New Year, New You?

Statistics show that a quarter of us make New Year’s resolutions. 80% of those individuals will have given up by February. Maybe as we begin not only the start of a new year, but the start of a new decade, we will feel newly inspired to attain success? Here are some hints and suggestions to hopefully help you reach your goals.

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More Amazing Mental Feats

This instalment continues to look at individuals with extraordinary mental abilities. Savants have one or more mental abilities that can be considered a superpower. Most savants are on the autistic spectrum and can possess social, cognitive or language difficulties and often have an IQ of below 70. An article in The Guardian (Feb 12/05) estimates that 10% of the autistic population and 1% of the neurotypical population fall into the category of savant.

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Amazing Mental Feats

Ordinary people with extraordinary mental abilities. They’re out there. Over the next couple of months, we will be looking at several individuals and their special talents. If science can ever pinpoint how the brain of these individuals allows such abilities to manifest, to figure out how the seemingly impossible is achieved, I wonder if the extraordinary could be the norm for future generations?

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The Amazing Mind – How Change Happens

Time and again, I have come across sources that point to meditation as the key to moving beyond the perceived limits of the mind. Becoming greater than what we are. Developing the ability to shape our personal reality as we would like it to be. As we become more aware of the mind-body connection and the power of meditation, we tune in to the potential for healing, improving our mental health and creating our desired future. Changing our reality falls within the realms of possibility.

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The Amazing Mind - Continued

Last month we looked at gtum-mo meditation practitioners and their masterful control of the body’s physiological processes. Imagine being able to dampen your body’s response to heat and cold, regulate your blood pressure, maximise resistance to illness, control pain and reduce stress using the power of the mind? It is possible. Science has observed and recorded such mental feats.

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