http://exploringthemind.com Brain Candy for the Curious Mind! Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:10:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Copyright © Exploring The Mind! 2010 michael@hypnosisnetwork.com (Exploring The Mind!) michael@hypnosisnetwork.com (Exploring The Mind!) 1440 http://exploringthemind.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/itunes_144.jpg http://exploringthemind.com 144 144 Brain Candy for the Curious Mind! Exploring The Mind! Exploring The Mind! michael@hypnosisnetwork.com no no http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/are-your-memories-just-faked http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/are-your-memories-just-faked#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:25:54 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=1090 How would you feel if someone implanted a fake memory into your mind? Based on surprising new research, it’s possible.  Your memory is malleable and can easily be fooled into remembering something that isn’t 100 percent true. In fact, all it takes to create a false memory is a little “help” from your friends…

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/how-pain-can-change-your-brain/feed 11 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/are-we-no-better-than-pavlov%e2%80%99s-dog http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/are-we-no-better-than-pavlov%e2%80%99s-dog#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:26:33 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=1081 There’s no doubt about it… Our brains are powerful, efficient learning machines. Unfortunately, our ability to learn things at breakneck speeds can also be a curse. The most recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [1] explains why this is true.

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/are-we-no-better-than-pavlov%e2%80%99s-dog/feed 4 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/the-key-to-life-success-%e2%80%93-wait-for-two-marshmallows http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/the-key-to-life-success-%e2%80%93-wait-for-two-marshmallows#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 18:11:26 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=1050 It started in the late 1960s at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University. In total, 653 kids were individually taken into a “game room” at the nursery. Each child was given one marshmallow. A “reward” offer was made and thirty percent of the kids found a way to collect.

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/the-key-to-life-success-%e2%80%93-wait-for-two-marshmallows/feed 13 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/lose-weight-by-fantasizing http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/lose-weight-by-fantasizing#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 18:09:39 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=1041 Most dieters will agree… One of the hardest parts of sticking to any healthy eating plan is dealing with cravings. That is, until now. Losing weight has never been easier, with what some are calling the “Imagination Diet.” As it turns out, the key to eliminating the great temptation of a craving is to eat as much of the foods you crave - in your own mental fantasy.

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/lose-weight-by-fantasizing/feed 6 http://exploringthemind.com/hypnosis/just-how-powerful-is-hypnosis http://exploringthemind.com/hypnosis/just-how-powerful-is-hypnosis#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 18:03:23 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=1030 If you’re like most folks, you know that hypnosis can be an effective tool at helping you reach a wide variety of goals. But how powerful is hypnosis really? A recent article in The New York Times , published April 2011, sheds some light on the subject.

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/hypnosis/just-how-powerful-is-hypnosis/feed 6 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/passion-creates-pain-relief http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/passion-creates-pain-relief#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:32:18 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=1005 Deep down, we all know pain and love are profoundly coupled.  Well, according to some Stanford researchers, it turns out pain and love overlap in the brain. And although love can hurt, it turns out love just might actually be a “pain reliever” as well. In the brain, early stages of passionate love are similar to what drug addicts feel towards their drug of choice.  In short, just thinking about the one you love kick starts activity in several regions on the brain – notably the “reward center.” Because research has established that activation of this “reward center” reduces pain - researchers predicted people in the early stages of passionate love might experience pain reduction when the reward center was triggered by a picture of the person they were “hot” for at that time. The study itself is sort of involved, but very cool…so bear with me for a moment and everything will become clear…

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/passion-creates-pain-relief/feed 4 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/why-men-apologize-less-than-women http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/why-men-apologize-less-than-women#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:05:09 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=989 Men apologize less because they do fewer things wrong…according to a new study, anyway! Karina Schumann and Michael Ross from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, were determined to find out if women do, in fact, apologize more than men, and if so, why? To answer their questions, they created two studies.

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/why-men-apologize-less-than-women/feed 8 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/looking-to-marry-find-a-location-with-less-of-the-opposite-sex http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/looking-to-marry-find-a-location-with-less-of-the-opposite-sex#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:30:35 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=975 Turns out, Beyonce was on to something when she declared ‘if you like it, then you should’ve put a ring on it,’ in one of her most popular songs, “Single Ladies.” It’s true - in places where there are less women than men, men are rushing to do just that: where there are less single ladies, men are more likely to ‘put a ring on it’ when women are younger.

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]]> http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/looking-to-marry-find-a-location-with-less-of-the-opposite-sex/feed 2 http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/secrets-of-sleep-revealed http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/secrets-of-sleep-revealed#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:44:39 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=946 This month’s journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences features breaking news about sleep! Interested, aren’t you?  Us, too.  Anything to help get a better night’s sleep! There is a bit of technical information here, so give us a chance to explain – and let us know if you have any unanswered questions - we always do!

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