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Nourish Your Brain: HolzKirch Handout…Selections from LecturesHolzKirch, Germany June 2008

Nourish Your BrainHolzkirchen, Germany

June, 2008

Brain ResearchInstitute

BrainMatrix, Inc.

Alarik Arenander, Ph.D.

GenesExperience

Your brain is plastic

Pascual-Leone etal, Ann Rev Neurosci 28:377, 2005

Power of Attention

We chose everything in life!

Our choices make us who we are!

• Most important area• Last to develop• Longest development• Most vulnerable to

aging• Loss of executive &

memory functionsG. Bartzokis, Neurobiol Aging, 25:5, 2004

Connectivity

1. Nourishment2. Information3. Transmission

Glia Control

Self-Ref FunctionCognitive Function

Self & Aging

Alzheimer’sDisease

A Disconnect!

RiskOccupation

Education

Injury

Toxins

Disease

NutritionAGE

Age–Related Myelin Breakdown

G. Bartzokis, Neurobiol Aging, 2004AGE

DisconnectConnect

Prevent your brain

from ‘Drying Up’

Alzheimer’sLoss of brain coherence!

Stam etal…

Protracted development

Myelin breakdown

Disrupted impulse traffic

Loss of synchrony

Cognitive & memory loss

Network disconnection

G. Bartzokis, Neurobiol Aging, 25:5, 2004

Global Brainwave Coherence

Over 90% of people have not reached their full potential

Self Development

Age of Sample

E5 Norm

123456

Cohn, In Personality Development, Westenberg, 1998

NeuromuscularEfficiency

Self-Awareness

AcademicPerformance

DecreasedAnxiety

Self-Development

InnerOrientation

MoralReasoning

ConceptLearningEmotional

Stability

DecreasedNeuroticism

Intelligence

ComputationalEfficiency

Creativity

CEOBrainwaveCoherence

Increase brain coherence to reduce risk of Alzheimer’s

RiskOccupation

Education

Injury

Toxins

Disease

NutritionAGE

TM Reduces

Risk Factors

SelfUnified Field

VataPitta

DoshasVata

(motion, communication)Pitta

(transformation, metabolism)Kapha

(structure, stability)

AgingToo much Vata!!

Small, dry = shrinkageCommunicate = DisruptionMovement = Agitation

AgingToo little Kapha!!

Nourish = Metab dysfunctionStable = Tangles, plaquesUnctuous = Myelin lossSweetness = anxious, anger

Decreased KaphaLoss of lubrication,stability, sustaining

Increased VataToo much drying,

agitation, disruption

Natural BalancingVitamins (Bs, folate)

Pepper, brahmi, gotukola, shankapushpiGhee & Omega FAsMind & Consciousness

Nourish Your Brain & Life

MoreBrain

Coherence

More Happiness &

Success

Leadership

Creative Potential

Coherence

Experience

High Performance

Brain Plasticity

Three Fundamentals of

High Performance

Awareness

Decision-Making

Motivation

Self-controlValues

Creativity

Who do you want as a leader?

ReactiveTruth (Personal)

Part (Fragmenting)Control (win/lose)

Efficiency(do the thing right)

Path-followingObject-Referral

ProactiveTruth (Universal)Whole (Unifying)

Collaboration (win/win)Effectiveness

(do the right thing)Path-findingSelf-Referral

Conventional Post-Conventional

Self-Control

Decision-Making

Creat-ivity

Values

Aware-ness

Moti-vationStage

Upgrading the Executive Brain

HigherBrain

Coherence

HigherLeadership

Performance

Higher Creative Potential

AvailableSummer

Are all meditations the same?

Travis and Pearson, Intern. J. Neuroscience, 100: 77, 2000

Restful Alertness

Transcending

F.Travis, et al, in press, 2007

Long-Range Alpha Synchronization

Herbert, etal NeuroReport, 2006

Control SubjectEyes-Closed RestGlobal distribution of alpha zero phase-lag synchrony

Comparison of alpha synchrony with normative database

Herbert, etal NeuroReport, 2006

Long-Range Alpha Synchronization

Comparison of alpha synchrony with normative database. Note, significant deviations are all long distance pairings.

MeditatorTM practiceGlobal distribution of alpha zero phase-lag synchrony

Active outer awareness (Waking)or

Loss of outer awareness (Sleep)

A Fifth State of ConsciousnessEnlightenment

Silent, inner awareness (Self)

co-existing with

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

Rare Occasional Continuous

Human Development

Reported Co-existence ofTranscendental and Waking States

F.Travis, et al, Biol Psych, 2002

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

Rare Occasional Continuous

PFCX Broad-Band EEG Coherence Global Theta-Alpha EEG AmplitudeGlobal Simple-Choice CNV Difference Scores

Reported Co-existence ofTranscendental and Waking States

Brain-based Integration Scale

F.Travis, Tecce, Arenander, et al, Biol Psych, 2002

Decreased Medical Care UtilizationTM practitioners vs. the Norm

Other GroupsTM

Doctor Visits

0–18 19–39 40+0

300 p< .0001

Hospitalization

Age0–18 19–39 40+

p< .0001

D. Orme-Johnson, Psychosomatic Medicine, 49:493–507, 1987

R. Herron, etal, J. Soc Behav Personality, 2001

Reduction in Health Care CostAnnual inflation-adjusted payments to

private physicians for treatmentCanada, >65 yrs age; all settings; N=163

p = 0.0017

VĀSTU

Perfection of Natural Law at the Inception

OrientationPlacementProportionBuilding elements, Site elements Slope and shape of land Exposure to rising sunElements in the environment

Your Cognitive Map

Space-time frameworkTimeline of lifeMemory contextIdentity construct

Constructing a model or map of the Self

Creating realityCreating space-time

Place(spatial location, 1971)

Head Direction(internal compass, orientation, 1984)

Grid(path integration, 2004) A

Establish FieldRishi Value

‘Grid’ Cells

Crystalline triangular grid pattern that covers the entire environment

‘Grid’ CellsPath Integration

Flow of AttentionDevata Value

Head Direction Cells

PointChhandas Value

Place Cells

Human Place Cells

InvincibilityBrain designed toremember experienceacross all states ofconsciousnessRegister and storeexperience of TC

InvincibilityDuring Transcending, Grid

cells would have alternative firing pattern corresponding to increasing degrees of SR and decreasing values of OR

(space-time) configuration

Spatial firing patterns related to non-spatialvalues: goals, reward…PFC neurons phase-locking to the hippocampaltheta rhythm; working memory

Change brain activity

Change connection to self

and the world

Maharishi Sthapatya Veda®

Connecting individual life with Cosmic Life

Individual intelligence with Cosmic Intelligence

Invincibility

Maintain identity, integrity, stability

in midst of change

Invincibility

Ability of the system to resist disorder based on coherent collective

functioning

Invincibility

Handle changeby handlingnonchange

Invincibility

Self-Referral Consciousness

Invincibility

Transcendental Consciousness Self

Transcending

ActionPotential

‘A’

‘k’

Na+ K+

A wave consciousness

Two ModesBurst

Silent

‘A’

RelayDynamic

‘k’

Area 1

‘Local’ Coherence

Area 1

‘Global’ Coherence

Area 1 Area 2

“Local”

“Global”

World CEO

Waking Meditation

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