Increase IQ - 8 Minor Mental Modifications

There are hundreds of modifications a person can make to boost their mental faculties. However, there are a few simple steps which you can start using right now, that will help to increase your intelligence quotient going forward:

1. Use mind calming techniques such as deep breathing and good body posture.
It is important to keep a silent and calm mind which is free of anger, stress and worry. This is because negative emotional states are a good way to cloud the mind of the clear thought it requires to think properly. It also allows thoughts of inspiration to become more easily recognised. An example of a good technique would be to maintain a good exposure, and to practise deep breathing throughout your day. This is a simple step, i know, but it will have a profound effect on the quality of your thoughts.

2. Make a habit to think through things in a positive light.
When you think positively, you are helping your mind to seek out opportunity and see the abundance in life, instead of the lack. This will therefore help you to focus on solutions in a situation as opposed to problems. So when you look at a complex mental task, you should look at finding the solutions, instead of worrying about how complicated the problem is and getting bogged down this way. This is a simple step, but it will have a profound effect on the number of mental problems you can solve and how efficiently your brain runs.

3. Put pen to paper and write your experiences, goals and ideas down.
When you begin to write things down, you are using the creativity parts of your brain which will help you to generate even more ideas about the idea or situation in question. From this, you gain an additional perspective which may lead to profound insights or solutions to the situation at hand. Also, writing your ideas down is the best practise you can have, because it promotes self discipline of the body and mind. When you can learn to effectively discipline your body and mind, you will have control over it, and your life. Your life is controlled by the way you use your body and mind.

4. Get good sleep.
This sounds obvious but you would be horrified to hear how little step the majority of people actually get. Sleep is vitally important to maintaining optimal mental function and should never be underestimated under any circumstances because it is a fundamental component of life. Most people can do with 7-8 hours sleep, but others need much less time. Its important also that you get into sleeping routines so that you always wake up refreshed. This works infinitely better than always sleeping at different times every evening.

5. Prioritise your time.
We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and some of us will make maximum use of this time by moving towards our goals, and investing the needed time and energy towards them. However, for the majority of people, almost 40-50% of the day can go down in the bin as a straight loss, in that we waste our time doing idle and useless things. By prioritising your time, you can therefore extract much more from your mind, and make your mind efficient. When you use your time wisely, you are building the discipline to get on with the important things you need to perform to achieve your objectives, and make your mind more responsive to your commands for even more efficiency.

6. Change your beliefs.
When we believe a particular thing about a situation (whether it be true or not), we will tend to automatically see things from the perspective that the belief is true. In other words, what you believe, you will see as being true no matter what. So using this, if you believe that you are intelligent, smart and mentally sharp, you will become it. When you believe that you can do a certain thing with all sincerity and strength of faith, you will do it. The actual reasons for this are extremely complex yet profound to enhance our lives: basically, your beliefs can very easily penetrate the deeper subconscious mind, so we only see the world as being true dependant on our beliefs. To create mental efficiency is therefore about believing the right things (ie that we are smart, clever etc) to promote these things in our life. If instead you believe you are a mental failure, what do you think will happen?

7. Exercise your mental faculties.
There are loads of ways to exercise your brain: You can learn new things. Become creative. Do crosswords and puzzles, play chess, do maths in your head etc etc There are a million and one things you can do to maintain and boost your mental faculties. Just make sure that you do something mentally stimulating on a daily basis and your mental acuteness will remain throughout your life and through old age. Everyday, we can go through the grind of boring and mundane jobs which do not stimulate our mental faculties properly, so we should never assume that our jobs are enough to keep us mentally fit. We need to take charge of our lives, and ensure our mental fitness on a daily basis.

8. Use intelligence increasing techniques.
This is by far the easiest way to increase your IQ. There is no reason why you should let your dreams slip into the bin whilst others achieve them with ease and brilliance. You are entitled to achieve your goals as much as anybody else. You still have the time to make an investment in yourself. When you have the discipline and desire to increase your intelligence, you will learn that your discipline and desire will build on top of its self to create a huge furnace of desire to reach your goal.

What To Expect
When you implement these simple steps to make an investment in yourself, you are opening the path to greater intelligence. Not only will you become more alert and focused throughout your day, but you will have a greater quality of life by which you can strive to achieve your dreams.
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Inspirational Writing #16

Lose this day loitering, 'twill be the same story,tomorrow, and the next more dilatory,
For indecision brings its own delay and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days,
Are you in earnest, seize this very minute, what you can do, or think you can, begin it.
Starting has genius, power and magic in it.
Take one step and the mind grows heated; begin it and the task will be completed.
Since the hardest part is always the start, a task begun is more than half done.

~ Goethe

Conquer Your World

But before you can do that you must conquer yourself. Only by conquering yourself first you can conquer everything else. You must conquer every feeling inside of you. You must conquer every sensation. Anger, love, hate, hunger, lust, boredom, euphoria and jealousy and passion….. and everything else that will pull and push you every day of your life. And how you can conquer your world? You do that by having courage.

You must develop the courage to conquer yourself. You must have the courage to stand-up to yourself. You must have the courage to be tough on yourself. You must have the courage to dream. You must have the courage to love others. You must have the courage to face the things that frustrates, things that requires drudgery to complete. And how you develop courage? You develop courage by perseverance.

By persevering you can overcome any challenges you face. You can triumph if you do not give up. You will win if you keep going.

To conquer your world, you must conquer yourself. To conquer yourself, you must have courage. And you develop courage by persevering. Thus, to conquer your world you must have perseverance.

Validation

Do not seek validation. You are the best judge of your own deeds. Seeking validation will make you weak and dependent. It has the power to demotivate and make you do things you don't want to do. It takes a strong person to achieve this but you must strive not to seek validation.

Learn to be your own judge. Learn to do your best at all times. Seek only to be effective and efficient. Seek to only please a higher power than mere humans.

Do Not be Intimidated

The big boys will try to intimidate you. Don't ever display fear.

In life, the big will always try to bully the small. And the big does it, among other others, by intimidating. Intimidation comes in many forms, some of it loud and clear, others quiet and subtle. Recognize it, and deal with it. Do not fear it, because that what intimidation is all about, instilling fear. The moment you show that you cannot be pushed around by fear, intimidation against you will stop. You see, a dog that barks rarely bites.

If you fear is real, then face it by pretending you have no fear.

Self Esteem and Behaviour

The following is a summary of the basic approach of the self in true experience and creation of human understanding as written by Clark E. Moustakas.

1. The individual knows himself better than anyone else.

2. Only the individual himself can develop his potentials.

3. The individual's perception of his own feelings, attitudes, and ideas is more valid than outside diagnosis can be.

4. Behaviour can best be understood from the individual's own point of view.

5. The individual responds in such ways as to be consistent with himself.

6. The individual's perception of himself determines how he will behave

7.Objects have no meaning in themselves. Individuals give meanings, reality to them. These meanings reflect the individual's background.

8. Every individual is logical in the context of his own personal experience. His point of view may seem iilogical to others when not understood.

9. As long as the individual accepts himself, he will continue to grow and develop his potentialities. When he does not accept himself, much of his energies will be used to defend rather than explore and to actualize himself.

10. Every individual wants to grow toward self-fulfillment. These growth strivings are present at all times.

11. An individual learns significantly only those things which are involved in the maintenance or enhancement of self. No one can force the individual to permanent or creative learning. He will only learn only if he wills to. Any other type of learning is temporary and inconsistent with the self and will disappear as soon as the threat is removed.

12. Concepts, ideas, symbols, and events can be denied or distorted but experience is experienced in the unique reality of the individual person and cannot be untrue to itself. If it threatens maintenance or enhancement of self, the experience will be of little relevance or consequence to the individual though it may temporarily stifle further growth.

13. We cannot teach another person directly and we cannot facilitate real learning for another person in the sense making it easier. We can make learning for another possible by providing the information, the setting, the atmosphere, materials, resources, and by being there. The learning process itself is a unique individualistic experience. It may be a difficult experience for the individual person even if it has significance for the enhancement of self.

14. Under threat the self is less open to spontaneous expression; that is, is more passive and controlled. When free from threat the self is more open, that is, free to be and to strive for actualization.

Inspirational Poem #1

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill

Be a scrub in the valley--but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway some happier make;

If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,

There's something for all of us here.

There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,

And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can't be the sun be a star;

It isn't by size that you win or you fail--

Be the best of whatever you are!

Douglas Malloch.