Intelligence is like finger prints, all children are born with them yet no two are alike. Take a moment to look at your finger tips, notice the how the lines swirl, wave and curve to create patterns. These seemingly random lines form a signature that identifies you from all others and yet, unless you are aware of what is specific about them, they would not look any different from those of anybody else. Your child has an innate signature of intelligence when he identifies, synthesizes, organizes, responds and learns. From a distance this signature might resemble that of everyone else but, upon close inspection and with the proper ‘magnifying glass’, patterns of thought as unique to him as his fingerprint will be revealed. There are three key characteristics to intelligence which are not frequently discussed, and which parent needs to be keenly aware of if they want to gain more insight into their child’s learning behaviors.  The three are Sensory IQ, Social Understanding and Self-Esteem. In future blogs and within this website parents will find specific ways to evaluate their child’s different IQs and helpful hints to achieving child success.

By Dr. Neal M. Alpiner for the Child Prodigy Method

Richard feels like a super computer with a higher IQ and energy level

Client Details:

Richard Cage, from Calexico CA, USA

Status: Ex-Marine, Retired Teacher, Currently a Security Guard
BrainIgnite Member since August 6th, 2010.
VPA: Dr. Brian Hill

Before:

Richard had a consultation with me (Dr. Brian Hill) in early August when he explained

how he’d changed careers. Once being a marine and teacher of mathematics and english, Richard now worked as a security guard. He worked a regular shift that ran from late afternoon to late evening.

This change created some difficulties and mental performance issues in Richard’s life.

He had a hard time getting to sleep after work since he was quite “up” , energized and focused when he got home late at night.

When he awoke from a poor sleep, he would try to explore his areas of interest in history through reading, internet browsing, and watching historical documentaries during his free time in the morning– but he wasn’t able to focus, get his energy up, think clearly and really enjoy his spare time he had.

He was looking for a method of sharpening his mind since “work related” stimulation was very low, but he didn’t have the mental horse power to really get into a good ritual and process that could feed and activate his brain.

I explained to Richard that this is a very common set of realities given his job and work hours,  and that we could eliminate the performance issues he was experiencing and deliver big results.

On August 6th, Richard received his Flight Plan and set out on Flight Level 1 with hope and motivation.

With the BrainIgniter Player installed on his Windows PC, he began igniting and training his brain each day as instructed, by listening to his favorite music.

After:

Within the first few weeks , Richard started to listen to BrainAmp at 100% intensity during his free time in the morning and early afternoon, in accordance with the BrainIgnite challenge.

The goal was to get his energy and IQ up.

After a month I asked Richard to summarize his changes to date:

“Thus far, I have seen great results. I am on top of my game mentally speaking. I find myself speaking clearer and more professionally. I want more!!

I feel that I am sharp as a tack now. I can feel that I am smarter through the use of iMusic: I think faster in solving problems and answering questions, the BrainAmp is functioning in many levels, I truly feel that my brain is working at a highly efficient rate. The only thing that I need is more information to process, right now I feel that I have a super computer playing tic tac toe. I am waiting for the first of the month to initiate the knowledge base training with books, audio books, and documentaries.”
While he explains the impact BrainAmp had on his energy and mental sharpness, there was a downside. Because his energy levels got so high, he still had trouble sleeping.

“Regarding sleep, I am retired from the Marines and I am a credentialed teacher. When I was a teacher I woke at 3 am everyday including holidays. Most of my life, I have always woken up at 5 am at the latest everyday, I was a Marine , we wake up early.

I have taken various sleeping pills in the past to try to go to sleep only to wake at 3 am anyways “

Richard’s already experienced great improvement from the BrainIgnite program, but my goal is to deliver even further change.  His sleeping situation has been long term, but with the right use of BrainIgnite it can be cracked.

I’ve recently set Richard up with a new Flight-Plan and clear instructions on how to use BrainIgnite to improve his sleep and relaxation levels — and balance his brain more.

He has already reported improvements.  I’d like to update this case study in the near future once I see the impact we’ve had on his sleep performance.

Andy Will gets great success with BrainIgnite - a review and case study

Client Name: Andreas Will

Location: Germany

Status: Student — working towards his doctorate in business

Age: 33 years old

BrainIgnite Member Since: April 7th, 2010

VPA: Taylor Wilson, President of Volition

Before:

Andy was an iMusic user for a few years– when he heard about the BrainIgnite program, he wasn’t sure how this would help create more improvement considering he was already using iMusic CDs each day, but after we explained the benefits of the BrainIgniter Player and a customized action plan, he decided to give it a try.

On April 7th, Andy and Taylor used the BrainIgniter Tracker to assess his brain and develop a baseline.

We found Andy to be quite gifted with great brain fitness–  he had a high IQ and no problem focusing. But, Andy was suffering from low energy.  He felt a lot of friction when trying to get into a productive mode, making it a real chore to get important, high priority tasks done– procrastination was a big issue. But Andy was tenacious, and would almost always persevere and meet his deadlines, although it wasn’t easy, and the work could have been better quality.

He also felt a little off kilter at moments in his life– he often felt angry, and would get frustrated and upset with loved ones and friends.

Andy was thirsty for change; he wanted more brain power, more mental clarity and more energy.   We assured him that while he was doing very well for himself, we could eliminate the little problems he was experiencing and deliver big results.  On April 7th, Andy received his Flight Plan and set out on Flight Level 1 with hope and motivation.

With the BrainIgniter Player installed on his Windows PC, he began igniting and training his brain each day as instructed.

After:

After about 12 weeks of following his flight plan closely, Andy is now on Flight Level 2 and has experienced what can only be described as profound change.

His baseline showed that he was spending a few hours each day at “near peak performance levels” (level 4).

11 weeks later he was spending 7 hours a day at “peak performance levels” (level 5) which represents a major improvement in energy, clarity and overall mental performance.

Andy’s native language is german so he naturally waxes poetic about the great change he’s experienced in his mother tongue (a language we don’t quite understand but would love to learn), but he’s shared some of his thoughts with us in english.

“I can feel the progress in every part of my life now, I’ve seen great improvement in my work habits and work quality… I can feel the music in my mental muscle, giving me more power and mental stability… I want to become a Mensa member, my IQ is now 143 after using BrainIgnite so I am almost there… I am fully convinced of this technology. I want to do the whole program and continue to higher flight levels… In the last couple of days there were some hours I was getting a bit tired so I know there is even more room for improvement, but I am ready for the next step.”

The smarter your wife, the happier you will be

And oh, an educated woman is not necessarily a domineering know-it-all wife that tends to run your life for you — whether you boys agree or disagree with this, it’s an entirely different matter.

We simply can not over emphasize the importance of sleeping. Especially now that scientists link lack of sleep to Alzheimer’s, obesity, heart ailments, and even death, among others.

Check out 5 of the dangers associated with chronic lack of sleep:

1. Alzheimer’s Disease – that dreaded ailment anyone approaching the age of 65 starts worrying about. Why? It afflicts 34 million worldwide (Alzheimer’s Disease International), and this number could increase by more than 35 million by 2010.

In a study published by Reuters, scientists discovered that chronic lack of sleep spurs the development of toxic plaques in the brain that destroys neurons.

2. Alters hormones and metabolism – having just four hours of sleep each night can make you look old – after less than a week. Sleeping less than the standard eight-hour sleep produces a significant change in your glucose tolerance and endocrine function. These changes resemble the effects of aging or diabetes in it early stages.

3. Weight gain – the most obvious tie-ins to obesity would be sleep-deprivation and the wooziness that makes exercise a near impossibility. But it’s more than that. As cited above, some of the changes include hormonal imbalances involving leptin and ghrelin. Leptin suppresses your appetite so you’ll stop eating, and makes you more active so you burn off more energy. Ghrelin, on the other hand, stimulates hunger. You have more ghrelin before meals and it decreases after meals.

When you are sleeping, leptin increases so you don’t feel hungry. When you lack sleep, leptin is at a low supply and you have too much ghrelin that tells your brain you are hungry. So you eat. And eat. And eat.

3. Increased susceptibility to common cold – in a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine, 153 healthy participants’ sleep efficiency were monitored for 14 days. They were then quarantined and administered nasal drops containing rhinovirus, a type of virus that is responsible for common colds in adults and children. Those who had slept less than 7 hours on average were found to be more likely to develop colds compared to those who sleep at an average of 8 hours or more.

4. Heart problems – Time.com reports a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association, that “too little sleep can promote calcium buildup in the heart arteries, leading to the plaques that can then break apart and cause heart attacks and strokes.”

5. Diabetes - chronic lack of sleep causes hormonal imbalance (there it is again!) that affects glucose regulation. You don’t produce enough insulin producing cells that, in turn, cause your glucose levels to rise. Insulin is necessary to keep your blood sugar level in check. If you don’t sleep enough (7-8 hours a night) for a whole week, insulin and blood sugar levels in your system mimic those of a diabetic’s.
We’ve just named 5, and there are a lot more. As it weakens your immune system, one possible effect of chronic lack of sleep is death. Continually depriving yourself of enough sleep could lead to long-term changes in the brain or mental disorders such as depression. Sleep is the time when our brain consolidates memory and information, it is needed to regenerate certain parts of the body.
If you think you are being productive when you skip sleep to work, think again. Don’t go to bed thinking about this tonight as this could be worrisome. Worry causes stress.
Stress can keep you up at night, sleepless.

Your favorite tunes can affect you in more ways than you think

Whether you’re singing along Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi, or head-banging to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” in your Guitar Hero, you get a certain level of high – no matter how out of tune you may be.

Listen to a Tchaikovsky or a Rachmaninoff, or a Mendelssohn symphony and you will be moved to tears. Listen to Steppenwolf while cruising on a highway, and you’d feel like flooring your gas pedal. For most people, whether it is a melodious melancholic Alicia Keys or the gritty piercing riffs and brute force of a Rush, a Thundermug, or even a Judas Priest, music is an enjoyable form of entertainment.

And more.

Music de-stresses.