Hey guys! Chronicle living here! And today I'll be going over three powerful
techniques to increase your IQ which are simple ways to become smarter! In the
past, not very long ago, it was believed that your brain's intellectual capacity
and your IQ was fixed when you reached adulthood. It went as far as that by age
7, your brain's fate was determined for the rest of your life.
Glad to say that has been proven false with more and more scientific research and
studies done when we discovered something called neuroplasticity. If you
break that word down neuro means relating to nerves or the nervous system
and plasticity means the quality of being easily shaped or molded. So then
the full definition of neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to form and
reorganize somatic connections especially in response to learning or
experience or following injury. This discovery showed us if we can get our
brains to form new neural connections, your intellectual quotient also known as
IQ can possibly increase as well brain plasticity is a common term used by
neuroscientist referring to the brain's ability to change at any age for the
better or the worst. What we discovered is gray matter in our brains can
actually shrink or thicken and so neural connections could be forged and refined
or weakened and severed. You heard of the saying use-it-or-lose-it right? Much like
a muscle, not working out can lead to a decline in the brain's ability to use
several neural pathways which can lead to things like memory decline and
decline in cognitive functions. But what has been found is that under the right
circumstances, the power of brain plasticity can help adult minds to grow!
Again, in this vide,o we'll be going over three powerful training techniques you
could do anywhere that can help you to increase your IQ which means will help
you become smarter. Now let me say this before we begin. Doing these techniques
for a short time only is not going to change you. It's gonna require time and
patience exactly like working out you cannot go hard on week one and slack off
week 2 and week 3 you're back to square one.
with nothing. In order to see great results these trainings have to be done
at least five times a week. Even though I'll be showing you three different
trainings, you still have the choice of choosing one or doing them all. Just as
long as you can stay long-term with the plan and do them every day, you can find
amazing results. Technique number one. One of the most important findings of recent
neuroplasticity research is the discovery of how closely our senses are
connected to memory and cognition and this specific training will aim just at
that. It is called image streaming. It is believed that on average we produce
50,000 thoughts a day! If I tell you to imagine right now an elephant flying
with a balloon high up in the air, you probably already pictured it in your
mind. Something like this right? This is essentially like active daydreaming.
Daydreaming except you're conscious and active while doing it. So what I mean is
you're gonna use your mind's eye to see what you picture in your head and this
is where you're gonna use image streaming. You'll have to begin to use
your mind's eye to start describing what you see in full details. Of course I
recommend to close your eyes while doing this and also it's important that you're
gonna want to describe out to yourself with your own voice what you're seeing
in as much detail as possible, so let's use the elephant example again. Right now I
see a checkered black and white lighthouse and a giant white moon in the
gray sky with dark circular craters. Now I see a grey elephant floating with a
hot air balloon that's black with orange stripes in a slow forward motion towards
the blue ocean. See how I actually made it simple and described it in details? Oh
wait. That's only one-fifth of the technique four more parts of the technique?
But don't worry it's not that complicated. You're just gonna have to
describe out with your voice the next four senses of what you're sensing such
as sound, smell, touch, and taste. So going back to the image stream, I'm gonna say I
hear the ocean waves and the seagulls, I smell the mists of the ocean, I feel
how the elephant has a leathery like skin, the lighthouse tastes cold and
dull. When we image stream, we're letting the visual image to be the doorway to
many areas of our brain. The greater of the association of the areas of the
brain that we're using with all five senses involved in the visual image, the
greater amount of the brain is being used for that visual image. So instead of
accessing only one or two areas of our brains when we think, the brain is
accessing more areas when we are describing the image. In the image
streaming technique with all five senses we are allowing the brain areas of the
individual senses to become enlarged that it's increasing the depth and the
scope of the brain being used. So the schedule of this is you're gonna want to
do this for at least 45 minutes to a maximum of one hour at least five times
a week and the results are pretty amazing because what was found is the
results start to take notice within two to four weeks of increased ability to
form ideas, reading ability, visualization, intellectual curiosity and concentration
span also increased. Doing it long enough in couple months can lead to even
greater improvements that some claim they were able to achieve photographic
like memory from this consistent training. The next training technique is
a more of a passive type training that doesn't require as much effort as the
first one. This one is called brain harmonics. The idea is your brain
operates with certain wavelengths that has bees such as Delta Theta beta which
are programmed in certain sounds, brain harmonics is a technology which has been
around for close to a hundred years. However the technology has gone through
many changes, innovations, and developments. In many ancient
civilization, the use of drums in a rhythmic and melodic way was useful for
creating hypnotic and trance-like states. The rhythmic use of brainwave is what
has been allowed for the changes to take place in our brains, so in modern brain
harmonics, the effects come due to the use of tones and certain specific
wavelengths within a sound and neurons may able to grow with
an active mental workout while you're listening to this audio and doing
something like math homework. So if you're gonna listen to this the schedule
is you're gonna have to do this at least four times a week
at least thirty minutes with headphones on. You could search binaural beats or
brain harmonics on the web and experience it yourself and the third
final technique is a more of a fun one and a little bit unexpected and that is
juggling. Juggling? You heard me right. Juggling there's been studies on how
juggling has shown to cause certain areas of your brain to grow for example
there's been experiment where as German researchers divided 24 non jugglers in
two groups and they assigned one group to juggle 30 minutes a day. The
scientists performed brain scans on the volunteers using MRI before and after
they learned to juggle. The researchers were then able to investigate changes in the brain gray matter, the area of the brain that consists mostly of cell
bodies of neurons rather than the connective fibers. The study found that
the volunteers that did not train to juggle showed no difference in their
brain scans over the three-month period. However those that did juggle for 3
months straight demonstrated an increase in gray matter in two areas of the brain
which involved visual and motor activity. It appears it as showed improved
connection in the parts of the brain that involves movements necessary to
catch the balls so it is possible that juggling improves hand-eye coordination,
reflexes, peripheral vision, and a host of other motor skills. All right that is all
for now! Also there's a video I made that went over my top 5 supplements for
increasing brain power! Feel free to click up on the video card to check it
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