Archive for February, 2008
NeuroSky, Inc. announced today the launch of the first commercially available, “consumer-ready”, brainwave-controlled headset for the mass consumer market. The product, “MindSet™,” reads and interprets different mental states associated with the headset user and transmits that information wirelessly to various platforms. Utilizing NeuroSky’s fully-embedded, ThinkGear-EM™ technology, which manages the brainwave acquisition and interpretation chores, the MindSet communicates equally well with game consoles, PC’s and mobile platforms, including cell phones.
Stanley Yang, CEO of NeuroSky, believes that this technology adds the next layer of user interface control to video games: “We want to support the fourth-dimension in the gaming experience—incorporating the mental states of the player. When Tiger Woods hits a golf ball, there are certain mental preparations that he undergoes. We can build these aspects into the virtual game, as well!”
NeuroSky has been developing its business opportunities within various industries over the past two years. In 2006, NeuroSky launched its first developer’s tool, the “MindKit SDK”. In 2007, many companies became NeuroSky SDK users, including announcements from Sega Toys (Tokyo, Japan) and Musinaut (Paris, France). In March, 2008, NeuroSky will begin licensing its second generation development tool, the “MindKit-EM™”, based on the ThinkGear-EM technology.
“We looked at market research data about what would attract the general gaming population to not only use, but to purchase a brainwave-controlled headset,” said Mr. Yang. “Of course, pricing is always important, but other challenges faced by NeuroSky were that its products had to be simple to wear, aesthetically pleasing and have a ‘near zero’ learning curve. We kept it simple to encourage greater rates of adoption. Most people have never heard of this stuff, let alone used it. Unlike our competitors, we focused on simplifying the technology to its most basic element—a single sensor.”
The MindSet is available on a wholesale basis to NeuroSky’s OEM clientele.
About NeuroSky:
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, NeuroSky (www.NeuroSky.com) has developed cost-effective and “wearable” (dry) bio-sensor and signal processing technology specifically designed for end-use in the consumer market. NeuroSky is a producer of both bio-sensor component technology and off-the-shelf, commercial headsets available to OEM partners. NeuroSky’s products offer opportunities for its exclusive partners and developers to generate next generation applications for a wide array of solutions, including consumer electronics, health, wellness, education and training. The MindKit-EM™ SDK is currently available under its licensing plan. Marubeni Corp. is the licensed distributor of NeuroSky products in the Japanese market.
Klaus $3.6 Millions dollars meditation
Posted by: | CommentsI forgot to post a link to the exercise from Klaus about experiencing the feeling of having $ 3.6 Millions.
The page for the book about Love and Money is at http://k.livingonlove.com/book-money-is-love.shtml#Edited
and the meditation
http://livingonlove.com/money-is-love/meditation-1-experiencing-3.6mil.mp3 (5.3 Mb)
Thanks to Jasper to help with the grammar and spelling on this blog:) Gee…I need an editor:)
Creating reality and inner dramas
Posted by: | CommentsWhen I left Belgium for Spain I didn’t take much books, I have hundred of books but I was allowed only 30 Kg of luggages so I took computer stuffs and clothes and only 3 books. This is not a year of books reading it is a year of real world practice. I don’t need many books anyway. One of the book I took is Creating Money by Sanaya Roman and Duane packer strangely enough when I arrived here they sent their newsletter to tell me that I should read the book again and they are right I will create stuffs and I will use some of their techniques. Now, I don’t need much books lately I learned a lot from direct experiences for instance the self-acceptance technique I posted the other day is something I got while meditating.
My intuition also improved and I feel more connected to the higher self, if I want to go further with this I need more concentration so what I do now is learning to experience the silence.
I don’t listen to music, watch TV or listen to radio, I enjoy the natural noise of the sea and the birds that’s it.
Most people use these things music , TV and radio not because they are nice things but because they don’t want to face their inner dramas that make them feel bad, therefore music , TV and radio provide them with a point of distraction that allow them to go in life by ignoring them completely.
If my inner dramas have to show up at front of me I will observe them objectively as suggested by Hieu Doan, by observing them objectively I will probably see pain as pain but it might no longer equate to suffering. I have to say that in practical term I start my day with an exercise like Klaus $3,6 Millions dollars and I’m charged with a good feeling right at the beginning of the day and I have several exercises like this that I do during the day and I try to increase the feeling good each day so it does mean that on one side the bad feeling the inner dramas and all past hurts are diminishing on influence each day and that the feeling good are increasing each day. It is already reflected in the dreams I have at night.
Inner drama ?
If for instance when you are a child you had a parent that at some point gave up on you and left the house to never return , you might have at the time had a feeling of abandon, betrayal and anger, this experience and the feelings associate with are stored in the cells as electrical signals and as a result in your adulthood you might project this on any man or woman (depending what parent left) you meet and you will have your relationship never ever work, you will attract someone that will betray and abandon you, if you pay attention you can see it coming , you can always see it coming.
That’s why when it happens people often say, yes I knew it, it would happen that way.
It was your very own thinking patterns based your memories (the electrical signals) stored in your cells that caused to create the experience.
Thinking is that, it is only putting memories together to create experiences. Genius don’t do that, that why are called genius, they go for the new and the unknown.
EFT 
work so well because it helps to discharge these electrical signals in your system. However, you can change by putting positive thoughts in your mind and reinforcing them each day. If you attract poor partners you can reinforce the thought that you attract great partner loyal and all the stuffs that lacked it is important that if you do that you do it to the point you can have the emotion, because, that’s the intensity of the positive emotion that will determine the speed at which you get what you do want.
Many of you work with affirmations in a bland robot-like fashion, it can’t possible work that way, the emotion of what you want must be present to generate a new electrical signal that will be stored in your cells and that will override the past programming; does that make sense ?
You do not stop a forest fire with a glass of water. If you have a strong feeling of abandon associated with relationship then you have to create a strong positive feeling associate with relationship , a stronger emotional pattern.
Play with these concepts and see if they inspire you something.
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Creative And Noncreative Problem Solvers Exhibit Different Patterns Of Brain Activity
Posted by: | CommentsWhy do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are people who think creatively somehow different from those who tend to think in a more methodical fashion?
These questions are part of a long-standing debate, with some researchers arguing that what we call “creative thought” and “noncreative thought” are not basically different. If this is the case, then people who are thought of as creative do not really think in a fundamentally different way from those who are thought of as noncreative. On the other side of this debate, some researchers have argued that creative thought is fundamentally different from other forms of thought. If this is true, then those who tend to think creatively really are somehow different.
A new study led by John Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel University and Mark Jung-Beeman of Northwestern University addresses these questions by comparing the brain activity of creative and noncreative problem solvers. The study published in the journal Neuropsychologia, reveals a distinct pattern of brain activity, even at rest, in people who tend to solve problems with a sudden creative insight — an “Aha! Moment” — compared to people who tend to solve problems more methodically.
At the beginning of the study, participants relaxed quietly for seven minutes while their electroencephalograms (EEGs) were recorded to show their brain activity. The participants were not given any task to perform and told they could think about whatever they wanted. Later, they were asked to solve a series of anagrams — scrambled letters that can be rearranged to form words [MPXAELE = EXAMPLE]. These can be solved by deliberately and methodically trying out different letter combinations, or they can be solved with a sudden insight or “Aha!” in which the solution pops into awareness. After each successful solution, participants indicated in which way the solution had come to them.
The participants were then divided into two groups — those who reported solving the problems mostly by sudden insight, and those who reported solving the problems more methodically — and resting-state brain activity for these groups was compared. As predicted, the two groups displayed strikingly different patterns of brain activity during the resting period at the beginning of the experiment — before they knew they would have to solve problems or even knew what the study was about.
One difference was that the creative solvers exhibited greater activity in several regions of the right hemisphere. Previous research has suggested that the right hemisphere of the brain plays a special role in solving problems with creative insight, likely due to right-hemisphere involvement in the processing of loose or “remote” associations between the elements of a problem, which is understood to be an important component of creative thought. The current study shows that greater right-hemisphere activity occurs even during a “resting” state in those with a tendency to solve problems by creative insight. This finding suggests that even the spontaneous thought of creative individuals, such as in their daydreams, contains more remote associations.
EFT and Self-Acceptance
Posted by: | CommentsSteve Wells a EFT expert from Australia wrote one of the best EFT series about Self-Acceptance. I read it today and it was very inspirational. He wrote his journey toward a higher sense of self-acceptance and give EFT techniques to achieve the same.
He wrote about himself:
I typed the following:
I FULLY AND COMPLETELY ACCEPT MYSELF.
As I considered what associations I had to the idea of accepting myself I realised that the truth was I didn’t accept myself at all. I decided this was the issue that needed to be met head-on, not all those things I’d been amassing as reasons not to accept myself.
As I began tapping, I realised that underlying my non-self-acceptance was a fear that accepting myself was bad and would lead me down the path of ego. I also believed that if I accepted myself for all the things I had been doing that were wrong then I might not fix them. I might just continue to procrastinate and do things that weren’t really good for me. At a deeper level I also believed I was unacceptable to God.
So I tapped on these beliefs in both positive and negative form. I applied EFT to each negative belief by putting it into the set-up statement and repeating the full statement at every tapping point. As I tapped on each statement, I paid attention to the thoughts and feelings that came up with it and applied EFT to any negative and related beliefs that were elicited.
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I continued to explore my underlying fears. It seemed to me that too much self-acceptance could lead to me being ego-driven and making out that I was superior, like a god.
I applied EFT to this by putting it into the set-up statement and repeating it at every tapping point just as I had done with the previous belief statements (“Even though if I accept myself completely I will be unacceptable to God…” and; “Even though if I accept myself I’m making out that I’m superior…”)
I then thought: “Rubbish! I’m not making myself God by accepting myself. I’m merely revelling in what HE has created. Should not I love myself AND my neighbour AS myself? How can I love my neighbour as myself if I don’t love myself?”
Finally, after several more rounds of tapping, I had an intense realisation: “Accepting myself is NOT the same as ego taking over. God loves and accepts me unconditionally, I just haven’t accepted myself. Accepting myself IS good.”
And then a whole host of positive thoughts and feelings came rushing in. It was as if all the things I wanted to believe and knew were really true finally felt true. I felt I re-connected with my true purpose and all the barriers just melted away.
You can read more on the EFT website, his methods inspired me to work. I will do the same to work on wealth issues. How come I´m not millionaire already:-)
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