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Exercising The Body Improves Mental Ability

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In exercising the body, we stimulate the brain's abilities and capacities. People who are sedentary by their habits or nature are less likely to be as receptive to mental challenges than their vigorously exercising counterparts. Put simply, if you exercise your body, expansion and improvement of your cognition, creativity, neural plasticity, memory and other brain/mind functions becomes easier, and can be achieved significantly more efficiently. While physical exercise is no substitute for brain training, the latter becomes much easier if the former is made part of the whole mind-body fitness regimen. This has to do with a combination of several factors: 1) Increased brain oxygenation; 2) Improved neurotransmitter activity and chemical balance in the brain; 3) Easier ability to focus on intellectual tasks when body is in a relaxing or relaxed state after physical labor; 4) Heightened consciousness following exercise; 5) Brainwave (entrainment status) activity post-exercise is signi...

Best Exercise To Increase Optimism - Automatically, Rapidly, Re-Program Your Brainwave Activity

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CLICK ON THE PIC FOR HIGHER REZ Best Exercise To Increase Optimism - You Will Easily, Automatically, Rapidly, Re-Program Your Brainwave Activity . Friends and followers of The Braintenance Blog are familiar with the various notions of the subconscious, the ubermind, de-personalization, meditation, neuroplasticity, entrainment, cross-hemispheric intelligence, the electromagnetic and chemical properties of the brain and thought, intersynaptic neurotransmitters and their effects, pheromones, nature, nurture, changing synaptic chemistry, nootropic protocols and a host of other technical details and interesting theories relating to brain, mind, learning and feeling. What I want to do today, and during the course of these next several weeks, is to pass on to you the gift of increased optimism, based upon a three-step approach developed at McGill University . What you will need to do is: Take the optimism test This will give you an indication of how you compare to other people in your ge...

Raise Your Intelligence, Lower Your Stress - Braintenance!

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You'd like to be more intelligent, more successful, more respected and admired. You'd also like to eliminate stress, feel absolutely comfortable and be endlessly creative. In order to dso this, you must master your mind. You must train your brain. This only takes moments a day. Simply go to http://braintenance.blogspot.com/ , scroll around, and use our brain gym. Having said this, I must ask you a question: What expression is as ridiculous as " It takes one to know one." ? The answer (or at least the most popularly selected answer amongst a group of 4 people polled while I waited for my daughter at a train station ) was, " The more that things change, the more they remain the same. " The first expression is childish and follows no particular line of logic. The second, however is inherently conflictory and genuinely [if analyzed] meaningless. It cancels itself out. My personal favorite stupid, irreversible, oxymoronic expression is this classic: "LESS ...