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I’ve been waiting to share this news with you for a long time. I want to share with you a Harvard study that will change the way you see your children’s potential.

The study was headed by Howard Gardner, a Professor of cognition and education at the famed Harvard Graduate School of Education. Now, some of you might already be familiar with that name. Howard Gardner is indeed the ground-breaking psychologist who first laid out the theory of multiple intelligences.

Gardner claimed that IQ tests do not capture the full range of human intelligence and he was the first to define intelligence into seven different dimensions. His work revolutionized our understanding of intelligence. Today, it is common phrase to say “different types of intelligence” thanks to the work of Howard Gardner.

But his later work was far more important….

For a long time, people believed that types of intelligences were an inherited trait. Especially after Watson and Crick unravelled the mysteries of DNA that is the blueprint of life. With this discovery, people believed that you were either born with intelligence, or you weren’t. Just like how you’re either born with curly or straight hair.

What is Project Zero, & What Did They Discover That Is So Important?

Howard Gardner took his revolutionary theory of multiple intelligences even further. Leading a research group at Harvard called Project Zero, his team made another discovery that shook the world.

Now, you might think that Project Zero sounds like it is some sort of secret government co-op for intelligence. But far from that, Project Zero’s mission was to understand and enhance learning, thinking and creativity. In line with this mission, a main part of their programs were then devoted to studying gifted or genius children.

One of Project Zero’s key research programs in this field was a study that involved developing intelligence tests for babies. The researchers also tested the intelligence for older children. The babies and children were tested across multiple types of intelligence: spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, mathematical, intrapersonal and linguistic.

And this is the mind-boggling discovery they made.

Up to the age of 4, almost all children were geniuses in multiple frames of intelligence.

This discovery from Project Zero wiped away any notion that hinted intelligence is an inherited trait. It also completely throws out the myth that “geniuses” are something eccentric that is far and few in between.

Almost every single child is born a genius across multiple intelligence. Yes, your child, as a baby, shows the very same capability for math, music, linguistic and other skills as so called “child geniuses”.

BUT… the Project Zero researchers found that by the age of 20, the percentage of geniuses within a population whittles down to 10%… and over the age of twenty, a mere 2% retained their genius ability.

SOMETHING happens during upbringing that causes 98% of children to have these abilities ERASED from their mind.

So What’s Going on? and is the cause the School System? Obsolete ideas of parentings? A natural evolutionary quirk?

Anyway - I heard about this from the report by Burt Goldman titled the Genius Dip. It’s a short read and very interesting. Download it from this page.

It’s a must read
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Here’s a real gem I came across. A full National Geographic documentary on how science now allows us to percieve things that we are othwerwise unable to see…

Intriguing? Pay attention to kirlian photography towards the end of the video. Facinating stuff!

Can you imagine that there is an entire science surrounding the study of CUTENESS?

According to scientists, what we perceive as cute indicate “extreme youth, vulnerability, harmlessness, and need”. Apparently this makes evolutionary sense as well, what we determine to be cute INSTANTLY get our attentions, like a suckling baby or a helpless puppy!

Cuteness is distinct from beauty, researchers say, emphasizing rounded over sculptured, soft over refined, clumsy over quick. Beauty attracts admiration and demands a pedestal; cuteness attracts affection and demands a lap. Beauty is rare and brutal, despoiled by a single pimple. Cuteness is commonplace and generous, content on occasion to cosegregate with homeliness. (source)

But we at Mindhacks.org realize that positive reinforcement is always good for the mind and have assembled a series of videos that will have you gushing positivity!

Want more great positive vibes, check out some of our previous feel-good posts:

Really Living Your Childhood Dreams

What is Lucid Dreaming

Can you believe anything your mind is telling you? Is your Mind Playing Tricks on You?

So what’s the answer to Is My Mind Playing Tricks on Me? . . . The answer to this question is sometimes it definitely is. You can usually believe everything your mind is telling you but often your brain just fills in the blanks and plays massive mind tricks on you.

This phenomena is wonderfully explained and illustrated in these 2 great videos. The brain plays tricks on even the most sophisticated of owners.

 ”You are not the authority on your consciousness that you think you are” - Dan Dennett

 Mind Playing Tricks on Me Part 1: Dan Dennett

Find out about your own warped sense of consciousness and see if you can spot the difference on the optical illusions.

(23 mins 45 secs)

Mind Playing Tricks on Me Part 2: Al Seckel

In this video Al Seckel illustrates that the way our brains have been wired or programmed can dramatically influence our power of perception.

(16 mins 30 secs)

Those clips go to prove that my mind is playing tricks on me. However surely there are phenomena that have to be to great for your mind to be simply playing tricks on you. There’s still clearly so much we need to learn about consciousness. How long will it be until we understand our own brain??

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Mind playing tricks on me - ‘Paranormal Survey Gets Big Response’

Imagine Waking From A Coma After 19 Years

Waking from a coma after 19 years has to be one of the most bizarre experiences anybody could imagine happening to them. It probably doesn’t surprise you that waking from a coma is very different from how it’s portrayed in the movies.

Left: Jan Grzebski wakes from coma after 19 years

Many accounts say that victims waking from a coma feel like they have been completely reborn:

“Regaining consciousness was a slow, arduous process that took a few weeks.  Since I had absolutely no recollection of any life before that immediate moment, life to me was just beginning for the first time.  It was as if I was being born at the age of 22.  But I was unaware of my age then and still have difficulty remembering it today.

 Just as a newborn child would have to do, I had to relearn to tie my shoes, walk, talk, read, write, eat with silverware, etc.  Life was exciting for me, just having been born.  I was suddenly awakened to all the sights that accompanied the sounds I had heard while I was unable to open my eyes.” - coma victim

BUT . . . Imagine waking from a coma after 19 years to find out you’re country has changed and is unrecognizable to what you remember.

A Polish guy, Jan Grzebski was hit by a train in 1988 and sent into a deep coma . . . Imagine waking from a coma to find that:

1989 - The Iron Curtain Came Down, the fall of the Berlin Wall

1991 - The Soviet Union Collapsed

2004 - Poland joins the EU

When he was sent into a coma:

1988 - Tea and Vinegar were the only available things in the shop, and meat was still being rationed

Nowadays:

He cannot believe the amount of choice in the shops and seeing every man and his dog carrying round a cellphone is completely alien to him.

He also says he has no reasons to complain about anything, he’s just happy to have awoken.

“A true inspiration to everyone”

Watch this Incredible News

Waking From A Coma - Goodbye Lenin Style

This incredible news story appears to echo one of the greatest German films ever made in my opinion; the similarities to ‘Goodbye Lenin’ are remarkable.

The Plot

Set in the East Berlin of 1989 . Alexander Kerner’s mother, Christiane Kerner, an ardent supporter of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, suffers a heart attack when she sees Alex being arrested in an anti-government demonstration and falls into a coma shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

After eight months she awakes, but is severely weakened both physically and mentally, and doctors say that any shock may cause another, possibly fatal, attack. Alex realizes that her discovery of recent events would be too much for her to bear, and so sets out to maintain the illusion that things are as normal in the German Democratic Republic.

 To this end, he and his family revert the flat to its previous drab decor, dress in their old clothes, and feed the bed-ridden Christiane new, Western produce from old labeled jars. For a time the deception works, but gradually becomes increasingly complicated and elaborate.

Despite everything, Christiane occasionally witnesses strange occurrences, such as a gigantic Coca-Cola advertisement banner unfurling on a building outside the apartment. Alexander and a friend with film-making ambitions edit old tapes of news broadcasts and create their own fake special reports to explain them away.

The Most Surreal Scene You Could Imagine

Both Christiane Kerner and the Jan Grzebski must have had a similar surreal experience when viewing their unrecognizable homes.

Picture the Scene

Christiane wanders outside the flat while Alex is asleep, and sees all her neighbors’ old furniture piled up in the street for garbage collection, a car dealer selling BMWs instead of Trabants and advertisements for such Western corporations as IKEA. Then, a huge military helicopter flies past carrying the upper half of an enormous statue of Lenin, which at an angle appears to be offering Christiane his hand.

The movie has been described as “A political comedy that reaches you right down in your soul, reminding us without any Benigni-ish moral frivolity that life sure is complicated, but it is also beautiful.”

Source

This is a unique, tender, uplifting story that will jerk a tear in one moment, and then have you in stitches the next, so wake up from your coma and see it for yourselves!

Healing - Can this miracle water speed up the pace of Wound Healing?

Both the New Scientist and BBC News have recently reported on a remarkable discovery - that a US firm has developed a miracle water which can accelerate healing.

This could be beneficial for the 246 million reported Diabetes sufferers worldwide who have problems with wounds not healing.

The water is “super oxidized” and so far the studies have shown it to work so fingers crossed healing will just get quicker and quicker.

Firm makes ‘healing super-water’

Bad circulation can prevent foot ulcers from healing

US scientists have developed chemically modified water which they say speeds up wound healing.

Oculus, the Californian firm which developed the water - made by filtering it through a salt membrane - says it kills viruses, bacteria and fungi.

It is also effective against MRSA and UK trials are being carried out on patients with diabetic foot ulcers, New Scientist magazine reported.

Experts said wound healing was a major problem for people with diabetes.

The key ingredient of the water, called Microcyn, are oxychlorine ions - electrically charged molecules.

The water can only kill cells it can completely surround, such as free-living microbes, so human cells are spared because they are tightly bound together in a matrix.

We would welcome any safe effective treatment which could help people with diabetes make a swift recovery

Tracey Kelly, Diabetes UK

It is made by taking purified water and using an electric current and a semi-permeable sodium chloride membrane to separate out the oxychlorine ions.

One study showed that patients with advanced foot ulcers who were treated with the water, alongside an antibiotic, had an average healing time of 43 days compared with 55 days in those who received standard treatment.

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Read the New Scientists Report >>

Why not find out how you can heal using your mind

Legendary Physicist David Deutsch Rare Appearance

David Deutsch in this rare and delightfully engaging public appearance, he weaves a complex and captivating argument placing the study of physics at the center of our species’ survival.

“resources are plentiful, knowledge is scarce”

David Deutsch is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

More Information on:

- David Deutsch >>

- Parallel Universes >>

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘mind over matter’ before; it’s such a valuable thing to practice and really shows us that anything is possible. Many lessons teach us the power of positive thinking; and the law of attraction has never been more in the public spotlight. Controlling your thoughts is a phenomenon that we have to take advantage of.

Now some of the best researchers from around the world are revealing that it’s actually possible to think away pain. This is a massive development for anyone who is suffering from chronic pain, where the usual methods such as traditional medicines and drugs fail.

 I found this great article that uncovers these findings and shows what great impact this could have on so many people’s lives.

Think Away The Pain

by Rachel Metz

Pain can be mysterious, untreatable and debilitating, and its causes can be unknown. But if you could see the pain — or, at least, your brain’s reaction to it — you might be able to master it.

A study from researchers at Stanford University and MRI technology company Omneuron suggests that’s possible, and the results could lead to better therapies for those suffering from crippling chronic pain.

The researchers asked people in pain to try to control a pain-regulating region of the brain by watching activity in that area from inside a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, machine. Initial results showed subjects could reduce their pain, some quite dramatically.

It’s the first evidence that humans can take control of a specific region of the brain, and thereby decrease pain, said Stanford professor Sean Mackey, who co-wrote the paper, which was published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“(Similar to) going to a gym and working muscle using weights, here we’re using the real-time fMRI technology to exercise a certain brain region,” he said.

Study co-leader and Omneuron CEO Christopher deCharms said for many people with chronic pain, available treatments like medication or surgery simply don’t work. But this exercise, which researchers have termed “neuroimaging therapy,” could one day help some of the millions of Americans who suffer from untreatable chronic pain.

In the study, eight healthy subjects who’d been subjected to a painful stimulus and eight chronic pain patients underwent a series of fMRIs. The images tracked activity in the brain’s rostral anterior cingulate cortex — an area deCharms said is related to pain. Subjects watched this area on a monitor in real time during the procedure. Prompted by researchers’ suggestions of trying to lessen their own pain by ignoring it or imagining it as benign, they set out in a mental game of hot-and-cold to lessen their discomfort.

Twenty-eight healthy subjects and four pain patients were also put into control groups that tried to control pain by viewing other patients’ brain data or using other mental strategies, but no fMRIs. These tactics didn’t show a significant reduction in pain, deCharms said.

The pain patients reported that the fMRI helped them decrease their overall pain 64 percent. Healthy subjects said they saw a 23 percent increase in their ability to control the strength of their pain, and a 38 percent increase in their ability to master its unpleasantness.

“I think most people found it very exciting to be able to watch the activity in their own brain, moment by moment, as it took place,” deCharms said.

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