Brain Power: Your New Ticket To Success In The 21 Century

by Clint Pearman, Ph.D.

At the turn of the century the key to success was being in the agricultural industry. If you had the biggest farm or the most cows you were doing pretty well. Then people started moving of the farms into the era of the industrial revolution. Now you needed to find a good job and if you had a college degree you could make it really big, if you saved your money. Most didn't save so they are still working or struggling financially today. Next came the technology age followed by the information age. We are still in the information age, and this has actually created a major problem for us.

There is information coming at us from every direction. We get email, internet news letter, internet popup, TV news TV adds, radio, cell phones and don't forget there are still news papers and magazines and people calling us on the phone during diner with great deals. Then there is your boss who needs your time and attentions, your significant other wants your time, and if you have children under 18 multiply everything by 2 per child. No wonder so many people suffer from attention deficient, they really just can't keep up with everything demanding their attention. It's not a case of deficit it's just too much stuff going on.

Your brains ability to absorb all this information or choose which information to absorb, then process it, recall it, and then use it when needed will be your ticket for success in the coming century. The problem most people have, with absorbing, processing, recalling and using this constant bombardment of information, is in their own brain power.

Brain power can be viewed simply as your brains ability to do 5 things:
1. Take in information
2. Process and store information
3. Recall information
4. Use information properly
5. Focus Attention on what's important

During our normal daily lives the stress that we create and encounter drains our brains ability to perform these five functions to the best of our ability. Actually we are performing to the best of our ability; our ability is just not as good as it could be. In short our brain power is simply a function of these five cognitive activities.

We all have a brain power threshold, that point when there is just no more mental energy left, and once it is reached we peak out in brain power. This is similar to when a weight lifter has peak out on the weight they are trying to lift. Once the energy to lift is gone it is gone. This happens in you brain also. You can reach use up the energy to function at a peak level and just not have any more juice left. The result of you reaching your brain power threshold, while the normal stress and demands of the day continuing will produce some of the following symptoms and others:

* You will tend to feel physically and mentally tired before the end of the day.
* Your ability to focus and concentrate becomes weaker.
* You start to make bad decisions.
* You will have a difficult time with recalling information.
* You begin to feel sluggish and slow in our thinking.
* You stressed and fatigued.
* You have a hard time or just can't sleep.
* You suffer from anxiety.
* And you can have bouts of depression.

Well, here's the good news, all these issues and problems are easily understood from a neuroscience stand point. You have simply drained your brain of its ability to operate at a peak level. You have used up the fuel your brain needs to operate. By fuel I mean the various types of neurotransmitters, hormones and other chemicals your brain and body uses. Chemicals like noradrenaline.

In fact it has been discovered by a team of Cambridge scientists that noradrenaline controls our ability to stop ourselves from doing inappropriate things like blurting out impulsive comments, jumping red lights, or rushing in front of cars. Noradrenaline is only one of many chemicals your brain needs to function properly let alone operate at a peak level.

Research conducted by NACOPEN Research has determined, based on brain science, there are four fundamental areas that can easily and drastically improve your brains performance. We call these areas optimum performance factors.

They are:
* Brain nutrition
* Mental exercise
* Cognitive programming
* Conscious neuro directed action.

From these four optimum performance factors we have found eight simple things you can do to improve your brains performance.

Eight Simple things that will improve your brains performance based on brain science
Drink Water. Our brain tissue is made of approximately 85 percent water. Water is use to move nutrients to all parts of your body, and water is important to preventing infections, constipation and many other physical problems. When you are dehydrated the level of energy generated by your brain is decreased. This can cause depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, sluggish cognitive functions and it is believe dehydration contributes to stress and migraines.

A little know fact about water is that if you do not drink enough water, your body will naturally start to retain water to compensate for the shortage of water in you body. If you want to eliminate water retention then you should drink more water not less. You can actually create problems for every aspect of your body and mental ability if you don't drink enough water.
Our body loses over 10 cups of water a day. In fact we lose 2 cups a day just from breathing. You should drink at least ten 8 ounce glasses of water a day if you are an in-active person. If you live an active life you need about 13-14 eight ounce glasses a day. It is important to spread your water intake out throughout your day. It is a bad idea to drink more than 4 glasses of water in a 1 hour time frame.

Get ample sleep and take mental breaks. Besides the common sense reasons for sleeping, there are some neuroscience based reason you should understand. During sleep your brain goes though phase or levels of brain activity. In the deepest level of sleep the brain activity know as delta causes the release of human growth hormone (HGH). HGH is a protein produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the liver to produce somatomedins, which stimulate growth of bone and muscle. HGH is the most abundant hormone produced by the pituitary gland in the brain and it also triggers the entire body on a regular basis to replace cells that have died.
Research has also shown a number of other important things happen when you sleep. They include amongst other things physical co-ordination improves, memory, concentration, creativity improves and your feeling of emotional well-being improves.So sleep and rest but don't over steep, oversleeping can upset your bodies clock and make it harder to sleep.

To help fall a sleep try the following:
* Take A Warm Bath
* Exercise
* Avoid Alcohol, Caffeine & Tyrosine-Rich Foods At Night
* Avoid Sleeping Pills
* End your day in a relaxed environment
* Do not watch television in bed
* Use meditation or brain entrainment technology

Brain Nutrition: Your brain is like a car. A car needs gasoline, oil, brake fluid and other materials to run properly. Your brain also needs special materials to run properly: glucose, vitamins, minerals and other essential chemicals. Your brain must manufacture the right proteins and fats to do things such as grow new connections or add myelin, the fatty sheath on axons. Without the correct amount and balance of particular building blocks, your brain will not work properly. Too little (deficiency) or too much (overabundance) of the necessary nutrient can negatively affect your brain and entire nervous system.

Stress, worry, emotional distress, drugs, alcohol, poor eating habits and pollution depletes your brain of these vital hormones and neurotransmitters. Additionally, today's normal diet simply does not provide sufficient nutrients to produce adequate neurotransmitter levels. All combined, these factors can contribute to many negative cognitive conditions. Visit Brain Science Life Solutions at www.nacopen.com to learn more and see our cutting edge brain science based brain nutrition products.Cognitive Exercise: Your brain can be viewed like a muscle, and research has shown clearly that if you use your brain to learn new things on a regular basis it will stay strong. However, lack of use will cause it to get week and loose it's power.

Four things you can do to exercise your brain on a regular basis are:
* Read a new book every month.
* Work on learning a new language.
* Try doing things with the opposite hand.
* Learn new dances, this works both sides of your brain.
* Visit Posit Science at www.nacopen.com for brain exercise programs.

Mental Programming: The subconscious mind controls how we react to the world. Desires, fears, habits, personality traits - they all come from associations contained in your subconscious mind. What if there was a way to change the nature of the subconscious. Instead of working against you in a constant battle with your willpower, what if your subconscious could instead make you more like you would like to be - how you see yourself without all those bad habits, emotional reactions and fears that block your progress. What if you could suddenly feel happier, or only crave healthy foods? What if being confident, energetic and focused was as effortless as everything else you currently enjoy doing?

The programming you have received over the years makes up you mental program. The problem is most of us have a program that works against us. We have beliefs and attitudes that are just not true or don't work and in most cases we don't even know it. The best and simplest way to find out if your beliefs and attitudes are working is to ask you self two questions are living up to your potential and are you where you think you should be in life right now. If you answered no, there is a very good chance, something like 99.9 percent you are operating with less than an optimum mental program for success.

The science now exists to re-program your program almost automatically using what is known as brain waive entrainment. Visit Brain Science Life Solutions at www.nacopen.com to learn more and see how our brain waive entrainment products can help you create the mental program needed to reach your highest potential.

Conscious Neuro Directed Action: Even with a strong, healthy and properly programmed brain you still need a system that directs your actions towards success. Conscious neuro directed actions is the science of programming your behavior at the neuroscience level to create the behavior needed to achieve your goals. When programmed properly you will put your goals on autopilot and move towards them with out even thinking about it. This is similar to the same un-conscious neuro directed programming that happens when smokers get addicted to smoking, or overeaters get addicted to overeating it happens without them thinking about it, and the next thing you know they become un-consciously automatically addicted to the negative habit. And we all know how hard it is to break those habits.You can use this same programming brain science to program positive behaviors that become hard to break also. The process consist of 5 steps known as the NeuroFactor5.The NeuroFactor5 is the world's first brain science based success system that applies neuroscience to direct your action and automate your success.

The five factors are:
Factor 1. Have a dream, vision or intention to do something (DVI). This creates positive neuro-paths that initiate a chain reaction in you brain. But this is just the beginning.

Factor 2 COPENIZE your DVI. Once you have identified a DVI the next thing you need to do is to COPENIZE it. When you COPENIZE your DVI you apply neuroscience research to it to cause it to become a strong and powerful neuro-path that will overcome the obstacle that get in the way. This is done with visualization, affirmations and other COPENOLOGY techniques. The goal behind this technique is to create a level of passion and desire for the accomplishment of you DVI that nothing stops you.

Factor 3.Set and COPENIZE a Goal. When you have developed a sufficient amount of passion and desire for your DVI you will then set a goal and COPENIZE it. The purpose behind this step is to strengthen the neuro-path you already created. You will learn how to determine if your neuro-paths are strong enough when you get to the final step.

Factor 4. Develop and COPENIZE a Plan. If you have done everything correct by the time you get to actually developing a plan you should have a pretty solid neuro-path being developed. During this stage you will simple create a plan that actually tells you what you should be doing monthly, weekly and daily. To COPENIZE your plan you will need to have written it down and committed it to memory. You should visualize yourself doing what you have scheduled on a daily basis. Schedule the days you are not going to do anything to contribute to the accomplishment of your goals also. This is very important as you will see in the final stage.

Factor 5. COPENIZE your daily action. When you COPENIZE what you should be doing on a daily basis your behavior will become automatic. You will not even have to think about it because if you have done everything correct your DVI now has a neuro-path in your brain, your goal now has it's own neuro-path connected to your DVI neuro-path, and you have created a neuro-path of your plan all connected to each other in your brain. Whatever it is you wanted to accomplish is now part of your brain structure and can be observed and measured. So be careful of what you wish for. To COPENIZE your daily action you should visualize you daily action, use affirmations and other advanced COPENOLOGY© techniques.

To learn more about the NeuroFactor5 and how it can help you achieve you own DVI's visit the NeuroFactor5 at www.nacopen.com.

Physical exercise: This can be the subject of an entire article of its own. And most people are aware of the benefits of physical exercise. However few are familiar with the connections between physical exercise and brain power. Exercise stimulates never cells to multiply and strengthens there connections. This has the affect of protecting them from harm.Probably one of the best reasons to exercise not related to your physical well being it the one relating to your mental well being. Memory tests given to 1,740 people over 65 during a 6-year project have linked moderate exercise to reduced risk of dementia. That alone should cause you to want to exercise. These results were published in the Jan. 17 Annals of Internal Medicine by a Seattle research team.

Kill the ANT's: And last but surely not the least important is to kill the ANT's. Automatic Negative Thoughts. These are success killing thoughts that come into your mind with out you even giving them a second thought.

Examples of ANT's are:
* I'm a jerk
* I'm an idiot
* I can't believe how stupid I am
* That makes me so angry
* Why is this happening to me
* My parents made me like this
* I can't change
* I am not good at anything
* I'm just a failure
* I'm useless
* I could never do that
* Nobody likes me
* I can't get any better
* I'm not smart enough
* My problems will never go away

And there are probably over 1001 other things people say or think that fall under the category of ANT's.

Every thought you have, everything you imagine and everything you believe all electrical, chemical and biological properties in your brain that have an effect on every cell in your body. Research has shown that negative thoughts create stress and stress over a long period of time will have serious harmful effects on your brain ability to function properly.

To start to kill your ant's follow the steps below:
Decide you want to kill your negative thoughts. Until you actually decide to kill your ANT's you will always suffer from them.

Listen to yourself and identify your ANT'sOnce you have committed to killing your ANT's the moment you hear one coming say to yourself stop. I'm in charge of my thoughts. And then immediately think of the thought in a positive light.

I use a mythical warrior called NETAK. NETAK stands for Negative emotions, thoughts and attitude killer. NETAK is an 8 foot tall 400 pound Knight wearing a platinum and gold suit of armor carrying tungsten steal sword.

When I suspect an ANT attack I simply think or say "Get Them NETAK". And the warrior has never lost a battle. In fact when NETAK is done with the ANT's they are totally smashed and gone. Try it.

The simplicity of these eight brain power boosters should not be taken for granted. Each of them are backed by brain science research and practical experience. They work and will work for you. If you want to keep your brain strong and powerful and operate at the peak of your ability you must have a peak performing brain and the surest way to immediately improve your brains performance begins with these eight steps.

About Clint Pearman, Ph.D.
Clinton D. Pearman, Ph.D, is the founder, CEO and Chief Research Scientist at the North American Center for Optimum Performance Enabling Neuroscience (NACOPEN) Research. A company dedicated and focused on identifying and applying cutting edge neuroscience research to peak performance, personal development, team and individual success. As the CEO/President of The Coaching Solution, a California based life strategies coaching company; Dr. Pearman provided success coaching to more than 500 clients since 1989. He has more than 25 years of practical hands on experience educating and training others to succeed.
He is the creator of COPENOLOGY, the science of cognitive optimum performance enabling neuroscience and the creator of the Neuro-Factor, the worlds simplest yet most powerful neuroscience based system for making rapid and permanent positive behavioral changes for achieving the things you want out of life. He is the author of the soon to be released book "Brain Science Life Solutions, Preparing your brain and mind for optimum performance. Introducing COPENOLOGY and the Neuro-Factor". The scheduled release date is 15 October 2006 by Xlibris publishing.
Dr. Pearman speaks to groups large and small on the neuroscience of peak performance, personal development and team and individual success. His ability to translate complex neuroscience discoveries into simple and easy to understand step by step programs make his seminars not only educational but also highly motivational. Attendees leave educated, motivated and inspired to make immediately performance improvements in all areas of their lives.
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