Our mind is paced by light and sound and this affects brain wave activity.
Have you ever walked into a room with flashing lights and high frequency music. Often times it feels palpable in the chest seemingly changing your heart rate
and breathing pattern . Different frequencies of light and sounds have varying
affects on different parts of the brain as seen on functional MRI analysis.
During a non-violent, educational video game, you'relearning and creating using, the left and right brain, as well as the frontal
lobe for focus. While playing, or watching, a violent video game, your brain
begins to confuse fiction with reality, creating angrier and more agitated
behavior. Splitting up game time or taking a walk in nature can snap us back to
reality and calm your brain activity for better focus, better attitude, and
increased brain function.
Better Brain tip:
1) Stop all video game activity at least 1 hour before bedtime
2) Start to limit or eliminate violent video game activity
Almost every professional sports organization has a Chiropractor
on their team to enhance player performance and promote optimum recovery from
injuries. Hand, eye, and foot coordination is one of the most important skills
to develop for any athlete. Inches can be the difference between a home run and
a strike out in baseball. Dr. Sperry won the Nobel prize for his work showing
more than 90% of the brains messages are for coordinating the body and the
affects from gravity.
One of the most important parts of the brain function is
directing the messages from the brain to the body. This process is called
"Proprioception" and is one of those background physical processes
that make up your body's total IQ. Proprioceptors are specialized nerve endings
located in your muscles and joints that inform your brain about your body's
position in three-dimensional space.
You're able to write legibly because proprioceptors are sending
instantaneous data about the angles of the small joints of your fingers and
wrists as your pen moves across the page. You're able to run on the beach
because proprioceptors are continuously sending signals to your brain about the
changing shape of the uneven surface of the sand.
Without these specialized nerve endings, we'd never be able to
hit a baseball, throw a Frisbee, or drive a car. But proprioceptors can be
affected by posture and nerve stress. One person out for a stroll might trip
over a crack in the pavement and suffer a badly sprained ankle. Another person
might trip over the same crack, even badly turning over their ankle in the
process, and keep on walking without even a trace of a limp.
The difference between injury and non-injury is the level of proprioceptor
training, and this level usually is related to whether you're doing regular
exercise. Exercise trains your muscles and joints to adapt to varying kinds of
stresses (weight-bearing loads) throughout a variety of positions (the full
range of motion of those joints).However, if an ankle, shoulder, or the back
are injured it can disrupt the exact messages to and from the brain. This in
turn can affect hand, eye, and foot coordination.
As a result, trained proprioceptors can withstand a high degree
of stress (such as a sudden twisting of an ankle). The untrained ankle,
possibly the ankle of a person who hasn't done much walking, running, or bike
riding in the last five years, will be damaged by an unusual and unexpected
stress. The result is an ankle sprain of varying severity and possibly a broken
ankle.
Similarly, it is well known that older adults experience more
frequent falls than do younger adults. Part of the explanation involves
proprioception. Many older adults don't engage in regular exercise. Proprioceptive
function decreases, changes in level or surface aren't recognized quickly by
the person's feet and ankles, and the person falls.
It's easy to see that the effort to maintain an athletes
proprioceptive system is time well spent. This process is also extremely important for anyone that wants to
maintain a high level of mobility as you age. The fastest way to boost the
brain body connection is by maintaining the best alignment possible and doing
regular exercise. All kinds of exercise provide benefit, so the best exercises
are the ones that have some interest for you personally.
Better Brain Tip:
Athletes -Do regular coordination exercises or drills for your
desired sport
Non Athlete- balance on one foot with the opposite arm
outstretched in front of your body for 30 seconds / then switch leg and arm
sequence { this develops better brain balancing and proprioception}
The "All Star Break" just ended for Major League Baseball
last week. I had the honor of doing evaluations on the team at the last game before their time off and it was
apparent that they needed a rest from a long road schedule. The "All Star
Break " for most players is a great planned "time to revitalize"
and pause to prepare for the rest of a long season .
In any season there has to be a natural break or our body gets
out of rhythm. In nature there are rhythms and change that happen year after year.
Our daily rhythm is probably one of the most important cycles to get into
balance. Athletes have a rhythm to their training. If you ever go to a pregame
warm up no matter what sport, there is a specific process to getting prepared
for game time.
No matter how great an athlete is they all begin their pregame
activities with light stretches, jogging or calisthenics. In baseball, batting
practice or a pitcher warming up in the bull pen are all necessary to get the
nervous system in sync and body loosened up. To reach peak potential and avoid
injuries we need to adopt this same principle. Waking up rushed or not having
time to let the brain get engaged properly puts our bodies in a stressful fight
or flight. It's critical to reprioritize your day if you wake up in a stress
response.
If you really want long lasting health and vitality don't just
prioritize your schedule every day,
you must "schedule your priorities." This means getting
your mind and body prepared for each day. When you master your days, you can
master your week, when you master your week you will master your life! Look at your future calendar to schedule a" time to revitalize"
break .This should be done at least once each season to maintain optimum
health. Start looking at your life like a peak performer and begin your days
slow then build momentum and then close the day for better mental clarity and
less stress.
Better Brain tip:
·Write down all the ways that you feel you can
revitalize your body, mind and spirit.
·Schedule a time each season to get away and
design your life so you can listen to
your highest voice, see your highest
vision and trust your gut instinct.
Studies are now showing that a high IQ may be linked to how we
process information.
Here's the question: Is there a single way to predict whether
someone has a high IQ or not?
The answer: Maybe.
According to a new study
in the Journal Current Biology, high IQ is correlated with an ability to
process important information while ignoring the unimportant distractions.
In the movie "For the love of the game" Kevin Costner has to drown out all the
distractions as he attempts to pitch a no hit game for his farewell performance
in the big leagues. His strategy was to blur out all the visual and auditory
distractions by creating a focused strategy. He would say to himself "clear
the mechanism," and he would have a much clearer focus on the task at
hand. Having a strategy to regain your focus can increase your memory,
cognitive skills and reduce stress. Each level of the brain often overrides the
other based on prior experiences if you let it just remain on auto pilot.
Many scientists have suggested that high IQ is linked to
processing speed, or how quickly and accurately a person can understand
incoming information. This information can come from a wide range of sensory
inputs, including sounds, sights, and physical sensations. Responding to a tap
on your shoulder or computing a difficult math problem both rely on processing
speed, among other cognitive abilities. The problem in today's lifestyle is we
have more potential distractions from texts, cell phones, 24 hour world news
and the rapid pace of our world than ever before.
The University of Rochester had researchers conduct a study
searching to find what if the ability to ignore certain information is just as
important as the speed it takes to process it internally.
Researchers first set out the determine how quickly the study’s 53 participants processed different types of visual information.
A series of shapes passed across a screen, and participants were asked to
identify how the shapes had moved —
for example top-to-bottom or left-to-right. The shapes could be large or
small.
Counter intuitively, participants generally took longer to
process large shapes than small shapes. This phenomenon, called spatial
suppression, originates from a natural instinct to pay less attention to large
background movements —
like ignoring the lion on the horizon to focus on the lion in front of
you.
Each participant received a Suppression Index score (SI) based on
the difference between their response time to the small moving shape compared
to the large moving shape.
Participants also took a version of the Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale (WAIS), one of the most extensively studied IQ tests in
existence.
Analysis revealed a strong correlation between IQ score and SI
score — meaning
that people with higher IQs were better at processing small movements and worse
at processing large movements. Learning how to use all 4 levels of the brain
teaches you how to attain selective focus on what is most important.
This study’s findings make plenty of sense in real-world scenarios: most of the time,
the environment rewards a myopic focus. When you drive, it’s
the cars and pedestrians close by that command the bulk of your attention.
Events happening in the background such as buildings you pass, objects on
the side of the road, people moving on the sidewalk all become secondary.
The brain is complex and sometimes perplexing, so it’s always gratifying to see researchers begin to understand one of
its most important mysteries and how our focus can affect our intelligence
quotient.
Better Brain tip
Next time you’re out in the world, pause for a moment and see
if you find yourself relying on a specific sense more than others.
Stop and look around to see first what feels most important to
pay attention to...then broaden your senses to also see a bigger picture of your
surroundings.
Both of these actions are
important to create a better balance between the 4 levels of the brain and
avoiding getting stuck in a sensory pattern.
Almost all brain dysfunction can be summarized into one of three
categories that I call the three Ts , "TRAUMA ,TOXICITY and THOUGHTS". You may
have seen some of my previous videos
when I told the story about how my wife Jeanine and I were in a horrific
helicopter crash. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and it is the main reason
I created the Better Brain Academy.
The synthesis of what I
learned in 30 years of practice along with the worldwide search to find the
best doctors, the best research, best treatments and remedies to create a
healthy brain and nervous system was the main reason for my wife's recovery
Any time there is a trauma to the brain and body it can
short-circuit the nervous system. It is very important to always make sure that
you do something to start to reset the nervous system and restore proper
function. Any stress can
trigger the fight or fight response that needs to stop within a short period of
time. There's a feedback loop that takes place from the brain to our body and
then back the brain. Healthy responses have to send messages to the cells from
the brain 100 % of the time for proper communication
It is critical to look at what energy and information is being
received to support the health and
healing for the best amount of communication from the brain. The brain can
actually affect the messages down the spinal tracks so your posture is very important in the
recovery after a trauma. Many of us have toxins that have been accumulating in
the body .A critical step in healing is to make sure that you are taking steps
to start to reduce that and eliminate toxins as much as possible .I will go
into the steps more in depth in future videos on how to reduce toxicity
It is also important to
really be aware of what we're thinking because it could be firing off this
feedback loop with negative feedback reducing your overall health. I want you
to have 100% of your brains message to
bring 100% of expression of life energy flowing to the body 100% of the time.
So start to THINK a little bit better and reduce TOXINS now to achieve a much
healthier life.
We all have the ability to transform our lives by understanding
how to use our "Three Powers."
In the Better Brain Academy we take
you through a three week process to tap into each of your powers. It takes 21
days to create a new habit pattern so we address all the three powers starting
first with your Elective power, then your connective power and finishing
the last week addressing your Reflective power.
Your Elective Power is the "power of you". Your ability
to find what truly drives you and link this with your values for more
fulfillment in life. Your Connective Power is how you create stronger lifelong
connections using your emotional brain. Your Reflective Power is tapping into
your Innate purpose and defining your highest mission in life.
For more information watch the introductory video below or visit
our website at www.betterbrainblueprint.com
