Do you have Warning?
Have you ever heard of a wild concert called Woodstock, Three Days of Peace and Music?
The last artist was Jimi Hendrix doing a two hour set starting with
Message to Love and ending with Hey Joe. It happened on Monday at 9 in the morning
August 18, 1969 – 37 years ago.
Hendrix told an eighth-grade infinitesimal joke that still resonates with his fans born with weak prefrontal cortices.
“Friends, my family was so poor when I was a child, if the teacher
said Pay attention – my family told me to answer we just couldn’t
afford it.
He continued with his philosophy: I hate being in a corner. I hate to be fair and
just as a guitarist or just as a songwriter or just as a tap dancer. I like it
move.
a little effort
At Northwestern University, a recent EEG experiment measured brain wave cycles comparing attention to distraction. When you decide to produce a personal approach, the result is a big, measurable change in the function of your three-pound jellied coconut. It was never tried before.
Imagine – the simple act of attention produces an altered state of consciousness. Some call it a high; this research shows that attention changes brain cycles per second (brain wave rhythms).
Wait, this is easy, so pay attention. Your act of attention creates neurons that are in sync.
Human guinea pigs (patients) were told to pay attention to one stimulus and ignore the other. Choosing is a volitional act of Attention.
Can you resist distractions? Our own research finds that even the slightest
distraction (music, noise, or conversation) reduces comprehension and memory by up to 48%. Attention rules, so turn off the music, put on earplugs and almost double your learning skills.
The act of concentrating on a specific stimulus (idea, image, sound) is a small change that produces a massive reaction. What happens is synchronization, a coherence (joining) of neurons in a network. All that is needed is the act of awareness and a little more effort to focus and create Attention.
hebbian theory
“Psychology is basically a biological science.” Professor Donald O. Hebb.
The key to his original thinking was put into plain English by his students.
Brain cells (neurons) that fire together, connect to each other.
He became interested in the EEG (Electroencephalogram) because Hans Berger
who first recorded human brain wave rhythms in 1924, showed that even without
external stimuli the brain is constantly producing electrical activity.
Professor Donald O. Hebb of McGill University understood the meaning of neural networks before his peers.
Like bees in a hive, when neurons come together in networks, the structure of the brain and
their function changes to specialized systems (structures).
He died in 1985 and is considered the father of neuroscience. We care about Hebb and Attention because the function of neurons as neural networks contributes to important psychological processes such as learning and memory. Hebb was the first to conclude that our brain relies on electrochemical reactions that create cognition and consciousness.
brain gyms
The day after Christmas 2006, the New York Times editorialized about the importance of working out with whiskey-soaked coconut and pats.
A study of 2,800 mature people (65 years and older) took ten sessions of cognitive (brain) training. It was divided into memory improvement, reasoning (patterns) in words
series, and a form of subliminal perception (display speed).
The results were certified and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Get this: rapid learning improvement through simple brain exercises can reduce the mind’s natural tendency to deteriorate in old age.
Five years after the original training, the 2800 was tested and compared to
elderly people who had not had cognitive training. Results: a mental slip in
memory and learning skills by those who had no specialized training, and
significant retention of memory, reasoning, and identification by those who
received the brain training.
The Times concludes that brain exercises can help enable our elderly
to live independently. Remember: Nearly 40% of our senior population is in the
way to live an active life into your 80s and even 90s. Does cognitive training in
learning basic skills lead to a doubling of our productive years and enjoyment
Life to 100?
Raster Master
Principle: Wearing a pacemaker while reading focuses attention like nothing else.
In the five thousand years of the use of symbols to communicate ideas homo sapiens
have read randomly without a mechanical aid for attention, comprehension
and memory
There are three simple rhythms that will significantly improve learning skills.
In 12 hours of training using a RasterMaster, a portable laser tool, a pen
or your computer mouse cursor, the average student triples their
reading speed and doubles your memory.
Is this the kind of Brain Gym that the Times recommends for the elderly to improve?
your quality of life?
In 1959 Evelyn Wood created the principles of speed reading,
graduating 2 million, including the White House staff of four US presidents.
Associating with her led to our use of RasterMaster and the cursor to underline
the sentences of the text while reading. Create neural networks of attention that last
a lifetime.
Our eyes instinctively follow a moving object. Some call it peripheral vision while
scientists refer to it as the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR). He is reduced to being a bit of a cyborg, combining our human cognitive abilities with tools for focus and understanding. The result is to unleash the latent gifts and talents of your brain.
to learn.
Would it improve your life as a student and your career to read and remember
three books, articles and reports in the time your inexperienced partner can barely finish
even one?
final words
Our research has resulted in Brain Gyms for children, adults and seniors. In
12 hours of training you can create a firewall around your mind, which
be using for up to a hundred years. Will this firewall protect you from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or schizophrenia? Some believe it. We suggest it is painless and will add years of productive life. It is not a trick in itself.
See you,
copyright © 2006
H. Bernard Wechsler
http://www.speedlearning.org
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