BRAIN

The Right Brain hemisphere works with initiative, creativity, ingenuity and innovation. It works in whole as opposed to details.

LEFT BRAIN                                                                              RIGHT BRAIN

HEMISPHERE                                                                            HEMISPHERE

-    controls the left side of the body                     -         controls the right side of the body.

-   processes one piece of information at a time   -         thinks in pictures - visualizes.

-   works in logical sequence                                -         works with wholes, not with details.

-   controls speech, grammar and word order.      -         governs body language movements &                                                                                                       physical activity (Sports etc.)

-   Governs mathematical information                  -        drawing and painting

-   analyses, evaluates and criticizes                     -        centre of intuition feelings, emotions and                                                                                                  spontaneity.

-   a memory centre for words and numbers         -        memory for people, things and experiences.

In normal activities, where both sides of the brain are used so closely to one another that it is impossible to say which one is in operation. During, brain storming, both sides are in operation to produce the result. First the right brain is used to collect together as many ideas, however wild or way out, as possible and then the left brain is used to evaluate the ideas so produced.

When two hemispheres work together to contribute to a result, the brain is working at its best. Too often person has one or the other side more dominant. A balance is ideal.

Our society encourages us to use mostly our Left brain (the conscious mind) and rewards its behaviour. The Student is rewarded for remembering names, dates and numbers, but is penalized for subconscious work of the Right brain, such as day dreaming activity. There is value for high grades in mathematics, history and science but not so for arts etc, Naturally conscious mind develops faster and the subconscious remains less developed.

This is because of two reasons:-

1.      We take our minds for granted.

2.      We don't really know how our mind functions.

From now onwards do not take your mind for granted.

Your mind has almost unlimited capabilities, remember you are using only 1% to 5% of it. By reading all of these posts, you will probably touch the tip of the ice-berge, it will teach you how to use your mind more effectively, these posts will help you to channel your energies into such mind training that you will be able to get what you want from life.

You mind is omnipotent. Realise the immense power of your mind.

Mind power is not will power. In fact it is WILL POWER that is the product of Mind power. Imagination precedes will power.

Dr, Herbert Benson, in his book "Your Maximum Mind", has this to say about the Conscious Mind:-

"For a right handed person, the left hemisphere of the brain acts as a sort of "super press agent". It tries to make sense out of the huge quantities of new and stored information; the left side shifts and categorizes information. It makes influences and predictions based on that information. To facilitate this inference making function, the left hemisphere relies on vast reservoirs of analytical, logical and verbal skills. The fact we can put thoughts in language and give precise reasons for why we do things is largely a direct result of this left side function of the brain.

The left side of the brain indeed performs an invaluable service for us. We couldn't perform effectively as human beings without it. There's far too much information in our minds for us to be able to deal with it all and the left side of the brain helps us, from moment to moment, select what's important to know.

Unfortunately, however, the left side is so important in this function that it has tended to overshadow the role of the right side of the brain. Yet the right side is the key to the plasticity of our minds and our ability to change the ingrained thought patterns and habits."

"The right brain serves as a centre of many of our intuitive, creative, mental functions. Many times you'll have insight or thought which seem to "come out of nowhere". You know it is a valid idea but it didn't arrive though any logical, analytical process. Most likely, this idea or insight entered your mind through the actions of neuro-transmitters of the right hemisphere of the brain. Many of our artistic abilities and functions including ability to perceive things spatially ten to be rooted in the right hemisphere. Then, after we receive this sort of input, the information is transmitted from the right side to the left side for interpretation, selection and inference. Specially, it passes through a connecting portion of the brain called the "corpus collosum"."

("Your Maximum Mind" by Dr. Herbert Benson)