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		<title>Wizard`s Hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clear out and clean up the cluttered Magic Glades using a magical Wizards Hat and your fantastic Match 3 abilities! Piece together crazy combos to create special potions with incredible abilities, and helpful powers. Carefully plan your moves to start huge chain reactions and earn as much money as you can to unlock upgrades like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanicus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protect the Earth by solving perplexing puzzles and solving tricky problems in Mechanicus, a fun and challenging Brain Teaser game. Work with conventional devices with earthly physics, as well as alien technology like teleporters and antigravity devices. Discover various solutions to each puzzle by using your imagination and resourcefulness! &#160; Unique gameplay Numerous tools and [...]]]></description>
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Protect the Earth by solving perplexing puzzles and solving tricky problems in Mechanicus, a fun and challenging Brain Teaser game. Work with conventional devices with earthly physics, as well as alien technology like teleporters and antigravity devices. Discover various solutions to each puzzle by using your imagination and resourcefulness!</p>
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		<title>Super Memory 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a unique program for memory training and improvement. Based on imaginative memorization technique, this program, applied by secret services to coach spies, will lead to a change in your way of thinking to ensure speedy processing of informational bulk, distract from irrelevant and memorize only relevant facts.]]></description>
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<p>This is a unique program for memory training and improvement. Based on imaginative memorization technique, this program, applied by secret services to coach spies, will lead to a change in your way of thinking to ensure speedy processing of informational bulk, distract from irrelevant and memorize only relevant facts.</p>
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		<title>Software for memory improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Memory // This program is a description of computer-training games and techniques. It is essential that you do not only train in front of your computer, but also in any convenient place – in the street, at lunch time, before going to bed Download Purchase More info]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Super Memory&#8221; trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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<h6><a href="http://wishvrn.ru"><span style="color: #c0c0c0;">сумки воронеж</span></a></h6>
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		<title>How to train a sense of smell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before sleep This exercise is familiar to you by previous pages. In addition to exercises aimed at developing your kinesthetic abilities try to learn to discern  smells, filling your room , before sleep. Try to break them up into their components. Here you have a smell of bed linen (maybe a smell of a detergent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/114.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-122" title="Sense Of Smell" src="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/114.png" alt="" width="157" height="242" /></a><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Before sleep </span></strong></p>
<p>This exercise is familiar to you by previous pages. In addition to exercises aimed at developing your kinesthetic abilities try to learn to discern  smells, filling your room , before sleep. Try to break them up into their components. Here you have a smell of bed linen (maybe a smell of a detergent with lemon extract), smells of a sofa’s upholstery, a coffee-table, a blossoming cactus on a window sill. Keep training every evening and you’ll notice how your sense of smell has become sharper. You’ll also feel how many unusual smells surround you.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #339966;"><strong>Comparisons</strong></span></p>
<p>Prepare an object with a strong smell, e.g. a freshly cut slice of lemon. Take a comfortable sitting position. Relax. Focus on the smell, trying to imagine a smell of lemon. If you have failed to imagine the smell at an initial stage, take the lemon, bring it closer to your nose, inhale, trying to better memorize the smell, and then put it back. Now focus on the lemon, trying to evoke the strongest smell possible. If you succeed, move the object further and further away from you until you take it away altogether.</p>
<p>Now you should visualize this object, feel it kinesthetically. Imagine yourself holding it in your hand, thus helping yourself. Try to feel its smell as clearly as possible. You should do this with at least 50 objects: fruit, fragrances, colognes, coffee, tea and other pleasant-smelling objects will do for the purpose.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Article from the  <a href="http://mikebrain.com/supermemory.html">&#8220;Super Memory&#8221;</a>. Other articles are available from the program.</span></p>
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		<title>Exercises for kinesthetic abilities improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before sleep This is the simplest of all exercises. Lying in bed before sleep try to perceive everything that is felt by your body: a blanket, which covers you, its weight, texture, warmth; a sheet under you; a bed, which absorbs your warmth; cool air in the room. You’ll be surprised by the number of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/115.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-114" title="Kinesthetic Abilities" src="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/115.png" alt="" width="174" height="214" /></a><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Before sleep</span></strong></p>
<p>This is the simplest of all exercises. Lying in bed before sleep try to perceive everything that is felt by your body: a blanket, which covers you, its weight, texture, warmth; a sheet under you; a bed, which absorbs your warmth; cool air in the room. You’ll be surprised by the number of things that you feel, because you haven’t paid any attention to them before.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Feelings</span></strong></p>
<p>Take any object, e.g., a newspaper in your right hand. Relax. Concentrate. Touch your left hand with the newspaper. Run it slowly over the hand. Then try to restore this feeling as clear as possible. Imagine the newspaper’s edge touching your hand. Keep on training until these feelings become clear and stable.</p>
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<p>Repeat exercises 3-4 times with one object at one spot, then change the object ( a pencil, a spoon etc.) and the spot ( a face, a belly a leg).You can also change touching from smooth movements to mild patting. Do this with at least 50 objects.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">My body</span></strong></p>
<p>Prepare several objects made of different materials, e.g. a mitten and a piece of paper. Take a comfortable sitting position. Relax. Concentrate. Take a mitten in your right hand (you do not need to put it on). Feel its texture. Focus on what you feel as you hold it in your hand. Imagine your body being covered with knitted material similar to that of a mitten. Let that feeling spread from head to toe. You should learn to retain this feeling for 10 minutes. Ideally, you should do this as long as you wish. Then, while still in this state, take a piece of paper in your hand and start spreading this feeling of being covered with paper over your body, pushing out the previous feeling. Engage every part of your body. Retain this state as long as you wish, then “cast off” the feeling. Keep training as frequently as possible. You should develop your kinesthetic abilities to such an extent that you could change them yourself.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Article from the  <a href="http://mikebrain.com/supermemory.html">&#8220;Super Memory&#8221;</a>. Other articles are available from the program.</span></p>
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		<title>Exercises for audio-memory improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before sleep As you lie in bed, preparing for a sleep, spare a few minutes to listen to sounds that you hear. Try to hear a general background first, and then try to make out individual sounds. You’ll be surprised by the variety of sounds that you hear- your own breathing, a rumble of a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/119.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-110" title="Audio Memory" src="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/119.png" alt="" width="157" height="176" /></a><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Before sleep </span></strong></p>
<p>As you lie in bed, preparing for a sleep, spare a few minutes to listen to sounds that you hear. Try to hear a general background first, and then try to make out individual sounds. You’ll be surprised by the variety of sounds that you hear- your own breathing, a rumble of a fridge and maybe a sound of water in your bathroom, footsteps outside your flat. Train in this way every evening before sleep, developing selectiveness and attentiveness of your hearing.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Re-play</span></strong></p>
<p>Find a silent room. Take a sitting position. Relax. Focus on a proposed exercise. Clap your hands. You can help yourself visually, by imagining yourself clapping hands. Train twice a day for 5-10 minutes, changing sounds (a click of a mouse, a sound of a lighter, footsteps etc.). You should reach such a level at which you can clearly hear a sound, as well as to change its volume and tone.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Music</span></strong></p>
<p>Prepare several familiar musical compositions. It doesn’t matter what these can be- classical music or hard rock. The key thing here is that you must like them. Listen to the beginning of a composition. Press a pause button. Close your eyes. Evoke a state of “emptiness” in your head. Try to mentally continue the musical theme. Play it again if you have failed to do that. Try to compare at first these compositions. You should also train to interrupt music playing in your head: Press “Stop” and then “Play”. Do not let yourself become a hostage of a catchy tune. The skill is considered mastered if you are able to easily and effortlessly reproduce music at your wish.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Article from the  <a href="http://mikebrain.com/supermemory.html">&#8220;Super Memory&#8221;</a>. Other articles are available from the program.</span></p>
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		<title>Visualization exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to make comparisons with your eyes closed Place anything before you. First, choose any simple object preferably with a non-reflective surface (toys will do nicely). If this is not possible, make your task simpler by singling out some small object, say, a mobile phone. On the one hand, this is a rather complex object, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #339966;"><strong><a href="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/120.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-98" title="visualization" src="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/120.png" alt="" width="226" height="148" /></a>How to make comparisons with your eyes closed</strong></span></p>
<p>Place anything before you. First, choose any simple object preferably with a non-reflective surface (toys will do nicely). If this is not possible, make your task simpler by singling out some small object, say, a mobile phone. On the one hand, this is a rather complex object, on the other, you can focus on one simple detail only, for instance, a button.</p>
<p>Take a sitting position. Relax. Focus on the object. Look at for several minutes, trying to memorize the tiniest details. Look at the center, trying to see the entire object, thus developing your peripheral vision. To avoid unwanted thoughts, you should prevent your eyes from roving about the room. Now close your eyes. Try to keep the object in your mental view as long as possible. Do this 3-5 times a day in one position at a time. Change an object immediately if you get bored with it. You can repeat the exercise more than five times if you get pleasure from it.</p>
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<p>During each new exercise, try to look for new details, something that you’ve failed to notice before. Once you get bored with a certain position or an object, imagine how you consign it to a dustbin, crumple, dissolve etc., it, achieving a blank mental “screen” at the end of exercise. Do this exercise several times a day, making your task more complex, by seeking out new, unusual positions. Change the rhythm and speed of comparisons. Try to attain inspiration and a rise in your creativity. You should train at least once a day for 10 minutes, until you can evoke a clear, color image with your eyes closed.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Stop!</span></strong></p>
<p>Sitting on a bench in a park or riding in transport cast your eyes outside briefly (at a passer-by, a dog, a group of people, a tree etc.). Then close your eyes and try to see/make out the object as clear as possible for several seconds, as long as a situation will allow you to do this. (Be careful). </p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Examples of training</span><br />
A) saw &#8211; closed my eyes &#8211; discerned &#8211; deleted<br />
B) saw &#8211; closed my eyes &#8211; discerned &#8211; waited for 5-10 or so minutes &#8211; closed my eyes &#8211; discerned &#8211; deleted</p></blockquote>
<p>Do this exercise whenever and wherever you can. You should achieve a very clear, color and bright mental picture.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">How to make comparisons with your eyes open</span></strong></p>
<p>The same as during the first exercise except that this time around you turn away from an object, looking at some monochrome surface (a sheet of paper, a ceiling, a painted wall), without closing your eyes, trying to see as clear as possible the object on the surface.</p>
<p>This exercise will help you learn to see clear, color images with your eyes open.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Animation</span></strong></p>
<p>Take a sitting position in a park or by a window. Cast your eyes at some moving object (a passer-by, a dog, a bird etc). Close your eyes, allowing the object to move this time around. If it’s a passer-by, let them reach the edge of your picture, stopping there. This exercise may cause some difficulties at first. Open your eyes and compare. Train as frequently as you can and in a week you’ll be able to effortlessly animate your pictures. Keep on training until everything goes smoothly, without ant efforts from you.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Article from the  <a href="http://mikebrain.com/supermemory.html">&#8220;Super Memory&#8221;</a>. Other articles are available from the program.</span></p>
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		<title>Concentration exercise.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important skill in terms of intellectual training is your ability to concentrate your mind, focus on a certain object, ignoring everything irrelevant. Concentration allows you to think clearly and make right assessments. The absence of irrelevant distracting thoughts gives you a feeling of lightness and freedom. This is what allows you to work [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/106.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-93" title="Concentration" src="http://mikebrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/106.png" alt="" width="225" height="281" /></a>The most important skill in terms of intellectual training is your ability to concentrate your mind, focus on a certain object, ignoring everything irrelevant. Concentration allows you to think clearly and make right assessments. The absence of irrelevant distracting thoughts gives you a feeling of lightness and freedom. This is what allows you to work fruitfully, solving complex problems and finding new details in something very familiar.</p>
<p>Take a comfortable sitting position, with your relaxed hands lying on your knees. Prior to that, turn off your telephone and other possible distracters. Relax. Leave your eyes half-closed. Breathe evenly and quietly. Focus on your breathing. Feel the cool air that you breathe in and the warm air that you breathe out. Feel your respiratory system. There should be no irrelevant thoughts in your head. If your attention tries to switch or any irrelevant thoughts appear in your head, try to focus on your breathing. It’s very important to free your mind of any irrelevant thoughts during the exercises. Your head should be “empty”.</p>
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<p>Almost 90% of headaches are caused by chaotically swarming thoughts. The absence of thoughts and the ease with which you focus your attention will give you a feeling of lightness and freedom. Begin with 15-20 sec exercises. Do them several times a day, bringing the total time to 10-20 minutes a day. Your major task is to achieve concentration, “emptiness of your head” and a great mood. Do not get fixated on breathing. Remember that what we give you is just a general technique. It’s up to you what object for your attention to choose – your hand, a sound or a taste. The key thing here is that it must be something pleasant for you, something that can cause an interest in you.</p>
<p>The skill will be mastered when you can retain your attention as long as you wish, without thinking about anything.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #ff0000;">Do not do</span> this exercise when you cross a street, drive a car or there’s any other threat to you.</em></p>
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