Apart from relaxation there are other shortcuts to getting your body into optimal learning states. Chinese medicine sees you as a whole, mind and body as one system vitilized by sublte chi energy. Though it may be considered "alternative" in Europe, to one billion Chinese it's our medicine that's alternative :D
Physiological research shows that in a clam state your body funcions more efficiently on less energy, which makes more energy available to your brain.
22.11.09
Subconsciousness
Your conscious mind is very intelligent and your subconscious is a hell of a lot smarter.
Never joke about yourself in a silly/ negative way. Your subconsciousness doesn't understand jokes, as it doesn't know the word "not". Why not? Try not to imagine a pink elephant with a grey trunk. That's why.
Information "taught" to your subliminal (subconscious) mind is gradually rising into consciousnes. For teachers it is extremely important to avoid mixed messages.
That can be as simple as a teacher saying "You are going to be a good student" while his body language is radiating "One more loser". You may not not notice but your subliminal mind does. It notices, too, if you're told "Education is one of the most important things in life", as you sit in a shabby, paint-peeling room where nothing very valued could be going on.
A subliminal suggestion is one that comes to you below the level of conscious suggestion. And suggestions shape our lives.
Never joke about yourself in a silly/ negative way. Your subconsciousness doesn't understand jokes, as it doesn't know the word "not". Why not? Try not to imagine a pink elephant with a grey trunk. That's why.
Information "taught" to your subliminal (subconscious) mind is gradually rising into consciousnes. For teachers it is extremely important to avoid mixed messages.
That can be as simple as a teacher saying "You are going to be a good student" while his body language is radiating "One more loser". You may not not notice but your subliminal mind does. It notices, too, if you're told "Education is one of the most important things in life", as you sit in a shabby, paint-peeling room where nothing very valued could be going on.
A subliminal suggestion is one that comes to you below the level of conscious suggestion. And suggestions shape our lives.
Reach higher
If you are already learning English, you could as well start learning Spanish or French. What would be better for you, what makes you smarter? Spending 1,5 hours a week investing in your brain or watching TV?
21.11.09
A modern way of teaching
It is so sad that a teacher from 1909 would fell at home in a 2009 classroom. What other business could remain in existence exactly the same for one hundred years??
From hard experience most of us think education means cramming something in, as if you were stuffing a goose.
Mainline education still speaks mostly to your logical, so-called left brain. The accelerated way engages your whole brain, your conscious and unconscious* minds, your imagination, senses, emotions - all the components usually overlooked in today's education.
*One of the surest ways to open achievement is to overcome negative unconscious convictions. It is so important to change the negative beliefs through the suggestive power of positive affirmations. POTENTIAL IS A STATE OF MIND.
I believe you cannot have too much fun in an English/ Spanish/ Italian/ French class. Most of us were taught: "Learning is a serious business". "Serious" education almost always builds stress. Scientific data has caught up with common sense: You are going to do better at something that doesn't make you feel horrible ;)
From hard experience most of us think education means cramming something in, as if you were stuffing a goose.
Mainline education still speaks mostly to your logical, so-called left brain. The accelerated way engages your whole brain, your conscious and unconscious* minds, your imagination, senses, emotions - all the components usually overlooked in today's education.
*One of the surest ways to open achievement is to overcome negative unconscious convictions. It is so important to change the negative beliefs through the suggestive power of positive affirmations. POTENTIAL IS A STATE OF MIND.
I believe you cannot have too much fun in an English/ Spanish/ Italian/ French class. Most of us were taught: "Learning is a serious business". "Serious" education almost always builds stress. Scientific data has caught up with common sense: You are going to do better at something that doesn't make you feel horrible ;)
How to superlearn
How fast can you learn?
The moment you realize there is no speed limit, the moment you realize how much you can actually learn, you will get the kick of finally getting a handle on something you've always wanted to know!
There are many techniques that can brighten your performance:
The moment you realize there is no speed limit, the moment you realize how much you can actually learn, you will get the kick of finally getting a handle on something you've always wanted to know!
There are many techniques that can brighten your performance:
- You have to believe you CAN.
The capacity of your brain is infinite.
It is said we usually don't connect to 90-95% of our potential. What a waste! - It is one thing to say that everyone has much hidden potential, but how much more powerful to actually discover that I have potential I never dreamt I had. Only then does the theory come to life.
- High stress kills your potential. A stress-free mindbody state is the best one if you want to achieve great results. This is why I always create a nice atmosphere at my school and make a lot of jokes with my students.
- If you desire peak performance you have to engage your whole brain, your senses, emotions, and imaginations. If your brain thinks what you learn is boring, you will forget it in no time. If it thinks it is importants, there are good chances that you will remember what you learnt.
- You can use music to expand memory, energize the brain and link to the subconscious.
- It will help a lot if you like what you are doing. Listen to them - the mega-successful adults: "I love what I do. I'd do it even if no one paid me."
- Don't try to be good. Going to "try" to do anything implies failure. You either try or you do. The language you use to think shapes, particularly when it comes to self-talk.
- Your limits are those you decide to set yourself. You cannot balme anybody for the lack of good results. Scary, huh?
Brains are made for challenging
How I started my adventure with languages
I am an only child and the apple in my mum's eye. My father has rarely ever asked my anything about my life. Why it is so, I dunno.
I was about 6 years old when I overheard through the kitchen door my parent's conversation.
I started having English lessons when I was in the kindergarten. I had a little brain but a clever one ;) I remember my parents talking about how fast on the uptake their daughter was. Even my usually reserved (as far as compliments are concerned) father expressed his very positive opinion how fast I learnt English words. Mybe it will sound weird, but at the age of 6 I realized that if I want to accomplish something, I C-A-N. I haven't stopped believeing in it since than.
Henry Ford said: "If you believe that you can you are right. If you believe that you cannot you are right." My second foreign language was German. It took me a great deal of work to learn it! This language had nothing - but really nothing - in common with my first language - Polish.
Every sentence was a hurdle - der, dem, denen, sentence structures, the verb obligatory on the second place.. If at the beginning of my high school somebody had told me that I would choose it as a subject for my high school finals, I would have loughed really loudly. And guess what, I changed my mind and passed German 2002 as the best one out of the whole age group.. Miracles happen! Oh yes, they do.
During my high school years I met a lady (we have no contact anymore) who helped me acquire Italian. I read somewhere that only 1% of Polish people speak Italian as a foreign language. I wanted to belong to this 1%, I wanted to be extraordinary ;) I like to sing in Italian, especially Svegliarsi la mattina from Zero Assoluto. Only because of that song it was worth to learn Italian :D
Late 2009 I started learning Spanish with the new teacher that works in my school in Willingen.
I don't necessary need this language but it is actually very easy for me to pick it up because of my forknowledge of Italian. They say every next language is easier to learn than the previuos
and they are damn right!
I consider myself lucky. Because of the impulse I got when I was six I didn't want to disappoint my parents. A few years later learning became my biggest hobby and passion. It still is. 2007 I opened my own company TLC and I was fortunate enough to have a great deal of clients. Every day I am doing my best to push them forward, motivate and inspire them. It is of course very easy to watch TV every evening (and get your grey matter killed slowly!!) than to repeat and learn vocabulary. And that's what they do. I speak a couple of languages but I cannot express how proud I am of them.
Brains are made for challenging. If we ever meet, I promise, I will challenge yours :-)
I am an only child and the apple in my mum's eye. My father has rarely ever asked my anything about my life. Why it is so, I dunno.
I was about 6 years old when I overheard through the kitchen door my parent's conversation.
I started having English lessons when I was in the kindergarten. I had a little brain but a clever one ;) I remember my parents talking about how fast on the uptake their daughter was. Even my usually reserved (as far as compliments are concerned) father expressed his very positive opinion how fast I learnt English words. Mybe it will sound weird, but at the age of 6 I realized that if I want to accomplish something, I C-A-N. I haven't stopped believeing in it since than.
Henry Ford said: "If you believe that you can you are right. If you believe that you cannot you are right." My second foreign language was German. It took me a great deal of work to learn it! This language had nothing - but really nothing - in common with my first language - Polish.
Every sentence was a hurdle - der, dem, denen, sentence structures, the verb obligatory on the second place.. If at the beginning of my high school somebody had told me that I would choose it as a subject for my high school finals, I would have loughed really loudly. And guess what, I changed my mind and passed German 2002 as the best one out of the whole age group.. Miracles happen! Oh yes, they do.
During my high school years I met a lady (we have no contact anymore) who helped me acquire Italian. I read somewhere that only 1% of Polish people speak Italian as a foreign language. I wanted to belong to this 1%, I wanted to be extraordinary ;) I like to sing in Italian, especially Svegliarsi la mattina from Zero Assoluto. Only because of that song it was worth to learn Italian :D
Late 2009 I started learning Spanish with the new teacher that works in my school in Willingen.
I don't necessary need this language but it is actually very easy for me to pick it up because of my forknowledge of Italian. They say every next language is easier to learn than the previuos
and they are damn right!
I consider myself lucky. Because of the impulse I got when I was six I didn't want to disappoint my parents. A few years later learning became my biggest hobby and passion. It still is. 2007 I opened my own company TLC and I was fortunate enough to have a great deal of clients. Every day I am doing my best to push them forward, motivate and inspire them. It is of course very easy to watch TV every evening (and get your grey matter killed slowly!!) than to repeat and learn vocabulary. And that's what they do. I speak a couple of languages but I cannot express how proud I am of them.
Brains are made for challenging. If we ever meet, I promise, I will challenge yours :-)
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