. Brain Facts | Moon & Back | 3 Seconds to Beepower! | Heaps of Atoms... | Awesome! | The Greeks | Brain Models... | Computer Power? | Deep Thought | 25 Watts! | <1% | Wiring | Use it or Lose It! | Einstein, Rats & Worms | Enjoy Life! | How to Forget!
	Moon & Back You may have heard that your intestines might be approximately 10 metres long, but did you know that if your brain cells were laid out, with all those neural connections joined end on end, (apart from being dead) your brain would measure 800,000 kilometres long! Your brain, if unravelled, would reach to the moon and back! top
	3 Seconds to Beepower! And did you know that the average bee has about 7,000 brain cells? Some bees can fly for kilometre after kilometre without getting lost, and can return to the same flower at the same time each day. Those bees build a home, have families, and do that with just 7,000 brain cells. Now when you were in your mom's tummy, you would grow that many brain cells in a matter of just 3 seconds! You were in there for 9 months! Can you just begin to contemplate the brain power that you acquired? You have, between 12 to 14 BILLION brain cells! top
	Heaps of Atoms... If you wanted to contemplate the power of your brain, scientists have made a judgement that the largest number estimated with any accuracy, is actually the numbers of electrons in the universe. An atom being a pretty small thing, and the universe being quite a bit larger! A nuclear astrophysicist friend of mine has informed me that the number of atoms in the universe is the digit 1 followed by approximately 80 zeros. top
	Awesome! If that number was typed on a typewriter, it might be about twenty-five centimetres long. Yet we also know, that if the number of interconnections that can be made in your brain were typed on a typewriter, (the number of interconnections being very important in terms of intelligence, brain function and memory), the number of interconnections that can be made in your brain is at least ten million kilometres long! Ten million kilometres of typed written zeros after that digit 1, that's the processing power of your brain! The number of atoms in the universe begins to pale into insignificance doesn't it? top
	The Greeks We often compare our understanding of the brain with technology. The ancient Greeks for example, likened the brain to a car radiator. They thought that the blood would flow throughout the different parts of the body, and be cooled down by the brain before going back to the body. A while after that people likened the brain to a lump of clay, with memories being etched onto it, and some thought that's why the brain is all wrinkled like a rockmelon. top
	Brain Models... Then came the idea that the brain was somehow like a factory, with information going in an eye, nose, mouth, ear, or through the skin, to be processed sorted and stored in one particular part of our brain. A more recent comparison you may be familiar with, is the fact that the brain is like a telephone exchange; yet even that analogy is out of date. Perhaps you might like to know that the world's entire telecommunications needs: all the computer transmissions; all the faxs; all the telephone conversations throughout the whole world; could be handled by a piece of your brain the size of a pea! (You know, when I think back to those days when my teacher called me a "pea-brain", I now know what she meant!) top
	Computer Power? A current analogy, or comparison of your brain, with technology, is that of the computer. Again, recent estimates have shown that the brain is vastly superior to anything electronic ever built. If a computer were to be built to be a match for your brain, that computer would have to be fifty floors high and cover all of New South Wales and all of Victoria! top
	Deep Thought Indeed, one of the world's most sophisticated computers was recently put up against world chess champion Garri Kasparov. Even though the computer, known as Deep Thought, was able to analyse almost three quarters of a million positions per second, it was still no match for a human brain. The computer lost the first game in 57 moves and the second in only 37 moves. top
	25 Watts! Your brain also produces about 25 watts of electricity. If somehow two brains could be harnessed together, the electrical output would be more than enough to power the Viking spacelanders on their mission through space to Mars! Your brain produces enough power to light up your neighbour's fluorescent light in their bathroom! top
	<1% Perhaps you've heard the saying, that the average person may only use about one tenth of their mental potential. Well, a few years ago that estimate dropped to about 5%, and now, scientists and neurologists are estimating that an untrained mind would be using less than 1% of its potential. top
	Wiring Each of those 12 to 14 billion brain cells looks a little like a starfish or an octopus with a central nucleus surrounded by "messenger wires" that communicate with other brain cells. More specifically the outgoing messages flow along fibres called axons while the incoming messages are received by fibres known as dendrites. While the dendrites are usually less than a millimetre long, the axons can be up to a metre long! If just one of your brain cells was enlarged to the size of a baseball, the axons and dendrites connected to it would fill the Sydney Opera House or the Superbowl! top
	Use it or Lose It! Your brain is similar in some respects to a muscle. The more you use it the bigger it grows! While no new brain cells are formed after birth, every time you concentrate and stretch your mental abilities, your brain sprouts new axons and more interconnections are formed between the different parts of your brain! AND YES the more you use your brain by keeping mentally active, the heavier your brain will weigh! top
	Einstein, Rats & Worms Einstein's brain cells were said to have had significantly more interconnections than normal, while elderly rats in labs have experienced an increase in brain weight of the order of ten percent after having toys and running wheels to play with! Scientists also tell us that even by the time we reach eighty years of age, even if we were to lose many thousands of brain cells daily, we will still have more than ninety-five percent of the brain cells we had in our youth. It recently took scientists 3 years to study and form an understanding of a worm's 25 brain cells. To do the same with your brain would take longer than the estimated lifespan of the universe! You are also capable of absorbing 1,000 bits of information per second for 100 years and not fill up your brain! top
	Enjoy Life! These facts were some of the things that motivated me to develop mindwave, and I've been excited not only by my results, by the very spectacular results my students are now enjoying. When you improve your mindpower and memory, for practical purposes, you become more intelligent and live more of your life. If you lived a life without memory, you would not have "experienced" life. The more powerful your mind and memory, in effect, the more you live, the more you enjoy life, and the more successful you become. top
	How to Forget! Before you go on to develop your mind I think it's a good idea for me to teach you how to forget! You see, unless you systematically dismantle any negative beliefs that you have regarding your mental skills, your habits of a lifetime won't be too easily changed. So return soon to discover the very powerful "FIVE MINUTE FEAR FIX!"  top

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