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Reclaim Your Brain With Engaging Brain Games

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Did you know that the human brain starts slowing down as early as age 30? The good news is that you can speed it up, and improve even your most basic cognitive abilities at any age.

Keep your brain performing at its best with Lumosity, a brain training program consisting of engaging brain games and exercises developed by some of the leading neuroscientists in the country.

What are the benefits of brain training?
The ACTIVE study, funded by NIH, demonstrated that adults can improve cognitive abilities such as memory, processing speed, and reasoning with proper training. The brain is healthiest when it is active and regularly challenged. With frequent cognitive training, the brain performs optimally and maintains its abilities through the years.

Planet Earth - Discover the Epic Story of Life on Earth

Friday, November 30th, 2007

With an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, and from the makers of Blue Planet: Seas of Life, comes the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2,000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition, this is the ultimate portrait of our planet.

A stunning television experience that captures rare action, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet’s best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, this blockbuster series takes you on an unforgettable journey through the daily struggle for survival in Earth’s most extreme habitats. Planet Earth takes you to places you have never seen before, to experience sights and sounds you may never experience anywhere else.

Time of the Sixth Sun - A Journey of Awakening

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

elestialdesktop2.jpgTime of the Sixth Sun is a multi-platform film project about the awakening and transformation of global consciousness, a witnessing of these times and the huge potential for change in the world …… in the way we relate to it and the way we live in it.

In Time of the Sixth Sun, our protagonist, street poet Paradox, guides us on a quest to discover the meaning of 2012. Civilizations throughout the ages have indicated through ancient calendars and visions that 2012 will be a pinnacle time in the evolution of mankind. In the West, many are noticing an increase in life’s synchronicities and are experiencing time as speeding up. Scientists accept that global warming is a reality. Increasingly the world is seeking answers and the clock is ticking.

Shift - A New Board Game For Empowering Yourself

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Six years ago, Nicole Casanova was at one of those proverbial crossroads in life. However, her mid-life crisis came at 26. Having been successful at a very young age in the San Francisco dot.com arena, she was becoming the victim of burnout. Nicole decided to take a step back, leave her slick six figure career, and give herself space to decide her next move.

Leaving a Real Legacy - The Ultimate Gift

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

What’s the one thing you would most like to leave to your children and grandchildren when you are gone?If money was the first thing that came to your mind, that’s understandable. Most of us have been taught to think that way. But it is also a signal that you may need to do some serious, sober thinking about what is most valuable to you and to your family.

Sleeping on the Job - The Next Employee Benefit?

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Man has constantly striven to develop new techniques to allow him to achieve more in life. From the early Greek philosophers, through to creative geniuses such as Beethoven, Da Vinci, Dali and Einstein one recurring technique has been ‘napping’.

Now, ‘powernapping’ has taken corporate America and Japan by storm. Workers are actively encouraged to take breaks in their day and have a nap; they are even sent on courses to learn how to do this!

Apparently you’re never too big to take a nap. Today, napping is a health trend, a workplace perk, even an art form. Children do it, students do it, even educated Corporate Chairmen and CEO’s do it.

Increase Your IQ by Programming Your Neural Network

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

The Neuro-Programmer 2 (NP2) is an innovative software application for the PC, built to help you achieve rapid and long lasting personal change. NP2 stimulates Brainwaves while using Hypnosis, NLP and other Psychological techniques to help you transform your mind and enhance your mental abilities.

Using specially structured light and sound techniques, NP2 is able to affect the mind directly using a neural process known as Brainwave Entrainment. Brainwave patterns represent the electrical activity of the brain. By shifting this activity, NP2 produces mental states conducive to your goals. For example, NP2 can be used to guide your mind to its most receptive possible state, or a brainwave pattern that has been proven to leave the mind more receptive to suggestion and absorbent of information, vastly increasing the effect of Psychological techniques.

MindSpa Audio-Visual Stimulation for Brain Enhancement

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

A spa for the mind? With what we put our brains through, we had to try it. Based on the Mind Spapioneering work of Dr. Ruth Olmstead, a noted psychologist in the field of audio-visual stimulation (AVS) therapy, MindSpa uses brainwave entrainment from Dr. Olmstead’s years of work improving relaxation, attention span, and cognitive performance with thousands of clients.

MindSpa has 12 programs that range in length from 10 to 40 minutes and use alpha, beta, and theta frequencies intended to help you focus your mind, relax, learn, problem solve, increase creative thinking, enter expanded mind states, and more.

Wisdom Quest - Interactive Personal Biofeedback Program

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Wisdom Quest is a continuation of The Wild Divine Project’s first product, The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, a revolutionary product featuring personal biofeedback for consumer use.

Wisdom Quest Biofeedback ProgramLaunched roughly a year ago, The Journey to Wild Divine teaches people of all ages meditation, breathing and yoga techniques in an interactive and entertaining way, giving them the ability to take control of and improve their mental, physical and emotional health.

The Journey’s three biofeedback sensors (which plug into a computer’s USB port) gently attach to the fingers to monitor skin conductance levels and heart rate variability. As the player advances through the biofeedback activities they are trained to control different states of their energy from exhilaration and joy to relaxation and deep meditation.

You Will Never Want to Wake Up Any Other Way

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Zen Alarm ClockInnovative Colorado company introduces the world’s most exquisite alarm clock, waking its users with a series of rich acoustic gong strikes.

Every once in a while a new product comes along that really rocks the category of products to which it belongs. The new Zen Timepiece™ from Now & Zen, Inc. is just such a product - it’s an alarm clock with a large solid brass bowl-gong that fills the room with a series of rich, subtle, acoustic sounds that make waking up a ’spiritual experience.’

Why Constant Noise is the Perfect Sleep Solution

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Have you ever laid awake at night wondering, “What do I have to do to get a peaceful night’s sleep?” as your neighbor’s dog barks all night and traffic roars by?

Jim Buckwalter solved this problem…but before I am going to tell you how he did it let’s talk about sleep itself.

What Affects Our Sleep?
The most common environmental elements affecting sleep are noise, sleep surface, temperature or climate, and altitude. Your age and gender also play a part in determining the level of sleep disturbance caused by these factors.

Stress Eraser - The Biofeedback Body Computer

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Handheld medical device calms the mind and relaxes the body anytime, anywhere.

Helicor, Inc. has begun shipping the StressEraser, a handheld medical device designed to calm the mind and relax the body anytime, anywhere. The StressEraser can be used to quiet the mind before sleeping, rapidly relieve intense stress, and even to stay calm during highly stressful situations.

Stress Eraser - The Biofeedback Body ComputerHelicor first demonstrated the StressEraser August 18-21 at the 113th annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C. The StressEraser is classified by the FDA as a Class II (510(k) exempt) medical device. Patents are pending.