Archive for February, 2009
Synesthesia and genetic
Posted by: | CommentsAccording to Wikipedia , Synesthesia “is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.
In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored.”
Scientists have done research on synesthesia to find if a gene was responsible for the phenomenon. According to a recent CNN’s story they found out the following :
Brain scans have shown that people with synesthesia seem to have “cross-wiring” between brain regions, said Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego.
“Nobody really had the evidence pinning it down to specific genes in specific chromosomes, and I’m delighted to hear somebody’s done that,” Ramachandran said.
“Cross-wiring” was shown in a study led by J.A. Nunn at Goldsmiths College, London, which found that the visual areas of the brain were activated in response to sound in people for whom sound triggers color.
Given that a normal infant’s brain has excess connections between brain regions, one hypothesis is that synesthesia results when the genes that “prune” these connections away are mutated, Ramachandran said. In other words, people with synesthesia may have brain connections that would normally disappear at an early age.
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Brainsync winners – Trip to Granada
Posted by: | CommentsI’m taking a few days off, I go to Andalucia , I will be in Granada, I have never been there, I even do not know what this city looks like and I will also go to Malaga, for once, I will have the chance to visit Malaga, it has always been a transit place for me. I will be back next week, I wont post anything, I do not take my laptop.
The brainsync winners are Ally, Ava, Faisal, Henry, John, Derrick and Ikarius, please, choose your mp3 at Brainsync.com when I will be back next week I will send it to you. You can post your choice down here or you can email at louis.yagera AT gmail.com, I can check my gmail account from my ipod touch , you can also use the normal contact page .
Brainsync draw closed – winter meditation
Posted by: | Comments3 things
1 – Ok, I’m on lazy posting schedule lately, they are doing repair in my apartment and on top of that I’m also planning a short trip in the coming days. It leaves me little time for blogging in here.
I hope to return to normal posting frequency next week.
2 – Tomorrow, I will contact the people who will receive a free brainsync download of their choice . 
3 – I found a very nice music for meditation on Youtube , it is called “Relaxation and meditation: Winter Wonderland”, I like that kind of relaxing music. If you have snow in you area or if you like snow, you will probably able to relate to the relaxing pictures in the video clip.
Your constant thoughts form your reality
Posted by: | CommentsStory about the limiting belief : Interesting people are always taken
Nowadays, many women and men share a limiting belief about people availability. In men it often takes the form of the belief : Interesting or hot or beautiful women are always taken.
With women it often likes “Good guys or real men are always taken” or the worse form “Nowadays there is no longer any real men or good guys”. Sometime it has an age element a belief that younger is better or only the younger can secure an interesting man. Men have also something like this in the belief that to secure a so-called particularly beautiful or hot woman, a man needs to be rich or famous. Those are just belief systems. People with such beliefs create a reality that don’t serve them well and constantly reinforce it with their constant thoughts. It is a vicious circle because often they try to escape that belief system to only reinforce it, they will try to look for an interesting person that is single to only find out that the person is taken. It is not possible to be greater than your belief system, you do not create what you want, you create what you believe.
I have a story that illustrate this defeating strategy perfectly.
Two years ago, I met a woman that I nickname here Clarisse, I was still living in Belgium, Clarisse was interested in me and she asked me if I was single, I told her I was single.
Then she didn’t believe it, she said I must have someone somewhere. It telegraphed to me that Clarisse was quite insecure this turned me off. She had that belief that the people she is attracted to are taken and unavailable, She also believed that younger women were better than her. One time she saw my photostream on Flickr and she commented that I’m mostly with younger girls than her. In fact, she only focused on the pictures were I’m with younger folks and sometime also the folks that are my age look younger. Read More→
Radiating Love from the center of your being
Posted by: | CommentsThis exercise will work well for the people having experience with an energy work system (QT, EM, tai chi, chi gung, NEW, pranayama) otherwise, I’m not too sure of the effectiveness of this exercise.
Position yourself as comfortably as possible. I haven’t noticed any difference so far in the position as long as you can breath properly that will be fine. (If you need assistance to relax, you can use this site , it has a guided relaxation exercise)
Imagine that the you that you are in your totality is in the center of your being, you can say “I’m in the center of my being” as a guiding affirmation.
Do no try to locate the center of your being, just be there, it can be somewhere in your body in the center of your chest, between your eyes or anywhere else. It can even be outside of your body.
There is no need for a visual element, I perceive the center of my being as an empty space with no-thing around. However, if you feel more comfortable with visualization you can perceive the center of your being the way you want , may be, as a meadow or a park with a fountain, a beach….Let yourself be attracted by your personal symbol for the center of your being.
Use Abdominal breathing .
Inhale and on the inhale fill the center of your being with energy. On the exhale imagine the Love energy flowing out of the center of your being.
Imagine the flow of Love energy going in all the parts of your being this is your body and your thoughts. Chanting a OM after the exhale is also helpful. Do a few cycles of this until you have a sense of joy and/or tears of joy. This exercise work very well for me and bring me joy. I should have called this post “Activate your joy circuit” but I’m not sure yet how it will work for other people. Feedback will be very appreciated if you try this.
Note: If you are a Hieu Doan’s Meditation Mastery practitioner when you do the breathing position your hands above the navel. In the Meditation Mastery the “higher self” is channeled through the safe area of the navel chakra.
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