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So what is happening here? Is the dancer spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Depends which side of the brain you are using.
Left side: logical, language, methodic, concepts, like a serial processor
Right side: creative, emotion, direct experience, like a parallel processor
Can you get it to switch at will?
- by doing math in your head?
- by imaginging you are about to look at your hand?
Many often assume that others are experiencing reality exactly as they are. This is one way to see that people can be experiencing a different view of reality than others.
Try this experiment, feel the left side of your head for 30 seconds or so, now feel the right side of your head for 30 seconds or so. Did you see a switch? It is also possible to switch which part of the brain is active by sensation alone, as opposed to just visualization or thought. Practice may be required.
This shows that it could be possible to experiment and possibly keep one side of the brain active for a day and the other side active for another day. Could this change your experience of a whole day? Won’t know less you try it.
Does one side always dominate? Might be the otherside hasn’t had a chance to really play its part in your life. Developing balance is suggested.
Some folks find this sort of thing facinating. I suggest it might be useful to be able to switch sides at will. We play with this in Aikido in nearly every movement, developing balance in the body in more ways than might first be apparent. It may not always be possible to copy some movements by observation alone because there is sometimes more occuring than may be first apparent.
When you do math in your head your eyes look a certain direction. Turns out it is the same location for nearly all people. Where do you look? Placement of a teacher’s desk might be important depending if it is a math class or an art class. Something to explore.
When you are looking at the chalkboard in your mind your eyes look a direction because they are kicking on a certain part of your brain by looking at it. This can help to see logically how looking different directions can selectively kick on different parts of your brain. Imagine a large star-of-david in front of you. Trace the lines with your eyes, if all this really works you’d be kicking on each part of your brain in turn activating the whole thing.
Want to kick all parts on at once? Could it be possible using the feeling technique described above? Would have to be able to feel the parts for as long as necessary without getting distracted with your thinking mind. Did you try it? Kind of a mind work-out eh? Which way do your eyes look? You kind of look like a buddhist statue when you do that… gosh, I wonder if there is a connection.
- – - Travis Loyd
