Stop Trying! Creativity’s Ultimate Partner is Relaxation

Stop Trying! Creativity’s Ultimate Partner is Relaxation

Alpha Waves: The Key to Increasing Creativity and Solving Problems

All of us have experienced the frustration of trying until we’re exhausted without results, only to have the solution occur to us in the shower, on a walk or in a dream. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reveals that his best insights have occurred after a couple of beers or right before falling asleep. Albert Einstein said, “Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”

Why?

Henk J. Haarmann, PhD, researches divergent thinking, ...

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Focus and Concentration

Focus and Concentration

College Students Seek Elusive Key to Success

New Data On Successful Learning

College is challenging. A Harvard Study in 2011 revealed that only 56% of private college students finished a four year degree in six years. Among 18 countries tracked by the OECD, the United States finished last – 46 percent – of students finishing college. That puts us behind former Soviet-bloc states such as Slovakia (63 percent) and Poland (61 percent).

Why are so many students bailing ...

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Heal Your Body: Meditate!

Heal Your Body: Meditate!

Meditation Research Reveals Its Healing Power

Meditation has entered the mainstream of health care as a method of stress and pain reduction. The Mayo Clinic website reports that meditation is considered a type of mind-body complementary medicine, producing a deep state of relaxation and a tranquil mind. WebMD cites studies showing that meditation not only lowers blood pressure but also can amp up your immune system.

Meditation is now  used in hospitals as a therapy for chronic and terminal illness, to reduce ...

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Neurogenesis: Your Brain Renewed

Neurogenesis: Your Brain Renewed

Meditation Actually Grows Brains Cells

If you meditate, you may have reached the silence and depth you need to recharge and reconnect. Meditators often find they can transcend the things that drain their energies and emerge into a new wholeness, a more confident, inner directed path. Yet at one time, the benefits of meditation seemed to be wholly subjective.

Now, the effect ...

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Contagious Happiness

Contagious Happiness

Unexpected Results From Two Studies Show How We Can Be Happy

The happiness of others can transform your mood. In a study that looked at the happiness of nearly 5000 individuals over a period of twenty years, researchers found that when an individual becomes happy, the network effect unfolds beyond their friends.

 

“Your happiness depends not just on your choices and actions, but also on the choices and actions of people you don’t even know who are one, two and three degrees ...

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The Smartest Mice Workout

The Smartest Mice Workout

Scientists have found that exercise triggers neurogenesis, slowing and even reversing the brain’s physical decay. Neurogenesis is the creation of new brain cells.  This is particularly important because as we age, the brain, like all muscles and organs decline with underuse and age. Begining in our late 20’s most of us will lose 1% annually of the volume of the hippocampus, the brain’s center for learning and memory. Let’s not do the math. It’s too depressing. Instead let’s focus on ...

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Energy Management 2012

Energy Management 2012

Collective consciousness is detoxing and if you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to get pulled down into the muck of negativity.

When you make well being your first priority and choose activities and involvements that bring you joy, you inoculate yourself against the people and situations that drag you down.

Joy has many levels. The baseline for joy is well being. When you engage your mind, body and heart in processes that induce states of happiness and pleasure your attracting force grows ...

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