A Simple Way to Upgrade Your Brain, and Life
By Goodpal, 30th Jul 2011 | Follow this author
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Nothing feels satisfactory in life? Unable to realize your full potential? Tired of chasing goals, achieving them, and yet remaining unhappy? Well, this the usual way we live. But for those who want to live better and more rewarding life, there is a simple way assisted by audio technology to not only keep stress away but also exploit potentials of mind in more effective ways. Needs no special training except to be persistent and systematic in using the brainwave technology.
Mundane Life
Not feeling achieved in life? Unable to realize your full potential? Tired of chasing goals, achieving them, and yet remaining unhappy? Just working and working, and appear to be going nowhere? Too tired to figure out what is going on in life? Most people fall in one of these categories and don’t know how to free themselves and lead a better and happier life.
Please don’t blame yourself if you tried many things and gave up sooner or later only to fall back to “normal”. In fact, this is when you are almost convinced that aiming for a better life is no more than a mirage.
Did you know that technology has also permeated the field of self-improvement, just as it has most other fields of life, and is getting better? Informed people are taking benefits of these recent innovations and coming out of the sphere of the so called “normal” or mundane living. These are neither very expensive nor difficult to include in daily life.
Achievements and Happiness
Achievement brings its own anticlimax. – Maya Angelou
Everyone wants to get smarter in order to be able to achieve more in life and be happier as a result. The problem is that achievements do not equal happiness. On the contrary, happiness leads to greater achievements. People have different ideas of what makes them happy, but the bottom-line is that happiness relates to sense of inner peace and security.
This is only possible if you have a strong mind – a mind that can sustain focus, retain inner tranquility, and resourcefulness even when things are going dead wrong. A strong mind is difficult to distract from its goal; temptations and desires don’t sway it from what it is doing. It is like a light house that remains unaffected by the rough sea around it. A mind strengthened by a sense of inner peace, absence of racing thoughts and free flowing creativity can achieve almost anything, and overcome practically any obstacle.
Now take a look at what kind of mind you have – most likely a mind in turmoil that can hardly concentrate any thing for long, always wavering from one thing to another, and constantly craving for cheap thrills. If you don’t believe me, just try sitting still for 15 minutes and do-nothing. You must have discovered how fragile your mind is: it can’t stay quiet for long. A mind in turmoil cannot achieve much due to lack of focus and commitment.
How to Strengthen the Mind
In a previous article, Understanding and Improving Your Brain Fitness, I have described brain fitness and general ways to keep it in good shape. Here I am presenting a simple technological way that is becoming popular, particularly with professionals and students whose quality of life depends heavily on their brain fitness.
There are various kinds of brain training programs that mostly touch upon certain specific areas of cognition and do well if you want to develop those specific aspects of the mind. For instance, some programs may help you develop sharp memory, sleep better, recall dreams, or help in de-stressing.
Brainwave entrainment technology is a good example which has found widespread acceptance and people are using it for a variety of applications – each application involves listening to brainwave audios designed to create desired mental states. This is a wonderful technology that works on the principle that all distinct emotional states of mind are accompanied by specific brainwave patterns. For instance, brainwave frequencies for deep relaxation are different from those associated with lucid dreaming. One can even stimulate more neural connections within the brain to increase intelligence or states of whole-brain functioning. When your brain begins to function as a whole without lateralization you are on your way to lead a more fulfilling and happy life. Brainwave entrainment technology can be of tremendous use provided you use it systematically and persistently.
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31st Jul 2011 (#)
Hmm, interesting. I know auto suggestion at the alpha level is more psychically effective. Thanks, bud.
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31st Jul 2011 (#)
Thanks buzz. I agree with you. Mind is significantly more receptive when relaxed. The relaxation can be generated by any means depending upon one's liking.
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7th Aug 2011 (#)
Hummm . . .
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