Visual working memory is highly correlated to intelligence: People with a bigger VWM tend to score better on cognitive challenges. Have students practice multiple ways of visually encoding and retrieving information.

You have probably heard of the analogy of the subconscious mind as being like an iceberg. For example, when you see a iceberg in the ocean, you can only see the tip. The majority of the iceberg’s mass is below the surface. Our minds are the same – our conscious mind being the tip of the iceberg, and our unconscious mind being “under the surface”.

In all of these situations your subconscious mind is processing this information outside of your regular conscious awareness. Taking the first example listed above: When you hear your name mentioned you snap into that conversation. You can now hear every detail of what they are saying because your subconscious mind was processing all along.

What do you focus on most of your days? How beautiful the world around you is – or – how frustrated you are? How much abundance you have in your life – or – how nothing ever seems to go your way? When you focus on what is wrong, you can see it everywhere. When you focus on what is right – you will find an equal number of experiences and facts to support that belief. Focusing on the negative, or all that is wrong, keeps you stuck. When you focus on all that is right, good, wonderful and abundant in your life you will attract more joy into your life.

Years ago, Napoleon Hill in Think & Grow Rich said “What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” People had known of the ultimate mind power that each of has even then. It is no new phenomenon.