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Healthy Foods that Boost Your Brain Power

You learned how important your brain is in school and if that didn’t hammer the point home, your mom has yelled at for you for years telling you not to drink alcohol or do drugs because it kills your brain cells. On the other side of the spectrum, you may have heard that there are ways you can boost your brain power and promote good brain health. There are exercises you can do to stimulate your brain, but there is an even easier way to naturally boost your brain power and it all comes down to eating healthy.

Study after study has proven that consuming certain foods can make your brain healthier, which boosts its ability to keep your body functioning properly as well.

Foods to Eat

Fish. Your brain contains DHA, which is a form of omega-3 fatty acids and studies have shown that consuming the right amount of omega-3 fatty acids provides you with emotional balance and positivity. While it may put you in a better mood, researchers believe it also helps to prevent emotional problems as you age such as the depression and memory loss associated with Alzheimer's. And one Harvard study showed that people who had higher amounts of omega-3 fatty acids in their diets were less likely to get Alzheimer's. So be sure to add fish to your grocery list; it’s good for your brain.

Blueberries. Your brain also contains free radicals that rid your body of toxins. If you have too many free radicals in your brain, it can impair your cognitive skills, but eating foods such as blueberries that contain antioxidants can help to control the amount of free radicals in your brain. With a balanced amount of free radicals, you’ll keep your brain healthier and more balanced. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture blackberries, cranberries, strawberries, spinach, raspberries, plums, avocados, oranges, red grapes, cherries, and kiwis are other foods rich in antioxidants.

Water. Ok, so water isn’t technically a food, but it is for your brain. With 80% of your brain being made up of water, it’s important to keep it hydrated. A dehydrated brain can become stressed, which can cause damage over time. So be sure to get in your eight, eight ounce glasses of water each day.

Nuts. Foods such as nuts that are high in protein give your brain energy. And when your brain has energy, it gives the rest of your body energy too. Nuts make a great snack for your brain and the rest of your body. Other foods that are high in protein include eggs, lean meat, poultry, soy, dairy products and beans.

So there it is. Eating healthy is a good way to keep your body fit and trim and it’s a great way to keep your brain fit too. Study after study has proven that by including certain foods in your diet promotes good brain health. So eat more fish, drink more water, stock up on the right fruits and veggies and add some protein to your diet.

Study shows the public is turning to alternative medicine and away from dangerous prescription drugs

Study shows the public is turning to alternative medicine and away from dangerous prescription drugs

Busting the myths surrounding hypnosis

Busting the myths surrounding hypnosis

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Five Simple Steps to Achieve HAPPINESS

Last Wednesday, I gave a workshop on How to Achieve Happiness through the Power of Your Subconscious Mind; in other words, by using Self-Hypnosis. Everyone was so pleased with the workshop that I have decided to share it with you.

As I mentioned during the workshop, Happiness is simply the end-result of a well-balanced life-style. We achieve Happiness when we create harmony and balance in our family, relationships, health, career, finances, spirituality etc.

There are five simple steps that can help you to achieve HAPPINESS.

1. LOOK IN THE MIRROR

Ask yourself… “What am I tolerating or putting up with?” Think about your current situation and notice what feelings, thoughts or beliefs are limiting you.

2. IF IT’S BROKEN, DON’T FIX IT!

After realizing the things you’re “putting up” with then go ahead and release it.

Every second you invest in an undesired thought or feeling; the more powerful it becomes. In other words, you end up giving your power away to something else.

I use Self-Hypnosis or Meditation to release unwanted thoughts and feelings. I have a cool MP3 File on my website you can download that teaches you how to release.

3. VISUALIZE WHAT YOU WANT

Instead of thinking about what you don’t want, think about what you truly want. Years ago I would whine like a baby saying “I don’t want this or that…bla bla bla.” Ever since, I shifted my words to “I want,” so many wonderful things have happened.

I spend about 15 to 30 minutes every day visualizing how I want things in my life. It keeps me motivated and upbeat all day long.

4. ONE – TWO – THREE BREATHE

Once you stop breathing, you stop living. Make time to simply relax and breathe. Take few deep breaths during the day…when you’re agitated or stressed … when you’re happy or at peace. No matter what, simply breathe.

5. REMEMBER THE 3 R’S

Respect Yourself, Respect Others and Responsibility for all Your Actions.


About Onix
Motivational Coach, Hypnotherapist and Trainer for Clear View Hypnotherapy Institute in Miami. For more information go to: www.clearviewhypnosis.com.

7 Public Speaking Survival Tips

I used to be terrified of public speaking - now it's natural and fun.

Dry mouth, fast heart, sweaty palms, blank mind - yeah I've been there! It's easy to fear public speaking. But I was never just content with overcoming fear. I wanted to be a great speaker. What I needed was a way of calming down and applying simple techniques and strategies to talk like a pro.

When I'd learned to relax (more of that later) I learned and applied the following four steps.

1. Reassure your audience - they need to know you know your stuff and you are human!
2. Hook them by being interesting and relevant. Tell them why what you are saying is relevant to them.
3. Inspire them by giving them information and ways of seeing that are new and applicable.
4. Leave them on a high by telling a story them encapsulates your central message.

How do you become confident enough to apply the four steps?

Here's some tips some of which are practical some of which are to do with the way you think about your public presentations and also how you can start to change the way you feel about them.

Tip One

Breath your way to calm. When you breath out you relax that's why people sigh when they're stressed.

Breathing in without breathing out causes hyperventilation and worsens anxiety. Just before your speech take five minutes breathing in to the count of seven and out to the count of eleven (quick count-not seconds!). On the out breath hold it a second before breathing in again. This will produce quick and lasting calm. Remember extending the out breath calms you down.

Tip Two

You have a responsibility as the presenter but relax you don't carry all the responsibility. Presenting is a team effort. Audiences are responsible for politeness, extending their attention and attempting to learn. It's not all you-it's a meeting of two halves. Never mind how they judge you. How do you judge them?

Tip Three

Use metaphor and stories. We all experience life metaphorically. The most technical logical person spends at least two hours a night dreaming! Talk detail if necessary but present patterns with metaphors. Folk from 4 to 104 love stories. Use em.

Tip four

Captivate attention by using words that evoke all the senses. Describe how things look, sound, feel, smell and taste. Paint pictures and sensations in their minds with your words.

Tip Five

Vary your voice tonality and speed of delivery. Keep them alert and engaged. Convey energy when need be and slow down when you need to 'draw them in close.' You are the conductor to their orchestra. And pepper your talk with humour. Your willingness to be funny shows personal confidence and confidence is contagious.

Tip Six

Tell them what they are going to get. What they are currently getting and then what they have got from you. Sell your sizzle!

Tip Seven

Watch and learn from other great speakers until compelling, relaxed speaking is a part of you.

Rehearse positively. You need to rehearse how your going to feel as well as what you are going to present. Don't think about your forthcoming presentation whilst feeling nervous as this creates an instinctive association between fear and presenting. This natural negative self-hypnosis is very common with nervous speakers.

Hypnotically rehearse your speech whilst feeling relaxed. This produces the right 'blueprint' in your mind. In fact when you do this enough times it actually becomes hard to be nervous!

All great speakers know how to use great self-hypnotic rehearsal. Hypnosis changes attitudes and can bring emotion under control. I used hypnosis, to change my instincts around public speaking. Now I just can't get nervous whether it's 50 or 500 people. The world needs great communicators. Go for it!

Cure your fear of public speaking at HypnosisDownloads.com

Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.

Improve your self confidence in 15 minutes

I used to be frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know me now would never believe I used to doubt myself so much I literally had to learn confidence until it became a natural part of me. I can tell you relaxed optimistic confidence is just, well so much more fun.

Here I'll tell you about the things that made the most difference to my confidence levels...

Some people have naturally high levels of confidence but everybody can learn to be more confident

Firstly, it's important to get a clear idea of what self confidence really means, otherwise you won't know when you've got it! So, self confidence means:

1) Being calm. For every situation in life you need to run on the appropriate level of emotion. Too much emotional 'leakage' into a experience can spoil the experience. You make great strides towards confidence when you begin to relax in a greater range of situations.

2) Being cool. The second part of self confidence is about being able to relax with uncertainty. To be 'cool' in a situation really means relaxing with not knowing how things will pan out. If you truly tolerate uncertainty, you can do pretty much anything.

3) Not being too concerned with what others think of you. You know when you imagine what some place is going to be like before you go there but when you get there it is totally different to your imagination? That's how reliable your imagination is! Stop trusting your imagination so much. I've long since stopped bothering to imagine what others think of me because so often I've turned out to be wrong.

4) Being specific - where do you want confidence? 'Confidence' is meaningless until you tie it to something specific. You are already confident that you can read these words or can switch a light on and off. So you don't need more confidence everywhere. To get what you want in life you have to establish exactly what you do want. Where do you want confidence in your life? Think about the specific situations now and write them down. You beginning to steer your brain towards confidence.

5) Understanding that what you expect is what you get. Your brain is an organ that needs clear goals to work towards. When a task has been set in your brain it will do everything it can do to bring about the completion of that task. If you've tried to recall someone's name but can't, hours later you'll often find their name pops into your head.

The 'trying to recall' experience set the task or blueprint for your brain's future subconscious behaviour which eventually produced the name for you - when you weren't thinking about it consciously. You can use this natural mechanism to start feeling more confident. But, to ensure you set the right task for your subconscious mind, the next point is vital.

6) Don't task your mind with negatives. Instead of: 'I don't want to screw up' (which sets the task of 'screwing up' for your brain), set the blueprint for what you do want! Your brain doesn't work towards what to do by being told what not to do. And nature has given you a wonderful natural tool to set the right task blueprints with.

7) Use nature's goal-setter: Now you understand how vital it is to set the right task for you brain, you need to know how to do this reliably. Good hypnosis will strongly 'program' the right blueprint in your mind through the use of your imagination. If you powerfully imagine feeling confident and relaxed while in a relaxed hypnotic state it will be hard for your unconscious mind to do anything else. The blueprint for relaxation has been set firmly into your subconscious mind.

3 simple strategies to get you feeling confident quickly:

1) Think specifically of the time/place/situation you want to feel confident in. Remember 'confidence' doesn't mean anything until you attach it to something specific.

2) Focus on words in your mind right now that describe how you do want to be in that time and place. Maybe words such as 'calm', 'relaxed' or 'focused'. Remember your brain works on clear positive instructions.

3) Close your eyes for as long as you like and think about how those words feel. Then, imagine the situation itself and rehearse it in your mind feeling confident and relaxed. This way you set the right blueprint or 'task' for your unconscious mind.

You can repeat this often to make it more effective and use it with as many areas of your life as you need to. If you listen to a hypnotic cd or download that can make the benefits even more powerful (see my profile below). So if you feel like you'd be blessed with less confidence than some other people you can start redressing the balance by using your mind in the right way right now.

It took me years to learn how to be more confident - now you can do it in a fraction of the time. Good luck!

Boost your confidence now at HypnosisDownloads.com

Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.