You might have read about these techniques on the website, but did you try them? For the course to work, and for the other lessons to make more sense, you have to actually try them. Also, not everyone is the same, but some of the following will give you results.
1# Do math in your head while slouching, breathing shallowly, and with your mouth hanging open. Multiply two-digit numbers, add several numbers - just do whatever you can normally do without pen and paper. After a few tries, sit up straight, breath deeply through your nose, and keep your mouth shut, while doing similar math problems. Do you notice how much easier it is the second way?
2# This one demonstrates how sugar is the opposite of a brain booster. If you're familiar with the "sugar blues," and the brain fog it causes, just skip this exercise. Otherwise, do any mental activity, from balancing a checkbook to reading an article. Then eat a sugary donut or piece of cake on an empty stomach, wait fifteen minutes, and try the activity again. The lesson will stick with you once you've related that feeling you get to the sugar.
3# This is an exercise to show you how creative your mind can be. Do it while driving, sitting on the porch, or wherever. Start by giving yourself problems to solve in your head or on paper. These can be issues in your life, like how to deal with a rude co-worker, or fun problems, like how to make fast food faster, or designing a better refrigerator.
4# Pick a problem to solve, and find any assumptions you and others are making about it. Then find a creative solution by challenging those assumptions. Look carefully for those assumptions, though, because they aren't always obvious. If you are designing a better light, you'll probably assume it needs to illuminate the things around it, right?
5# Challenge that. Could the things themselves be lights? Books, tables, and chairs that glow, so you don't need harsh light filling the room? Could a light illuminate in a way that only people with special glasses could see there way around? That might have security applications.
6# Does a table need legs? Do you really have to make more money? Do cars need wheels? Challenge the framing of the questions themselves. "A better chair" becomes is there something better than chairs? Try this exercise, and you'll see how much creative mind power you have.
7# Take a walk, and you'll probably find your mind works better ten minutes into it.Sing the day's events, and see how much easier it is to rhyme when singing. You've just accessed the power of your "right brain," which is better at pattern recognition and spatial reasoning.
Close your eyes, relax, and take three deep breaths through your nose. Notice how your thinking is clearer afterwards? Please follow my blog for more.
