MISSION: To empower the youths with ability to face the future by providing timely information and trainings in an entertaining format.
VISION: A confident and patriotic youth populace.
Oh corps!
Blessed are Thy mouths
That speaks the new languages
Blessed are thy feet’s
That treads the new lands
Thy mouths
That speaks the new languages
Hesitate not to take your place
In the battle fields of your dear country
Content not thy self in the status quo
For in you lies the power to change
Curses to blessings
Foes to friends
You are the hope
Like the sun
Refuse to be hidden
You are fertile
Refuse to be bare
Like the musical strings
Bring out your wonderful tunes.
FOR NAIJA WAITETH FOR YOU!
BRAIN SQUEEZERS; MAKING YOUR BRAIN SMARTER
Whether in business, discussions, relationships and just livi’n having a smart brain increases our performance and makes us more interesting. These are wonderful tips to making your brain smarter and get the creative juices flowing. They work subtly and subliminally but the effects are astounding if you follow them diligently.
No need for drug abuse or other harmful vices to stimulate your intellect.
1. Get in the ‘alpha state’: Go to a quiet place ideal for meditation, count down from 100, 99, 98...to 1, 0. You should feel relaxed and calm. Now visualize your goals or think up creative solutions.
Practice for about 10 days, and then reduce count to 50-to-1 for another 10 days. After that keep halving it as you should be finding it easier to get into Alpha state.
This Silva Mind method‘s simple 100-to-1 countdown method allows your brain to produce predominantly alpha brain waves.
The ‘alpha state’ is associated with creative breakthroughs and is more user friendly than theta state which is dreamer and harder.
You can use the Alpha mind process to think up solutions to your problems and challenges, reprogram your subconscious to eliminate negative habits and improve your performance, or heal your body with visualization and affirmations.
Eventually you’ll be able to close your eyes and go 3...2...1... and be in Alpha.
2. Know Satisfaction.
Purpose: Reduce negativity, increase optimism, and feel better about your life.
Three experiments were conducted at University of California to determine the costs and benefits of writing, talking and thinking about life’s triumphs and defeats.
The first experiment showed that merely thinking about negative experiences reduces overall life satisfaction, whereas writing about or talking about negative experiences led to increases in life satisfaction, mental health and social functioning.
The second experiment showed that privately thinking about positive life experiences increases life satisfaction, but talking or writing about them didn’t.
The third experiment recalled that analyzing positive events reduces feelings of satisfaction whereas simply replaying memories of positive experiences enhances well being and increases life satisfaction.
Instruction: When you go through negative experiments be they major life shocks or minor irritations, write them down in details. Explore and analyze your experience, thoughts and feelings about those negative events.
Writing about your negative experiments gradually detaches your from them and gives you a better perspective on them.
On the positive experiences, its best not to analyze them just reflect upon them privately in your mind and re-enjoy them.
3. Verbalize Aloud
Purpose: Forces new neural connections and networks. Enhances observation. Deepens creative appreciation.
The German writer Goethe used to spark insights by verbalizing aloud. He would talk out loud to an imaginary friend, describing plots, characters and locations for his books. He believed this led to deeper understanding and highly imaginative but realistic writing.
American artist, James Whistler also practised verbalizing aloud. On city walks with friends, he would describe in detail what they were witnessing. To sharpen his powers of observation, he would try to memorise a scene, turn away from it and then describe it in as much detail as possible.
Win Wenger invented the Image streaming process, in which you verbalize aloud while describing the stream of consciousness in your mind’s eye. Its one of the top 5 creativity simulators in the world and is said to boost your IQ.
Instructions:
Push yourself with all these exercises. Make your mind work.
I .Awareness Builder: Describe aloud what you are doing and sensing. ‘I am reading POISED CORPER magazine’ ‘I am drinking coffee’.
Ii. Goals aloud: Visualize the achievement of your number one goal in as much detail as possible. Describe aloud as you are visualizing. Describe what you see in detail. Describe what you are feeling..the sense of accomplishment, pride, fulfilment and gratitude. Describe what you are saying to yourself, what others are telling you. Do this for at least five minutes.
iii. Splash in the Image stream try Win Wenger’s Image streaming process. Relax somewhere you won’t be disturbed. Close your eyes, breathe gently and describe what’s going through your mind’s eye in as much sensory detail as possible.
Record this and listen to it later for greater brain.
4. Back from the future
Purpose: Change the mental frame and liberate your perspective.
Instructions: Examine your problem or challenge. Get to know it inside out. Now imagine yourself ten years in the future. The problem is ‘old news’ now look back on it fondly. You are way beyond that now. Notice everything about how you solved it.
For best results, do this in a relaxed, meditative or hypnotic state.
5. Forced Story
Purpose: Make your mental muscle work and tap awesome powers of imagination.
Kids wander around in a theta state and are great at spinning tall tales: fabulous adventures, romantic fantasies, heroic action stories, incredible excuses, inventive lies. It comes easy to them. Adult brains on the other hand are beta-fried.
Force your mind to produce stories at will and you will uncork your imagination and be able to use it for fun and profit.
Instructions: Set your stopwatch for five minutes. Write, type, dictate or tell a story as fast and as brilliantly as you can. Eliminate ums and ers. Focus on making it cohesive, entertaining and enthralling. It can be a children’s story , an adult yarn, a Walter mitty fantasy, or an outright lie of the most inventive kind. Push your mind to work for you. Make it spill the juicy goods!
6. Insult Habit
Purpose: To break up mental status quo and let fresh creative energy flow.
Famed composer Igor Stravinsky believed that truly creative people always strive to ‘insult habit’. The polymathic writer Arthur Koestler agreed adding that creativity requires ‘a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataracts of accepted beliefs.’
Instructions: Cataracts build up slowly over time gradually obscuring vision. Turn your awareness on your life. Examine your beliefs, your habitual ways of doing things, the little traditions and accepted practises that you do automatically.
List all the things you do habitually and then deliberately program changes into your daily life. Throw a metaphorical stick of dynamite into your walled-in-world. Break down the walls of routine. Do things differently. Look, listen, feel, taste, smell the world in new ways.
Ideas:
Read something you wouldn’t normally read.
Eat something you’ve never tried before.
Experiment with your sleeping or working hours.
Go somewhere you’ve never been.
Be different!
7. Expertless Thinking
Purpose: Leverage other brains’ computing power. Get different perspectives and fresh ideas.
Instructions:
i. Get outside of your field. Get away from the ‘experts’. Tap your social circle. Discuss challenges and problems with others. Seems like common sense, and it is. But we frequently forget. Ask your family. Ask a kid. Ask the ‘aboki’.
ii. Seek out alert ideas people in your social network. Get fired up by their love for ideas. Utilize their genius.
iii. Adopt the belief that everyone has at least one idea that might be useful to you. Encourage them to reveal their creativity. Ask ‘what would you do in my situation’ type questions.
iv. Keep your ears open: Listen to strangers. You never know when what you hear is going to help you out or trigger a blockbuster idea.
8. Flick Gazing
Purpose: Stimulates your brain, awakens your vision and perception.
Instructions: Spend 3-5 minutes, moving your eyes from one thing to another all around you. Let your eyes flick up, down, right, left and on the diagonals.
Set the pace at 60 flicks per minute seeing briefly a different feature each time.
Note: you move your eyes not your head.
Tips from Wily Walnut’s.
