Brain-wave tests have been conducted on sports professionals to determine what is the optimal performance state.

The most effective state for sports people generally is a low strength signal but wide-ranging, signifying that they are in THE ZONE Need Image of brain waves here to explain better. They have managed to get their thinking mind out of their sport or game and allow their physiological and muscular memory to function unhindered.

Most of the time it is a good thing that we don’t use 100% of our brain as our brain is a series of specialised tools and using only ten percent is a sign of efficiency rather than incapability, a bit like an over drive gear for our mind.

Recent research on the 1500’s to 1700’s showed that western civilization awoke at about midnight to review their dreams as a means of sifting for symbols to reveal their future.

Einstein imagined riding on a beam of light to come up with the theory of relativity.
However Daydreaming isn't planned, deliberate or linear,
Daydreaming is haphazard and spontaneous.

A spectrum of opportunity criss-crosses your life, in the subliminal form of, body language, tonality and sensing information.

According to the research of Professor Albert Mehrabian, in any given spoken conversation:

• 7% of communication is spoken words and their meaning.
• 38% of the communication is the tonality; speed pitch, loudness, voice, command etc.
• 55% of the communication is the physiology, posture, gesture, expression, breathing etc.

This means that for most of the time, from spoken conversation, you perceive only a blinkered seven percent on the horizon of possibility and opportunities. The degree to which your self-perception is totally positive and in touch with your reality, is the degree to which you can succeed in your life.
Author John Lilly, M.D. a pioneer of consciousness studies said that in the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
We have all been conditioned to function and operate with a continuous foreground of deliberate thinking and self-talk, and an intermittent subliminal background noise of random mental chatter. The conditioned mind has come as a guest and stayed as an overfriendly, demanding master. By learning to relax and observe your nurtured and programmed mind you move your perspective gradually from that of a servant to one of the master.
Tibetan Monk, Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the highly-acclaimed and ground breaking book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying challengingly says that the ordinary egoic or conscious mind is comparable to a wriggling box of worms and works best when it is not thinking. Now, initially this sound like psycho-heresy, we all believe the nature of our mind is to think? He further says t’s not the thoughts that matter, it’s the thinking of the thoughts. You have an inner mental screen upon which you continuously project and flash your thoughts, ideas, biases, and feelings, moment to moment, throughout your life
A worthwhile practice is to: Become aware of the role-playing and identifying you have with your inner screen
Notice the chaotic, random & demanding nature of your inner show and then become aware of watching rather than becoming absorbed.
he more you become aware of watching, the less identification you have with the show, consequently, your inner show has less ability to make random changes in your life
You are so used to being you and are busy with being you, that it may take some practice to start noticing how you behave and talk to yourself, when no one else is around.
The judging, praising, berating, and motivating audio content of your innerTV.
Whether on your own or in company, everything you say, do and think is noticed and recorded by your unconscious and consequently you continue to instruct it.
Everyone knows someone who puts themselves down in social situations, as a means of potiteness or to fit in to the pecking order.
So when you put yourself down or think poorly of yourself or body or weight or looks, you are in fact giving permission to program more of the same into your life and so on.
In this way you create your own reality by constantly rehearsing & preparing for future events broadcast on your innerTV.
The upshot is unless you pay attention to this process it can produce negative outcomes or propagate a flatland of sameness in your life.
As you become more aware of this, I wonder when you might now believe in the opportunity to elevate yourself. Some ways to do this are by:
accepting praise from others
allowing your inner detractor to fade by becoming aware of your internal voices
forming a new positive inner voices, when you are in a deeper state
choosing to believe in a new model of yourself
Scientific evidence has established that training in contemplative practice creates brain change
When you awaken in the morning, your brain-wave range is wide open.
As you return from the sleep state you are generating in order of strength delta, then theta, then alpha, and finally waking beta.
In your waking state when going down to sleep it is the exact opposite of this, so it’s a useful window, occurring twice each day, but especially in the morning.
In the just waking or hypnopompic state it’s a relatively simple habit and exercise to haul the nights catch into the conscious state.
You can take most advantage of this state by not increasing the strength of waking beta-waves on awakening and solely placing your dream, question or goal in mind to enjoy the constant no-think state and then gradually, bring in just enough waking consciousness (beta waves) to create conscious reflection.
Tether this precious state, the gateway and crack between your inner and outer world and mind, before the channels close up!
Normally it takes time for theta waves to increase and bubble to the surface and even then there is the problem of accessing them, but on waking you produce enough alpha waves to bridge the theta waves and the theta waves are rich from your nights REM dreaming sessions.
When you receive input from your unconscious it is important to act on it to encourage your unconscious mind to create further, if you ignore messages from your unconscious it communicates back to it that information from these states is unimportant to you and retard further communication.
You might begin now, for example with a curiosity to get to know what is possible for you and a desire to feed your unconscious self regular snacks of your objective
In turn your unconscious mind, can now set to work tirelessly, to bring about your intentions, so that instead of trudging the deep and familiar trail carved out by your old habits & agendas, you might decide to form a new path and maybe even leave a trail for someone else behind.

Some people seem to be able to keep their wits well into old age. But what's their secret? New research reveals a host of factors that may contribute to a sharper mind late in life, including exercise, education, non-smoking behavior and social activity.

While other research has shown that genetics play a role in whether people get dementia, the study adds to a growing body of research that is uncovering ways you can up the odds of keeping your brain healthy and your memory sharp now and later.

The study tested the cognitive ability of 2,500 people aged 70 to 79 over eight years. More than half of the subjects showed normal age-related decline in mind function and 16 percent had a considerable decline during the course of the study. But 30 percent of participants did not show a change in their cognitive skills, and some even improved on the tests.

The researchers then looked to see what could account for this difference.

EXERCISE: They found that people who exercised moderately to vigorously at least once a week were 30 percent more likely to maintain a sharp mind than those who did not work-out as often.

EDUCATION: People with at least a high school education were almost three times more likely to keep up their cognitive ability than those without this education. And those who had a ninth grade literacy level were nearly five times more likely to maintain the ability (a specific word recognition test was administered during the study to assess the subject's literacy level.)

NOT SMOKING: There was also a connection between smoking and brain function in old age. Non-smokers were almost twice as likely to stay quick-minded as those who smoked.

SOCIALIZING: Finally, some social activity may also be good for the mind. The results showed that subjects who volunteered, worked or lived with someone else were 24 percent more likely to keep up their cognitive function.

"Some of these factors such as exercise and smoking are behaviors that people can change," said Alexandra Fiocco, a study author and research at the University of California, San Francisco. "Discovering factors associated with cognitive maintenance may be very useful in prevention strategies that guard against or slow the onset of dementia."

The results were published in a June issue of Neurology. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

The study supports past research that has pointed to exercise as a way to protect your brain and prevent the development of cognitive disorders. Exercise stresses your body, and causes it to release certain growth factors that can strength neurons and keep them healthy.

Thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits, your habits become your character,
your character becomes your destiny... You think, therefore you are... your destiny.
Whenever you think someone witnesses . . . inside,
whenever you speak someone listens . . . inside,
whatever you do someone always notices . . . inside,
whatever habits you create someone will store . . . inside,
whatever character you create, you inhabit,
and there is always someone behind that . . . inside
Subsequently whatever destiny you have now created for yourself, there is always more . . . inside