Children are born with 100 billion neurons (brain cells), a few million more or less. The brain is very important for the human species, so important that couple of weeks after conception, an embryo produces 500.000 neurons each minute. In adults, 300 million neurons connects the brain’s left and right sides. In order to function well and give its best, the brain needs to be well-nurtured and exercised.
Superbrain yoga is a simple squatting technique with the arms placed on ears which originated in India, and it offers benefits to children with learning disabilities, people with Alzheimer, but also everyone else who wants to improve their memory and brain function. It helps to sync both left and right brain hemispheres, and having them in sync means you're more intelligent, more observant, think more efficiently, and seem to comprehend a lot more too. Scientists claim it can improve attention span, and make mind more clear. Those who practice this technique often describe the feeling as some kind of fog or veil which surrounded the brain has been lifted.
How To Do The Exercise Properly
The exercise is very simple. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Put your left hand on the earlobe of your left ear. Pinch the earlobe. Thumb's in the front, and your index finger in the back of your ear. It shouldn't hurt, just make sure you can feel the pinch. It's very important that you start with the left hand. The right hand goes to the left earlobe in the same manner, so the arms are crossed in front of you. From this position, you will perform a squat, in a way that you breathe in through the nostrils while you go down, and breathe out as you go up. If you can, go low, forming a 90 degree angle with your knees if you can get that low. If you can't, it's fine, go as low as you can and work your way down.
As you stand up, exhale through the mouth. So, inhale through the nostrils, and exhale through the mouth, all the way from your belly. Extend the legs and squeeze the glutes, and remember to keep squeezing those earlobes all the time. It's for the best if you repeat this exercise at least 14 times every day, the more — the better. Some people do 21 repetitions, 2-3 times a day to fasten up the results. Everything depends from your goals and what you need. This exercise is amazing for the mind, but obviously for the body too.
How Exactly Superbrain Yoga Works
Scientists and doctors around the globe claim that squatting while squeezing our earlobes pumps up the cell and neuron activity in the brain. Seniors looking to stave off memory loss are doing it. Children in classrooms around the world are doing it. A medical doctor Eric Robins from Los Angeles talked an average C-student into doing these exercises, and claims that by the next semester the student was a completely different kid with almost straight A grades.
Denise Peak, a high school teacher in Malibu claims she has seen the same results in her disabled class consisting of students with different needs, some of them being autism and Asperger patients. She's been using squatting not to train their muscles, but to sharpen their minds. It's not only doctors and teachers using the benefits of superbrain yoga, it's neurobiologists, occupational therapists and many others. All these people have seen the results and have been amazed.
This technique could be the key to unblock and unlock underdeveloped brains. One of the most important things about it is that it can be done anywhere and it doesn't require drugs. It's a completely natural and safe solution.
You've probably lost your keys on many occasions just to find them on the most obvious place, or looking for your glasses with them standing on top of your head. Superbrain yoga practitioners claim it doesn't happen anymore, because the brain is functioning better and the attention span and memory are improved.
Occupational therapists claim this technique helps patients who are emotionally disturbed, anxious, dyslexic and having many more different disorders. Children with autism who bite, kick and punch those around them have less frequent emotional outbursts or fully lose them. Many people are hesitant to try or to have their children try because it's relatively new, unfamiliar and looks weird, but researches claim superbrain yoga helps all generations to raise intelligence and improve memory, regardless of age, gender, cultural backgrounds or any other external factors.
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When To Do It
If you meditate, do several repetitions after your meditation. It can be done in the morning before school or work. It's also good to do the exercise in the evening, after a hard day to relieve stress. It is said that people who practice superbrain yoga have 5 to 10 times more energy throughout the day just by doing the exercise. Actually, it can be done anywhere and anytime. It energizes lower part of the body and brings the energy to the upper part. In Chinese medicine, it's all about energizing the body and bringing the energy up to the nervous system. It can be done when a person is feeling unfocused, to ground oneself, to feel more energized and happy and of course — to improve the memory. Try the technique and tell us how it helped you.
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