Effective Ways To Increase Your Mental Powers
The British BBC Brain Test Britain experiment has posed what it thinks is an interesting question. Do the mind training materials available actually work, or do they just train you to become proficient in the exercise presented. Another approach to this question is whether Sudoku or Tetris is a brain trainer or just a game you can become more proficient at. Unfortunately what BBC is obviously doing is throwing out a red herring for naval gazing, and to increase viewership. If the mind could not generalize from what it learns the human race would be in terrible trouble. If you learn to shake hands with John as a form of greeting do you really have to relearn it to greet Tom? If you learn speed reading with excerpts from the novel Moby Dick does that mean you can only speed read Moby Dick and not other material? The BBC show is running the experiment with audience participation to answer its question but if it comes up with any answer except that training does become generalized then we have to question its mythology.
TRAINING MATERIAL
The interesting thing to question is how far afield can the mind generalize. Here a PC program like Ubisoft’s Mind Quiz is useful because they take the mental abilities of verbal, numerical, spatial, memory and logical and give three separate exercises for each. That is three separate examples of doing the trait for the mind to experience, and so helps generalize the mental skills learned.
An interesting field is that of neuroscience. By using brain scans they have found that the brain is very plastic and its abilities can be enormously expanded. The science goes overboard though by presently claiming that we start with completely blank minds just because the cell count is the same. If that were true then babies would not go through distinct stages of development, the terrible twos would not exist. Their claim also flies in the face of the well researched fact that identical twins separated at birth develop into adults of roughly equal intelligence and personalities. Not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, neuroscience does show ways that the brain can be positively enhanced so a PC program like NeuroActive
SPIRITUALITY AND HAPPINESS
How does all this apply to spirituality? Like IQ spirituality is genetically based so it should be possible by exercise and training to enhance the level and depth of your spirituality. You don’t need to communicate with a god for greater spirituality if you are willing to take the time to do mental learning and spiritual enhancing exercises. Immerse yourself in the biographies and teachings of great spiritual role models of the past such as Confucius, Buddha and even in finding the core truths in the biased and colored beliefs and views of god believers
The same is true of happiness. The old James-Lange theory of emotions is that what we experience as emotions is the brain sensing different body states. Modern research suggests that there is a mental component to a felt emotion. So once again we are back to being able to increase happiness by mental exercises!
BEGIN IT
Improve yourself! Get the programs mentioned above and also some of the Train the Brain material on my website at http://awenman.com The material on my website will help you turn your new found expanded brain power into practical and applicable success in your life.
Just begin it and keep at it and miracles will come to pass. It has been shown that a bit of training each day is more effective than a few marathon sessions. To quote the German Shakespeare Goethe’s famous Begin It Now lines:
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
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