Instantly Double Your Brain Power by Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Think you have an average or above average mental capacity? Actually you have far more brain power than you can begin to imagine. You have close to, or perhaps even beyond, genius brain power potential.
The past 20 years could well be called the decade of the brain. Neuroscience now has the means of observing a healthy living brain in action. But trying to define our ultimate brain power capacity is like trying to place your finger on a globule of mercury.
The human mind is infinitely complex and subtle. And your amazing mind is no exception. Your brain contains 1,000,000,000,000 individual nerve cells (neurons). But this figure is even more astounding when you consider that each nerve cell can interact with at least as many as 100,000 other nerve cells.
Then if we calculate the potential capacity of your brain cells to make interconnections, the resulting number itself would be at least 10.5 million kilometers long.
No known person has even approached using their full brain power or mental capacity. The human brain is virtually limitless. It was once estimated we use about 10% of our mental potential. Today neuroscience has dropped that estimate to less than one percent. And even that figure seems overly optimistic!
You've likely heard the expression thinking cap. That slang term refers to our brain's cerebral cortex - the cortical grey matter neuroscientists consider the source of our thinking capacity. Your cortex is actually split into two separate sides connected by a fantastically dense and complex highway of nerve fibers called the corpus collosum.
In most people, the left side of the cerebral cortex deals with logical matters -- words, numbers, reasoning, and analysis. It spends a lot of time in the beta brainwave range. The right side of your cerebral cortex, on the other hand, deals with imagination, images, color, day-dreaming, visualization, and pattern recognition. It tends to focus quite a bit in the alpha brainwave range that is so highly developed in meditators.
There's a common assumption that most people are either right-brained OR left-brained. If that was true, then we must assume that the great scientific genius Albert Einstein was left-brained -- and the great creative master of photography Ansel Adams would then have been right-brained.
But was this the case? Not at all. An examination of the notebooks of Albert Einstein and Ansel Adams pokes huge holes in this common theory. In fact, Einstein credited his greatest scientific insights not to left-brain logic, but rather to his right-brain highly creative daydreaming and brain power. And Ansel Adams credited his greatest art photographs not to his right-brain artistic eye, but rather to his left-brain detailed analytical note taking.
Actually our most powerful and expansive mental activities are those using both sides of our cortex. When you describe yourself as primarily creative or intuitive (right-brained), or analytical and logical (left-brained), you are just describing the side of the cortex you have most successfully developed.
With the right nurturing, the other side of your cortex can also flourish and develop. This has the potential to double your mind power. There is a simple way to immediately refine the non-dominant side of your cortex and double your brain power. Great athletes do it. So do top executives, famous artists, and people from all walks of life who seek to excel.
If you are analytical, encourage yourself to daydream. And if you are instead predominantly creative, encourage yourself to begin to logically analyze your creative efforts. Activate your mind and ask yourself what if. And begin to pay more attention to your mental wanderings. On first reading, the above solution may seem too simple to be effective. Just give it a try, and you will be amazed at the expanded depth of your mental capacity.
Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler is a doctor of psychology and pioneer brain/mind researcher who has worked with achievement-oriented people and organizations from around the world. Check out her Quantum Mind training program here => http://www.hotbrainz.com
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