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"Did You Know You Can Improve Your "Working-Memory" up to 65%?"

“Did You Know - You Can Improve Your ‘Working-Memory’, Up To 65% With a Two-Minute Strategy. Ask me How?” • 1. Before this new research: the prevailing scientific belief was ‘working-memory’ is fixed, and Not trainable. • 2. “So-What?” When you improve (train) your ‘working-memory’, you trigger the ability to communicate between different areas of the brain. That helps you master complex language comprehension, problem-solving, and even decision-making. • 3. “I don’t get it?”

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DayDreaming is Your Greatest Asset

How Your Brain’s Executive Network Wins After You Surrender Control Speed Reading Rules In 5th grade, Mrs. Crawford screamed out to the class, “Harold, stop daydreaming and pay attention. My 18-inch ruler gives you five seconds to answer the next question or face the consequences.” In high school, Mr. Abbot punched me on the right shoulder and strongly suggested, “Mr.

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Change Your Affirmation

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 rnbrain 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 inr

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New Research Rhythm for Learning

New Research: Learning & Memory Up 33% - by Rhythm • 1. “Like a fun way to Ace school and work?” • 2. “Is it l-o-n-g and Boring, Pop?” • 3. “My students say it’s cool & like a video game. Yes or no?” • 4. “I’ll do a ‘Mind Experiment’, like Einstein called it. • 5. It’s tested & proven at neuro-physicists at UCLA. It appears in the jou al, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Senior author, M. R. Mehta. • 6. “Do you know the tune, “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream?”

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Why Creativity is Your Secret to Winning Promotions At-Work

“Is creativity the Secret to winning Career Promotions?” • 1. Mike: “I see that look in your eye. You want to educate me like I don’t get enough in school all day.” • 2. Me: “Kid I got a lot to do, but making sure you never come back to live in my house After you graduate college is in the top-ten on my goals.” • 3. Mike: “Will it be about politics which I hate or culture which is Boring? Wait. Will it help me win hot-girls or make me a ton of money?” • 4. Me: “If you are bored, raise your right hand, and you go your way, and I’ll…”

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"Can Imagination Change Your Reality?"

“Can Imagination Change Your Reality – See & Hear?” • 1. Michael, (my youngest son), “Which is more powerful, which do you trust more, “Imagination”, or your experiences?” • 2. “No question, what I see, hear, & feel,” Mike shot back. • 3. “Remember this: your three most powerful learning tools (senses) are V-A-K, Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic. • 4. Kinesthetic Learning includes tactile, touch, feelings & emotions. Tasting & smelling are a distant four & five. Get this: when you take notes with a pen or type, you activate V-A-K.

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Why StressBusting Works

“Why StressBusting Can Reduce Your Anxiety & Help Ace Your Career.” • 1. “But is this meditation stuff “practical” or just hot-air?” • 2. “Let’s keep it simple, unless you’re a “Brainiac” & have to know where the “feet-grow-from”. Go to: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, lead author, Fadel Zeidan. Read itr At Jou al, Social Cognition & Affective Neuroscience.” • 3. “Summarize it please.” • 4. “This is the first Proof that a short relaxing meditation can activate your brain to reduce stress & anxiety. How much? Up to 39%, and that has serious positive consequences.”

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Why You Should Push Yourself to "Speed-Up."

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Should You Push yourself to “Speed-Up? • 1. “But Dr. Franklin, what good is your new invention of Electrics?” • 2. “Dear Lady, what good is a new-bo baby?” • 3. Get it? We just don’t know in advance the weird “apps” the little computer will run. Will it save “time”, make us creative, or just make ‘millions’. And it may just flop there like the beached-whale at Jones Beach. • 4. Forget philosophy and theory, we are practical people who need a problem to solve before we start something.r

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How to Accelerate Performance Easy & Quick

How to Accelerate Performance of All Kinds – Fast • 1. Get this: According to the latest (11.09.12) neuroscientific research in Japan by Professor N. Sadato: “To the brain, receiving a compliment is as much a social reward as being rewarded with Money”. • 2. If you want better learning and increased long-term memory, from yourself, and others (team, family, associates), offer a direct compliment to individuals during an activity. Your words become Power Suggestions for improvement.

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Got Optimism?

If you ask 100 folks if their glass is half full or half empty,nmeaning optimistic verses pessimistic, 99 will give you a positive answer. It is an instinct, part of our originally programming. Research over seventy-five years indicates our language, memory,nand analysis (thinking) are ...

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Do You Start Yawning at 2:30pm?

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 alte ative to coffee crashing with its tired, dopey, and sluggish feedback. Does this new gimmick work? Are there side effects, and when can I start?

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Are Mirror Neurons Going to Make Your Career?

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.

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Can Brain Techniques Give You the Winning Edge?

Can Brain Techniques Give You The Winning Edge? Do we agree that you and I are skeptics and need a lot of proof before we believe – anything? Experience has taught us to believe in Cause-And-Effect, right? 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?

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Speed Reading: Got Affirmations?

When I listen to anyone talk of a program or system to improve my life, my automatic reaction is, "Sure, right, and so is the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the guy in the red suit and his reindeers--Santa. If you check out your own reactions to new ideas, there is a human tendency to be a ...

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Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule

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 lea 33% of them were ranked below average by their hospital administration

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Why Brainiacs Use Subliminal Smiling

“Why You Should Know “Subliminal-Smiling” & “Deconstruction” of The Elements of Speed Reading 3x.” • 1. “If you’re such a ‘smart-ass’, teach me how to get more tips in my Summer job,” asked my son’s girlfriend. • 2. “You don’t want to know the physical actions, just “how-to”. Answer: it’s called “Subliminal-Smiling”. • 3. “I already know how to smile, that cannot work.” • 4. “When people catch you smiling, as a part of your personality, they figure it’s “phony”, and go negative. Subliminal-Smiling is a ‘millisecond’, and seen out of ther

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What E.W Whispered in My Ear For Your Benefit

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.

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Got Beliefs?

Speed Reading: Got Belief? If you are like me, you are not 100% sure whether the sun rises in the east or the west? I am weak in science and math, and have no intention of improving. Why? Because I am strong in law, clear headed analysis, and business acumen. Recently I saw a commercial by ...

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Why Luck is a Skill You Can Double

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Luck is a Skill you Can Double (2x), And Win at Texas Hold’em – Consistently Our research asked Law School seniors what they learned to use from law school in their relationships, and private lives. 1. To ask of everything: “Who Cares?” (Relevance) 2. “So What?” (WIIFM) What’s In It For Me? 3. Can you PROVE it? Show me the evidence. There’s more. One of our professors said, “AGE only matters with Cheese-Steak-and 20-year old Scotch. Keep on trucking regardless of your years.”

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Why You Need to Crack Your Neural Code for F-U-N

Why You Need to Crack Your Brain’s Neural Code For F-U-N! “I never win anything, got no friends, and hate school. Nothing is fun.” It was my 12 year old son blaming “me”, for his experiences with people, the environment, and his lack of F-U-N. • 1. I bit my tongue to avoid exposing my own resistance to his fit of self-pity. Frustration is not just for 12-year-olds. When I hear anxiety from those close to me, I become defensive, as if the blame is mine. And I use the “F” word.

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What is Laughter Yoga And Why Should I Care?

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

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How To Learn New Skills For Life

Can you remember when you first learned to ride a two-wheeler bike? Was it a 1-2-3-success story? Did you fallnoff the seat, bloody your knees, and scream for your Momma? The most important question is – Did-you-quit? I bet you stopped crying, put a Band-Aid on your knee, jumped on the ...

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Three Strategies to Attract Wealth

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.

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Cognitive Map

Do You Own a Schema? Professor William James at Harvard in 1891 figured out how to double your nyour memory – you had to have a better system to record facts. A centurynlater a practical, relevant schema makes learning new information and doubling your working memory, a kids’ game. ...

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Would You Invest Six Minutes For Your Health & Longevity?

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 itrnon Auto-Pilot.

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Got Circadian Rhythm?

Speed Reading: Got Circadian Rhythm? Sound boring and irrelevant, right? What if the new scientific research produces evidence for your increasing longevity? A professor in NYU College of Dentistry, Timothy Bromage, at the annual meetingnof the American Association for Dental Research (April, ...

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Secrets of Work at Home Marketing

“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r

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How to Permanently Own Luck, Accelerated Healing...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Permanently Own LUCK, Accelerated Healing… We have received this hidden knowledge from the Guru-With-No-Name. He lives in India and visited the U.S. where he gifted us with these baby-easy Tapping Rhythms. He was instructed to do so by his Guardian Angel. If you are like me, your Skeptical Mind asks: what are these Tapping Rhythms GOOD for? Tell me - WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me? (You!) Guru gave us the Four Tapping Rhythms, for these energetic gifts & talents.

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Are there Urban Myths Blocking MONEY From Reaching You?

Are there Urban Myths That Block M-o-n-e-y From Your Life? • 1 “Aw quit it, I know you believe it, and mean well, but what I say out loud or hear in my head are “white-noise”, just meaningless chatter. My words are powerless, and so am I.” • 2. When I said that to my mother, I was convinced she was a poor, deluded fool, “superstitious, ignorant, and without scientific knowledge.” Now, maybe I was too quick on the trigger.

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What Two-Letter Word Terrifies Your BRAIN?

“What is the Two-Letter Word that Your Brain Considers a Threat to Your ‘Survival’? • 1. “It took the invention (1999) of the fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to show your Brain changes for the ‘worse’ - when it Sees, Hears or even rnreads the word: No!” • 2. “That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard you say, Pop. I use the word ‘no’, all-the-time, and hear it from everyone, including You! 24/7.” • 3. “If you remember this, you will learn (if you implement it) the secret of “Influence-Persuasion-Conviction in business, at-work, at-home, and creating financial-wealth.”

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Is Our Brain in Conflict?

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 ourr 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, imaginingr Right-Hemisphere.

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How to Oversome Fear of Change

How to Overcome Fear Of Change Does this make sense to you? Humans are wired as a species to haver 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 rnof 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 rnappearing incompetent.

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How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought?

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.”

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The Baby-Easy Secrets of Speed Reading

“The Secret of Speed Reading” “Acoccd ig to a rscheearch at Cmabriigde Uinervtisy, it ddeosn’trnmttaer in wttht order the lteers in a rnwrrd are, the ollny ipmoetnt tihhng rnis taaht thr frrist and lssat lttteers bernat the rgghit pcclae. The rsset cnna berna 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.

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Why You Should Not Pay Attention to Einstein

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 byrnname – 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 plainr English what Al stands for? Who really knows the meaning of E=MC2? Forgettaboutit.

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What Really Matters in Persuading Folks?

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

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New Research You Must Read

New Research: Self-Control Requires a Shot of Sugar Do only coaches, teachers and therapists have to exercise self-controlnon-the-job? How about folks on a diet, parents with kids, and executivesninfluencing and convincing their corporate team? Profound Fact: This may be the most practical ...

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What's New About Your Left and Right Brain?

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 jou alism 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.

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Body Image And Illness

Do you believe your feelings direct your brain? Do you think it’s a scientific fact your emotions overwhelm reason and logic in major decision-making? Does new information (knowledge) offer you the power to put your thinking-brain back in the driver’s seat? Columbia University ...

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Got The Einstein Memory System?

Got a Great Memory? Would it improve your learning and produce career benefits if you couldnabsolutely, positively double your long-term memory? Ninety-five percent of students and executives learn the Einstein Memory Systemnwithin seven (7) days, and are actively using it to ace their exams ...

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A Secret About The Reading Code

A Secret About the Reading-Code Can Reading More – Help You Live Up to 10 Years Longer? * Can Reading More - Help You Reduce The Risk of Alz Up To 60%? * The average college graduate in the U.S. reads one (1) book a year reluctantly. He/she hates reading, learning, and education. Here’s why: America’s educated class reads text like a snail crossing the highway –rns-l-o-w-l-y. We’re talking about lawyers, CPAs, physicians, and other professionals. They read complex text (not sexy novels) as low as 100 words per minutes, to a maximum of 200 wpm.

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How to Dissolve, Destroy and Chew-Up Anxiety And Stress

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 –rnbut the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel as my personal guides and guardians. They accompanied me 24/7 on either side as myr

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Secrets of the Oldest Person in the Worlds & Your Benefits

Secrets of the Woman Who Lived Longest – Documented 122 yearsr And What’s In-It-For-You. • 1. You can claim you are the oldest living human, but French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, had the records to prove it. • 2. What did Ms. Calment do, that you & I can duplicate for health & longevity. She remained healthy and with all-her-marbles, until she kicked-the-bucket at 122. Nice, right? • 3. For Brainiacs & the Impatient: three (3) unique behaviors: • a) added Extra Virgin Olive Oil to “everything” she ate, but milk. She even rubbed it all over her skin - daily.

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Is Memory the Enemy of Learning?

Is Memory The Enemy of Learning? Did you know that Cursive (connected letters), Printed Lettering, andr 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

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Chiasma Means Crossing, So What?

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. Dornyou have trouble getting invigorated and creative at 9 am? Do you suffer from the 2 pm blues when your brain is running on empty rnand 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

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Why Chewing Gum Boosts Your Brain Performance

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Chewing Gum Improves your Brain Performance Would you be interested in a sure-fire, scientifically researched, simple strategy to Ace exams, interviews, and live-presentations? We have taught this strategy to our school students and to many corporate executives we train in speed reading and memory-improvement. History Back in April of 2002 we posted an article to our Blog that was read and discussedr

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Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure?

Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure? When you were a little kid, you probably talked out loud to yourself. Maybe you had an invisible playmate. Perfectly normal. Today you hold internal dialogues, but they are silent. A survey of scientists indicates it is common to ask questions and discuss possibilities between yourself, you, and your shadow. We test our ideas internally, even before make written or word processing notes. Problem/Solution is a standard format.

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SPEED READING AND "ACT-AS-IF"

William James, professor at Harvard, (1842-1910d), at the turn ofnthe 20th century, is an American psychology icon. He has morenquotes attributed to him than Mark Twain. A century later hisnphilosophy of "act-as-if", stands up under fMRI (functional MagneticnResonance Imagery), as a valuable ...

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Got Two Minutes For Health?

Would You Do This Two-Minute Breathing Exercise to Live Years Longer? For five thousand years the Hindus have paid attention to flushing their Lymphatic System by specific exercises. The question is whether it is rnworthwhile for you and me. You be the judge of this baby-easy experiment. Lymph is a clear, yellow, alkaline fluid, bathing and surrounding each and every cell of our body. Your body contains twice as much Lymph, as blood circulating.

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Got Brains?

Got Brains? “If you were interviewing applicants to fill a corporate job, aside from the obviousncore competencies, what specialized knowledge would impress you?” We asked this question of three Speedlea ing classes of about 32 students each at a Fortune 100 company. All 96 ...

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