Memory and Learning - Just How Does it All Work?

Understanding what memory is and how it works may encourage some who are frustrated by even minor memory lapses. In this excerpt from his book, Dr. Brian Walsh discusses types of memory, how emotions affect memory, and how memory decay can be combated.

Eye Tricks

What can you tell from a person's eyes? What can you do with your own? Here are some persusion and mind-reading eye tricks.

'Broken Mirror' May Cause Autism

The human brain has a matching system of observation and execution that causes mirror neurons to fire both when a person observes others performing a goal-directed action and when he or she carries out the same action. This is the neural mechanism that allows most people to automatically understand others' actions, intentions and emotions, neuroscientists believe. However, when children with autism observe and imitate emotions, they display virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system, according to new imaging research.

Dreaming

Had any good dreams lately? We spend nearly a third of our life sleeping, and a large portion of that is spent dreaming. It is time well spent.

Music And The Brain

Recent research on music and the brain shows that you can increase your brainpower with music. That is, if you listen to the right type.

Let Us Label Everyone, Categorize Them All

Have you ever noticed the labels we use? She is pretty; He is smart; they are jocks, Liberals; they are creative, he is a psycho, alcoholic, moron; she is a shark cookie, on and on, we label people. Yet, I have met many a person in my travels and each individual is a little bit different. The differences are what make it so cool.

Nature VS Nurture - Theories of Personality in 21st Century

Is your personality natural, nurtured or spiritual? Strong criticism on nature vs nurture theories. Genome, Quantum Physics and Determinism have been analyzed. Most of the personality claims don't stand the test of modern discoveries. The riddle has become complex since ever.

Balancing Brain Lobes - Mutras

This system known as the Mudras or Mutras in India and Greece can help Schizophrenics or other disassociative stress better than the ‘pharmacological lobotomies’ (term used by Drs. Breggin and Cohen) of our medical model, or social management of ‘money trees’. Why is our brain structured the way it is – or how did the ancients know a chakra system that mirrors modern neurophysiological mapping of our nervous system.

Insighting Human Behavior thru Gravity Wave Simulations of the Moon

Every police officer will tell you that when there is a full moon, the natives are restless and it will be a long night, with lots of arrests and paperwork? This is a known fact one which cannot be dismissed so easily after such basic observations.

Right Brain, Left Brain

The right brain is the more creative or emotional hemisphere and the left brain is the analytical and judgmental hemisphere. There are specific activities that may stimulate the right or left brain.

Waking Up in the Middle of a Good Dream

When the brain is asleep and in REM dream mode it has distinct patterns not found in normal waking states. When people who are dreaming are hooked up to machines the REM mode of sleep is quite evident. Have you ever woke up in the middle of a really good dream?

Do You Love Your Body?

Our physical bodies store the accumulated emotional pain that is our life history. What impact does this have on the environment that the Spirit, or Core Self exists in while it is in the body? In this article I discuss how such pain forces the Spirit and the Vital Life Energy associated with it out of the body thereby leaving it devoid of life.

Rediscovering the Mind

Professor Morowitz of Yale correctly identified the need to integrate knowledge and stop trying to define it by disciplines which cannot grasp all the truth by themself.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Tips

FIVE DON'T DO'S How to Avoid the Wrath of the Narcissist Never disagree with the narcissist or contradict him Never offer him any intimacy Look awed by whatever attribute matters to him (f...