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Brainwave Entrainment For Mind Mastery By Douglas E. Castle for The Braintenance Blog And GEI Consulting External Audio And Visual Stimuli Can Change Brainwaves, Brain Chemistry And Your Thinking Brainwave entrainment is any practice that aims to cause brainwave frequencies to either mimic or to fall into step with a periodic stimulus having a frequency corresponding to the intended brain-state (for example, to induce sleep or to induce focus), usually attempted with the use of specialized light and sound effects. It depends upon a "frequency following" response based upon the assumption that the human brain has a tendency to change its dominant EEG frequency toward the frequency of a dominant external stimulus. Entrainment is not to be confused with subliminal programming where thought patterns are subconsciously or superconsciously receiving actual audio or visual messages to induce behavioral or mood changes. For Entrainment, stimulus may be audio, as in the case of bin...

Your Personal DiSC Assessment: Braintenance – Douglas E. Castle How will you work in a team setting? What probable role would you gravitate toward? Will you play well with others? DiSC is a personal assessment tool used to improve work productivity, teamwork and communication. DiSC is non-judgmental and helps people discuss their behavioral differences. If you participate in a DiSC program, you'll be asked to complete a series of questions that produce a detailed report about your personality and behavior. What does DiSC stand for? Dominance Person places emphasis on accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence Influence Person places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, openness, relationships Steadiness Person places emphasis on cooperation, sincerity, dependability Conscientiousness Person places emphasis on quality and accuracy, expertise, competency Each of us can be placed (after having been tested) into one of the above categories. You'll get to test yours...

The image below strikes fear into the hearts of even the bravest persons. It is always worrisome and is universally annoying. It's clearly a sad case of "associative context". If you were to see this little video without knowing what it signified [for example, if you were living in certain parts of the Amazon rainforest], you might actually find it mesmerizing and quite soothing. Why not share it with everyone you know? http://Braintenance.blogspot.com .  Douglas E. Castle BRAINTENANCE: Train, Strain And Improve Your Brain. Expand Your Mind. http://braintenance.blogspot.com Braintenance contains articles, resources, exercises, games and specially-designed protocols to improve the power of your brain and your mind in every significant aspect, including memory, cognition, IQ, plasticity, creativity and problem-solving ability. Key Terms : brain, mind, cognitive enhancement, memory, brain gym exercises, IQ, plasticity, mind expansion, creativity, meditation, altered ...

BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUES: TOP PROVEN METHODS By: Douglas E. Castle Of GEI Consulting For The Braintenance Blog Utilize Brainstorming To Unleash The Power Of Your Mind Your mind is an endlessly powerful, multi-dimensional multipurpose tool. Regardless of its incredible power, too much conscious focus on attaining a particular goal or on solving a specific, perplexing problem eventually causes a sort of “burnout,” where creative methods and solutions become increasingly elusive as you become increasingly fatigued. It is at times like these, when the indirect subconscious approach, i.e., solo brainstorming, can provide us with a renewed perspective. While most people talk about brainstorming in groups (“let's toss some ideas around and see what we come up with...”), in this article we'll find ways of brainstorming alone using a combination of techniques and approaches. At its best, brainstorming is a means of combining the power of the subconscious with the power of the colle...

The following fabulous memory hacks (I'm using the term "hacks" in the non-pejorative sense of the term) were recently described in an article by Bruce Price in the Blog “Mental_Floss” which I happened to stumble upon while casually surfing about the labyrinth of, well, StumbleUpon. While the original article listed “10 Mnemonic Tricks,” I found the first 7 of them to be worth sharing; the other three (probably added in the interest of making an even 10), where either impractical or (pun intended) unmemorable. Use these as part of your memorization mastery regimen for better Braintenance, my dear Cranial Campers. But be advised that they are not substitutes for true native memory development – they are merely shortcuts where our underdeveloped memories would otherwise fail us. Those few of us blessed with eidetic or photographic memories may simply skim over this article rapidly. 1. The rhyme. For hundreds of years, schoolchildren started the study of American history w...

Suicide Deaths The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects data about mortality in the U.S., including deaths by suicide. In 2013 (the most recent year for which full data are available), 41,149 suicides were reported, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans . In that year, someone in the country died by suicide every 12.8 minutes. Suicide Warning Signs The following signs may mean someone is at risk for suicide. The risk of suicide is greater if a behavior is new or has increased and if it seems related to a painful event, loss, or change. If you or someone you know exhibits any of these signs, seek help as soon as possible by calling the Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Talking about wanting to die or to kill themselves. Looking for a way to kill themselves, such as searching online or buying a gun Talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live. Talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain. Talking about being ...

Six Degrees Of Separation: Getting Connected By Douglas E. Castle For The Braintenance Blog There is a theoretical maximum of only six persons (connections, similar to links in a chain) between you and anyone whom you'd like to meet in the entire world. Some quick background information follows: Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called "Chains." In the 1950's, Ithiel de Sola Pool (MIT) and Manfred Kochen (IBM) set out to prove the theory mathematically. Although they were able to phrase the question (given a set N of people, what is the probability that each member of N is connected to another member via k_1, k_2, k_3...k_n links?), after twenty years they were still unable to solve the problem to their o...