Core concepts
-Its takes cooperation of both halves so you are not a headless chicken
-My "ON" tank fills up when I relax and meditate and my eyes feel like they are going back and forth.
-The "ON" tank empties as you plow through new behaviors and material
-The right thinks in images and feelings, is spacial, recognizes faces better, likes to dance, does not recognize time and is always "in the now"
-The left brain knows how to talk and so says "I don't know what the hell is wrong with me" and gets stuck in babel mental patterns when its the right brain that is sad and board.
-Maybe there are two hierarchies, with the tip at each eyeball
-Maybe the "third eye" is the brain bridge corpus collopsum. It comes online when you "meditate", and when both sides of the brain are stimulated and communicate well
-Maybe the communication of the brain bridge happens when you feel your eyes going back and forth
-You only have to go through the pain of transitions only if you are a headless chicken.
Here are the best ways I've found to stimulate my right brain:
-Go out clubbing = music + pretty people + socializing
-If I can't go out then I look at people and pretty places with facebook
-Just go to a busy mall, wondering around do some people watching, don't focus on products, don't let yourself focus on items, keep your vision and senses broad, that is what you right mind is good for. Pay attention to the feelings inside your head. Focus your attention to the top of your heirarchy. Your right brain thinks in feelings.
TV, is not so good because the images jump around too much and you only get to see parts of the people's bodies and that your left mind dominates because it focuses too much on the story line. Though on PBS, the musical orchestra did an awesome job. It lets your left mind zone out while your right mind becomes totally engaged in the music and emotion, and the people have natural expressions and personalities, not those of contrived actors.
Just to know the feeling of your right brain lightening up... when you are feeling depressed because you know you've been too isolated, just go on face book and look at a photo. IF you have digital photos that take up your whole screen, its even better. Try it. Get out your stop watch, look at your beautiful friends for 30 minutes (your mind has to be totally be engaged on their faces, and has to take up your concious mind, don't be distracted... its what comes across your concious mind that counts), then for exactly 30 minutes notice that its quite a bit easier to get things done. And then when the time is up, notice how all of the sudden things just start to get harder to do and that you'll want to zone out and watch TV or something really passive.
Therefore in one huge sweeping blow, meditation takes care of tonnes of disorders and makes you a leader and not a headless chicken. You've got to do it more often than you'd think.
Oh yea... I should also mention this. There is also something like an "OFF" tank. Well its just the "ON" tank but opposite of course, but that I can actually feel the "OFF" tank fill up in my head when I start to learn new information in things like text books or anything new. When the "OFF" tank is full (I call it "OFF" because it closes off the communication of the brige brain/corpus collopsum), I just can't cram in any more concepts or information into my head, and I can feel that my eyes just want to move back and forth faster, and I can really feel myself thinking hard when it is full. That's when I'd go for a walk and stop dumping in more information so that I can empty my "off" tank, and fill my on tank..., but this walking around is pointless if I don't see any people to stimulate my right brain, so it would be just better to just close my eyes and sleep. I'll have to clarify this last paragraph in another post. I'll also throw in some more leadership stuff. And also this acticle from John's Place about how to memorize stuff fast kinda backs this up because it mentions doing a quick nap after learning hard.
How to Memorize Anything Quote:
After a study session, take a quick nap. New memories are very vulnerable, but studies have shown that sleep helps your new memories stick. After your nap, repeat the memory technique once more for maximum retention.
I eventually became so good at this technique that I could complete all my studying for any information heavy mid-term or final exam in less than 6 hours. Yes, I realize this sounds like a lot of time, but it’s not much time at all – because this technique works from a cold start, even if you haven’t cracked the book all semester.
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And I can back this up from when I had to start writing papers because I noticed that if I sleep or meditated after thinking hard, then stuff just started to make sense. And this is also probably why everyone says "get up early" because they notice how easy it is to do stuff right when they get up, its because the two sides are synched up and are therefore not headless chickens for a good couple of hours, and since they worked hard to get up early, they'd not waste their brain sync on mindless TV. And since being synced up means that you can be creative, and that creativity basically solves everything else... well hopefully you got the point from my spewing writing.
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Well back in High School I don't know why but I could grasp concepts extremely quick (It doesn't matter what the subject was, calculus or literature or whatever). And I didn't have to work hard at all, or really read much of anything to know what I'm doing. But now, it seems that the most simple concepts require a lot of time for me to understand. I found out that after all these years I have become dumber and dumber, and just more confused. This is the type of stuff that I could understand easily a couple of years ago....I would do the problems, go over the examples and I would get it. It's probably other areas of my Life that's affecting my study...who knows...but I don't know what the problem is.
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Because in highschool you are around people and in class all day long and you probably did activities with people after school. All to keep both sides of the brain happily stimulated. But then in University, it becomes easier to isolate yourself especially when the work becomes sooo hard. So keep you "ON" tank full so that your brains can make the associations of the concepts, and do your studying in a place where there are other people so that you can look up and stimulate your right brain on demand. Hope this helps.
And some more things, think on paper. After you've refilled the "ON" tank, write all the words out that you don't understand. Break them up into smaller pieces. That way even if you don't have the definitions memorized, you can still manipulate the words. Ask yourself tonnes of questions to help break down the unknowns.
Here's another link about how meditation changes your brain:
Meditation builds up the brain - being-human - 15 November 2005 - New Scientist Meditation - Better Health Channel.
Chronic stress or burnout can occur when the sympathetic nervous system dominates for too long. During an alpha wave state, the parasympathetic half of the autonomic nervous system comes to the fore. This results in lowered blood pressure and heart rate, a reduction in stress hormones, and slowed metabolism. If meditation is practised regularly, these beneficial changes become relatively permanent.