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7 Proven Brain-Based Steps You Can Take Right Now to Maximize Your Focus, Confidence & Certainty

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Welcome to the world of neuroscience and the latest proven discoveries to help you overcome doubts, fear, anxiety, procrastination and any other negative emotion or behavior that may be holding you back from maximizing your true potential. It is well known that you have deep reservoirs of untapped potential and abilities that are currently unused. This mini course will reveal to you seven of the most well documented methods to insure that you live up to your full potential and maximize your brainpower. In addition, weve have included a bonus 8th section in the event you seek to accelerate your brain training and achieve your financial, business and lifes goals even faster. The use of cutting edge technology in addition to scientifically proven methodologies is now believed to accelerate the true power of your brain. So, what are the most essential and effective ways to improve neural functioning in the shortest period of time? According to the worlds leading neuroscience researchers here are 7 brain-based exercises and steps that you can do right now that will maximize your potential to achieve your financial, business, and personal goals. Follow these steps and you will be well on your way to achieving even more than ever before!

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Step 1: Intention
Intention refers to the goal that you want to manifest in your life. Everything we do has an underlying intention, whether we are conscious of it or not, and we use it to determine what we really want to focus on: money, financial success, power, peace, romance, etc. So the first step in achieving personal and financial success is to clarify what your intention is, in writing. Writing helps to organize the language centers in your frontal lobe, which primes your motor cortex to carry out your goal-directed strategy in the world. Without a clear intention, your mind is likely to multi-task by trying to solve too many problems too fast. Intention also suppresses brains propensity to worry about possible failure. Let me show you how it works right now. Take a sheet of paper and write down three potential goals that you would like to achieve tomorrow. Make them simple, and make them achievable, but write it down! This is essential, because youre going to use this intention throughout the six remaining steps. Now ask yourself the following question: What is your deepest, innermost value? Write down a single word that captures the essence of your value. If nothing comes to mind right away, just trust your intuition. In a minute or two something will emerge into your consciousness. Next, compare your value to the three goals you wrote down. Circle the goal that comes closest to reflecting some aspect of your inner value. If your intention or goal violates your personal values, a conflict may be created in your brain. But for the purpose of this exercise, just be aware of your intention, value, and goal. This exercise, by the way, is a required assignment given to corporate executives in the MBA program at Loyola Marymount University. Now you are ready to proceed to the next steps, which will train your brain to stay focused on your intention and goal.

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Step 2: Relaxation
A tense body or preoccupied mind interrupts the cognitive processes necessary for accomplishing any task, and relaxation is the easiest way to reduce stress. Deep relaxation promotes neurological and cardiovascular health, but it also improves attentiveness, alertness, memory functioning, and social awareness. It turns down the activity in the emotional brain, where anxiety, doubts, and uncertainty are always on the verge of derailing youre your intention and goals. Deep relaxation stimulates the precuneus, which many scientists believe is part of the core circuit that governs human consciousness. In other words, relaxation wakes you up and gives you more energy to pursue your goals. Stress wears you down. Whats the fastest way to relax? There are three things that neuroscience has found that will take you into a conscious state of serenity in less than a minute or two: slow deep breathing through your nose, slow conscious stretching of your body, and believe it or not yawning. There are, to date, 43 published studies showing that yawning is the fastest way to temporarily alleviate neurological symptoms like headaches, exhaustion, anxiety, and anger.

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Research has shown that gentle forms of breathing lowers stress and anxiety, improves coping skills, helps people deal with substance abuse, improves ones general sense well being, and improves self-esteem. Breathing exercises also help people deal with problems such as panic disorder, heart disease, and lung disease. Slow focused breathing also increases dopamine levels in different parts of the brain, which explains why the experience is pleasurable.1 So take a moment right now yawn a few times and breathe in slowly through your nose. Then, slowly roll your head around, stretching the muscles of your neck. Now, take a deep breath in and tighten all the muscles in your arms, hands, shoulders, legs, and feet, and hold them tight for as long as you can. Then, breathe out, relaxing all your muscles. Finally, shake out our arms and legs, and notice how relaxed you feel. Youll probably notice that youre no longer thinking about events from the past, or concerns about the future. This is the perfect state in which to enter the next step.

Step 3: Concentration
If you are not fully relaxed, you will not be able to fully concentrate on your intention or your goal. But once you learn how to consciously relax, you have to train your brain to stay focused on your goal. Its really an extraordinary process: you begin with a goaloriented thought, and the more you focus on it, the more your brain begins to plot out strategies to carry that thought into the world. Other animals, even primates, can barely do this because they have far fewer neural connections that run from the frontal lobe to the other parts of the brain. You can train your brain to focus on virtually anything, but research shows that certain meditation practices improve your concentration skills. Im going to guide you through two traditional concentration exercises, each of which have been documented to enhance your physical, emotional and cognitive skills. Well begin with the oldest meditation practice in the world breathing.

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1) Sit down in a comfortable chair, in a quiet place where nothing will disturb you for next few minutes. Rest your hands in your lap, and uncross your legs, placing your feet flat on the floor. 2) Now, do nothing more than pay attention to your breath. Breathe in slowly through your nose, and notice the cool temperature of the air. Then slowly exhale through your nose. Notice the temperature as you breathe out. How warm or cold does it feel? 3) Continue to slowly breathe in an out through your nose ten times, and notice how the sensations change. Take slow, deep breaths, in and out, and if you mind wanders, just bring your attention back to your breath. 4) Now, shift your focus to your chest, and feel how it rises and falls with each breath you take. Slowly breathe in to the count of five, then slowly breathe out to the count of five. Do this ten times and then return to your normal breathing. Notice how your breathing has changed. Are you breathing slower? Or deeper? How far down into your lungs can you feel the coolness of your breath?

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5) Put one hand on your chest, and the other on your belly. Take a deep breath in and watch how your chest and belly moves. Then slowly breathe out. Which moves first? Your chest, or your belly? Take five more breaths and watch how the sensations in your body change. 6) Now return to your normal breathing, and listen to the sounds in the room. What do you hear? Do they seem more intense? 7) Next, shift your focus and listen to the sounds of your breathing. Immerse yourself in the sounds as deeply as you possibly can. 8) Now, return your awareness to your body. Does it feel more tense or relaxed? Does it feel more warm or cool? Are there any parts of your body that seem tense or uncomfortable? Just notice the tension, and take another deep breath through your nose. 9) Finally, to bring this exercise to a close, slowly look around the room, turning your head from one side to the other. Then slowly rise from your chair. Take a moment to see how you feel standing up, and consciously breathe in and out. See how long you can stay in touch with this deep sense of focused relaxation. This next concentration exercise was created by Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard. Today it is used in hundreds of stress reduction programs throughout the country, generating neurological and psychological states of serenity and health.2 You simply focus on a word or phrase that has deep personal meaning to you, and you repeat it as you slowly breathe in and out. Research shows that the repetition of any positive word or phrase will reduce stress, anxiety, and anger while simultaneously improving ones quality of life.3 And its particularly effective when brought into the business community.4

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What I want you to do now is to repeat, either silently or out loud, the word you chose in Step 1 that represented your deepest innermost value. Continue to repeat it for as long as you feel comfortable, and notice how it affects your entire sense of self. In most of the research studies, this exercise is performed for 12 to 20 minutes. Finally, I want you to do the same exercise with the simple goal you wanted to achieve by tomorrow evening. Turn it into a short phrase and repeat it over and over to yourself as you slowly and deeply breathe in and out. When you learn to stay intensely focused on your goal, you will literally be driven to succeed, and when you apply the next step, your brain has no choice but to propel you into successfully achieving your goal.

Step 4: Visualization, Guided Imagery, and Imagination

Even if you dont think youre good at visualization, your brain is built to envision virtually everything in the universe. Even abstract notions like peace are processed unconsciously within the visual centers of the cortex. In fact, the more you visualize

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your personal value or goal, the easier it will be for your brain to bring that intention into your inner and outer reality. Guided imagery is a time-tested and well-documented strategy that induces a deep state of relaxation. It is one of the best ways to reduce pain,5 lower anxiety, and enhance life satisfaction.6 In fact, if you visualize a positive outcome prior to surgery, youll have a better recovery.7 Guided imagery and visualization will even buffer the effect of stress on the immune system, making you less susceptible to viral infections.8 In a recent brain-scan study, guided imagery reduced the symptoms of patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder by lowing activity in the emotional centers of the brain and raising activity in the areas that allow us to voluntarily control our feelings and thoughts.9 When you visualize financial success, your entire brain orients itself toward achieving that specific goal. But you have stay in a deep state of relaxation as you concentrate on your image of success. Heres a simple exercise you can try right now. Visualize one of the three goals that you wrote down earlier. Visualize that goal using whatever imagery comes to mind. Now, trust your intuition as you imagine yourself accomplishing that goal. Try to visualize every detail: yourself, the actions you take, and the satisfaction youll feel when you reach that goal in your imagination. What sounds do you hear? What smells are present? Who else is in the area? Its as if you were watching a movie. The exercise should take about five minutes to do, and as long as you stay deeply relaxed as you breathe deeply and fully concentrate on your inner movie, youll actually change the way your brain motivates itself. The clearer the image, the more easily youll accomplish every step it takes to actualize your desires and goals. In sports, visualization has been proven to help athletes reach peak performance. In medicine, visualization makes the

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surgeons hands move more precisely. In fact, just imagining your movements becoming more flexible will significantly increase the flexibility and coordination in that part of the body you are focusing on.10 Why? Because the motor cortex is highly interconnected with the imagination-processing centers in the frontal, occipital and parietal lobes.11 In other words, our thoughts and behavior are inseparably intertwined. Heres one final exercise that will help you retrain your brain to function at its best. Ask yourself, as you did earlier, what is your deepest value? Perhaps, this time, a different value will pop into consciousness. Now, take a moment and visualize that value and notice how it makes you feel. Are you feeling happy? Excited? Add the emotion of living this highest value all the time. How does that make you feel? Finally, visualize yourself 10 years from now and imagine that you succeeded at everything truly desired. Enjoy that feeling now, because it will prime your brain to seek out everything in your surrounding that will bring you closer to that goal. And remember: imagination is what the frontal lobes do best. They can generate self-doubt and uncertainty, or they can generate a feeling of ultimate success. You now have the basic tool kit to change the structure and function of your brain.

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Step 5: Mindfulness
Mindfulness is one of the most powerful ways to retrain your brain. When you enter a state of mindful awareness, you bring your attention into the present moment as you observe each thought, feeling, and sensation as it flows through your stream of consciousness. But theres one essential rule: you learn to observe yourself without judgment. This turns out to be the most effective way to interrupt any disturbing feeling or mood. Mindfulness allows you to suspend habituated biases, and in this unique state of awareness, ineffective beliefs fall away as new neural circuits are formed that will motivate you toward greater productivity and success. Mindfulness, as the enclosed studies demonstrate, has shown it to be effective for enhancing mood, selfawareness, and overall health. Its also one of the most powerful ways to work through destructive emotions such as anger, depression and fear.12 When these emotions are activated, they will immediately undermine your ability to work, make money, and achieve financial success. Try this exercise the next time a disruptive mood occurs: Immediately focus on your innermost value and goal. Breathe deeply and relax for 60 seconds. Now, sit back in your chair and allow your anger or anxiety to flow through your mind. Dont react to it, just watch, without judgment, how it unfolds and changes. In less than five minutes, it will dissipate and lose its power over you. In that moment of mindfulness, you will discover that your emotions no longer have power over you. Its one of the most amazing experiences a person can have. How does mindfulness affect the brain? Its a form of frontal lobe consciousness. The more strongly you focus on just being aware of the moment-to-moment shifts in

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feelings, thoughts, and sensations, activity in the emotional centers of your brain shut down. This has a profoundly beneficial effect on every aspect of neural functioning. Mindfully watching your thoughts and feelings is one of the easiest exercises to do, because you just sit there and observe the constant inner dialogue that is part of the biological process of the brain. And yet its one of the hardest exercises to master, requiring weeks of mental practice. Heres an easy way to begin. I want you to imagine that you are sitting on a hillside in the forest next to a beautiful mountain stream. Can you see and feel the sun filtering through the trees? Can you hear the gurgling of the stream? Can you smell the freshness of the water? What about the air on your skin? As you sit next to the imaginary stream, I want you to pay attention to any thoughts or feelings that are currently flowing through your mind. Take each one of those thoughts or feelings and place them on an imaginary leaf, then watch that leaf float down the stream. Take a deep breath and return to the awareness of your body. If your mind stays quiet, thats wonderful, but the mind has a way of generating an endless stream of thoughts.

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For example, you might be thinking, right now: How silly this is. So, you just notice that thought, without judgment, and you let it float away. Often, youll be distracted by an itch. Or youll suddenly get annoyed by an outside noise. Just notice it, put it on a leaf, and let it go, returning to your breathing as you simply watch what happens next. You are, in essence, living in the present moment. Another distracting thought may occur: Ive got to get going because I have so many things I should do. If you have such thoughts, just put them on another leaf and watch them float down the stream. Yawn, breathe deeply, and come back to that momentary place of quiet and peacefulness, and watch the next thought or feeling that comes up. Continue to do this for the next few minutes of silence. How long should you practice mindfulness? Its really up to you. Research shows that it takes between 12 to 40 minutes per day, for about eight weeks, before a brainscan can notice deep changes in neural functioning. But if you only feel comfortable practicing mindfulness for five or ten minutes, then trust your intuition. Obviously, the more time invested, the greater the results you will achieve. Try to set aside a specific time of day, like the first thing in the morning after you awake, or shortly after work, or the last thing in the evening right before bed. A regular time trains your brain to get into the habit of being mindfully relaxed, and the more often you do it, the more quickly youll be able to reach your goals with the least amount of resistance and stress. Remember: Mindfulness-based exercises have been widely studied and have been found to help people with depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, psoriasis, trauma, eating disorders, substance abuse, and a variety of psychopathological behaviors.13 Therapists who practice mindfulness-based exercises have better results with their patients, and patients who use them no longer need to see their therapists.14 Mindfulness also fosters relationship empathy, at home and at work.15

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Step 6: Cognitive Priming

When you are in a neurological state of deep relaxation and attentiveness, your mind will respond to any mental suggestion that you generate, see or hear. This information is sent to the thalamus, which relays this information to the motivational centers of the brain. However, in order to improve neural performance, youll need to override old memory circuits that are embedded with negative, unproductive, and inefficient beliefs and habits from the past. Fortunately, the neocortex is extraordinarily flexible, and this neuroplasticity allows us to use our positive thoughts and imagination to deactivate ineffective memories and habits. Brainscan studies can actually show how our thoughts cause neurons to fire and rewire into different patterns of activity. For example, you can use the 3-to-1 positivity ratio that has been proven to be the best predictor of a successful business venture and a successful. And its very easy to use. Just keep a written log of every positive and negative feeling, thought, and comment you make. If you have less than three positive activities to every negative one, your business, financial results and personal relationships are likely to fail. The most successful people and businesses have a positivity ratio of 5-to-1.

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For the next three days, try this experiment. Keep a positivity and negativity journal. Youll discover that as each day goes by, your ratio will improve. And if you want to boost the power of this exercise, deliberate repeat a series of positive affirmations, using the concentration exercise given above. Heres another cognitive priming exercise that you can do for a week. Its been proven that your life and work satisfaction will increase for the next six months! Each night, write down three things you did well at, and briefly explain why. Youll also get profound improvement in both work and cognitive skills if you keep a gratitude journal. What makes this work? Writing! If you just think about positive goals and feelings of gratitude, measureable improvements in work satisfaction and personal satisfaction are much smaller. So write them down. A new study, soon to be published, shows that if you create a write out a comprehensive plan to achieve your financial goals, youll increase your success by 50%. There are dozens of other cognitive priming tools that can help you gain personal and financial success. These include using daily precision affirmations, visualization techniques, positive self talk and a commitment sheet to identify sabotage behaviors and develop counter-strategies. But the most important step for creating permanent and lasting change is accountability.

Step 7: Accountability
This, surprisingly, is the most overlooked step in the world. At home, our parents hold us accountable. When were in school, were held accountable by our teachers. They grade us, and we either do the work or we fail. And yet, as adults, when we choose to improve our financial, buisness or emotional condition, we rarely apply accountability. We cant use ourselves. Why not? Because the well-documented dynamics of cognitive bias are unconsciously operating in our minds. We simply do not see ourselves as accurately as we need to if we want to maximize our potential and succeed at reaching our dreams. And yet accountability is the easiest thing to arrange. All you need is a mentor or a good friend, or better yet, a small team of skilled colleagues who agree to hold each other

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accountable for achieving daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. Make a promise to yourself, right now, to find 2 or 3 people who will hold you accountable for achieving your personal, business and financial goals. And draw up a written contractual agreement. In Conclusion There you have it: 7 steps to guarantee personal and financial success. You are now on your way to achieving anything you desire, and all you have to do is expand your awareness and ability to focus, one day at a time, to include more and more of the world: your friends, colleagues, and the endless opportunities that await you. Everything you need is in reach, as long as you stay relaxed and focused on your deepest values and goals. You can these strategies to shine a light on any aspect of your inner and outer life, and you can change any limiting habit or outdated belief that you turn your attention to. All you have to do is practice these steps, refining them as you apply your own inner genius and creativity to creating the life you want. When you trust your inner wisdom and intuition, all remnants of self-doubt will permanently fall away. Yes, its that easy, and it all begins with your conscious intention to succeed.

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Bonus: In the last two years, a quiet revolution has taken place in the field of neuroscience and neuropsychology. It began many years ago with the invention of biofeedback and neurofeedback technology when researchers discovered that we can learn how to manipulate brainwave frequencies in different parts of the brain. We now know that the above 7 steps alter brainwaves in ways that are correlated with increasing attention, alertness, and attention toward others. The old brainwave models and technologies are outdated thanks to the advancement of new neuroimaging technology. PraxisNow is at the forefront of incorporating this research into sound and visual entrainment strategies. When these new discoveries and technologies are integrated with the 7 steps described above, an extraordinary experience takes place. The exercises come alive, and you will be transported more quickly, and more deeply, into states of consciousness that will further enhance the neural performance of your brain. Over 5000 of our clients are benefitting from our NeuroTraining programs which incorporate the best proven methodologies with the latest in technology to help change neurology. In essence, we are helping people worldwide change their beliefs and habits around earning more money, growing their companies and doing it all with less stress and effort. We have coined and trademarked a new term Innercise to express the fact that we now can on purpose change our neural circuits within our brains by doing a simple daily ritual that focuses on rewiring our brains to higher levels of performance To find out more about our programs click here or go to http://www.praxisnow.com/7stn

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