Overwhelmed and under performing? Read this article, because there is relief in sight. Become the stress free individual who remembers, works, thinks and tests better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peak Performance and Working Memory

Information has overloaded you while technology races ahead of you. Yet some people thrive in this environment because they can extract meaning from surrounding confusion and then use it to achieve their goals. You Can become the individual who remembers, works, thinks and tests better.

 

Such individuals are peak performers because of their remarkable working memory capacity. They have developed the ability to draw inferences and to understand the relationships of various concepts, independent of acquired knowledge. They evaluate and place large amounts of data in their working memory, from which they discard what is unimportant, select what is important, and apply it to the task at hand in a creative way. Increased competence and confidence destroys stress. They make good decisions.

They have learned how to cultivate and tap into the full scope of their raw brainpower and you can too.

 

Working Memory

Working memory has been defined as your ability to hold information in mind while manipulating it to achieve a cognitive goal. There is such a substantial variation in working memory capacity between individuals that working memory capacity accounts for 70% of the differences between us in thought processes.

Whether you are reading, writing, speaking, listening, solving problems, playing an instrument, or just palin thinking, working memory comes into play.

Central to all human thought processes, your working memory can lose information easily through distraction or overload.  Those with poor capacities will struggle to meet the heavy working memory demands of daily living and on the job. Within that struggle lies the stress.

What Stress Can Do to You

1. Decision Making

A recent study from Nature Neuroscience has provided evidence that a reduction in the ability to keep a clear distinction between information to be stored in working memory and information that should be ignored and subsequently suppressed, is associated with poor working memory performance. Weak working memory translates to weak decision making. Hence working memory strength and not IQ might be the single most important factor in helping us stay on track with the correct life choices.

2. Poor Recall and Impaired Thinking

Impaired working memory is associated with an elevated level of cortisol. Cortisol is one of the body’s “flight or fight” hormones. When you are scared or stressed your body releases Cortisol into your blood stream. Cortisol causes the cells of your body to release sugar to use as fuel if you need to run, it speeds up your heart rate to get ready to run or fight. It is produced by your adrenal cortex, and Cortisol is a hormone that responds to anxiety by raising blood pressure. It increases blood sugar levels and weakens immune response.

There is a connection between your Cortisol levels and your cognitive performance. High Cortisol levels are connected with slowed down Working Memory performance at high loads, as well as impaired recall.

3. Impaired “Happy Chemical”Dopamine System

It is found that chronic stress at high loads impairs your Working Memory. It does so by influencing your dopamine system. Results indicate that chronic stress induces working memory impairment by influencing an area in your brain called the prefrontal cortex, to generate a reduced response in the dopamine system. This is an area of the brain that you can actually train to make yourself happy, or train to make yourself unhappy.

4. Impairment in Memory of Right Left Direction

Chronic stress induces impairment in your spatial (directional) working memory, because of the prefrontal cortex generating a reduced response in the dopamine system. Research indicates that stress inhibits the ability to remember and navigate.

What to Do About It

Cognitive training can help the biochemistry of the brain.

Psychologists until recently thought that attributes such as IQ, memory and problem solving were fixed traits of the individual. They were wrong. Strong new science now tells us that your brain has the life long faculty to step up your IQ, boost your focus and memory and give you a sense of well being. Brain Magic targets the brain’s built in ability to do that.

Brain Magic working memory training activates the very specific brain function which is key to your every conscious mental process.

You are not stuck with the brain that you were born with.

 

Quality of Life

Whether we are seniors, students or parents, we want to be smart, have success on exams and generally make high grades in life. We don’t want stress to make us underachieve and we don’t want stress to break us down.

With the Brain Magic protocol it is shown possible to increase working memory capacity 50% while increasing fluid intelligence (a composite brain capability involving processing speed, working memory and multi-tasking and higher order processing) by an average of more than 40%.

 

The Training

Brain Magic uses the most sophisticated and effective training protocol available. Its online training mode eases you through stages of progress and adjusts automatically to your growing skills. Your daily progress is graphed and you always know how you are doing. You will be excited at your progress and will want to forge ahead with the next level, but it is better to be patient. Do one day’s exercises and sleep on it. Consolidation of the gains that you have made takes place while you sleep. If you miss a day, don’t worry. Just pick up where you left off. The more you train the more you gain. And as the progressive training continues the gains continue.

At the recent 25th annual meeting of the AmericanAcademy of Pain Medicine, the keynote speaker presented an overview of “brain plasticity”, the newly understood capacity we have to change our own brains for the better.

He called this new understanding of our innate capacity to change our own brains as “the most important medical advance in 400 years”.

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Unexpected Side Effect: Makes You Happier

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