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Because it is an amount of time that even the busiest people can carve from their day. It will not impinge on all the other priorities that demand your time. Further, it is the shortest amount of time in which to enable the powerful combination of the eight Mind Chi steps to have an effect. As it is an unusual amount of time (rather than ten minutes) it ‘stands out’ in the memory – which is important for learning. Why twenty-eight days? Because it has long been held that 28 con­ secutive days is the minimum length of time that it takes for the brain to turn a new behaviour into a habit.

When you learn to activate your willpower, or volition, you will reap the benefits of taking purposeful action and see more projects completed. But engaging volition isn’t easy. It’s at a higher attainment level than motivation. Motivation is the desire to do something; volition is the absolute commitment to achieving something. 36 Mind Chi To activate your volition, you must pass through a mental barrier. Research has shown that many people are motivated to achieve, but only ten percent are likely to overcome personal barriers to commit to the task in hand.

This view has since been reversed: the brain is now known to be seat of intelligence, although the heart still features symbolically in our descriptions of memory, as in ‘learning something by heart’. Introduction to Mind Chi 11 Arabic literature of the tenth century includes detailed descriptions of neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology of the brain, and identifies several neurological ‘disorders’ and symptoms, including sleeping sickness, memory loss, coma, vertigo, epilepsy and love sickness.