This is not something that is easily done, at least not by average person. But there are techniques that average person can use to achieve this level of mental ability. Using specific techniques, anyone can increase their mental abilities, in much same way that anyone can use specific physical techniques to improve their physical performance. Physical exercise will condition body to perform better. There exists mental exercises which will condition mind to perform better.

Here is a description of one of these exercises, designed to increase perceptiveness. Pick an object to look at and examine it in extreme detail. Notice everything about object, color, texture, shape, individual shapes which together make up object. If object is small enough, pick it up and notice weight, distribution of weight, and object's solidity. Imagine being very tiny and walking on surface of object. What is that like? Imagine being able to pass into mass of object and notice what sensations you get from that. While you may not be able to rely on this imagining to produce any real information, effort to gather information not readily available stretches mind to look for more subtle information and become aware of it. Follow this line of exploration using all of your senses, sight, sound, smell, touch, taste, and imagination.

Here's an exercise designed to increase creativity. Pick any two objects. Pick them at random, even if you have to close your eyes and point two fingers to choose them. Now imagine first object becoming more like second. See it change shape, yet retain it's original function. See it retaining it's own shape, but performing function of second object. See two objects merging together and becoming one object. What does this new object do? What does it look like? Now, what else can you change about these objects? Can you make them sing and dance? What other functions could you make them perform?

Here's another exercise, which results in some very interesting benefits. Find a comfortable spot to sit for at least 15-30 minutes. Try to empty your mind of all thoughts and simply experience everything around you. Pay attention to everything. Try to look at everything all at once. Try to hear every nuance of sound. Try to identify every odor in air. Focus on every sensation of texture and pressure (the pressure of air flow, of temperature, of sound). Focus on every detail and try to keep them all in your awareness simultaneously. This will be very difficult, yet will expand your mind like nothing else. You will have to get completely out of your own way. If you think about anything, you will miss most of experience. If you find yourself analyzing something, or daydreaming, or thinking about something else, don't chastise yourself, simply pick up exercise again and start over.

There are many other exercises, and these exercises may be taken in different directions to improve benefits in specific circumstances. If you want to improve your effectiveness in attaining your goals, work on these exercises. Try to create your own exercises to push limits of your mental capacity. You will see gradual changes in results you get in all areas of your life.

If you are interested in taking your mental development to it's highest level, there is a course available that will lead you, step by step, through many different exercises, each designed for a specific purpose, and all working together for a greater effect. This course has been created from a system called Keys To Power. The course itself is called Keys To Power Mastery System and is available at http://www.KeysToPower.com.

We can find balance in simple efforts to increase our health. Drinking lots of clean water, deep breathing clean air, practicing yoga, tai chi, regular meditation, prayer, martial arts, and even gardening are all activities that increase balance. Pursuits in fine arts, performing arts, and charity work can also increase our sense of balance. We allow commercial interests to define, limit an unbalance us when we allow and accept label of consumer. When we struggle to earn a living and seem to make no headway, we also become limited and limits create imbalance. Imbalance adds new limits and creates more imbalance. Unlimit, find balance and peace balance creates.

Life is cyclical. Even as we go through simple cycles of digestion and sleep, our balance points shift. Sometimes we sense it as an energy change. Both astrology and numerology can be most helpful in discovering longer cycles in our lives. They can help us see that in different points in cycles and as cycles change, we express different desires, concerns and behaviors. I am in a 27 year cycle in which self is main focus. I am learning self awareness and self improvement. If I am not careful, I can become self defeating and self destructive. I think these things are good to know and help me with balance. There are many ways to obtain balance; key is sensing when you are out of balance. That means paying attention to yourself.

Ed Howes

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