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Discover the Power of Mental Rehearsal Part 2: Image Streaming

September 15, 2006 By Graham English

Image streaming is the exact technique used by geniuses such as Einstein, Edison and Tesla. Not only will image streaming enhance your creativity, it will actually increase your IQ! Image streaming is your doorway to the subconscious mind. This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Albert Einstein, brain, composing, consciousness, creativity, CreativityHacks, exercises, HowTo, image streaming, intelligence, IQ, memory, mental rehearsal, Nicholas Tesla, personal growth, problem solving, subconscious, Thomas Edison, visualization, visualizing

Music Makes Your Brain Happy

August 23, 2006 By Graham English

A neuroscientist explains why women want rock stars to father their children, and how melodies can work like Prozac. This looks like a good book: This Is Your Brain On Music. I always get nervous, though, when scientists try to reduce everything … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: brain, music, neuroscience, Wired

Hearing and Consciousness

August 21, 2006 By Graham English

From Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain Hearing is the first sense we develop in the womb. The regions of the brain that deal with hearing are the first to finish the developmental process called myelination, in which the connecting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch ear training, absolute sound, brain, consciousness, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, hearing, listening, listening practice, MindHacks, myelination, neurons, perfect pitch, pitch, senses, silence, sound, tuning fork, unconditional listening

Hack Your Musical Mind

August 17, 2006 By Graham English

From Mind Hacks: All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it. Brain scanning of musicians has shown that they have larger cortical representations of the body parts they use to play their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: beginners, brain, MindHacks, musicians, neuroimaging, neurons, neuroplasticity, Practice, skills

Tips From The World’s Greatest Hypnotist

August 11, 2006 By Graham English

Milton Erickson's power of influence was legendary. He was considered the greatest innovator of hypnosis and became famous for his unique hypnotic methods. He could put people into a hypnotic trance just by shaking hands. What Erickson understood … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: behavior, brain, brain waves, communication, conscious, EEG, HowTo, hypnosis, Hypnotic Influence, influence, Language, meaning, meditation, mental states, mind, NLP, persuasion, relationships, sleep, states, subconscious, tools, trance, unconscious

Learn How Mind Programming Works

August 7, 2006 By Graham English

Think of your brain wave in an altered state of consciousness as a piece of chewing gum stretched out. It gets thin and easily breaks apart if hit with new programming. When your brain reorganizes itself, it integrates the new information. In other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: altered states, behavior, brain, brain waves, consciousness, EEG, energy, hypnosis, meditation, mind, mind programming, physics, sleep

Noise Can Make You Smarter

July 30, 2006 By Graham English

From Noise can make you smarter: Wired Magazine interviews Bart Kosko, author of Noise, a book that argues that adding noise to our signals can actually make them clearer. Can background music make you smarter? The more you can concentrate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, concentration, Ear Training, noise, Practicing

“Neurogenesis Is An Optimistic Idea.”

June 28, 2006 By Graham English

The mind is like a muscle: it swells with exercise. Gould's and Kozorovitskiy's work reminds us not only how easy it is to hurt a brain, but how little it takes for that brain to heal. Give a primate just a few extra playthings, and its neurons are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: brain, mind, neurogenesis, neurons, Science

Savant For An Hour

June 10, 2006 By Graham English

Participants in the study were presented with 50 to 150 random elements on a monitor. Ten of the 12 participants improved their ability accurately to guess the number of elements immediately following TMS treatment to the left anterior temporal lobe, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: brain, magnets, savants, Science, TMS

The Ear Training You Do Today…

June 4, 2006 By Graham English

...is for tomorrow's ears. As you learn new skills or behaviors, neurons connect into new groups of cognitrons, where the connecting synapses are reinforced with repeated use. In other words, these new ideas need to "shake hands" a number of times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, cognitrons, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, neurons, Practice, synapses

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