Podcasts about left hemisphere

In episode 10 of the Transcendent Naturalism series, Dr. John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, and guest Brett Andersen delve into the intricate relationship between science, spirituality, and modern mythology. The episode is a tour de force of intellectual exploration, covering topics from self-organizing criticality to the philosophy of order and chaos. Andersen offers a compelling presentation on the role of modern myths like the Matrix trilogy in understanding our complex world. Dr. Vervaeke and Henriques provide counterpoints and extensions to Andersen's arguments, enriching the discussion with their own expertise in philosophy and psychology. The episode also explores the role of consciousness in collective intelligence and the tension between individual experience and societal norms.    Brett Andersen, a Ph.D. student in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of New Mexico, is a compelling voice at the intersection of cognitive science, complexity science, and the philosophical underpinnings of morality and religion. With a penchant for delving into controversial topics, Brett crafts thought-provoking essays on Substack and produces insightful YouTube videos. He's also in the process of writing a book, slated for a free PDF release, that encapsulates seven years of rigorous research across scientific and philosophical literature.   Resources: Brett Andersen: Substack | YouTube | X Gregg Henriques: Website | Facebook | X   Books: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Dr. Jordan Peterson Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men - Roy Baumeister Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes - Joyce Benenson Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System - Alicia Juarrero Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues - Drew A. Hyland The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism - Keiji Nishitani  History of Religious Ideas (3 book series) - Mircea Eliade   Publications: Predictive processing and relevance realization: exploring convergent solutions to the frame problem - Brett P. Andersen, Mark Miller & John Vervaeke  Nihilism: a philosophical essay - Stanley Rosen   Voices with Vervaeke: Relevance realization, personality, attachment and therapy w/ Garri Hovhannisyan   UTOK | Unified Theory of Knowledge: Untangling the World Knot of Consciousness Series   Brett Andersen: Intimations of a New Worldview, 5.3: The God of the Left Hemisphere Intimations of a New Worldview, 5.4: The God of the Left Hemisphere    Movies: The Matrix (1999) - IMDb The Lion King (1994) - IMDb Pinocchio (1940) - IMDb Moneyball (2011) - IMDb   People: Carl Jung Joseph Campbell Nietzsche Hilary Putnam Catherine Pickstock Paul Tillich Keith E. Stanovich Michael Tomasello Joseph Henrich Timothy Morton Paul Gilbert   Timecodes: 00:00:20 — Dr. John Vervaeke introduces his ongoing partner Gregg Henriques and guest Brett Anderson. He praises Brett's work, which incorporates some of his own, and the work of Jordan Peterson and others. 00:01:17 — Gregg Henriques provides an overview of the episode's topic. He introduces the concept of a worldview that bridges science and spirituality, setting the stage for the deep dive that follows. 00:02:37 — Brett Andersen begins his presentation on self-organizing criticality. He connects it to ontology, phenomenology, epistemology, and cosmology, offering a comprehensive framework for understanding the world. 00:07:00 — The distinction between modern and postmodern academic philosophy.  00:12:41 — Discussion of the Matrix trilogy as a modern mythology. 00:16:35 — Reasons why order is represented as masculine. Andersen cites the work of evolutionary psychologists, bringing a scientific perspective to the philosophical discussion. 00:22:00 — The dual nature of entropy and the importance of having the right relationship with chaos or novelty. 00:34:10 — Brett Andersen explores the hero myth.  00:44:20 — Gregg Henriques brings up trait theory, and how it relates to the discussion of fascism and decadence. He discusses the dimensions of extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. 00:47:00 — Dr. John Vervaeke talks about the universal processes of relevance realization and predictive processing. 00:55:54 — The story of Osiris and Seth is discussed.  01:03:00 — Andersen discusses the denial of the contradictory experience. He delves deeper into the psychological aspects of dealing with anomalies. 01:15:35 — Dr. John Vervaeke discusses the function of consciousness in dealing with problems. He talks about the limitations of individual consciousness. 01:23:00 — Gregg Henriques asks Brett about the transformational processes that consciousness needs to undergo to awaken collective intelligence. 01:26:00 — The conversation wraps up with the trio expressing their belief in the importance of their corner of the internet.  

Embark on a transformative journey to inner peace with the soothing and profound power of 1Hz binaural beats for deep meditation. By listening to the gentle and rhythmic tones of 1Hz binaural beats, your brainwaves are guided into a deep meditative state. This low-frequency range promotes a state of profound relaxation, calmness, and mental clarity, allowing you to delve into the depths of your consciousness and connect with your inner self. As you immerse yourself in this meditative journey, you may experience a profound sense of tranquility and serenity. The 1Hz binaural beats work by synchronizing your brainwaves, facilitating a harmonious balance between the left and right hemispheres of your brain. This synchronization promotes deep relaxation, stress reduction, and an overall sense of inner peace. During your meditation practice, the 1Hz binaural beats gently guide your mind to let go of distractions, worries, and anxieties, creating space for profound introspection and self-reflection. It is in this serene state that you can explore the depths of your being, gain insights, and cultivate a sense of inner harmony and peace. Allow the 1Hz binaural beats to guide you on a transformative journey to inner peace, where you can reconnect with your true self and experience a profound sense of calm and clarity. Journey, Inner Peace, 1Hz, Binaural Beats, Deep Meditation, Soothing, Profound, Brainwaves, Relaxation, Calmness, Mental Clarity, Consciousness, Inner Self, Tranquility, Serenity, Synchronization, Balance, Left Hemisphere, Right Hemisphere, Stress Reduction, Self-reflection, Introspection, Insights, Harmony, Meditation Practice, Mindfulness, Profound State, Clarity. Support our mission of spreading relaxation and wellness by rating and reviewing our podcast on your preferred platform. Your feedback helps us improve and enables others to discover the benefits of our soothing sounds. Enhance your listening experience by subscribing to our ad-free version, immersing yourself in uninterrupted tranquility.  Clicking Here  Join our community of relaxation seekers and embark on a journey of self-discovery. Subscribe, rate, and review Meditation Sounds today and unlock a world of serenity and rejuvenation.  Email List Support this podcast  https://www.meditationsoundspodcast.com Say goodbye to stubborn belly fat with our revolutionary product! Our formula is designed to target and dissolve unwanted fat, leaving you with a slimmer, more toned midsection. Try it now and experience the results for yourself. #dissolvebellyfat #slimandtoned http://bit.ly/3jV1Ip1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Shakespeare, wearing the mask of an imaginary Prince of Denmark – Hamlet by name – suggested that human knowledge is limited.“There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”Each of us lives alone in a private, perceptual reality. We can communicate with one another only to the degree that our perceptual realities overlap.There is an objective reality, but humans are ill-equipped to experience it.The degree to which you understand the limitations of your private reality is the degree to which you are self-aware.Dr. Jorge Martins de Oliveira is Director of Neurosciences at the University of Brazil, on the Editorial Board of Brain & Mind magazine, and is the author of “Principles of Neuroscience.”This is what he has to say about Perceptual Reality:“Our perception does not identify the outside world as it really is, but the way that we are allowed to recognize it, as a consequence of transformations performed by our senses. We experience electromagnetic waves, not as waves, but as images and colors. We experience vibrating objects, not as vibrations, but as sounds. We experience chemical compounds dissolved in air or water, not as chemicals, but as specific smells and tastes. Colors, sounds, smells and tastes are products of our minds, built from sensory experiences. They do not exist, as such, outside our brain. Actually, the universe is colorless, odorless, insipid and silent.”“Although you and I share the same biological architecture and function, perhaps what I perceive as a distinct color and smell is not exactly equal to the color and smell you perceive. We may give the same name to similar perceptions, but we cannot know how they relate to the reality of the outside world. Perhaps we never will.”Dr. Roger Sperry won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for discovering that we don't have one brain divided into two hemispheres, as much as we have two separate, competing brains. Sperry was able to demonstrate that we have a logical, rational, sequential, deductive-reasoning (SCIENTIFIC) Left Brain, and a romantic, artistic, connection-seeking, pattern-finding, (ARTS & HUMANITIES) Right Brain. He said,“Each hemisphere of the brain is indeed a conscious system in its own right, perceiving, thinking, remembering, reasoning, willing, and emoting, all at a characteristically human level, and… both the left and the right hemisphere may be conscious simultaneously in different, even in mutually conflicting, mental experiences that run along in parallel.”Did you notice it? The Left and the Right hemispheres can have “simultaneous, mutually conflicting, mental experiences.” You can have a single experience and walk away with two opinions of what just happened!“In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other… The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.”– Tom RobbinsBut what happens if the Left Hemisphere completely ignores the voice of the Right Hemisphere? What happens if the Right ignores the the Left?C. P. Snow published “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” in 1959. He believed that Science and the Humanities were the driving forces of western society, but they were splitting us into a society of “two cultures.”Looking back over the culture war that has increasingly devoured us these past 20 years, it would appear that C.P. Snow was right.In May of 2023 the world renowned neuroscientist Dr. Iain McGilchrist was discussing the (SCIENTIFIC) Left Brain, and the (ARTS & HUMANITIES) Right Brain when he said,“Something I discovered in medical school, was that this corpus callosum, this connecting band, spent at least half its time, if not more, sending messages to the other hemisphere, ‘You keep out of this, I'm dealing with it.' So it wasn't so much facilitating as inhibiting. Primates have...

In this episode I introduce a new term I am using - "Hemisphere Gelassenheit." It is a combination of the german word, "gelassenheit," coined by the medieval Christian mystic Meister Eckhart and the hemisphere hypothesis as expounded by the contemporary scholar iain McCilchrist.Gelassenheit is a process of letting go. The full process involves a letting go from one thing and an opening up to something else.  Combining this with the hemisphere hypothesis gives us the strategy for un-muddling our mind and escaping from the distorting effects of left hemisphere dominance.  The hemipshere gelassenheit strategy is to let go of left hemisphere modes of perceptions and an opening up to a more realistic, holistic and integrated perspective of reality afforded by the right hemisphere. Click the CHAPTERS tab above to access a list of chapter divisions within the podcast.Support the showSupport our work to promote creative aging. Subscribe to the MINDRAMP Podcast.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.01.30.526344v1?rss=1 Authors: Olson, H. A., Chen, E. M.-Y., Lydic, K., Saxe, R. Abstract: Much of the language we encounter in our everyday lives comes in the form of conversation, yet the majority of research on the neural basis of language comprehension has used language input from a single source. To determine whether canonical left-hemisphere language regions are sensitive to features of dialogue beyond the comprehensibility of the speech stream, we scanned 20 adults on two novel tasks using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In the first, participants watched videos of puppets speaking either to the viewer (monologue) or to a partner (dialogue), while the audio was either comprehensible (forward) or reversed (backward). Canonical left-hemisphere language regions responded more to forward than backward speech, as expected, but did not respond more to dialogue than monologue. In a second task, two puppets conversed with each other, but only one was comprehensible while the other's speech stream was reversed. Left-hemisphere cortical language regions again responded more to forward than backwards speech, and activity in these regions was only correlated among participants who heard the same characters speaking forward and backward. In contrast, some theory of mind regions and right hemisphere homologues of language regions responded more to dialogue than monologue, and activity in some of these regions was correlated among participants even when opposite characters were speaking forward and backward (in both cases, the visual video clips were held constant). Together, these experiments suggest that canonical left-hemisphere cortical language regions are only sensitive to the language input in dialogue. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

#neurofeedbackpodcast #eeg #brain Jay Gunkelman is the man who has read well over 500,000 Brain Scans and he discusses on the NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback and Neuropsychology Podcast Brain Anatomy and Function that start with the letter F Jay Gunkelman and Pete Jansons also discuss the most watched videos of 2022 Other Topics include: falx cerebri, function, perfusion, Brain Perfusion, Ian Cook, Frontal Cortex, gyrus, sulcus, Einstein's Brain, Left Hemisphere, right hemisphere, SMR, Motor Strip, Cingulate, Flexibility, OCD, Obsessive Compulsive disorder, Temporal Lobe Split, Cochlea, B.A.R.E Testing, Pianist the keyboard is the motor strip, Wernicke's Area, Word Salad, Bruce Willis, Homunculus, Motor Homunculus, Abdominal Epilepsy, Insula, Frontal Eye Fields, High Speed Fiber Tracks, Versículo Most Watched Episodes 2022: "The Little Known Reason Why Michael Jordan Sticks out His Tongue?" https://youtu.be/qGo0rSPNfjQ "What happened to Bob Saget?" https://youtube.com/shorts/4I4H-E5VE0M "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - What is it?" https://youtu.be/a0klWnoIUyQ "How Light Can Improve Mental Health: Photobiomodulation with Dr. Lew Lim Founder Vielight" https://youtu.be/0gYz7HQyx-8 "Does it Matter Where You Place the EEG Electrodes?" https://youtu.be/nN2HusIlnPg "The Jay Gunkelman Story Part 1" https://youtu.be/inKwhggsLsY "Electroencephalogram Certification Types" https://youtu.be/zuGGzftNBMc "Neuroinflammation, tACS, tDCS and SMR" https://youtu.be/h1zryEossTM "Ruth Lanius Interview: PTSD, Emotions, and More with Sebern Fisher and Jay Gunkelman" https://youtu.be/sANme28BCZE "QEEG vs SPECT Scan? Snippet from NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Podcast" https://youtu.be/HWJ-4raVDz0 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neuronoodle/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/neuronoodle/support

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.30.518581v1?rss=1 Authors: Garcea, F. E., Buxbaum, L. J. Abstract: The ability to select between potential actions is central to the complex process of tool use. After left hemisphere stroke, individuals with limb apraxia make more hand action errors when gesturing the use of tools with conflicting hand actions for grasping-to-move and use (e.g., screwdriver) relative to tools that are grasped-to-move and used with the same hand action (e.g., hammer). Prior research indicates that this grasp-use interference effect is driven by abnormalities in the competitive action selection process. The goal of this project was to determine whether common mechanisms and neural substrates support the competitive selection of task-appropriate responses in both tool and non-tool domains. If so, the grasp-use interference effect in a tool use gesturing task should be correlated with response interference effects in the classic Eriksen flanker and Simon tasks, and at least partly overlapping neural regions should subserve the 3 tasks. Sixty-four left hemisphere stroke survivors (33 with apraxia) participated in the tool- and non-tool interference tasks and underwent T1 anatomical MRI. There were robust grasp-use interference effects (grasp-use conflict test) and response interference effects (Eriksen flanker and Simon tasks), but these effects were not correlated. Lesion-symptom mapping analyses showed that lesions to the left inferior parietal lobule, ventral premotor cortex, and insula were associated with grasp-use interference. Lesions to the left inferior parietal lobule, postcentral gyrus, insula, caudate, and putamen were associated with response interference in the Eriksen flanker task. Lesions to the left caudate and putamen were also associated with response interference in the Simon task. Our results suggest that the selection of hand posture for tool use is mediated by distinct cognitive mechanisms and partly distinct neuroanatomic substrates from those mapping a stimulus to an appropriate motor response in non-tool domains. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

There are intriguing similarities between the way the condition of schizophrenia and a brain with a dominant left hemisphere can distort our perceptions of reality. In this episode we examine those similarities using the inspiring story of Elyn R. Saks, who tells about her lifetime struggle with schizophrenia in her wonderful book THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD.  Iain McGilchrist, in his monumental work THE MATTER WITH THINGS, suggests that modern western culture is dominated by left hemisphere thinking. Could this orientation be muddling our minds and causing the unique kind of madness we find in contemporary culture?

    Rod and Kale kick off their weekly show with a discussion about the darkness hovering just below the surface. FBI chaplains, covering abuse, the compelling nature of the trans narrative and cultural boredom.   We move on to discuss Hanby's Metaphysical Catastrophe and the need for real authority.   -conversations with an FBI Chaplain and the darkness under the surface -the evil you fight works on you; you are changed by what you fight -the compelling nature of the trans narrative -power of sexuality outside of norms -affluence and boredom, and the preconditions for cultural collapse -The Beautiful Ones -Hartmut Rosa's Resonance, and the limitations of the material -need to Struggle and the First Man and the Underground man -Need for norms and the creation of idiots -the limits of conservative legalism -Hanby's Metaphysical Catastrophe and the lack of Authority -McGilchrist's Left Hemisphere temptation -Shigilov's plan -Matthieu Pageau and the Language of Creation -Hopkin's Grandeur of God and Hiedegger's Standing Reserve -Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the balance of power and meaning -We must contend with the fact that our world is not Christian -the law absent spirit is tyranny; the Grand Inquisitor -are we all just LARPing? -Avatar Politics and senate races -Megyn Kelly and Trump's position of primacy -Statesmanship -Synod on Synodality extension and a defacto Vatican III -"good guys" and "bad guys" -Peter and Paul's listening tours  

A rose loses its "roseness" when perceived only through the Left Hemisphere perspective. The man who mistook his wife for his hat  had trouble identifying a rose.  When Oliver Sacks presented him with a rose, Dr.P described it as "About six inches in length. A convoluted red form with a linear green attachment." He went on to observe  that the perplexing object "lacks the simple symmetry of the Platonic solids,  although it may have a higher symmetry of its own." Dr. P suffered from a Right Hemisphere (RH) dysfunction that forced his mind to rely almost exclusively on his Left Hemisphere (LH) . Robbed of the unifying and organic perspective of the RH, Dr. P saw the world as a collection of abstractions, the LH perspective.Our minds get muddled when our LH dominates and relate to the world through abstract representations of life, rather than on on direct experience.

In this episode we examine what happens to the mind when it loses the perspective of the Right Hemisphere  (RH) and is forced to rely on the Left Hemisphere's (LH)  interpretation of the world.  We will use the example of the well-known case reported by Oliver Sacks of the man who mistook his wife for his hat. We are exploring the hemisphere hypothesis that states that the two hemispheres of our brain have two dramatically different ways of relating to the world and that our minds get muddled when the perspective of one hemisphere (usually the LH ) dominates and suppresses the other (usually the RH).  We can learn to recognize the symptoms of LH dominance by studying the lives of people with dysfunctional RHs, such as Dr. P  who, among other things, lost his ability to recognize faces.

We continue to explore how the two hemispheres of our brain influence us in different ways. In this episode I borrow a story from Iain McGilchrist who, in turn, borrowed it from Friedrich Nietzsche. McGilchrist uses his story - The Master and His Emissary - as the title for his book that first introduces his "hemisphere hypothesis." The two main characters in the story represent the Right Hemisphere (The Master) and the Left Hemisphere (The Emissary). It tells of their relationship and of the destruction of their realm that follow the Emissary's usurpation of leadership from the Master. I have taken the liberty to change the gender of the leader to a woman and to add some embellishments that I believe help illustrate McGilchrist's full thesis. The essence of his idea is that the two hemispheres have different ways of relating to the world. When they cooperate, under the guidance of the Right Hemisphere, things go well. But when the Left Hemisphere dominates - as it does in modern culture - our minds get muddled and the culture starts to unravel.  

A further introduction into how an understanding of the two brain hemispheres can help us with aspects of musicianship that are normally considered 'unteachable'! Show Notes [2:30] Summing up important concepts from the last episode [6:35] The neuroscience of the hemispheres is still in a (sometimes controversial) process of discovery- what may be most useful for musicians is to explore the two distinct ways of perceiving the world as laid out by Iain McGilchrist, and explore their practical usefulness [15:50] How can we begin to use these ideas in a practical way? [16:45] Self awareness and choice of type of focus while performing [21:30] Confidence is linked to wide-focus [22:20] Dealing with distractions- a consequence of narrow focus. Different types of meditation. Seeing but not focusing on fingers or keys- instead relying more on a visuospatial sense of where everything is in 3 dimensional space. Sight-reading & right-brained focus. One of main sticking points & frustrations in students is left brain stubbornly not letting go & trying to carry out tasks better suited for right brain things itself [36:10] Experiment with sensations & awareness [38:20] Hemispheres and language. Left hemisphere= main language centre, but right hemisphere= prosody- emotional content of way things are said Right hemisphere- metaphor- connected to the body. Embodied cognition- all language is metaphoric. Left Hemisphere- binary categories [45:45] Words are labels to categories. Right hemisphere= raw experience, no labels. Left hemisphere sorts experience from the right hemisphere, sorts into categories & labels. Right hemisphere= prosody, prosody= music. All obvious perhaps that right hemisphere is best for music, but students often justifying why *need* to be in left hemisphere state [49:15] The perception of being observed & judged usually causes strong left hemisphere activation [53:20] Left hemisphere= tool usage. Counterproductive for music-making. Language= a tool to manipulate understanding of the world [56:50] Left hemisphere responsible for grasping & gripping tightly, holding on to tools & objects. Left hemisphere dominance often reflected by use of words which talks about owning, grasping, holding, etc Left hemisphere is intensely practical! Book References: The Master and His Emissary- Dr Iain McGilchrist The Inner Game of Music- Barry Green Further Notes: The intro/outro music is my jazz arrangement of the Rachmaninov Adagio from Symphony #2, you can watch the whole thing here if you like: https://youtu.be/hMqREAngb4s

Thoughts on the structure of "The Matter with Things", and how it uses the Left Hemisphere to show the boundaries and limitations of - the Left Hemisphere. This is a short excerpt from episode 1, with Dr. James Willis.

Jill joins us from her home state of Indiana where she grew up. Jill graduated from Harvard and embarked on a career as a neuroanatomist, motivated in part by her desire to understand her brother's schizophrenia. She soon became known throughout the world through her widely viewed and viral TED talk back in 2008, entitled “My Stroke of Insight”. And so we giddily sit down together and have fun exploring the depths of her experience. Jill had a stroke and became the patient, the observer and the pilot of her own case study in one fell swoop – which changed her forever. She describes her experience of living through a stroke – the left hemisphere not able to process and the right hemisphere floating its own way – and the ensuing 8 years of recovery. We discuss her experience living in a world free from judgement and intellectual primacy and existing as an entity free from the shackles of a Left Hemisphere dominant life. We delve a bit into her new book Whole Brain Living and the Four Characters of both the left and right hemispheres – and her decision to live a Right Hemisphere dominant life. We talk about make belief, the role of the actor, the Great Gigi, empathy, living with more order, but less order, great whales, timelessness of the artists' endeavour, our training of children to discount the importance of connection, creativity, earning your mother power, proprioception, the present moment…. and the desire to be awake when consciousness finally shifts and she Glides back into the Sea of Silent Euphoria.   We dare you not to listen.   To DONATE to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: www.behindgreatness.org. Tax receipt issued to donors. Behind Greatness IG: @behindgreatnesspodcast & @inspire_north   Jill:   Website: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/ Book: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/whole-brain-living/ TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU&t=2s FB: https://www.facebook.com/DrJillBolteTaylor IG: @drjillboltetaylor  

This meditation has the intention to reconnect with our child-like essence & intuition - a very empowered state of awe and wonder!! It's our connection to all there is throughout time & space. A place without judgement or the need to make sense. Depending on where you are on the spectrum towards fully unleashed intuition & creativity, we recommend to (re-)listen to this meditation as often as you like, to 'train' that muscle further. This is one of our strategic 'tools' to dive out of the sea of perception - making limited sense based on our past, beliefs & conditioning - to see what's really going on, what we really want and to then create exactly that! Hemispheric Brain Synchronisation - Left vs. Right Brain: The newest part of the brain - the Neocortex - enables higher order thinking and differentiates us from animals. While the Left Hemisphere of the Neocortex is responsible for abilities such as Logic, Analytical Thought, Science & Math, the Right Hemisphere of the Neocortex is tied e.g. to Creativity, Empathy, Holistic Thought and Compassion. We are living in a society, where most are either in a Right Brain Dominance or in a Left Brain Dominance, however only hemispheric synchronisation (= both hemispheres in balance) enable an accurate perception of reality, operating on all cylinders and True Intelligence = Intellect ('Intelli') + Creativity ('gence' = generare = create). This meditation is one (of many) tools to reconnect with our right brain, our inherent intuition & creativity. Enjoy & let us know your thoughts!

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We all know what it feels like to find ourselves feeling chaotic, overwhelmed, or even rigid and controlling...right? Well join us, Marcom and April as we explore the right and left hemispheres of the brain and dive into a deeper understanding of how we interpret the world and what we can do about it! We want to live more whole hearted lives and here's yet another step in that process. Find out more about us at www.EagleMountainLodge.com for information on retreats and coaching!

In a world where information is superabundant, unique and creative ideas are hot-ticket advantages both personally and professionally. There is more to the human mind’s capability than what it’s used for regularly. Whole brain thinking has amazing potential. Society deems geniuses have the ability to whole-brain thinking. Accessing your right brain is a skill, one that takes practice. Use the exercises within to harness the power of the brain and see new ideas emerge and develop that make a difference in this ever increasingly complex world. Books – Drawing on the right side of your brain – Betty Edwards, Relax – You're Already Perfect - Bruce Schneider, and TED talk video – Jill Bolte Taylor https://youtu.be/BKwcVj6LPDs

Your brain is divided into distinct hemispheres which work together to give you different experiences of the world. But has the balance between the two halves of your brain got out of whack—and what's the impact?

We are joined today by the author and book editor Roderick Tweedy who's here to talk to us about his book The God of the Left Hemisphere. The book explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this arguably dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity commonly referred to as 'God'.

Lauren Harris (Psychology, Michigan State University)

Recent research with chimps provides support for theories of how language evolved in humans. Christie Nicholson reports

Recent research published in the journal Brain and Cognition finds that people can boost the number and quality of their original ideas when they increase the interaction between the brain's right and left hemispheres. Christie Nicholson reports

Studies of split-brain patients provide insight into how we form thoughts--specifically how the left brain will create its own narrative based on information it never received. Christie Nicholson reports.