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.

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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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Hit Your Goals Lately?

Goaltending: How to Include The (L) in “Earning”.

Can you imagine a cherry-pie divided into three sections?

Now picture this pie plate, and say hello to Slice # one, called Ms Visualization.

Now introduce yourself to Association, slice # two, and last is Location, slice # three.

Can you see the three-section pie now? You’re already a master of visualization.

The Association step is even easier. When you think cherries, your mind brings up

a bunch of links called associations. George Washington cutting down that tree; in each Spring they begin to flower in Washington, D.C.; and Dolly Madison, President James Madison’s wife, used to spend hours removing the pits to make delicious ice cream.

Notice how your mind automatically seeks associations like up and down, inside/outside, and good/bad, it is part of the context, the frame of reference of your thinking.

To remember like a wizard requires a Location, where the mental picture and the

association link together creating the Peg. A peg holds the picture and association

together, and a recall of one drags along the new idea.

Example

One is a Bun, two is a ton, and three is a tree, is a peg system that locks in the sequence, 1-2-3, and when we retrieve the peg, it retrieves along with it whatever we associated, in-sequential-order.

We want to remember in order, Symphony, Prayer and Watermelon.

First on our list is a symphony orchestra each eating his/her own frankfurter on a bun. Mentally see them chewing.

One is a symphony.

Two is a Ton; now mentally see a ton of people in St. Patrick’s praying.

Two is a prayer.

Three is a tree; now mentally see watermelons instead of leaves, hanging off

the tree’s branches.

Three is watermelon .

We can keeping adding links to our peg system, and when we recall the Location,

we will recall the concepts to be remembered in order.

The Educational Establishment

Educators luv to make all learning complicated, and get their jollies by making

us doubt the common-sense results of our three-pound coconut. Do they

consciously want their students to become dependent on them as mentors?

Sure there is complexity in the world, and everything is not obvious cause-and-effect, but research indicates successful, creative people are auto-didacts (self-taught), not the dependent learning-slaves of their teachers.

Psycho-Motor Skill

Speed reading is a psycho-motor skill consisting of three elements: eye-pattern-movements, field-of-vision, and specific guidance strategies. That’s the motor half; the psycho portion consists of meaning, comprehension and memory.

Funny thing, when we activate the motor half to learn new eye strategies,

we inhibit the cognitive, comprehension half - temporarily. Once we enlarge our comfort-zone to include chunking (grouping), and crunching the words of the sentences, our comprehension returns improved.

How to Code Your Goals

We asked a recent class to explain the difference between emotions and feelings.

The consensus was that emotions and feelings are synonyms. Webster’s agreed.

Let’s define emotion as the fuel, the energy that drives our thoughts. One psychologist explains that – mental-imagery drives emotions. What we see on the

movie-screen of our mind excites our emotions of anger, fear, sadness, happiness and joy.

Refer to your conscious thoughts as the guidance-system, and your emotions the electronics (fuel), that cause your consciousness to function.

Many believe that consciousness is our left-brain in action, while feelings are

a function of our reptilian complex and limbic system, structures of our right-brain.

Speed reading, memory and learning operate primarily at a subconscious level.

Do you know the next words out of your mouth when you are in a conversation?

How often are you surprised at how you express your own ideas?

Our right-brain (subconscious), operates at a non-verbal level 95% of the time. Your right brain controls pattern recognition, holistic thinking, spatial-skills, and parallel processing. We receive its communications through intuition, body language, gestures, and facial expressions.

Did you know that our subconscious mind responds to feelings, to the tenth-power,

compared to the power of words (verbal expression)?

Three Steps to Your Goal

First, a target-affirmation is a simple statement of your intention.

We use the law of As-If, by communicating your goals as a written statement, in a positive, present reality. Can you act-think-feel-believe that you have already succeeded in obtaining the goal of your intentions?

The simple act of expectation creates a mood-change, and acts as a motivation

to persistence and determination. Successful people make a commitment to

the pursuit of their goals that is almost obsessive and compulsive.

The daily act of writing out the theme (key ideas) of your intentions involves your three major senses – seeing, hearing and touching. The time consumed is just two-minutes. Is that too large an investment for success?

Second, mentally imagine a summary of your goal. See the outcome you want for

five seconds with feeling, and it becomes an ‘engram’, your memory trace and roadmap for your brain to follow.

See a vivid mental picture of being congratulated by your divisional v.p. , being

promoted, and applauded by your department staff. See it though your own eyes,

not as a picture, and it imprints itself as a goal. Some call this virtual reality, or

the use of mirror-neurons in using your feelings to trace your objectives. The result is an enlarged self-image leading to originality and creativity in pursuit of your

intentions.

Feelings

When thoughts and emotions unite, they create feelings. The secret is to raise the

vibrational level of your mood. Enthusiasm pumps your mood and suddenly all things seem possible through personal effort. It is measurable by a fMRI which

results in the excitation of your brain’s Ventral Tegmental Area, and the Caudate Nucleus.

These two areas of the brain are the pleasure and reward centers, motivating us to

produce the neurotransmitter, dopamine. Mentally see your success, and internally feel your response to your goal and you are triggering both left and right brain to act in-sync.

Endwords

These three steps – target affirmation, mental visualization, and feeling the power

of succeeding, causes the subconscious (right-brain), to follow your roadmap to

duplicate (by imprinting), your goals.

Try it, and discover an ancient secret that has scientific reality to improve your life

dramatically.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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Tell Me Something New?

Why Some Folks Just Don’t Get It

Gertrude Stein Said…

“There aint no answer, there aint going to be any answer.

There never has been an answer, and that’s the answer.”

We’re much more positive –

“There is a perfect answer, there has always been a perfect answer.

You are going have the perfect answer. And it all comes-together

perfectly - five-minutes before you cash-in-your-chips.”

Stop waiting, and play the cards you were dealt – ‘and that’s the answer’.”

Barriers

1. The Critical-Logical leap: “School is so-o boring, tough, and about

stuff I’ll never use anyway – like math. I hate school”

2. The Emotional-Intuition leap: “I don’t get it, it’s over my head, I’m

not Einstein, and who-cares anyway. I hate my life!”

3. The Critical-Judgment leap: “Too hard – too-stupid – and I quit. I hate

my parents!”

It works just as negatively with – “I hate my boss! – “I hate my ‘significant-other!” or “I hate my damn job!”

Coda: Our learning ‘attitude’, state-of-mind and mood, is 51% of all learning.

The secret and rest of it - is…

a) being non-judgmental about the material and ourselves.

b) knowing WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me?) before starting.

c) having a relaxation-strategy to not use stressful-effort!

d) replacing our ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts), with

APTs (Automatic Positive Thoughts), about the material and

ourselves. “It’s important to me, and I am getting it one-bit-

at-a-time.”

You all know that “resistance” destroys a positive learning-mood; and

your rapport with the instructor and other speedlearners is ‘emotionally’

satisfying, and actually enlarges our comfort-zone.

The Law of As-If

Many of you have heard of the Law of As-If, but just ‘knowing’ something

doesn’t cut it.

Putting this law into practice changes our behavioral experiences, and

improves our daily lives.

The Law of As-If is the brainchild of Professor William James of Harvard,

back in the 1890’s, and still wins the gold.

It’s easy to understand, and simple to use. It says: Act as-if, think as-if, and feel

as-if you have already achieved your goal, and your attitude makes learning

comes as easy-as-pie.

Here’s why – the learning of knowledge and skills requires a combination of

our prefrontal cortex (higher left-brain thinking), and our amygdala (right-

brain emotional, pattern-recognition skills).

Logic, reason, and linear analysis alone, does not create long-term memory.

The extra ingredient to create mouth-watering smells and taste in the pie

we are baking - is feeling-and-emotions. One without the other is a half-baked

idea.

To produce left-and-right brain integration – in-sync – requires invoking

Professor James’ law of running your brain with mental-movies of your

burning-desire, together with ‘associations’ between new ideas and long-term

memories in your brain.

“It’s easy, I’m getting it, and I feel good about Speedlearning 100 and myself.”

Nothing happens with new knowledge and skills until you start to use it

every day in the real-world. This is not a rehearsal for life – it’s all there is.

Here’s Your Model

Step 1: Set the mood and get relaxed before you begin learning: sit-down,

feet flat, and close your eyes for a two-minute BI™ (Behavioral Intelligence

strategy.

Step 2: Inhale deeply from your belly-button, hold it for a count of five, and

slowly exhale. Focus on your breathing patterns and ignore your Monkey-

Mind’s stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Do it three-times in a loop.

Step 3: See on the movie-screen of your mind you winning your specific

heart’s desire – getting an ‘A’ on the exam, being offered the promotion,

opening the envelope and seeing the raise in your check, or getting a ‘yes!’

from that new account.

Step 4: Feel that surge of emotion – a flush of joy and happiness, and smile,

a wide Duchenne-smile exercising the muscles of your eyes and mouth - wide

because you own a successful strategy you can use again-and-again.

Step 5: Hear in your mind – “It’s easy, I’m getting it, and I feel good about

myself.” A specific one is – “Every day in every way - with help –

I’m a Speedlearner, and getting better-and-better.”

Repeat it five-times in a loop – and ‘know and expect it’.

Step 6: Before you open your eyes, and get back to your learning-routine –

keep that big-smile on your puss, and mentally hear-say-and believe –

“And it is so!” – enthusiastically.

That’s your learning strategy.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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Work-In-Progress

Want to win the game?

Until you cash-in your chips, consider yourself a Work-In-Progress (W-I-P), as if

you were a Picasso unfinished painting which he returned to again and again.

Your W-I-P attitude leads to active personal growth and self-improvement while you keep adding and subtracting from your knowledge and belief core, (your painting), and stay willing to change your mind.

Those of us who believe we are a finished-product, stop learning and experiencing, leading to an extreme state of comfort-zone-itis. We inhibit our left and right brains,

instead of exciting and firing our synapses of discovery.

Our comfort-zone is where we make decisions about right-and-wrong, what’s

important, and what we are capable of doing. Have you recently attempted something for the first-time, using some new electronic gadget or using a special computer program, and heard your still-small-voice whisper in your ear, - You cannot learn that, it’s too complicated! –

Some of us feel a cold chill in the pit of our stomach warning us of impending doom when we face change and newness! Do you keep trying or get up and walk away?

Those who kick-butte are willing to fail more than snailers, and continue to attempt new approaches. They maintain a belief system, an attitude of mind, to keep trying

until they find a way, or make a way, to succeed. That’s called grit.

Comfort-Zone

There are scientific-facts like gravity and electromagnetism, simply reality, based

on personal experience, and beliefs, which come from our family, community and

education. Repetition and conditioning create our comfort-zone, and after age 25 we stop revisiting our beliefs and submit to their dictatorship.

How many beliefs do we hold that are plain wrong because times have changed, or our decision years ago about people, have not kept up with their personal growth?

Scientists seem to lack the ego of the rest of society, who must protect and defend

its unchanging beliefs. In any given year scientific journals will report new proofs

that contradict what was once proven-truth, and inform us of a new reality. They are stronger because they welcome change in their beliefs.

The rest of us, including the author, suffer from distortion-thinking, unrealistic expectations, and twisted self-perception, leading us to beliefs in fables, myths and outright lies.

The media, government bureaucrats, and Washington lobbyists, in addition to

Eisenhower’s industrial-military complex, drug companies and oil producers, have a vested interest in not disturbing our dormant comfort-zone.

Disruption

Learning only occurs when there is a disruption of our comfort-zone rituals.

That’s why we have to experience a disaster, even hit-bottom, before we can

change a core belief we hold about ourselves and our gifts and talents.

We don’t -think- our way to changing beliefs; there must an emotional explosion

that shakes up our brain and mind.

Your Career

Most of us get comfortable in our career, like putting our feet into old shoes.

We stop questioning if the job we do is right for us, permanent or where else we can best develop our genetic gifts and talents. The status quo becomes a core belief in our comfort-zone.

Did you know that the average executive changes careers five-times in a lifetime?

Not jobs or companies, but lifestyles and occupations. Will you be comfortable with

the coming upheavals in your life? What’s your competitive-advantage?

A recent report by the National Academies, a hot-shot advisory group with no axe to

grind, specializing in Science and Technology, warns that heavy-weight corporate

changes are three (3) years away.

Downsizing, outsourcing, bankruptcies, and mergers and acquisitions, lead to

catastrophic changes in your life, ready-or-not. Are you really insulated from change? What’s your unique competitive advantage over your peers?

You are familiar with the expansion in China and India, but you might be interested

in knowing that almost forty (40) percent of major U.S. corporation are moving some of their highest paying positions overseas. No, not yours, right?

Not Just Industrial

It began with cheaper labor costs, increased because of tax incentives by the foreign companies, and now is focused on science and technology. Domestic executives and professionals are rapidly being replaced with international staffers who are highly

trained and fully competent. Yes, they are paid one-third of U.S. financial packages.

Fortune 500 companies like Exxon and Dow have always operated internationally,

but by 2009, small companies will market coast-to-coast, and continent-to-continent.

Yes, it’s the Internet, and global trading practices, and it will affect your life, and disturb your sense of status-quo.

The Talent

Today, talent is global; universities in China and India are producing world-class

graduates, PhDs in science and technology, and training executives for international management. International companies are linked by scholarships they finance, with

emerging markets schools, and their new graduates.

Many of these students have proven fully capable of running departments and

divisions, and producing impressive profits. Yes, they are fluent in English, thanks

to their education and the Internet.

The author of the Outsourcing Report, Professor Marie Thursby, of Georgia Tech

College of Management, says the coming revolution is based on a working collaboration between companies and international universities that are already established and growing. She has examined fifteen industries and companies in the

U.S. and Europe, and sees explosive change as a fait accompli, though existing executives and professionals seem unconcerned and unaware.

Two Reasons

The massive economic growth in China and India leads international companies

to want a piece of their growing pie, and operating local is a necessity.

The second reason is the increase in the foreign talent pool, their adaptability,

and willingness to change, learn and travel, without argument

Today, based on the thousand of foreign students trained in the U.S., who return to

become professors in their own country of origin, there is no exclusivity on brain power. The future Nobel Prizes will go to graduates of foreign universities.

And

Hiring by major companies for positions in the U.S. are being reduced not just for

research and development, but including middle management. The highest paying jobs are easing out the harbor for foreign shores.

The U.S. is becoming less competitive and in time – a generation – may be marginalized.

Did you know that in 2006, Japan has experienced no population growth?

The death statistics are look eye-to-eye to new births. Investments in Japan may soon reflect a stagnant domestic economy.

Sure, you say, - but it cannot hurt me because my company is not science or technology oriented - . Set your sights on potential declining economic growth

in the U.S., and consider the question of your children’s future.

Are we producing world-class executives, marketing experts and innovators?

It is government statistics that U.S. students lag way behind the world in math and

science acuity, starting in high school, and students never catch up to world competition. Do want to see your country as a backwater market?

We train our kids to be masters of distraction, beginning with video games, TV,

and personal-messaging on the Internet.

We respectfully suggest our society consider the stranglehold the Educational

Establishment has on our resources. Some of our best universities vie for the title

of Best Party School, in order to attract paying students.

Our experience is with the Reading Establishment, that is delighted with the status-quo, and their members, who are not required to confront their own comfort-zone.

Would it make a difference if the average student would Triple their Reading Speed,

Double their Memory – Guaranteed!

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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What The Skinny on Evelyn?

The Inside Skinny About How Evelyn Wood…

Evelyn Wood was a school teacher in Utah, and not surprisingly

was a devout Mormon. One of the tenets of the Mormon religion

is they evolved from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

Brief History

The two secrets of survival of the various sects and religions in America

is that verbal conflict is ruled off-limits. It is not merely impolite, but

a breach of the social fabric to create an adversarial position that mine-is-better-

than-yours..

Secondly, we do not apply pragmatic logic, nor require scientific

evidence to justify religious belief. Faith rules in all religions, not strict reason.

The Mormon religion, a partner in Christianity, is unique because it has

a history of revelation, persecution, exodus and triumph, all within the United States.

Joseph Smith, 1830

Mormanism did not start in 1830, in Palmyra, New York, that was the year Joseph Smith

published them to the world, after seven years of study.

The genesis was 600 B.C. by a prophet named, Nephi, who received a revelation to leave

Jerusalem and travel over the oceans to America with his people. Mormon, a second prophet, was instructed by God to write a summary of the writings of the American prophets. His son, Maroni, carved this religious testament on Gold Tablets, and buried them in sacred ground in America. They remained unseen for a millennium.

In 1823 Joseph Smith, a farmer in New York state, received a vision from the prophet Maroni, with instructions to search for the Golden Plates and reveal them to the world. Smith unearthed the Plates and spent the next seven years in study, while training his own family in the principles revealed.

For a history of the Church of the Later Day Saints, and the admission of Utah to the Union, Google: the name – Mormons. Their trek to full acceptance as Americans and

Christians makes for a fascinating adventure. Many of their founding fathers were

murdered for their beliefs before reaching Utah. Today we take for granted that the

Book of Morman is read as a companion to the Bible. It did not come easily or without controversy.

Evelyn Wood

Her church required the congregation visit other churches and temples. On one such visit

to a Jewish temple, Evelyn attended a Talmudic Bible class. The Talmud is a study of the religious law in the early books of the Old Testament. The word is derived from the Hebrew word, to learn.

The ancient tradition is that someone is called upon from the congregation to discuss the meaning of a particular passage. He has the sacred words in front of him, similar to the

Torah, which contains the Five Books of the Holy Hebrew Scriptures. The Torah is also called the Pentateuch.

Many of those called to lead the discussions were neither experts nor masters of their subject. They lost their place on the page causing them acute shame and embarrassment, as they struggled to recover by regressing to the proper place in their reading.

So?

This situation was remedied by the Reader being given a tool to maintain his place on the page, and focus his eye movements. It is referred to as a Pointer, and is handheld and made of brass.

This is the true genesis of speed reading because using the pointer produces accelerated

reading of the scrolls. Evelyn immediately saw the link and association between the Pointer and improved reading in English. She remembered the brass pointer when she created her speed reading program.

Evelyn Wood used the hand as a pacer after her research indicated that it was based on a human instinct – our-eyes-follow-a-moving-object.

It’s Scientific

Vestibulo Ocular Reflex, also called Smooth Pursuit Tracking, or Sensory Motor Integration, is the connection between our brain and the eye-movements necessary for reading.

There are three canals involved in our hearing system that permit sharp, acute vision

when they are in-sync and balanced. How we focus on the words of a sentence is based on our field-of-vision and our eye-pattern movements.

Reading involves our photoreceptors, the Rods and the Cones of our retina, specifically in the Fovea Centralis, These image symbols are transported by the Optic Nerve to Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas in our brain for decoding and interpretation as meaning.

Her History

She graduated from the University of Utah and taught remedial reading at Salt Lake City

high schools. Years later she returned for her Master’s degree, and spent her time on the specific steps of the reading process. Speed reading came from her research. She taught and improved her program by teaching students at the University of Utah.

In 1959 she launched speed reading as a commercial enterprise.

These aforementioned facts were told me by EW when the undersigned partnered with her in the marketing of speed reading. Everything else about the origins of speed reading were created by public relations practitioners.

ACT Reports

Reading is the key to college success, was the conclusion of a 2006 eighty-six page report by ACT, a non-profit organization that tested 1.2 million high school students.

About half the graduates could read complex material well enough for the freshman year

of college; the other half were confounded by college level reading comprehension.

ACT concludes that reading skills, strategies and techniques, end at elementary school.

Adults live out their lives with 3^rd grade reading skills including reading one-word-at-a-time, regressing twenty-times per page, and subvocalizing the words they read. Subvocalization alone causes a loss of up to 40% in reading speed because we cannot read any faster than we can speak – up to 200 words per minute.

The typical untrained college graduate also suffers from porous-comprehension, causing

a testing loss of up to a full grade. Many find that within fifteen minutes of studying text,

they have less than 50% recall of the major details. If we cannot remember the gist of what we read, did we in fact read the chapter, article or report?

Endpage

We suggest that speedlearners begin their training in first-grade, with the proper handheld tools, strategies and techniques. They will easily triple their reading speed, double their memory – guaranteed – for a lifetime of learning. It is our goal, mission and cause to

convince the Educational Establishment to save the children.

Based on the college, up to 50% of students do not graduate with a four-year degree.

This is not merely a problem for industry with personnel who are only marginally productive compared to our international competitors. We suggest the difference between

the fast-track and the side-track is adding an L to earning.

See ya,

copyright © 2006

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org

Hypnois is Baby-Stuff and Valuable Too

Hypnosis is a Skill and Easy

If an explanation is not easy – comprehensible without nuclear physics –

the writer can’t cut-it with me.

Hypnosis requires three elements:

1. A sense of expectation. (It can, and I’m waiting for it).

2. A powerful desire. (It’s my dream – my burning-desire).

3. A compelling belief. (I can mentally visualize my goal).

All hypnosis needs is an ‘expectation,’ and granting yourself permission to permit

it to happen.

The most jaded – skeptical researcher knows that success in any goal begins

with a mental-picture (movies are better), that you can and will access to

remind you of your burning-desire. Let the visualization guide you to

create the habits of thought and behavior to make your objectives a reality.

Once the habit engrams are implanted – your brain is acting on auto-pilot to

bring your goals into your life. Auto-pilot means both left-and-right-brains

are acting ‘in-sync’ – consciously and non-consciously to produce your goals.

Words

Not just the religious believe that – ‘In the beginning was the Word…”

Speech and self-talk (subvocalization) instantly create mental-images that

are charged by emotions to become behavior. They are powered by prior

‘association’, both good-and-bad. The ‘dog’ scare as an infant, the burned-finger,

and the smiles and praise of winning become habits of a lifetime.

Remember – after the experience – the ‘word’ alone creates all the original experiences. “Dog’ – ‘fire’ and ‘winning’ become ‘’triggers’ and emotional

“anchors”. One of our important anchors is – “Let-it-Go!” to release stress,

and forus concentration.

Prove it!

Recent scientific research at the Department of Anesthesia at the University of

Iowa Hospital and Clinic, tracing pain-perception with fMRI scans showed

for the first time – the effect of hypnosis on the brain.

Result: increase activation of the left Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Basal

Ganglia, causing an inhibitory-pathway of pain perception. Next, it showed

reduced activation of the middle cingular cortex, precuneus, and visual cortex,

and the primary sensory cortex. The ‘pain’ stimulus is shut-down.

Conclusion: if hypnosis can eliminate substantial pain – is it hard to believe

suggestions to learn faster, concentrate better, and double your long-term

memory - are doable? The brain can be changed by hypnosis both temporarily

and permanently – and the proof is uncontestable.

Habits are Installed or Replaced Using Imagination

Yes, repetition is often required because we ‘cancel’ the new habit when it comes

too-easy. Change is instinctively-frightening, even when it produce a ‘positive’ result. How often to we ‘fall-off-the-wagon’ in dieting? Ask those who are alcoholics

or drug-addicts how many times they have tried to stop – even though they desperately want to cease-and-desist – they self-sabotage because they are deathly

afrain of a major change in their mind-and-lifestyle.

The harder they try to stop – the ‘effort’ of our left-brain, the more they fail.

Success comes at a non-conscious level – and only when we are deeply-relaxed,

and access our limbic-system (emotions), through our right-brain.

Success comes from having and flashing our mental-movie of living a successful

and joyful life without the negative habit. Each repetition is a ‘reinforcement’ - deepening the new attitude and lifestyle. Scientists call this – Conditioned

Response patterns. We call it – conditioning and self-conditioning, and it’s easy and effective. Ultimately – we associate feelings-of-pleasure with the ‘new’ habit and response.

For you smarties – check out our brain releasing – ‘dopamine’, which is

a neurotransmitter dumped into the brain at the Nucleus Accumbens and the

VTA (Ventral Tagmental Area). See: Endorphins.

Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Windows of Opportunity

Just before we fall asleep, and just before awakening are ‘open-sesame’ to

installing goals, new attitudes and success. Whatever you repetitiously-mentally-

visualize – and emotionalize at these two-windows of opportunity – you are capable

of bringing a major reality in your life. Follow the Law of 21 (days), and create a mental-movie of your burning-desire.

There is one additional time to enter the mind and submit commands to the

corpus callosum, the internal communication system of our brain. It is during

meditation – any time you intentionally deeply relax beta-consciousness, and

enter alpha and theta cycles-per-second, as measured by an EEG. More later.

See ya,

copyright © 2005

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

Who's The Boss of You? No - really!

Are You Sure?

People are ‘unsure’ of their place, and who-and-what they are.

Confidence is an assumption – not a tangible entity like a leg.

Is self-confidence a product of your bank-account, a decade or two

of success?

Real as a Right-Sided-Stroke

After fifteen-years as Division Vice-President overseeing 1,200

executives, graduating from MIT with a Ph.D, and earned wealth

with all its support systems. He smiled comically as he shared his deepest

secret with a stranger…

“Every day I come to work – that’s fifteen-years – I wait to hear they

figured-it-out – that I’m faking it, and know-nothing. No, it didn’t happen

today – but probably tomorrow – maybe not. Okay, I’ll stick it out for another

day – I still got ‘em fooled – aint that the limit?”

How can you relax and enjoy your success when you fear your competency?

Where does confidence come from? Is it genetic and hardwired, or can you

buy it at Walmart?

Self-Confidence is not a ‘given’, it requires daily reinforcement

at both your conscious and non-conscious mind - or its shoots-its-wad and silently departs like Hurricane Rita.

You’ve Heard of ANTs – ‘Automatic-Negative-Thoughts

Psychologists estimate we have two-hundred different ANTs living in our mind to advise us about our talents, character, and personal-worth. Ninety-eight percent

of the time they automatically assure us we stink, are a no-talent, and are fooling-

the-public.

Read the lips of the Australian tennis-pro playing for the title – who

smashed the ball into the net – “You stupid, no-good S.O.B. You… *&$!!”, he says to himself.

His blood boils over, and he can hardly breathe, but it goes on for up to sixty-seconds. Guess happens to him on the next serve - in that state-of-mind?

Right – he goofs again, and takes that as evidence the ANTs are right!

Okay – what’s your first-reaction to falling-flat on your fact? You need a

new strategy that empowers you – not insults you when you stumble.

The ANTs Got Him

The first step is having ‘Two-Minute-Strategies™’ to make self-esteem and personal-power automatic - and run on auto-pilot.

Know these Two-Minutes-Strategies and punch ‘illegitimate’ self-doubt – in the snout.

“Breathe-Stretch-Shake – Let-it-Go!”

First, the name – MASE, a superstar Rapper, released a lyric in 2005 on his “Welcome-Back” album called – ‘Breathe-Stretch-Shake and Let-it-go’.

Goal for us: annihilate the nasties from your mind, and alert the Big-Five senses

to pay-attention and concentrate on the work-at-hand.

One-more-once – when you want to clear your head, focus on being productive – wake-up! your mind-and-body (not before going to sleep)

– use ‘Breathe-Stretch-Shake – Let-it-Go!’

Personally - it should be a requirement every 90-minutes because we wind-down every one-and-a-half hours. That’s a scientific-fact, not an urban-myth.

This exercise takes no more than ninety (90) seconds!

1. Stand up – yes, that requires a decision.

2. Close your eyes – do it when you are in private.

3. Visualize your heart, and place your right-hand in the center of your

chest.

4. Take a diaphragmatic breath (deeply inhale), and count to seven-beats - one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one…etc.

5. Switch hands and place your left-hand a hand-span above your navel

(belly-button, umbilicus), and visualize your belly-button.

6. Hold that inhalation to a count of ten-beats – (seconds) while

simultaneously visualizing your belly-button.

7. Exhale s-l-o-w-l-y to a count of seven-beats, and open your eyes.

8. Now – stretch out your arms and legs – and really s-t-r-e-t-c-h.

9. Shake-your-body vigorously – starting from your head and working down to your feet.

10. Last – and 50% of your grade – Slap-your-hand-down on a flat-surface,

and shout-out - if it is appropriate, or self-talk – enthusiastically …

“Let-it-Go!”

“But What’s the meaning of All This?”

We intellectuals – left-brain dominant – successful folk – spend 95% of consciousness analyzing the ‘why?’ of stuff. Just this once – just-do-it! - and

focus on the ‘how’ of things. The results are instantaneous – your brain gets a 12% jolt of oxygen and glucose, and disposes of excess carbon dioxide.

You’re awake and kicking – and ready to ‘concentrate’ on whatever you choose.

Conduct your own experiment – ‘Breathe-Stretch-Shake – Let-it-Go!’ - and discover your power of focus-and-attention – particularly after you notice yourself winding-down to a snail.

“But when do I do this exercise…and how do I…?”

Who is the Boss of You?

Use your volition – c-h-o-o-s-e, make decisions. Resign from being a ‘grunt’, and

be the commander-in-chief. It’s your life or go ask your Mama if this is worth

learning. Confidence means ‘with-trust’, and leads to self-assurance through belief,

when you take command of your mind-and-body.

See ya,

copyright © 2005

H. Bernard Wechsler

www.speedlearning.org

hbw@speedlearning.org

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