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The Left Brain or the Masculine Brain
The left brain or the masculine brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking. It excels in naming and categorising things, symbolic abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is very linear: it places things in sequential order, first things first and then second things second, etc. If you reflect back upon our own educational training, you have been traditionally taught to master the 3 Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic, the domain and strength of the left brain. |
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The Right Brain or the Feminine Brain
The right brain or the feminine brain, on the other hand, functions in a non-verbal manner and excels in visual, spatial, perceptual, and intuitive information. The right brain processes information differently than the left brain. For the right brain, processing happens very quickly and the style of processing is nonlinear and nonsequential. The right brain looks at the whole picture and quickly seeks to determine the spatial relationships of all the parts as they relate to the whole. This component of the brain is not concerned with things falling into patterns because of prescribed rules. On the contrary, the right brain seems to flourish dealing with complexity, ambiguity and paradox. At times, right brain thinking is difficult to put into words because of its complexity, its ability to process information quickly and its non-verbal nature. The right brain has been associated with the realm of creativity.
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As you develop your creative skills you are required to also develop your ability to suspend the left brain and to release the right. The ultimate goal for all of you is to approach your life and your work using a "whole" brain approach. You are not capable of making the choice of thinking that the left and right brains are two totally separate entities within your bodies. They are connected and do have areas of overlap. An integrated "whole" brain approach begins to maximize the untapped potential of the human brain.
Brain balancing is a simple and effective technique. Brain balancing balances the energy between the two hemispheres of the brain. Brain balancing has been used to help ease headaches, to help control epilepsy, and to help with dyslexia. The technique of channelling energy one direction and then the other direction can be used on all parts of the body, to help ease pain and blocks. When you brain balance your partner, you become balanced in the process.
- Work with a partner. You may sit comfortably on the floor with your back supported and your partner may put their head in your lap. Or, if you are working on a massage table, your partner may lay on their back and you may stand or sit at their head. Or, if your partner is sitting in a chair, you may stand behind the chair. You may brain balance someone almost anywhere.
- Connect to the earth and start earth energy running through your arms and hands as described below (see Grounding).
- Gently place the two or three middle fingers of each hand on your partner's head about one inch above their ears. You will feel a slight indentation where two skull bones meet (squamosal suture).
- Now, channel earth energy through only one hand, through your partner's brain, into your other hand. Allow the other hand to be neutral and receptive, and notice when the energy you put into the brain comes out the other side. Notice the resistance (how easy or difficult it is to move the energy) in your partners brain.
- Channel energy in one direction until you feel it in your receiving hand (until it gets through your partner's brain), then channel energy in the other direction.
- Continue channelling energy through your partner's brain, switching directions when you feel the energy reach your receptive hand, until the resistance between your hands is the same in both directions.
- Brain balancing takes about 3 to 5 minutes, and may be done every day or two.
- When you brain balance someone, you become balanced in the process.
The cerebellum is folded into many lobes and lies above and behind the pons. It receives sensory input from the spinal cord, motor input from the cortex and basal ganglia and position information from the vestibular system. The cerebellum then integrates this information and influences outgoing motor pathways from the brain to coordinate movements. To demonstrate this, reach out and touch a point in front of you, such as the computer monitor -- your hand makes one smooth motion. If your cerebellum were damaged, that same motion would be very jerky as your cortex initiated a series of small muscle contractions to home in on the target point. The cerebellum may also be involved in language (fine muscle contractions of the lips and larynx), as well as other cognitive functions.
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