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70 Ways to Better Brain Power

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:27 GMT

clipped by: nhorn

70 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power

1. Breath deep. More air in means more oxygen in the blood and therefore in the brain. Breath through your nose and you'll notice that you use your diaphragm more, drawing air deeper into your lungs. Several deep breaths can also help to relax you, which is conducive to clearer thinking.

2. Meditate. A simple meditation you can do right now is just closing your eyes and paying attention to your breath. Tensing up your muscles and then relaxing them to start may help. When your mind wanders, just bring your attention back to your breath. Five or ten minutes of this will usually relax you, clear your mind, and leave you more ready for any mental task. For more on meditation, you can visit http://www.TheMeditationSite.com.

3. Sit up straight. Posture affects your thinking process. Prove it to yourself by doing math in your head while slouching, looking at the floor and letting your mouth hang open. Then do the mental math while sitting up straight, keeping your mouth closed and looking forward or slightly upwards. You'll notice that it's easier to think with the latter posture.

4. Phosphotidyl Serine (PS). This supplement has been shown in clinical studies to increase lucidity and rate of learning. It activates cell-to-cell communication, helps regulate cell growth, improves the functioning of the special receptors found on cells, and prepares cells for activity. In other words, it can help your brain power. It's also thought to reverse memory decline. Phosphatidylserine has no known adverse side effects.

5.Vinpocetine. This extract, derived from an alkaloid found in the Periwinkle plant, is used as a cerebral vasodilator. It increases blood flow to the brain, which improves its oxygenation and thereby increases mental alertness and acuity. Research suggests it may also be the most powerful memory enhancer available to date.

Tags: brain

77 ways for deeper, faster 7 better brain power!

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:07:21 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: Hi! clipped as much as possible...you may have to visit the site for the rest...quite informative and useful stuff.

Clip Source: oedb.org

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

Health

Shake a leg

Food for thought: Eat breakfast

Food for thought, part 2: Eat a light lunch

Cognitive enhancers: Ginkgo biloba.

Reduce stress + depresssion.

Balance

Sleep on it.

Take a break.

Take a hike

Change your focus.

Perspective and Focus

Change your focus, part 2

Do walking meditation

Focus and immerse yourself

Turn out the lights.

Take a bath or shower

Recall Techniques

Listen to music

Speedread.

Use acronyms and other mnemonic devices

Visual Aids

Every picture tells a story

Brainmap it.

Learn symbolism and semiotics

Use information design

Use visual learning techniques

Map your task flow

Verbal and Auditory Techniques

Stimulate ideas

Brainstorm

Learn by osmosis

Cognitive enhancers: binaural beats.

Laugh

Kinesthetic Techniques

Write, don't type

Carry a quality notebook at all times.

Keep a journal. T

Organize.

Use post-it notes

Self-Motivation Techniques

Give yourself credit.

Motivate yourself.

Tags: brain, learning, knowledge, science, tips, interesting, useful.

How to get 40% cleverer in 7 days

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:10:09 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: I'm definitely going to try brushing my teeth with my left hand tonight.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Doing 'brain exercises' such as watching Countdown, playing Sudoku or taking a shower with your eyes closed can make us all up to 40 per cent cleverer within seven days, according to research by a BBC programme this week

THE GET SMARTER GUIDE

Saturday

Brush your teeth with your 'wrong' hand and take a shower with your eyes closed.

Sunday

Do the crossword or Sudoku puzzle in your Sunday paper and take a brisk walk.

Monday

Have oily fish for dinner, and either cycle, walk or take the bus into work.

Tuesday

Select unfamiliar words from the dictionary and work them into conversations.

Wednesday

Go to yoga, Pilates or a meditation class, and talk to someone you don't know.

Thursday

Take a different route to work; watch Countdown or Brainteaser.

Friday

Avoid caffeine or alcohol; memorise your shopping list.

Tags: health, brain, exercise, one week, bbc

Learn Out Loud

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:15:29 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: This site is fabulous and one of my favourites. When you get tired, why not just lean back and let someone else do the reading for a change. LOTS of stuff here, to make you smarter. Go rummage through the titles. Tons of stuff for FREE and all downloadable. I clipped just a few titles at the end (until I ran out of characters) to show you what sort of stuff they offer. Enjoy! .

Clip Source: www.learnoutloud.com

LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning.
Browse over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.

LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 500 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online. Enjoy!

Internet's largest directory of free audio & video learning resources. Free audio books, lectures, speeches, and much more.

Complete resource to audio books from some of the greatest authors in self development, business, and more.

Comprehensive database of audio publishers including resources for language learning, rental services, and more.

Zaadz: Quotes on Courage

As a Man Thinketh

Beyond Vietnam

Speech by Gandhi

Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East

Free Guided Meditation

Tags: free, e-learning, ebooks, books, speech, podcast, litterature, video

Tips for Sleeping Well

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:50:18 GMT

clipped by: pumpkinismine

Clip Source: health.yahoo.com

Sleep Tight All Night
Quality of sleep is as important as the quantity of sleep. Often we think we sleep for eight hours, but unless we are getting good quality REM sleep, which is when the body truly rests, we will awake feeling as if we hadn't slept at all. Here are the ways to be sure you are getting quality sleep:

1. Do not eat late. Your last meal should be no later than seven in the evening.

2. Do not exercise just before bed. You should engage in no strenuous exercise for at least two hours before bed.

3. There should be no pets in the bedroom. Sleeping with pets often causes restless sleep.

4. You might try this sitting meditation a half an hour before bed: Sit comfortably at the edge of a firm seat with your back erect and your head tilted slightly downwards. Place your arms gently over your lap and breathe slowly, deliberately, and gently. Keep your eyes slightly closed. Do this for 15-20 minutes.

Tags: heath, sleep

God Is the Machine

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:23:50 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: Kevin Kelly Dec 2002, still brilliant

Clip Source: www.wired.com

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS 0. AND THEN THERE WAS 1. A MIND-BENDING MEDITATION ON THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF DIGITAL COMPUTATION.

At today's rates of compression, you could download the entire 3 billion digits of your DNA onto about four CDs. That 3-gigabyte genome sequence represents the prime coding information of a human body — your life as numbers. Biology, that pulsating mass of plant and animal flesh, is conceived by science today as an information process. As computers keep shrinking, we can imagine our complex bodies being numerically condensed to the size of two tiny cells. These micro-memory devices are called the egg and sperm. They are packed with information.

That life might be information, as biologists propose, is far more intuitive than the corresponding idea that hard matter is information as well. When we bang a knee against a table leg, it sure doesn't feel like we knocked into information. But that's the idea many physicists are formulating

Tags: science, technology, computation, simulation, information

Killing the Buddha

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:52:09 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: a fascinating and interesting read:from the article: "It is as yet undetermined what it means to be human, because every facet of our culture—and even our biology itself—remains open to innovation and insight."

Clip Source: mambo.shambhalasun.com

Killing the Buddha

Sam Harris

“Kill the Buddha,” says the old koan. “Kill Buddhism,” says Sam Harris, author ot The End of Faith, who argues that Buddhism’s philosophy, insight, and practices would benefit more people if they were not presented as a religion.

For the fact is that a person can embrace the Buddha’s teaching, and even become a genuine Buddhist contemplative (and, one must presume, a buddha) without believing anything on insufficient evidence. The same cannot be said of the teachings for faith-based religion. In many respects, Buddhism is very much like science. One starts with the hypothesis that using attention in the prescribed way (meditation), and engaging in or avoiding certain behaviors (ethics), will bear the promised result (wisdom and psychological well-being). This spirit of empiricism animates Buddhism to a unique degree. For this reason, the methodology of Buddhism, if shorn of its religious encumbrances, could be one of our greatest resources as we struggle to develop our scientific understanding of human subjectivity.

The Problem of Religion

A Contemplative Science

There is much more to be discovered about the nature of the human mind. In particular, there is much more for us to understand about how the mind can transform itself from a mere reservoir of greed, hatred, and delusion into an instrument of wisdom and compassion. Students of the Buddha are very well placed to further our understanding on this front, but the religion of Buddhism currently stands in their way.

Tags: buddhism, religion, faith, philosophy, zen, mind

Healthy lifestyle triggers genetic changes

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:32:22 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: back on diet and exercise..

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comprehensive lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can lead not only to a better physique, but also to swift and dramatic changes at the genetic level, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

In a small study, the researchers tracked 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who decided against conventional medical treatment such as surgery and radiation or hormone therapy.

The men underwent three months of major lifestyle changes, including eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products, moderate exercise such as walking for half an hour a day, and an hour of daily stress management methods such as meditation.

As expected, they lost weight, lowered their blood pressure and saw other health improvements. But the researchers found more profound changes when they compared prostate biopsies taken before and after the lifestyle changes.

Tags: health, lifestyle, genetics

Top ten ways to improve your mind & fun ways to live long

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:51:39 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: excerpts...

Clip Source: longevity.about.com

Top 10 Ways To Improve Your Mental Fitness

Play Games

Meditation

Eat for Your Brain

Tell Good Stories

Turn Off Your Television

) Exercise Your Body To Exercise Your Brain

Read Something Different

Learn a New Skill

) Make Simple Changes

Train Your Brain

Clip Source: longevity.about.com

Spend Time With Loved Ones

Solve Puzzles and Play Brain Games

) Be Positive

Tags: life, longitivity, food, sleep, mental fitness, happiness.

108 Meditation Techniques

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:22:19 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.meditationsociety.com

108 Meditation Techniques

This is our list of 108 different meditation techniques. The hyper-linked (underlined) meditation techniques are currently online, and we are always adding more in the Featured Technique section. In the near future, we hope to have all of the techniques online, but until then we appreciate your patience.

Tags: spirituality, meditation, religion

How to deal with Stress

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:13:53 GMT

clipped by: BitDrifter

Clip Source: www.studygs.net

Stress Management is the ability to maintain control when situations, people, and events make excessive demands.What you can do to manage your stress? What are some strategies?

Look around See if there really is something you can change or control in the situation	Learn how to best relax yourself Meditation and breathing exercises have been proven to be very effective in controlling stress. Practice clearing your mind of disturbing thoughts.
Remove yourself from the stressful situation Give yourself a break if only for a few moments daily	Set realistic goals for yourself Reduce the number of events going on in your life and you may reduce the circuit overload
Don't sweat the small stuff Try to prioritize a few truly important things and let the rest slide	Don't overwhelm yourself by fretting about your entire workload. Handle each task as it comes, or selectively deal with matters in some priority
Selectively change the way you react, but not too much at one time. Focus on one troublesome thing and manage your reactions to it/him/her	Change the way you see things Learn to recognize stress for what it is. Increase your body's feedback and make stress self-regulating
Avoid extreme reactions; Why hate when a little dislike will do? Why generate anxiety when you can be nervous? Why rage when anger will do the job? Why be depressed when you can just be sad?	Do something for others to help get your mind off your self
Get enough sleep Lack of rest just aggravates stress	Work off stress with physical activity, whether it's jogging, tennis, gardening
Avoid self-medication or escape Alcohol and drugs can mask stress. They don't help deal with the problems	Develop a thick skin The bottom line of stress management is "I upset myself"

Tags: stress, tips, psychology, health

Happy Orgasm Day!

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:11:57 GMT

clipped by: Homonculus
clipper's remarks: Did you know that "Orgasm Day" is an official holiday celebrated in 22nd of December? I didn’t know either!

Clip Source: www.notelay.com

Happy Orgasm Day!

(12/22/2006)

Scientists believe that it is possible to alter the world consciousness with a little meditation around your sexuality. That’s why they came out with the idea of the "Global Orgasm Day". It is an attempt to change the global tide against war by, well, mass orgasm on a specific day.

Scientifically speaking it has a purpose to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the Earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout the world. Thus it will have a positive effect and it will change the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy a "Synchronized Global Orgasm".

The initiative was inspired by the University-affiliated Global Consciousness Project, a research project that aims to demonstrate the impact of global consciousness by measuring correlations between international events and the generation of random numbers.

Global Orgasm is an experiment open to everyone in the world, are you ready to shake the earth!

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Tags: sex, sexy, love, romance, orgasm, holiday, holidays

The Caves of Dunhuang - Buddha’s Caveshe

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:22:27 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "this series explore how China's shifting self-image is reshaping its art and art institutions"

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

this series explore how China's shifting self-image is reshaping its art and art institutions.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

It's one of many threats to the major tourist draw of Dunhuang, a city on the lip of the Gobi desert: the hundreds of rock-cut Buddhist grottoes that pepper a cliff face outside town.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Known as Mogaoku - ''peerless caves'' - and filled with paradisiacal frescos and hand-molded clay sculptures of savior-gods and saints, they are like nothing else in the Chinese Buddhist world. And Mogaoku is in trouble. After a dramatic increase in traffic, the caves are deteriorating because of high levels of carbon dioxide and humidity.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Set between Mongolia and Tibet, Dunhuang was a vital juncture on the Silk Road.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The earliest examples of caves, small and plain, were used for shelter and meditation

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

hunting scene, painted in a cave in Dunhuang.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

fifth-century painted Buddha, sprinkled with desert dust, shows some deterioration

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

kissing..it's good for you

Wed, 16 May 2007 18:26:36 GMT

clipped by: diplomacysam

Clip Source: soundmedicine.iu.edu

Health Benefits of Kissing

Kiss more, and kiss longer. That's what some researchers are advising as the health benefits of kissing are revealed.

the extra saliva produced during kissing washes bacteria off your teeth, which can help break down oral plaque.

Bryant Stamford, PhD, director of the health promotion center at the University of Louisville notes kissing can help you lose calories. "During a really, really passionate kiss," he says, "you might lose two calories a minute - double your metabolic rate." Others claim that kissing exercises the facial muscles.

Stress relief is another health benefit of kissing.

Psychologist Joy Davidson, PhD, likens kissing to meditation. "It stops the buzz in your mind, it quells anxiety, and it heightens the experience of being present in the moment. It actually produces a lot of the physiological changes that meditation produces

The fact that kissing leads to touching is also a good thing.

Tags: stress, health, cool

Brain Scans Reveal Why Meditation Works

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:38:12 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

If you name your emotions, you can tame them, according to new research that suggests why meditation works.

Brain scans show that putting negative emotions into words calms the brain's emotion center. That could explain meditation’s purported emotional benefits, because people who meditate often label their negative emotions in an effort to “let them go.”

Psychologists have long believed that people who talk about their feelings have more control over them, but they don't know why it works.

They asked the subjects to look at pictures of male or female faces making emotional expressions. Below some of the photos was a choice of words describing the emotion—such as “angry” or “fearful”—or two possible names for the people in the pictures, one male name and one female name.

When presented with these choices, the subjects were asked to pick the most appropriate emotion or gender-appropriate name to fit the face they saw.

Tags: science, mind, brain, neurology, emotions, meditation, psychology