June 14, 2014

Learn How to Increase Brain Power from Free Audio & Videos

Do you sometimes wonder if you are using your mind to its fullest capacity? Learn how to increase your brain power with this list of 8 free audio and video titles. Here you’ll find “Flow” author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explain how to fully immerse yourself in a task, hear Daniel Goleman on how to keep focus, and find a Sounds True program chock full of helpful intuitive development exercises. In addition to these lectures, this collection offers training tips to help you retain memory, a guide for self-hypnosis, and other strategies to help you optimize mental efficiency. Boost your brain by clicking below:

1. Boosting the Brain’s Power Into Old Age

In this lecture delivered at the Chautauqua Institution, author Dharma Singh Khalsa talks about “Boosting the Brain’s Power Into Old Age”. He provides methods for preventing Alzheimer’s disease and other brain related illnesses, and how to boost your memory and to become more mentally energetic. Dr. Dharma provides some nutrition and supplement suggestions. He claims that the days of declining mental activity during old age are over with, if people will make a conscious effort to maintain their healthy brain. This title is available on streaming video and MP3 download from FORA.tv.

2. Mental Efficiency

Listen to this audio book on how to exercise one’s mind for maximum efficiency. English novelist Arnold Bennett uses his wit to convey how we work hard at the up keep of our physical bodies, while we often do little to workout our minds. He gives examples of ways to give the mind a workout. He also features essays that explore the presentation of self, breaking free from the past, relationships and marriage, and how to achieve success. This audio book is well narrated by Ruth Golding at Librivox who has a lovely British accent. It has a running time of 3 Hrs. and is available on MP3 download.

3. 23 Intuitive Development Exercises from Sounds True

Listen to 23 Intuitive Development Exercises from Sounds True. In these exercises you’ll hear teachers such as Judith Orloff, Caroline Myss, Cyndi Dale, Laura Alden Kamm, and many more. These teachers cover what intuition is and how you can further develop it. Here are the 23 exercises:

Healing and Intuition

* 1. What Is Intuition?
* 2. Becoming an Intuitive Healer
* 3. Three Levels of Intuition
* 4. Awakening Second Sight
* 5. Matrix Energetics
* 6. Intuition and the Body
* 7. Your Natural Intuition
* 8. Color Intuition

Chakras, Dreams, and Intuition

* 9. The Sixth Chakra
* 10. Intuition, Chakras, and Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts
* 11. Lucid Dreaming
* 12. Conscious Dreaming
* 13. Tibetan Dream Yoga
* 14. Discovering Your Archetypes
* 15. Purify and Balance
* 16. Chakras and the Planes of Light

Divination, Past Lives, and Shamanism

* 17. Becoming an Oracle
* 18. Remote Viewing
* 19. Healing Your Past Lives
* 20. Determine Your Soul Type
* 21. Shamanic Journeying
* 22. Shamanic Shapeshifting
* 23. Read the Akashic Records

4. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow

Check out this TED talk from psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who authored the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Csikszentmihalyi talks about how he became interested in psychology after World War II when he heard a lecture by Carl Jung. Csikszentmihalyi eventually began his psychological study of how average people become extraordinary which he attributes to the idea of “flow” when one become completely involved in an activity for its own sake. Csikszentmihalyi provides many examples of individuals who have tapped into this “flow” state.

5. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis

If you’ve ever been interested in hypnotizing yourself, this audio book might be a good place to start. This book by Melvin Powers covers the history and applications of self-hypnosis. The book purports to explain how self-hypnosis can alleviate distressing symptoms, substitute strong responses for weak responses, help overcome bad habits, create good habits, and help one’s power of concentration. Find out for yourself how effective self-hypnosis is. This book is adequately narrated by Andrea Fiore and is available on MP3 download from LibriVox.org.

6. The Compassionate Brain: Activating the Neural Circuits of Kindness, Caring, and Love – Practical Neuroscience for Transformation

Starting today Monday, October 8, 2012, from 8-9 pm Eastern Time (GMT -4), the publisher Sounds True is offering a free live streaming video event series entitled “The Compassionate Brain”. The 7-part series is conducted by Dr. Rick Hanson, as he talks with world-class scholars and teachers, including Richie Davidson, Dan Siegel, Tara Brach, Dacher Keltner, Kelly McGonigal, Kristin Neff, and Jean Houston. The series looks at different ways to use the power of neuroplasticity to open the heart, build courage, find compassion, forgive oneself and others, and heal the world. The first session features Dr. Richard J. Davidson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as he joins Dr. Hanson to discuss “How the Mind Changes the Brain”. Richie Davidson is a pioneering researcher on the plasticity of the brain and the ability of the mind to rewire the brain for happiness and compassion.

7. Daniel Goleman on Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfillment

Daniel Goleman is the author of the bestselling books Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, and he now has a new book out: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence. He recently gave a talk on this book at Intelligence Squared in London. In this talk Goleman speaks about our digital age and the ability of technology to continually distract us and steal our attention. He goes into the psychology of paying attention to ourselves and others, and how the ability to focus and pay attention is essential to success in our personal and professional lives. He speaks briefly on mindfulness and the importance of practicing paying attention, particularly among the technologically-obsessed youth. After his talk Goleman fields tough questions from the British audience. This talk is available on the Intelligence Squared YouTube channel.

8. Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It

From the author of Thought Vibration: Or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World comes another great book called Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It. This book by William Walker Atkinson examines what memory is and how you can use it to your benefit. There are specific chapters on how to remember names, faces, places, numbers, words, and much more. This unabridged 4-hour audio book is well narrated by Roger Melin at Librivox.