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How to Permanently Own Luck, Accelerated Healing...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Permanently Own LUCK, Accelerated Healing… We have received this hidden knowledge from the Guru-With-No-Name. He lives in India and visited the U.S. where he gifted us with these baby-easy Tapping Rhythms. He was instructed to do so by his Guardian Angel. If you are like me, your Skeptical Mind asks: what are these Tapping Rhythms GOOD for? Tell me - WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me? (You!) Guru gave us the Four Tapping Rhythms, for these energetic gifts & talents.

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How to be Outrageous and Make Mon...

How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.

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Beat Stress With Your Nose

Beat Stress With Your Nose Speed Reading Rules New scientific research shows that when we are under Stress-Overload, more than 100 genes push our body and mind into overdrive. So what? That weakens our immune system, and makes a lousy situation even worse. The Meaning of Stress When you suffer from stress-overload, your entire body and mind go into Fight-or-Flight reaction.

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"These Experiences Can Raise Your Annual Income up to 53%."

“These Experiences Impact Your Annual Income.” • 1. “But Pop, I get Bored fast. Don’t say it, ‘I have a limited attention-span’. I remember. A goldfish has 9-seconds, and my generation has only 8. Tell me something I can use.” • 2. “I’ll tell you some stuff I learned this week Online. You stop me if it’s irrelevant to your life. Just the top-5.” • 3. “Yeah, a Chinese menu. I like options, multiple-choice & learning, if-it-doesn’t-put-me-to-sleep.” • 4. “Why is it better for you to see yourself as the Underdog in school and at-work? Even in relationships and in making money?”

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How to Make the Most of the Mobile Network Boosters

Let’s face it. Call drops and poor network are regularity today and not even the most discerning mobile network companies have – till date- been able to claim that they have been successful in wiping out complaints in entirety. This is where we should actually acquaint ourselves with mobile network boosters. And, the best way to make the most of these “life savers of sorts” is to learn about them in the first place. That’s exactly what we will be

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What the Schools DON'T Teach You

Nobody will question that the purpose of school is to educate us and to prepare us for a successful future. But why, then, don't schools teach us some of the most important skills and lessons of life? Like what, you may ask? 1. The dangers of credit cards and other debt, for example. Think ...

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How to Ace the Interview

How to Ace The 2010 Interview Common sense would tell us that a job interview whether for your first employment out of school or for CEO of a NYSE company, requires planning and research. This same famous - common sense - tells us that holding a seashell to our ear retains the sound of the ocean. Scientists disagree. Many believe you are hearing the sound of your own blood moving through your ear’s arteries and veins. Maybe not. Some scientists explain that the seashell (by the seashore) is really a resonating chamber.

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Do Inquirying Minds Know this?

Do Inquiring Minds Know This? A hobby that feeds my sense of curiosity is collecting facts and definitions nobody else knows or cares about. Statistics 1. The human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels for circulation. If you Google it, scientific research papers quote this number for the past decade. How do they know? Vas You Dere Sharlie? That’s almost three-times around the planet. We must be very important entities. 2. Our lungs are filled with Alveoli – tiny air sacs that exchange rncarbon dioxide for oxygen. Good idea.

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How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought?

How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought? Do you have to understand the science of electricity, electrons and protons, in order to turn on the lights in your room, your TV or computer? Click the button, throw the switch, or wave your hand, right? If the public had to pass a test on how the internal combustion engine turns gas into driving, our highways would be huge parking lots, true? What Do You Make of These Scientific Statements 1. “Matter does not exist – it is all vibrational frequencies.”

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"What's the Secret of Convincing a Group?"

What’s The Secret of Speaking to a Group & Convincing Them? My teenager Michael, asked me to help him improve his Talk for Class President. • 1. “Mike, there are two-things that rivets our attention other than Ben Franklins ($100) falling from the sky.” • 2. “In my circles $10 bills would do it, Pop.” • 3. “The sound of our own name, and the words, “You-Your-Yours”, meaning ourselves, right?” • 4. “Sure, we are in love with ourselves, and I get interested in anything that will make my life easier & better.”

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"Are You Saying We Read With Our EARS?"

“Are you Saying We See With our EARS?” • 1. “I showed my teenager Mike, this new scientific research that came to a weird conclusion about how we SEE. • 2. “Pop, I don’t get it. We don’t just see with our eyes, the retina part, they say past experience and our expectation change the visual info, huh?” • 3. “That’s why I’m showing to you. It is weird science. Should you believe it? Yes, neuroscientists for the last 5-years have been saying that Reading is Hearing overriding just Seeing.”

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Keeping Yourself and Team Motivated

Keeping yourself and your team motivated Motivating employees is vital if employers are to achieve maximum performance, productivity, loyalty and levels of engagement. Motivation is not just a management tactic; it’s a personal responsibility in any individual’s life. In business the overall ...

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Jim Rohn Lives

Jim Rohn Lives Do you believe in the power of personal growth and lifelong change for the better? Wait. That you can improve your core knowledge and personal experiences up to age 93? Well, maybe? Now please read on. December 10, 2009: neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Timothy Keller and Marcel Just submitted their research to be published in the Neuron jou al. The human brain can physically rewire itself through 100 hours of intensive rninstruction. Yes Virginia, you can fix broken brain circuits by behavioral training. So what?

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Did You Know This One?

Did Ya Know This One? Play along with me – which of these motivators beats the rest to excite executives? a) Money b) promotions c) respect d) personal satisfaction Wait. One got 45% rating; the runner up got 29%, next motivator got 18%, and last and maybe least, got only 5%. Credibility: the leading Personnel and executive search company – Monster.carnsurveyed 6,624 unrelated corporate personnel. So What You deal with peers and have personal relationships, right?

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28 Minutes To Faster Reading

www.speedread.org Talk about research - we went to Hawaii. It was 1999 we did a little research program to verify the effectiveness of our speed reading program. It was done in a small town in Hawaii, on Maui, where education wasn't that good and students certainly needed to read more effectively. The students received McDonald's Happy Meals for participating in the research project. McDonald's was a happy sponsor of my courses in Hawaii, and they have been extremely supportive of educational improvement around the world.

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Which Came First, Gestures or Speech, And Who Cares?

Which Came First, Speech or Gestures, And So What? Adults are learners too, so how do we get our point across (comprehension) without sounding like a dominating school teacher? If you visit your doctor and he says your x-rays are Benign, you are a lot happier than if he says the results are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal.

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Better Comprehension With Speed Reading

People sometimes get frustrated because they fall behind when reading and learning due to the huge amounts of reading material they must absorb for school or work. So many books are being written worldwide, that readers sometimes have difficulty keeping up with the production of fiction and non-fiction works. It can be really amazing trying to keep up with it all " dont you think.

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I Dare You

I Dare You To Use the “D” Word With Someone If President Obama used the “D” word on TV – he would be impeach by the following week. I didn’t say convicted – but surely impeached. See, the House of Representatives is the Grand Jury and the Senate does the actual trial. Don’t get nervous about the economy tanking, the stock market dumping two-thousand points or losing your personal source of revenue – it will never happen. How come? It is a Conspiracy of Intelligent Folks not to use the “D”. We all know that saying so does NOT make it so.

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ANTs Verses APTs Are Powerful Stuff

ANTs Verses APTs is a Head Thing Some people pick-up the strategies, techniques and tactics of Speed Reading in 20-minutes, others in 2-hours, some, in five-hours. Still others take up to “one-week” to feel comfortable with using Speed Reading 101.org We are all different based onrnthe ‘self-talk’ going on in our mind about “new-stuff”. Scientific Facts: a) we humans have an average of 60 thousand thoughts pass through our mind DAILY. One-per second. b) 95% of these thoughts are a repeat from yesterday, and the day-before. They’re an almost daily occurrence.

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Can We be Too Skeptical?

Can We Be Too Skeptical? Has your view about President Obama stayed the same since January 21st 2009, or moved under the wheels of the bus? How about some hard numbers by the poll with the most credibility? The public perception on President Barack Obama on January 21, ’09 was arn(wow!) 70% approval rate. The latest Gallup poll reports a lead weight drop to 50%. What about the Disapproval figures? The Gallup Disapproval statistic has motored uptown from 10% to 42%.

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Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule

Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule Do we see reality as it is, or as we feel at the time? Don’t we all believe that we are objective - while others are emotional? The world is right-brained and only I am rational and left-brained? Wait. In a scientific study of physicians – 90% stated confidently they were in the top 10% in knowledge and effectiveness. Aren’t half of them average? No one rated himself or herself in the lower half. They were shocked to lea 33% of them were ranked below average by their hospital administration

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Guided Reading Strategies For Kindergarten: How To Teach A 2 Year Old To Read

Guided Reading Strategies For Kindergarten: How To Teach A 2 Year Old To Read When you decide to teach your child to read, there will be many choices and decisions that you will have to make; when I decided to home school my son, and by extension to teach him to read, there are many things that I wish I had known beforehand. It took me a long time in my experiment to get my son to read by himself and I could have shortened my journey a lot if I had known any of the following:

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Be a Brainiac, And ACE Exams

Brainiacs Live For “Testing-Pops” to Ace Exams • The heart of Acing exams is not the text, but taking command of your emotions - first. Why? If you are human, you are stressed-out, full-of-tension, and in high anxiety. Your memory has gone South, and not to Miami. • Stop now, and take one-minute to close your eyes & take three (3) Diaphragmatic-Breaths, and exhaling, produce the sounds, “Hum-m, Hum-m, Hum-m, & Hum-m, on each breath. Why? • You switch from your agitated, Sympathetic Nervous System, tornyour relaxed, Parasympathetic Nervous System. Takes 45-our

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Boody Language is Your Competitive Advantage

Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

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Are Affirmations Worth Doing?

Are Affirmations Worth Doing? A poll of our graduates including 81% of corporate executives and 89% ofrncollege students absolutely hate daily rituals. They do not make a habit of daily prayer nor reciting positive statements to program their mind. Our research indicates there are very powerful benefits and results tornconsistent repetition of affirmations. Like what? Money, creativity, health, and improved relationships. Affirmations appear to counterbalance daily chronic stress. So what?

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SPEED READING AND "ACT-AS-IF"

William James, professor at Harvard, (1842-1910d), at the turn ofnthe 20th century, is an American psychology icon. He has morenquotes attributed to him than Mark Twain. A century later hisnphilosophy of "act-as-if", stands up under fMRI (functional MagneticnResonance Imagery), as a valuable ...

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Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure?

Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure? When you were a little kid, you probably talked out loud to yourself. Maybe you had an invisible playmate. Perfectly normal. Today you hold internal dialogues, but they are silent. A survey of scientists indicates it is common to ask questions and discuss possibilities between yourself, you, and your shadow. We test our ideas internally, even before make written or word processing notes. Problem/Solution is a standard format.

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Do we have Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us?

Are There Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us? You probably know Home sapiens come with a switchboard between our left and right brain to process new sensory information. Remember its name and you win arnprize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A sessions with one or more of our five (5) Section Chiefs in order to problem-solve make important decisions, reading and thinking.

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2012 - The Mayan Prophesy

Roland Emmerich's film 2012 caused a big hullaballoo, and all the disaster-po films we've been seeing for the last 50-60 years or so is scaring the heck out of viewers. So badly are they scared of the end that they are watching the same movies of disaster, over and over, with different actors, different titles, and different producers - all aimed to scare you and empty your pockets. The World Isn't Coming To An End, it's just Hollywood, trying to make a buck. Let's get real. Let's discuss some of the issues:

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Speed Reading Has No Use Without Comprehension

Speed reading is a skill that is frequently overlooked. This skill is one that can help any range of people including students, proofreaders, and corporate executives. There is a proven correlation between increasing the rate of which you read to the rate of comprehension. Which means the faster you can read the more you comprehend the material and the slower your read the more you can suffer from lack of comprehension. nnAfter reading a large book or block of text most peopl

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Learn To Always Read Faster

How would you like to remember 90% of what you read from anything: the newspaper, your favorite novel, business reports, your child's MySpace blog? How would you like to be able to read faster? Perhaps you'll even read 3x faster and still remember almost everything you read! How would you like this to happen in just one single hour? Impossible? Not hardly! With Speedread America's Speed Complete Speed Reading Method, hundreds of thousands of people have done just that!

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What's The One-Change?

What’s The One-Change You Can Make to Improve Motivation-to Win? If you want people to take action, be induced and incentivize, do this one thing. This applies to a physical goal like finishing a game successfully. Most of us quit in the middle of effort because we get distracted or bored. This single-change applies to improving the results of sales and marketing people. It also works to keep folks from deleting (75% quit before the end) while waiting for a download. If you are interested in persuasion, influence or convincing (including lawyersr

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"Brainiacs: Inspiration Triggers Your Goals"

“Brainiacs Say: Inspiration Attracts Your Goals” • 1. “Michael, want to start every day like a Brainiac?” • 2. “Pop, Is it quick & easy, I’m still recovering from the weekend?” • 3. “You already know HOW to do it. It just arranging the steps into a strategy that wins you your goals. OK?” • 4. “If I fall asleep, don’t embarrass me, right?” • 5. “When you get interested in learning more, your brain goes into Beta brainwaves of alertness & arousal, and you cannot drift off. Please answer this.

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Can Specific Words Change Your Body's Behavior?

(Don’t Laugh) - Can Specific Words Change Your Body’s Behavior? The latest neuroscience research makes skeptics nervous. And you and I are both skeptics, right? The normal (standard) mind-body connection for interpersonal communication is? All information transfer between humans is managed by our five (5) senses. If I cannot see, hear, touch or feel it, smell or taste it – I don’t accept it. Now that’s standard science like cause-and-effect. Maybe not.

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Lesson In Speed Reading

PACING: Various hand movements can cause acceleration of reading speed. We are about to introduce you to several hand movements that will accelerate your reading ability. Try each one and see which suits you best. BASIC PACING: The basic pacing movement utilizes the index finger of your dominant hand, i.e. right handed use right hand, to scan a line by running your finger under the type you are reading. Turn the page with the unused, non-dominant hand. Never move your head when reading, keep it still.

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How to Read-And-Remember 300-pages-daily

“How You Can Read-&-Remember 300-pages-daily - Like JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter.” • 1. Bill Gates: “What I want? To be able to read, superfast!” • 2. Warren Buffet: “I’ve wasted ten (10) years reading slowly.” • 3. My partner, Evelyn Wood, the creator of Speed Reading, trained the White House Staffs of four U.S. Presidents. • 4. We signed an agreement with JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter - Not to Advertise that each of these four Presidents took our “SpeedReading” workshops.

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Who Has The Right Skills?

What Are The Right Skills For Both Job Hunting And Career Promotions? Even though you are working or self-employed, we believe success is a life-long learning-game. Google: New York Times on 7.02.2010: Jobs Go Begging in The Hunt For the Right-Skills. So What, Who Cares, I am OK What are the Right-Skills anyway? Keep it simple – Simon. Basic skills means your can read and do arithmetic at a 9th grade level. Sure, it isrnharder than that TV show – Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, but the test for basic skills is not looking for a reinca ation of Al Einstein.

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What Is Your Competitive Edge?

What Is Your Competitive Advantage? Bank of America is repaying the U.S. Treasury its $45 billion TARP loan. What does TARP stand for? A recent survey found only 5% could define the Acronym (word from first letters of words) – Troubled Asset Relief Program. So what? Who cares? Is the ability to learn a power skill in our Knowledge Economy? Maybe more so than the 1920s when 50% of the U.S. economy was based on agriculture? B of A went to the equity market and raised $19.29 billion for this governmentrnpayoff, the rest they had in their piggy bank.

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Chiasma Means Crossing, So What?

Chiasma Means The Opposite Side, But Who Cares? Wanna be in-the-know about a two-minute exercise to instantly wake up your learning skills and long-term memory? Wait. Dornyou have trouble getting invigorated and creative at 9 am? Do you suffer from the 2 pm blues when your brain is running on empty rnand half-asleep? Forget about a learning curve and six-months to master the complicated steps, this baby-easy exercise makes you feel like Superman on steroids. Insomnia A week ago we gave the secrets of Instant-Sleep to our readers. The knowledge

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Speed Reading Simplified

Readers are leaders and in this article you will learn several simple to implement Speed Reading Secrets that will assist you in efficiently absorbing all that information out there.nnFirst Speed Reading Secret!nnBefore we begin, here's a concept that you MUST understand about speed reading: shaving just a fraction-of-a-second off every page that your read will create a HUGE difference in your reading rate.nnEven if you were able to shave just 1 second off the time it takes y

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What's New About Your Left and Right Brain?

Can B-I-N-G-O Brainwash Homo sapiens? Have you noticed that newspapers and magazines are going belly-up? Statistics are very persuasive 1. More than 105 newspapers have crashed and burned in 2009. 2. Ten thousand jobs in jou alism have ceased and desisted in ’09. 3. National print ad sales have hemorrhaged up to 30%. Classified ads, the blood and heart of profits have shifted to Craig’s List. 4. Circulation has descended about 11% and dropping like a boulder. Where Are The Eyes Going Get this: 73% of U.S.

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Boody Language is Your Competitive Advantage

Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

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What's The GAP and What good is it"

“What’s The “GAP” in your lower-abdomen (sacral) area?” • 1. “I dunno, & I don’t care much, wait, should I?” • 2. “Would you like to access pleasure, knowledge, and be in the ‘mood’ for s-e-x, at your will? How about Acing exams, and retrieving long-term memories?” • 3. “Anything else, like making a million dollars by 12 noon? When it’s too good to be true…” • 4. “This GAP knowledge is ancient, maybe 3,000 years old. Here’s the trick, it is known by ‘few’, and implemented by ‘less’. Do we agree YOU do a mind-experiment and then judge?”

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If You Have An Index Finger - You Are Equipped To Speed Read

You already own the greatest reading acceleration device that has ever been developed. It is simply your hand that will help you read faster. People have spent thousands of dollars attempting to increase their reading speed. But no inventions or machines can do what your hand and your pacing finger can do for you to improve your reading speed -- once youve been trained in our 4 special techniques.

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Book Review: Speed Reading for Professionals

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Speed Reading .Speed Reading is a reading technique that allows for the assimilation of several words or phrases at a glance. Ed Caldwell is The Official Guide to Speed Reading . Speed Reading for Professionals , by H. Bernard Wechsler and Arthur Bell, is a valuable resource for people interested in Comprehension Reading Strategies , and it is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble . n Barron's Business Succes

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Improve Yourself And Save Money With Speed Reading

Everyone is trying to save money these days. Finding bargains is quickly turning into the Western worlds favorite pastime. A close second is doing anything that one can to make oneself invaluable to his or her employer. What would you pay for that next promotion? What would you pay to practically guarantee a raise? In this days global financial market, what would you pay for simple job security?

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Stop Scaring Me

Even one dose of morphine given to soldiers inhibits (blocks) the ability of the brain to form new memories for learning up to a thirty-days. But you are not a soldier,nso who cares? One dose of an opioid prescription drug can block your brain from strong memory and learning for up to a month. ...

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What is The Buzzing of The Bees?

The Secret strategy of Buzzing of The Bees We trained a NYC atto ey 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?

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Have A Dynamic Long-Term Memory

DYNAMIC SPEED READING becomes a part of long-term memory. We believe this is caused by intense concentration. Intense concentration causes the altering of states of consciousness which, in turn, accesses long-term memory. Another factor is photographic or tape recorder memories where you see pictures or hear conversations. You really can remember everything you have ever seen or heard, even if you weren't focused. Your brain/mind, works like a camera, an audio recording device, and a computer, storing all memories and computer data.

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