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I would like to get my left brain and right brain both firing on all cylinders.

I would particularly like to “activate” my right brain and tap into its hidden resources. I want to strength my intuitive side and I understand this comes from the right side brain.

I have lots of intuition but I rarely listen to it and rarely trust in it (much to my chagrin later, when it always comes to pass!) I believe that is because the right side of my brain is in a weak state due to inactivity.

Obviously after 38 years of mainly left brain actively, my right brain will be a bit sluggish, so I am looking for exercises and practices that will help me to re-discover the locked in potential.

I know that visualisation and being creative is exceptionally good for training and strengthening the right brain but I am wondering what else I can do?

Does anyone know of any good visualisations, mind exercises, books or dvds on the subject? Or even a websites where I do on-line mind exercises?

Many thanks for any tips or ideas.
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« Reply #1 on: Friday 29 August, 2008 »
 yahh yahh yahh

This is a goody; it doesn't matter how or at what level of drawing you are, this is not the point.. Getting out of the logical/logos/word zone of the brain is what you are aiming for.

Take a pencil and a piece of paper (or whatever you want to draw with). Hold it in the hand you DON'T write with.

Look at an object - it's better to do this with one eye, the same eye that is on the side you are holding the pencil with -

look at the object, but don't look at the object; look at the SPACE around the object.

Draw that space.

Don't look at the page at all. Keep looking at the space, and let your eye caress that space.

Let your eye and your hand guide the pencil without looking at the page until you are finished.

Without judging the result (this is the hard bit!!)
get a colour - crayon, paint, whatever,
and fill in the space AROUND your drawing with colour.

HAVE FUN.

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« Reply #2 on: Friday 29 August, 2008 »
Beautiful posts!  I love the drawing exercises you describe Niqi.

Another great way for bringing about hemi-spheric balance is to juggle, or learn poi, or twirling a staff using both sides of the body equally.

 ohyeah  ~  this guy just has to slip his grin over to the other side every now and zen, or at least into the centre...
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« Reply #3 on: Friday 29 August, 2008 »
Quote from: Sweetpea on Friday 29 August, 2008
I have lots of intuition but I rarely listen to it and rarely trust in it (much to my chagrin later, when it always comes to pass!) I believe that is because the right side of my brain is in a weak state due to inactivity.

Obviously after 38 years of mainly left brain actively, my right brain will be a bit sluggish, so I am looking for exercises and practices that will help me to re-discover the locked in potential.
You say you already have lots of intuition, you say that is the kind of right brain activity you are looking for - you've already got it! That's not a weak right brain, that's ignoring the strengths you've already got. Not trusting yourself might be more of the issue than a weak right brain.....

Regardless of that, niqi's drawing exercise is great to do Smiley   Any writing or righting with the non-dominant hand is a great balancing tool.

A strong left brain can allow for strong analysis rather than judgement.  It all depends how you use/view it. 

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« Reply #4 on: Friday 29 August, 2008 »
nice posts and suggestions hey,,

music , chants , prayer , contemplation (as meditation does) all help to get out of 'logical zone' also...

Just allow the child within you to take you on its journey in the form you wish and surrender...

Once your 'connected' and out of Logical Zone you'll become more confident with your 'intuitive nature'...
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« Reply #5 on: Friday 29 August, 2008 »
I am reading a book that I picked up a few months ago called Generation Intuitive. I got it to help (enable) my daughter, but I am learning a lot about myself too. It is filled with exercises to open up the gateways to your intuition.

The other drawing exercise I've tried is just drawing the shadows of what you're looking at. It's interesting what you actually 'see'.

I look forward to hearing more about your experiences with this one, if you feel like sharing here or via PM.
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 30 August, 2008 »
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That's not a weak right brain, that's ignoring the strengths you've already got. Not trusting yourself might be more of the issue than a weak right brain...

This may be so, you are most likely right.

But I feel there is more to it. I will try to explain how I feel……

It is like a radio and trying to tune into the right station. If you are not tuned in correctly you will just get snatches of voices. You think you know what they said, but because of static interference you didn’t hear it clear enough to trust in what you heard, so you dismiss it. But when you find the right channel, the message is free flowing and clear.

I don’t think I have expressed that well, but hopefully you can catch my drift.
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« Reply #7 on: Saturday 30 August, 2008 »
Quote from: Savvy Womyn on Friday 29 August, 2008
I am reading a book that I picked up a few months ago called Generation Intuitive.


I have just had a look on the website for this book - what an amazing idea - also love the look of that Meditation for Kids book.

How I wish I had seen books like this when I was growing up.

Where it says….......”The world is changing. Children, more than ever before, are highly sensitive to subtle energies” – this could be explaining me as a child and even more so as an adult. I don’t have children but I think this book will still be helpful to me. Thanks for the tip.

In fact, I think it may even explain why I drink so much. I have heard this before from other sources that many people that are highly sensitive turn to drink or drugs to help them block out energies. I know it may sound crazy to you but I have noticed that anytime I make any sort of headway with opening up my spiritual side, I then immediately “purposely” sabotage it with alcohol.


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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 30 August, 2008 »
I wish I had seen this book growing up too. I think it would have saved me from a lot of pain and self-doubt. I am grateful that I have found it now.

I can relate to the alcohol thing and it doesn't sound crazy at all. Do you think it is a lack of trust in our own abilities? Fear of the unknown?

A lot of my struggle with these sorts of things comes from a religious upbringing. It has taken years to unlearn that this sort of thing is wrong/of the devil/evil/etc and to rediscover my abilities.
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« Reply #9 on: Saturday 30 August, 2008 »
I was talking to my massage therapist this afternoon about this LB/RB thingy and she has highly recommended the following book, she said she was amazed when she tried it. It is meant to be a bit of a classic apparently:

http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Brain-Betty-Edwards/dp/0874775132

Looks interesting.
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 31 August, 2008 »
Yers I know of a few people who have used this book and gotten loads out of it.

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 01 September, 2008 »
Quote from: Sweetpea on Saturday 30 August, 2008
>>>>> I don’t have children but I think this book will still be helpful to me.>>>>
You have got at a child that should be the most precious to you - yourself.  You have to look after and encourage and care and love that child.  You already recognise that the book will help, you just need to expand your definition of you to include the child part.


I get the drift of your radio analogy Smiley  You're playing down the fact you've even got the radio switched on to be picking up the static bit, let alone snatches of whatever. Getting the static and recognising what it is is a great start!  Right brain work may help with tuning in the frequencies, it will help with some things, even if it is just seeing things differently. Right brain work may not help with tuning in the radio stations, it may be something else, it may be you need to do the right brain stuff to be ready to do something else that will help with the radio tuning.  You're getting lots of material to look into in this thread, trust the process rather than focus on the 'correct' outcome.
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