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A Better Future For Your Child Begins With You I believe all parents yearn to see their children grow up happy, healthy and prosperous. In spite of care, concern and attention from parents, youth misdemeanour and social issues caused by teenagers are worryingly on the rise. Where did we go wrong? An invisible “trap” emerges when parents lack awareness in caring for children during the precious preschool years. Undetected and uncorrected immediately, a child who is exposed to negative words and other undesirable habits would naturally mimic them. This cycle becomes embedded into the subconscious mind of the child, thus, forming the very foundation of the child’s character and behaviour. Once they fall into this trap, it gets deeper and changes their personality. This booklet summarizes the art of childcare during the preschool period into eight simple tips; which starts as early as the age of newborns up to 10 years old. The information provided helps parents nurture their children and avoid pitfalls caused by the earlier mentioned “trap”. We hope that parents out there can apply the eight tips explained in this booklet to develop their own self- confidence and raise joyful children. We also aim to increase inner strength of children to help them grow up independently and eventually become a happy adult. Henmi Educational General Laboratory President Hirotada Henmi

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A Better Future For Your Child Begins With You

I believe all parents yearn to see their children grow up happy, healthy and prosperous. In spite of care, concern and attention from parents, youth misdemeanour and social issues caused by teenagers are worryingly on the rise. Where did we go wrong?

An invisible “trap” emerges when parents lack awareness in caring for children during the precious preschool years. Undetected and uncorrected immediately, a child who is exposed to negative words and other undesirable habits would naturally mimic them. This cycle becomes embedded into the subconscious mind of the child, thus, forming the very foundation of the child’s character and behaviour. Once they fall into this trap, it gets deeper and changes their personality.

This booklet summarizes the art of childcare during the preschool period into eight simple tips; which starts as early as the age of newborns up to 10 years old. The information provided helps parents nurture their children and avoid pitfalls caused by the earlier mentioned “trap”.

We hope that parents out there can apply the eight tips explained in this booklet to develop their own self-confidence and raise joyful children. We also aim to increase inner strength of children to help them grow up independently and eventually become a happy adult.

Henmi Educational General Laboratory

President Hirotada Henmi

Director Ruiko Henmi

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Table of Content

A Better Future For Your Child Begins With You

About The Authors

Table Of Content

Chapter 1 Eight Tips Bring Out The Best In Your Children

1 Raise Children By Developing Strengths

2 Raise Children With Their Uniqueness

3 Do Not Be Pressured By Elite Education

4 Nurture Your Children With Rewards, Not Punishment

5 Nurture Your Children By The “Kindness” (Zen) Within Them

6 Bring Up A Child By Understanding Various Growth Processes

7 Parents And Teachers Influence Results And Performances

8 Respect And Acknowledge The Child

Chapter 2 Five Ways To Enhance Potential Talent In Children

1 Increase The Brain Container (Capacity)

2 Discovering And Developing Innate Abilities Of Children

- 3 Build Self-Confidence In Children

4 Develop The Child’s Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

5 Develop Their True Thinking Ability

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Chapter 3 What Is Heguru Program (HEGL)?

More About Us

In The Laboratory

Chapter 1

Eight Tips to Bring Out the Best in Your Children

1. Raise Children By Developing StrengthsEvery child has strengths and weaknesses. There are children that excel in sports but weak in their studies, while there are also children who can draw very well but do not possess good communication skills.. and the list goes on. In short, no one is perfect.

Living in a fast-paced world provokes the need to be competitive and incites fear within parents where they feel the need to prepare their child intensely to ensure a stable future. This requires various solutions to overcome childrens’ weaknesses by administering additional tuition and other relevant skill courses. Regardless, the problem cannot be totally eliminated, as there is a possibility that the child will lose motivation and focus in other fields during this process. In raising a child, it is important to build confidence and provide continuous support to the child’s endeavours rather than demotivating the child to do something they do not favour by force.

The following story happened when a mother wanted to help her child overcome his weakness in mathematics. Instead of sharpening his skills, the extra classes added fuel to the fire.

“I was very weak in mathematics in primary school. My mother noticed this when I was in Primary Four. Thinking of giving me a better future, she sent me to a mathematics class nearby to help me master the concept of high-speed calculation.

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Immediately, I was asked to take an assessment. I was upset when results showed that my calculation ability was only at Primary 3 level. This made me lose my confidence. Furthermore, in order for me to catch up, the tutor provided me with lots of homework. Instead of improving, I started to worry about my weakness in math and given the huge amount of homework, my condition deteriorated.

Finally I lost faith towards my ability in solving mathematical problems to the point that I would feel nauseous when I have to deal with numbers. Even now, when I need to calculate or use numbers, I become nervous and feel helpless.”

The child in the given example should not feel disheartened anymore. Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 42. Not many people knew behind his success was a weakness that was remedied differently.

Did you know that Einstein was in fact, a poor grade student?Einstein was extremely weak in subjects such as history, foreign languages and was given the nickname “Idiot”. When he was in secondary school, his Latin language teacher commented, “absolutely nothing has gone right with him”. Finally, he dropped out of high school.

However, Einstein’s strength was that he was able to solve difficult mathematical equations easily. Einstein focused on expanding this strength thoroughly. As a result, a Swiss university recognized this potential and from there he further explored the genius talent.

If we can increase our ratio of strength to weakness from 5:5 to 10:5, the power that emerges from it becomes remarkable. Instead of amending flaws, we must work on the merits of our child. We can channel newfound confidence generated from a child’s enhanced skill as energy to handle the remaining problem areas. Children will approach their learning issues proactively with an appropriate attitude and believe that the saying “if there is a will, there is a way”. In addition, parents should also be generous with praise and encouragement to ensure the child’s rapid growth.

2. Raise Children With Their Uniqueness

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Most parents label a child “good”, when they study hard, do well academically and listen to their parents. On the other hand, a child who does not study, produces poor results and does not follow instructions is labelled otherwise. Surprisingly, many great individuals of the world belong to the latter group. Among others are Albert Einstein, Galileo, Mozart, the Wright brothers, Leonardo da Vinci, John Lennon, J.F Kennedy, Thomas Edison, Ryoma Sakamoto, et cetera. They were all said to have been diagnosed with ADHD (Attention

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) (Reference: 「ひらめきすぎる人々」ロクスケ摘著、 VOICE Magazine). Children who have this condition possess 3 major symptoms that include short attention span, impulsiveness and the inability to stay calm (hyperactivity).

Imagine how difficult their lives were growing up during their time. The environment they lived in did not provide the best conditions or technology to produce outstanding learners through sophisticated learning methods that we have today. Although they were not star students, these great individuals proceeded to hone skills to the best of their passion and knowledge while creating job opportunities and made this world a better place for us. Some time ago, Nobel Prize award achiever, Professor Koichi Tanaka said,“The most important matter is to be enthusiastic in what a person loves to do”. Hence, we should respect a child’s passion and interests in life and get to know the child as a person instead of comparing to other children or siblings.

The world’s greatest inventor, Thomas Edison did not attend primary school and learned the ways of the world from his mother. In fact, his curiosity and hunger for knowledge developed mainly because Edison’s mother did not deter him from experimenting and his abilities were discovered thereafter. At a later stage, Edison said, “The reason I have become what I am today is because of my mother. She understood my heart and encouraged me to study what I love. ” Edison’s mother was never short of support and praises for Edison whom she regarded as a genius despite the numerous failures and criticism from others.

Naturally, a parent’s major concern is the future of their children. However, the tendency to dictate their offspring’s life path will cause children to lose courage to achieve success on their own. Even worse, by comparing a child to another person will destroy self-esteem and trigger a disparaged heart. Recognize your child’s individuality and “trust” the possibilities. If we continue to believe, one day our trust will be rewarded.

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3. Do Not Be Pressured by Elite Education

Many parents work hard to ensure that their children achieve high scores and academic results. This old-fashioned perception ascertains a guarantee to a good job in a top-ranking corporation should a person be educated in quality schools and university.

This leaves us to ponder the real meaning of “success”. Does it include an individual’s passion and social acceptance? “Success”, is interpreted as the great feeling relished by a person after achieving something meaningful. In other words, it can also be replaced with the term “happiness”. This means that a person’s “success” is benchmarked by his or her own expectations.

Happiness is determined by the desires of a child. One is most susceptible to determining his or her “wants” during preschool and teenage years but is easily deterred by the pressures of studying and achievements for their parents.

Mr. Tetsuo Gyotoku, organizer of the Japan BE Research Centre, recalled a conversation with Professor Shifu Yoshimura who told of his journey Kagoshima to Haneda where a child sat next to him, pouring coffee and eating sandwiches.

Professor Yoshimura asked the child,“Where are you going, boy?”

The boy answered, “I am on my way to a tuition centre in Tokyo. Every Saturday afternoon I go to the airport directly after school and have my lunch on the plane. I attend classes every Saturday afternoon and I will get the last flight on Saturday and then fly back to Kagoshima. This is my regular routine.”

From this story Mr. Gyotoku commented that the clutter of seminars, tuition centres and trainers that promise to mould and better young children has marred Japanese education. Young children are no longer allowed to enjoy the outdoors and play to their hearts’ wish, of which should be the way a normal child finds joy.

Unfortunately, strict entry examinations to universities in Japan have changed for the worse and are alarming even the smartest of students. Children as young as 10 years old have only 10 minutes to eat their dinner and then proceed to

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tuition centres to study until late night. Parents who are too focused on academic results do not care to understand the heart of their own child and insist on this exhausting regiment will largely effect their child’s positive mental condition. In Japan alone, children who grow up with this awful predicament are afflicted with psychological conditions, and can even become suicidal.

Becoming a “star student” is NOT the key to a child’s happiness.

We need to understand that there IS, in fact, education that allows a child to live their lives to the fullest. An ideal learning experience enhances the capabilities of the heart (EQ), provides a child with precious spare time to participate in social activities but still enables a child to study in a relaxed manner. Scientists discovered that a normal human being uses only 3% of the brain. Training the underdeveloped parts of the brain during a child’s preschool years and guidance on the smart utilization of both left and right brain is a possibility that is currently being explored.

In the United States of America, several TV programs introduced children as young as 10 years old as university graduates. Their brain structure is no different from ours but the main difference is that they are using more portions of the brain compared to a normal adult. The first thing you should do in educating a child is not to emphasize on memorizing facts and figures, but to enlarge the “container” or capacity the brain itself. Many schools and educational centres currently do not have the know-how on this matter.

Picture this: if you try to pour in water into a cup continuously, there will still be no change in the amount of water the cup is able to contain. If you pour too much, the cup will simply overflow. Therefore, you should consider the education methods that will enable you to enlarge the size of the cup.

4. Nurture Your Children with Rewards, Not Punishment

Threatening and emotional blackmail is a habit that cultivates negativity. For example, the boss threatens an employee, “If you fail again, you are fired!” In most cases, intimidation will guide the employee’s workflow – through fear of not being able to complete a task. The panic will increase chances of making errors in judgments hence the probability of failing will be higher. Nevertheless,

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this notorious “point deduction” method is famously applied in Japanese education.

Instead of shattering the child’s nerves, it would be better to do the total opposite of promising rewards that provides positive motivation and assists in a person’s goal setting process. Start by giving encouragement or praises relentlessly in order to build the child’s self-esteem; such as “Great job!” “Excellent”, and also allowing the child to enjoy fun incentives, such as a trip to the zoo should the child score well in school. By using this method, a child will know that the right thing was done and this inspires the child to do better in the next task. Once a child understands the cycle, he or she will be able to progress naturally without being forced to do so.

Coach Koide who successfully trained the famed athlete, Naoko Takahashi, is an expert of this method. He applied positive language throughout his coaching, using phrases like “You can do it!” while training Takahashi who then was an average athlete. Before the Sydney Olympic Games, Coach Koide conducted a training session with Takahashi when she asked, “Coach, what should I wear when I am on the victory stand?”

With such positive reinforcements and support, Takahashi had visualized and believed that she will win the gold medal. Individuals with positive image thinking demonstrate greater chances of success as compared to individuals with negative ones. One of the common traits among top players in sports and individuals who demonstrate great talent is that they constantly remind themselves, “I can do it. ”

Let’s do away with the method of punishment when one cannot achieve, and bring up our children using the rewards system with a positive stance.. together.

5. Nurture Your Children by the “Kindness” (Zen) Within Them

There are reasons for a child to create or be involved in social ills. Should a child do something as shocking as shoplifting, for example – affected parents would generally reprimand harshly to repel the child from repeating such misconduct. This inadvertently will embed a reverse effect upon the child.

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From a psychological viewpoint, the reason why a person would do such a thing is because he or she feels lonely, or that the need for love has not been satisfied. It is difficult to accept that a child, who was fulfilled with basic needs, is involved in such unthinkable activities. A clear message is sent when a child performs these undesirable actions such as this and it needs to be heard.

Children are not born to unruly behaviour. Parents must strive hard to search for the truth by closely observing and keeping aware of the child’s appearances and actions. Talk to your child often. Be the child’s most trusted confidant. Gain their trust and bring out the “zen” (kindness) in them. This existing “trust” relationship, will cement a strong bond between parents and their children, connecting their hearts and emotions.

Eventually, this strength will be the key to overcome various difficulties in the future.

6. Bringing Up a Child by Understanding Various Growth Processes

Children experience various seasons during their growth; similar to the four seasons of the year - spring, summer, autumn and winter. There are various handling methods for parents in accordance to their children’s different stages of growth.

The most taxing time of growth for children is during their “rebellious” period that occurs at ages of 3, 8 and 14. This is a period that both children and parents will encounter communication and emotional hurdles and is also a significant maturing period for the children.

If you are knowledgeable of the various handling methods, you will be able to deal with your child in a more convenient manner. This will lessen worries and stress in the family when raising your children. One of the ways of coping with the rebellion is to encourage “open communication” and handle each situation with humour. There will come a time when children resist our teachings. When this happens, most parents feel that they will lose their status as a parent and continue to enforce their authority on children, which results in even worse behaviour and response. If parents adopt a strict regiment because their children have developed a stubborn attitude, more intense arguments and confrontations

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will follow. During this time, when confronted with an issue, joke with them in a positive manner. When your child starts to smile, you have won the game.

Besides this, children go through the “obedience” period where finally parents are able to handle children using stricter measures, which would help them build character during this period.

Study a child’s growth, as this will encourage meaningful progress as a parent as well.

7. Parents and Teachers Influence Results and Performance

A “Pygmalion Effect” occurs when a child grows up in the image set by parents or teachers. Referring to a case study, a university professor developed a test that measures aptitude of children. He conducted this test on children in a primary school and after evaluating the outcomes, the professor concluded, “Although child B, D and G obtained poor results, they will excel later in their lives.” Later, these children DID prove to be great students. The random theory by the professor created a more credible view of the teacher-in-charge and changes the perception of children B, D and G upon themselves. Believing the professor raised the teacher’s expectations and this inspired excellence from the students.

The expectation of parents or teachers on the child contributes significantly towards the child’s progression. When a child makes a mistake, the adult should re-assure them with consoling phrases. The child will be what you say and think of him or her. Lou Tice, founder of T.P.I, possesses the track record of coaching more than 10 million individuals worldwide said in his book, “IF YOU THINK…YOU CAN DO IT!” (Nikkei BP., Inc):

“I have coached individuals or groups during their journey towards success for more than 25 years. Before that, I was a football coach of a high school. I wanted to help an ordinary person who had no specific skill to achieve significant results in his or her life. Finally I realized the answer could be summarized to 2 principles. The first principle is that, when other believe in a person’s accomplishments it greatly influences his or her achievements. The second principle is that these results depend on the support obtained.”

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From these findings, we can conclude that the participation of parents and teachers greatly influence children. In turn, this forms the basis of a child’s self-image, as parents and teachers are essential to their children’s life.

Parents should continue to believe in the greatness of their children. Anticipating success and acknowledging the child’s potential even when the performance is less than average helps them strive to make that visualization a reality.

8. Respect and Acknowledge the Child

Studies by psychologist Alfred Adler shows that children act in rebellion because they lost a sense of self-belonging and are unable to exhibit their courage. Children always want their existence to be respected and acknowledged. Dreikurs, a scholar that studied this phenomenon said that when children are in this zone, they are prone to correspond to the following stages:

Stage 1 –Unaware of their actions, they will appeal to their parents and teachers to be more concerned of their well-being by deliberately causing trouble to attract attention.

Stage 2 –Children will subconsciously use their talents challenge the leadership of their parents or teachers by behaving in a difficult manner.

Stage 3 –Their misconduct is a form of revenge towards parents and teachers.

Stage 4 –When a child gets tired of plotting for “revenge”, his or her overall attitude starts slacking off altogether

When a child reaches stage 3 or 4, it is almost impossible for parents find a resolution. No matter how busy we are, we must not forget to encourage our children to fully utilize their talents and abilities. Firstly, we need to “respect” the child as a human being. Let’s start by showing them with loving words that bring them joy and ongoing motivation.

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Chapter 2

Five Ways to Enhance Potential Talent in Children

In Chapter 1, we explained the “Eight tips to bring out the best in your children”. Using these eight tips as a foundation, let us introduce to you five effective ways to maximize the talent of your children.

1. Increase the brain “container” (capacity)

In order to harness the potential brain capabilities of a preschooler, it is necessary to develop the right brain (subconscious) to increase the brain capacity. The right brain controls image, inspiration, senses et cetera. It has the ability to process and remember massive information at a high speed.

On the other hand, schools and tuition centres only train the left brain that controls logic, sequence, numbers, language, analysis et cetera. The left brain processes information at a slower speed but also memorizes them. Most children and adults are well trained in using this therefore many can read, write and calculate but only few are truly unique and innovative.

Our present Japanese society needs more talented individuals that are able to employ the powers of their right brain to create a better world for all to live in. In recent years, many top companies included tests in their recruitment examinations to assess the candidate’s ability to use the right and left brain respectively.

Here are several examples of how the subconscious brain can be useful:

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A Primary 6 student who has attended the HEGL (Henmi Educational General Laboratory) course is able to effortlessly remember a total of 7 textbooks provided in 2 days.

Another student is able to remember the pi (π) ratio up to 500 decimal places in 30 minutes.

These students are able to do so because they are taught to memorize the words or numbers as images. This is similar to taking a snapshot and storing the image in their brain.

Two important points to remember when developing the right brain:

Start as early as possible. The earlier we start to develop the right brain (subconscious), the better. The right brain becomes increasingly difficult to develop as one grows older.

To meet and study with other children whose right brains are also developed, participation in a talent development site is necessary to keep the momentum going. With appropriate guidance and the availability of a suitable location, it is definitely more effective to teach image training and high speed learning to young children aged between newborns to 10 years old. We have 1,200 students from 13 districts under our care. Henmi Educational General Laboratory (HEGL) is the largest preschool and primary students’ right (subconscious) brain learning experience founded on 8 July 2000.

With the teachings of the HEGL curriculum, all students of HEGL will successfully have their right brain exceptionally trained. Graduates of HEGL often return to the site to offer assistance in helping other students’ progress. Parents play a significant important role in the evolution of their child’s thinking with never ending support and always believing that their child will succeed. As discussed in Chapter 1, parents and teachers greatly influence the end results of the children. Therefore, it is important for parents to continuously provide positive and motivating thoughts for their children.

Studies on physiology shows that the brain of a child is rarely utilized to the maximum 100%. Therefore, the subconscious right brain of every individual can

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be further developed if given proper attention. The unlimited potential of the child lies dormant but its powers can definitely be awakened and harnessed.

2. Discovering and Developing Innate Abilities of Children

Observe the child’s ability by allowing immersion in some form of physical activity. Should the child demonstrate keenness and talent in a specific area such as sports, allow the opportunity for the child to strive and achieve the best in this field as this is an innate ability that needs to be honed. Of course, there is no telling if the child would become a superstar athlete in the future. Nevertheless our support is crucial in order to stimulate the child’s hopes and dreams, as well as to guide the child to understand and embrace this newfound talent. Upon discovery, it is then more convenient to nurture this ability where the child is willing to exert more effort to enhance this natural talent.

A child will be able to master any task quickly if basic physical strength, judgment ability, image power and such are developed during these physical activities. The child would take only a quarter of the time to remember compared to a normal child and is definitely be able to study more efficiently. This power of focus will also allow speed-reading that absorbs necessary information.

The child would be able to make the right decision when required through heightened intuition. Developing the right brain (subconscious) is the best way to achieve this as the child’s abilities will surface at the most unexpected and impulsive moment. Exhibiting these traits will make the child outstanding among other children and allow them to build confidence and develop a great personality.

Children will learn to focus and enjoy themselves if we help them to discover their their inborn talents and developing them.

3. Build Self Confidence in Children

World leaders have a common characteristic, which is the display of their confidence. “Confidence” means “believing in oneself” and it is difficult to achieve unless gained through one’s personal experiences. These life milestones

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include goals and achievements that give a child satisfaction of having completed them.

Parents can assist by creating such as many opportunities for their children as possible through full support and encouragement when their children perform activities that will develop their right subconscious and are focused on completing a task. The children will have ample space required to approach and work on their activities that is needed to create results. Obtaining this will increasingly instil confidence in the child. Starting with small goals will gradually build the child’s self-esteem and build their anticipation for the next challenge.

Such repetition of excitement will create more and more certainty in the child. Parents play an important role in having faith upon their children, as a child is aware of the parents’ hope through intuition which would positively be transferred to them.

Illustrated in the findings of “Study Techniques of Geniuses” (Author : Buichi Kihara, Shinchosha Publishing Co. Ltd), the belief placed upon Mozart and Picasso by their parents was extraordinary. Believing in oneself creates a positive self-image and this can lead to significant results.

4. Develop the Child’s Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

No matter how much talent a child possesses, it is meaningless if is not used for the right purpose. Talents that are that are abused and used for the wrong purposes can create negative results, such as developing weapons or participating in criminal activities.

Conduct a “heart education” while developing a child’s talent; easiest taught during the preschool years. There is a proverb, “What youth is used to, age remembers”. This means that the preschool years are the most effective period to form a child’s civic thinking and to provide moral lessons.

The greatest providers of “heart education” are members the family. Parents, specifically are the best teachers of this precious lesson to their children. If parents continually encourage their children to grow and learn their best practices and adequate manners, their children will likely grow up to mirror

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them. Should parents provide their child with unconditional love, the child will do the same to the people around him or her.

In order to give a child “heart education”, parents must learn to be great “teachers” themselves. In HEGL (Henmi Educational General Laboratory), we strongly encourage a “Joint Education” during the preschool and primary education years where parents and children learn together. The “heart education” is also known as “anthropology” and it is one of the main pillars in the concepts of education.

Children learn “heart education” or anthropology best when parents and children learn together side by side. By observing their parents learn and change, children will also be able to change.

5. Develop True Thinking Ability

When preschool children become primary students, the ability of the left brain strengthens. During their primary years, it is important to master the left brain’s “true thinking ability” and the right subconscious brain’s “heart education’” (EQ).

“True thinking ability” encompasses logical and judgement. We have to continuously and tirelessly develop our left brain, even though most of us are already fully utilizing it. Being too dependent on our right brain will also create obstacles in our daily lives. Balancing both sides of the brain and also to possess emotional intelligence (EQ) is important. The left brain solves problems systematically and analyses the situation presented (“True Thinking ability”).

Understanding the science is not sufficient. A child who is taught science through practical examples is encouraged to hone his or her curiosity to enhance thinking skills. The “Why” questions generated directly from the heart is the driving force of a child’s actual thinking.

Let us recall when we were once students. It was the norm to feel more excited to attend experiential classes such as home science, technical courses, science experiments or society visits compared to just sitting at our desks and copying notes from the blackboard. Many students find studying boring and tough. Studying should be enjoyable especially when we make new discoveries.

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However, when the study or teaching methods are wrongly applied, studying is no longer enjoyable and becomes a painful experience. Merely learning theories and memorizing cannot attain “true thinking ability”. It can only be developed through personal experiences, which in turn, will create excitement and enthusiasm. At home, parents can assist by creating as many opportunities as possible for their children to experience the knowledge that is being taught to them. Share new discoveries with the children. This will create excitement and curiosity. Instead of being a chore, learning will be fun.

We need to raise children who will find studying fun and are happy in thoughts, instead of studying to join a rat race. Happy children will be able to think for themselves when they grow up and will be able to demonstrate significant creativity.

Chapter 3 What is HEGL?At HEGL (Henmi Educational General Laboratory), we manage the largest right brain development school in Japan. There are more than 1,200 students from Tokyo and 12 districts throughout Japan attending our classes.

We developed and manage various educational curriculum such as the “MEP” educational system which develops the “true thinking ability” and the “Education University of Parents and Children” which offers “Heart Education”.

HEGL education encompasses 3 aspects.

1st Aspect : “To Develop the Right Brain (Subconscious)”.

HEGL is known as the global leader in right brain development. In July 1997, HEGL founded the “Undulate Speed Reading” method. Subsequently in 1998, HEGL was made famous nationwide through the program “That’s TRUE! By Un & Nan” via TBS and since then, has become household name in Japan.

On 8th July 2000, HEGL declared the potential of the right brain in their research,“Full Right Brain (Subconscious) Development” and confirmed that every child who fully followed the proper guidance of the program will have their brain developed. Many children who have achieved this are still attending our classes.

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Furthermore, HEGL students are being invited to make appearances in famous TV programs such as “Is this REAL?!” together with famous entertainers among others; Bakusho Mondai, Eiko Koike, Un-chan Nan-chan to demonstrate their unbelievable talents attained the education of our right brain development.

In HEGL, we prepare an efficient training environment for more than 1,200 children to develop their right brain using the most successful development method.

2nd Aspect : “Anthropology” (Heart Education)

At HEGL, we teach “heart talk” in every lesson. Even adults learn when they listen in to its contents. We provide support by distributing relevant materials, conduct classes at the “Education University of Parents and Children” and provide “Anthropology courses”.

HEGL’s students not only possess great innate talent, they are good-spirited beings are in general, kind-hearted children.

3rd aspect : The Education to Develop the Left Brain’s “True Thinking Ability”.

“MEP” is a program especially designed for primary students to enhance the “True Thinking Ability”, Students who have attended this course have shown significant results. “MEP” is an abbreviation for “Most Efficient Primary Course”. It is a special program developed to teach students on how to study for their school syllabus and entrance exams in an extremely short period by balancing the use of both their right and left brain.

The lessons are being taught differently from the normal learning centres. Children are not taught only to solve questions, memorize formulas et cetera but the core of our lessons is to enable experience to teach our students through science experiments, sensational mathematics, anthropology etc.

Even though we are not an academic centre, many of our students have managed to pass tough entrance exams and enrol into renowned private secondary schools.

HEGL’s mission is to globally spread this breakthrough 21st century education that balances the brain and heart. To effectively develop these abilities in children is to understand no child is too young to start. The earlier your child learns, the faster he or she will master these abilities.

It is most ideal to develop the potential of your children in while they are still young, obedient and adorable as we want you, as parents to enjoy raising your children, develop and support your children’s inborn potential.

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It is our hope that these children will become future leaders and contribute significantly to the society.