10 fresh ways to boost your energy now Must. Stay. Awake. Meditating or working out in three-minute breaks can replenish you and give a much needed energy boost. Fatigue and flagging energy seem to be epidemics, especially among women who burn the candle at both ends (and who doesn't?). 1. Get the right light, and you'll have lots more energy. To take advantage of that energizing blue boost, lift your shades the minute you get up or take a 30-minute walk first thing in the morning. 2. Unless you plan to run a marathon, carbo-loading for energy is out. Eat plant- and animal-based protein throughout the day -- an egg or high-protein cereal for breakfast, 10 almonds midmorning, a cup of low-sugar yogurt in the afternoon -- and your stamina should stabilize. 3. Research shows that you get a "helper's high," a rush of endorphins that lasts for hours, when you volunteer, says Kimberly Kingsley, author of "The Energy Cure: How to Recharge Your Life 30 Seconds at a Time." 4. 5. 6. 7. Could your energy be blocked? 8. 9. 10.
Test Your Brain With Brain Teasers and Games Here you can enjoy the Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games & Illusions that SharpBrains readers (primarily adults, but some younger minds too) have enjoyed the most. It is always good to learn more about our brains and to exercise them!. Fun experiments on how our brains and minds work 1. 2. 3. 4. Challenge your attention and memory 5. 6. 7. Optical illusions 8. 9. 10. 11. Language and logic puzzles 12. 13. 14. 15. A few visual workouts 16. 17. 18. Teasing your pattern recognition and thinking 19. 20. 21. 22. Brain teasers for job interviews 23. 24. 25.
How to Make a Mind Map® The 'Laws of Mind Mapping' were originally devised by Tony Buzan when he codified the use of imagery, colour and association and coined the phrase 'Mind Mapping'. In the intervening 30 plus years, there have been many variations on the original 'Mind Map ' and the widespread usage of mapping software of various sorts, has dramatically changed what is possible. >> Click here to go to a video that provides a rapid (99 second) overview of how to Mind Map. (Note that you will be asked for your e-mail address so that you can view the video free of charge). The summary below is based on Buzan's structure (a 'Mind Mapping, how to' - details available in his many books) but we believe that whilst this structure is great for establishing well structured maps that can be used in many different ways, variations on these rules or 'laws' are often sensible and appropriate - as long as they are based on an understanding of why the laws exist and what they are trying to help the mind mapper to achieve.
Top 7 Sources of Stress and Their Remedies Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D. Updated: Sep 29th 2011 Hans Selye coined the term "stressor" to indicate any event, condition or state of affairs that demands a change, whether desired or not. Both hypoactivity or doing too little (i.e., couch potato syndrome) and hyperactivity or doing too much, too quickly with little or no limits or boundaries Selye considered sources or "distress," or what most people shorten to simply call "stress." Stress is only another term for resistance. Release all resistance and relieve yourself of just about all unhealthy stress. LYING: The single biggest source of stress is undoubtedly all the blatant and subtle forms of dishonesty, half-truths, sins of omission, fabrications, rationalizations, distorting defenses, manipulations and passive-aggressive behaviors we are continually subjected to and subject others to. REMEDY: Press, not push, for solid sureness, knowing with certainty and clear determinacy everywhere, with everyone, in all encounters.
How to Sleep More Effectively, Starting Tonight at Personal Development with Ririan Project “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” - Homer Tired after getting a full nine hours and still feeling exhausted? You sleep the sleep of the innocent – you nod off quickly, don’t have nightmares and have no trouble breathing – and still you can hardly get up in the morning and seldom feel totally awake, no matter how long you slept the previous night. You are suffering from a clear-cut case of ineffective sleep. The good news is that, starting tonight, you can improve the quality of your sleep. 1. It is possible to sleep too long or at the wrong time. 2. As I mentioned, there are three optimal lengths of sleep - but that doesn’t mean you can just choose one. 3. Most people can get away with some wildness in their routines as long as they soak up some bright light at the right time. 4. Your body was designed to sync with the cycles of nature – including daylight and darkness. 5. To get the most out of your shutdown time, keep regular hours.
Mind Map on Wikipedia Diagram to visually organize information A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole.[1] It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those major ideas. Mind maps can also be drawn by hand, either as "notes" during a lecture, meeting or planning session, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available. Buzan's specific approach, and the introduction of the term "mind map", started with a 1974 BBC TV series he hosted, called Use Your Head.[6] In this show, and companion book series, Buzan promoted his conception of radial tree, diagramming key words in a colorful, radiant, tree-like structure.[7] Differences from other visualizations [edit]
Classification of Emotions Psychologists have yet to fully tackle the question “How many emotions do we have?” Part of the difficulty is because our experiences are so complex and involve so many different factors, so distinguishing one emotion from another is a lot like drawing lines of sand in the desert. It can be hard to determine where one emotions ends or another begins. Even when we analyze a commonsense emotion like “happiness” or “anger,” we know from everyday experience that these emotions come in many different degrees, qualities, and intensities. In addition, our experiences are often comprised of multiple emotions at once, which adds another dimension of complexity to our emotional experience. Despite how difficult these distinctions may be, plenty of psychologists have attempted to classify our emotions into different categories. Ekman’s List of Basic Emotions (1972) Ekman devised his list of basic emotions after doing research on many different cultures. Anger Disgust Fear Happiness Sadness Surprise
20 Ways To Simplify Your Life in 15 Minutes “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” ~Henry Wadsworth We spend too much, own too much, and want too much — it’s the human condition — and as long as we aren’t aware of it we’ll be a slave to the cycle. Being the ingenious little critters that we are, we’re able to learn, and adapt pretty well. In other words, all hope is not lost, we still have a chance. The truth is that many of us are overworked, sleep deprived, and generally not content with our lives. There is a way out of this cycle, which involves decluttering, simplifying, and concentrating on what’s important. “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” Do nothing. “Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.” Pick most important things. “Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity” ~Emily Dickinson Visit nature.
Mindmapping, concept mapping and information organisation software Top 10 Deadliest Rampage Killers Crime We’ve seen plenty of movies, books and documentaries on serial killers, but not so many on those who are so efficient and deadly that they can murder dozens of people in a single day. Murder sprees seem to have become more prominent over time – notably the tragedy in Norway, which is as recent as July 2011. George Hennard 23 dead, 20 injured On October 16th, 1991, George Hennard, of Bell County Texas, drove his pick-up truck through the window of a Luby’s Cafeteria. Throughout the massacre, the patrons of the cafeteria could do no more than hide underneath tables. Baruch Goldstein 29 dead, 125 injured Baruch Goldstein was an American-born Israeli settler who perpetrated the notorious Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, in 1994. In an incredibly short amount of time, Goldstein managed to shoot 29 people to death and wound over a hundred more. Toi Mutsuo 30 dead, 3 injured In the early hours of May 21st, 1938, Mutsuo used an axe to kill his grandmother via decapitation. Campo Elias Delgado
Psychological ("personality") Types Psychological ("personality") Types According to Jung's theory of Psychological Types we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. These types are sixteen. People can be either Extroverts or Introverts, depending on the direction of their activity ; Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, Intuitive, according to their own information pathways; Judging or Perceiving, depending on the method in which they process received information. Extroverts vs. Extroverts are directed towards the objective world whereas Introverts are directed towards the subjective world. Sensing vs. Sensing is an ability to deal with information on the basis of its physical qualities and its affection by other information. Thinking vs. Thinking is an ability to deal with information on the basis of its structure and its function. Perceiving vs. Perceiving types are motivated into activity by the changes in a situation. ENTp , ISFp , ESFj , INTj , ENFj