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MAXIMISING YOUR
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ARE YOU READY?
OK, LET’S START!

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INTRODUCTION
Everything we know, feel and do is first organised,
experienced and modelled in our brains. Our brains are the
source of our imaginations, our wills and the concept of
who we are. The human brain is the source of our potential.
If we want to maximise what we are capable of, we could do
no better than maximise the potential of what Judith
Hooper and Dick Teresi call the "3lb universe".

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THE BRAIN
Our knowledge of the brain's potential is very recent. Until
brain surgery allowed us to look inside the brain and
discover some of its workings, man had been largely
ignorant of how the brain functioned.
1. The Greeks thought the mind was disembodied spirit.
They believed thoughts came from the heart.
2. In the Renaissance, men believed the mind was in the
head but not in the brain.
3. In the 1930's and 40's, the brain was believed to be like
a computer: a data storage organ and calculator.
4. In the 1960's and 70's, it became clear that most people
vastly under-use the power of their brains. A lot about
the brain is still unknown.

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PETR ANOKHIN
It is thanks to the Russian neuro-psychologist, Petr Anokhin,
that we now know about the sheer power of the human
brain.
Size
• there are 10 billion neurons and 12 trillion nerve cells in
each human brain. The number of neurons is more than
twice the number of people on the earth.
• the brain is just 3lb in weight and the size of two
clenched fists.
Connections
• each brain cell can physically connect with 100,000
others
• the total possible permutations in the brain are 1
followed by 10.5 kilometres of 0's
• the brain can process 30 billion bits of information per
second.

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THE SIZE OF THE BRAIN
The estimated interconnections a brain cell can make are:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000000,000,00.
(ie 1 followed by 271 0's)

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PAUL MCLEAN
Dr Paul McLean has demonstrated that the human brain is
made up of three distinct parts which developed at different
times in our evolution.
1. The Reptilian Brain is our original brain with an
evolutionary age of 250 million years. It is the part of
the brain responsible for our most basic survival
instincts, such as responding to threats, feeding and
reproduction.
2. The Mammalian Brain is the seat of our emotions. It
evolved out of the reptilian brain at a later evolutionary
stage of our development. It works in unison with the
reptilian brain eg we feel hunger, we feel fear, we feel
love.
3. The Thinking Brain is a relatively recent addition to the
human brain, having evolved some 40,000 years ago.
The thinking brain is a unique feature of man enabling
us to thing about who we are and to think about
thinking itself.

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ROGER SPERRY
Roger Sperry at the University of California, Los Angeles was
the first to explain the division of the cerebral cortex in our
brains into two sides, left and right.
The left side of the brain was found to be responsible for
logical thinking; the right side for imaginative thinking.
Almost overnight, Sperry changed the way we thought
about thinking. No longer was logical and linear thought
seen as the purpose of thinking; instead a balance between
right and left was believed to be the clue to maximising our
mental abilities.

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LEFT AND RIGHT BRAINS
The Left Hemisphere of the human brain is the seat of:
speech; logic; mathematics; linearity; detail; sequences;
intellectual thinking; control; domination; worldly things;
activity; analysis; reading, writing and naming; and order.
The Right Hemisphere of the human brain is the seat of the
way we think about: music; space; symbols; artistry; holistic
thinking; things happening simultaneously; intuition;
emotions; minor events; spirituality; receptivity; synthesis;
recognition; and abstract thoughts.
Some people see the left brain as a symbol of Western
thinking and the right brain as a symbol of Eastern or
Oriental thinking. Western thinking prizes logic, analysis and
linearity; Eastern thinking prizes symbolism and holistic
thought. Combined, the two can become a strong global
kind of thinking.

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WHOLE BRAIN WORKING
Combining the two halves of the brain is an excellent way to
work towards a goal. The right brain sees the outcome in
your imagination and the left brain works out the parts or
steps to get you there. The right side imagines results; the
left side makes plans.
You can use this technique in any activity including daily
chores. Decide what you want to do, for example, weeding
the garden. First, imagine it when done. The way it looks on
a clear sunny day. The colours, plants, and flowers in neat
tidy rows. The smells and sounds. Then let your brain fill in
the steps to get you there. The goal will draw you in; the
plan will accomplish it.
Using your brain in this way takes the stress out of goal
achievement. Another way to keep the brain stress-free is to
set a long time-frame so that you are not trying to beat the
clock.

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LEFT-RIGHT, LEFT-RIGHT
Here are three examples of the left and right brains working
together:
1. when you spell a word wrongly, your right brain
intuitively tells you it's wrong; your left side checks it
out and finds it's wrong.
2. when President John Kennedy pledged to put a man on
the moon and return him safely to earth before the end
of the 1960's, he also had to agree to the funds needed
by NASA to make it happen.
3. when Einstein's theory of relativity finally came to him,
he had left the laboratory (seat of left-brain thinking)
and was lying on a hillside looking up at the sky
wondering what it would be like to ride on a sunbeam.

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FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN
The way the human brain has developed means that we are
able to perform four key functions with our brains:
1. Thinking. Unique among the creatures of the world, we
have the ability to have thoughts about the present,
past and future.
2. Storing. The huge size of the brain combined with our
thinking ability, means we can store every experience
that has ever happened to us.
3. Behaviour. All our learned behaviour, - habits, automatic
responses, and copied behaviour, - can be stored in our
brains and replayed without conscious thought. We can
also change old habits for new ones.
4. Applications. The vast store of information in our brains
plus our ability to think means that we can use our
brains to be creative, control our environment and
make changes in our lives for the better.

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THE CONSCIOUS BRAIN
The conscious brain is that part of our brains that deals with
what we call "reality". It uses the senses to interpret the
world around us. These are predominantly sight, touch,
hearing, taste and smell but include super-senses that we
know less about such as intuition and instinct.
The conscious brain has four functions:
1. Perception by which we interpret data received
2. Association by which we compare new data to old data
stored in the subconscious brain
3. Evaluation by which we compare new data to our values
and priorities
4. Decision-taking by which we consciously use data in
order to act.
It is thought that the conscious brain has limited power of
its own. We can, for example, only hold about seven or eight
thoughts in our head at any one time.

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THE SUB-CONSCIOUS
As well as looking after all our stored thoughts and
automatic functions, the sub-conscious brain also has a
creative function.
This has three features:
1. The Self-image. If you present your sub-conscious with
the image of the you you want to be and believe you
are, the sub-conscious will filter all the mass of
information it holds and which daily enters it so that it
confirms the image. You are what you think about each
day.
2. The Problem-solver. The creative sub-conscious hates
dissonance. When it is presented with a problem, it
works hard to find a solution which will restore its
balance.
3. Drive And Energy. The sub-conscious has a momentum
all of its own. When it is presented with a goal - either
an image of the you you want to be or a problem to
solve - it has its own drive and energy to get there.

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REACHING OUR INNER SELVES
There are a number of ways to reach our subconscious
creative selves...
1. Intuition. Sensing when something is right shows up
through your bodily sensations. Some people get gut
feelings, others feel what's right in their heart of hearts.
Every time you need to make a decision, listen to your body.
2. Meditation. Meditation allows you to put your brain into
an alpha state, or, when you become proficient at it, a
waking theta state. These states reduce your blood
pressure, and increase your immune system.
3. Soft Focus. Soft focus allows your eyes to focus on a
neutral area and become aware of everything around you.
Immediately, you will increase your peripheral vision and
your mind will be calmed. This is the focus of martial artists
and athletes.

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THE RAS
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a group of cells in
the brain which monitors sensory messages to the brain. It
is a natural filtering device which allows only personally
profitable data or threats to get through.
A simple analogy of how the RAS works is a busy airport
terminal lounge where you may be waiting to board a plane.
You are largely oblivious to the noise and sounds around
you, but if you have programmed your brain to listen out for
the name of your flight, you will hear it when it is called.
The RAS is the key reason why we need to feed in our goals
to our brains and then leave the brain to work by itself. It is
like an evolutionary survival system, where only relevant
information for our survival is allowed to get through while
irrelevant information is left to die by the wayside.

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MAXIMISING THE BRAIN
Maximising the power of our brains means using the natural
functions of the different parts of the brain.
1. Left And Right. Dream about your goals AND plan how
you're going to reach them.
2. Instinct, Emotion And Thought. Align the three
evolutionary brains: think about your goals, care
passionately about them, act in ways that you think will
achieve them.
3. Let The Brain Work For You. When you reach a
stumbling block, let the brain do the repair work for
you. Feed it information and then let it be creative.
Don't interfere with it. Incorporate day-dreaming,
relaxation and thinking into each day's working pattern.

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THE SUPERCONSCIOUS
In recent years, there has become a growing realization that
the functions of the conscious and sub-conscious brain are
only a small part of what constitutes our mind’s functions.
This is the realization that the mind is something bigger than
the physical brain.
For example, you have over 200 trillion cells in your body all
functioning in a healthy person in harmony and doing their
own thing without any conscious input from you or your
brain.
Similarly, we receive up to 900 trillion bits of information
every second but our brains only use a tiny fraction of this
information. So where does the rest go? To a
superconscious mind that links to a consciousness that
extends beyond our brains, our bodies and our senses.
It is this consciousness that links us with the source of life
energy and why some people call the Super-conscious,
“God-consciousness”.

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THAT’S
IT!
WELL DONE!

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