anything in life we need four things we
need more clarity more creativity more
resourcefulness and more smartness I
don’t know anybody who’s born with those
things they all need to be trained honed
and developed and that’s what my talk is
going to be about creating releasing and
generating more CCR s in your life and
the life of your pupils or mind I should
say now you’re probably wondering why
I’ve got my arms folded well I’d like
you to fold your arms right now please
and then fold them the opposite way or
at least try doesn’t it feel weird the
reason why it feels so weird is because
we normally do things a certain way but
when we start to try something new we
create new neural pathways and that’s
what this talk is going to be about
experimenting training new neural
pathways for you to develop more CCR s
I’ve got four letters I’d like to say to
you right now followed by a word and
when I’ve said this to you I’d like you
to shout it back to me as loud as you
feel comfortable and then at the end of
that I’m going to ask you a question
which I want to want you to answer as
quickly as possible here we go
P OTS pots P OTS pots P OTS pots P OTS
pots P OTS parts what do you do at a
green traffic light who said stop and by
the way if you’re at the light and
there’s somebody in front of you and
they don’t go it’s the person next to
you so what happened there well
essentially this what we are about to
think about is based upon what we’ve
previously been thinking about them so
again what we are about to think about
is based upon what we’ve previously been
thinking about we condition ourselves
into certain responses by what we have
in our minds prior to our thinking
process taking place so I’m going to go
through a few things with you right now
that you can use to enhance your CCR s
and use these things in your life and
the first thing is sleep
how would you sleep last night how about
the night before how about this week how
about this month
how would you sleep in general and
unless you have a medical condition
most people we find are living in sleep
debt they simply don’t get enough
quality sleep and you imagine you have a
problem to solve you have a challenge
that you’re trying to get over you’re
trying to be more creative you’re trying
to look for more clarity and you’re
trying to do it through an exhausted
tired mind well it’s not going to
function in the way that you want and a
recent report came out which stated this
is from the NHS but the number of under
14 year olds being admitted to hospital
for sleep related disorders has tripled
in the last ten years and it’s
predominantly down to tech the use of
smartphones and gadgets and tablets
before going to bed
so the first thing we can do to improve
our sleep is limit or stop altogether
using tech at least an hour before we go
to sleep I know it’s difficult and now
it’s a challenge but the tech gives off
the blue light effect which affects the
naturally occurring hormone of melatonin
so it’s going to start to activate the
mind it’s not just that as well of
course it’s the information that’s going
into your mind to the tech that you’re
interacting with but there’s a few
things that we can do to help firstly of
course is limiting that interaction the
next we can go through what I call a
whine down process before going to bed
and that doesn’t mean sitting on the
city yawning and nodding off on it to
wake up again to go to bed you can do
some light stretching some gentle
breathing you can listen to some soft
music
you could even give yourself a foot
massage or better still get someone else
to do it you also have to be very aware
of the information and the files that
you’re opening before you go to bed
because you’re going to take them into
the dream state whatever you have going
inside your mind before you go to sleep
you’re going to carry with you so you’ve
got to make sure it’s something
encouraging and something nourishing and
you also have to limit the amount of TV
that you watch before going to sleep I
mean you wouldn’t go to sleep after
watching a horror film would you mr.
hope you wouldn’t know would you go to
sleep after watching that film Fifty
Shades of Grey otherwise you could be up
all night the next thing is take mine
dressed or what I call active rest and
that works like this when you’ve got a
lot of studying to do when you’re trying
to generate and release more creativity
and clarity give your mind time to rest
let’s say you’re studying you use what I
call a fighter pilot technique imagine a
fighter pilot sitting in the cockpit has
got all these buttons and all these
instruments and all these gadgets just
to think about and process in fact his
very life depends on it but what he does
or she does is take a 40 second micro
nap
and what they do is they close our eyes
for 40 seconds focusing on their
breathing to disengage their brain from
all the things that having to think
about in process and then when they open
their eyes again it’s more relaxed and
they do this several times during any
mission you can also take a 20-minute
nap and the reason why I say 20 minutes
is because any longer than 20 minutes
your brain goes into the groggy zone so
20 minutes is the optimal time if you
want to take a nap if it’s appropriate
for you or you can do what I call
20-minute plus spike which means before
you go to sleep for 20 minutes you take
a drink of coffee because it takes
approximately 20 minutes for the
caffeine hit to kick in so by the time
you read your 20 minutes sleep you’re
awakened you’ve got that double turbo
boost
if caffeine is your thing the next thing
is visualization visualization is just
so powerful we all visualize but many
people visualize on the outcomes that
they don’t want and then they end up
pulling themselves towards them P times
V equals ooh P times V equals ooh
performance times visualization equals
optimal output highs so we all need to
practice visualizing the things that we
want I remember years ago I always
wanted to get the the ball in the basket
in the free shot in basketball but I
could never do it and the reason why I
couldn’t do it is because I would always
talk myself out of the ability I would
tell myself I couldn’t do it I would see
myself not doing it I would see my
friends and my peers laughing at me and
making jokes it’s only after I’ve
visualized that I started to improve I
would see myself getting the ball in the
net over and over and over again then 7
times out of 10 the ball went in the net
so visualize on the things that you want
not on the outcomes that you don’t want
next
something I call nutrition food for
now your brain takes up 2% of your total
body weight but uses 20% of your body’s
total energy so we’ve got to be feeding
our Matt our brains and our minds all
the time because our cells can’t store
the things that they need and the main
nutrients for the mind are glucose fats
and oxygen so ensure that your diet is
rich in b-vitamins milk cheese
particularly b12 also ensure that you’ve
got an omega-3 rich source such as
salmon sardines mackerel that kind of
thing and omega-6 which you can get from
the nuts and cereals you could also try
to spoon of honey before you go to sleep
at night and I’ve tried this on you I
use it on a regular basis and it works
wonderfully well because when you go to
sleep you’ve got to make sure that while
you’re asleep your brain is being
constantly fed it will help you process
all the information from the short-term
to the long-term memory while you’re
asleep and you’ll hopefully wake up with
more clarity and less grogginess you
could also try taking porridge oats for
breakfast start the day with breathing I
always start the day with a 4 by 4 times
7 ratio I breathe in for 4 I breathe out
for 4 and I do about 7 sets and other
things you can do is do some gentle
exercise take the dog for a walk or
something like this something to really
start to pump energy and oxygen in to
your brain the next thing is meditation
try meditation to help you create and
generate more clarity it’s been proven
through MRI scans that meditation is
uniquely powerful in the way that it
works and helps the mind now what I do
if I have a challenge or a problem that
I’m looking to overcome I’ll actually
bring that challenge or that problem
into my meditation so I’ll actually
meditate on the problem itself but what
makes it so unique is this
I’ll take away all the resistance nor
the negativity I have you know quite
often what keeps us from solving our
problems is the barriers that we create
and surrounding them
you know we create that language barrier
so I make sure that when I meditate I do
it through the eyes of clarity so a
belief and a feeling of neutrality to
ensure that I demand the answer to come
inside the meditation I say brain find
me the answer pull it out of the
meditation if quite often it happens so
try that next
something I call divergent thinking you
change your perspective you changed the
way that you look at things because when
you look at things in a different way
what you get back is different and
changes to imagine my fist was a
challenge or a problem that you are
having rather than just seeing things
from one dimension you see it from
different angles
you see it from above you see it from
below sometimes I imagine I’m actually
sitting inside the problem itself and
I’m looking out and then often the
solution appears because again I’m
seeing it from a different perspective
and ask yourself better questions
Einstein was a great asset of questions
one of the things he would ask was I
want to know the mind or the thoughts of
God
everything else is detail and a
brilliant and beautiful question
Einstein with us which I’ve adopted in
my life over and over again and I
recommend that you do the same he said
if I had an hour to solve a problem I’d
spend the first 55 minutes defining and
refining and asking the right question
and I want to finish right now by asking
you a question and if you know the
answer to this please keep silent and
allow other people to answer imagine
that you’re on a sinking rowboat
surrounded by sharks what do you do to
survive well you could say I’ll swim for
it I’ll hit them with the oars well you
don’t need to do anything like that all
because I put that idea in your head in
the first place so ensure that you are
planting the ideas and the thoughts that
you want to be there to create more
inspirational intelligence in your life
to take you and your brain and that of
your pupils further forward thank you
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