What is The Buzzing of The Bees?

The Secret strategy of Buzzing of The Bees

We trained a NYC attorney in Tripling (3x) his Speed Reading and Doubling his long-term memory. That was not what he emailed us about. One of the side-issues in the 12 hours of sessions includes a strategy called The Buzzing of The Bees. This is a simple strategy that most students and executives totally ignore. It was created by a French Psychologist called Emile` Coue` (pronounced Quay) in 1922.

So What

Please pay attention and see if you can mentally visualize this powerful procedure.

But what is it for?

Buzzing of The Bees activates accelerated healing and according to some advocates, produces almost miraculous results. Wait: disclaimer – we are not physicians and this is not scientific stuff. Most normal folks go to a medical doctor or hospital when their body fails them.

We recommend exactly that, but maybe there is a place for knowledge about Coue’s secret strategy.

What Happened

Danny the lawyer was skiing in the evening with his group at Vail. Suddenly he was buried in a six-foot pit – his right leg mangled, in searing pain, and only semi-conscious. He was not afraid because he knew the area was crowded with his friends, and sooner-or-later his crew would come searching for him. It was not to be that easy.

He tried to extricate himself, but the throbbing pain in his right leg argued back. Danny’s three-pound coconut joined in the ski-party with a massive migraine headache. He knew he was in trouble when he could not think of anyone to sue for damages for this negligence action. “Someone must pay for my pain and suffering,” he thought.

He never wore his watch when skiing, so it felt like a year had passed since his fall. He could hear no surrounding noise, and not a human came searching for the buried lawyer. Danny could only hear his pounding heart, as his fears invented new dangers for his present predicament.

Oh yeah, to add to his misery he was feeling frostbite in his both hands and feet. “I think I am going to cash-in my chips,” entered his mind multiple times.

Magic

He said in the email, “Out of no place, an idea crossed my mind. I actually heard Dr. Coue’s mantra,
‘Every day, in every way, I am feeling better and better.” It was like a song that just kept repeating itself endlessly. The weird part was that I actually smiled and felt better as I got into the swing of paying attention to this Affirmation – for 60-minutes.

It was some kind of self-fulfilling prophesy – I was feeling better and better. It was weird and dangerous because I was down a hole with a probable broken leg, and as alone as a stone.”

In Speed Reading we explain the power of “Every-day-in every-way, I am feeling better and better.”
The secret was not paying attention to the meaning of the words, just let the mantra form an umbrella over your brain. It must seep into your Non-Conscious mind. How? Hum the words under your breath, and expect a positive change. You mind-body connection will calm down your agitated brain, and send you some ideas to help yourself. Or you could sue us for malpractice – if you live.

Buzzing of The Bees

This is a two-step strategy. One, you repeat very fast, in an almost Mickey Mouse voice, (while touching the injured area), “It is Going, Going, Gone.” This is separated in three- sections. The first - two are repeated – “It is going-going-gone (rapidly for about 40 seconds). The final and third section ends with, “And, It-is-so!”

What is Optic Chiasma

You use physical reversal to involve your right or left brain. If you are healing your right-leg, use your left-hand to trigger your right-hemisphere. The right brain controls your left-side, and vice-versa. You very quickly reach your tipping-point – your Critical-Mass. If you do Buzzing-of-the-Bees twice, sixty-second each, a total of two-minutes – strange things occur. You must emotionalize what you want to occur, right? Do not repeat it like an accountant running numbers. Easy when you’re dying.

One more thing: you must create a mental image (mental movie/picture) of the healing and repair you desire. Use 1, but 1-4 is better.

See: 1. Shrinking and Shriveling of an enlarged area, uniting a broken bone or damaged tissue. Example: visualize an enlarged prostate gland et al shrinking and shriveling.
See: 2. Dissolving a bleeding or pimply growth, or eliminating a painful area. Example: facial growth.
See: 3. Pac-man Like: Chewing it up, and spitting it out. Example: killing all Cancerous-Tumorous-Toxic cells.
See: 4. Hammering the nuclei and cell bodies. Example: see: Cancerous-Tumorous-Toxic cells being smashed to death by your mallet. (visualize your 3-pound mallet totally destroying all the negative growth cells).

Back to Danny The Lawyer in The Snow-Bank

“Well, I said to myself, I have nothing to lose, so I began doing the Buzzing of the Bees to my right-leg, tapping with my left-hand. I visualized my foot healed, and did not stop to think how stupid and unscientific it really was. I had nothing but time, so I did it for maybe 15-30 minutes. Later I went back to Coue’s mantra – Every Day in Every Way, I am Feeling Better and Better, for another 15-30 minutes. I say, If you got the time – I got Coue’s affirmation.

“I am not going to try and describe what happened next because the men in the white coats institutionalize you for such ideas. Let’s just say I felt better and saw an improvement in my condition.
Oh yeah, I had never tried these crazy strategies since learning them in Speed Reading classes. Desperate times require desperate measures, right?

The next thing I knew I was sweating like a pig and moving around the pit in spite of the pain. Get this:
I started crawling upward, one inch at a time. If you are expecting a miracle and the ski parole coming to save my ass, forget about it.

You remember the Bingo-Song you teach to reduce stress – “There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name.” Each chorus you clap or shout to replace a letter in the name B-I-N-G-O. It helped distract my mind from pain, fear and anxiety when I tired of “Every-Day” and “Buzzing of the Bees.”

I am coming to the point. I began to feel better and made slow progress as I attempted to creep out of the snow-trap. I dragged by broken body inch by inch, but move I did. It took maybe two-three-hours.

More “Every-Day-in-every-way”, sing-song, more “Buzzing of the Bees” about my right leg and migraine headache. I went back to the “Bingo” song too, and you know what? It all worked to calm my racing heart and broken body. May that’s it.

I don’t know how I did it, but I ended up out of the snow-trap. My partners would have me certified for reciting this stuff in writing. I do not remember how or when, but I started crawling down the slope. Some ski-cop found me. I was bent over the ski ramp. The Ski Patrol guy said they had been on a search for my fundament for over four-hours.

That’s it. It really happened like that, and you have my permission to use my words. No normal person would believe a word of it anyway. Thank you SpeedLearning.org - I will always believe Coue’s mental strategies saved my injured fundament. Best of Luck, Danny Esq.”

Endwords:

This is the gist of it. Did it really work because of Emile Coue’s strategies – you decide. As for me, if
I were in a hopeless situation, and I wanted to trigger my mind-body-connection… I suggest no one rely on any of the aforementioned ideas, but then I also suggest not falling into a ski-trap.

By the way we have about 25 free, no strings attached speed reading reports. If you want one, find us and request one.

Copyright 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler
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Are People's Judgments Rational And Stable or What?

Are People’s Judgments Rational And Stable or What?

21st Century Science: If you are a lifelong learner and want a healthy mind-body connection and longevity, you have to consistently and persistently use your brain to keep learning.
What does that really mean? How?

Did you know up to half of folks over 80-years old either have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia? You are going to live into your nineties so a healthy brain and longevity matter to you, right?

Read everything in sight includes labels. Get an Amazon Electronic Reader (Kindle), and read a minimum of one-hour daily. Read what? Grab an exciting novel or a great How-to textbook, but read. Why? All reading and new learning has a cumulative effect in your brain and produces Cognitive Reserve.

Cognitive Reserve

What’s that and why should we care? Cognitive Reserve is a protective shield in your brain to reduce the incidence of ALZ and dementia up to 80%. It comes from years of active thinking, learning and reading.

In November 2008 the first scientific research was published in the Archives of Neurology. So what?

You and I care because the heart of this research using brain scanning concluded: the greater our Cognitive Reserve from learning and reading, the less damage from Beta Amyloid Plaques – causing reduced loss of mind-power from Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.

How

Learn the rules of New board games, play Bridge, teach something you know to kids or adults, engage in Jeopardy TV questions, and don’t laugh, study the vocabulary of a new language. Thinking, reading and learning is your Silver Bullet to mental health success.

Who says so? Google: Yaacov Stern, professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the international expert on avoiding ALZ through Cognitive Reserve. Wait - only Google him if you want to live into your nineties with a healthy brain.

Remember Stupid Stuff, But Use Your Long-Term Memory

What is the population of the U.S. on 3.11.11? Answer: 310 million folks.

What is the population on the planet Earth? Answer: 7 Billion people.

Can you remember that to win a PRIZE? Well the prize is your healthy brain and longevity.

How many people in the world are LEFT-HANDED? Answer: 11 percent of the population.

How Do We Remember Stuff

There are three-ways to feed information into your long-term memory: the most common is repetition. Start by repeating the new idea, word or name silently or out-loud to yourself 10x. Now test yourself to see if you really own the new knowledge.

If you repeat this new stuff up to 10 times today, and test yourself, and another 10 more times tomorrow, you almost got it. Test yourself again a week from now – repeat it another 10x, and you own it permanently in long-term memory. Just remember – do it like you mean it, not as a boring chore.

Association Strategy

The second strategy for long-term memory is Association. It means connecting something NEW with information already located in your long-term memory. Ask yourself questions like - what does this new idea or word remind me of? What does it sound like?

Link (connect) the new idea, name or a word with old-stuff you already know and own. Example:

I met a new friend named Dennis Kennedy, and normally I would forget his name in sixty-seconds, just like you.

I remembered the old TV show – Dennis-the-Menace, and I will never forget his name because of the law of association. Kennedy was easy; I pictured him in the White House. An association is a Link from one new idea, word or name - to an old one I already know, right? Your brain and everybody else’s love images (pictures). That is your easy LINK to long-term memory. We remember in pictures.

Listen: we remember in mental images (pictures or mental-movies). I can see (imagine) that bratty TV kid – Dennis-the-Menace. I will always identify my friend with that mental image. Never will I forget his name because I associate it with a picture in my long-term memory having emotional relevance.
And I know John Kennedy was the 35th President. Dennis Kennedy – locked into my long-term memory.

Third Strategy

Third, go to Radio Shack and get a Digital Electronic Recorder. Speak what you want to remember into your recorder. Now make it a habit to review your new ideas, words or names for just five-minutes toward the end of your day. Really, we use the high-tech recorder and capture (remember) tons of new interesting stuff. Why bother?

Fact: Cognitive Reserve is your brain’s resiliency (bounce-back) to damage from ALZ and other forms of dementia, right? Thinking, learning and reading produce positive rewards. Choose to win the Prize of an active and protected brain. You will absolutely live better and longer. Yes, really.

Oh yeah, it is absolutely today’s Science, not mere superstition. Do you care about your brain? Improve your mental-resiliency – give your brain bounce-back power through fun learning games.

Right-Handed

About 90% of us are right-handed, but so what? Listen up: we associate the right side of space with all things good, and the left-side with lousy stuff. Concepts of good and bad are locked into our bodily experiences. Our dominant hand creates how we decide what to choose.

Science

When folks who were right-hand were asked what to buy either the item on their right-side or their left, guess which one they consistently and repeatedly chose? Wait. When asked which person to hire in a Job interview, the person on their right or left – they always went with the applicant on their right.

One more – when asked which person appeared to be more intelligent, the woman on their right or their left – predict which one they decided was smarter? They identified all things good with their dominant hand. Lefties did just the opposite. The key point is that it was all on auto-pilot, deciding and choosing without having any conscious knowledge of WHY they loved all things – on the right.

Who Says

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania offer the evidence, and their work was published in the journal Psychological Science, March 9, 2011. The lead author was Professor Daniel Casasanto, and even he was surprised by the power of our dominant hand.

Think of ordinary English – we love to be “in-the-right”, and hate to be “out-in-left-field”. Lefties see the exact opposite. The professor says, “People can act more fluently (flowing – smoothly and easily) using their dominant-hand. We come to identify – unconsciously associate good-things - with our fluent side of space.”

The scientists clinched their argument by putting a large glove on the dominant hand, and righties changed to lefties after a short while of using their now dominant left-hand. Your fluent, dominant hand changes how you make decisions and choose.

Now think of how you want to arrange things because the world is 89% righties? This is practical stuff and can help you win promotions, raises, and more profits. Knowledge is power. More knowledge is greater power than your peers. Maybe you want to specialize in promoting to lefties. How?

See ya,

Copyright 2011 H. Bernard Wechsler

P.S. We have about two-dozen free, no strings attached, excellent reports on how to be a speed reader. We have many experiences that those who learn speed reading win more promotions, raises and profits. Ask us for a free copy. The author wrote the best-seller, Speed Reading For Professionals, published by Barron’s – the financial magazine.
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Did You know You Are An Expert in at Least Three-Skills?

Do You Know You Are an Expert in at Least Three-Skills?

Wait – how do you define “expert”, and what exactly is required to be considered an expert in a field?

I hate glittering generalities and require specific information to learn something new.
There are three (3) ways to qualify to be an expert in most professions and areas of talent.

The Ten Thousand Hour Rule

The creator of this rule is K. Anders Erisson, professor at Florida State University. He first saw it played out in Berlin, Germany at the German Academy of Music. He concluded it was nurture more than nature, and not natural genius or innate talent, but hard work. Regardless of talent, it took deliberate practice (daily) to master any skill. Competence, proficiency and knowledge require practice.

Ten Thousand Hours is the equivalent of three-hours daily for ten (10) years. More hours daily reduces the number of years, right? Take your pick – ten-years or ten-thousand hours is the minimum to acquire expertise in a field of knowledge or skill.

Dr. David Shanks

Professor Shanks picked up on this theory while at University College, London from Erisson in 1990.
He saw the merit in disposing of the argument you have to be born a star. He was more comfortable with the practical application of effort and diligence to attain expertise. He liked the idea that it is not
Innate (inborn) talent that ultimately decides who is an expert.

Stephen J. Dubner & Steven Levitt

In 2006, these two published “Freakonomics –the hidden side of everything” It is now a standard that is an annually best-seller. Professor Dubner is an internationally recognized economist, teaching at University of Chicago since 1997. Levitt is a super-star journalist in NYC and a major contributor to the on-going website on Freakonomics. They gave lasting fame to K. Anders Erisson by popularizing his Ten-Thousand Hour Rule.

So What

There are three-ways to gain a reputation as an expert – putting in 10,000 hours, ten-years, and one more. If the expert has absorbed 30,000 chunks of knowledge in his field, he wins the title. What is chunking?

Chunking is a psychological term – meaning organizing items (ideas) into manageable units. Example:
Which is easier to remember – 5165551212 or 516-555-1212? That’s chunking. This is an example of a long-term memory strategy. What are you really doing? Answer: recoding information into short-term memory. Get this: you have only 43 seconds to take short-term and turning it into long-term memory.

How?

Three-ways: repetition – association or artificial use of a digital recording device to remember the new information. If you waste time, your new short-term memory disappears and you lose it. What’s her
name again? For Smart-Alecs: check out an article called The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, by George A. Miller, 1956. Explains short-term human memory. Remember – you have about 43 seconds to save it to the Hippocampus or your Amygdala chews it up.

You Said We Have Expertise in Three-Skills

Glad you reminded me. One is Eating – at least ten-years or ten-thousand hours. Second is Sleeping, we are all experts in that talent. Third is reading. Most of us have piled up the ten-years or ten-thousand hours because we started at age five or six and read daily.

There are Three Ways to Win Comprehension in Reading

One: Phonics – the sounding of each letter in a word. It is so-o slow, and is used 62% of the time by college graduates.
Two: Holistic Word Recognition – that means we comprehend words by remember their shape. Repetition imprints the shape in our long-term memory. We use it 16% of the time college graduates read text material.
Three: Whole Language – we comprehend words and gain meaning by seeing the CONTEXT of the word as it is used in a sentence. This strategy is used 22% of the time by college graduates.

We use all three of the aforementioned simultaneously, not just pick and choose one.

How fast do College Graduates Read?

The average lawyer, doctor and college graduate reads easy material at approximately 210 words per minute, with a comprehension of only sixty (60%) percent. That is about 100 words per minute in reality. What about tough, text material? Cut it in half. Face it, we are s-l-o-w, slow readers, which explains Information-Overload, and the low U.S. student rates in Science and Math.

When you read that slowly, with Porous-Comprehension, you get easily frustrated, and want to quit.
The high school and college drop-out rate because of lousy reading skills is a minimum of 35-40%. Sad.
There is a solution – it is called Speed Reading, a series of learning strategies for kids and adults.

Zoning-Out

More than 50% of students and executives zone-out after reading more than five-minutes. Some of us can go up to 20-minutes before falling mental asleep while reading. Your eyes take in the words, but your prefrontal-cortex is not paying attention to meaning and comprehension.

For cool folks: Goggle: Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area for semantics - the meaning of what you are reading. Reading not just perusing sentences down a page, you must be able to get the ideas that the writer is submitting in the book, article or report. Attention is everything and add to that recalling the gist of new knowledge. Less than that is Zoning-out.

Endwords

The good news is that you can become an expert in a specialized area of knowledge without being a genius to start with. Find an area of knowledge or even a hobby that turns you on, and put in the time.
See ya,

Copyright 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler

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