“You sit down comfortably, don the headphones, flip a switch, close

your eyes and sink into a state of what seems like deep relaxation. A half

hour later, as you turn off the cd, you feel extremely alert and lucid.

Your brain is now functioning more effectively than it was before. Your

memory, both your ability to memorize new information and to recall

information you have already learned, has increased dramatically. Your

ability to focus and to solve problems has expanded. The speed with which

your brain cells pass messages among themselves has increased. In fact, many

of your brain cells have actually grown. A microscopic examination would

show that the brain cells have developed more dendrites, the branching

filaments that carry messages from one cell to another, and more synapses,

the junctures between the brain cells across which impulses are transmitted.

You are more intelligent than you were a half hour before. Such devices now

exist and are being used by increasing numbers of people.” So begins Michael

Hutchison’s high tech mind training book, Megabrain.

Startling New Brain Research

Scientists have learned more about the brain in the last two decades than in

all previous history, and the implications of the latest research are clear:

the human brain is far more powerful, with the potential for immensely

greater intelligence and peak performance than was ever before imagined. Many

scientists believe the brain that tiny 3 1/2 pounds of neural jelly composed

of 100 billion or so neurons, each single neuron an information specialist of

unimaginable efficiency, conceivably capable of carrying on several million

conversations at the same time, is our last frontier — the most mysterious

and complex structure in the universe.

As brain scientists debunked the previously held assumptions that the brain’s

operations were much like the nervous system (beyond conscious control), and

that every imaginable mental state was the result of electrical and chemical

activity, we now know that we can definitely ‘learn’ to produce the various

brainwaves completely at will and change them. In effect, we can alter and

control our own minds. The implications were almost beyond belief as

scientists discovered that through Biofeedback and Brainwave training we can

learn to trigger such specific brain states as problem solving, memory recall,

heightened physical and emotional abilities, as well as certain brainwave

states that alter such “involuntary” mechanisms as blood pressure, heart rate,

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