Speed Read: Got Optimism?
If you ask 100 folks if their glass is half full or half empty,
meaning optimistic verses pessimistic, 99 will give you a positive
answer. It is an instinct, part of our originally programming.
Research over seventy-five years indicates our language, memory,
and analysis (thinking) are selectively positive. In both speaking and
writing we use three-times as many positive, optimistic ideas as
negative, pessimistic words.
It’s in our genes: studies of healthy people show a positive bias toward
the future, their own progress, and good times. Even in the wake of adversity,
defeat and rejection, a positive denial is associated with well-being.
Optimism is a Denial of Reality
If we focus our attention on our surroundings we see a dangerous reality.
Illness, death, and financial catastrophes are common, and we realistically
know our own life is filled with potential pitfalls as we age.
If we concentrated on the dangers of crossing the street, we will stay frozen in bed.
Depression
Bi-polar disorder, experienced by up to 40% of our population within their lifetimes, is characterized by a negative view of ourselves, our experiences and
a future dictated by our pessimism and hopelessness.
Many psychologists believe Homo sapiens are programmed to resist change in
how we think, even when it is harmful. We are in protection of our ego and want to
remain in the status quo, our comfort zone, and homeostasis (equilibrium), even when it hurts.
How realistic (provable) is our belief in an afterlife or the foundations of the major
religions? It requires optimism and a selective denial of reality to believe; yet we do it.
Reality
Good psychological functioning: our perception of reality is considered mentally healthy when what we see corresponds to what is actually out there. Reality testing
indicates that only the most minimal human expectations about the future turn out to be true.
Research consistently shows we evaluate ourselves as above average, and others
as below the norm; we are positive and the world is negative. It is part of our
programming to continuously update (revise) and make up stories (fabricate)
about our personal history. It is normal and human to take credit for success
and deny our responsibility for failures, defeats and rejections.
Illusion or Delusion
Optimism is a necessary illusion to maintain civilization. If we focus on death and
dying we lose focus, motivation and the ability to change our circumstances.
A delusion is not responsive (an illusion is) to a realty check. We buy life insurance
because we know death is a certainty even though the date is uncertain.
Optimism and illusions are created by our Limbic System, the site of our emotions.
All major decisions in life are cleared through our limbic system before offered
to our left-hemisphere of logic and reason for confirmation. Emotions create our motivation to act to improve our circumstances. Reasoning has a veto power over radical emotional decision-making.
Resilience
Optimism is linked to persistence and determination. Why didn’t you quit trying
to learn to drive a car when you failed in the beginning? If you are like me, you
fell a dozen times and ended up bleeding from knee scrapes learning to ride a
bike. Why didn’t you quit trying?
Typing on your word processor? Surfing the Internet? They all took persistence
in the face of failure, and a powerful tolerance for frustration. The winners stayed
optimistic and went on to succeed, the losers?
Goggle: The Future of Illusion, S. Freud, 1928;
Optimism And Cardiovascular Death
A Fifteen Year Study
Wageningen University, the Netherlands, in a research project lead by Dr. Rick J. Gitay, tracking over one thousand patients for fifteen years:
Between 1991 and 2001, of the 466 men and 475 women in the Delfland Psychiatric
Center in Netherlands, 397 died. The researchers concluded these deaths were
directly related to the patient’s self-reported pessimistic outlook on their lives.
The participants ranged from ages 65 to 85.
Google: November 2004 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
“We found that the trait of optimism was an important long-term
determinant of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality it elderly
subjects. We took in consideration sociodemographic characteristics
and cardiovascular factors.
A predisposition toward optimism seemed to provide a survival benefit
in elderly subjects with relatively short life expectancies otherwise.
Endwords
Those folks who look on the bright side of life are more likely to live
considerably longer than pessimists
Death rate in the studied group from all causes was 55% lower for
those with a more optimistic outlook compared to pessimists. And the
risks of dying from heart disease were all most 25% reduced.
More. The happiest men cut their risk of dying from any cause by
almost two-thirds, twice as much as women.
Suggestion
Can you put a fake smile on your puss? Pay attention, this single strategy can
add up to a decade to your longevity. If you will stop for one-minute, three-times
daily, and create a Duchenne Smile (Google it) on your face, you will improve
your life expectancy.
N.B. Smile with the muscles of your EYES, in addition to your mouth muscles.
Try it now. Do you need a better reason to do a make-belief smile than adding
healthy years to your life? If you create this new ritual of devoting three-minutes
a day to really smiling for no damn reason, you will feel healthier, and given the
proviso you do not get crushed by a Mack truck, live years longer.
Dr. Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania said, “Optimists will try to avoid
and escape bad events.” It may seem like a delusional ritual, but it is really a realistic illusion paying vast dividends. You must have continuing purposes and
meaning to your life, or you lose the drive to survive.
Mae West, a 1930’s sexy actress said, “I used to be Snow White. I drifted.”
We must never permit ourselves to drift from being an active optimist.
Ask us how you can own the competitive edge in school and career by reading
and remembering three-books, articles and reports, in the time your peers can
hardly finish one. It’s important to your mental health and longevity.
The secret words are: “Speed Read”.
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
hbw@speedlearning.org
www.speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500
www.speedread.tv
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Speed Read: Are You a Sheep or a Goat?
Not being one who quotes the Bible, gimme some slack. Mathews: 25:32-33.
It says, the Sheep are given eternal life, but the Goats are cast into the Lake
of Fire.
The Goats have some personality traits somebody up there does not like.
They are capricious, arbitrary, and erratic, plus flighty, inconsistent and
mercurial. So far they sound like folks I like to hang with.
In the field Goats poke their heads through fences and mind other people’s
(sheep) business. They can stand upright on their hind legs to grab those
out of reach tender leaves. People who do that are called speculators,
promoters or inventors.
Sheep love the safety and security of fences, Goats are burglars who figure
out how to open the gate and escape. People like that are certain to be uninhibited.
Gregarious
The term gregarious is never used for Goats, it means belonging to a flock
or a herd, being sociable, and liking the company of your peers. Sheep, oh yeah.
Goats? Not a chance in the slaughterhouse.
Animals we like, horses, and Elsie the Cow and her calves, and even wolves clown around together, but you’ll never catch a William Goat (Billy) socializing at parties.
Goats are natural born leaders or they just go off on their own independently.
Give a Goat a Bad Name
Meat packers figured out Goats are smarter than Border Collies, and work for
the labels on tin cans. They trained Goats to move sheep into pens, and then to the
slaughterhouse to fulfill their destinies and receive their just-desserts.
Judas got a bad rap for taking the alleged 30 pieces of silver for giving up his pal,
J.C. The most recent Biblical research exonerates Judas, but that’s a different
goat’s tail. Some banana gave the name, Judas Goat to an entire species of
mammals for following his/her instincts and helping farmers.
The Goat has a quieting influence on Sheep because like people, particularly
Russians, Sheep must have someone in charge to tell them where to go and what to do. Why insult them for being Influentials, convincing leaders who pave the way for the group destiny?
Follower
A Goat, unlike his constituents the Sheep, follows his/her own lead, not the shepherd. So our Goat is an unsettling influence. Independence is disparaged
in Western society too, and dissenters and contrarians have their heads chopped
for not following the leadership (government).
Let’s honor the Goat for his attitude and behaviors, not hang an insulting moniker
like Judas Goat on him.
The Slaughterhouse
At the last second after leading the sheep to slaughter, the supervising Goat is allowed to escape by a side-gate. Shouldn’t he be rewarded with a chocolate chip cookie or his freedom? Was it the Goat’s idea to kill the Sheep as food for Homo
sapiens?
Back to the Bible
If a Christian is unpredictable, independent, and considers him/herself above it all,
do they do the Lake of Fire dance? Is it the Devil who makes some of us want to
take over and be leaders or our human instincts?
I remember my 4th grade report card, my parents freaked when the sentence checked off read, “your son cannot play well with others.” Still cannot, and need
my privacy and personal space. Wouldn’t change a thing if I could.
The Goat does not want to be led; he will lead, but is grateful to be left alone. We both have mastered the ability to enjoy our own company, set our own goals, and dance to a tune only we can hear.
Is the Goat or the human dissenter/contrarian going to change?
Nah. We go out own way and keep a fire-retardant suit handy to reject one last time, the voice and verdict of our Master. Your damn Lake of Fire don’t scare
the likes of the Goat and Us.
We cool miscreants have a vast experience in contrarianism. We mostly accept full responsibility for our actions without too much self-pity, self-importance, and human fears. Like Avis, We Try Harder.
Let the Goody-Too-Shoes, (suck-ups) bums follow the easy path of conformity. We trek the path less traveled, but offering greater fun. It’s our nature, huh?
You can have your way with the Sheep, but Master or Devil, Get Thee way-behind me, and my Goat ways.
Check out your life if you live Endogenously (internally driven), and quit paying
attention to the Exogenous (externally driven) life.
Endwords
If you wish to be independent and a Billy-Goat, we suggest you be smarter than the
Sheep. How? Read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers
can hardly finish one. What else? Double your long-term memory. Ask us how
to get started being a Billy-Goat, and not a Sheep.
The secret words are: “Speed Learn”.
See ya
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500
www.speedread.tv
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Not being one who quotes the Bible, gimme some slack. Mathews: 25:32-33.
It says, the Sheep are given eternal life, but the Goats are cast into the Lake
of Fire.
The Goats have some personality traits somebody up there does not like.
They are capricious, arbitrary, and erratic, plus flighty, inconsistent and
mercurial. So far they sound like folks I like to hang with.
In the field Goats poke their heads through fences and mind other people’s
(sheep) business. They can stand upright on their hind legs to grab those
out of reach tender leaves. People who do that are called speculators,
promoters or inventors.
Sheep love the safety and security of fences, Goats are burglars who figure
out how to open the gate and escape. People like that are certain to be uninhibited.
Gregarious
The term gregarious is never used for Goats, it means belonging to a flock
or a herd, being sociable, and liking the company of your peers. Sheep, oh yeah.
Goats? Not a chance in the slaughterhouse.
Animals we like, horses, and Elsie the Cow and her calves, and even wolves clown around together, but you’ll never catch a William Goat (Billy) socializing at parties.
Goats are natural born leaders or they just go off on their own independently.
Give a Goat a Bad Name
Meat packers figured out Goats are smarter than Border Collies, and work for
the labels on tin cans. They trained Goats to move sheep into pens, and then to the
slaughterhouse to fulfill their destinies and receive their just-desserts.
Judas got a bad rap for taking the alleged 30 pieces of silver for giving up his pal,
J.C. The most recent Biblical research exonerates Judas, but that’s a different
goat’s tail. Some banana gave the name, Judas Goat to an entire species of
mammals for following his/her instincts and helping farmers.
The Goat has a quieting influence on Sheep because like people, particularly
Russians, Sheep must have someone in charge to tell them where to go and what to do. Why insult them for being Influentials, convincing leaders who pave the way for the group destiny?
Follower
A Goat, unlike his constituents the Sheep, follows his/her own lead, not the shepherd. So our Goat is an unsettling influence. Independence is disparaged
in Western society too, and dissenters and contrarians have their heads chopped
for not following the leadership (government).
Let’s honor the Goat for his attitude and behaviors, not hang an insulting moniker
like Judas Goat on him.
The Slaughterhouse
At the last second after leading the sheep to slaughter, the supervising Goat is allowed to escape by a side-gate. Shouldn’t he be rewarded with a chocolate chip cookie or his freedom? Was it the Goat’s idea to kill the Sheep as food for Homo
sapiens?
Back to the Bible
If a Christian is unpredictable, independent, and considers him/herself above it all,
do they do the Lake of Fire dance? Is it the Devil who makes some of us want to
take over and be leaders or our human instincts?
I remember my 4th grade report card, my parents freaked when the sentence checked off read, “your son cannot play well with others.” Still cannot, and need
my privacy and personal space. Wouldn’t change a thing if I could.
The Goat does not want to be led; he will lead, but is grateful to be left alone. We both have mastered the ability to enjoy our own company, set our own goals, and dance to a tune only we can hear.
Is the Goat or the human dissenter/contrarian going to change?
Nah. We go out own way and keep a fire-retardant suit handy to reject one last time, the voice and verdict of our Master. Your damn Lake of Fire don’t scare
the likes of the Goat and Us.
We cool miscreants have a vast experience in contrarianism. We mostly accept full responsibility for our actions without too much self-pity, self-importance, and human fears. Like Avis, We Try Harder.
Let the Goody-Too-Shoes, (suck-ups) bums follow the easy path of conformity. We trek the path less traveled, but offering greater fun. It’s our nature, huh?
You can have your way with the Sheep, but Master or Devil, Get Thee way-behind me, and my Goat ways.
Check out your life if you live Endogenously (internally driven), and quit paying
attention to the Exogenous (externally driven) life.
Endwords
If you wish to be independent and a Billy-Goat, we suggest you be smarter than the
Sheep. How? Read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers
can hardly finish one. What else? Double your long-term memory. Ask us how
to get started being a Billy-Goat, and not a Sheep.
The secret words are: “Speed Learn”.
See ya
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500
www.speedread.tv
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speed Read: Success, Money And the Ideomotor Effect
Speed Read: Success, Money & The Ideomotor Effect
By H.Bernard Wechsler
September 29 2008
Success, Money And The Ideomotor Effect
Have you ever seen a true believer using a Dowser to find water or oil?
What about a seemingly sane person using a pendulum to answer financial
questions? Yes, like the ouija board.
According to the skepdic.com and other famous revealers of truth,
the messages are caused by unconsciously moving the hand holding the pendulum to produce the pendulum swings.
All the smart-money says it’s your own suggestions at a subliminal (subconscious) that answers your questions. If you are optimistic, your hand moves the pendulum
ever so slightly to indicate yes, and vice-versa.
History
There is a research history going back to 1833 by French chemist, Michel Chevreul, and in 1852 by British scientist William B. Carpenter, refuting the independent reality of both the Ideomotor Effect using the pendulum and Dowsing (Divining).
Do you get answers using the pendulum? Its critics say yes, but the responses
are not from the spiritual realm, but your subconscious sending hints to your
conscious mind.
Supernatural or Human
All scientists and skeptics agree the secret of the movements is the almost
undetectable motor movements of the hand holding the dowser or pendulum.
Is simple suggestibility the secret of human healing of a cut, the actions of our
heart beating, respiration of our lungs, and blood pressure?
All of the aforementioned are produced by our nonconscious mind, our brainstem,
and basal ganglia. We label them derivatives of our Central, Autonomic, Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems.
Our conscious mind is total oblivious of the actions of the heart pumping (unless
it races or stops), blood pressure (unless there is a stroke), and inhaling and exhaling (unless there is a lack of oxygen).
Maybe, just maybe the communication between our conscious and nonconscious
mind is on autopilot, but can be made visible by the pendulum or dowser.
Google: The Influence of Suggestion in Modifying And Directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition. See: Dr. Ray Hyman, 1999.
Corpus Callosum
Our brain is largely (80%) filled with our left and right hemispheres. The left-brain
(controls the right side of the body) is the site for language, planning, and reasoning,
reading, writing and arithmetic (science too). It is verbal dominant.
The right-brain is non-verbal and handles the automatic processes of the body including metabolism, hormones, enzymes, and neuropeptides. All our senses including vision, hearing and kinesthetic, are processed by our right-hemisphere.
Emotions (Limbic System), and our Reptilian Complex (instincts and reflexes) are
unlearned, inherited fixed action patterns, hardwired in our brain structures.
Both functional and structural areas of the brain control blood pressure, heart beat
and respiration.
In between the left and right hemispheres is the corpus callosum (< L firm body).
It is responsible for communication between consciousness and nonconsciousness,
the left and right brains. See also the anterior and hippocampal commissures.
There is an ongoing conversation between body and mind, and left and right hemispheres. Which part of our brain is responsible for the Internal Dialogue, a/k/a
stream of consciousness, self-talk, and subvocalization?
Answer: Neocortex and hippocampus. Both brain structures use all the senses especially visual, auditory and kinesthetic (touch) to process the contents of the Internal Dialogue. It is turned on 24/7 offering 60,000 thoughts daily, without our conscious intervention.
The Contrarian Point of View
The Ideomotor Effect is not blatant nonsense nor explained by the power of
self-deception through suggestion. It is a link between the left and right hemispheres and the initiation of physiological changes.
Who says so?
The leading specialists in hypnosis, and NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming)
teach that we can learn to initiate communication to our queries from our conscious
mind directed to our nonconscious mind. They do not make it sound like dowsing or
ouija boarding, more like hypnosis or autosuggestion.
Google: Dr. Milton H. Erickson, Richard Bandler PhD and John Grinder PhD
They use and not abuse the ability to create a dialogue between the left and right
brain, consciousness and the nonconscious brain.
They agree with Dr. Chevreul that involuntary motor responses can be produced
by a dominant idea. The difference is Chevreul did not have the benefit of 20th and
21st century neurological brain research of hypnosis and the placebo effect.
You can learn schemas, strategies, and use tools to access knowledge unknown
to our conscious mind. You can present challenges to our right hemisphere requesting solutions involving finances, personal relationships and healing the body.
Subtle Cues
Suggestions can guide our behavior, feelings and state of mind. Our expectations and mood are dominated by subtle cues and nonconscious body language caused
without our volition. Suggestions accepted, can cause bodily and mental changes.
Actors who move our feelings have mastered the use of gestures and facial movements aroused by the character he/she plays. They rely on their automatic
activities of their Limbic (emotions) system, instincts and reflexes to activate our
Mirror Neurons to copy what we see and hear through empathy.
Have you watched an Olympic athlete lift 1,200 pounds, and found yourself grunting while subconsciously helping him/her make the lift?
Your Mirror Neurons make you react to the activities and feelings of others through
what we are seeing, hearing, and reading. It is not volitional, but at a subconscious level.
Endwords
Hypnosis was rejected as superstition and dementia by British and American scientists well into the 20th century. Later the AMA and ADA approved hypnosis
for pain control. It still has an aura of mystery and phoniness after centuries of
proof it offers pain relieving benefits.
Recent scientific research using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery)
proved that during hypnosis the area of the brain called, ACC (Anterior Cingulate
Cortex) is strongly activated. It is not merely suggestion, it produces physical results.
The Placebo effect has been disbelieved and ridiculed by many scientists as mere
suggestion. Today the Placebo effect is known to activate the body in up to 75% of individuals tested.
Researchers have proven our Mu Opioid Receptors is the direct cause of the Placebo effect, not the power of mere suggestion. When your physician promises a healing by taking a powerless sugar pill, and you believe him because of your trust in his medical skills, your body responds positively in 50-75% of the cases.
Hypnosis, Placebos, and the Ideomotor Effect all produce physiological changes, and initiate communication between left and right hemispheres, and the mind-body connection.
Check out how you can integrate the knowledge of both left and right hemispheres for personal success in school, career, and your relationships.
In the future you may read about how the pendulum and dowser, like hypnosis and the placebo, are accepted as scientifically valid. For the present you must do your own research, a/k/a Mind Experiments. We recommend you check it out.
Last Point: Would it help your schooling or career in reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one?
Ask us how to triple your reading skills, and double your long-term memory permanently. The secret words: "Speed Read".
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
www.speedread.tv
1-877-567-2500
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By H.Bernard Wechsler
September 29 2008
Success, Money And The Ideomotor Effect
Have you ever seen a true believer using a Dowser to find water or oil?
What about a seemingly sane person using a pendulum to answer financial
questions? Yes, like the ouija board.
According to the skepdic.com and other famous revealers of truth,
the messages are caused by unconsciously moving the hand holding the pendulum to produce the pendulum swings.
All the smart-money says it’s your own suggestions at a subliminal (subconscious) that answers your questions. If you are optimistic, your hand moves the pendulum
ever so slightly to indicate yes, and vice-versa.
History
There is a research history going back to 1833 by French chemist, Michel Chevreul, and in 1852 by British scientist William B. Carpenter, refuting the independent reality of both the Ideomotor Effect using the pendulum and Dowsing (Divining).
Do you get answers using the pendulum? Its critics say yes, but the responses
are not from the spiritual realm, but your subconscious sending hints to your
conscious mind.
Supernatural or Human
All scientists and skeptics agree the secret of the movements is the almost
undetectable motor movements of the hand holding the dowser or pendulum.
Is simple suggestibility the secret of human healing of a cut, the actions of our
heart beating, respiration of our lungs, and blood pressure?
All of the aforementioned are produced by our nonconscious mind, our brainstem,
and basal ganglia. We label them derivatives of our Central, Autonomic, Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems.
Our conscious mind is total oblivious of the actions of the heart pumping (unless
it races or stops), blood pressure (unless there is a stroke), and inhaling and exhaling (unless there is a lack of oxygen).
Maybe, just maybe the communication between our conscious and nonconscious
mind is on autopilot, but can be made visible by the pendulum or dowser.
Google: The Influence of Suggestion in Modifying And Directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition. See: Dr. Ray Hyman, 1999.
Corpus Callosum
Our brain is largely (80%) filled with our left and right hemispheres. The left-brain
(controls the right side of the body) is the site for language, planning, and reasoning,
reading, writing and arithmetic (science too). It is verbal dominant.
The right-brain is non-verbal and handles the automatic processes of the body including metabolism, hormones, enzymes, and neuropeptides. All our senses including vision, hearing and kinesthetic, are processed by our right-hemisphere.
Emotions (Limbic System), and our Reptilian Complex (instincts and reflexes) are
unlearned, inherited fixed action patterns, hardwired in our brain structures.
Both functional and structural areas of the brain control blood pressure, heart beat
and respiration.
In between the left and right hemispheres is the corpus callosum (< L firm body).
It is responsible for communication between consciousness and nonconsciousness,
the left and right brains. See also the anterior and hippocampal commissures.
There is an ongoing conversation between body and mind, and left and right hemispheres. Which part of our brain is responsible for the Internal Dialogue, a/k/a
stream of consciousness, self-talk, and subvocalization?
Answer: Neocortex and hippocampus. Both brain structures use all the senses especially visual, auditory and kinesthetic (touch) to process the contents of the Internal Dialogue. It is turned on 24/7 offering 60,000 thoughts daily, without our conscious intervention.
The Contrarian Point of View
The Ideomotor Effect is not blatant nonsense nor explained by the power of
self-deception through suggestion. It is a link between the left and right hemispheres and the initiation of physiological changes.
Who says so?
The leading specialists in hypnosis, and NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming)
teach that we can learn to initiate communication to our queries from our conscious
mind directed to our nonconscious mind. They do not make it sound like dowsing or
ouija boarding, more like hypnosis or autosuggestion.
Google: Dr. Milton H. Erickson, Richard Bandler PhD and John Grinder PhD
They use and not abuse the ability to create a dialogue between the left and right
brain, consciousness and the nonconscious brain.
They agree with Dr. Chevreul that involuntary motor responses can be produced
by a dominant idea. The difference is Chevreul did not have the benefit of 20th and
21st century neurological brain research of hypnosis and the placebo effect.
You can learn schemas, strategies, and use tools to access knowledge unknown
to our conscious mind. You can present challenges to our right hemisphere requesting solutions involving finances, personal relationships and healing the body.
Subtle Cues
Suggestions can guide our behavior, feelings and state of mind. Our expectations and mood are dominated by subtle cues and nonconscious body language caused
without our volition. Suggestions accepted, can cause bodily and mental changes.
Actors who move our feelings have mastered the use of gestures and facial movements aroused by the character he/she plays. They rely on their automatic
activities of their Limbic (emotions) system, instincts and reflexes to activate our
Mirror Neurons to copy what we see and hear through empathy.
Have you watched an Olympic athlete lift 1,200 pounds, and found yourself grunting while subconsciously helping him/her make the lift?
Your Mirror Neurons make you react to the activities and feelings of others through
what we are seeing, hearing, and reading. It is not volitional, but at a subconscious level.
Endwords
Hypnosis was rejected as superstition and dementia by British and American scientists well into the 20th century. Later the AMA and ADA approved hypnosis
for pain control. It still has an aura of mystery and phoniness after centuries of
proof it offers pain relieving benefits.
Recent scientific research using fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery)
proved that during hypnosis the area of the brain called, ACC (Anterior Cingulate
Cortex) is strongly activated. It is not merely suggestion, it produces physical results.
The Placebo effect has been disbelieved and ridiculed by many scientists as mere
suggestion. Today the Placebo effect is known to activate the body in up to 75% of individuals tested.
Researchers have proven our Mu Opioid Receptors is the direct cause of the Placebo effect, not the power of mere suggestion. When your physician promises a healing by taking a powerless sugar pill, and you believe him because of your trust in his medical skills, your body responds positively in 50-75% of the cases.
Hypnosis, Placebos, and the Ideomotor Effect all produce physiological changes, and initiate communication between left and right hemispheres, and the mind-body connection.
Check out how you can integrate the knowledge of both left and right hemispheres for personal success in school, career, and your relationships.
In the future you may read about how the pendulum and dowser, like hypnosis and the placebo, are accepted as scientifically valid. For the present you must do your own research, a/k/a Mind Experiments. We recommend you check it out.
Last Point: Would it help your schooling or career in reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one?
Ask us how to triple your reading skills, and double your long-term memory permanently. The secret words: "Speed Read".
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
www.speedread.tv
1-877-567-2500
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Speed Read: Secret Warm-Ups For Geniuses
Speed Read: Got a Warm-Up For Reading?
Is there a sport without a warm-up? Baseball batters swing 2-3 bats with donut
weights, football players run up a sweat, and boxers and wrestlers beat themselves
up to prepare for the match.
Reading Prep
What if you knew how to seriously improve your reading speed, comprehension and
memory, and all it took was five-minutes?
We tested 1,000 school students and corporate executives using these three (3) warm-up exercises. They averaged a 75% increase in reading speed, and up to 50% to their long-term memory. One year later they were retested, and these reading and learning improvements continued.
Raise Your Vibrational Rate
Do have the right state-of-mind and point-of-view when you sit down to read and learn? We found 99% of students and executives immediately dive into the material
and have difficulty with complex, abstract ideas. Soon they get bored, anxious and
stressed, and blame the material.
Vibrational Exercise
Did you know your body is deeply involved in all learning? How? Sure your mind
is the dominant force in logic, reasoning and memory, but your body must be in
a higher vibrational rate to keep you in the Zone, in the Flow, and focused.
Exercise #1
Call it: Breathe, Stretch, Shake, and Let-it-Go!
a) Stand up, take a deep diaphragmatic breath (inhale), hold it for ten seconds,
and slowly exhale through your nose. Do it a second time, and a third.
b) Now, stretch out both your arms, and then your left, and your right leg.
c) Shake your body like a dog after a bath. Twist your neck and bend your
your back. Loosen up.
d) Finally, slap both hands against the sides of your body and shout, “Let-it-
Go!” to release all negative thoughts from your mind-body connection.
The exercise requires about 90 seconds.
Exercise #2
Peripheral Vision Focus
You have been using Foveal (hard focus) acute, sharp since kindergarten, and it
causes lousy reading skills. You read one-word-at-a-time, and hear the words of
each sentence in your mind (internal dialogue). It causes a snailing reading speed.
Speedlearning emphasizes a wide, broad (soft focus) called Peripheral vision.
The chief benefit of adding peripheral (side) vision, while keeping your Foveal vision, is reading, comprehending and remembering up to six-words at a time
instead of just one.
We speak to folks looking them in the eye (hard focus), watch tv, play video games, and surf the web and type, with the same acute foveal vision. So what? It is hard
on your retina and often causes Dry Eye, and reading fatigue.
We recommend adding your peripheral vision which is broad and easy on the retina, because it adds up to 75% to your reading and learning skills.
Lamniscate (Infinity Symbol)
a) sit down, focus on a specific point in front of you in-line with your eyes.
b) Using your dominant hand, draw a make-believe Sleeping-8 from your
far-left across to your far-right. It is the number eight inclined on its back.
We call it the Infinity Symbol.
c) Do not move your head nor your eyes, look straight ahead, but widen
your focus to see the left and right sides surrounding you. Next, add
taking in the areas Above and Below the specific point in front of you.
You are easily capable of seeing 165 degrees horizontally, and 130 degrees
vertically using your peripheral vision.
d) Spend about 90 seconds letting your eyes adjust to the infinity symbol by
using your peripheral vision eye muscles.
Exercise #3
Here is a 90 second chant to Relax your mind for active learning.
a) sit down, place your hands on the tops of your legs, eyes closed.
b) there are three separate sounds in this chant. They are not words
and have no meaning, but relax the mind for learning.
c) AH-OU-MING: AH lasts 10 seconds, OU takes 10 seconds, and MING
about 15 seconds. Chant aloud or silently, both are effective for relaxaton.
d) take a deep inhalation and slowly chant the sounds, Ah-Ou-Ming, one after
the other on exhalation. Repeat this Mantra (concentrated sound- vibration)
slowly about six-times. Feel the resonance in your nose and lips of the
sound, Ming. Remember, act as if it is one-word, not three separate ones.
Endwords
When we first started teaching these three warm-up exercises students considered
it a waste of time. “But I have been reading since first-grade without a warm-up,
and this seems stupid.” After using our three-exercise strategy for one-month, 95%
of the students and executives found it indispensable to learning new material.
What the secret?
You and I cannot do our optimal work unless we are in the right mood, state-of-mind, and have a positive intention to get new ideas. Are we always ready, willing and able to jump-into complex material and ace it?
The best students and executives need a short (5-minute) warm-up to integrate our mind-and-body for learning. It takes both Attention and Intention to do our best work. It is called a warm-up.
One requirement for successful learning and memory is being self-confident and optimistic. Motivation is having great strategies to make learning and remembering easy. Make these three warm-up exercises your ritual for gaining promotions and
success.
Wake up your Body, Focus your eyes peripherally, and chant (aloud or
silently) to relax your mind. The result will have your peers calling you a genius.
Speedlearning.org graduates read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time
it takes your competitors to finish one. They permanently double their long-term
memory.
Ask us how, and the answer to adding up to ten-years to your longevity
through stressbusting strategies. The secret words are “Speed Learn”.
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500 toll-free
www.speedread.tv
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Is there a sport without a warm-up? Baseball batters swing 2-3 bats with donut
weights, football players run up a sweat, and boxers and wrestlers beat themselves
up to prepare for the match.
Reading Prep
What if you knew how to seriously improve your reading speed, comprehension and
memory, and all it took was five-minutes?
We tested 1,000 school students and corporate executives using these three (3) warm-up exercises. They averaged a 75% increase in reading speed, and up to 50% to their long-term memory. One year later they were retested, and these reading and learning improvements continued.
Raise Your Vibrational Rate
Do have the right state-of-mind and point-of-view when you sit down to read and learn? We found 99% of students and executives immediately dive into the material
and have difficulty with complex, abstract ideas. Soon they get bored, anxious and
stressed, and blame the material.
Vibrational Exercise
Did you know your body is deeply involved in all learning? How? Sure your mind
is the dominant force in logic, reasoning and memory, but your body must be in
a higher vibrational rate to keep you in the Zone, in the Flow, and focused.
Exercise #1
Call it: Breathe, Stretch, Shake, and Let-it-Go!
a) Stand up, take a deep diaphragmatic breath (inhale), hold it for ten seconds,
and slowly exhale through your nose. Do it a second time, and a third.
b) Now, stretch out both your arms, and then your left, and your right leg.
c) Shake your body like a dog after a bath. Twist your neck and bend your
your back. Loosen up.
d) Finally, slap both hands against the sides of your body and shout, “Let-it-
Go!” to release all negative thoughts from your mind-body connection.
The exercise requires about 90 seconds.
Exercise #2
Peripheral Vision Focus
You have been using Foveal (hard focus) acute, sharp since kindergarten, and it
causes lousy reading skills. You read one-word-at-a-time, and hear the words of
each sentence in your mind (internal dialogue). It causes a snailing reading speed.
Speedlearning emphasizes a wide, broad (soft focus) called Peripheral vision.
The chief benefit of adding peripheral (side) vision, while keeping your Foveal vision, is reading, comprehending and remembering up to six-words at a time
instead of just one.
We speak to folks looking them in the eye (hard focus), watch tv, play video games, and surf the web and type, with the same acute foveal vision. So what? It is hard
on your retina and often causes Dry Eye, and reading fatigue.
We recommend adding your peripheral vision which is broad and easy on the retina, because it adds up to 75% to your reading and learning skills.
Lamniscate (Infinity Symbol)
a) sit down, focus on a specific point in front of you in-line with your eyes.
b) Using your dominant hand, draw a make-believe Sleeping-8 from your
far-left across to your far-right. It is the number eight inclined on its back.
We call it the Infinity Symbol.
c) Do not move your head nor your eyes, look straight ahead, but widen
your focus to see the left and right sides surrounding you. Next, add
taking in the areas Above and Below the specific point in front of you.
You are easily capable of seeing 165 degrees horizontally, and 130 degrees
vertically using your peripheral vision.
d) Spend about 90 seconds letting your eyes adjust to the infinity symbol by
using your peripheral vision eye muscles.
Exercise #3
Here is a 90 second chant to Relax your mind for active learning.
a) sit down, place your hands on the tops of your legs, eyes closed.
b) there are three separate sounds in this chant. They are not words
and have no meaning, but relax the mind for learning.
c) AH-OU-MING: AH lasts 10 seconds, OU takes 10 seconds, and MING
about 15 seconds. Chant aloud or silently, both are effective for relaxaton.
d) take a deep inhalation and slowly chant the sounds, Ah-Ou-Ming, one after
the other on exhalation. Repeat this Mantra (concentrated sound- vibration)
slowly about six-times. Feel the resonance in your nose and lips of the
sound, Ming. Remember, act as if it is one-word, not three separate ones.
Endwords
When we first started teaching these three warm-up exercises students considered
it a waste of time. “But I have been reading since first-grade without a warm-up,
and this seems stupid.” After using our three-exercise strategy for one-month, 95%
of the students and executives found it indispensable to learning new material.
What the secret?
You and I cannot do our optimal work unless we are in the right mood, state-of-mind, and have a positive intention to get new ideas. Are we always ready, willing and able to jump-into complex material and ace it?
The best students and executives need a short (5-minute) warm-up to integrate our mind-and-body for learning. It takes both Attention and Intention to do our best work. It is called a warm-up.
One requirement for successful learning and memory is being self-confident and optimistic. Motivation is having great strategies to make learning and remembering easy. Make these three warm-up exercises your ritual for gaining promotions and
success.
Wake up your Body, Focus your eyes peripherally, and chant (aloud or
silently) to relax your mind. The result will have your peers calling you a genius.
Speedlearning.org graduates read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time
it takes your competitors to finish one. They permanently double their long-term
memory.
Ask us how, and the answer to adding up to ten-years to your longevity
through stressbusting strategies. The secret words are “Speed Learn”.
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500 toll-free
www.speedread.tv
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speed Read: Got Sand in Your Hourglass?
Speed Read: Got Sand in your Hourglass?
Do you read the first three or four sentences of an article or report,
and stop to ask (internal dialogue) the two-word valuation question,
Who Cares? Fifty percent of us decide Go/No-Go based on the headline alone.
How about the powerhouse question, WIIFM? (What is In It For Me?) I do it all the time. The writer may be a certified genius, with the Nobel Prize coming next year,
but he/she has about 15 seconds to grab my attention before I hit the delete.
If that means I have a limited attention span, and need immediate gratification,
thanks for the compliment. The clock is running, and smart folks are internally
driven by our own standards, one of which is don’t waste my time, right?
New: Two Things Help You Live Longer
Remember when only Health Nuts talked about breathing exercises? No more.
The University of California, San Francisco reports that deep breathing exercises,
in addition to some easy lifestyle changes (no smoking, no alcohol etc), produces
increased longevity. You live healthier and up to 10 years longer. Keep reading.
Telomerase
If you are playing at the top of your game, you want to know about new neuroscience research that can produce health and productive years.
Telomerase is an enzyme (proteins producing biochemical changes in us)
that repairs and rebuilds bundles of DNA at the ends of our chromosomes.
You got 23 chromosomes from Mom and another 23 from Dad.
So what?
Telomerase works on how we age and how long we live. Remember the word
for the DNA collected at the bottom of our chromosomes – Telomeres. It is the
enzyme Telomerase that stops the Telomeres from unraveling (shortening).
Listen again – as the Telomeres shorten, so does your journey here. The sand in
your hour glass is draining to empty. Here it comes – the deep breathing exercises
add to the length or stops further deterioration of the tips of your chromosomes,
the telomeres. The shorter the tips, the greater the breakdown, aging, and your ticket getting punched.
WIIFM?
So what can you do about it? Overcome the unnecessary Stress in your life.
Each time your Telomeres shorten, your potential for diseases including cancer,
stroke, and heart disease increase, as does premature departure (death).
Almost 30% Increase in Telomerase levels was seen in the UCSF study. Slow Breathing and (improved diet and supplements) for 90 days produced serious physiological changes for health and longevity. It’s your Fountain of Youth.
Stress
We live with daily urban stress, but chronic-stress kills. What can we do to limit
stress and improve our state of health?
There are relaxation exercises, including simple meditation programs that Herbert
Benson, Harvard Medical School, has traced for the past twenty years. Daily 15 minute meditating measurably improves your immune system function, lowers blood pressure and modifies both heartbeat and respiration.
Remember, chronic stress shortens your Telomeres, and you absolutely, positively can help overcome the results of stress through a daily ritual of slow-breathing.
Quickie
The ancient Greeks believe their destiny, fate, fortune, and lot was mostly in the
hands of their Gods. They called it the Destinies, the Fates and Moirae.
First, came the youngest sister of the Fates called Clotho. She is the spinner of thread of human life on her spindle. She brings humans into existence. We each receive our own unique thread of life.
Second, is Lachesis, the apportioner of human life. She measures our unique thread with her rod, and determines our longevity. The fickle finger of fate.
Third, is Atropos, (Greek meaning, without turning). She chooses our mechanism of death, and cuts our thread with her abhorred shears. We suggest you keep turning.
Simple story, but as reasonable as other versions of human existence.
Abdominal Breathing
Check your bellybutton, navel, a/k/a Enteric Nervous System for your abdomen
and solar plexus. Look down below your chest to your abdomen and notice your
inhaling and exhaling. Ninety percent of us are chest breathers and do not produce
sufficient oxygen for our intestines.
Diaphragmatic breathing reaches all areas of our body with energy producing oxygen. Oxygen triggers the production of Glucose, blood sugar, the energy for
life. Google: mitochondria and cristae.
Slow Breathing
a) Sit down, eyes closed, hand on top of your thighs.
b) Focus on your stomach and not chest, and notice your
stomach pushing in-and-out with each respiration.
c) Inhale slowly through your nose, hold the breath for
two-seconds, a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand.
d) Exhale twice as long as your original inhalation. Space it
until it becomes automatic and goes on autopilot.
e) Get into a rhythm of inhale, retain, and exhale through your
nose. Five minutes is fair, ten is good, and fifteen minutes helps
you live to one-hundred years.
N.B. Controlled Breathing at about 10 respirations per minute for 10-15
minutes daily leads to lower blood pressure and enhanced immune
system function.
Google: French woman Jeanne Calment, died at age 122, died in 1997
Endwords
What are you going to do with the ten extra years you live? We suggest you strengthen your cognitive functions and avoid dementia, including Alzheimers.
Ask us how to read and remember three (3) books, articles, and reports in the time
your peers can hardly finish one. It creates Cognitive Reserve and improves the
function of your three-pound coconut. Use it or lose it - is a scientific fact.
The secret words are “Speed Read”.
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
www.speedread.tv
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you read the first three or four sentences of an article or report,
and stop to ask (internal dialogue) the two-word valuation question,
Who Cares? Fifty percent of us decide Go/No-Go based on the headline alone.
How about the powerhouse question, WIIFM? (What is In It For Me?) I do it all the time. The writer may be a certified genius, with the Nobel Prize coming next year,
but he/she has about 15 seconds to grab my attention before I hit the delete.
If that means I have a limited attention span, and need immediate gratification,
thanks for the compliment. The clock is running, and smart folks are internally
driven by our own standards, one of which is don’t waste my time, right?
New: Two Things Help You Live Longer
Remember when only Health Nuts talked about breathing exercises? No more.
The University of California, San Francisco reports that deep breathing exercises,
in addition to some easy lifestyle changes (no smoking, no alcohol etc), produces
increased longevity. You live healthier and up to 10 years longer. Keep reading.
Telomerase
If you are playing at the top of your game, you want to know about new neuroscience research that can produce health and productive years.
Telomerase is an enzyme (proteins producing biochemical changes in us)
that repairs and rebuilds bundles of DNA at the ends of our chromosomes.
You got 23 chromosomes from Mom and another 23 from Dad.
So what?
Telomerase works on how we age and how long we live. Remember the word
for the DNA collected at the bottom of our chromosomes – Telomeres. It is the
enzyme Telomerase that stops the Telomeres from unraveling (shortening).
Listen again – as the Telomeres shorten, so does your journey here. The sand in
your hour glass is draining to empty. Here it comes – the deep breathing exercises
add to the length or stops further deterioration of the tips of your chromosomes,
the telomeres. The shorter the tips, the greater the breakdown, aging, and your ticket getting punched.
WIIFM?
So what can you do about it? Overcome the unnecessary Stress in your life.
Each time your Telomeres shorten, your potential for diseases including cancer,
stroke, and heart disease increase, as does premature departure (death).
Almost 30% Increase in Telomerase levels was seen in the UCSF study. Slow Breathing and (improved diet and supplements) for 90 days produced serious physiological changes for health and longevity. It’s your Fountain of Youth.
Stress
We live with daily urban stress, but chronic-stress kills. What can we do to limit
stress and improve our state of health?
There are relaxation exercises, including simple meditation programs that Herbert
Benson, Harvard Medical School, has traced for the past twenty years. Daily 15 minute meditating measurably improves your immune system function, lowers blood pressure and modifies both heartbeat and respiration.
Remember, chronic stress shortens your Telomeres, and you absolutely, positively can help overcome the results of stress through a daily ritual of slow-breathing.
Quickie
The ancient Greeks believe their destiny, fate, fortune, and lot was mostly in the
hands of their Gods. They called it the Destinies, the Fates and Moirae.
First, came the youngest sister of the Fates called Clotho. She is the spinner of thread of human life on her spindle. She brings humans into existence. We each receive our own unique thread of life.
Second, is Lachesis, the apportioner of human life. She measures our unique thread with her rod, and determines our longevity. The fickle finger of fate.
Third, is Atropos, (Greek meaning, without turning). She chooses our mechanism of death, and cuts our thread with her abhorred shears. We suggest you keep turning.
Simple story, but as reasonable as other versions of human existence.
Abdominal Breathing
Check your bellybutton, navel, a/k/a Enteric Nervous System for your abdomen
and solar plexus. Look down below your chest to your abdomen and notice your
inhaling and exhaling. Ninety percent of us are chest breathers and do not produce
sufficient oxygen for our intestines.
Diaphragmatic breathing reaches all areas of our body with energy producing oxygen. Oxygen triggers the production of Glucose, blood sugar, the energy for
life. Google: mitochondria and cristae.
Slow Breathing
a) Sit down, eyes closed, hand on top of your thighs.
b) Focus on your stomach and not chest, and notice your
stomach pushing in-and-out with each respiration.
c) Inhale slowly through your nose, hold the breath for
two-seconds, a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand.
d) Exhale twice as long as your original inhalation. Space it
until it becomes automatic and goes on autopilot.
e) Get into a rhythm of inhale, retain, and exhale through your
nose. Five minutes is fair, ten is good, and fifteen minutes helps
you live to one-hundred years.
N.B. Controlled Breathing at about 10 respirations per minute for 10-15
minutes daily leads to lower blood pressure and enhanced immune
system function.
Google: French woman Jeanne Calment, died at age 122, died in 1997
Endwords
What are you going to do with the ten extra years you live? We suggest you strengthen your cognitive functions and avoid dementia, including Alzheimers.
Ask us how to read and remember three (3) books, articles, and reports in the time
your peers can hardly finish one. It creates Cognitive Reserve and improves the
function of your three-pound coconut. Use it or lose it - is a scientific fact.
The secret words are “Speed Read”.
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
www.speedread.tv
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speed Read: Is Science Ever Wrong?
Speed Read: Does Science Admit Being Wrong?
Do human cells have a memory different than our standard neural (brain) recall?
According to Skepdic.com a contrarian organization that exposes urban myths offering facts without researched scientific proof. They state, Cellular Memory is a speculative notion that human body cells contain clues to our own personalities, tastes and motivation. They only accept brain cell (neuronal) memory.
They point out that there is no scientific proof that ordinary cells record memories independent of our genetic codes or neurons (brain cells).
Wikipedia, the online excellent encyclopedia agrees, stating -
Cellular Memory is a belief based on anecdotal evidence of organic transplants.
“To date, no case where memories have been passed has been recorded in medical or scientific journals.” That means believing in Cellular Memory is Science Fiction.
So What
July 30, 2008, University of California, SF. Cocaine addition is linked to voluntary drug use and Cellular Memory. The research with rats who are excellent human substitutes indicates, persistent cellular memory exists in the brain’s reward
center after the use of cocaine.
The scientist experiment with active choice made by rats proves a memory remains
in the cells. Addiction is more than just the pharmacological effects of a drug. Add to the drug, cellular memory of receiving a reward imprinted as a memory trace.
Here, Antonello Bonci, M.D. senior researcher, offers conclusive evidence the cocaine memory remains in the reward system called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) for rat-months and human years after the original use.
See: Ventral Tegmental Area, the brain’s key natural reward and motivational circuit. Only cool folks know the three (3) human reward centers in the brain include VTA, the neurotransmitter Dopamine, and the Nucleus Accumbens.
Here Another So What
Nature journal, January 23, 2008 reported: Cellular Memory hints at the origins
of intelligence. Learning and memory has been exclusively associated with neuronal (brain cells). Maybe not.
How about learning and memory in protoplasmic SLIME, a unicellular organism with multiple nuclei? When the amoeba Physarum polycephalum is given electrical shocks at regular intervals, the SLIME learns the pattern of shocks and changes
its behavior in anticipation of the expected next blowup. It has cellular memory.
Cool folks will speculate on the mystery of discovering motivating intelligence in simple SLIME. The latter is our revered ancestor, related through evolution.
Google: Nature 451, 385, on 1.23.08
Question: Where does the human learning memory reside?
Answer: Scientific evidence was first discovered in 2008. It is located in our Long-Term Synaptic Potentiation (LTP) and the Hippocampus. They work together.
Get This
The adult human brain adds grey matter volume (structurally and functionally) when we learn a new cognitive or motor skill. Use it or lose it. Grey matter is the
brain’s neuronal cell bodies, White matter in the brain is the myelin sheathing (insulation) covering the same neuron’s axons permitting fast nerve impulse communication between cells.
So
If you learn a new cognitive (vocabulary or idea) or motor skill, and use what you
discovered, in 90 days your brain increases and improves throughout your life to
age 92.
If you remember this, you are on your way to becoming a brilliant star. Over 76% of your brain is occupied by the Neocortex, the logical, reasoning new brain.
When you learn to play a new game, vocabulary of a foreign language, or teach someone something you know and they would like to know, you improve the working power of your own brain.
Endwords
Would it help students in school and executives in their career to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time their peers can
hardly finish one? Triple your permanent reading speed and double your
long-term memory. Ask us how. The secret is “Speed Read”.
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org 1-877-567-2500 toll-free
www.speedread.tv
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do human cells have a memory different than our standard neural (brain) recall?
According to Skepdic.com a contrarian organization that exposes urban myths offering facts without researched scientific proof. They state, Cellular Memory is a speculative notion that human body cells contain clues to our own personalities, tastes and motivation. They only accept brain cell (neuronal) memory.
They point out that there is no scientific proof that ordinary cells record memories independent of our genetic codes or neurons (brain cells).
Wikipedia, the online excellent encyclopedia agrees, stating -
Cellular Memory is a belief based on anecdotal evidence of organic transplants.
“To date, no case where memories have been passed has been recorded in medical or scientific journals.” That means believing in Cellular Memory is Science Fiction.
So What
July 30, 2008, University of California, SF. Cocaine addition is linked to voluntary drug use and Cellular Memory. The research with rats who are excellent human substitutes indicates, persistent cellular memory exists in the brain’s reward
center after the use of cocaine.
The scientist experiment with active choice made by rats proves a memory remains
in the cells. Addiction is more than just the pharmacological effects of a drug. Add to the drug, cellular memory of receiving a reward imprinted as a memory trace.
Here, Antonello Bonci, M.D. senior researcher, offers conclusive evidence the cocaine memory remains in the reward system called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) for rat-months and human years after the original use.
See: Ventral Tegmental Area, the brain’s key natural reward and motivational circuit. Only cool folks know the three (3) human reward centers in the brain include VTA, the neurotransmitter Dopamine, and the Nucleus Accumbens.
Here Another So What
Nature journal, January 23, 2008 reported: Cellular Memory hints at the origins
of intelligence. Learning and memory has been exclusively associated with neuronal (brain cells). Maybe not.
How about learning and memory in protoplasmic SLIME, a unicellular organism with multiple nuclei? When the amoeba Physarum polycephalum is given electrical shocks at regular intervals, the SLIME learns the pattern of shocks and changes
its behavior in anticipation of the expected next blowup. It has cellular memory.
Cool folks will speculate on the mystery of discovering motivating intelligence in simple SLIME. The latter is our revered ancestor, related through evolution.
Google: Nature 451, 385, on 1.23.08
Question: Where does the human learning memory reside?
Answer: Scientific evidence was first discovered in 2008. It is located in our Long-Term Synaptic Potentiation (LTP) and the Hippocampus. They work together.
Get This
The adult human brain adds grey matter volume (structurally and functionally) when we learn a new cognitive or motor skill. Use it or lose it. Grey matter is the
brain’s neuronal cell bodies, White matter in the brain is the myelin sheathing (insulation) covering the same neuron’s axons permitting fast nerve impulse communication between cells.
So
If you learn a new cognitive (vocabulary or idea) or motor skill, and use what you
discovered, in 90 days your brain increases and improves throughout your life to
age 92.
If you remember this, you are on your way to becoming a brilliant star. Over 76% of your brain is occupied by the Neocortex, the logical, reasoning new brain.
When you learn to play a new game, vocabulary of a foreign language, or teach someone something you know and they would like to know, you improve the working power of your own brain.
Endwords
Would it help students in school and executives in their career to read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time their peers can
hardly finish one? Triple your permanent reading speed and double your
long-term memory. Ask us how. The secret is “Speed Read”.
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org 1-877-567-2500 toll-free
www.speedread.tv
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speed Read: Your Future?
Speed Read: Your Future?
Henny-Penny, the sky is falling. Washington Mutual and Wachovia have gone belly-up, and General Motors fell from $27.23 to $4.83, from 2007 to 2008.
McCain admits it is all a mystery to him, and Obama looks presidential by being calm and promising a simple solution after he is elected. Is there a tried and true
solution?
Once upon a time there was a Great Depression (1929-1939), and Henny-Penny, the
sky really did fall. It was no metaphor, almost 24% unemployment reduced the
American economy to stagnation.
Did you know the U.S. was not always a rich country? In 1929 up to 50% of Americans were living below the minimum subsistence level. Get this – the average income was $750 annually, and for farmers, $273 a year. Your grandparents had very low life expectations. And you and I are living like royalty and expect more.
Answers Really Are Out There
In life we do not have the Windows Systems Restore to return to the past when our 401K was worth twice as much. The Government cannot return General Motors to $27. What can Washington and the Federal Reserve do?
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Intellectuals like academic economists are quick to remind us there are no panaceas
for recessions. They offer suggestions like, Ride-it-out! The natural order of supply
and demand will improve things, government intervention will only bring more disorder, and even, we must have a balanced budget or our grandchildren will suffer.
English economist J.M. Keynes was a contrarian and said; interest-rates, taxation and public projects would get us out of a recession or depression. The secret was Deficit Spending by the government.
First off reduce interest rates to banks, slash taxes on the public, and spend, spend, and spend on the infrastructure like bridges, highways, and public housing for the chronically deprived thirty percent of the population.
The three elements to positive economic change according to Keynes:
1. Boost the amount of money in circulation called M1.
2. Increase the Government budget by spending more and not worry about a balanced budget.
3. Offer easy credit to business to create jobs. Government loans are hot because two-thirds of new jobs are created by small businesses.
Are You Nuts
J.M. Keynes was ridiculed by other economists, his government, and world capitalists. International governments including the U.S. continued to believe
in a balanced budget through out the Great Depression of 1929-39, and unemployment rose, and the economy tanked.
Roosevelt and his New Deal did not get it until 1938 and war preparations.
Get this – unemployment fell from 17% to 1.1% from 1939 to 1945. The army squeezed out excess labor, and defense work used the rest of the employables.
One country, not his own Great Britain, primed-the-pump with Deficit Spending
by the government. Sweden recovered from the world depression in 1934 through
printing more Miljoner Krona (MKR) Swedish money.
Today the Krona is 0.13936 or 7.17570 for the U.S. dollar.
The rest of the world who refused Deficit Spending would suffer to 1939, and then World War Two required cannon fodder, and laborers to support the military.
Today
The International Monetary Fund advocates raising taxes and slashing government budgets to overcome recessional economies. They never read Keynesian economics
in The Economic Consequences of The Peace (1919) or The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936).
JMK predicted massive unemployment after World War 1 because the Germans et al. could not pay the war reparations. It was the direct cause of WW2.
What did the U.S. learn after the Great Depression?
After WW2 we did not burden Germany and Japan with war reparations, and even
sent them capital to rebuilt their economies through the Marshall Plan.
Employment Act of 1946
At the end of WW2 Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. government to maintain a policy and take responsibility (Federal Reserve) to promote maximum
employment, production, and consumer purchasing power.
The administration in Washington and the Congress, are legally responsible to use
Fiscal and Monetary policies to fine-tune our economy for growth.
That means fiscal policies of the treasury and its revenues are to spend money and collect taxes to improve the economy. Monetary policies are to be used to increase the availability of money and capital to expand purchasing power and assist business growth for greater employment.
While Keynes lived (up to 1946) the opposition to Deficit Financing were his peers and the top 1% of the U.S. Please underline this: in 1929 the richest one-percent (1%) owned forty-percent (40%) of the U.S. wealth. The middle-class was 15-20% of the population.
In 2007 the richest two-percent (2%) owned forty-percent of the U.S. wealth. You
decide how easily our economy changes direction or control.
Advice in 2008
During the Depression the Wall Street billionaires advised the government to let market forces work out the price of stock and bonds, the bank supply of money for loans, and the economy. It was their mantra that supply and demand would prevail in the long-run.
In 1936 Keynes said, don’t tell me about the long run. In-the-long-run, we-are-all-dead!
Last shot:
Not one person out of a thousand we asked ever heard of U.S. Major General Smedley D. Butler (Marines) and the Business Plot of 1934. We suggest you Google the name General Smedley Butler, 1881-1940 because history does repeat itself, and people do not change their instincts, reflexes and conditioning.
The Du Ponts, Grayson Murphy of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel, and the J.P. Morgan
banks requested General Butler to head a military coup to overthrow Roosevelt in
1934.
The conspiracy included Al Smith, former governor of New York and democratic presidential candidate in 1928, and John Davis, another democratic candidate for president and agent for J.P. Morgan.
They wanted a fascist government like Mussolini of Italy to replace Roosevelt. They had the millions to bribe officials, and owned the newspapers, magazines and media
to influence public opinion. It was a close call.
The multimillionaires who wanted a coup included Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and John and Allen Dulles (later Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and his brother Allen, head of CIA).
How come you never read or heard about the Business Plot?
General Butler informed Roosevelt of the coming conspiracy, and later
testified in front of the McCormack-Dickstein committee (House Unamerican
Activities) and the villains ran for cover. Who controls the media today?
Same great folks who brought us the Business Plot of 1934.
Could Obama be deposed from the White House by a coup of influential Republicans? Nah, nyet, no way? Maybe. Some folks are hard losers. And the Internet will save
our fundaments yet.
Endwords
We suggest personal growth for a lifetime. If you want up to ten extra years of
longevity and health, start by expanding your cognitive powers. Would it help you
in school and your career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and
reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one?
We can help you triple your reading speed and double your long-term memory.
Ask us how. The secret words are "Speed Read".
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
www.speedread.tv
1-877-567-2500
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Henny-Penny, the sky is falling. Washington Mutual and Wachovia have gone belly-up, and General Motors fell from $27.23 to $4.83, from 2007 to 2008.
McCain admits it is all a mystery to him, and Obama looks presidential by being calm and promising a simple solution after he is elected. Is there a tried and true
solution?
Once upon a time there was a Great Depression (1929-1939), and Henny-Penny, the
sky really did fall. It was no metaphor, almost 24% unemployment reduced the
American economy to stagnation.
Did you know the U.S. was not always a rich country? In 1929 up to 50% of Americans were living below the minimum subsistence level. Get this – the average income was $750 annually, and for farmers, $273 a year. Your grandparents had very low life expectations. And you and I are living like royalty and expect more.
Answers Really Are Out There
In life we do not have the Windows Systems Restore to return to the past when our 401K was worth twice as much. The Government cannot return General Motors to $27. What can Washington and the Federal Reserve do?
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Intellectuals like academic economists are quick to remind us there are no panaceas
for recessions. They offer suggestions like, Ride-it-out! The natural order of supply
and demand will improve things, government intervention will only bring more disorder, and even, we must have a balanced budget or our grandchildren will suffer.
English economist J.M. Keynes was a contrarian and said; interest-rates, taxation and public projects would get us out of a recession or depression. The secret was Deficit Spending by the government.
First off reduce interest rates to banks, slash taxes on the public, and spend, spend, and spend on the infrastructure like bridges, highways, and public housing for the chronically deprived thirty percent of the population.
The three elements to positive economic change according to Keynes:
1. Boost the amount of money in circulation called M1.
2. Increase the Government budget by spending more and not worry about a balanced budget.
3. Offer easy credit to business to create jobs. Government loans are hot because two-thirds of new jobs are created by small businesses.
Are You Nuts
J.M. Keynes was ridiculed by other economists, his government, and world capitalists. International governments including the U.S. continued to believe
in a balanced budget through out the Great Depression of 1929-39, and unemployment rose, and the economy tanked.
Roosevelt and his New Deal did not get it until 1938 and war preparations.
Get this – unemployment fell from 17% to 1.1% from 1939 to 1945. The army squeezed out excess labor, and defense work used the rest of the employables.
One country, not his own Great Britain, primed-the-pump with Deficit Spending
by the government. Sweden recovered from the world depression in 1934 through
printing more Miljoner Krona (MKR) Swedish money.
Today the Krona is 0.13936 or 7.17570 for the U.S. dollar.
The rest of the world who refused Deficit Spending would suffer to 1939, and then World War Two required cannon fodder, and laborers to support the military.
Today
The International Monetary Fund advocates raising taxes and slashing government budgets to overcome recessional economies. They never read Keynesian economics
in The Economic Consequences of The Peace (1919) or The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936).
JMK predicted massive unemployment after World War 1 because the Germans et al. could not pay the war reparations. It was the direct cause of WW2.
What did the U.S. learn after the Great Depression?
After WW2 we did not burden Germany and Japan with war reparations, and even
sent them capital to rebuilt their economies through the Marshall Plan.
Employment Act of 1946
At the end of WW2 Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. government to maintain a policy and take responsibility (Federal Reserve) to promote maximum
employment, production, and consumer purchasing power.
The administration in Washington and the Congress, are legally responsible to use
Fiscal and Monetary policies to fine-tune our economy for growth.
That means fiscal policies of the treasury and its revenues are to spend money and collect taxes to improve the economy. Monetary policies are to be used to increase the availability of money and capital to expand purchasing power and assist business growth for greater employment.
While Keynes lived (up to 1946) the opposition to Deficit Financing were his peers and the top 1% of the U.S. Please underline this: in 1929 the richest one-percent (1%) owned forty-percent (40%) of the U.S. wealth. The middle-class was 15-20% of the population.
In 2007 the richest two-percent (2%) owned forty-percent of the U.S. wealth. You
decide how easily our economy changes direction or control.
Advice in 2008
During the Depression the Wall Street billionaires advised the government to let market forces work out the price of stock and bonds, the bank supply of money for loans, and the economy. It was their mantra that supply and demand would prevail in the long-run.
In 1936 Keynes said, don’t tell me about the long run. In-the-long-run, we-are-all-dead!
Last shot:
Not one person out of a thousand we asked ever heard of U.S. Major General Smedley D. Butler (Marines) and the Business Plot of 1934. We suggest you Google the name General Smedley Butler, 1881-1940 because history does repeat itself, and people do not change their instincts, reflexes and conditioning.
The Du Ponts, Grayson Murphy of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel, and the J.P. Morgan
banks requested General Butler to head a military coup to overthrow Roosevelt in
1934.
The conspiracy included Al Smith, former governor of New York and democratic presidential candidate in 1928, and John Davis, another democratic candidate for president and agent for J.P. Morgan.
They wanted a fascist government like Mussolini of Italy to replace Roosevelt. They had the millions to bribe officials, and owned the newspapers, magazines and media
to influence public opinion. It was a close call.
The multimillionaires who wanted a coup included Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and John and Allen Dulles (later Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and his brother Allen, head of CIA).
How come you never read or heard about the Business Plot?
General Butler informed Roosevelt of the coming conspiracy, and later
testified in front of the McCormack-Dickstein committee (House Unamerican
Activities) and the villains ran for cover. Who controls the media today?
Same great folks who brought us the Business Plot of 1934.
Could Obama be deposed from the White House by a coup of influential Republicans? Nah, nyet, no way? Maybe. Some folks are hard losers. And the Internet will save
our fundaments yet.
Endwords
We suggest personal growth for a lifetime. If you want up to ten extra years of
longevity and health, start by expanding your cognitive powers. Would it help you
in school and your career by reading and remembering three (3) books, articles and
reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one?
We can help you triple your reading speed and double your long-term memory.
Ask us how. The secret words are "Speed Read".
See ya,
copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
www.speedread.tv
1-877-567-2500
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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