Meditate for a Higher Consciousness

A person's mind is constantly buzzing with activities. At work we deal with deadlines and our boss, at school we deal with assignments, at home we deal with family matters, and almost everything deals with money. The mind of the modern man is overloaded and cluttered with too many things, even modern leisure activities like watching television, playing video games and listening to songs can provide a lot of work for the brain.

We rest when we get tired and we sleep when we are drowsy. However, the quick-paced progress of this modern society required most of us to cut down relaxation times and sacrifice our sleep. The current pace will only accelerate, and despite advancement of technologies, we are getting busier than ever and the fact would remain true for centuries to come. Stress levels are skyrocketing and productivity will gradually diminish no matter how much we want it to increase.

To deal with this problem, we need to go back to an ancient technique - meditation. Meditation, at its deepest level , have far higher restorative powers compared to sleep. Even when you sleep, your brain is still working, fabricating dreams, consolidating information and forming new neural connections. Meditation, on the other hand, brings the brain to peaceful retreat and rest. The healing powers can be truly profound. It is analogous to cleaning up the mess in our mind, pushing away all stress, thus bringing forth the potentials of the mind and connecting you to your subconscious mind, so that more of your intellectual faculties are at your disposal.

Mediation exists in many forms, despite the notion and common beliefs that meditation is about sitting in the lotus position and can only be performed by Tibetian monks and Indian yogis. The truth is, meditation is for everyone. Any activity that promotes relaxation and the peace of mind is meditation. Take gardening for example, it can serve as a form of meditation because it brings you entirely in the moment and takes all the worries away. Proper meditation can be as simple as practicing mindfulness, such as focusing on your breath. Below is a simple way to meditate.

1. Find a place absent of distractions. It can be any place that you will not be disturb by anything. Your bedroom can be a good place.
2. Sit or lie down in a position you feel comfortable but not too much that it can make you fall asleep. You can choose to sit on a chair or cross legged, or just lie flat on the floor with your face up. Keep your spine straight to allow natural channels or energy to flow. You can lean onto the wall if you want to.
   
3. Begin noticing your breath. Pay attention to the depth of your breath, the way your ribcage expands and contracts, feel the smoothness of the air you inhale and feel it reaching inside you. Experience the richness of your breath and gradually breath deeper.
   
4. Remove all thoughts and worries from your mind. If you must, deal with the problem such as writing it down or do it first. Do not try to block the thoughts in your mind. Simply ignore it or allow it to arise and watch it dissipate. Let them come and go before you return to your breath.
5. You can say 'in' and 'out' in your mind during inhalation and exhalation in order to keep you on track.
6. Make an effort to practice daily for at least 10 minutes or more if you have the time.

Meditation can also enhance you mental faculties and brainpower. Researchers found that the hippocampus (an area of the brain associated with learning and memory) of people who meditated regularly is noticeably bigger than an average person. Selected study participants were also quicker in processing new information. In other studies, students who undergo meditation training show an improved in focus and concentration, leading to significantly higher scores in intelligence tests. Undoubtedly, meditation is a key aspect to the evolution of the human brain.

Image Streaming

There are always something happening in our mind. Be it your inner voice or images, these subtle sensations and perceptions are means of communication between your subconscious mind and your conscious mind. They may contain solutions to your problems in life, or methods and strategies on how to achieve your goal. Inspiration, or the ''eureka!" moment are situations where one successfully receives the messages from the subconscious mind. This technique is introduced by Win Wenger, a pioneer in brain development and creativity techniques. Image streaming is one of his ultimate techniques for gain insight and thinking excellence. The technique can be describe as follow.

1. Choose an environment where you can close your eyes and relax. Release all tension and prepare to enter a dreamy state.
2. Be aware of the images in your mind now. Notice the impressions left by the images in your mind, even if is just a glimpse. Do not force or make the images. Just allow them to come naturally. Think that you are the receiver.
3. Describe aloud the images you experience, including all the senses you felt. For example, if you hear a bell chime, say you hear a ''clear and arousing ringing tone'' and that you feel ''the minute vibrations in your ears''. Proceed to describe how the bell looks like if you can see it.
   
4. Describe in detail as if you intend to convey exactly what you sense to another person. Describe such that the person listening to you is compelled to see, hear, feel, taste and smell whatever you are describing.
5. It is best if you can talk into a recorder or to a real person in order to maximize its effectiveness. You can also choose to describe it to an imaginary friend but be sure that you make it real enough. The purpose is to stimulate a higher level of performance in you.
   
6. Use words in present tense. Feel that you are experiencing all the sensory images in the moment. Describe as rapidly as possible and keep the momentum going on. This will allow more images to come and subsequently more to describe.
   
7. Remember to speak clearly because you are narrating and not mumbling to yourself.
8. Practice sessions can range from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
   

In the first attempt you may not find the words or images to describe. Keep on practicing and you will improve. Remember to stay relaxed during the whole session and observe the stream of images while describing them. This technique increases your verbal skills, visualization power,spatial skills, creativity, comprehension and the ability to extract ideas intuitively. Your thoughts will be more complex and unique and your intellectual power will rise in proportion to the amount of your practice. You can even use the images you get to solve problems. You can try to obtain solutions from your images metaphorically and even use this method to generate more ideas. As a result you use more of your brain's potential, giving you extra intelligence.

Developing Concentration - The Coin Technique

The ability to concentrate has become an important skill in this fast-paced society. People need to cope with work and study, both requiring the mind to work optimally in order to achieve great results. Concentration is also an important aspect of intelligence. You cannot possess a high IQ without having high concentration power. Even if you have a high processing power, you mind will slip away from your task before it can give you any fruitful results. Inversely, if you can maintain a prolonged and intense concentration, you are highly intelligent. You can sustain long and complex arguments in your brain, speak fluently and come up with ideas very quickly. Another thing about concentration is not just having zero thoughts. It is not merely calming your mind to prevent it from wondering. It is FOCUSING your mind to a specific thought or tasks. Your mind can be trained to achieve this through practicing the following coin technique.

1. Produce a coin on the table.
2. Get seated and adjust the distance of the coin from you where you can comfortably look at its shape.
3. Look at the side of the coin and concentrate on it.
   
4. Imagine your concentration as a force pushing on the side of the coin.
5. Do not make images or sounds in your head while doing this. Do not allow yourself to be distracted, daydream or thinking of any other thing while performing this. Be detached from the environment, think of nothing and direct you mind on the coin.
   
6. Feel that your are generating a force of pure concentration in order to move the coin. Force yourself to concentrate on this tasks as much as possible.
7. Do not strain your eyes or tense physically. Look at the side of the coin and push it with only your mind.
8. If you get distracted by thoughts, return to the focus and constantly maintain it.
9. Practice for a 20 minute duration daily. Take a break once a week if you want to.
   
10. You will feel as if time passes very quickly if you are doing this correctly.

This technique will bestow you with a super-focused mind. The effects of increase of brainpower can be felt after several practice sessions. After every session, you can feel yourself to be more alert and aware. In fact, long term practices can give you such powerful concentration that you can't even realise that you are so focused at that time until you've completed the task. However, remember to be committed on practicing and not straining yourself whilst performing this. You mind will wander at first but be persistent and you will reap the results.

OptiMINDzation Vol. 1

Ever heard of Stephen Pierce? He is a renowned expert internet marketer who is a master when is comes to building a successful online business. And he is the creator of the OptiMINDzation brainwave entrainment program. He aims for mind and body balance, that is being physically and mentally fit. He designed this audio program to boost his brainpower and also to cope with his demanding schedule. Being able to train your brain sufficiently in just 30 minutes a day certainly provides the satisfaction in life that people always wanted. Busy? Stressed out? Memory deteriorating ? Use OptiMINDzation.

The OptiMINDzation package of brainwave entrainment consists of 12 volumes each specifically created to benefit your brain in various areas. Volume 1 offers to train your brain, increase your IQ and provides you with mental stamina. The brainwave range delivered is in the mid-Beta range, just like iMusic BrainAmp. What's different is the brainwave technology is employs. Imusic uses a technology called IMAGINCE whereas OptiMINDzation uses isochronic tones. Unlike binaural beats , these methods of brainwave entrainment do not require headphones, but using headphone will obviously have a stronger impact due to minimized interference.

This audio brings your brain into the state of activity which is similar to performing a mental exercise. The only requirements is that you need to spend your time listening without distraction and during relaxation. On the other hand, iMusic BrainAmp can be used anytime, anywhere. This is the only part where iMusic is better OptiMINDzation. However, the effects of this entrainment audio have more immediate effect. After 30 minutes, you can actually feel the numbness in your head on your first use. Not everyone will experience this, but days later you will experience clearer thoughts and heightened awareness. You will feel that your mental abilities have improved. Focus, fluency and faster thinking is what you'll expect. Buying this first volume needs you to pocket out $29.90 but there is a free download here. Use for 30-60 minutes a day whilst relaxing. Enjoy!

I Like to Move It - An Anecdote

My grandmother, 67 , possess youthful energy you want to own when you are at her age. Now, she don't have any age-related disease. No cancer, heart disease, eye disease, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, dental problems, diabetes, Alzheimer, Parkinson of any sort. Her mind is as quick as ever and every stride she takes is like a bursts of energy. Of course, you can't compare her with an athletic youngster but she is one healthy grandmother. The best thing is her mind doesn't show signs of degeneration.

"How is that possible?" You might think. For your information, her lifestyle is simple. Every morning, she has to rise early and walk 30 minutes to the market. 45 minutes later, she hoists bags of groceries and breakfasts on her way home. Unlike my grandad, she doesn't like spending much time on the TV. She prefers reading the newspaper, visiting neighbours, playing mahjong with her friends, or taking a stroll in the park just beside the flat. She stays in a 4-story flat house with no lift. That means climbing up and down very frequently. And surely, she is responsible for the cleaning and cooking at home, though she gets help from my grandad. Additionally, she quits junk food or anything she thinks is unhealthy, like processed foods. (I think this is due to a bad stomach ache she experienced in the past. Ha-ha.) She produces witty remarks and retorts, and no less decent advice. The only setback in her thinking is that she does not have the privilege to get proper education when she was young. This may be the cause of her conventional and traditional way of thinking.But this is not the point.

Nevertheless, she has a good example of a healthy brain we ought to admire. The moral of the story: Get plenty of exercises and take care of your diet. Walking is an extremely beneficial exercise. When you walk, your brain is being oxygenated. You enhances blood flow in the body. You burn calories. You can walk for an hour and not feel tired (unless you really have an unhealthy body). You can think properly. That's why people go for walks to ''clear their brain''. Park further from your office. Use the stairs. Do the housework. Stand more and sit less. For people who wish to pursue higher fitness, adopt a training schedule is the best start for a change. Go for it, and experience it!

Neurobics - The Brain Challenger

Neurobics is a term coined for a type of mental exercise that engages the brain in novel ways of functioning. It is basically aerobics for the brain. Neurobics demands attention and a lot of mental activity, leaving you either excited or frustrated. It mostly involves non-routine actions or thoughts, encouraging growth of new dendrites and neurons in the brain, and the formation of a new neural network as the brain is initiated to adapt to a new habit or environment. Thus it involves something entirely new to you. Essentially there are a few criteria for an exercise to be neurobic. The exercise must fulfill at least one of the criteria below.

1. You must have little or no experience with the action.
   
2. The action must require you to use more of your 5 senses.
3. The action forces you to concentrate.

In short, the action must demands your brain to work more. Examples of the exercises are:

1. Navigate through your house with your eyes closed. You've seen your house a millions times. Now, shut your eyes and let that confidence drop. You need to depend on your other faculties, feeling, sniffing and listening and sensing to move around. You might even notice things you never realize its there! The motor coordination area in the brain is also strongly summoned by the brain in order to prevent yourself from banging into your own bedroom door.
2. Use your non-dominant hand. This is an old recipe for training your brain but there is a staggering amount of people in the world that is non-ambidextrous. In fact, writing with your other hand can generate different types of ideas because you are using more of your other side of the brain to think. Brushing with different hands, folding your arms the other way and leaning your weight on your other leg is actually neurobic, though you are certainly going to experience discomfort at first. This time, don't hesitate to switch sides!
3. Go to a new place and do something new. Many people are too bored to take a closer look at their office or their own house. Sometimes they might be even too bored to try out something new at home. Choosing a new place for your vacation, trying out a new route to work (be early for this), go for camping and learning a new sport is beneficial for your brain.
4. Play identification games. Set up a few objects with a group of friends or family and get started! Identify the objects using touch, smell, taste or hearing can be very fun and exciting. This cultivates and enlivens your senses, using them like never before.
5. Read a book of different taste and style. Get sick with New York Times bestsellers and pick some books from the dusty shelves. If you cannot function in a kitchen, go grab the recipes for desserts and treat your parents. If you have no idea what is happening in political parties, pick some books on politics. Or if you have always wondered how the universe came into being, read about the big bang theory and start talking like a physicist. Maybe you don't like any one of those. Just maintain a neutral attitude and see what the book has for you.
6. Talk to a stranger. Grab the chance to know the new hottie in your company. Ask the handsome guy in your neighbourhood out for lunch. Start a conversation with that old lady at the bus stop. You learn to talk differently with different people.
7. Memorize numbers. You can just store telephone numbers on your phone and rely entirely on it. Or maybe you shouldn't. Try memorizing those numbers. The next time, flip on your phone and start punching numbers. Reiterate product codes in a meeting in front of your boss. Remember the car plates of your friends. You'll never know when you need those.
8. Take on a new challenge. Call an old friend and show them who's boss on the chess board. Test your badminton skills against a stranger at the sports center. Enter a singing contest. Impress your Polish friend with his native tongue ( if you're not Polish). Show the girls you can walk on your hands. Try it out and experience life anew!
   

See? There are thousands of things you can come up with. Neurobics is very flexible. You can modify it anyway you like. Anything new will do. Results? More brain cells, more brainpower, slower brain aging.

Using Subliminals

Our subconscious mind can easily be influenced. But it is also very powerful. The major setback is the subconscious mind does not judge. It won't keep what is best for you and discard anything harmful. It automatically determines the quality of your life without any doubts. And it easily takes in all the negative things the world is saturated with. However, we can turn this property of the mind to our advantage. This can be done through exposing it to positive things.

1. Subliminal tapes - These are tapes embedded with positive affirmations (positive statements meant for oneself) that is played for us to listen to. The affirmations cannot be heard consciously, they are either too soft for us to hear, harmonically layered with the music or simply played in reverse so that only our subconscious mind can interpret it. Remember that the subconscious mind takes in everything even though you are not aware of it. Through playing the tapes daily, you are unconsciously instructing yourself to possess that particular quality, such as making you smarter through the "I am intelligent" affirmations. One such effective products are the Innertalk programs, which is patented with the U.S. Government. The products are not available for free download simply because burning the tapes will severely degrade the quality of the subliminal messages.
   
2. Subliminal softwares - These softwares flashes positive affirmations in less than a split second. The only thing you can see is a blur of words. You cannot read them consciously but your powerful subconscious mind reads it directly. This way you cannot debate whether to accept it. You are asserting the statements unconsciously. A nice software is BrainBullet and it can be found here.
   
3. Subliminal posters - These posters can be self-tailored to suit your needs. All you need is write a positive affirmation on a blank sheet of paper (make it as clear and concise as possible) as stick it to your bedroom wall or all over your house. These serves as a positive stimuli which your subconscious mind will take in as well. For example, you can write a huge "A+" on a big sheet of poster, and looking at it before you sleep or just after you wake is the best time to send the messages to your subconscious mind.
   

Besides this, try to expose yourself to more positive stuffs. Hang out more with smart and hardworking pals, reading something motivating and be grateful for everything is a good way to start improving yourself.

Under Unconscious Influence - The Subliminal

Subliminal refers to anything that is below a threshold of conscious perception. All that happens within the subconscious mind is termed subliminal. It is essential to know about subliminal because our lives is directly related to it, even our own thoughts.

You know that in your subconscious mind, thousands of information is being processed every second. The subconscious takes in all stimuli, whether it is internal or external. External stimuli are the senses. Whatever you see, hear, smell, feel and taste; whatever you think is assimilated into your subconscious mind. It takes in everything regardless positive or negative and these are the things that determine what you are. Remember this: Your true identity lies in your subconscious mind because all your thoughts and feelings are created in that unconscious region. And the thoughts are made based on your experience in life; how you were taught and what is being fed into your mind since the day you were born. So everything about you from the things you believe in, the things you like and dislike and your opinion on good or bad, desirable or not, and your tendencies are ALL results based on what your experiences is telling your subconscious mind.

That is why it is important to feed your mind the right thing for you to grow and improve, and not degrading yourself. For example, if you think mathematics is too hard for you, or if you think you will never earn your first million in your life, you are telling your subconscious self to make you incapable of solving mathematics or do what a person will do to make himself poor. You shape your own destiny by your thoughts. Therefore it is extremely important to believe in yourself, to know that your can do anything if you try hard enough.

However, the outside world offers to many negative things for us to digest. The news often narrates about thefts, murders and other unspeakable crimes. Gossips circulates in the community and reaches even the most remote ear. Relatives and friends tell you what you should and shouldn't do. People talking bad about you. Limitation of the moments technology prevents you from considering impossibilities. (In fact, the telephone is once said to be a tedious and impractical invention. " Who would want to talk to someone very far away?") Rules and regulations binds us. Conventional thinking molds our very own essence of beings.

It is almost impossible to prevent all these negativity from reaching us (there, I say the word "impossible"), but there is a way to counteract this. You can consciously turn the negatives into positives through positive thinking. You just need to realize when you are acting negatively. At that instant, you can correct yourself by looking on the bright side.You can decide what is true and what is not. You can reconfigure your inner self and make it believe what you want to believe. Scientifically, your are just rewiring the connections in your brain so that it runs in the desired way. This can also be accomplished through affirmations. Affirmations are words said aloud to yourself for you to take in both consciously and unconsciously. For example, " I am brimming with confidence". There is scientific proof that repeating such affirmations on a daily basis can change your internal belief systems, like programming your chip to do the things you want!

You don't want the world to shape you. YOU are supposed to shape the world. YOU are the master of your own thoughts. YOU determine who you are, not someone else. The next time someone tell you that you can't, remember that it is utter NONSENSE.

Our Subconscious Mind

We all live in a world of consciousness. We think thoughts, we make decisions and take actions. We think in conscious terms and we are aware of ourselves. However not until the end of the 20th century, scientists discover that there is something beyond our conscious thinking. They call it the subconscious mind.

Our subconscious mind is a world beyond ordinary thoughts. It works beyond comprehension and sometimes beyond logic. It is a very powerful entity that exists in each of us that controls and guides our every aspect of being. When we are saying that normal people use only 2% of the brain, it is this subconscious mind power that the other 98% is referring to. Physical proofs of its existence is the process of automatic functions such as breathing in our body.

In order to understand the mechanism of the subconscious mind, we must first understand the inner workings of the brain. The brain have billions of neurons, each has hundreds of connections with neighbouring neurons. This makes the total amount of connections in the brain is virtually infinite. The connections is analogous to electric circuits in a computer. The important difference is that the brain possess FAR FAR more processing power than the most advanced supercomputer ever built by any human up to this point of time. With an estimated 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses in the human brain, logically we should be able to generate billions of ideas in a second, calculate a 10-digit square in our brain, predict every possible move in a chess game, learn a new skill within minutes and never forget anything.

But the truth is, we don't. The reason is this. We are only consciously aware of a very small part of the brain activity in the moment. Out of the vast amount of processing going through in us, only a very small amount of it is available to us instantaneously. The thoughts that we are thinking is simply one of the the billions of thoughts going on within us without our conscious noticing. Do you ever wonder why your thoughts seem very random or why a very unrelated thought can jump suddenly to your mind? In fact, you are just picking up few of the many thoughts in your mind. Inspiration is simply your conscious mind fetching the most desired thought you need to improve your life. This is also holds true for dreams and enlightenment.


Our subconscious mind not only processes information, but also stores everything we ever experience, our senses, emotions and feelings. Remember when a very old memory arrives when you are in the middle of something? You just happen to dip into one of the many memories stored in you. And there is just things you never recall because your conscious mind never been there. It is because of the subconscious mind is an unconscious region, you simply cannot choose to recall anything you want or use it to process anything you like. In short, the subconscious mind is a functioning part of you that cannot be consciously accessed.

You might ask, why do we need the conscious mind since it is so limited? Why can't we just use the subconscious mind directly? The reason is if we rely solely on the subconscious mind to work, we will be like automatic robots performing daily tasks without conscious thinking. We cannot decide, neither can we plan or work. We will be like living zombies, acting on nothing other than pure instincts.

The conscious mind is crucial for everyday navigating and thinking while the subconscious mind takes care of the internal processes. Do not be confused that the subconscious mind is another entity. It is just a part of you that you are not aware of. It constantly guides your thinking and behaviours, and it holds your belief system. This forms the basis of the Law of Attraction. As a result, what we think is what we are.

Since the subconscious mind has unlimited potential, it has been a subject of study of many researchers in the world. They found out that in order to bring out one's true talent and to increase one's intelligence, we need to have more access to this subconscious mind, i.e. using more than 2% of the brain's potential.

A genius has simply increased the link between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. It is akin to accessing more of the processors in the brain to enable one to think better and with higher accuracy. Merely increasing the link by a little can lead to enormous gains. The famous geniuses in history has all done this. This also explains the mystery of photographic memory and supernatural mental calculation. The people possessing the abilities can consciously allow their subconscious mind to do the work for them.

However, the occurrence of such strong links is very rare in life and this is part of what cognitive scientists live for. To study cognition and how to improve it in human.

Imusic BrainAmp

"iMusic, a patented, M.D. approved and powerful interplay between neuro-science and music, is proven to train your brain and show it how to peak perform for any task or life situation."

iMusic BrainAmp is a very powerful tool for brain training. It uses a technology called brainwave entrainment to adjust your brainwaves to the mid-beta level to train your brain like a mental exercise. The music slowly triggers the brain to emit brainwaves of similar frequencies.

"Listen to iMusic to improve your focus, IQ, memory and energy; safe guard your valuable mental assets; and lower your functional brain age! "

Here is why it works:
Your brain is like a muscle. The more you train it, the more it develops. That is to say performing mental exercises everyday can improve your brainpower. When you perform these mental activities, your brain is in Beta state. Neurons in the brain are rapidly firing pulses to near and remote neighbours. Your brain requires focus and that it where Beta state comes into play.

By allowing your brain to exhibit beta waves is very similar to doing mental exercises. iMusic trains your brain in the similar way BUT with one main difference. You don't need to do anything! You may just sit down and enjoy the music while the music gets the job done. That's it!

However, be warned though. This is not for everyone. From my research and experiments, this works well for people who lack Beta brain waves. People who have high levels of Beta activity do not get as much training as people who lack Beta activity. Another way to put it is the higher your IQ, the less work it will do for your brain.

This product can be obtained from www.getimusic.com for $39.90 or it can be downloaded here for free.