The goal of yoga is samadhi, continuous immersion, the merging of the mind with the inner shell of the body of the soul. This shell is an immortal spiritual body, which, constantly incarnating, changes mortal physical bodies. It contains complete knowledge about the universe and its origins, it is free and self-sufficient, filled with the endless joy of its own existence.
The problem is that a person lacks conscious contact with the body of the soul. We are not born spiritually awakened, and the process of such awakening takes time and practice.
To realize the inner body, a person, with the help of yoga, must learn to control all the outer shells (mental, physical and vital bodies), which hide what is behind them and invisibly supports them.
There are numerous methods, their purpose is to connect the external consciousness (mind and senses) with inner body. Release the potential of consciousness formed by external actions.
For this purpose, methods are used that use concentration on different objects. The most common method of such concentration is trataka or drishti.
This technique is used to hold consciousness on light reflected from an object. The point is to continuously contemplate the reflected light, keeping the mind in constant concentration. Through the optic nerves, the signal from the eyes is transmitted to the thalamus and then to the pituitary gland. With a long and regular process of such sadhana, the functions of the pituitary gland, thalamus and ventricles of the brain are activated. This process also activates the awakening of the function of the third eye - the pineal gland. In parallel, consciousness “disconnects” from external forms of activity of the sensory organs and the cessation of stimulation of the brain through external objects. This state is known as pratyahara (pratya - perception of hara - mix, remove, cease). Subsequently, the process leads consciousness to full disclosure and the ability to see and perceive phenomena independent of the physiological and objective reality of external objects.
The key mechanisms of perception switching involved in yoga are the following sections of the brain and nervous system: thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, cerebellum, four ventricles of the brain.
Aspects of the physiological evolution of sections of the brain in spiritual practice are a very difficult topic to discuss for two reasons: 1) science does not have objective and reliable information about the hidden potential of the brain; 2) science considers the functioning of the brain only in the context of generally accepted scientific theories.
At the same time, yoga as knowledge already has information on revealing the abilities of the brain, which is not available in generally accepted scientific research.
Internal and external processes of development of the brain and nervous system in yoga occur in a completely different way and with a different intensity than in a normal lifestyle, and the practices themselves, during which consciousness awakens, require considerable time and effort. Lack of time and motivation – biggest problem to master this type of method.
Christ said: “When the eye is one, the body will be full of light.” Yogis perceive the context of this phrase as an indication of the method of contemplation - drishti.
The Aitareya Upanishad says that the soul enters the body through the brahma randhra - the hole at the top of the head and remains there until the moment of death.
In its normal state, the soul manifests itself through visual sensations - the optical nerves of the thalamus connect the eyes to the brain. The ability to see is not the work of the eyes, but of the brain.
The Single Eye is a potential of consciousness that can see all objects in the light of the soul body.
Yoga adherents are confident that the human brain is like an embryo, the capabilities of which are used by 2-3 percent. And the full abilities of the brain can be revealed through yoga, awakening certain parts of the brain one after another, as well as blocking the activity of other parts that throw consciousness outward. The key ones are the medulla oblongata, pituitary gland, thalamus, hypothalamus and pineal gland.
Sacred texts mention the tree of life, this tree of life is the brain and nervous system. This tree grows with its branches downward, and its roots go up into the brain. The parts of the brain responsible for the dynamic activity of consciousness are like the stupas of a wheel - from the frontal to occipital lobes. Here are all the centers: hearing, vision, touch, smell, instinctive and intellectual activity.
During the process of yoga, some functions are blocked, others develop. The pineal gland acts on the hypothalamus. It, in turn, slows down and switches consciousness from external objects to internal processes. The pineal gland is located in the center of the head, slightly above and behind the pituitary gland. The pineal gland is a vestigial organ that is able to evolve slowly. According to scientists, the “third eye” is an archaism, and all statements about its functioning are devoid of scientific justification. This organ (the pineal gland), smaller than a pea, cannot be identified as an independent part of the brain.
The third ventricle of the brain is where it resides. The ability to sense the third eye phenomenon occurs through the awakening of the pineal gland area.
The impulses received during the process of concentration are transmitted to the pineal gland and the third ventricle of the brain, where all organic functions and the psychic powers of the mental body are united. Concentration can be performed on a candle or on its reflected light. But the technique itself requires explanation.
On the one side, external system the sense organs and the mind fed by it are blocked by the hypothalamus, on the other hand, all the mental power of a person begins to be generated inside.
What do yogis mean by developing consciousness? – The ability of the mind to rise above sensations.
There are both feminine and masculine elements within the brain. They are the pituitary gland and the pineal gland. Their combination is ardha narishvara (the form of God, where half is male, half is female body) is a self-sufficient form of consciousness that does not need gender identification. The practice of yoga achieves unity and harmony of these two principles inside the brain. This gives the yogi a state of natural brahmacharya - internal self-sufficiency and a state of love, not conditioned by the instinct of procreation and attraction by objects of the opposite sex.
The burning of Kama (God of love) by Shiva is a symbol of the transformation of sexual desire into superpowers. Sensory information is transmitted through the gaze and therefore the development of the desire center is closely related to the development of visual perception.
Inner freedom is the fruit of intuition; when the pituitary and pineal glands are fully developed, their combined vibrations will open the ability to awaken the “eye of the soul.”
The Taitiria Upanishad declares: “This ancient yoga is known to us from those rishis who transmitted it to us. You should meditate on the one who is present in Agni as Bhuh, in the air as Bhuvah, in the Sun as Svah, in Brahman as Mahat.” In the Vedas, these are three worlds: 1) gross forms of matter, 2) the intermediate sphere, 3) spiritual and superconscious spheres (Maha, Jana and Tapa loka). In the physical body there are certain correspondences to these spheres.
Agni (Fire) is the thalamus, which is located in the first ventricle of the brain. Surya (Sun) is the striatum (corpus striatum), the second ventricle. Mahat (Mind), located in the brahmarandhra, is the pineal gland, the third ventricle. Vayu (air) – medulla oblongata, fourth ventricle. One of the most valuable manuscripts of Shiva Yoga considers these four departments to be the main ones.
As the brain grows, it opens from a small neural tube into three pear-shaped cavities: the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. It continues to grow until all layers are completely formed. The original neural tube has a depression structure, so the spine ( spinal cord) has the shape of a tube. The recesses of the former tube exist in the cerebral hemispheres as two recesses - lateral branches. Next, the third ventricle develops between two large-volume masses nerve cells, which lie at the base forebrain and are called talami. The midbrain is small, it connects the two hemispheres with the hindbrain; the passage passing through the midbrain is called the pons. It connects the third ventricle to the fourth, then it develops into the fourth ventricle, connected to the hindbrain. From the hindbrain the number of important structures multiplies. The nerve tissue that connects the two hemispheres connects the cerebellum and the two hemispheres of the brain. If we compare the brain to a tree, then its trunk will be the spinal cord, which continues, passing into the medulla oblongata inside the head. The medulla oblongata is the area where the main prana resides (sushumna and its ending). It is the force that contains and supports all areas and vital forces.
The brain transforms sensory impressions of vision into vision.
The brain resembles a tree trunk, from which two crowns grow on the sides - the right and left hemisphere. If we go further along the tree, inside the head, we will find the ventricles of the brain - important centers that control the activity of the hemispheres, which are glands, forms of gray and white matter adjacent to the right and left hemispheres.
The activity of the external senses: vision, hearing, smell and touch, is regulated by areas extending from the back of the head to the frontal lobes of the hemispheres; these are the seven spokes of the “wheel of life”. At a subtle level, there is also a connection between parts of the brain and the functions of the chakras.
Pituitary
The task of the pituitary gland is to develop the body in accordance with the development of consciousness in it. These are the processes of growth of the body as it matures and the processes of reactions. The activity of the pituitary gland is controlled through the third ventricle of the brain and the pineal gland region.
The pituitary gland has anterior and posterior lobes. The pineal gland is connected to the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland controls the system of all glands in the body. The third ventricle of the brain is a narrow passage located at the base of the hemispheres and then branches into two regions. The pineal gland is located behind a narrow passage before the branching and is a bundle of nervous tissue and gray matter. The pineal gland region is located behind the quadrigemina (corpora quadrigemina), which belongs to the midbrain region.
The pituitary gland is the most important part, as it creates the mood and coordinates activities different glands body, controls biorhythms and body development processes. It also activates the genetic program of puberty of the body and the very moment of switching on sex hormones at a certain age. The pineal gland, acting on the pituitary gland, slows down the processes of turning on this function and allows consciousness to create a barrier between the hormonal reaction and the decision.
Pineal gland
In a significant proportion of people, this organ is in a rudimentary state, although in some cases it can evolve. In its full development, it helps yoga adherents perceive the phenomenon of time as a constant value, and not fragments from the past, present and future. Time exists on the material level as mathematical quantity. In individual experience, his perception can speed up or slow down and even stop. Yoga texts describe the pineal gland as the “third eye”, which is symbolized on the forehead. There are known images of Shiva with a “third eye” in the form of a flame. In ordinary people, the function of the “third eye” is completely lost due to sexual addictions, since the development of this center is possible only if the mind is free from the influence of passion, and the subtle energy that goes into sex will be generated inside the brain. If a person suppresses the tendency to lust, further evolution of this center is possible. This area can be developed to a certain level of activity, in which case its universal dimension is revealed to the mind. The complete process of Drishti Yoga is the opening of such a dimension.
The opening of the “third eye” is the opening of the function of the pineal gland as well as the functions of the pituitary gland, thalamus and hypothalamus and other ventricles of the brain, which control the mode of thinking and the functions of all higher nervous activity. New neural connections are created, and all these parts of the brain together form a completely different way of perceiving reality.
However, the scope of universal thought is not limited only human perception. Human thought could only arise as a result of restraining action and controlling reactions between the impulse and the implementation of action. Animals do not have such a function, since they are controlled by the instinctive mind.
As the mind evolves, it shifts from focusing on external objects, reaching complete introversion. External world as if disappears, the brain absorbs forces and organic functions, concentrating their energy in the area of the pineal gland.
There are some similarities and differences between Drishti Yoga and Kundalini Yoga.
Kundalini sleeps - and the “third eye” sleeps. The kundalini area is the pelvic plexus, the third eye area is the brain area. The process of awakening kundalini involves effort and hard work to open the centers of the entire body. For such an awakening, all vital energy is needed, which accumulates through the practice of pranayamas.
Drishti (contemplation) is associated only with the awakening of several areas of the brain.
The awakened kundalini reaches the causal body, which is shaped like the letter “O”, and connects with it. Drishti yoga practically disconnects the mental body from the physical carrier, acting exclusively on those centers that are associated with the highest nervous activity. “Drawing out” of the astral and mental body occurs without active action by the body or active control of breathing.
There are several reasons why certain yoga methods are obstacles to others. For example: hatha yoga, asana practice and breathing techniques “seat” consciousness back into the body, causing the body to identify with mental and emotional impulses. By processing and meeting impulses along the way in the body, consciousness creates a flow that includes vital energies and pranas. The mind then encounters different types experience and passes completely through all subconscious and conscious spheres.
Drishti Yoga forms are a way of entering the light body without immersing in the physical and mental subconscious. The term Shiva yoga implies the elaboration of psycho-emotional karma in the context of the tradition of Vira Shaivism, intense worship - both internal and external.
During contemplation (drishti), a channel of communication with the body of the soul inside the brain awakens and connects it physiological functions body with the body of the soul, located in the region of the third ventricle of the brain. The constant process of drishti (concentration) on the “third eye” through the optic nerves of the thalamus gradually leads the ordinary consciousness to the opening of this area.
Essentially, drishti yoga uses one center and a bunch of ajna centers - sahasrara, which stretches the entire astral body.
Forms of kundalini yoga also involve drishti - continuous retention of consciousness at a certain point, accompanying this process with breath control. Holding an object occurs against the background of changes in the physiology of the breathing process. This process includes intense pranayama mudras and bandhas.
In yoga, methods of concentration and meditation often contain “sthana kalpana” - visualization of the process of energy movement and representation of the subtle centers that a person begins to feel as he progresses in the technique. Sthana – installation, retention. Kalpana - imagination, representation of an object - when channels and objects are imagined in the physical body, the revelation of which is yet to come. If the practice is regular, then imagination - kalpana - turns into dharana and dhyana. In the case of pranayama and concentration, this is not a mental, but a physiological process.
Another problem is that in order to indulge in meditation and contemplation, one must already have a stable mind and an awakened thin body. The conditions for successful meditation, when contemplation techniques really begin to work, are retreats and long-term immersions. In everyday life, we can “keep fit” with more or less long sessions, but the main experience involves “immersion in yoga.” It does not matter what specific tradition, line or practice we are talking about.
Hatha yoga and work with the physical body to a certain extent awaken subtle centers and channels. But obviously not to such an extent as to completely throw consciousness beyond the limits of the “karmas of the mental body.”
Sometimes during practice, people may unconsciously open channels that release images into the brain. In the central channel there is a chitrini channel (chitra - picture), which is responsible for “cartoons of consciousness” and a person’s ability to see them. Consciousness can translate the contents of the mind into images and, on the contrary, clothe images into sensations in the body. Usually this is a process that is not controlled in any way consciously. Images are spontaneously formed by the mind and transmitted to the sensations of the body and vice versa.
Thalamus and hypothalamus
The fourth ventricle of the brain controls subconscious functions such as body temperature, breathing rhythms and heartbeat. Its structure is a mass of gray matter. This nerve tissue transmits signals from organs to and from medulla oblongata like the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve controls several pairs of nerves - 12, this is a structure of branching nerves with a base in the brain, 8 of them are its continuation.
The respiratory process is controlled by the vagus nerve, in which there are afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) fibers. These fibers control the functions of voluntary and involuntary inhalation and exhalation and go to the lungs (the endings end there vagus nerve). The cessation of exhalation and the cessation of inhalation are also regulated by these nerve tissues.
Expansion and contraction, centrifugal and centripetal processes associated with respiration are controlled from there. Nerve fibers have their base in the thalamus and striatum, which are a mass of gray matter formed into the 4th ventricle of the brain. The centripetal nerves of the thalamus are described as flames (Agni), as they carry energy from external impressions (mainly visual) to the main sensorimotor organ - the thalamus.
Lower part of the hindbrain
In the region of the fourth ventricle there is an area called the quadrigeminal region, which is also stimulated to activity by the thalamus.
The thalamus activates the anterior pituitary gland, and the striatum (corpus striatum) activates the posterior one. The pituitary gland is connected to the interbrow - the focal point of the center of the interbrow, which is responsible for the processes of restraining emotional activity. The striatum (corpus striatum) and the thalamus communicate between the physical and etheric bodies, controlling the pituitary gland.
The cerebellum, the center of balance of the physical body and its orientation in space, is located in the back of the head. We cannot always control the balance of the body through conscious effort. Located in the hindbrain, the cerebellum is responsible for balance skills and sensation of the body in space. Thus, receiving signals through the brain, the nervous system automatically sends them to the spinal cord, instantly forming a reaction.
Higher and individual will and intuition
Involution of consciousness. All processes taking place in the body are directed by will and intuition - two aspects of superconscious energy. When individualized perception or the Ego is brought into the field of undivided consciousness, the higher will becomes the ordinary vital impulse. Intuitive and superconscious knowledge becomes a private process. Integral perception becomes fragmented, divided in its multitude, since it is no longer guided by the will of the Higher Consciousness, which includes all the elements. The whole picture is divided into fragments, each of which, taken in a limited context, can be contrasted with another fragment of the same reality.
From such shared perceptions private knowledge is built. The Ego tool reveals knowledge in attempts to appropriate to itself what it cannot control. It is the intellectual and instinctive mind guided by division. In a state of such division of consciousness, we do not belong to ourselves, our true Self, but belong to a false identification of ourselves in the form of the Ego. Who we are - we do not know, and what we know - we are not able to control.
The article was written based on materials from the book “Technique of Opening the Third Eye” by Sri Kumar Swami. Dharwar, Karnataka, India "Technique of opening the third eye". Tapowan, Dharwar, 1985, Karnataka. INDIA
Denis Zaenchkovsky is a leading yoga teacher in Russia, author of numerous educational films on yoga, founder of the Moscow Ashtanga Yoga Center. Website:
For decades, it was believed that fundamental cognitive skills (such as the speed at which we process information) are fairly stable across the lifespan. Recently scientists discovered that various exercises, aimed at stimulating important areas of the brain, actually change cell density. Theoretically, we can literally enlarge our brains through certain mental exercises. Many were skeptical about this idea. And yet, science shows that when the brain is stimulated through special exercises, brain cells actually grow. Experiments and research show that the brain can be trained in several ways.
1. Talk to different people
Psychologist Daniel Wegner in 1985 developed the concept of transactive memory, according to which a person becomes an expert in one specific area, that is, he remembers information of a certain type perfectly. For example, your husband is well versed in music and can name both the composer and the piece from the first notes. At the same time, he is completely unable to remember new faces and names, but you do it with ease. When you are together, you work in tandem without any problems different situations, for example, at a party. Or you have a friend who is great at remembering numbers, while you can easily recite poems. That is, the more your friends differ from you in memory type, the more information they can provide you. Opposites working as a team always create a creative atmosphere. Make friends with people who help you see things from different perspectives.
Try to understand other people with whom you disagree, listen to their arguments and find some meaning in them. This "opens" the mind.
2. Think positively
There is a well-known Pygmalion effect, discovered in 1968 by two psychologists, Rosenthal and Jacobsen. If we set high standards for ourselves and believe that achieving them is possible, then they will be realized. Teach this to your children, reward them for the smallest successes, and they will believe in their potential. Research has long proven that a positive attitude can reveal many hidden talents. For example, a group of ordinary schoolchildren were told that they would now study in a mathematics class, since they had been discovered to have great aptitude for mathematics. As a result, even the slowest students became better at math than their peers who were left in the regular group.
3. Sleep 7 to 9 hours
The brain does not turn off during sleep. It processes a lot of information accumulated during the day, and sometimes provides solutions to problems. The need for uninterrupted sleep is now being questioned. Perhaps short sleep breaks during the day are more beneficial than 8 hours of rest at night. But in total, sleep should take at least 7 hours a day.
4. Eat natural foods
Marketing specialists will prove that you cannot do without their miracle pills. But simple vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, some berries, you generally need more vegetables and nuts, green tea and nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts) are great for the brain and improve memory. Legumes contain amino acids (such as tyrosine). They are needed for the production of very important neurotransmitters (norepinephrine and dopamine) associated with mental activity.
Plays an important role breast-feeding. Children who have been breastfed for several months have more high level IQ. This is explained by the fact that with breast milk they received fatty acid Omega-3s, which are usually not available when artificial feeding. Only fortified milk formulas can compensate for Omega-3 deficiency. Studies have shown that if a mother eats foods high in Omega 3 in the last trimester of pregnancy, the child's intelligence will be higher, and this will last for life. Consumption of processed food products(carbonated drinks, bread, cakes, etc.) lowers the child's IQ.
5. Meditation
If you want to improve your concentration and memory, practice meditation. Neuroscience professor Eileen Lueders notes that as a result of meditation, the brain begins to process information faster and more efficiently. The journal Neuroimage reported in 2009 that meditation can increase cell density in the hippocampus (associated with our memory) and in frontal lobes(related to planning and control of behavior).
In addition, meditation relieves stress, which negatively affects learning. There are many ways to meditate, but they all require silence, a calm environment, and focusing on your breathing.
6. Exercise
It was unexpected for many psychologists that sport is sometimes a real panacea against physical, emotional and even intellectual problems.
Firstly, physical exercise increase blood flow, resulting in the brain receiving more oxygen and glucose.
Secondly, they improve coordination.
Thirdly, they promote the growth of new brain cells (neurons) and connections between them (neurogenesis).
In addition, a good workout can “awaken” dormant stem cells in the hippocampus, which is responsible for our memory.
7. Keep your mind active
The more you talk to your child, the smarter he will be. Solve puzzles, read books out loud, tell stories. If you do this regularly, your child's IQ can be raised by 6 points. But it is advisable to start in early age(about 4 years old) and not just read, but during the reading process show various emotions, change the tone of voice, immediately answer questions that arise or ask questions yourself. This is the most important thing you can do to develop your intelligence. small child. None computer game or the television program is not capable of this.
If your parents did not pay enough attention to you, then you yourself can keep your gray matter in good shape. Solve crosswords, sudoku, you can even study instructions for devices or maps. All this trains your brain.
8. Learn at any age
Sign up for a course or learn something online. It used to be that IQ remained virtually unchanged throughout life. now this controversial issue, since Norwegian scientists have proven that each extra year of education can increase an adult’s IQ by an average of 3.7 points. Everyone who receives additional education, they only benefit from this.
It is unknown whether exercises will ever be developed that will target the development of a specific area of the brain. There are attempts, but often they do not live up to expectations. However, we can and should train our brains. Because as a result of training, our mental abilities undoubtedly improve, IQ increases, and we are more able to reveal our intellectual potential.
9. Travel
Learn new things in the world. Give yourself time to travel. It is useful to go to the mountains, on a tour trip with strangers, ride a boat on the river or sea, all this has a beneficial effect on digestibility new information and intelligence in general.
Hiking normalize blood flow and improve mood, giving tone to the entire body.
Read a lot of literature
The most useful literature is that which does not become outdated over the years, but is in demand after many years, this applies to classical literature, which gives positive development of a person in a moral, spiritual and mental form.
The most useless literature is newspapers, detective stories, and short novels that are published every month.
Memory development enhances intellectual abilities. Learn a unique method for developing memory by activating both hemispheres of the brain!
Human potential is not revealed!
It is a well-known fact that a person uses the potential¹ of his brain no more than 3 percent. There is an opinion that to develop new capabilities you need to significantly improve your memory².
The human brain is made up of neurons. It is the exchange of information between them that provides thinking abilities. From a neural perspective, memory is the interconnection of neurons with each other.
Thus, the development of memory is a necessary condition in order to master superpowers³ and extrasensory potential of a person!
The memory training technique proposed in this article can increase the efficiency of physical and intellectual capabilities hundreds of times!
This exercise will allow you to develop the skill of long-term retention of the desired object in memory, to develop figurative memory, which.
Memory Development: Basic Technique
1. Initially, the practitioner lies down and relaxes his body. Gradually he will immerse himself in a meditative state of consciousness.
2. A person causes a state of “emptiness”, non-thought, in the head. To do this, he concentrates on the sensation of the body - this allows him to “turn off” the flow of thoughts.
3. Having caught and consolidated inner silence, the practitioner pays attention to the subject that he plans to remember.
He looks at it carefully for 5 minutes. The practitioner “centers” the image, tries to take in the entire object with his gaze, and remember the overall image and all the details.
4. Then he closes his eyes and begins to reproduce the image in his memory. This must be done as clearly as possible, in color.
This exercise must be repeated 8 times. To avoid automatism and inattention, it is recommended to perform the exercise with a sense of surprise each time, to generate new emotions: this will allow you not to treat repetition as a routine.
As the skill develops, you can reduce the number of repetitions for one subject, and in one lesson, alternately memorize and reproduce several subjects in memory.
Additional techniques to make the exercise more difficult
1. Having developed a skill, you can complicate the exercise: look at the selected object for 3 minutes, after which you can be distracted by other things. After some time, remember the object again and reproduce it in detail in memory, without seeing it.
2. Then you need to learn to express it on material media: take a white sheet of paper, pencils and sketch an image of an object from memory. If you don’t know how to draw well, it’s enough to just sketch the object, indicating all the details that you remember.
Thus, it is necessary to accurately reproduce all parts of the body and surrounding objects.
3. Having developed memory, you need to move on to the next stage: learn to remember complex pictures with an abundance of details and then reproduce them.
4. In the same way, you need to work with texts: learn to memorize and clearly recreate it based on memory.
These techniques are aimed at developing figurative memory: so that we can quickly remember and reproduce large amounts of information.
Regular practice of the described exercises will allow you to develop the skill to such a state that you can learn to remember completely at one glance.
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² Memory is a general designation for a complex of cognitive abilities and higher mental functions for the accumulation, preservation and reproduction of knowledge and skills (
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To quickly and easily remember your friends' phone numbers, important dates names, you need to train your brain and unlock its potential. Here's 60 simple tips, how to think faster, improve memory, better absorb information and use the full potential of your brain.
You can start doing them right from today:
- Solve riddles and puzzles.
- Develop ambidexterity (the ability to use your right and left hands equally well). Try to brush your teeth, comb your hair, and manipulate the computer mouse with your non-dominant hand. Write with both hands at the same time. Change hands when eating when using a knife and fork.
- Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions.
- Block one or more sensations. Eat blindfolded, cover your ears for a while, take a shower with your eyes closed.
- Develop comparative taste sensations. Learn to fully feel, savor wine, chocolate, beer, cheese and anything else.
- Learn to touch type.
- Come up with new ways to use common items. How many different ways can you think of one for a nail, for example? Ten? One hundred?
- Don’t stop at the obvious, look beyond the first, “correct” answer to the question.
- Change the established order of things. Ask yourself the question “What if...”
- Run, frolic, play sports.
- Develop critical thinking. Challenge common misconceptions.
- Draw, draw automatically. You don't need to be an artist for this.
- Take up some form of art - sculpture, painting, music - or try yourself in some other creative activity.
- Learn the art of performing tricks and develop sleight of hand.
- Strive to constantly feel a slight feeling of hunger.
- Sit up straight.
- Drink plenty of water.
- Vary your activities. Choose a hobby for yourself.
- Practice short naps.
- Listen to music.
- Declare war on your propensity to procrastinate.
- Play chess or other board games.
- Play mental games. Sudoku, crosswords and countless other games are at your service.
- Consider every idea that comes to you. Keep a notebook and create a bank of ideas.
- Let your ideas develop. Return to each of them at certain intervals.
- Conduct case observation. Try, for example, to mark red objects as often as possible throughout the day. Tag cars of a specific brand. Pick a topic and focus on it.
- Keep a diary.
- Learn foreign languages.
- Read long words vice versa. !einejuborP
- Change your environment - change the location of objects, furniture.
- Write! Write stories, poetry, start a blog.
- Learn speed reading techniques.
- Learn a method to determine the days of the week for any date.
- Try to judge the time intervals by your feelings.
- Make friends with mathematics. Fight “inability to count.”
- Study the system of figurative thinking to develop memory.
- Remember people's names.
- Train your concentration and complete absence thoughts.
- Change your usual speed various types activities.
- Do only one thing at a time.
- Tune in lifelong learning throughout your entire life.
- Travel abroad. Get to know the lifestyle of people from other countries.
- From time to time, communicate with people whose worldview is different from yours.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions.
- Change the way you plan for the future: short-term/long-term, collective/individual.
- Change your medium of communication: use paper instead of a computer, voice recording instead of writing.
- Read the classics.
- Make up summary books.
- Voice your problems out loud.
- Describe your feelings in the smallest detail.
- Mix up your feelings. How much does it weigh pink color? What does lavender smell like?
- Argue. Defend your arguments. Try to also accept your opponent's point of view.
- Be curious.
- Challenge yourself.
- Develop the art of visualization. Spend at least 5 minutes a day on this.
- Get a dictionary of interesting words.
- Look for metaphors. Connect abstract and concrete concepts.
- Take a different route every day. Change the streets you take to work, jog, or get home.
- Install various OS to your PC.
- Develop your vocabulary.
Limits of Possibilities human brain much wider than we used to think. What you will be able to do, know and remember depends only on your desire and perseverance. Good luck!
