Unleash Your VitalityYour Guide To Natural Health, Personal Fitness & Lifestyle Freedom

We left off with Part 1 on the importance of building your neural network – in effect, challenging yourself with stimulating habits and practices that lead to the development of new neurons and connections. We also saw how certain key brain regions can be the major players in developing intelligence, “g”. Now that we’re challenging ourselves to perform mentally and building these new neurons, it’s time to tackle step 2: enhancing the speed and ease of neural communication.

Neural communication is the same thing as neural transmission; it refers to our ability to allow interaction between neurons to take place, and reap the benefits of this neural communication in mental performance, clarity of mind, problem solving skills, new ideas, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Intelligence is one of those topics that almost seems too “fixed” to worry about – we instantly find ourselves labeling others as smart, dumb, intelligent, slow and all kinds of other markers that have to do with our ability to perform mentally. All of our brains work on remarkably different levels, and interpret the same information from our environment in vastly different ways. Put ten people in a room and give them a topic, and you can be sure that you’ll see all kinds of new, interesting conclusions and opinions based on their past experiences and the way their brains process the incoming information.

But here’s the kicker: you can enhance your mental performance, and increase your intelligence, in several fascinating ways. The two main strategies for improving mental performance are to build new neurons and neural connections, and to optimize the speed of transmission (neural communication). Read the rest of this entry »