Use Guided Visualization to Expand Your Mind Powers

•Students Reprogram Your Mind to Be a Better Learner
Do you feel as if learning new things in school or at work is hard for you? A lack of confidence will actually make new learning even harder! Here is a way to use visualization to help you improve your learning. If you want to become a good student, it�s important to have confidence in yourself as a learner. It�s important to believe that you actually like learning, and it�s important to believe that you really enjoy the topic you are studying. Why? When you think that you�re...

•How to Create Confidence in Your Learning Ability
If you are a student who is studying and facing exams, you already know that you will benefit from learning better studying techniques and better note-taking methods. What you may not know is that an important part of being a good learner is to feel very confident about your learning ability. Why is it important to have good confidence in our ability to learn? When you don’t have a good confidence in your learning ability, you will approach learning situations and exams in a state of...

•Improve Your Word Power Easily
If you want to be a great communicator, do you need to have a great vocabulary? Not necessarily! In the history of the English language, some of the most dramatic messages that have ever been uttered used only very simple words to stir the blood, or touch the heart. Look at any well-known passage in the Bible. Chances are it doesn’t rely on fancy word manipulation for its power. Think of Lincoln’s Gettysberg Address. Although the language that President Lincoln used is not the...

•Use Your Breath to Improve Your Learning
Guess what action you’ve performed more often than any other in your life? Is it eating? Sleeping? Crying? Laughing? No! Give up? It’s breathing! You’ve been breathing pretty much non-stop since you were born, with few exceptions. So with all those years of practice you probably think you’ve figured out how to do it properly by now. Would it surprise you to learn that your breathing technique was probably better when you were an infant than it is today? Watch the way a baby breathes...

•How to Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age
No matter what our current age, we all want to have a healthy body and a healthy mind as we get older. There is not much pleasure in living a long life if our final years are spent in pain and if we lose our ability to think and remember. As much as we dread suffering physical pain and illness in old age, many of us fear even more the prospect of losing our mental capacities. We know that some people are able to live into their eighth and ninth decades still mentally sharp and physically...

•How to Improve Your Creative Thinking
Would you like to become more creative in your thinking? Before you answer yes or no, think about what that word creativity means to you. If you associate creativity with artistic expression, and you happen to be a middle-manager in a corporation, you may think increased creativity is not really necessary to your life. But creativity is something far, far broader than artistic expression. Your idea of a creative person might be someone who painting beautiful pictures all day long. Or...

•The Amazing Health Benefits of Berries
Long before winter comes, black bears in the forest spend all their time eating everything they can sink their teeth into. During the summer, bears eat and eat and eat, trying to get as fat as they possibly can, and when the weather turns cold, they look for a place to curl up and then they sleep the winter away. Now, the habits of bears might not seem like something you should try to follow. After all, doctors are always warning us humans that we shouldn�t overeat, and that we...

•Use Mind Maps to Increase Your Creative Thinking
Do you want an easy method to boost your creative thinking ability? It can be done with a simple change in the way you make notes when you are trying to organize your thoughts. When you need to organize your thoughts, you probably make notes the old fashioned way, writing down everything you think is important. If you want to improve your ability to generate new creative ideas, try the technique of making mind maps to organize your thoughts. There are several techniques that can help...

•Seven Types of Intelligence
Is there more than one major form of intelligence? Harvard professor Dr. Howard Gardner has been studying the topic of intelligence for many years and he has suggested that we should revise and expand our idea of what constitutes intelligence to include at least seven forms of intelligence. The types of intelligence proposed by Dr. Gardner are: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, social-interpersonal, and intra-personal. People who have a...

•Students Are You Taking Notes the Wrong Way
When you study, do you take notes the old fashioned way, writing down everything you think is important? There are many ways of taking notes, and for some people, the most effective way to remember a lot of information is to make learning maps or mind maps. Find out how. If you are a university or college student, you probably make a lot of notes when you are attending classes or reading your text books. Then later you review the notes you made when you are preparing for exams. You...