The Brain and Intelligence

"The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement in fact, of nervous functions in general are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance."

An Overview of the Brain

Brain and Intelligence

For centuries we have understood that "he himself" was way off base, that, in fact, the opposite is true. The heart is simply a biological pump that brings oxygen flowing into our cells to keep tissue alive. It is the brain that controls movement, both voluntary and involuntary. Passion begins in the brain; so dies love, hate, pain, fear, wonder, imagination, inspiration, enthusiasm, apathy, speculation, mistrust, honor, a sense of humor, a craving for rocky road ice cream, and all other thoughts and feelings. The brain runs the slow, from the involuntary intake and outgo of breath to the voluntary embrace of beloved friend. 

The Brain is the far more complex organ than any superficial examination could reveal. It is composed of two major sections, the left and right cerebral hemispheres, which are almost, but not quite, mirror images of each other. Each of these hemispheres is composed in turn of four sections, the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe, and the temporal lobe. Separating these hemispheres and lobes are three fissures that look almost like crevasses within mountain ranges, the longitudinal fissure, the sylvian fissure, and the central sulcus. 

What is Intelligence?

What about intelligence? Does is arise from one single spot in the brain? Can we follow it to its source and pinpoint its location in this efficient but complicated network of cells, chemicals and fluids? The twin cerebral hemispheres control humankind's highest functions-those cognitive, ideational, and imaginative functions, the intelligence. The cerebral hemispheres may then be called the true home of our inner cosmos or our minds. This complex system functions in the body as we do in the world, through communication, through signals sent from one cell in the brain to the next. A single nerve cell in the brain consists of the branching fibers. Nerve signals are sent from the cell body down the path of the long fiber and out through the branches. Synapses are the link between nerve cells.

Who is is Operator of the Brain?

Your head may be the processor of your brain, but are you the one who operates it? Are you in control, or is your mind at he mercy of the buffeting, biting winds if life? The secret to a more powerful intelligence is twofold. First, you need to gain control of the raw material that pinkish gray matter inside your head on which so much of your life depends. Second, you need to widen your viewpoint to include every perspective; in short you need to stop seeing through your eyes alone and begin to see through universal eyes. The first will make you intellectually strong; the second  intellectually powerful.

However, one thing is certain. You can be smarter tomorrow than you are today. The mind can stretch it can be strengthened, toned, and conditioned to perform miracles for you.

Mental Fitness Exercise

Exercise to Mental Fitness

Mental Fitness

Brain Power Techniques is a program of mental exercise. it is cumulative which means that from maximum effect, you must expand the program and build on the exercises, adding new exercise to ones you have already mastered. You begin with a few minutes of stretches, to warm up and loosen the muscles. Then you might learn a set of exercise for the upper arms and shoulders and later, another for the legs, still more exercises for the lower back, and a different set of strengthening the chest and upper torso. You add these exercises gradually, but without discarding the ones you already do easily. So a workout program might start with ten minute of exercises, and by the end of the second week, you could be up to thirty minutes. By the end of the month, you could be doing a sixty minute workout using all the exercises you have learned.

Be aware of how you are thinking right now. How you arrive at opinions and make decisions. This self awareness is the first step in Brain Power Techniques. This program will help you reach an awareness of how your own special, individual mind operates.

We will start off slow and easy, building your vocabulary. You will work with what is familiar to you, your everyday reading of newspapers and magazines. This Mental Fitness Exercises will teach you how to take note of something new, how not to pass over the unknown without trying to know it, and how to use reference books to look up what you don't know.

After vocabulary, Brain Power Techniques moves to the Challenging exercises in mathematics and logic to prepare the mental ground for everything else to come. We hope to show you the beauty and simplicity of precise thinking and how important is to you.  Logic is the foundation of correct thinking. It is dispassionate and not tinged by emotions. Armed with the weapon of logic, you can now forge ahead boldly into new areas of thinking and problem solving. 

Increase the frequency of the exercises until they become part of you daily routine. As with a physical exercise program. this becomes easier as you practice.

Brain Power Techniques

INTRODUCTION

Brain Power

Our mind is the heart and spirit of our life. It is the one thing that can be taken from you and the on e thing that you can never give away. It is always yours, under your control. Build it, and you build the workings of your future. Let it stagnate, and you live in the past.

Whoever told you that you cannot increase your intelligence? Whoever taught you not to try?  they didn't know. Flex your mind and develop it. Use it. It will enrich you and bring you the love of life that thrives on truth and under standing. We have tried to contains the most effective direct methods and Practicals to build your brain power. and we have also provided various methods to incorporate into your way of thinking and into your daily perception of reality that can vastly improve your mind. 

The essence of Brain Power Techniques is the taking of active control of your thought processes, developing mental tools to approach difficult problems in effective fashion, freeing yourself from false assumptions and the mental hammer lock that lack of self confidence and over reliance on authoritarian opinion can have on you. You will learn to think with more clarity and with greater precision. You will learn to trust yourself. Your intelligence will expand and your interests will broaden. The only way to success is though persistence and hard work. The only efforts that can command all your energies are those are really worthwhile.

The human body can be strengthened and toned to muscular power through bodybuilding exercise, so the mind can be strengthened and sharpened through a program of Brain Power Techniques. Specific bodybuilding exercise are designed for specific muscles, making them work, stretch, and break through old limits to new limits. Brain Building Techniques works exactly that way on your intelligence, stretching and shaping your mind and bringing you to new heights of intellectual fitness. The key to any exercise is habit, the constant repetition that makes it second nature as automatic perhaps as breathing. 

Hereby we have tried to help to to build your mental muscles in the same way by showing you how to develop the habit of thinking. The Brain Power Techniques program is a trimester something like a school term. With our Brain Power Techniques you will acquire and learn to use the tools and techniques of power thinking. In our Brain Power Techniques program we have included some simple and difficult exercises, but the logic behind both the simple and complex exercises is the same to show you how to build your perceptions, sharpen your intellect, and open your eyes to new ways of thinking.

You will find the Brain Power Techniques program stimulating, challenging and fun. It is up to you to make the exercises work by incorporating them into your daily routine, making them a habit for a lifetime of improvement. If you make good use of them, we can with confidence promise you that Brain Power Techniques Program will help you to develop your intelligence and unlock the almost limitless power of your intellect, your perceptions, and your under standing. You will be able to bring these new found, newly developed skills and techniques to bear on every aspect of your daily life, including problem solving, decision making, business, and personal relationships. Once it becomes a habit, the techniques of Brain Power will be yours forever, your own permanent ky to thinking better and success.