Hello... and welcome to Brain Magic.

Some of the challenges we faced in producing Brain Magic were deciding what topics to include and how much information to provide about each piece of brain magic.

To partially resolve this dilemma we decided to conduct an initial research study. In July 2004, 3000 people were invited to submit questions relating to what they most wanted to know about how we think and the way our brain works. We then spent several months reading these questions, eliminating duplications and attempting to make sense of the weird and wacky ones! Eventually we sorted them into the following five broad areas:

- Brain facts and figures

- Understanding how your brain works

- Developing your thinking skills

- Improving your memory

- Keeping your brain healthy

The most popular or interesting questions were then selected for further investigation and research, part of which included the involvement of Michael Tipper, a Grand Master of Memory and former runner-up in the World Memory Championship.

Well it depends what you already know. We have summarised below more than 50 of the many secrets that will be revealed so you can identify which ones are of most interest:

- 3 practical ways to improve your memory

- How an “enriched environment” can improve your health

- Methods to develop clarity in your thinking

- Which foods are proven to develop the brain

- How to identify what helps or hinders your thinking

- 5 activities that most enrich your brain

- How to grow new brain cells

- 4 key thinking components that influence your actions

- The benefit of increasing blood supply to the brain

- How to talk to yourself more effectively

- 10 possibility thinking areas you can apply

- An activity that can decrease anxiety, improve sleep pattern, moods

- 7 key principles of a successful thinking system

- How sleep benefits your brain

- 6 thinking techniques to improve your creativity

- How mental exercise can improve physical health

- Ways of overcoming hindering thoughts

- The most effective form of exercise to develop your brain

- How to increase mental concentration and attention to detail

- How to engage your imagination through high quality questioning

- How to be happy

- How to retain strong mental functioning ability in old age

- The “get out of jail” question to ask yourself when times are tough

- How to think on your feet quicker

Not only will you gain insight and a greater understanding about how you think and ways to develop your brain, you will also get practical tips and techniques that you can immediately apply to make a difference to yourself and others. You will discover how to think quicker, clearer and more creatively on a consistent basis; how to identify and replace hindering thoughts with more helpful thoughts; and how to nourish your brain with specific food, exercise and activities. You will also gain an understanding of what goes on inside your head and the heads of others when certain things happen.