Think Smarter World - Page 8 of 10 - Tools to Amplify Your Knowledge and Elevate Your Consciousness

Mindfulness – Pathway to Divine Consciousness

In some ways we can think of Meditation as being an enabler of Mindfulness, in other words a tool to strengthen your mind to be highly present in your moment to moment awareness. Our meditation practice develops the capacity to calm the mind, slow down the train of thought, purposely focus our power of observation, and allow a deeper connection to the interconnected reality we all share. In fact, those with advanced Mindfulness abilities could be thought of as being in a semi-meditative state throughout their waking day. These individuals have learned to quiet their mind chatter, to be quiet observers of their world, and to allow a strong connection to develop to Source Energy to guide and inspire their purposeful thoughts and actions.
May 3, 2015
The (re)-Discovery of the Human Energy Field

The scientific and technical progress being made in recent decades to identify the Human Energy Field, if understood more broadly, would revolutionize every facet of our existence. We are closing in on a tipping point of understanding ourselves as Energy Beings whose own bodies are highly regulated by Light and Information through energetic fields and that those fields also interconnect us to everyone and everything on the planet (and beyond).
April 26, 2015
The Core Principles of the New Spiritualist

Dutch spiritual writer Lisette Thooft recently summed up the core principles of the New Spiritualist movement. This grouping is often identified with the phrase “Spiritual but not Religious”. The basis of the article is that an increasing number of people over the last 30 years have moved beyond organized religion into a realm where they believe that there is “something” beyond our ordinary reality. This “something” points to a more inward and direct connection with the Divine.
April 16, 2015
“Stop Stealing Dreams” – A Systems Thinking Approach to Our Current Educational System

Seth Godin has written profound manifesto on the state of our K-12 educational system – Stop Stealing Dreams. The acute problem is that the continuing test-driven, information memorization educational model makes no sense. What is more important is making connections across different functional domains, how to access the necessary information dynamically as needed, understanding how to create new ideas and solutions, and having the skills to proactively learn new things and upgrade your capability on a lifelong basis.
April 9, 2015
Neuroscientist Dr. Olie Johansson exposes dangers of Electromagnetic Fields – VIDEO

If you have come to accept that we are energy beings, then you can probably understand that being bombarded by EM fields from all our various technology devices, including WiFi and Cellular services, could have dangers for our health. Dr. Johansson demonstrates that all people are hypersensitive to EMFs. The health effects are long term – including DNA fragmentation and Cancer – as well as being linked to a growing number of allergies and even tinnitus.
April 9, 2015
Historian Theodore Zeldin on how Conversation Can Change Our Lives

Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives is a beautiful little book by British historian Theodore Zeldin. In an age of the zombie smartphone addict, the art of conversation seems like such an anachronism. Fortunately, Theodore Zeldin in his book, Conversation, aims to remind us of what we’ve forgotten – that the art of conversation is quintessentially human and should be developed and cherished.
April 9, 2015
Smart Change by Art Markman

In his book Smart Change, Professor Markman addresses a major difficulty that all of us face – changing long established habits. In fact, some neuroscientists are stating that up to 95% of our daily behavior is of an automated variety that is generated by memories and learned behaviors stored in our subconscious. In other words, we are in many ways one big walking habit! What Markman does so well in this book is to show that the solution to this dilemna is to learn to re-program the subconscious in order to break the habitual cycle and implant new, more desired behaviors.
April 8, 2015
Amir Aczel and the Reuniting of Science and God

Science writer Amir Aczel’s book does a terrific job of chronicling the history and intersection of religious thought and scientific discovery. Prior to the 16th and 17th centuries, most European scientists were in fact working to uncover the scientific basis for “what God had created”. But as knowledge grew, they came into direct conflict with the command and control structure of the Catholic Church – that’s where things went wrong…
April 7, 2015
Do this one thing to accelerate your thinking – VIDEO

Did Socrates Get it Wrong? In this 13 minute video, Dan Rothstein, co-director of the Right Question institute (love their tagline – “A Catalyst for Microdemocracy”) and co-author of the book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask their Own Questions – gives an overview of his work and the power of teaching students to think critically and ask insightful questions.
April 7, 2015
Kingsley Dennis and the Phoenix Generation

The sociologist and futurist, Kingsley Dennis, is a man that will make you feel better about the future. In his recent book, The Phoenix Generation, he lays out how over the next 15-20 years it will be the current crop of children being born on the planet that will take us out of the current lower levels of consciousness that have stagnated human attempts to achieve higher levels of cooperation, collaboration, and co-creation.
April 4, 2015
Start Zooming to Rapidly Accelerate Your Learning

When I want to learn something new – really learn it – I use a process of Zooming Out – seeing the big picture and identifying all the connections to that topic – and then Zooming In – focusing down into investigating the details. Here are the key components of the process.
March 1, 2015
How Yogic Breathing Transforms the Body and Mind

The benefits of proper breathing don’t stop at relaxation, lower stress, and increased nutrition uptake efficiency. There is also the bonus of increasing our intake of Prana – the vital energy force that surrounds our body and which is connected to universal consciousness. In ordinary breathing we absorb and extract a normal supply of prana, but by controlled and regulated breathing (generally known as Yogi breathing) we are enabled to extract a greater supply, which is stored away in the brain and nerve centers, to be used when necessary.
February 20, 2015