Clicking your Amygdala

[dude111]

http://www.mondovista.com/amygdala

I want you to think of the best time you have ever had in your life........Got it?

Now, multiply that experience, that feeling, times ten. Multiply it times a hundred, or a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or even more.

You can turn on increased creativity, intelligence, pleasure, even ESP and other paranormal abilities as easily as clicking on a light switch. You can have "the best day of your life" over and over, each time better than the last. You may even be able to move clouds and change the weather using the incredible power of your own human infinity machine- your brain. [more]Very interesting...... I dont think i would have the concentration to do anything like this though!

[energi]

Ever noticed how the Amygdala resembles an Almond?

The Almond is now named prunus dulcis, but had the name of prunus amygdalus, or Amygdalus communis before that. :D

[dngrs]

so I understand that doing that can give you pleasure among other things.. well this reminds me of my grandmother a little.. When I get a headache ( she says caused by Evil eye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )she does a kind of massage clicking on my forehead with her fingers of her right hand ( while whispering a prayer 3 times / I don't know if this part matters much) and like 5 seconds after starting I feel great soothing pleasure that can even make me go to sleep ( it's so nice it gives you a sensation of sleepiness and feelgood).. it doesn't last long though.. maybe 15-20 sec ( the headache goes away veery fast especially if I walk around a little)
I think it has a connection with this amygdala stimulation thing

[moosedog]

http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Truth_Brigade_32k_061510.mp3 (http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Truth_Brigade_32k_061510.mp3)


Frontal Lobe Super Charge with Neil Slade

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www.BrainRadar.com

Neil Slade- is a musical composer, seasoned concert performer, author, and artist. His music has been heard by millions in the PBS documentary movie soundtrack for "Still" and as music for the Kodak United States Traveling Exhibition. He has given hundreds of concert, radio, and television performances including appearances at such venues as The United States Air Force Academy and the Gerald Ford Amphitheater.

Slade attended Metropolitan State College, the University of Colorado, and the University of Denver, and graduated Magna cum laude in 1978. Certified by the State of Colorado to teach grades Kindergarten through 12, he has taught for 30 years (starting before graduation) privately and in the public school system. Beyond his classroom instruction, he has taught an estimated 25,000 individual music and art lessons to students ages 6 through 66.

Slade was assistant to Brain and Behavior Researcher T.D.A. Lingo, Ph.B., B.Sci. M.A., for 11 years at Colorado's Dormant Brain Research and Development Laboratory, established by director Lingo in 1957.

For several years, Slade was employed full time to create and present therapeutic creativity, music, and art workshops at many of Colorado's major psychiatric and medical treatment centers. This included West Pines Psychiatric Hospital, Ft. Logan Mental Health Center, Denver General Psychiatric Ward, Mt. Airy Psychiatric Hospital, Children's Hospital of Denver, Denver Head Injury Clinic, as well as many public and private facilities.

In an unprecedented original "Mind Music" program, Slade was employed by the principal of a Denver Public Elementary School to teach all 600 students and their teachers how to self-activate advanced levels of creativity, intelligence, and cooperative trust behavior by learning "brain basics". The program ended with teachers singing to their students and students dancing in the classroom.

Since December 1997, Neil has been a regular guest on the internationally broadcast Art Bell Coast to Coast radio program. This included a record 4 appearances in one month with an estimated audience of millions of listeners for each interview and live audience question and answer session.

Slade has also been a guest of national PBS television and radio host Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. (Listen to a portion of both Mishlove's and Bell's interviews: Brain Radio)

His books "The Frontal Lobes Supercharge" and "Have Fun are easy to use do-it-yourself manuals for turning on untapped areas of each and every persons' brain- "the other 90%". His revolutionary lessons let any person access pre-existing circuits for creativity, intelligence, and pleasure with methods and exercises proven under scientific investigation, as well as real world daily applications. "Have Fun" is a unique set of 35 "anti-rules" which reject common mis-perceptions and neutralizes common obstacles of doing and learning. "The Frontal Lobes Handbook" outlines the basic principles of how the human brain works, and guides readers how to not only sharpen their everyday working mind, but how to access higher modes of advanced Frontal Lobes circuits which turn on such "hidden" functions as pre-cognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, and telekinesis, as well as allow the ability to communicate with non-ordinary physical and non-physical intelligences and entities.

[trepidation]

Just a decade old fictious story to bring in hits and clicks. Anyone know anyone who this actually worked for? Where's the testimonials? Why are all the pages that I find related to this nonsense infested with ads? This is about as plausible as indigo children.

[trepidation]

His books "The Frontal Lobes Supercharge" and "Have Fun are easy to use do-it-yourself manuals for turning on untapped areas of each and every persons' brain- "the other 90%".
What a con-artist, obviously abusing the 'we only use 10% of our brains' myth.

Here we are, neuroscience for kids.
Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?

Let me state this very clearly:

There is no scientific evidence to suggest that we use only 10% of our brains.

In other words, the statement, "We use only 10% of our brains" is false; it's a myth. We use all of our brain. Let's look at the possible origins of this myth and the evidence that we use all of our brain.
Where Did the 10% Myth Begin?

ein The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or the misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. It may have been William James who wrote in 1908: "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources" (from The Energies of Men, p. 12). surgeon Perhaps it was the work of Karl Lashley in the 1920s and 1930s that started it. Lashley removed large areas of the cerebral cortex in rats and found that these animals could still relearn specific tasks. We now know that destruction of even small areas of the human brain can have devastating effects on behavior. That is one reason why neurosurgeons must carefully map the brain before removing brain tissue during operations for epilepsy or brain tumors: they want to make sure that essential areas of the brain are not damaged.

Why Does the Myth Continue?

Somehow, somewhere, someone started this myth and the popular media keep on repeating this false statement (see the figures). Soon, everyone believes the statement regardless of the evidence. I have not been able to track down the exact source of this myth, and I have never seen any scientific data to support it. According to the believers of this myth, if we used more of our brain, then we could perform super memory feats and have other fantastic mental abilities - maybe we could even move objects with a single thought. Again, I do not know of any data that would support any of this.
What Does it Mean to Use Only 10% of Your Brain?

What data were used to come up with the number - 10%? Does this mean that you would be just fine if 90% of your brain was removed? If the average human brain weighs 1,400 grams (about 3 lb) and 90% of it was removed, that would leave 140 grams (about 0.3 lb) of brain tissue. That's about the size of a sheep's brain. It is well known that damage to a relatively small area of the brain, such as that caused by a stroke, may cause devastating disabilities. Certain neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's Disease, also affect only specific areas of the brain. The damage caused by these conditions is far less than damage to 90% of the brain.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html

Moving on... I'll stick to clicking my mouse, thank you.

[peelcamille]

Ok, regarding the 10% myth. Yes it is a myth but it is still true that most of us could use our brains to a fuller capacity. A lot of the claims seem like marketing hype to sell the book; clairvoyance..yeah right.

I am used to using self-hypnosis to deal with pain; did not know what I was doing at the time until I read about it. I've gotten frequent headaches since I was a child, and since you can't concentrate on anything else when dealing with that I just visualize the headache leaking out of my ear.
I think I can "tickle" my Amygdala a bit just by focusing on that physical part of my brain. It produces a nice tingle down my spine and a calm, relaxed state. I have even caught myself slipping back into that feeling unexpectedly. I don't know if I would want it "on" all the time though. Perhaps these are just psychosomatic reactions to my own faith in my brain but the prospect of expanding these techniques is worth investigating but I think it will have to be something that I discover on my own.

[dude111]

Welcome to Davidicke :)

[deca]

Thanks for the link