Double Your Brain Power

THE MOST POWERFUL BRAIN DOUBLER OF ALL

It may be hard to believe, but just pay attention can double your brain power. In a sense, this system underlines all the other memory doublers science has developed.

Whether you are awake or asleep, at any given moment, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, millions of your brain cells are at work. Even when you are asleep, your brain is constantly sending and receiving information on the position of your limbs, the temperature of your body , and all the thousands of individual activities involved breathing, digesting, dreaming.

But, typically how aware of all this are you?

How much advantage do you take of it? How much attention do you pay to what we’re doing only about a third of time .

Most of our attention is occupied with relationships , personal problems , and people who made us angry. Rather than focusing on matters at hand , on a typical day we spend our time this way :

1. Thirty- three percent concentrating on the current surroundings or activities
2. Twenty five percent thinking about others and interpersonal relationships.
3. Six percent actively thinking and problem solving
4. Three percent considering self-praise and self criticism
5. Three percent considering self praise or self criticism
6. Three percent worrying about thing s that make us anxious
7. Two percent giving self instruction
8. One percent thinking about committing violence
9. The remaining 26 percent of our daily thoughts are scattered among a wide variety of subjects. 

You can see that by eliminating  just some of scattered thinking, it is possible to tap into twice as much of data your brain is absorbing . Eliminating all divergent thinking would provide complete access.

It’s true. Concentration can alone double your brain power.

Experiments at University Of California  in San Diego proved the old adage: You can’t do two things at once –at least no well. When you split your attention , you cut yor potential brain power in half.

You can put these University of California findings to work in your life :-

In an experiment , people were asked to label items on a list with right hand while pushing a  button with their left every time they heard a certain  note in a series of musical tones. The results showed the dramatic decline of mental ability when their concentration was divided. Test subjects  always pushed the button more slowly when the tone came while they were writing labels. They were also more likely to make a mistake on the label when they were pushing the button. 

Source Marie Jean Stine .