently underline with your Pacer across the sentences. Hear the CLICK! when you get it right. 3. Third step is to CIRCLE three-words together in the first sentence. Expand your vision (Peripheral Vision) to read groups (CHUNKS) of words in a single-eye-fixation. Goal is to stop reading only one-word at a time. If there are ten-words in the sentence, you circle three-word chunks. You have 2-chunks with three-words together, and 1-chunk with four-words circled, right? 4. Fourth step is INDENTING: Start with the 2nd or 3rd word inward from the Beginning of the sentence (left-indenting). And stop one-or-two words from the END of the sentence – (right-indenting). Hear the CLICK! when you get it right. You are reading the MISSING (indented-words) with your Peripheral Vision and losing nothing. 5. Fifth step is Boustrophedon: indent left and right, while underlining the words of the sentence. SECRET: you read left-to-right, and when you get to the end of the first-sentence, read the next-sentence moving right-to-left. You brain reverses the order of the words of the next-sentence and you read as if they are left-to-right. Why do it? You save time (Going-Blind!) Hear the CLICK! when you perfect the flowing movement of Boustrophedon which means < Gk – “as the Ox plows.” 6. Sixth step is Triple-Chunking: use your Pacer to DIVIDE the sentence in 3-words CHUNKS. How many Chunks in a 12-word sentence? Four, right? Approximate the number of words in each CHUNK based on the number of words in a sentence. Hear the CLICK! 7. Seventh step is Double-Chunking: Use your Pacer to separate (CHUNK) the sentence into TWO-SECTIONS. Hear the CLICK! 8. Eighth step is Single-Chunking. Indent-left and indent-right, while making a SINGLE-CHUCK and underlining the Sentence. Remember to move rapidly and vertically down the page while Single chunking. Hear the CLICK! 9. Ninth step is Z-4-Zorro! You practice and read using three (3) sentences. The first-sentence is Indented and Underlined, while you triple-chunk and move left-to-right. It is the top of the Zee. The second-line of the Zee is a DIAGONAL Line (right-to-left). It is the middle of the Zee. No indenting. The third-line of the Zee is indented as you triple-chunk, and move left-to- right. Hear the CLICK! Conclusion: You have four goals: One: create a smooth flowing underlining movement with your Pacer. Two: training yourself to use your wide Peripheral Vision in reading. Three: Learn to Chunk (separate and divide) the words of each sentence into sections for ease of comprehension. Four: Your eyes are hardwired genetically to follow a moving object. You speed up your reading because you use a Pacer to underline the words. We all chunk when recalling telephone numbers. You do not remember a cell number as 5165427500, but break-it-down to 516-542-7500. Why? Your brain remembers better by dividing a large number into small separate sections. Chunking is chopping the big-ones into little-ones. Speed Reading uses chunking to produce faster learning and long-term memory by breaking up sentences into small piles and using your Peripheral Vision. It is baby-easy and Practice-Makes-Perfect as you triple your reading skills and double your long-term memory – for life. Hear the CLICK! copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler – see: speedlearning.org and hbw at speedlearning.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is a Clicking Sound a New Form of Learning? 2010-01-08 By H.Bernard Wechsler Is a Clicking Sound Positive Reinforcement at The Nervous System? Does sound affect motor response (brain to muscles) by its frequency and vibrations? Right, and the primary effects are both physiological and neurological. It is in your mind (psychological) and changes your behavior (body). Sound is to the nervous system what Food is to the physical Body. It feeds us electrical impulses that change our neocortex (brainwaves). Pattern Recognition Our brain – the right hemisphere in particular – searches for pattern identification to create habits. Once a skill (typing, driving, speed reading) is learned, it forms its own neural network and is permanently on auto pilot. So What Lifelong learners, teachers, and executives who influence, persuade and motivate in their career must discover the power of Nonverbal reinforcement. Why? When we communicate with others to instruct, it is human to overcorrect and become a Nag. Learners are very conscious of being Dominated and demeaned. Our goal is to present information as assistance and not domination. Be aware of criticizing-complaining-blaming-threatening-punishing and nagging. If we use a Clicker to offer a sound (instead of words) to confirm success – “Yes, you got it Right!” – you avoid emotional entanglement with the listener. They hear the confirmation of success (click), which travels to their nervous system and activates mind and body as a positive reinforcement to continue to improve. Wait. What happens when you do not get a Click for your behavior and learning? It is still positive feedback that says, Self-Assess, and try again. They are synchronized, aligned and integrated with the Law of Association: they link the clicking sound with self-improvement. Notice how you have to stop nagging – I want, I want - ad nauseam. Some Science For Inquiring Minds Sounds like Clicking and music are of course nonverbal. It means they travel from the our brain’s auditory cortex in a straight line to the middle of our Limbic (emotional) System. Here they control our feelings and effect our motor activities. Resonance (echo) and Entrainment (rhythm) create new brain neuropathways to run our new skills and strategies. Get this: these repeated sounds (clicking) trigger the flow of stored long-term memories and imaginary movies. You activate Peak Performance (in-the-flow, zone) by your attention to the Clicks. Why? Both left and right hemispheres are in-sync for better learning. You use your planning, organizing and reason, together with spatial and pattern recognition to learn. Remember, when you imagine practicing and hearing the Click, it is identical to real (actual) practice. Mental movies (pictures) turn your new skills into habits faster. Sit for five-minutes and mentally visualize your new strategies and turn them into repetitious practice to turn the skill into a permanent habit. Peptides And Endorphins Sounds like clicking and music affect your brain’s hypothalamus to secrete endorphins – the pleasure hormones. The sound excites Peptides to stimulate the production of natural Brain Opiates to produce happy feelings. Your mood, attitudes and emotions improve and you learn and remember better. Want to know how to produce more pleasure (endorphins) in your life? Every day take five-minutes to sit quietly and Smile – by imagining your success in learning specific new skills. See your peak-performance in the execution and see the positive results – in your imagination. Smiling After the first ten executives told us they find it impossible to sit still and smile for five-minutes, we made changes. First, a smile means combining your eyes (making crow’s feet on the sides), and second, showing your teeth by raising the sides of your lips. Either one alone is not as powerful and a synchronized effort. Some people cannot sit still for sixty-seconds without anxiety and stress – a lot of executives are included. They cannot give an authentic smile (Duchenne Smile) activating eyes-and-lips. We recommend a one-minute session and just raising the sides of your lips (called a PanAm Smile). It is called faking it (the smile) until you make it. If you practice one-minute daily for ten-days doing the teeth smile, thereafter, your face automatically includes your eyes in an authentic smile. Raise your practice time to two-minutes of smiling and keep slowly increasing. The purpose of smiling practice is to train your endorphins to flow because it Associates the clicking sound with pleasure. Endorphins create an immediate positive mood and feelings toward learning and remembering. Call it Positive Reinforcement. Google: mu opioid receptors. Speed Reading And Clicking We have tested the use of the Clicking sound on college students and executives. The reaction of both to this new learning tool was five-to-one in favor of using a nonverbal reinforcement instead of constant self-nagging to learn the speed reading strategies. The secret is the Law of Association and Positive Self-Programming (reinforcement/conditioning). Endwords Do you want to have a unique competitive advantage over your peers in the workplace? It leads to promotions and personal satisfaction with your life. Would the ability to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time other can hardly finish one, be a valuable skill? Contact us for a free detailed report on speed reading only if you are ready to double your personal productivity in 2010. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Which Came First, Gestures or Speech, And Who Cares? 2010-01-07 By H.Bernard Wechsler Which Came First, Speech or Gestures, And So What? Adults are learners too, so how do we get our point across (comprehension) without sounding like a dominating school teacher? If you visit your doctor and he says your x-rays are Benign, you are a lot happier than if he says the results are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal. But you know that. What if your doctor says the results are Benign, and air-writes with his index finger the capital letter B plus the number Nine (B + 9), and smiles? Speech plus gestures places the experience in long-term memory and improves communication up to 3x. Whether you want to influence, persuade or convince a kid or adult, using gestures together with words (verbal representation) almost triples their learning function. Hunter-Gatherers Our ancient ancestors about 200,000 years ago broke away from chimps and apes by cooperating on the hunt and bringing home the bacon. They used their fingers, hands and facial expressions to become organized predators that could take down a Hairy Mammoth. Imagine one small Homo sapiens attacking an animal the size of our present-day elephant in Siberia, North America or Northern Europe. Our solo ancestor was not coming back from the hunt. Put a band of us with spears and communicating (before speech) with hand signals like pointing and waving, and we bring back meat for the entire tribe for a month. Later we used whistles, grunts and yells to surround the prey and snuff them. Still later, combining speech and gestures prevailed and we became King of the Savannah Rude Not To Point Whatever makes folks understand better and encode new knowledge for long-term memory, makes you a smarter communicator in your career and personal relationships. Our brains learn best from mental pictures. If you want comprehension of a new idea or plan, you require an image or mental movie. If you read or hear the word Cow, you brain produces a picture of one. If the concept or word is new to you, (say – rejuvenate) your PFC (Prefrontal Cortex) must imagine a new image to link the idea to a picture or you do not understand or remember the concept. If you hear Rejuvenate it may mean nothing, but if you link a picture of a youngster to the verb, you got it locked because it means to be young. When you are referring to a person, location on a map or an object and use words alone, you are under performing. Use your index finder and point to the spot and say aloud – There! Now you have made an emphatic statement. Dr. Spencer Kelly, Colgate University has published in Psychological Science, 2010, 01.05 an article called Speech And Gesture Mutually Interact to Enhance Comprehension. Examples Good speakers who want promotions in their career will consciously use hand gestures. It may be ludicrous, but pointing to your throat and making a gagging gesture conveys your opinion of your competitor better than verbalizing along the phrase, “They do bad work.” Which will be remember 12 months from now – the words along or the gagging gesture plus the words? Chopping and washing are easy hand gestures. How about calling someone a Nose-Picker and pointing to your own nose. One that we use in speed reading is tracing in the air with your index finger – underlining the words of a sentence on an imaginary page. The tracing is equal to the real experience of practicing. Very serious stuff: it involves Memory Neurons and Motor Neurons for improved learning and memory. Using your imagination is equal to practice, repetition and self-assessment. It produces mastery of a subject. Congruent Means Agreement When the spoken words and the gesture MATCH each other, comprehension is enhanced for students and adults. Your brain becomes integrated (unite, combine, merge), in Alignment (like a car) and Synchronized (in-sync). You are smarter. Who Cares Teachers, students, political speakers, TV advertisers, and executives who want to motivate, influence and persuade, right? What about your career? Sure. Remember the old commercial for the Yellow Pages – “let your fingers do the walking?” Here we learn to let your HANDS do the talking. Math The University of Chicago and lead author Susan Goldin-Meadow produced research published 3.06.09 in the journal Psychological Science. The title is Gesturing Gives Children New Ideas About Mathematics. Kids were separated into three groups: first: taught the words, “I want to make one side (of the equation) equal to the other.” Second group: the same aforementioned words plus hand gesture of a V-shape with their fingers, point at the answer space (blank). The third group were taught the words, but focusing attention on the wrong set of numbers. It really is not complicated and the results were powerful. Use the correct gestures and link it with the right words and you win all the marbles by almost 3x. The gestures permitted the kids to extract correct knowledge from what they were taught. It was their own hand gestures that produced positive results, not the brilliance of the teacher. Coda: gesturing influences and expands learning and memory. We have recommended the use of gestures to executives in Fortune 100 companies. They now suggest it to all their people as a positive strategy. Endwords: If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be a competitive advantage to obtain promotions in your career? Ask for our free report on speed reading strategies to improve your personal productivity. Only do this if you are going to use your brain for the next ten-years. Move on it now or forget it. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------- You Can Improve Your Memory & Learni It Is Baby Easy 2010-01-06 By H.Bernard Wechsler You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphragmatic inhalation and exhalation release additional oxygen into the blood. Did you know your 3-pound coconut always requires about 23% of all your oxygen? Wait. When you are learning new information and want long-term memory, you must have an additional 10% or a total of up to 33% of your total oxygen supply. Doing light exercise pre-learning for a couple of minutes does the trick. Google: M.C. Moss, University of Northumbria, U.K. Psychopharmacology 2005 An external supply of oxygen prior to learning and consolidates memory smoothes your neural pathways. Instead of stealing it from your Grandma, do the respiration, stretching and shaking exercises. Depletion The more complex the learning, and the longer you give it your concentration and attention-span, the faster you deplete your Glucose and Oxygen (reserve) supply. Ever notice yourself getting tired and yawning by 2pm? You have depleted your blood sugar (glucose) supply, and are not deeply inhaling enough. If knowledge is power, now you can take action to catch your second wind instead of being a slacker. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia tested elderly volunteers (over age 35), and college students to remember a list. One group drank lemonade with glucose (Dextrose), the other lemonade with saccharin. Those who had glucose remembered 2x the saccharin crew. N.B. Chocolate is bad glucose because FAT stalls the energizing effects of the blood sugar. Fruit or juice enhance learning and memory before an exam or study session. For Inquiring Minds Only: our brain stores information Chemically by producing Protein that strengthens specific synapses. They create new patterns of Neural Networks of memory. Who Cares Dr. Scott Small, Columbia University Medical Center (12.2008) has research that indicates a high level of blood sugar reduces the brain blood flow (volume). Not all over, but to the Dente Gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus. Dente Gyrus is involved with laying down new memory, handling stress and depression. You want a healthy flow of glucose to maintain a cognitive brain. Alz and othe forms of dementia debilitate the Dente Gyrus. Professor Small discovered the healthy regulation of glucose worsens after 30, causing cognitive loss. He recommends physical exercise if you want to maintain all your marbles. Oh yeah, other scientists suggest light exercise will reduce the effects of Type 2 diabetes on thinking and memory. It appears to be an insulin defect. Don’t blame natural aging of your corpus delicti – obtain more oxygen and glucose by your own daily efforts. Add two-minutes of daily physical workout for important results. Too much to ask to save your brain? Google: Annals of Neurology, National Institute on Aging, 12.08. Endwords Human neurochemistry is determined by your Neural Pathways and Associations, not the reverse. The Einstein Area of the brain is the Angular Gyrus. It makes associations, understands metaphors and Abstract thinking. The more neurons you activate by learning and memory, practice and repetition, the better your brain functions. Question: If you had the skill of reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would that be an important competitive advantage? Ask us for our free report on speed reading – but only if you need to use your brain in the future. See ya, copyright © 2010 www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You Can Improve Your Memory: Glucose And Oxygen 1. Fact: glucose is the primary human source of energy. It travels in your blood circulation. 2. Fact: eating or drinking glucose prior to testing improves memory recall up to 50%. 3. Fact: Human ability to regulate glucose supply starts going South (deteriorating) at age 35. Deal-with-it. Google: Dr. Sandra Suram-Lea, Lancaster University. Her team tested 60 college students on recall of words on a list after 30 minutes and 24 hours. The group taking glucose before or after seeing the list produced significant (up to 50%) improvement. There is an improvement in how new memories are formed in the hippocampus of the brain. The sugar or starch in digesting carbohydrates is converted into chemicals for human energy. It is bile and enzymes that break down rice, grain, fruits and pasta for glucose. Use: liquid dextrose, cornstarch or an apple. Oxygen When you raise your oxygen levels, learning and memory are improved up to 30%. How? Two-minutes of stretching, shaking and diaphra Do You focus on Your Still, Small Voice? 2010-01-04 By H.Bernard Wechsler Do You Focus on Your Still, Small Voice For Advice? Did you learn anything important in 2009? Did it make you change any behaviors for the better? If we spend time reading an article, report or blog, should we come away with new useful knowledge? Is this worth knowing? Fact: the word Person is from Latin meaning our Role (in life, a play or story). Wait. It is derived from persona, the mask worn by ancient Greek actors. Get this: it is the face we wear for our public lives. There is another side to our Persona, it is called Anima – our higher self, mind, spirit or soul. This is our non-social side, and scientifically called our Nonconscious Mind. Persona (person, ego) is our public face, and Anima, our hidden, deeper inner-self, a/k/a Character. So What How many thoughts sail through our mind daily? If you answer Who Cares? or How can we really know? Hold-your-horses. Neuroscientists Dr. Deepak Chopra says 60,000 thoughts daily. Researchers using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) can trace 15,000. Dr. Dennis Gerstein, Solana Beach, California says 15,000, and half of them are negative thoughts insulting our talents and abilities. Important? Our self-image, self-esteem and character are formed by our daily thoughts. Willpower Is our Willpower more powerful than our Nonconscious mind (left vs. right brains)? First off, willpower is called our decision-making brain. It is the seat of our intention, volition, and attitudes. But… It is NOT our decision maker; it has input through planning, organizing and reasoning. If you get this principle, you will discover how Homo sapiens are influenced, persuaded and convinced without their conscious knowledge. Listen: Our left hemisphere (cerebral cortex) can process 15-60 bits of information per second. Now, our right hemisphere processes 11 million bits of information per second. Which is dominant, your left or right brain? Prove it. Google: neurofeedback. See: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta cycles per seconds using EEG (Electroencephalograph). Principle: when willpower is in conflict with our Nonconscious mind, our willpower is always the loser and Nonconscious mind always the winner. Google: Dr. Emile Coue` Law of Reversed Effort Self-Talk is Self-Awareness Do you talk to yourself? Sure, that is the 15,000 thoughts a day going through your Interior Dialogue. It is called Self-Talk. It is so habitual we swear it is does not exist. Humans question, confer with and make decisions only after communication with their Still-Small-Voice. When you read a book, article or report, each and every word (unless you are a speed reader) is heard in your mind like a newscaster reading the scores on TV. For 99% of us, we cannot comprehension the meaning of what we read without hearing the words of the sentences. Question: who is doing the reading, and who is the listener? Left-brain reads, right-brain interprets what it hears. Top-Down “Each and every day of our waking life, at every hour, and even arguably, at least once a minute, we TALK to ourselves”, Professor Alain Morin, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Call it self-talk, internal dialogue or inner speech – we are constantly talking to ourselves to gain answers to problems. Neuroscientists say Top-Down brain talk is an Executive function coming from our Prefrontal Cortex. It is the core of our cognition, logic, and reasoning. It operates from our Primary Motor Cortex which helps produce speech, and our Left cerebral hemisphere. In 1861 Dr. Paul Broca discovered the area of the brain that produces speech. It is called Broca’s Area and is associated with motor control of our larynx. Where is it? In our Frontal Lobe. Please remember this expression: Surprise Broca. To influence, persuade and convince by speech or writing, we must surprise Broca or the listener or reader becomes bored to tears. Bottom-Up Our right-brain is responsible for the function of our Brainstem and Midbrain, which controls our Central Nervous System. So what? Breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure and blood circulation. All our autonomic life forces are powered by the Nonconscious right-brain. The process of human growth and development are from the Bottom-Up. Emotions Question: emotions are linked with every decision we make. There are no exclusively logical or pure reasoning decisions. They are first cleared and approved by our Limbic system, the generator or all emotions. The Limbic System is closely associated with our genes – instincts and hardwired conditioning. Where are they located? Right cerebral cortex. If you wish to persuade, influence and convince, you must convince folks at a Nonconscious level, and add logic and reasoning to involve our left brain Consciousness. If there is a conflict which side wins? Nonconscious, right hemisphere – always. Stress Please remember that Stress (chronic-long-term) attacks our right-hemisphere. It triggers our Sympathetic Nervous System, which alerts our Fight-or-Flight syndrome. It cues the release of adrenaline (epinephrine) for security and self-preservation. Who cares? People (including us), who are stressed make impulsive, negative decisions. To influence folks, we want to arouse their Parasympathetic Nervous System causing relaxation. The release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine counteracts adrenaline and causes relaxation. It produces better decisions. Endwords If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, would you have a competitive advantage? Ask us for our detailed free report – it can help improve your career. Did you know the expression - Still-Small-Voice is from 1Kings 19- 12-13, about Elijah on Mount Horeb, and guess Who spoken to him? Right. We suggest you permit your Still, Small Voice to guide you. See ya, copyright © 2010 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did You Know Emotional Words Affect Our Judgment? 2009-12-29 By H.Bernard Wechsler Didja Know Emotional Verbs We Read Affects Our Judgment? So What How important is persuading, influencing and convincing folks to your career and relationships? For me it hits 99% because we are social animals and work with others or present what we accomplish to others. Get this: seeing someone or an audience Smile, Laugh or Frown triggers the muscles in our own face to duplicate their emotional expression. How Come Fact: Facial expressions are genetically hardwired in our brain. They activate NonConsciously without our conscious imput. Google: Midbrain and Brainstem. Fact: Mirror Neurons in our brain fire (trigger) when we are executing an action, also when we watch or read about folks executing physical actions. Feel it. “The weight lifter pressed 1,250 pounds in a squat to set a world record.” Fact: These special Mirror Neurons permit us to empathize with others, understand their feelings, emotions and behaviors. It lets us imitate the skills of others for personal competency. It helps learning and memory too. For Inquiring Minds Only: Mirror Neurons are located in the brain’s PreMotor Cortex and Inferior Parietal Cortex. Remembering improves your Cognitive Reserve for extended mental health. Reading Is Hot We know that language – our unique competitive advantage that permits us to dominant the planet and soon our Galaxy - is Symbolic. Letters stand for the 44 sounds of English, and words transmit ideas so we can cooperate technically. New Research: language is also Somatic – it affects our body and in particular our facial expressions (emotions and feelings). We combine our brain and its biology (neurobiology) together with our behavior – through conditioning by aping others. We are motivated by our Imagination, Experiences, and by reacting to the Action Verbs we read. These Emotional (action) verbs like running, throwing, striking, laughing, crying, and disgust, operate below the level of consciousness (subliminally). Who knew we could be influenced in our decisions and judgments without our willpower and consent? Seeing cartoons are funnier when we hear laughter and see smiling faces introducing the cartoons. The more we know, the greater our success. Teeth and Eyes Guess what folks rate the most powerful features of our face? When your peers and clients see your teeth and eyes – they make their judgment of whether to believe you. The reverse: you negatively influence people when your eyes are not crinkling (crow’s feet) and the sides of your lips are not raised in a smile. Deal with it. This is powerful knowledge for Inquiring Minds – three sets of facial muscles set you apart from your peers and competitors for success. Can you remember them? a) Zygomatic Major and Minor Muscles pull up the corners of your mouth and influence people to trust and choose you. b) Orbicularis Oculi – one on each side of your eyes creates an image of of personal friendship and kindness. c) Risorius muscles retract the angle of your mouth to show a smile. Fake Smile When you just show your teeth without having your eyes produce little Crow’s Feet, you are judged as a phony-baloney person. Is that worth adding to your core of knowledge? Wanna convince, persuade and influence – master the three sets of facial expressions? Google: PAN-AM Smile and Duchenne Smile – the real smile is Duchenne. Star Athletes You have heard that stars like Tiger (you-know-who), Alex Rodriguez and Serena Williams mentally practice their game strategies one-hour before they enter the field, court or course. They trigger their imagination to rehearse their moves. How Come The identical brain regions are used (waste not, want not) when Homo sapiens executive an action (practice), observe (watch others playing), and most important, playing Mental Movies in their mind using their later game strategies. Same-same. The same is the fact when we speak of Emotions. The secret of success of Movies, Videos, and Novels is when the actors (characters) experience emotions – so do we. When they are injured we feel the pain, abandoned and we the audience (or reader) feel stress, anxiety and mental anguish. Good or bad, joy and delight or disgust. Imagination works our muscles, creates learning and long-term memory. Now this is not going to be on the test – so forget it. Where in the brain does our Imagination and Empathy reside? Answer: A.I (Anterior Insula) and F.O. (Frontal Operculum). See: Google: Mbemba Jabbi University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands. Published in PloS One 3(8): e2939 Coda: Merely seeing someone else smile in amusement or frown in disgust automatically triggers the muscles in our own face that produce the same expression or feeling. We like people who think, act and look like ourselves and do business with them. Opposites do not attract – people with similar traits are attracted to each other. See: Google: Francesco Foroni, University of Amsterdam, published August 15, 2009 Psychological Science. Endwords Would you have a powerful competitive advantage in your career by reading and remembering three (3) books articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Ask us for our free report with details. It is important for your personal growth. copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Didja Know Emotional Verbs We Read Affects Our Judgment? So What How important is persuading, influencing and convincing folks to your career and relationships? For me it hits 99% because we are social animals and work with others or present what we accomplish to others. Get this: seeing someone or an audience Smile, Laugh or Frown triggers the muscles in our own face to duplicate their emotional expression. How Come Fact: Facial expressions are genetically hardwired in our brain. They activate NonConsciously without our conscious imput. Google: Midbrain and Brainstem. Fact: Mirror Neurons in our brain fire (trigger) when we are executing an action, also when we watch or read about folks executing physical actions. Feel it. “The weight lifter pressed 1,250 pounds in a squat to set a world record.” Fact: These special Mirror Neurons permit us to empathize with others, understand their feelings, emotions and behaviors. It lets us imitate the skills of others for personal competency. It helps learning and memory too. For Inquiring Minds Only: Mirror Neurons are located in the brain’s PreMotor Cortex and Inferior Parietal Cortex. Remembering improves your Cognitive Reserve for extended mental health. Reading Is Hot We know that language – our unique competitive advantage that permits us to dominant the planet and soon our Galaxy - is Symbolic. Letters stand for the 44 sounds of English, and words transmit ideas so we can cooperate technically. New Research: language is also Somatic – it affects our body and in particular our facial expressions (emotions and feelings). We combine our brain and its biology (neurobiology) together with our behavior – through conditioning by aping others. We are motivated by our Imagination, Experiences, and by reacting to the Action Verbs we read. These Emotional (action) verbs like running, throwing, striking, laughing, crying, and disgust, operate below the level of consciousness (subliminally). Who knew we could be influenced in our decisions and judgments without our willpower and consent? Seeing cartoons are funnier when we hear laughter and see smiling faces introducing the cartoons. The more we know, the greater our success. Teeth and Eyes Guess what folks rate the most powerful features of our face? When your peers and clients see your teeth and eyes – they make their judgment of whether to believe you. The reverse: you negatively influence people when your eyes are not crinkling (crow’s feet) and the sides of your lips are not raised in a smile. Deal with it. This is powerful knowledge for Inquiring Minds – three sets of facial muscles set you apart from your peers and competitors for success. Can you remember them? a) Zygomatic Major and Minor Muscles pull up the corners of your mouth and influence people to trust and choose you. b) Orbicularis Oculi – one on each side of your eyes creates an image of of personal friendship and kindness. c) Risorius muscles retract the angle of your mouth to show a smile. Fake Smile When you just show your teeth without having your eyes produce little Crow’s Feet, you are judged as a phony-baloney person. Is that worth adding to your core of knowledge? Wanna convince, persuade and influence – master the three sets of facial expressions? Google: PAN-AM Smile and Duchenne Smile – the real smile is Duchenne. Star Athletes You have heard that stars like Tiger (you-know-who), Alex Rodriguez and Serena Williams mentally practice their game strategies one-hour before they enter the field, court or course. They trigger their imagination to rehearse their moves. How Come The identical brain regions are used (waste not, want not) when Homo sapiens executive an action (practice), observe (watch others playing), and most important, playing Mental Movies in their mind using their later game strategies. Same-same. The same is the fact when we speak of Emotions. The secret of success of Movies, Videos, and Novels is when the actors (characters) experience emotions – so do we. When they are injured we feel the pain, abandoned and we the audience (or reader) feel stress, anxiety and mental anguish. Good or bad, joy and delight or disgust. Imagination works our muscles, creates learning and long-term memory. Now this is not going to be on the test – so forget it. Where in the brain does our Imagination and Empathy reside? Answer: A.I (Anterior Insula) and F.O. (Frontal Operculum). See: Google: Mbemba Jabbi University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands. Published in PloS One 3(8): e2939 Coda: Merely seeing someone else smile in amusement or frown in disgust automatically triggers the muscles in our own face that produce the same expression or feeling. We like people who think, act and look like ourselves and do business with them. Opposites do not attract – people with similar traits are attracted to each other. See: Google: Francesco Foroni, University of Amsterdam, published August 15, 2009 Psychological Science. Endwords Would you have a powerful competitive advantage in your career by reading and remembering three (3) books articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one? Ask us for our free report with details. It is important for your personal growth. copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is Our Brain in Conflict? 2009-12-28 By H.Bernard Wechsler Is Our Brain in Conflict? No trick question – Professor Emmanuel Donchin, University of Illinois says, “99% of cognitive activity may be NonConscious.” Weird? Google it. His research stands for our Conscious (cognitive-thinking brain) is subordinate to our NonConscious brain by a country mile. Please follow me because it matters. We are talking about the difference between our Conscious (logical, reasoning, planning) Left-Hemisphere, and our spatial, pattern recognition, imagining Right-Hemisphere. Unless you give it your Attention and Concentrate, you are operating on autopilot. Left And Right Brain The key structure of our left Brain is our PFC – Prefrontal Cortex. Thinking, organizing, and analyzing, together with synthesizing (combining) and summarizing. All meaning, speech, reading and writing are left-brain capacities. Let me be more specific: our right brain consists of our Midbrain and Brainstem. It organizes our emotions and instincts while operating our Autonomic Nervous System - the automatic (autopilot) functions of body-mind. Which brain controls our heartbeat, blood circulation, vision, auditory and kinesthetic (sense of touch, tactile), respiration and metabolism? Ans. Right Brain. Who Cares Get this: our Conscious Brain has a broadband function (capacity) of 16 to 60 bits of information per second. Our non-verbal NonConscious Brain uses 11 million bits of information per second. Some scientists say – Consciousness equals 2 millions bits of info per sec, while NonConscious runs 4 Billion bits of information per second. Okay, the question we present is how can we gain the cooperation of our powerful right (Non-Consciousness) brain? Our beliefs, attitudes and moods are empowered by our right brain. What about decisions, behaviors, motivation and judgments? Our right brain is dominant. It goes against all we are taught and see around us, but it is like denying Gravity. Our culture is a left-brain entity, which includes science, math and all our engineering and technology. Education ignores our right brain unless you are an artist, actor or musician. Your body and mind, our lives and relationships are all right brain dominant. W.A.B.A Four elements of reinforcing and conditioning our Right Brain: a) WRITE: type a mission statement of your goals and desires on a single sheet of paper. Write as if you are in December 4, 2010 and sending a detailed email to yourself back in December 4, 2009. Write of your Mental Movies of the fulfillment of all your goals and dreams set in 2009. Be agonizingly specific. When you type you empower three (3) major senses: vision-auditory-kinesthetic. How? You hear the words you type in your Primary Visual Cortex, see the words appear in your Primary Visual Cortex, feel the emotions and sense of touch in your Temporal Cortex (parietal lobe). b) ALOUD: read aloud (not silently) you Letter once a day for 21 days. That is how long it takes to condition your NonConscious mind. The reading should not be race for the door, it should take about two-minutes and contain all the emotions and feelings about your goals for school, career, and relationships. It you drone, you lose. c) BELIEF: how do you feel when someone tells you a whopper? How do you know it is a tall tale? Life experience, their facial expression, tone and volume of their voice, and general core knowledge, right? You feel insulted? Most times you know a lie by your intuition (gut reaction), which is a right brain skill. What about when you discover a new and important belief, how do you feel? Fact: beliefs excite Dopamine – the pleasure neurotransmitter. It is released when we experience a true BELIEF. We feel a surge of joy and happiness with each new belief. Not just words, but emotions attached to these ideas. When you write (type) the letter enumerating your goals and accomplishments you must believe each one. Belief is the gasoline that drives your mental car for personal competency and success. No jerky exaggerations like winning the Lotto for 126 million. Belief is a key ingredient in creating Attention, Concentration and Purpose in your activities. No whoppers, just successful activities. d) Action: Take small actions toward your goals. We do not wait for a miracle; we take the steps toward our goals. How do you know the right steps? Ask experts and listen. Do research with Google. Be receptive to mental intuition. When you take the first step (action) to the fulfillment of your goals, the second step comes into sight. Do you believe the saying, ‘when the student is ready, the teacher appears?’ It applies to accidentally reading the right article or the right book falls off the shelf and bangs you in the coconut, or even a casual comment. Take action toward your objectives, it really works. Coda: Kaizen is a Japanese word meaning – small improvements. It is a concept used in the workplace. The company expects small, daily movements to improve your activities at the plant. It works at Toyota, SONY, and major international organizations. It will produce miracles in your life. W.A.B.A If you knew for an absolute certainty that W.A.B.A. would condition your mind through positive reinforcement to reach the goals of your dreams in terms of health, wealth and personal relationships, would you start now? We have seen the most outrageous results from hardheaded executives who use it. Use-it-or-lose-it because you snooze, you lose. Speed Short and sweet – the speed of speech is 150-200 words per minute. Got it? The speed of thought is 700-900 words per minute. Now compare: when you listen to a lecture you brain is BORED because you are only using about 25% of its broadband capacity. When your brain gets bored it becomes distracted and thinks of ideas that produce pleasure (Dopamine). Unless you control your Attention-Span and Concentration, you tune out and get into Regressions – trying to catch up. When you lose your learning attitude, you stop making sense of the ideas you hear. You are not dumb, just too smart for the slow pace of the lecturer. He speaks at 150 wpm, and your brain works at 800 wpm. You need to motivate yourself. Endwords If you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports when your peers could hardly finish one, would that be a powerful competitive advantage? Ask us for the Free Report with the details of speed learning strategies. See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org Did You Know This One? 2009-12-23 By H.Bernard Wechsler Did Ya Know This One? Play along with me – which of these motivators beats the rest to excite executives? a) Money b) promotions c) respect d) personal satisfaction Wait. One got 45% rating; the runner up got 29%, next motivator got 18%, and last and maybe least, got only 5%. Credibility: the leading Personnel and executive search company – Monster.ca surveyed 6,624 unrelated corporate personnel. So What You deal with peers and have personal relationships, right? Would it give you a competitive advantage at home and in your career to know, not guess, what really motivates folks to put-out or shut-up? The date of the poll was 5.22.09. Number 1 grabbing 45% of the total votes, is Personal Satisfaction. Money motivates only 29%, while Respect from managers and peers hits just 18%. Promotions or the hope of promotions is last with just 5% of the voters. This was an anonymous survey meaning there was no need to try to impress the company or organization. Why was Personal Satisfaction the big-time winner? Dopamine – the Pleasure Hormone. Personal Satisfaction activates the pleasure hormone – Dopamine. It triggers our Limbic System, the source of all our emotions. Home sapiens are hardwired to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. Feeling good is better than just looking good, right? We humans desire instant gratification and rapid feedback if we can get it, but Personal Satisfaction motivates us the most because it pours out Dopamine. Get this part – Personal Satisfaction equals happiness, a sense of self-confidence and well-being. Happiness occurs when our brain spits out the neurotransmitter Dopamine. It is associated with Achievement, Reward Expectation, Fulfillment and Gratification. That is why Personal Satisfaction is number one in the poll. For Inquiring Minds: the part of our brain called Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) (Google: Basal Ganglia) squirts out Dopamine. Who Cares First, knowing what gets the juices flowing of others is a career builder. Second, knowing what turns your own brain on for optimal results is vital to a joyful life and strong personal relationships. Feel good first: our mood and state of mind activates our Prefrontal Cortex for successful behaviors and positive decision-making. First comes our emotions. United States Department of Education Office of the Secretary December 15, 2009 Mr. H. Bernard Wechsler Director of Education SpeedLearning Institute USA 2116 Merrick Avenue, Suite 3002 Merrick, N.Y. 11566 Dear Mr. Wechsler: Thank you for sending Secretary Arne Duncan a copy of your SpeedLearning 100 workbook and DVD and the Executive Laser Pointer. I am responding on his behalf and am pleased to accept them on behalf of the Department of Education. We appreciate hearing about your organization and the work that you do. We have forwarded your letter and the enclosure to the appropriate staff here at the Department for review. Thank you again for writing and sharing the information. Sincerely, Teresa A. Garland, Director Executive Secretariat LBJ Education Building 7C112 202-401-3067 1-800-872-5327 EndWords Would it help students in school and executives in their career to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time it takes others to hardly finish one (1)? Ask us for our free report with specific details. See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@speedlearning.org ww www.speedlearning.org U.S. Dept of Education 2009-12-22 By H.Bernard Wechsler United States Department of Education Office of the Secretary December 15, 2009 Mr. H. Bernard Wechsler Director of Education SpeedLearning Institute USA 2116 Merrick Avenue, Suite 3002 Merrick, N.Y. 11566 Dear Mr. Wechsler: Thank you for sending Secretary Arne Duncan a copy of your SpeedLearning 100 workbook and DVD and the Executive Laser Pointer. I am responding on his behalf and am pleased to accept them on behalf of the Department of Education. We appreciate hearing about your organization and the work that you do. We have forwarded your letter and the enclosure to the appropriate staff here at the Department for review. Thank you again for writing and sharing the information. Sincerely, Teresa A. Garland, Director Executive Secretariat LBJ Education Building 7C112 202-401-3067 1-800-872-5327 Does Use It Or Lose It Apply To Your Brain? 2009-12-17 By H.Bernard Wechsler Does Use It Or Lose It – Apply To Brain As Well As Body? “If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me – a faster-horse.” Help me out, who said that? Use your Mental Imagery to create a picture or produce a 60 second Google Video to predict and ID the author of the above question. Why? Every time you analyze and search for answers, your brain fires synapses and your thinking becomes faster and deeply embedded. True or false. “Virtually all human behavior is influenced by our Genes. But no behavior is determined by our genes.” Google it and you create Cognitive Reserve in your brain to help avoid Alz up to 60%. Imagination Did you know that your imagination learns new information and skills on a par with doing (physical practice) and live experiences? Me neither. Google: Current Biology 12.04.09 Swiss professor Elise Tartagalia. Get this: thinking about new information and testing your recall because you want to, not have to, is about equal to boring repetition as a learning strategy. Tiger (you know who) in golf, and both Nadal and Roger Federer in tennis, and a list as long as your arm of football players sit before they play and mentally visualize the scenario they want and expect. Are they plain stupid? Imagery training creates perceptual (repeated exposure by repetition) learning. What you see in your Mind’s eye registers no differently for learning and memory than seeing (reading), hearing, and kinesthetic (tactile, touch) senses. So What Nobody (the rest of us) uses the power of mental imagery to improve the odds to imprint new skills and knowledge on their brains. Our personal experience is with Procedural Memory – (learning to use new skills like typing, driving, and surfing the Internet) for learning and long-term recall. We tell executives at Fortune 500 companies who want promotions to master their imagination verses rote (drill and kill) learning. They are asked to see in their mind’s eye - reading using their Peripheral Vision, not the standard Central focus. Those who use mental imagery in addition to the physical strategies of underlining using a Pacer, 3x their reading speed and 2x their long-term memory within 21 days instead of two-months. Faster sure, and it improves their self-confidence in all areas of their lives. Who Cares You might consider it. “Our work shows that not only are normal vision and imagery related, but mental imagery influences what we see.” We learn faster and remember longer. Proof? fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imagery). Google: Dr. Joel Pearson, Vanderbilt University. “You might think you need to imagine something ten-times or 100-times before it has an impact. Our results show that even a Single instance of imagery can tilt how you see the world one way or another, dramatically, if the conditions are right.” Visual perception is strongly influenced by our Expectations. When you see a positive result in your own mind, are you going to deny its reality? It becomes a moving force in your learning and long-term memory. Errorless Learning We teach kids that the right answer is everything. We learn to suspend analyzing whether the answer has logic and reasoning behind it. Is being wrong a bullet in the heart to our self-confidence? Trial-and-Error is a better way to train our brain for a successful career. We learn by Observation, by Listening (lectures), Doing (drill and kill) and trial and error. The neurological research indicates trying and failing is the best learning strategy. Three Cheers for Nate Nate Kornell , professor at Williams College is the leading authority on the benefits of trial and error learning. His research stands for learning becomes better if conditions are rearranged so that students make ERRORS. Failing has positive affects on retention (memory) and association with prior knowledge. Our brain thinks in pictures, and remembers through association with ideas already in long-term memory. Failing carries emotional baggage that makes it harder to forget the right answer the next time you think about it. Failure carries the right answer forward as almost hardwired. See: Scientific American 10.20.09. “Getting It Wrong…” cites Professor Kornell and his seminal research. What is the point? Errorless learning is disguised as reading and study to get someone else’s right answers. It is another form of Drill And Kill. Let us cut out the middleman and be our own director. How? When you summarize in your own words, analyze with your own brain, and synthesize (combine ideas), you learn 10% better and retain the knowledge almost permanently. Self-testing is more effective for learning than the exams of others. Auto-Didactic We use a diagram called the Tree of Knowledge for note taking. It makes you auto-didactic (self-taught) for both knowledge and skills. Dependency on teachers and authors is part of the conspiracy of Errorless Learning. Use your three-pound coconut; errors don’t kill you, they make you stronger. Optimized Learning includes spacing your study sessions and attention span with timeouts, sleep for consolidation, and trial and error for feedback. Oh yeah, Henry Ford, the guy named after the car said, “If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me, a faster-horse.” Guess he did not believe in Focus Groups for ideas. He made a decent living with his own brain. Endwords Would you have a powerful advantage over your peers for personal growth and promotions, if you could read text material three-times faster, and have a long-term memory twice as deep? You may want our free research report on speed reading and memory. Contact us. See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@ speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is Bingo! Good Brainwashing? 2009-12-14 By H.Bernard Wechsler Can B-I-N-G-O Brainwash Homo sapiens? Have you noticed that newspapers and magazines are going belly-up? Statistics are very persuasive 1. More than 105 newspapers have crashed and burned in 2009. 2. Ten thousand jobs in journalism have ceased and desisted in ’09. 3. National print ad sales have hemorrhaged up to 30%. Classified ads, the blood and heart of profits have shifted to Craig’s List. 4. Circulation has descended about 11% and dropping like a boulder. Where Are The Eyes Going Get this: 73% of U.S. adults (not teenagers) actively use the Internet. Believe it because the source is the reputable Pew survey. Hold it – the U.S. population at the end of 2009 is 308 (144,000) million folks. The world? 6.803 billion. Ask us how to remember statistics permanently. It is baby-easy. About 40% are surfing the web for fun, games, and sex invitations. Over half are Googling for information and to satisfy curiosity. It is called learning and personal growth. U of Missouri researchers have discovered folks who Goggle are better able to understand, recall (long-term memory) and get emotionally involved with information when searching than when surfing. So what? Google is at $590.51 – their trend line is $950 in 2010. Newspapers and mags down and out; Google (to-the-sky Excelsior “ever-upward”). The last time we gave vent to our ignorance we guessed oil per barrel would rise to over $120. Recently we suggested to our Wall Street friends that oil would drop to $70 and they laughed. Yesterday it dropped to $69 and ended the day at $70 and some change. We still know nothing about oil, but folks are driving less and looking at gas prices. What Is the Secret of Bingo! You have two assignments Mr. Phipps, if you accept them. Read and learn the lyrics for Bingo! It is a homerun with the bases loaded. 1. There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name–Oh. (Spell) B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name–Oh. 2. There was a dog that had a farmer and Bingo was his name–Oh. (Clap once for each missing letter and,) (Spell) I-N-G-O, -I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name–Oh. 3. There was a farmer and a dog and Bingo was their name–Oh. (Clap once for each missing letter and,) (Spell) --N-G-O, --N-G-O and Bingo was their name–Oh. 4. There were two farmers who had two-dogs and Bingo was their name–Oh. (Clap once for each missing letter and,) (Spell)---G-O, ---G-O and Bingo was their name–Oh. 5. There were two-dogs that had a farmer and Bingo was his name–Oh. (Clap once for each missing letter and,) (Spell) ----O, -----O, and Bingo was his name–Oh. 6. There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name–Oh. (Spell) B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name–Oh. --- So What – Who Cares Imagine your child losing self-control and experiencing an emotional temper tantrum. Do Bingo! with him/her. What if your child is distressed by physical pain from a bloody knee after falling off a bike? Do Bingo! with him/her. Comfort the child by singing the lyrics and clapping for the missing letters - together. Why? In under 90 seconds of doing Bingo! their Left-brain releases acetylcholine the relaxation neurotransmitter. Crying, screaming and tantrums are inhibited in a few minutes. How Come When we are required to think and behave (clap and spell) our brain shifts from Right-Brain (Pattern Recognition and Imagery) functioning, to Left-Brain planning and organizing. Fear, anxiety, angst and stress fire-off their circuits in the Right Brain situated in the Amygdala located in the Limbic System. Logic and reasoning, planning and organizing fire-off their circuits in the Left-Brain located in the Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia. The objective of singing and clapping Bingo! is to move brain dominance from nonconscious to taking conscious control. This strategy is a powerful antidote over personal stress (panic attacks) and helps children overcome anxiety, fear and the reality of physiological pain. Bingo! brain shifting has been replicated in double-blind experiments for 15 years of scientific research. Let’s say it together – “Bingo! is on-the-money, Honey.” Endwords Give yourself one hundred (100) hours packed together over 21-30 days to learn something new and you create physically changes in the structure and function of your brain. It works to boost cognitive skills for kids and adults, and to remedy learning problems. Remember the term Neuro-Plasticity: it is brain science for the principle we can have personal growth and improved competence to age 93. The secret from Carnegie Mellon scientists is committing to 100 hours of remedial learning. Learn a new language, get a degree, and obtain a new skill set. 100 hours. Would you have a valuable competitive advantage if you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers could hardly finish one? Ask us for our free report with hard facts, skills and strategies. But only if – “you are on-the-money, Honey.” See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@speedlearning.org www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Rohn Lives 2009-12-11 By H. Bernard Wechsler Jim Rohn Lives Do you believe in the power of personal growth and lifelong change for the better? Wait. That you can improve your core knowledge and personal experiences up to age 93? Well, maybe? Now please read on. December 10, 2009: neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Timothy Keller and Marcel Just submitted their research to be published in the Neuron journal. The human brain can physically rewire itself through 100 hours of intensive instruction. Yes Virginia, you can fix broken brain circuits by behavioral training. So what? Who cares? It means you are never too old to grow new neurons and enable and improve your mind, with new skills and strategies. Here they took kids who were lousy readers (disabilities, development disorders, including autism) and by intensive training, created in their brain new white matter, and improved neuronal communication. White matter is the brain tissue that moves signals between the areas of gray matter for learning and memory. Deadhead kids could now process information, read better, and learn core knowledge for having a normal life. Just kids with reading problems? This applies to mental disorders, Alzheimer and Bipolar disorders. How? Use behavioral training (100 hours) to change specific brain circuits. Saying-so-does-not-make-it-so. The verified and replicated evidence is in the form of functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery. Seeing-so goes a long way to its being- so. The hard work of 100 hours of remedial training for the first time, offers results showing no difference between the good and bad readers. Now gimme a big – “We’re on-the-money – honey!” Jim Rohn 1. “You’re not a tree - get up and move.” 2. “Broke is bad, stupid is worse. Broke and stupid is almost the worst. How about being sick – broke and stupid. Trifecta. Wait. Now add - Frankenstein-Ugly! to the big three. 3. “How do I love thee, let me count the ways…” Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4. “Broke-Stupid-Sick and Ugly” is the winning entry. See how lucky you are. 5. Mission for Graduates of SpeedLearning.org Visualize a life of accelerated Health; create Wealth beyond your dreams of avarice and offer gratitude for daily Smiles. The secrets are: more learning, more patience, less impulsivity and better reasoning. How? Start with gratitude for not being “broke-stupid-sick-and-ugly”. Offer a daily intention of acquiring more skills and strategies to age 93. Let them say, “they cashed in their chips” still trying to improve their character and usefulness. Now gimme a big – “We’re on-the-money, Honey!” Anything else? Trust in your nonconscious mind for intuition (sixth-sense, gut reaction). How? 3x your knowledge and 2x your long-term memory. Become more valuable (worthwhile) to your society through useful skills and strategies. Finally, enlarge the number of folks you can be of serious significant service. Why? Are you becoming more valuable to more people in the marketplace? Your personal value manufactures gelt, swag, and mucho dinero. We never underestimate the power of accumulated wealth to produce a happy attitude, peace-of-mind and daily liveliness. Now gimme a big – “We’re on-the-money, honey!” --- Three Mental Movies to Play a) Autonomy means freedom, independence and personal power. Oh yeah. b) Mastery means accumulating valuable skills, usefulness and expertise. c) Purpose (not the big fish) means waking up with goals that put a smile on your puss and meaning in your life. Your job is to get on base today, not hit a Grand Slam. Make some measurable progress, right? 6. Trust in your judgment, but verify your conclusions through research. Now we implement – put our fundament in high gear. Action not talk, is smarter than waiting for all the angels and saints to help out. When we snooze, we lose; what we resist, persists and 95% of the time, seeing-is-believing. “Vas-ya-dere – Charlie?” - then your judgment is only hearsay evidence and inadmissible. We can repair our mistakes, rejections and failures. Only inaction is the guaranteed loser. All together now – “We‘re on-the-money, honey! Endwords Would you have a competitive advantage over your peers at school and your career if you could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports, in the time they can hardly finish one? Ask us for our Free Report on Speed Reading and Speed Memory. Limited to those who want promotions and bonuses. See ya copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brain Research: 2009 Wins The Marbles 2009-12-09 By H. Bernard Wechsler New Brain Research in 2009: How To Influence, Persuade and Convince 1. Fact: speak toward your listener’s RIGHT ear to overcome objections. It is wired to their left hemisphere and is accepted as logical and reasonable. 2. Fact: Focus on your listener’s LEFT facial side to read their emotions. The left side of their face is dominated by their right hemisphere and focuses on how they feel about your idea, plan or proposal. Emotion shows. 3. Fact: each time you call your listener by their name, he/she gets a dose of Endorphins the pleasure hormone. So what? They cannot resist you. A positive opening greeting that includes their name is a decision closer. 4. Fact: when you SMILE you activate the mirror neurons of your listener to feel safe and secure. Folks buy from those they like and trust. 5. Fact: our logical, conscious mind is dominant 16.66% of the time, and your nonconscious rules the other 83.34%. And? Each new thought requires the activity of six brain structures, of which five are nonconscious. Feelings drive behaviors, not logic. 6. Fact: when you reward your listener with an Atta-Boy! - Smile, or a Gold Star (remember kindergarten), any positive reinforcement, or withhold a negative reinforcement like a sneer or angry word, your listener moves over to your side – the law of liking. Folks say yes! to people who make them feel good. 7. Fact: to changes minds change your listener’s mood. All moods are emotional states, and we want one that can be motivated and persuaded. 8. Fact: A competitive advantage creates an emotional reason to say yes. Some folks have a magnetic personality, and you enjoy being around them. Others are so smart; you hope some it will rub off on you. Some make us smile and even giggle – it makes your whole day. People love celebrities they fill Broadway theaters with their fans. What is your competitive advantage? Wait. It could be you are a great listener who laps up every word spoken. Folks love that. Maybe you can play the guitar or keyboard and offer pleasure. You may know all the football or baseball statistics and can be an expert on the Jeopardy show. I have seen some salespeople who are no better than average, but earn $200,000 annually and have for the past 20 years – solely because they can tell flaky jokes or do jerky magic tricks. Word-of-Honor. Competitive advantage? Folks cannot wait for them to visit to break up the monotony. It makes them unforgettable, and people say YES to people who amuse them – all things being equal like price and quality. Will family, friends, peers and neighbors admire and ENVY their decision? Example: the purchase of a new Mercedes vs. a Chevy. 9. Fact: our brain processes language differently for boys and girls. Males think in pictures and mental movies, and females think more in words and less in pictures. Adult (male/female) brains make no distinction between memory, imagination, and a reality experience. Our conscious and nonconscious thinking process requires manipulating mental imagery. If you speak without using similes, metaphors, analogies, and simple examples that create instant mental pictures in the mind of the listener, sorry, you are boring and persuading nada. Impress your listener, client or buyer, not yourself with how smart you are. 10. Fact: our brain remembers through Association (links) between something new and an existing long-term memory. The Law of Association works both on a conscious level or nonconsciously through emotionally driven behavior. Every December 7, older Americans relive through association, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and World War 2. On each 9.11 we now remember by association the World Trade towers and the terrorists involved. Example of Association in learning the English Alphabet backwards: Why? Because firing your neurons doing the alphabet backwards is a mental exercise, and creates Cognitive Reserve and avoids senior years dementia. Oh yeah, it makes your peers think you are a brilliant star. 1. Start off with what you know the last three letters of the Alphabet – ZYX 2. The initials for the State of West Virginia: WV 3. The initials for the State of Utah: UT 4. Remember this Acronym (first letters) “Some Reporters Quickly Pour ON Milk (MLK)” = SRQPONMLK 5. Jig = JIHG 6. FED –Ex FED 7. CBA (Cost Benefit Analysis) CBA. Coda: Associate the letters of the Alphabet backwards { ZYX-WV-UT-SRQPONMLK-JIHG-FED-CBA } 11. Fact: facial expressions (body language) of Nodding and Shaking your head are a form of Positive Reinforcement (Operant Conditioning/Behavior Modification. When others nod or shake their heads to what you say, they nonconsciously confirm or deny agreement. You know if you are influencing them. Seeing you nod or shake your head activates their Mirror Neurons causing empathy with your ideas. You can choose to intentionally nod or shake your head to influence others. It is a powerful skill. 12. Fact: Spaced-Learning helps influence and persuade others. Most people speak like a runaway train without considering the consequences of boring (turning-off) the listener. Speak intentionally in 12-15 minutes segments and stop for a 5-minute period of distraction. Do Not discuss your topic during those 5-minutes. Return and do another 12-15 minutes of knowledge, and stop again for another 5-minute break. Continue this model for a maximum of 60-90 minutes. Compare Spaced-Learning to straight- lecturing to unconscious minds. Nyet. How come? Unless you are speaking to a room of reincarnated Albert Einsteins, the Attention-Span of Homo sapiens ends at 15 minutes, and you do not want to be talking to Zombies. Endwords: If you can read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one, is that a positive competitive advantage? Our experience is - it leads to career promotions. How do we know? We teach speed reading to corporate Executives. Ask us for our Free Report on learning powerful Speed Reading skills and strategies. --- We got twenty-two Emails that asked for a repeat on training visual memory through three (3) really stupid jokes. It aint the dumb jokes, but firing your neurons to improve your long-term memory. 1. What do you have with a Fish with no eye? Oh yeah – Fsh. 2. Why do Extraterrestrials (Aliens) never eat a Clown? They TASTE funny. 3. What is the difference between Chopped Steak and Pea Soup? Ans. Any certified moron can chop steak, but point out a guy who can PEA Soup! Now remember those three jokes tomorrow. Why again? “The neurons that Fire together, Wire together.” Dr. Donald O. Hebb. See ya later, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Is Your Competitive Edge? 2009-12-07 By H.Bernard Wechsler What Is Your Competitive Advantage? Bank of America is repaying the U.S. Treasury its $45 billion TARP loan. What does TARP stand for? A recent survey found only 5% could define the Acronym (word from first letters of words) – Troubled Asset Relief Program. So what? Who cares? Is the ability to learn a power skill in our Knowledge Economy? Maybe more so than the 1920s when 50% of the U.S. economy was based on agriculture? B of A went to the equity market and raised $19.29 billion for this government payoff, the rest they had in their piggy bank. CEO Kenneth Lewis is resigning after first saving Bank of America. Who will the board of directors choose for the new CEO? Law of Liking Some folks are more likeable than others; it is a personality thing, right? Promotions at Fortune 100 companies often hang on having influence, persuasion and the ability to convince your board of director members. How do we decide if we want to do business with a company salesperson, choose to hire a law firm, donate money to a particular college? 1. The law of reciprocity: give before you expect to receive. Give what? Respect, praise, and body language all influence our likeability. Listen carefully when other speak to discover what you like about them and compliment them on it. If you sound insincere, you are judged a phony. 2. Discover what folks are proud of in their lives – and admire them. Sports is a universal transfer of likeability. Football fans, golf or tennis buffs like each other because they have-in-common a team. 3. We are nonconsciously influenced by one’s tone of voice, posture, facial expression (smiling), and universal body language. If you are a habitual smiler, even if it is a PanAm Smile (phony as a $3 bill), folks are persuaded you do not kick puppy dogs or drown kittens. Best is a Duchenne Smile, raising the sides of the mouth, and making crow’s feet on the sides of your eyes. That is a genuine, real, authentic smile. Memory is a Winning Asset Tell Me The 44 Presidents in Order Can you decipher this code? Why bother? You will learn how to create long-term memory to improve your brains Cognitive Reserve. Why? You are exercising your brain to avoid Alz and other forms of dementia, and improve your longevity. Google: Dr. Yaacov Stern, Columbia University Medical Center; and Dr. David Snowdon, University of Kentucky – The Nuns Research report. 1. Washington: running. 2. Adams: throwing. 3. Jefferson: peeing. 4. Madison: scoring. 5. Monroe: fighting. 6. J.Q. Adams: striking. 7. Jackson: sleeping. 8. Van Buren: mating. 9. W.H. Harrison: swineing in the mud. 10. Tyler: is a hen. 11. Polk: the running hen 12. Taylor: throws the hen. 13. Filmore: has a peeing hen. 14. Pierce: his hen scored. 15. Buchanan: fighting a hen, 16. Lincoln: struck the hen. 17. Johnson: sleeping with a hen. 18. Grant: mating with a hen. 19. Hays: swined with a hen in the mud. 20. Garfield: in Virginia. 21. Arthur in Virginia: running. 22. Cleveland in Virginia: throwing. 23. B. Harrison in Virginia: peeing. 24. Cleveland in Virgina: scoring. 25. McKinley in Virginia: fighting. 26. T. Roosevelt in Virginia: strike each other. 27. Taft in Virginia: sleeping. 28. Wilson in Virginia: mating. 29. Harding in Virginia: swineing in the mud. 30. Coolidge: has a Trio. 31. Hoover: and his Trio running. 32. F. Roosevelt: and his Trio throwing. 33. Truman: and his Trio peeing. 34. Eisenhower: and his Trio scoring. 35. Kennedy: and his Trio fighting. 36. Johnson: and his Trio striking. 37. Nixon: and his Trio sleeping. 38. Ford: and his Trio mating. 39. Carter: and his Trio swineing in the mud. 40. Reagan: has a Quartet. 41. Bush G.H.W.: and his Quartet running. 42. Clinton: and his Quartet throwing. 43. Bush G.W.: and his Quartet peeing. 44. Obama: and his Quartet scoring. --- Question: What is the code for the twenties? Answer: Virginia Question: What are the codes for the thirties, and forties? Answer: Thirties is Trio; forties is Quartet. Question: Explain why McKinley and Virginia were fighting? Answer: Virginia = 20 plus “fighting or fight, or fought” stands for #5. McKinley was the 25th President of the U.S. Can You Learn The English Alphabet – Backwards in Five-Minutes? It is baby-easy and goes permanently into long-term memory. 1. Chunking is grouping letters together and dividing the 26 into groups of three or so. 2. Make up a ridiculous story to Associate (link) letters together using a Acronym (initial letters from unrelated words). Start with the last three letters – (Z-Y-X) + add the initials for the States of West Virginia (WV) and Utah (UT); remember this phrase: “Some Reporters Quickly Pee On Milk, & do a Jig” That spells: (SRQP-ON-MLK-JIHG). Now send a FED-ex for (FED) + CBA (Cost-Benefit-Analysis). You are done! Write the Alphabet backwards to engage your tactile, haptic, and kinesthetic sense of touch in learning. Say the alphabet backwards ALOUD – three-times. ZYX-WV-UT-SRQP-ON-MLK-JIHG-FED-CBA = 26 letters, right? See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do You Learn More From Success or Failure? 2009-12-02 By H.Bernard Wechsler Do You Learn More From Failure or Success? Do you agree with these scientific statements? 1. We make conscious decisions 95%% of the time? 2. Emotions drive our behavior, and emotions are the seat (core) of our subconscious mind? 3. We learn more from our failures than our successes? Inquiring Minds Want to Know Number 1: (false) we are aware of making decisions only 5% of the time. Number 2: (true) our behaviors and decisions are 95% on autopilot. Number 3: (false) brain cells learn from doing something right, and not from our mistakes. So What? Professor Earl K Miller at MIT, in an article July 30, 2009 in the journal Neuron: Our brain cells have a file cabinet for our decisions with one side for Right actions, and a different feedback loop for Wrong ones. After a failure, there is no change in the cells. Get this. Failure produces no improvement in human behavior. When we produce a successful behavior there is neuroplasticity (physical change) in the cells. Neuroplasticity is your brain’s ability to change (adaptation) in response to your new experiences. Key Point: Success leads to additional successes because brain processing and behaviors improve. You are cued to perform better the next time. Two Brain Structures For Learning Giving a reward (pat on the back, big smile, or a checkmark or gold star) after success registers in your Prefrontal Cortex (learning, memory, thinking), and your Basal Ganglia (motor controls, cognition and emotions). Both are wired to work together. After a reward for a correct response, neurons in PFC and BG are stronger, and supply more information because of improved electrical impulses fired. If you were incorrect in the prior trial, you are weaker and more likely to fail again. Double So What We can affect adult learning by rewarding and tracking career behavior. Homo sapiens require reinforcement to improve. Yes, it applies to teaching children from first grade to graduate school. How can you wire yourself for self-improvement? Condition (program) your mind to expect rewards for correct results. There has to be a payoff or there is no improvement. Your Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia are involved in obtaining internal goals. They are the two key players in learning and long-term memory for kids and adults. Trial And Error Your hippocampal neurons are involved in Associative Learning: example: matching names with faces. There is a physiological measure linking (together) trial-and-error which strengthen Right answers, and modify Wrong responses. Trial outcomes improve the learning process. Long term memories are laid down in your hippocampus. The function of your hippocampus is to memorialize new facts and events, and produce new Associations about unrelated ideas, words and concepts. It leads to Declaratory Memory. Google: Wendy Suzuki, NYU in March 26 Neuron journal. N.B. The more Trial Outcomes (practice, rehearsal) the more you stimulate the neural networks for future successes. Associative Memory When you learn to LINK new, unknown ideas, words and concepts, with old consolidated long-term memory, your associations create learning. Example: if you already know it requires 21 consecutive days of practice to create a habit, relating that fact to the information, 21% of room air is oxygen is baby-easy. You are hardwired for Associations. When you hear the term “up”, your brain responds with “down”, and when someone says Red for stop, you associate that with Green to go, without any conscious thought, right? Your Memory Human memory relies up to 90% on Associations and concepts we automatically link together in our mind. Wait. Your brain thinks in pictures and mental movies, and remembers in associations and links. To improve your memory – ask yourself – what does this new word or concept remind me of that I already know? Link the new with the old, and you create and strengthen connected synapses into neural networks. If I need to recall the five nucleotides of the DNA/RNA of the genome: a) adenine b) guanine c) cytosine d) uracil e) thymine Associate adenine with Add+Nine; Gain+Nine; Sight+Sign; U+R+Sill; and Thigh-Mine. These five are linked in my mind with the Acronym A-G (ony) + C-U-T. These associations are first learned, and then strengthened by ordinary daily language experience. Why bother with the trouble of learning what you can write down on paper or wordprocesser and copy? The answer is health, but only if you desire to expand your Cognitive Reserve and protect your brain throughout your life. A second reason is longevity. Lifelong learners improve their chances of living a long, healthy life. Each time you learn your brain changes structurally and functionally for the better. Endwords Would you have a competitive advantage in school and career by reading three-times faster than your peers, and remembering information twice as long? Knowledge is the key ingredient to personal growth and career success in our economy. Promotions, salary increases, and bonuses are often knowledge based. New skills and strategies improve your personal competency. For details to be the Go-To person for knowledge in your organization, contact us for a Free report. See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler hbw@speedlearning.org www.speedlearning.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to be Outrageous and Make Mon... 2009-11-26 By H.Bernard Wechsler How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading. My business partner Evelyn Wood invented speed reading (Google: Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia) so we had no copycats. Today, when you Google the term Speed Reading, there are 66,900,000 listings. Credibility for Inquiring Minds Evelyn and her team-taught Speed Reading to the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents – Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Carter. She passed on in 1995. G.W. Bush said he did not like reading more than the headlines, and he did not trust them too much. History: we got a letter of appreciation from Lyndon Johnson, but never advertised it because of the student draft riots of, Hell No, We Won’t Go! Years later we got a complementary letter from Dick Nixon, but Watergate got in the way. We were afraid his enemies would burn our offices to the ground. Did You Know Remember this and win a prize. Part 1: The first Internet Banner Ad was by AT&T on Hotwired.com October 25, 1994. Part 2: the World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee, British physicist, and perfected by him at MIT in the U.S. Commodity vs. Outrageous Specialty A commodity is something common like sugar, fruit, veggies or copper et al. What makes it a commodity is it is not differentiated, you can get anywhere. An Outrageous Specialty is Microsoft Window 7, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (2009), and Warren Buffet. The Oracle of Omaha proves he believes in the future U.S. economy by buying (2010) Burlington, Northern Santa Fe railroad for $34 billion. His company owned 22% of this railroad and in this recession, wants the other 78%. Why is Buffet not worried about the falling price of the U.S. dollar, inflation, or the increasing national debt? He believes in Outrageous Specialties. How so? He says: The railroad business is in tune with the future. A single freight train gets 470 miles to the gallon - to deliver one-ton of goods. Each train replaces 280 gas-guzzling trucks from the highway. Less global warming and pollution in your lungs. Inquiring Minds Like Facts If you are grateful to be alive, healthy, and productive, you can do something about improving the odds it continues. We are talking neuroscience and hard research on your brain, genes, and mind. Every time you use your PreFrontal Cortex to analyze, reason, read and remember, you are improving specific neural networks in your brain. Cognitive Reserve Remember the term Cognitive Reserve, and the name Dr. Yaacov Stern, Columbia University Medical Center. Google it and discover it stands for using your mind to overcome Alzheimer and other forms of dementia. The greater your lifelong learning, the lower the risk (reduced up to 60%) of losing your greatest asset – your personal operating system. Playing bridge, learning a new language, practicing a musical instrument even though you are not concert quality, reading and remembering, create a knowledge and memory bank in your brain. Key Point: those with Alz who have Cognitive Reserve carry on like they are still 21. No matter their Amyloid Plaques and Neurofibrillary tangles, they function as if they had none. Add to that, your longevity improves. One More Bit of Research For Your Health and Longevity Please Google: the Nuns Research study, Dr. David Snowdon, University of Kentucky. It will open your eyes to lifelong learning and improved personal longevity. Your life-span is more under your control than intelligence folks believe. Off The Subject If you can Google up the number of firearms (handguns, rifles and shotguns) owned by U.S. citizens, you win a valuable prize. But – you cannot. How come? Oh yeah, it is a 1986 Federal Law and it probits the government from maintaining a Database of firearm licenses. Who do you think pushed its passage? Three Letters? A professor at Florida State University got angry at this lack of statistics, Gary Kleck worked at it state by state. He estimates the following: there 288 million firearms (forget gun collectors). Get this: 104 M handguns, 100 M rifles, and 84 M shotguns. It increases by 4 million annually in 2006 and continuing. Wait. That is a lot of weapons, right? There are 306 million folks in the U.S. It seems amazing that there are so few maniacs shooting annually. Three Mnemonics Each time you exercise your memory there is an empowerment of neural networks in your brain. It improves not just a single brain area, but your entire Hippocampus (memory center), Prefrontal Cortex and Neocortex. Please forget you do not care about the planets in order from the sun, it is just a brain exercise for health and longevity. Please experience it, not argue about why is an important secret exercise. 1. 1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto (Mickey’s dog is a Dwarf and has been evicted, remember him anyway). Here goes my Acronym (using the initial letters for a mnemonic). “My Victims Eat Mostly Jerky Sandwiches Unless Nature Pays.” 2. Name the five Nucleotides of our DNA/RNA Double Helix 1. Adenine 2. Guanine 3. Cytosine 4. Uracil 5. Thymine a) “Add-Nine b) Gain-nine c) Sight-O-Scene d) You-R-A-Sill e) Thigh-Mine 3. a) What is a Fish without eyes? Ans. Fsh. b) Why do Extraterrestrials (Aliens) never eat Clowns? Ans. They taste Funny. c) What is the difference between Chopped Beef and Pea Soup? Ans. Anyone can Chop Beef, but you are unique if you can pea soup. See ya, copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can We be Too Skeptical? 2009-11-18 By H. Bernard Wechsler Can We Be Too Skeptical? Has your view about President Obama stayed the same since January 21st 2009, or moved under the wheels of the bus? How about some hard numbers by the poll with the most credibility? The public perception on President Barack Obama on January 21, ’09 was a (wow!) 70% approval rate. The latest Gallup poll reports a lead weight drop to 50%. What about the Disapproval figures? The Gallup Disapproval statistic has motored uptown from 10% to 42%. If you were presidential Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, you would not be laughing Gallup off because it is often the first sign of coming disaster in the next (2010) Congressional election. American Research Group, another excellent polling organization indicated President George W. Bush had his own negative track. In December 2008, the Bush approval was only 28%, and his Disapproval a hefty 67% - Mama Mia Spicy Meatballs. By January 2009 G.W. showed an increase to 38% approval, and 54% disapproval. Skeptical Webster says skeptical aint so bad, it is just doubling, questioning or denying. Comes from Greek meaning to consider, examine or inquiring. We recommend Skeptic The Magazine which advocates reason, critical thinking, science and literacy. The critical question we raise is when does skepticism become a way of rejecting anything new that deviates from our comfort-zone, status quo and homeostasis? Three Quick 3rd Grade Jokes – Can You Remember And Repeat Them? 1. What do you call a Fish with no eyes? Ans. A fsh. 2. Why don’t Aliens ever eat Clowns? Ans. They taste funny. 3. What’s the difference between Chopped Beef and Pea Soup? Ans. All of us can chop beef, but how many of us can Pea soup? So What Every time you activate your Prefrontal Cortex for reasoning of any kind, even a silly joke, and point-and-click your Hippocampus for long-term memory, you you trigger a neural network in your brain for Cognitive Reserve. So? It reinforces your ability to resist d |