"Learning without thinking is labor lost;
thinking without learning is perilous"
--Confucius
Home-Study Courses to Enhance Intelligence and Creativity
A course in Mind Development can benefit you in a number of ways, depending on what areas you feel you are weak at, or what you want to change about yourself and your capabilities. If you do these courses you should expect to see stable improvements in your life skills and abilities at work. You will have better judgment, increased mental speed and will power, better self-expression, the ability to study effectively and recall what you have learned, more creative insights, and confidence in your capacity to achieve your personal goals in life.
A young person will benefit by improved grades and a much better chance of excelling in higher education, ready to start a successful career. A person at work will have important advantages over his or her colleagues. And a retired person will be able to forestall and even reverse the decline of intellectual abilities that so often accompanies aging. You surely want to enjoy your retirement and take advantage of your lifetime's accumulation of knowledge - not lose your mind and with it your identity.
What you don't use you lose - that applies to all ages. What you do use can be trained, with the right mind development methods and sufficient practice, to become more and more efficient. Mental capacity is effectively unlimited.
Research has been done on the brain for many years. The most important point to come from this has been that one side of the brain tends to become cut off from the other, as painful memories and feelings are repressed. For most people, one side will dominate according to what sort of abilities and aptitudes they have, and the cultural influences of their upbringing. Furthermore, unconscious blocks can freeze huge proportions of our mental energy, and this can cause a person to feel negative, angry or depressed for no apparent reason.
We have identified the causes of such barriers and over the course of many years have refined our techniques for helping individuals to achieve their potential mental capacity. The cognitive enhancement techniques of Mind Development make the mind much more efficient because they open up the pathways of left-right brain communication and assist the person to regain all of their positive mental energy. They can then obtain the goals they want and take control of their destiny.
The hardware of the human computer is the brain; the software is the person's mind; the programmer is the human spirit. The aim of Mind Development is to awaken people to their innate powers of mind. To achieve this it is necessary to improve introspective awareness and in particular to regain awareness of mental processes that are normally below the level of consciousness, so that you are in touch with your full knowledge base and can access it intuitively. This kind of metacognition ('knowing what you know') is formally described as mature intuition. In this way, the person becomes awakened as the "meta-programmer" of his mind. Of course, the ends to which such awakened powers are applied lie within the hands of each student. There are many ways in which we can begin to make our lives count and improve the lot of Mankind.
As long as we are depending on safe solutions, prejudiced judgments and fixed ideas, our mind is closed to inspecting anew, to discovering our own truth. Those mental structures affect the way that we feel and act, and filter our perception so that we are unlikely to notice the message of nature and we are likely to distort the meaning of the song in our heart.
It's Catch-22. The beauty of nature is often just what we need to remind us that our problems are exaggerated in our minds; and the gut feelings we have, if listened to, bring us back to the reality of our core instincts and intuitive sense.
So actually we need both, the intellect and the heart. And to move forward in our lives, we need the two well integrated and cleared of distortions, misperceptions and limitations. Our genuine feelings need to be released and our beliefs re-examined - so that we act from inspiration, not from the dictates of earlier conditioning.
The two work hand-in-hand. Rationality does not necessarily mean masculine insensitivity, and heart intelligence is not just for the naïve. Feelings and relationships need focus and direction, and action needs an empathic understanding of context. Objectivity in the light of love is the means.
How Can Mind Development Help You?
No one need accept that they must remain as they were shaped, by the conditioning of their childhood and culture. The benefits of mind development are all-encompassing and life transforming. More...
Outline of the Mind Development System
The Mind Development Courses are designed to work together as a synchronous hierarchical system, using proven methods - the result of 30 years research and testing - to accelerate the development of your mental powers and creative intelligence. More...
The Mind Development Courses:
1. Super Vision (develop sensory intelligence) - Available Now for $39!
Home-study course to improve the mind's capacity for perception and integration between left and right brain, boosting memory, creativity, natural eyesight and drawing ability.
2. Effective Communication (communication skills course) - Available Now for $39!
Learn powerful communication skills that enable you to be more effective at work and in those situations of everyday life where better communication can make all the difference.
3. Concentration: Developing Willpower (concentration course) - Available Now!
If you are concentrating you are awake and aware - your mental life is both intensified and broadened. Are there ways to improve your concentration directly? Yes, and this course teaches the best of them.
4. Super Student (study skills course) - Available Now for $39!
Learn how to study a subject with maximum comprehension, recall and ability to apply what you have learned effectively.
5. Power Reading (effective reading course) - Available Now for $39!
Learn how to read both quickly and in depth over a wide range of subjects, and then to be able to appreciate, analyze and apply what you have read with clear and incisive intelligence.
Basic Courses CD (top value compilation) - Available Now!
The Mind Development courses 1-5 are available as a special package, delivered to your door on CD. Also including the New Life Course and the contents of the Tools for Transformation 2-CD set, this package costs just $150 and saves you $130.
This is the recommended sequence in which to do the courses, though if you have a special interest, each course can be done independently.
The following supplementary course will interest those who are active in sports...
Zen & the Art of Sprinting (only $9). This short course demonstrates the amazing changes in mental and physical capacity that can be created by effective practical mind development techniques, and illustrates how closely mind and body function in coordination.
"I would like to thank Gregory and Peter for your research and hard work. The groundbreaking information contained in the Mind Development courses is more valuable than anything I have learned in a classroom. The MD courses have helped me perform better in the classroom (I am a college student) and also help me in day to day activities, such as conversations and constructive arguments. I appreciate everything MD has done for me. I truly believe that these lessons need to be taught to everybody and hope that they will eventually make their way into traditional classrooms." --Nicholas Calarco
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Please note: The intention of Mind Development courses is to help normally bright and intelligent individuals develop their mental capacity, to shine brighter and have the resource of even more intelligence, by learning cognitive skills. It is not intended to substitute for remedial therapies, nor especially for any psychotherapy that an individual may require - for these it is essential to obtain individual treatment from a qualified professional.
NOTE by the publisher, Peter Shepherd
For 30 years Gregory Mitchell researched and developed the techniques for developing mental capacities such as memory, speed reading, enhanced intuition and creativity, and increased IQ. Yes, IQ certainly can be dramatically increased using his methods, with profound implications!
Emotional maturity is an equally important factor as IQ for happiness and social success, and Mind Development courses work in a balanced way to develop emotional intelligence as well, but there is no substitute for the brilliance of a quick and insightful mind, and that is the area for which these courses offer the best tools to help you excel.
Gregory ran group courses for many years in London that successfully applied his research. I was fortunate to work with him for several years during that time - his wide-ranging teachings are a major influence on the content of my book Transforming the Mind and are a foundation for the personal growth course I developed, The New Life Course, which is included as a bonus with the MD Courses Value Package.
Gregory Mitchell went on to research at the most advanced levels of Mind Development and discovered many further important insights. The latest research by cognitive scientists is only now beginning to uncover the ideas and methods that Gregory had been working with for 30 years!
Before he retired in 1994, Gregory granted me the rights to further develop and edit his materials in order to offer a series of home-study courses through the Internet. The foundation courses are now in place, and over the next few years there will be some 12 courses in total, which will cover the complete spectrum of cognitive development.
Do please keep an eye on this Mind Development site and join in the courses. If you work hard you can completely transform your mind and as a result, your life.