"The Real Skill is Learning How Not to Kill Them"
By admin | July 6, 2007
The Incredible Power of Chi and Dim Mak (the death touch)
This is an incredible video where the soul practitioner of Dim Mak shows his phenomenal powers of controlling and channeling Chi.
What’s Chi?
Chi can be seen as ‘life energy’ that flows through the human body. In the Asian system of martial arts, chi is directed by will-power to specific points of the body, resulting in apparently paranormal feats of strength and control.
What Does the Dim Mak Master Do in this Video?
“He strikes down a person with a single blow by focusing his energy on pressure points . . . the real skill is learning how not to kill them”
Through mind control and channeling of Chi, the master summons Yang Chi from up above and Yin Chi from the ground into his own body; then he’ll focus this great energy field into throwing single blows with mindblowing power.
He Will Strike You Down!
What do you think to the video?
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Yoga Meditation States
By admin | June 26, 2007
Staggering Video on Yoga Meditation States
In this staggering video Ken Wilber can stop his brainwaves in an instance and go into a number of yoga meditation states. There are several states of Yoga meditation including nirvikalpa closed eyes, nirvikalpa open eyes, sahaj, and mantra-savikalpa that Ken brilliantly demonstrates.
In this video is the famous EEG machine recording where Ken enters various meditative states, one of which is a type of “thoughtless,” “image-less,” or “formless” state, whose correlate is that his brainwaves come to an almost complete stop, as clearly recorded on this portable electroencephalograph (EEG) machine.
The brainwave machine shows Ken going from Beta, to Alpha and Theta levels of mind.
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Interrogation Methods
By admin | June 20, 2007
Interrogation Methods - How Hard is it to tell a lie Backwards?
The latest research on interrogation methods has shown that criminals find it much harder to recreate the lie they have just fabricated in reverse. This can now be a very effective interrogation method that many police forces and other organizations are choosing to adopt.
These new interrogation methods may prove to be more effective than the signs we give away via body language.
Tell Tale Signs of Lying from Body language
- Hand touching the face
- Scratching your nose
- Not making eye contact
All you people that have anything to hide watch out for these new interrogation methods!
Can the suspect tell his story backwards? If not, he’s lying
A cunning new method of dragging the truth from criminals may be on the horizon, thanks to research by university psychologists.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth claim that the best way to spot a lie is to make the suspect repeat his or her version of events in reverse order.
In a £136,000 project, the researchers worked on the theory that it takes more effort to make up a story than it does to tell the truth. A subject asked to repeat a concocted series of events in reverse order would be under too much of a strain, they claimed, and would make mistakes.
Detectives use many psychological tricks to trip up liars. These betray obvious signals from shifting uncomfortably in a seat, through stumbling over words to failing to make eye contact.
Another interview strategy used, the baseline method, requires investigators to note the way a suspect reacts to small talk before an interview compared with how he reacts to penetrating questions.
Finally there is the behavioural analysis strategy (BAI), in which interviewers compare the body language of liars and those telling the truth to set a list of questions.
Researchers asked 290 police officers to examine the interviews of 255 students who were given true and false details to use in their answers.
Traditional police interview methods were used in the study, and in those that employed the reverse order tactics – described as “cognitive load interviews” – the interviewer asked the suspects to recall a series of events from the most recent backwards.
Officers were less likely to detect the liars when traditional methods were used in the interviews but were more likely to detect lies when the subjects were asked them to recall events in a reverse order.
The researchers, whose study, Interviewing to Detect Deception, was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, believe that serial criminals are so well versed in police interviews that they know how to dodge the psychological tricks. But the reverse order method imposes an additional mental stress on liars.
Professor Aldert Vrij, one of the researchers, said: “Those [police officers] paying attention to visual cues proved significantly worse at distinguishing liars from those telling the truth than those looking for speech-related cues.
“In another experiment, liars appeared less nervous and more helpful than those telling the truth contrary to the advice of the BAI strategy.
“Certain visual behaviours are associated with lying, but this doesn’t always work. Nor is comparing a suspect’s responses during small talk, and then in a formal interview, likely to be much help.
“Whether lying or telling the truth, people are likely to behave quite differently in these two situations.
“Evidence also suggests that liars are concerned about not being believed, and so are unlikely to come across as less helpful than truthful people during interview. If anything, guilty people are probably even keener to make a positive impression. All of this makes the investigator’s job very difficult.”
Trying the reverse order tactic worked much better. . .
“Unlike truth-tellers, liars tend to tell their stories in a strict chronological time order and diverting from this order may well be too difficult for them to do,” Professor Vrij said.
“Lying takes a lot of mental effort in some situations, and we wanted to test the idea that introducing an extra demand would induce additional cues in liars. Analysis showed significantly more nonverbal cues occurring in the stories told in this way and, tellingly, police officers shown the interviews were better able to discriminate between truthful and false accounts.”
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Positive Changes from Hypnosis
By admin | June 20, 2007
Positive Changes from Hypnosis are now being increasingly recognized by scientists. It has been proven by research that hypnosis really does have large effects on your mind. This means, for example, hypnosis can be used to reduce pain in medical treatment, such as cancer treatments.
In fact recently it has been used instead of administering anaesthetics for a number of medical procedures.
Hypnosis really changes your mind
from the New scientist
Hypnosis is more than just a party trick, it measurably changes how the brain works, says a UK researcher.
Hypnosis significantly affects the activity in a part of the brain responsible for detecting and responding to errors, says John Gruzelier, a psychologist at Imperial College in London. Using functional brain imaging, he also found that hypnosis affects an area that controls higher level executive functions.
“This explains why, under hypnosis, people can do outrageous things that ordinarily they wouldn’t dream of doing,” says Gruzelier, who presented his study at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival in Exeter, UK.
The finding is one of the first to indicate a biological mechanism underpinning the experience of hypnosis. Gruzelier hopes it will also benefit emerging research showing, for example, that hypnosis can help cancer patients deal with painful treatments.
Highly susceptible
Gruzelier and his colleagues studied brain activity using an fMRI while subjects completed a standard cognitive exercise, called the Stroop task.
The team screened subjects before the study and chose 12 that were highly susceptible to hypnosis and 12 with low susceptibility. They all completed the task in the fMRI under normal conditions and then again under hypnosis.
Throughout the study, both groups were consistent in their task results, achieving similar scores regardless of their mental state. During their first task session, before hypnosis, there were no significant differences in brain activity between the groups.
But under hypnosis, Gruzelier found that the highly susceptible subjects showed significantly more brain activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus than the weakly susceptible subjects. This area of the brain has been shown to respond to errors and evaluate emotional outcomes.
The highly susceptible group also showed much greater brain activity on the left side of the prefrontal cortex than the weakly susceptible group. This is an area involved with higher level cognitive processing and behaviour.
Stage hypnotists
Gruzelier concludes that, under hypnosis, these brain areas are having to work much harder to achieve the same cognitive task results. “This is confirming our model of hypnosis with very direct evidence of brain function,” he says.
Peter Naish, at the UK’s Open University, says this moves the understanding of hypnosis away from the popular misconceptions created by showy stage hypnotists.
“We have a technique that has now moved towards evidence-based treatments,” he says. “Gruzelier’s work is showing for sure that the brain is doing quite different things under hypnosis than in normal everyday existence.”
Clinical trials of therapeutic hypnosis are starting to confirm its potential benefits. Christina Liossi, a psychologist at the University of Wales in Swansea, recently conducted a study of 80 cancer patients aged 6 to 16.
She found that those under hypnosis experienced far less pain during treatments than control children, who simply talked to the researchers normally.
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Remote Viewing Tutorial
By admin | June 19, 2007
The Ultimate Remote Viewing Tutorial
We’re serving you up the Ultimate Remote Viewing Tutorial in our initial post on this relatively unknown phenomenon. Virtually anyone can learn remote viewing. You don’t need to be “psychic” to successfully remote view, but it does require training and diligent practice. Here at Mind Power System we want to set you off on the road to learning how to remote viewing so we’ve provided you with 10 invaluable resources.
10 Great Resources in your Ultimate Remote Viewing Tutorial
The Basics
Articles
- Ed Dames Exclusive Interview on Remote Viewing
- Remote Viewer Lead to Capture of Saddam?
- Remote Viewing A Terrorist Attack
- UK Military Admits to Remote Viewing Experiments
Institutes
Learning
- Straightline Remote Sensing (free online exercises)
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Lucid Dreaming - Lucid Dreaming History?
By admin | June 19, 2007
Lucid Dreaming History - It’s certainly not a Modern Phenomenon
Lucid Dreaming History actually dates way back, as far as 415 AD. The history of lucid dreaming is extremely colorful as you’ll now doubt see. It’s only really been heavily in the public spotlight for the last couple of decades but there’s no doubt it’s been practiced throughout time by numerous people - the term ‘Lucid dreaming’ was actually coined in 1913 by Frederik van Eeden.
The History of Lucid Dreaming
St. Augustine of Hippo
- In the fifth century, a very early example of lucid dreaming is in a letter written by St. Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD
8th Century Yoga
- As early as the eighth century, Tibetan Buddhists were practising a form of yoga supposed to maintain full waking consciousness while in the dream state.
Sir Thomas Browne
- An early recorded lucid dreamer was the philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682). Browne was fascinated by the world of dreams and stated of his own ability to lucid dream in his Religio Medici:
“… yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof;”
Dreams and How To Guide Them (1867)
- Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys was probably the first person to argue that it is possible for anyone to learn to dream consciously. In 1867, he published his book Les Reves et les Moyens de Les Diriger; Observations Pratiques (Dreams and How to Guide them; Practical Observations), in which he documented more than twenty years of his own research into dreams.
Lucid Dreaming - Coined
- The term “lucid dreaming” was coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article A Study of Dreams.This book was highly anecdotal and not embraced by the scientific community. The term itself is considered by some to be a misnomer because it means much more than just “clear or vivid” dreaming.[17] A better term might have been “conscious dreaming”. On the other hand, the term ‘lucid’ was used by van Eeden in its sense of ‘having insight’, as in the phrase ‘a lucid interval’ applied to someone in temporary remission from a psychosis, rather than as referring to the perceptual quality of the experience, which may or may not be clear and vivid. To that extent van Eeden’s phrase may still be considered appropriate.
The Senoi
- In the 1950s the Senoi hunter-gatherers of Malaysia were reported to make extensive use of lucid dreaming to ensure mental health, although later studies refuted these claims.
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Is My Mind Playing Tricks on Me?
By admin | June 19, 2007
My Mind Playing Tricks on Me - Ultimate Optical Illusions
Great Video which shows how your Mind can Play massive Tricks on you
So Is My Mind Playing Tricks On Me? What do we truly know about our own consciousness? Can we believe our own eyes? Is everything we see to be believed? The majority of the time we can believe what we’re seeing but every know and then my mind will fill in the blanks and play tricks on me.
We uncovered a great clip from YouTube which displays a vivid array of different optical illusions, the mind plays tricks on everyone, period . . . even the professors and brain surgeons that have (apparently) the biggest brains.
This entertaining and thought provoking clip raises a whole host of questions about human consciousness, many people have argued that we still know so little about our own minds.
Ultimate Optical Illusions
If you’d like to find out more about weird mind tricks that your brain plays on you it’s probably best to see what the experts have to say on the matter. I found a great post that tackles the same question . . . Is My Mind Playing Tricks on Me? Why not read Is My Mind Playing Tricks On Me?
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Hypnosis - Basics on Hypnosis
By admin | June 18, 2007
Before you start to go into complex hypnosis we think it’s best that you master the basics. When it comes to hypnosis there are some things that you truly have to understand before you go deeper into the phenomenon. As with so many things in life Hollywood potrays this craze slightly different in the movies than to how it happens in reality. Let’s be honest - nothing new there. We’ll start with the basics and then guide you on the road to mastering the techniques.
How to Hypnotize People
by Mike Dunn
I think that we have all seen the old movies and television shows where an evil villain hypnotizes the superhero with a pocket watch. Maybe you’ve seen the episode where he tries to build a machine to hypnotize the entire city with a spinning spiral. Those can sometimes be a little hard to believe, as they should be. This article is going to teach you how to hypnotize people by telling you what you need to know as truth or fiction.
Fiction:
If you want to learn how to hypnotize people, you must understand a few ground rules. First of all, you cannot hypnotize anybody that doesn’t want to be hypnotized or is afraid of you. That means that those super villains can’t really hurt anyone with a pocket watch. Also, once a person is hypnotized, you must understand that they will not do anything that they wouldn’t do in a regular state of being. So nobody can be hypnotized into killing another person or making out with a dog.
Truth:
If you want to learn how to hypnotize people, then you must understand that hypnotism is easy…very easy. Many people forget that hypnotism is just a state of relaxation, much like sleeping. Unlike sleep, people who are hypnotized are usually very well aware of their surroundings during and after it’s over.
How to hypnotize people signs:
A person who is hypnotized has some clear cut signs of hypnotism. The eyes of the person will begin to flutter and moisten. The muscles all over the face and body begin to relax, and some might actually twitch.
How to hypnotize people:
Ask the subject to sit or lie down. Begin to talk them through the process. The most important thing to remember when hypnotizing someone is that you are the one who has to talk them through this. Ask them to relax the muscles in their faces and to take deep breaths. As they begin to do what you say, shower them with positive affirmation. It does help…a lot! After 1-5 minutes, they should be exhibiting the signs of hypnotism and you can now ask them to do things like lifting up a leg or opening a jar of pickles. After about 10 minutes, it’s time to let them out of this state. Begin counting to five and tell them that when you reach the number five, for them to wake. Chances are that they will.
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