From: poirier@bnr.ca (Daniel Poirier)
Subject: Re: Requesting relaxation and brain exercises and sources.
Keywords: relaxation, visualization, autogenics 
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:46:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.071812.10595@samba.oit.unc.edu> Seth.Morris@launchpad.unc.edu (Seth Morris) writes:
  > I am compiling a file containing relaxation exercises and various brain/mind
  >exercises.
  >
... details deleted ...
  >
  > I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, advice, and especially any
  >exercises you may have on any of these topics (or opinions on my topic
  >breakdown, I'm certainly not married to it). Also, I would like to hear
  >of any source material I've overlooked (like existing net compendiums, or
  >more recent books).
  >
  > Thank you.
  > Seth Morris (seth.morris@launchpad.unc.edu)
  >


Seth,

I know nothing about the subject, but recived a brochure in the mail
yesterday, which contained stuff you may be interested in.

The brochure is from Smart PC, and contains software (mostly for IBM
PC, and some for MacIntosh). Within the brochure, there were a few
things which I noticed:

- IQ SMarts: "... goes beyond the original Stanford-Binet IQ tests you
              may have taken in school. Those tests measure your
              reasoning, but don't measure your creative ability. 
              IQ Smarts, however, measures both..."
             "... prints out a complete report with your overall IQ
              scores, as well as informative scores for practical,
              academic and creative ideas."
             "... gives you exercises and a strategy that can actually
              help imrpove your IQ..."

- StudyWare: "... test yourself again and again on hundreds of
              typical questions, working against the clock. To learn
              from your answers, Tutor mode gives you immediate
              feedback..."

- IQ Builder: "... offers a systematic way to unleash the full power
               of your intellect...gives you 25 IQ tests... will
               compute your general IQ as well as your numerical and
               verbal IQ instantly. Exercises are given in levels...
               has four multimodule sections for enhancing these
               important aspect of mental performance: sounds,
               colors, ketters and numbers."

- CalmPute:   "... slip your fingers on the CalmPute galvanic skin
               response (GSR) biosensor ... you get immediate
               on-screen information about what's going on inside your
               body and mind. Charts, graphs and visual patterns tell
               you immediately if you are tensing or relaxing..."

- MindViewer: "... asks you a series of multiple choice questions
               about your subject's personality and then gives you a
               detailed profile on them."

Note 1: Some of these may only be remotely related to your query;
        however, some are actually quite close to the kind of stuff
        I think you're looking for. I guess you could consider some
        of these as "sources".

Note 2: I know NOTHING about Smart PC, never bought anything from
        them, don't own any shares, don't date the vice-president's
        niece, or have anything else to do with them. As a matter
        of fact, I'd never even heard about them until I got their
        catalog in the mail yesterday. The catalog does contain a
        few programs that sound interesting, though (blood pressure
        tracker - complete with pressure unit for serial port, time
        managers, mapping software, medical manager, etc...). But 
        DO NOT count me as a reference!

Note 3: The quotations above (listed with the products) are theirs,
        not mine. The typos and spelling mistakes, as well as the
        deletions (wherever I used "...") are mine.

Regards,

           Daniel.


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