This gigantic 21st Century course manual has a staggering accumulation of 223 mind exercises designed to allow a person to use their complete brain. The exercises involve balancing your emotions, increasing your memory, improving your creativity, enhancing your sensory appreciation and much, much more - time distortion, lightning calculating, speed reading, self-hypnosis, multi-tasking, etc.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting,
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This review is from: The 100% Brain Course (Paperback)
This book promises many things, from utilizing simple visualization and mnemonics to doing more controversial and admittedly miraculous things, such as seeing without your eyes.
Upon skimming the book, it seems quite daunting as to how much is effective and where to start. I found it quite interesting that Mr. Saunders often makes historical refrences [As in Exersise 98: Body Temperature Control] to compound on his theories and exercises. Several skeptics maintain that many of the things proposed in this book are in fact ineffective and simply made-up, but others often support the idea that we don't truly know the limits of our natural capabilities, or that we are capable of miraculous things. I would like to also stress that what works for one person doesn't always work for everyone. Many people often practice an exercise for a short period of time and quickly become jaded with the work after it producing little or no apparent or immediate results. I feel that I must stress that little effort often results in little gain, and that perserverance is a key trait to have when learning any new skill. If you're willing to go out on a limb and try something different then this is the course for you. This book isn't for [or, I believe, intended for] the close-minded or for those simply seeking a magic bullet.
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not what you would expect with that title...,
By XLScience "Performance Library" (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The 100% Brain Course (Paperback)
The title is very misleading, and so is the book. The book begins by informing you that you only use 2, 5, or 10 percent of your brainpower (The average human mind applies 100% of it's brainpower) . This is a debunked myth that never had any scientific support and began erroneously. The author will make sure to repeat the message during the entire book, especially during the sections where he explains communication with animals without speech or tactile movement and visualization of distant objects without being in the location, he also tends to discuss energies and other useless ideas as if they were fact. Some sections that are very wary and why it makes this book undoubtedly unreadable to a scientific mind are as follows:
Exercise 11 - Positive Statement Practice Exercise 21 - Firewalking To Embrace Fear Exercise 53 - Imaging-Streaming Exercise 150 - Using Self-Healing Thoughts Exercise 107 - Electromagnetic Field Awareness Exercise 113 - Eyeless Sight Just to name a few sections directly from the book. I would not recommend this book for someone who wants absolute facts to strengthening the mind instead of hindering it. There may be an amount of useful topics as well, but you would be better suited in buying a more popularized book on the subject, written by authors who understand the subject inside out and have a no nonsense style of writing. The 100% Brain Course is riddled with religious insight and pseudoscientific ideas and will distribute them all as facts. I do not recommend this book.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The 100% Brain Course,
This review is from: The 100% Brain Course (Paperback)
This book is excellent for the developing mind, but I don't think it goes far enough in my estimation. Based on the pitiful display of the mental performance of the average person, it is perfectly obvious that we only use a fraction of our brain power when you compare the ordinary person with a highly skilled person. The book talks about how consciously using only a small percentage of your brain will eventually contribute to a fading memory, a loss of your sense of hearing, taste, smell, etc. and a very skewed reasoning ability in your latter years. It discusses how thinking can become extremely distorted due to a lack of emotional discipline resulting in many older people having their reasoning mixed with discordant, child-like emotions. It openly declares that brain degenerative diseases are brought about through lack of diversified brain use, which flies in the face of current science trying to attribute genetic or biological reasons for such maladies. It makes claims that all of this loss of memory, loss of sensory ability, loss of logical thinking and display of infantile emotions can be averted with deliberate mental exercise. The book further states how difficult it is to attribute a definitive percentage of brain use to any particular person, because it is always changing throughout a person's life, but that the average person's brain usage is on a continual decline after early adulthood. It points out that there is a big difference between someone that uses his complete brain in a diversified way throughout his life and someone who does not, the latter having large atrophied dead zones in the brain upon post mortem examination in old age. In my opinion, the missing feature of the book though is the spiritual connection. The book does have a spiritual overtone (not religious) when it references certain exercises, but it does not directly attribute the spiritual reasons that some exercises work for some people but not for others. Granted it might be very unscientific to mention spirituality, but in some circles this is the only explanation that certain phenomenological feats are possible for the more skilled individuals.
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