Introduction to Brain Resultsology! Managing Your Brain For Better Performance, Results, Success, Happiness, Achievement, Health and Wellbeing!

Managing Your Brain for Higher Performance Part 2

I have already told you that how well you do something, for example, how well you do academically in any subject or how well you do in sport is determined at first level by your genetic make-up and mostly how your brain is wired, its neural configuration. For some physical sport your rest of the body is a major co-determinant. This genetic potential gives you your natural base-line level of performance; the best possible performance you can deliver without using any strategy such as training or using specific conscious mental strategies or using some chemicals to alter how your brain operates. Yes, certain chemicals or compounds (for example, caffeine) have either a positive or negative impact on the performance of your brain. I will talk about those in latter instalments.

Let us assume you and your friend are studying the same subject at university. Now, your friend and;

1. You are in the same class
2. You are being taught by the same lecturers
3. You have the same intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional intelligence quotient (EQ)
4. You have identical personalities

When the two of you write your exams at the same time, in the same place, you would expect to get similar marks in each of the subjects because your IQs and EQs are similar and all the other factors are the same or similar.

Now let’s say that you manage your brain better than your friend; would you get similar results in your studies? The answer is absolutely no. The point is this;

Ceteris paribus, a better-managed brain will always outperform a brain that is not managed at all or one that is poorly or badly managed. ?Your brain is not different from any other part of body whose strength and performance improves with better managed.

Mental States and Emotional States

Learning from high performers and high achievers in sports is a good starting point. Let me take few specific examples such as Messi in football, Usian Bolt and Tiger Woods during their prime days, The Williams sisters in tennis, The Ndlovhu’s and Moses Chunga’s in Zimbabwean soccer, the Kipjoges in marathons. You can think of other people who do amazing things in other areas of your interest. Now, all these high achievers and high performers in sport have the following properties;

1. They are gifted in areas where they deliver high performance and produce high achievement
2. They train very hard in the sport; the time they invest in training is hundreds if not thousands of times more than they time they actually spend playing.
3. They somehow have this ability to put themselves in the right mental states (emotional and cognitive on the days or instances where they are playing competitively.

Depending on your raw natural gifts alone won't produce your highest possible levels of performance if you do not then train and practice.

You may be a naturally gifted genius in any sport and may have trained very hard but on the big day like your final you are “not in form”, you are surely likely to produce dismal performance or your second class performance. This last part, of producing your best possible performance on the big days is the hallmark of high achievers and high performers. These, the very best in sport are also taught how to manage their mental and cognitive states so that they are able to get into this peak form almost at will. We call this “mastering your inner game”, which is managing your brain states.

Many high achievers and peak performers do this all the time but most do it unconsciously and do not know that they do it. In neurolinguistic programming, we study these people and decode those mental unconscious strategies and use them to the elevate performance of people in other areas of life.

The Five Major Brain States

The best way to improve how you manage your brain is by first knowing how the human brain works when it comes to performance, results production and key life elements such as success, happiness, life-navigation, achievement and wellbeing. So let me introduce or remind you that your brain is always in some vibration. These vibrations are also called brain waves. These brain waves are linked to certain levels and types of brain performance. The major brain waves are as follows;

1. Gamma waves-above 40 cycles per second or Herts
2. Beta Waves-13 cycles to about 40 cycles per second
3. Alpha Waves-7 to 12 cycles per second or Herts
4. Theta Waves-0,4 cycles per second to 7 cycles per second
5. Delta Waves 0,3 to about 4 cycles per second

Get a bit more about brain waves from the following link

?Here I want to briefly say that;

• Delta waves are the slowest and the brain is in this state when we are asleep. When the brain gets to 0,3 cycles per second we get into very deep sleep.
• Theta waves are associated with relaxation and creativity
• Alpha waves are associated with relaxed learning and in these waves the brain is in a superlearning mode
• Beta waves are associated with our wake and alert state.

Knowing these states has implications on managing our performance at a brain level. For example;

1. Would it not improve your learning performance if you were able to somehow shift your brain from the beta state to the alpha state? You bet it would!
2. Would you now come up with more and better ideas if you were somehow able to shift your brain from its normal beta state to the theta state associated with creativity? You bet!
3. Would you not be able to have better sleep if you were somehow able to lower your brain frequencies to the delta levels whenever you wanted to sleep? You bet?
4. And what would happen to your health, performance and wellbeing if you were able to have your best possible sleep every night?

You see, managing your brain has very practical implications on your success, happiness, achievement, wellbeing, performance and results.

Manage your brain well and you will get the best out of it and produce better results and you will be happier.

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?Simon Bere, 2023?

Simon Bere speaks of these things about the brain and how it works because wants to help you get the best possible out of your brain.

Simon Bere

1.????Trained in neurolinguistic programming (nlp) and I am a certified practitioner. Nurolinguistic is a the science of high achievement and how the brain operates in the areas of performance, results and the hows and whys our feelings, emotions, thoughts, emoting and thinking.

2.??He studied human biology and part of my degree studies in biological sciences to university level.

3.?????He has studied many major works in the areas of emotions, emotional intelligence, thinking, neuropsychology and psychology. This includes all the major works of prominent experts in the various disciplines around brain performance, thinking, emotions such as Daniel Goleman and his associates, Edward De Bono, Nikolai Tesla, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Milton Hyland Erickson, Igor Ledochowski, Richard E. Boyatzis and others.

4.?????He has studied many high achievers and peak performers including their biographies to get some insights in what they do, what they think and how they think in their areas of brilliance.

5.???He sa personal experience in high achievement and high mental performance in my academic studies having been the best student many times and getting top grade results and academic awards including bursaries. He also has personal experience in physical performance from my extreme sports in running ultramarathons including the famed?Cape Town 56 Kilometres Two Oceans Marathons and the notorious Durban-Pietermaritzburg 87 kilometres to 90 kilometres Comrades Marathon. He has competed both marathons twice each.?