Howard Berg: Power Blasting Your Brain’s Computing Power

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You want your brain to quickly and easily find unique solutions to life’s challenges. You want a brain that can handle whatever happens effectively and consistently. You want your brain to unleash its full computing power. You are going to really enjoy this article because it will reveal to you a simple strategy for maximizing your brain’s thinking ability.

Life experiences are the gym in which your brain gets its daily workout. The people you meet, the activities you experience, and the places you visit all stimulate your brain, just as lifting weights stimulates your muscles.

After a long day, you return to your home base. While asleep, your brain will process the information it obtained throughout the day, and make crucial decisions on what needs to get done next. Unfortunately, there is a problem that is holding you back from fully developing your thinking capacity. Let me explain.

Most of us are creatures of habit. We get up at the same time each day, and go to the same place. Most of the people we meet are the same people, and most of our experiences tend to be quite routine. Your brain wants something very different to reach its full potential. Your brain wants unique experiences that provide new stimulation. This comes from things that are not part of our typical routine.

Fresh experiences stimulate new neural connections, and increase your capacity to solve problems. Fortunately there is an easy exercise you can integrate into your life that will help you to achieve this quickly and easily.

One of the easiest ways to create new stimulation is to change your daily route on your way home. It is better to do this on the way home because you will have more free time to explore new places. Instead of going to your place of business using the same roads, deliberately select a totally different route. Even better, make a few stops at some of the places your see during your trip. Go to a new store, and see what items are for sale. One of my favorites is to stop in a park that I never visit and take a walk to explore some of its features. Many people experience some discomfort when breaking their day to day routine. This is a good thing. It means your brain is getting fresh stimulation. Stimulation that will help insure it functions at its peak level throughout the day.

Although seeking new experiences, places, and people may provide vital stimulation to your brain, often your tight schedule simply will not permit you the luxury of pursuing these desirable things. Fortunately, there is a very simple exercise you can perform at any time. An exercise that will enable you to begin experiencing even routine things as unique and unusual. This exercises is called the Game Of Stop. The heightened creativity you experience from performing this simple drill will really make it worth the few minutes it takes to perform.

During the hustle and bustle of daily life simply stop for a moment to reflect upon what you are doing. Take a moment and look at yourself as if you were observing what is happening to you from the perspective of someone in front or in back of you. How would what you are doing be experienced by them?

Changing your perspective by looking at your actions from a different angle will provide the necessary stimulation your brain is hungry to get. Look at what you are experiencing with a total awareness. What sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings do you have at that instant? Take it all in, and process it as if it were happening to someone else. In fact, you can use this same technique to even boost your writing creativity.

Imagine you are writing a report about “The Wizard Of Oz.” Change perspectives, and what the story from the viewpoint of the witch. Her sister was just killed by Dorothy who took no responsibility for her actions. What are you going to do about it? Or imagine you are writing a report on the American Revolution. How would you feel about this revolt if you were King George? Simply changing your perspective can give you new insights while providing your brain with the stimulation it needs to function at its highest possible level. Just take a few minutes each day to change your routine either physically, or psychologically and you will take your learning ability to a whole new level.