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Brain Thoughts

Jane Mudgett — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:51:31 +0000

You can change the way you think. Thoughts create pathways in your brain and the more you have a particular thought, the more defined the path. When going on a hike, you start at the trail, right? Thoughts can be like this and follow the same trails in your mind. Some thoughts are positive, give us pleasure, make us happy. Other thoughts are negative, destructive or make us feel depressed. Ok, now hold that thought for a minute.

I’ve been reading brain books lately – great parenting books by Dr. Becky Bailey. Her parenting and teaching tips relate to how children’s brains develop and how we can help kids learn conscious discipline; that is, learn impulse control, manage behavior, getting needs fulfilled – without spanking and temper tantrums. The fundamentals are safety, food, shelter – things that are controlled by our brain stem – you know where we keep “fight or flight.” However, with training and discipline, we can help kids learn to think and make positive decisions for themselves and others by developing their frontal cortex. If your a parent or a teacher, get her books – www.consciousdiscipline.com

The second brain book is by a – get this – brain anatomist. My Stroke of Insight by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (www.mystrokeofinsight.com ) – is a fascinating book about a scientist that had a stroke and then wrote about her stroke and rehabilitation experience. Some people like the sections where she describes a stroke; if nothing else, you will learn to identify the symptoms which may save your life or someone else’s life. Other readers like the section when she describe her rehabilitation. I tuned into the section describing how she consciously chose the change some her thinking after her stroke versus before her stroke.

Remember I asked you to hold that thought, now it’s time to remember again. First, let’s remind ourselves that the mind’s job is to generate thoughts. So, it does all day and all night while you dream. Some thoughts you can simply accept or acknowledge and ignore, but other thoughts are connected, like strands of spaghetti to still more thoughts that are associated with feelings some of which are good and some not to good. But what if you you had a negative thought and instead of letting it go the normal path, you intentionally sent the thought down a different pathway? You didn’t pass judgment, no criticism, you simply accepted the thought and redirected it toward a new pathway and new ending – one that’s either more to your liking or closer to what you aspire. No, this is not “positive self talk” per se, but a real exercise in choosing to think differently, choosing to develop responses with which you’re more comfortable.

OK, now let me pull these brain comments together…do you ever say things that sound exactly like your mom or dad and you’re shocked? They’re not really your thoughts, but you saw a specific action or behavior and heard their responses dozens of times, so it was easy for your brain to recall it when you needed it. Right? Consider developing a different response; pause and acknowledge your comments, “pivot” to a newer thought that is more genuinely from you and tell your friends or kids what you really mean and then keep practicing.

For those of you who know me, you know that I’m an optimist, but I will tell you that my outlook is far more positive now than it was 20 years ago because I have been actively changing and adjusting my neuropathways to become the person I aspired to be – and I’m still a work in process. Good luck with your brain trails.

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Your Secret Weapon: The Sixth Sense – Volume 3

Editor — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:14:55 +0000

Last month we left off with taking an inventory of yourself and finding out where you are in your Sixth Sense development. How did you do? Write back so that I can answer some questions you might have.

One of the important steps to begin our new adventure in discovering our Sixth Sense is to look at how we process our brain, tune into our body and understand who we really are!

Left Brain Connection to the Right Brain

LEFT RIGHT

Language	Intuition
Mathematics	Art
Reasoning	Creativity
Physical World	Imagination
Science	Insight
Logic

By a process of relaxation and exercises, you will be learning how to connect this network of fibers linking your left brain to your right brain. When we are receiving insight or a flash through our sixth sense, we are creating an arc of energy that reaches over from the right brain to the left brain. It is then processed into either a feeling, picture, odors, taste, or just a “knowing.” The sides of our brain control the opposite sides of the body.

We all have the capacity to learn how to develop this skill. I do not feel that being aware of our sixth sense is supernatural, beyond our comprehension, or devil worship, as some may believe.

Can I Tune into My Body and Mind?

If you want to know what is wrong with your body, you can tune into the body through your right brain and ask it, the answer will come to you. It may come in a dream or a flash of thought or just a knowingness that you should go and visit your doctor. Let your mind talk to you and whisper the answers that your conscious, Left Brain is covering up.

Don’t try to get the answer, let it come to you. One of hardest things for my students to do is to just let go and let the answer appear. It might take a few days, hours or minutes to get an answer but you will begin to understand how your body operates after awhile.

Throughout my career of teaching others to develop their Sixth Sense, I have felt very adamant that we need to understand who we are first, how we process information, how we feel, what our personal experiences have been.

It is most important that you know yourself before beginning to read another person. You do not want to get your emotions and thoughts mixed up with the client, friend, patient, loved one, etc.

Understanding Who You Are Can Help You

How you think - basically determines not only what you are but how you are, how others react to you, how you react to them, and what constitutes the real values in life and living. Don’t you think it is time to devote a few minutes a day to the business of getting in touch with your own mind so that you can learn to operate it more efficiently?

We think in mental pictures and not in words! Everything that happens to us takes the form of a mental picture in your memory. Recorded with it is the feeling or emotional reaction you had at the time. Perhaps you had an aroused feeling of hate or fear, these impressions have now become a part of your subconscious mind.

We all have had the experience of discovering and saying, “What is the name of that mutual friend of ours? I can’t quite remember it.” Then the next morning I’ll remember it. You’ve had that same experience. So we all have the experience of asking ourselves a question that gets answered by ourselves later on. In other words, this tells us we have a reliable subconscious functioning operative in our brains even while we sleep.

Even if an event happened in the past, it is still having an effect upon you. All of your experiences, up to the present moment are still alive in another form in your memory stream. If this were not true, then you could not recall them at will or be mentally or emotionally disturbed upon remembering an unhappy situation, or fear the recurrence of some tragic or regretted circumstance.

You are influenced not only by how you react, mentally and emotionally, to past experiences, but by the nature of your desires and aspirations as well as your fears and hates. Your subconscious mind is designed to reproduce for you, in your outer life, whatever you picture.

Remember that the subconscious mind has no capacity for reasoning. It merely follows along what the conscious mind has dictated, accepting all feelings and associated mental pictures, as though they were blueprints to be reproduced in your outer world. Your conscious mind, with the exercise of your reason and your will, represents the only force that can change or eliminate these pictures that the subconscious mind is holding.

If you keep telling your subconscious mind that it is impossible for it to transcend space and time, then you will never be able to experience ESP or your Sixth Sense. You must remember that your subconscious mind cannot reason! I must repeat, it only can follow your direction issued by your conscious mind.

To be continued…

May the White Light Be With You,

Annette Martin has been a consulting Psychic with law enforcement agencies across the world for more than 40 years. Her cases have involved local, state and federal departments, including the FBI. Annette’s insight, which includes her gift as a Medical Intuitive while working on homicide and missing persons cases has been an outstanding tool for numerous police detectives. Her successes have been many on an endless variety of cases that have also been filmed on TV shows such as Court TV’s, “Psychic Detective, Biography Channel’s, “Psychic Investigators,” Nancy Grace, BBC, Catherin Crier, Coast to Coast Radio and many more.

Annette is also a ghost detective who can see and talk to the ghosts. With this capability she has been on numerous TV and radio shows, such as Good Morning America, Discovery Channel, History Channel, CBS News, ABC, Travel Channel and many others.

Clients have included movie stars, doctors, lawyers, journalists, TV and radio personalities, famous singers, writers, artists, teachers, genius engineers, CEO’s, TV producers, international diplomats and many more.

Excerpts from, “Discovering Your Psychic World,” by Annette Martin http://www.annette-martin.com

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Black, Green Tea May Slow Alzheimer’s Disease

Phuong Le — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:25:00 +0000

This past Thanksgiving I visited a good family friend who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It’s hard to watch our loved ones fade away, and finding that she didn’t remember recent conversations was very heartbreaking. I talked to my grandmother, she is in her 80s, about how she stays so mentally sharp. She credits her healthy brain to having companions, keeping hobbies, and drinking her tea daily. That perked my interest and I decided to start researching the healthy benefits of tea for the brain.

According to WebMD, developing a taste for black or green tea may delay Alzheimer’s disease.

A study from England’s University of Newcastle upon Tyne shows that green and black teas may inhibit certain brain enzymes linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The study’s findings may lead to new therapeutic developments for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, which is estimated to affect 10 million people worldwide.

Coffee, in contrast, did not show any significant effects in the study.

Researchers including Edward Okello of the university’s biology school found that tea stops the activity of chemicals in the brain associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease occur when brain nerve cells that process information and memory degenerate and die. Abnormalities such as plaque and tangles proteins form on nerve cells.

The first brain chemical, acetylcholinesterase (AchE), breaks down one of the brain’s chemical messengers that helps transport and process information — called acetylcholine. A drop in acetylcholine, in areas of the brain associated with memory and learning, has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Medications used to treat Alzheimer’s disease work by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase. Aricept, Exelon, and Reminyl are examples of these medications.

The teas also stopped the activity of other chemicals known to be key in making plaques and tangles in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The second chemical is called butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE). However, green tea also inhibited a third and final brain chemical called beta-secretase, which is also involved in brain protein deposits seen with Alzheimer’s disease.

Don’t let that alphabet soup of chemical names throw you off. Green tea counteracted all three chemicals. Black tea was also powerful in curbing the first two chemicals, but only green tea inhibited beta-secretase. The researchers also found that green tea continued to have its inhibitive effect for a week, whereas black tea’s enzyme-inhibiting properties lasted for only one day.

The researchers don’t know exactly how to explain tea’s effects. In news reports, Okello says he knows of no evidence that Alzheimer’s disease rates are lower in tea-drinking nations. Traditionally, green tea has been popular in Asian countries, while black tea is often associated with England.

The next step is identifying tea’s key components. Tea isn’t being proposed as the much-hoped-for cure for Alzheimer’s disease; however, it might inspire new treatments to delay the disease if these findings are confirmed by more research.

Don’t wait any longer. Sip, savor, and fight disease today. It’s never too late to enjoy the many health benefits of tea!