Anyone Can Increase Their Brainpower
January 24th, 2008 by aaks
Believe it or not, it isn’t difficult to harness the brainpower all of us possess, if only we knew how. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that throughout life, on average, we only use about 25% of our brain - including the university educated intellectuals in our ranks!
As a practising psychologist, I frequently meet people who desperately want to increase their powers of learning, heighten their intelligence and perception - make a better life for themselves and their families, in fact!
Most of the time, people think that super- brain power and function is beyond their reach. They mistakenly feel that super intelligence is only for those who are born with such potential. Yet…they couldn’t be more off beam. The simple fact is - we all have the intellectual potential - it’s just that most people don’t know how to cultivate it and use it.
From the day we are born until the day we die, our brain receives and stores millions upon millions of facts, figures and experiences. This storage space is our memory bank, just like a computer but much more adaptable and complex. Our brain is us, our very being - that which makes each and every one of us individual. It is part of our Soul, dictating on a higher plain what we think and feel (our emotions). It can think positively or negatively, thoughts which can make us feel well or ill (psychosomatic - mind affecting body).
To keep our brain healthy and efficient requires exercise, just like the muscles in our body. Like a car engine, it requires top-quality fuel for peak performance. Most people fail to realise that the foods they eat (or don’t eat) have an influence on the brain, some foods dull its performance and others help fire it into action. It is often said that physical tiredness is healthy and mental tiredness is unhealthy, a basic truth, in fact. However, it can also be said that a tired brain is due to our own doing, our general lifestyle and/or lack of brain training.
You don’t have to pump iron and break a bead of sweat to train your brain. Why then, don’t we do it? Simply, because we take it for granted. We expect it to perform day after day without complaint. Or if it does begin to cry out for mercy, we either get a headache (commonly caused by the neck and shoulder muscles cramping up due to stress) or become tired and feel out of sorts. Yet, it need’nt have happened - if our brain had been exercised and trained in the proper manner
What does it take to have an efficient, intellectual brain with a high IQ? Not a lot really. Indeed, you can do it at any time of the day, even as you sleep. One simple ingredient is learning to concentrate solely on concentrating on what you are doing at any moment. No…I haven’t made a typing error. I’ll say it again - learning to concentrate on concentrating on what your are doing! This is commonly known as ‘hyper-concentration’, completely blotting out everything other than what you are doing - thinking, working or relaxing. You cannot improve your brain power and intellect without ‘hyper concentration’ a skill that can be learned in next to no time, believe it or not - and you won’t even strain a bodily muscle. Remember, you can train your brain anywhere and at anytime -once you know how.
Mental discipline is another factor in having healthy and positive thoughts. No problem is insoluble, if you know the most important rule required to tackle it. That basic rule is ‘positive thinking′. In other words, never cross a bridge until you come to it. You see, imagining the worst befuddles your positive thought process. Your imagination runs riot and you can’t see the wood for the trees, so to speak. The cause of the problem totally eludes you. Therefore, you cannot find a solution. Here, hyper-concentration and problem solving become closely linked - one cannot work without the other. Self-doubt and a fertile imagination never solved any problem. These two negative ingredients lead to inefficiency, mistakes, ineptitude, self-consciousness, depression and many other self-destructing and inhibiting forces.
So, contrary to what you may think, you have the brain power within you to progress in life. To become someone who is the success story you never thought you would be. All it takes is knowing how to go about it!
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James Keith is a practising psychologist specialising in intelligence building and self-improvement. He has also written many specialist papers on the subject.
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