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ISBN: 0-440-22388-1 Reprinted by arrangement with Delacorte Press Printed in the United States of America Published simultaneously in Canada August 1997 109876 OPMTo the pioneers worldwide, many of whom are mentioned in these pages, who with vision, passion, and courage are venturing to set free that “imprisoned splendor” that waits in us all. Acknowledgments Thanks are owed to the many men and women who have shared their thoughts and their work with us. A special word of gratitude to: Charles Adamson, Ivan Barzakov, Al Boothby, Janalea Hoffman, Patricia Joudry, Michael Lawlor, Toni Maag, Mayumi Mori, Pamela Rand, Robina Salter, Dyveke Spino, Bruce Tickell Taylor, John Wade, Hartmut Wagner, Rosella Wallace, Win Wenger. And what would we have done without the support of Donna MacNeil and Christina Vandenboorn, who kept our Su- perlearning base afloat through bad times and good times. Finally, our thanks to Richard Gallen and John McCaleb for their support and negotiating skills.ea > yee Pie Nae Sie on Contents What Is Superlearning? SECTION ONE HOW FAR CAN YOU REACH? HOW FAST CAN YOU GO? A NEW EDGE SUPERMEMORY? THE RIGHT STATE = THE RIGHT STUFF LEARNING WITH THE SUBLIMINAL MEMORY BEFRIENDING YOUR BODY SUPERLEARNING MUSIC GOING FOR BAROQUE SECRET INGREDIENTS IN MUSIC THE SOUND OF A MIRACLE THE BUSINESS OF CHANGE FIREWORKS AT WORK THE SENSES OF LEARNING IMAGINE YOURSELF BLOCKS TO LEARNING, CHANGE, LIVING BRAINS ARE MADE FOR CHALLENGING xiii 85) Si 62 79 90 105 121 141 149 160 179 194 213viii CONTENTS 16. ie 18. 195 20; 21. 22. SMART FOOD AND SUPER NUTRITION 225 THE HIGH-TECH MINDPOWER REVOLUTION 243 A LANGUAGE IN A MONTH? 265 WORLD CLASS AND WEEKEND SPORTS 278 OLD BRAINS AND NEW TRICKS 287 CREATIVITY 296 ON THE EDGE 304 SECTION TWO HOW-TO HANDBOOK OF SUPERLEARNING D3. 24. 22: HOW TO REACH THE OPTIMAL SUPERLEARNING STATE Be Dissolving Stress © Visualizations for Mind Calm- ing @ Excelebration! Joy of Learning Recall e Breathing in Rhythm HOW TO PREPARE YOUR OWN SUPERLEARNING PROGRAM 330 Rhythmic Pacing of Data © Intonations Amount of Data per Session ® Twelve-Second Cycle @ Taping Your Program @ Dramatic Pre- sentation @ ExploringComponents © Superlearn- ing Music—How-to @ Superlearning “Active” Concert ® Getting Started with Superlearning Music © Superlearning Music Selections SUPERLEARNING LANGUAGES— HOW-TO 347 How to Organize Your Language Material to Make a Tape ® Language-Teaching Program—How-to e The Original Suggestopedic Language-in-a- Month Program © Superlearning and Some West-CONTENTS ix 26. 2s 28. 29: 30. ois ern Variations ® Sound Therapy for Languages e “Superstudy” ® Accelerated Esperanto ¢ New Dimensions for Languages ® “Total Physical Re- sponse” ® Bypassing “Ted’s Tears” © British Acceleration ® Natural Order for Language Mate- rial © Learning Expansion ® Humor and Lan- guages ® Professional Training ® Open Sesame for Languages COACHING YOUR CHILD—PRESCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL 371 Preschoolers ® Learning in the Womb? © Coach- ing School-Age Children © Homework © Re- member, You’re a Voter HOW TO SUPERLEARN SCIENCE, COMPUTERS, HIGH-TECH 385 SUPERLEARNING FOR BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 394 HOW-TO ROUNDUP: SUPERLEARNING FOR READING, GRAMMAR, MATH, THE BLIND, TV GAME SHOWS 401 Superlearning Reading Program ® Photo Read- ing ® Superlearning for English Composition and Grammar @ Superlearning Math © Superlearning for the Blind and Physically Challenged @ How to Use Superlearning to Win TV Game Shows ACCELERATIVE INTRODUCTORY METHOD AND REVERSE INSTRUCTION 414 BREAKTHROUGHS FOR THE LEARNING-DISABLED 419 Sound Therapy for Dyslexia ® Attention Deficit Disorder @ Autism ® Down Syndrome @ Other Conditions © Ear Acupuncture ® Signature Soundbe CONTENTS © Superlearning for Learning Disabilities ¢ Sophrology for Learning Disorders © Resources— Breakthroughs for Learning Disabilities SECTION THREE EXERCISES STRESS CONTROL 435 Breathing for Mindpower @ Gold-Blue Energy Breathing ® SoundBath © ShowerofPower—for Cleansing and Conditioning © Progressive Relax- ation © Scan and Relax @ Autogenics ® How to Add the Power of Gravity to Visualizations GUIDED VISUALIZATIONS 455 Creating Past, Present, and Future Memories @ Dial Direct 1-800-SUB: How to Get Directly in Touch with Your Subconscious Mind @ Videos of Your Mind: Life’s Greatest Videos ® Inner-Weather Wizard © Memory-Lane Garden @ The Possible You ... Now ® Mind Designs: Concentration Pat- terns @ Prosperity Tree SECTION FOUR RESOURCES 479 BIBLIOGRAPHY 489 INDEX 516SUPER- LEARNING 2000What Is Superlearning? These are the Superlearning core techniques that vastly accelerate learning and brighten performance. Tech- niques that can help you take charge of change. * Get into a stress-free, “best” mindbody state for what you are doing ¢ Absorb information in a paced, rhythmic way ¢ Use music to expand memory, energize the mind, and link to the subconscious ¢ Engage your whole brain, your senses, emotions, and imagination for peak performance ¢ Become aware of blocks to learning and change, then flood them away Not even a multiple personality would want to use all the exercises and ploys offered in this book. The idea is to give you a choice. You don’t need to pick up very many to flesh out the basic Superlearning protocols. First and fore- most, Superlearning involves a new sense of your self and your possibilities, a new perspective—a_ twenty-first- century point of view.Section One HOW FAR CAN YOU REACH? HOW FAST CAN YOU GO?1 A New Edge “Tf the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” remarked Abraham Maslow. It’s time to reach into a bagful of new tools and stop hammering out the same old solutions. It’s time to give up horse-and- buggy learning. Time perhaps to tune in to a curious melody circling the world, special music that is helping people learn faster than they ever imagined, helping them change with a grace and ease they never thought possible. In Herrenberg, Germany, middle-aged IBM employees close their eyes and heave a sigh of relief as the soothing strains of Vivaldi begin to play. Halfway around the world, on St. Lawrence Island in the frozen Bering Strait, Vivaldi’s “Winter” seems particularly apropos as a gang of feisty Eskimo teens close their eyes, too, and settle in for the day’s lesson between whaling stints. In Indiana a bright sixth-grader sets the music playing. She checks her graphs to see how the music has influenced her class- mates’ test scores. In Montreal a would-be champion feels his body relax to the wonderful music as vivid images of a tough karate match pivot in his mind. Would you like to learn two to five times faster without stress? And remember what you’ve learned? You can.Ui SUPERLEARNING 2000 That’s what the people wrapped in the special music were doing. They are engaged in a new way to learn that we call Superlearning. They are using it to tap in to that ocean of potential that experts keep saying lies waiting in each of us. “I never knew learning could be so much fun!” ex- claimed one German IBM employee, echoing the exhil- aration that often springs as learning accelerates and talents open up. Being able to soak up facts, figures, and high-tech data two to five times faster than before can help put you on the fast track to new opportunities and higher earnings. It’s proven to save enormous amounts of time and money in job training or retraining, and in learning the languages of the global economy. That’s part of the underreported good news. But it’s only half of the story. Something else is important to all of us. Change isn’t an option anymore. The option now is to become an agent of change, not a victim of change. As never before, we need to be flexible, to know how to take charge of change without terrible struggle. As never before, we need the know-how to bring more of our abilities on line—that supposed 90 or 95 percent of human potential we don’t usually connect with. A hundred years ago William James calculated we use only about five percent of our innate ability. “It’s more like three percent. Few of us use even five percent of our capacity,”’ insists Dr. Raymond Abrezol, who has trained hundreds of Olympic stars. How far might we reach? “The ultimate, creative ca- pacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite,” says writer-educator George Leonard. That’s a quote from our first Superlearning book, published in 1979. It always sounds so good, so wide open. But then what do you do? How do you wake up and not see the same old person in the mirror in the same old grooveA NEW EDGE E every morning? Here are some new quotes from individ- uals who’ve found one way to begin to bring more of themselves alive. “Besides increased facility in learning, Superlearning has been the starting point of profound and highly benefi- cial changes in my personality,” writes Montreal neurolo- gist Christian Drapeau. Another Canadian, the well-regarded writer Robina Salter, says simply, “My acquaintance with the new ap- proach created a paradigm shift in my life.” “Again and again teachers, trainers, and learners say that the courses have changed their lives,” reports Gail Heidenhain, director of Delphin, a German business train- ing company that uses the new techniques. “It is one thing to say that everyone has much hidden potential, but how much more powerful to actually discover that J have potential I never dreamt I had. Only then does theory come to life.” “After thirty years of teaching, I knew there had to be a better way,” says Californian Bruce Tickell Taylor. “Su- perlearning has changed my life for the better and that of my students too.” Dr. Mayumi Mori, a pioneering Japanese educator, heard these comments from her accelerated learning class: One student wrote, “I felt as if I had touched upon something very deep and essential as a human being.” Another marveled, “Who could even imagine that one could be moved so deeply in lessons like English conver- sation!” From Yokohama to New York to Heidelberg, something is stirring as people begin to sense their own possibilities. Most are surprised how easy it is to connect with new talents—once they know how. Except for one young man. His passion to realize the dreams pushing up inside him became a life or death challenge. On the cloudy night of September 10, 1976, Bulgarian6 SU MeN erat) Ivan Barzakov waded away from the shore into the choppy Adriatic Sea and began to swim. He was swimming for America. First stop would be the marshy Yugoslavian coast almost seven miles across open, shark-infested water. Barzakov wasn’t a champion swimmer, just a good one, when he wasn’t fighting off asthma, a frequent fight in Bul- garia, where needed medication was rarely available. Ivan Barzakov had one thing going for him. He was a teacher trained in a new form of learning developed by the Bulgar- ian M.D. Georgi Lozanov, a method that is the taproot of all Western Superlearning systems. “T had the kernels of the mental technology,” Bar- zakov says, and he used it to relax and keep stroking when the unremitting cold almost paralyzed him. He sum- moned it to block two incipient asthma attacks. Stroking farther and farther out, “I had to use the mental technol- ogy to block memories of death. On several occasions in the sea I have almost been chased by death. Years before, I'd tried to escape by swimming to Turkey, but the cold forced me back.” Swim, Ivan, swim for America ... arm-wearying stroke after stroke. About the time he realized he’d never swum so far before, “I heard noises, I thought the Yugoslavs must be dumping something in the sea—then suddenly the water all around me shifted. It seemed to boil! Later I learned it was the moment of the great earthquake in Trieste.” But Ivan kept swimming. He made it through the treacherous Yugoslavian marshes, across the border to Italy, and into a refugee camp—the sort with one shower for five hundred people. Today Ivan Barzakov with his American wife, Pamela Rand, another innovative teacher, leads OptimaLearning Systems in Novato, California. He’s nurtured those ker- nels of mental technology into full-blown techniques to help others find the freedom of enhanced performance. InA NEW EDGE ve 1992 a seemingly impossible full circle closed. Barzakov was invited to bring his expertise back to Bulgaria to help his countrymen navigate the treacherous turbulence of changing from police state to free economy. What propelled Barzakov to commit himself so com- pletely to the black Adriatic waves? “The number one issue was to be free of the oppressive Communist yoke,” he told us recently. Then he added another goal ‘‘no less important.” “Thad the privilege to work with Dr. Lozanov’s exper- imental education, and I knew these ideas were just at the beginning. We were accelerating language learning and memory. But I felt there was something more, much more. It’s what so attracted people in your first Superlearning book, a feeling for the enormous potential of human be- ings, the excitement of our capacities. . .. With this tech- nology I knew we could touch a profound source within us. But that could only happen in the West, particularly in America.” A Wake-Up Call A global wake up call has been ringing for quite a while. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton resonated to it during the TV debates when he said, “To keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result is a form of insanity.” It’s a good quote, from personal- development coach Tony Robbins. Candidate H. Ross Perot almost seemed to be echoing us as he repeatedly insisted, ““We have to learn how to learn.”’ That’s been the rallying cry of Superlearning since its beginning. “The horizon leans forward offering you space to place new steps of change,” Maya Angelou said on the cold, clear high noon of the inauguration of the forty-second president of the United States. She looked out at the listening women, men, children thronging the Capitol