One of the most powerful ways to keep your mind healthy is with exercise.Physical activity&nbsp;has been shown to promote neurogenesis&nbsp;— the formation of new neurons — and so it’s not surprising that exercise would help keep your mind sharp. In 2012, Zelinski published a&nbsp;meta analysis&nbsp;on methods to improve cognition in older adults.An&nbsp;analysis&nbsp;from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging found that moderate exercise in mid or late life was linked to a reduced chance of developing mild cognitive impairment.&nbsp;

The Value Of Exercise

Just as you can train your body, you can also train your brain. “Cognitive training is very much like taking your brain to the gym,” says Amit Lampit, a clinical neuroscientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. The idea is to use highly structured exercises to practice cognitive processes so you can improve and maintain cognitive performance.

Pushing Your Brain

A Mediterranean diet (high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, fish and olive oil) may help keep your brain healthy, Zelinski says. Numerous studies have shown that diets that follow the Mediterranean pattern might help maintain good cognitive health.A&nbsp;study&nbsp;published in 2019 looked at more than 2,600 participants in a longitudinal study of aging and found that those who’d eaten a Mediterranean-style diet as adults had better cognitive performance in middle age.

The Right Diet

Health

What really works to help an aging brain. It’s not going to function like it did in your 20s, but there are things you can do.

Focusing:<ul><li>concentrating intently on sth you're trying to learn</li><li>sth you're rather familiar with -&gt; thought moves smoothly as if it's traveling along a familiar, nicely paved road</li></ul>Diffuse thinking:<ul><li>more relaxed, related to a set of neural resting states</li><li>for new ideas/ approaches</li><li>looking at things broadly from a big picture perspective -&gt; making new neural connections &amp; pathways</li><li>it’s not for problem solving/finest aspects of sth, but&nbsp;for getting to the initial place you need to be in to home in on a solution</li></ul>Each helps us to learn, but you can't be in both modes at the same time.

Focused & Diffuse Modes - two modes of thinking

<ul><li>Relaxed in a chair, letting his mind go free, often still vaguely thinking about what he had been previously focusing on</li><li>A key in his hand, dangling it just above the floor</li><li>As he would fall asleep, the key would fall from his hand waking him up, just in time so he could gather up those diffuse mode connections &amp; ideas</li><li>Then going back into the focused mode, he‘d build on these connections</li></ul>

Salvador Dali’s Technique to Be Creative 

Thomas Edison used the same technique as Dali, only with a ball.When you're learning something new, especially something that's a little more difficult, your mind needs to be able to go back and forth between the 2 different learning modes. That's what helps you learn effectively. To gain muscular structure, you need to do a little work every day, gradually allowing your muscles to grow.Similarly, to build neuro-structure, you need to do the same. A little work every day, gradually allowing yourself to grow. That’s the trick.

Switching Between The Two Learning Modes 

Neurons become linked together through repeated use. The more abstract sth is, the more important it’s to practice to bring those ideas into reality for you.<ul><li>If you first begin to understand sth, e.g. how to solve a problem, the neural pattern is very weak -&gt; a faint pattern</li><li>Solving it again without solution deepens that neuron pattern&nbsp;(darker pattern)</li><li>Going over each step in your mind &amp; practicing on related problems -&gt; dark pattern</li></ul>Practice makes permanent.<ul><li>enriched environment (people around us instead of isolation) &amp; excising creates new neurons -&gt; helps learning + memory</li></ul>

Build & Strengthen Your Neurons

<ul><li>what you're immediately &amp; consciously processing in your mind</li><li>through its connections to other parts of your brain, you can access long term memories</li><li>holds only about 4 chunks of information (researchers said 7 in the past)</li><li>We group memory items into chunks, to make our working memory bigger than it actually is</li></ul>

Working Memory

<ul><li>like a storage warehouse</li><li>it's where you store fundamental concepts &amp; techniques that are often involved in whatever you're learning about</li><li>When you encounter sth new, you often use your working memory to handle it. If you want to move that information into your long term memory, it takes time and practice.&nbsp;You need to repeat it at least a few times or it can be difficult for you to find it later when you might need it.</li></ul>

Long Term Memory

<ul><li>repeat what you're trying to retain, but space this repetition out -&gt; e.g. practice a new voc. word/ a problem solving technique over several days</li><li>Research: if you repeat sth 20times in one evening, you won’t remember nearly as well as if you practice it 20x over several days.&nbsp;</li><li>Like building a brick wall: If you don't leave time for the mortar to dry, that is, time for the synoptic connections to form and strengthen, you won't have a very good structure.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Spaced Repetition 

Metabolic toxins in your brain-&gt; Sleep helps to wash away them, keeps the brain clean &amp; healthyToo little sleep makes you do worse on tests (you can't think clearly)Over too long of a time: headaches, depression, heart disease, diabetes, aging/ dying earlierSleep: <ul><li>important for memory &amp; learning process</li><li>organizing ideas &amp; concepts</li><li>strengthens neural patterns</li><li>improved problem solving &amp; understanding skills</li></ul>Repeat what you want to learn (focused mode) right before you sleep (diffuse m.) + set in mind to dream about it -&gt; increased chance of dreaming -&gt; better understanding

The Importance of Sleep in Learning

= pieces of information bound together through meaning/ useThe new logical whole makes the chunk easier to remember &amp; also makes easier to fit it into the “larger picture”.Just memorizing a fact without understanding is not enough, you have to find a place for it.How does it work?<ol><li>Focused practice + repetition (4 slots of working memory make connections to informations of your brain, when you’re angry/stressed/ afraid-&gt;less of those connections)</li><li>Creation of chunks</li><li>Small chunks becomes larger</li><li>As you gradually become a master of the material, you’ll have more creative interpretations of it</li></ol>

What is a Chunk?

The best chunks are so well ingrained, that you don't even have to consciously think about it.&nbsp;When you're learning new math/science material:<ul><li>Undivided attention. Let your brain focus on chunking.Leave free the limited slots in working memory</li><li>Understand the main idea/connection bw. the basic elements. Start with an example with solution</li><li>Figure out why the steps are taken the way they are. See the key features. Underline principles of a problem</li><li>Concern:it can be all too easy to focus too much on why an individual step works &amp; not on why this particular step’s the next thing you should do!</li></ul>

How to Form a Chunk?

Can you create a chunk if you don't understand? Yes, but it's often a useless chunk that won't fit in with other materials.&nbsp;Just understanding how a problem was solved doesn’t necessarily create a chunk that you can easily remember later. Don't confuse the "Aha!" of a breakthrough in understanding, with solid expertise.Math/science:<ul><li>review it soon after you first learned it</li><li>close the book &amp; test yourself </li><li>solving the problem speeds up your learning. Seeing/ understanding it doesn't mean that you can actually do it. Doing it yourself helps create the patterns</li></ul>

How to Form a Chunk? - Part2

Gain context to see not just how, but also when to use this chunk!How to start with a new topic?<ol><li>Do a 2min. picture walk through a chapter (glancing at pictures &amp; section headings allows you to gain a sense of the big picture to see where it fits in)</li><li>Begin studying it:Learn the major concepts first, then fill in the details</li><li>Go beyond the initial problem, see more broadly. Repeat &amp; practice with both related &amp; unrelated problems</li></ol><ul><li>to see not only when to use the chunk, but when not,</li><li>to build &amp; strengthen each chunk, so you can easily access it whenever you need to</li></ul>

Gain Context

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Learning How to Learn

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects - Unfinished yet

Although it’s pretty common to hear someone tell another person that they have no feelings, it’s important to remember that that isn’t true. Imagine a person who has no feelings whatsoever, who’s incapable of experiencing love, fear, sadness, shame, or happiness; these people simply wouldn’t be human. Everyone has feelings and emotions; being able to understand and express them correctly is a different matter.

Are there people without feelings? 

Many individuals may feel anger, rage, disappointment, or frustration and still look completely unbothered. Everyone has desires, and any desire, whether with good or bad intention, hides an emotion. There’s no such thing as people without feelings.We all have them because those psychophysiological states orchestrate who we are; they facilitate learning, development, our daily interaction, and pretty much everything we are. These processes are present in every single brain.

People without feelings

If you’re wondering if there are people without feelings, it’s common to think about psychopaths. We refer to them as individuals with anti social personality disorder, a condition that affects 1% of the population. <ul><li>They’re unable to create strong emotional bonds.</li><li>People don’t believe antisocial beings have empathy . They do; there are nuances to it. </li><li>A study conducted at Erasmus&nbsp;University Rotterdam, showed that they have cognitive empathy (they understand what the other person’s feeling). They lack affective empathy (they don’t connect with others at an emotional level).</li></ul>

Antisocial personalities

The cause of alexithymia is an emotional learning disorder or a neurological disorder. They’re people incapable of understanding their own emotional states (and other people’s). They find it extremely difficult to pinpoint exactly how they’re feeling at the moment.They do love and experience happiness, fear, longing, anguish, and hope. They do have emotions, they experience them in a distorted way and are unable to express them as a consequence.

Individuals with Alexithymia

The answer is no – there’s no such thing as people without feelings. The reality is that all human beings have the ability to experience emotions. Human beings aren’t rational by nature. They’re emotional with the ability to reason.Every human being feels but not in the same way. Moreover, not everyone uses emotions as a tool to promote coexistence and create enriching connections.

Is there such a thing as people without feelings? 

Are there people without feelings? Many people have asked themselves if that's actually possible. Find out more in this article!

Psychology

Are There People Without Feelings?

All living beings and all the things that surround us – what we think reality is — is formed by atoms. Atoms which are empty in great measure.Besides, to understand what we’ll talk about below, we must keep this in mind: everything physical is not made of matter. Instead, it’s made of energetic fields or information frequency patterns.

Introduction

Matter is more “nothing” (energy) than “something” (particles). The old school belief was that electrons orbited around the nucleus like planets around the sun.But the new school tells us that an atom is composed 99.99999% by energy and just .00001% percent by matter. If we look at this proportionally, it’s almost nothing.

Matter

Quantum physicists discovered that a person observing the infinitesimals particles of an atom actually affects the behavior of this energy and matter. Quantum experiments proved that electrons exist as infinite possibilities or probabilities in an invisible field of energy.

The Quantum Experiment

Only when the observer focuses his attention on the location of an electron is when that electron appears. In short, a particle cannot manifest itself in reality.That is to say, a particle cannot manifest itself in space-time as we know it until it is observed. So when the observer “searches” for an electron, there is a specific point in space and time in which all the possibilities of the electron collapse into a physical event.

Our mind is a quantum mind

With this discovery, mind and matter can no longer be considered separate. They are intrinsically linked. Because the subjective mind produces perceptible changes in the objective physical world. Here we’re referring to a quantum mind.At a subatomic level, energy responds to our attention and becomes matter. If so,&nbsp;how would our life change if we learned to direct the “observing effect”? If we learned to collapse infinite waves of probability in the reality we desire? Would we be better observers of the life we want to live?

The union of mind and matter 

Everything there is in our physical reality exists as pure potential. If subatomic particles can exist simultaneously in an infinity of possible places, we are potentially able to collapse into an infinity of possible realities.This means, if we can imagine a future event in our life based on our wishes, this reality already exists as a possibility in the quantum field just waiting for us to observe it.If our quantum mind has the capacity to influence the appearance of an electron, in theory it should be able to influence the appearance of any possibility as well.

The power of our quantum mind: thoughts and feelings

Our thoughts and feelings are no exception to all of this. Both our thoughts and feelings have an electromagnetic signal. Our thoughts send an electrical signal to the quantum field. This way, our feelings would have the power to “magnetically attract” situations in life. By combining what we think and what we feel we produce a state of being which generates an electromagnetic imprint. And this imprint influences every atom in our world. All experiences exist potentially as electromagnetic stamps in the quantum field.

Thought and the quantum mind 

If by changing our state of being (and by this we mean changing our beliefs and consequently changing our thoughts, emotions and behaviors) we create a new electromagnetic field which would match with this potential in the quantum field of information, is it possible we will stumble upon this situation by being attracted to it or that the situation will find us? Everything indicates that this is a very probable hypothesis based on today’s knowledge of physics.

Our control over infinite possibilities

But for this to happen, we have to be aware of the beliefs in our subconscious causing our blockages. For example, we consciously want to make money but our subconscious mind gives an opposite order. When we were children, we saw and heard that money is hard to get and rich people are arrogant.That’s the signal our subconscious mind sends to the quantum field, and that’s the reason we don’t attract money into our lives. It would be necessary for us to unlock this type of belief. And this is because change requires coherence.

The subconscious mind 

Coherence begins by aligning our thoughts with our feelings. How many times have we tried to create something? We believed in our quantum minds that we would achieve it, while our hearts told us otherwise? What results were produced by that incoherent signal we were sending?The waves of a signal are much more powerful when they are coherent. And the same thing happens when our thoughts are aligned with our feelings. We transmit more powerful electromagnetic signals when our thoughts are clear and focused on our goals.

The principle of coherence

They also get stronger when they are accompanied by a passionate emotion. These powerful electromagnetic signals are the ones that draw us to a possible reality matching the one we desire.Why? Because thoughts are the language of the brain, just like feelings are the language of the body. We’re thinking one thing and feeling something totally different at the same time. And when that coherence doesn’t exist, the field doesn’t respond coherently either. Let’s keep in mind that we have an enormous power to create the reality in which we live.

Thoughts and feelings

The theory presented in this article, psychologically speaking, doesn’t currently have solid experimental support. What is proven is that our way of thinking, through phenomena such as the self-fulfilling prophecy, has a strong impact on the reality we create with our behavior, even in an indirect way.

Editorial note

We all have the power to transform our reality and choose the hopes we nurture. But, it's necessary for us to understand what the quantum mind is first.

The Quantum Mind: How We Can Transform Our Reality

Good habits are energy savers, something we do so many times our brian make that task automatic. E.g: like brushing your teeth, you don't consciously think about brushing it's automatic. You can now think about a goodbye kiss before you leave for work.That's the ability habits gifts us. We do fire that neuropathway so many times our brain thinks it must important to us. And starts making stronger that connection, while we sleep, What we call myelin sheath. Myelinated neurons can transfer signals at the speed of 157-270mph while unmyelinated neurons Carry signals about 1.1-4.5mph. Boom!