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  1. The Stroop Effect You can Feel your Brain Slowing Down!

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    The Stroop Effect - Feel your thoughts slow down as you think and concentrate

    Here's a fun test that you can try for yourself and also feel your own brain and its ability to think slowing down as you do it!

    Watch the Video and see how well you get on with it. You may be surprised about how hard it is!





    The Stroop effect is the finding that naming the colours of colour words (e.g. the words 'orange', 'red', 'blue', etc.) is easier and quicker if the actual observed colours of the words match the colours that the words denote (e.g. the colours orange, red, blue, etc., respectively) than if they do not match.

    It start of easy and then gets harder and harder as you carry on.
    I wonder how well you will get on and if you can actually feel the pauses as you try and work out what is happening and what the words and colours are?!

  2. Benedict Cumberbatch talks about the Power of the Mind

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    With the release of the new Movie Dr. Strange on the horizon its star Benedict Cumberbatch has been talking all about the power of the mind and his spiritual background.

    Benedict Cumberbatch Dr Strange interview about the Power of the Mind

    Speaking on BBC Breakfast in an interview with Naga Munchetty the Sherlock star was asked about his experiences both in the past and currently.

    Asked by Naga "I know this film is very spiritualistic in many ways and I have had hints reading about you that is something you have looked into as well. What have you come away with?"

    Benedict explained how his past had informed his future..

    "Very much so. It reignited something that I had already touched base with in my teens. I was lucky enough to teach in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Darjeeling. It was a mind blowing experience for a western white teenager after an education here. Just to experience that tradition, and that amazing power of the mind. It's that more than anything that has stayed with me from that, and also being exacerbated by what we did in the film. The power of the mind to sort of change your reality and we meditated as a cast. We had a Tibetan monk every now and again, and we were taught to concentrate, focus and meditate and that is helpful for anyone in any walk of life.

    The power of the mind, as I said, is something that we can all use to benefit from meditation and mindfulness...in this crazy world."

    You can take just three minutes right now to experience how it feels when you switch off from the world by listening to the 3 minute mindful exercise in the Youtube Video below...