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This is one of the most important videos that’s ever been on my channel.
Today, I’m talking about the brain and why we should work to balance it—also giving
you some techniques for balancing your brain.
Most people alive today are living with brain imbalances.
It doesn’t stop them being humans in the world, having families and having jobs; but
it does stop them from ever reaching holistic understanding.
They do not themselves live from any kind of holistic centre in their own lives.
They’re either too much in their emotions or too much in their logical side.
And this is why we have issues in the world, the greater world in general: because so many
of us are living imbalanced.
We’re too much in one side, not enough in the other.
So I believe that when we change ourselves inside, and we move towards being balanced
individuals, this is when we get the widest possible understanding.
And, for me also, this is what it means to grow as a person.
I believe that most or all of us start life with one kind of imbalance: we’re either
too much in the left side or too much in the right.
But, if we decide to grow, and if we choose to grow as adults, the path of that growth
is developing ourselves so that we’re balanced in the two sides.
So if you think of the Yin-Yang symbol, we go from just being all in one side and never
in the other to being that fifty-fifty blend of the two sides, and without excluding the
other.
So a person who is too much in their left brain, with the left-brain imbalance, what
it means is that the overall function of the brain is stunted so that the oldest part of
the brain, the reptile brain, takes over on an instinctual level.
And it means that emotions and compassion in a person that’s fully in their left brain
is squashed down and isn’t felt, isn’t experienced, and everything in their mind
is all to do with “It’s this, it’s that; it’s this, it’s that”—logic, logic,
logic...to the total exclusion of everything else.
This kind of person is a dominator kind of person who’s controlling and controls the
lives of other people.
Someone with the right-brain imbalance, represented by the bunny rabbit, is someone who is ruled
by their emotions, and they’re like an empathy-compassion sponge.
If they’ve got their heart on their sleeve all the time, they’re completely ruled by
their emotions.
And they can’t make a rational decision about anything, because they’re just always
in their emotions and, a lot of the time, experiencing fear and worry, like a little
rabbit caught in the headlights.
And this kind of person is a...
Whereas we’ve got the controller with the left-brain dominant, the right-brain dominant
person is the passive, slave mentality kind of person.
Someone with a right-brain imbalance is not someone that’s able to create a goal and
work towards it.
They’ll always create reasons in their life why they can’t do this, why it wouldn’t
work; or they’ll do it later, but they never ever get round to it.
They talk a lot sometimes about the things they’re going to do, but it never ever happens.
They hold themselves back from a lot of things; they don’t believe in themselves: they’re
unworthy...
Oftentimes, they have addictions as well.
And these two go hand in hand.
So usually, in a relationship, there’ll be a person with the left-brain imbalance
with the person with the right-brain imbalance.
So that’s why there is this power dynamic in most relationships we see around us: because
most people in the world have this brain imbalance.
So let’s talk about...
I’ve got some ways for balancing the brain now.
A good starting point for anybody who decides, “I’ve had enough with my life and the
dramas in my life, and this not working for me,” or “I want to change,” a person
who decides, wants to change: a good starting point is always meditation.
What I would recommend is that you do ten minutes sitting meditation.
Just sit down in your house, one time a day, every day, and focus on the space in the middle
of your head for ten minutes.
And every time you find your thoughts wandering away, come back and put them there.
And you just do that every time you notice.
Don’t worry about doing it wrong or not being good at it.
The whole point is that you just return your thought there every single time.
Let’s start with left-brain imbalance, because most people in the world are operating from
left-brain imbalance.
And this comes to us as a result of culture, I would say, because the education system
moulds children from a very early age to be all about repeating, suppressing the creative
force in people, forcing people into routines all day long.
It suppresses, and over time, stamps out and causes the right brain just to give up in
many people.
You want to be doing things that are expressive.
If you see my kinds of drawings that I put on my channel: my drawings are from my imagination,
and they’re very quick lines; they’re expressive, they’re to show feelings.
This kind of art, in your own style—it doesn’t have to be like mine—is going to be a lot
more useful for you than doing something neat and tidy and following patterns.
The next thing: improvisation.
Very, very few people in the world are good at improvisation.
I know this because I’ve trained people to do it before.
And improvisation is all to do with the right brain.
So if you can’t improvise like I’m doing now speaking, it doesn’t mean that you’ll
never be able to do it.
It’s just showing you that right now, you’re very much brain-imbalanced in the left side,
that you don’t know how to improvise.
You don’t know what to say: “Wuh, wuh, wuh..!
How am I meant to talk?”
So, talking from myself, I’ve been doing it about four years now; it does get easier.
But it gets easier the more and more I just practise; the more I go into the spontaneous,
talking-in-the-moment part, the easier it gets.
It takes time, but it does definitely bring you over more into the other side.
Another thing you can do: Dance without rules.
So find a dance class that’s more just about expression: “I can do whatever I want.”
Improvise...
You know that improvising kind of dance that everybody laughs at: be a leaf falling from
a tree or something.
That kind of dance (although probably your worst nightmare, if you’re a left-brained
imbalanced person) is going to be the kind of thing that really stretches you in that
way.
An easier thing to try, but maybe the result won’t be great, is cooking without recipes.
See if you can do things without following the step-by-step rules every time.
Make it up as you go along, or try something new...is a way of stretching your creative,
improvisation side.
Be spontaneous: try to do things without plan; or at least try to do things without a plan
one day a week.
You can start small and you can stretch your spontaneous nature.
You can also do contemplation-meditation, which means: you could go outside into a natural
place and just sit there and do nothing.
Just look at the trees, look at the grass; think, muse on things; just be there without
doing anything.
Also, a person who’s very much in their left brain tends not...
No, a person who’s very much in their left brain usually doesn’t believe in anything
to do with intuition or psychic stuff, says it’s not true, says,” Astrology is all
garbage, it’s not true, I don’t believe in any of it.”
When you’re very much in your left brain, you don’t have any evidence of that stuff
going on in your life, so it doesn’t seem true to you.
And the reason you don’t have any evidence of that stuff going on in your life is because
your right side of the brain is so deadened, or inactive, that it...in your experience,
it seems like it’s all made up and it’s nonsense.
So, another way that you can stretch into the right side of the brain is to choose some
form of intuitive mode or kind of studies, so that you start to learn about those kinds
of things.
For example, you could learn a system like...you could learn something about astrology; you
could learn something about numerology.
And then, with that knowledge, start applying your intuition to things you don’t know.
Try and...before you go...before you meet someone, try to imagine, if you’ve never
met them before, imagine what they look like.
Try to imagine details about them before you go.
And in these kind of ways, you start to stretch—even though it seems like you’re just making
it up at the beginning—it’s an exercise to stretch that intuitive power that we are
all capable of having, but many of us don’t ever experience, because we’re always too
much in the left brain.
If you have a right-brained imbalance—so, remember: if you’re the “rabbit” kind
of person, who is on the passive side, not good at working towards their goals, and is
always in their emotions—for you, a lot comes down to learning to ground yourself
in the physical world.
So, for example, don’t be floating around in the stars or blah, blah, blah.
Ground yourself in the physical world.
But also study things that are to do with logic and rationality.
So don’t think it’s not important or it’s not worth knowing.
Choose these things to study, because it gives you a really good grounding.
So, for example, some things that I’m learning lately: I’ve been learning something about
genes or neuroscience, because it’s interesting to me.
It’s also very, very scientific; and there are other ways that I like to look at things,
too.
But I find it...for me, it’s a good balance to get some of the science in there, rather
than just be in alternative knowledge.
Getting the science in is really what it means to think holistically.
Rather than just believing in everything because it’s alternative, or believing in everything
because it’s science and a science...a scientist said it, we need to come to some kind of balance.
For right-brain dominant people, number puzzles like Sudoku are good; doing crosswords; doing
art—but a different kind of art.
You want to do something that’s very detail-orientated or art that’s to do with patterns, art that’s
realism.
So copying a picture, for example, and making that picture look the same, is another good
technique.
If you have a religion, actually study your religion and be able to look at the good bits
as well as the bad bits.
Because, if you believe in something, I think it’s really important that you’re fully
knowledgeable about it, and you can answer questions that people have about your religion.
So there’s a difference between just blindly believing something because you were told
to do it and being informed about all the reasons that you decide to believe that.
Also, plan and carry out a project.
A lot of people with the right-brain imbalance have trouble just getting stuff done or even
starting.
So start small: create a small project for yourself and make sure that happens.
Another thing I would say here is: a lot of people with right-brain imbalance, they get
lost in addictions and things like that.
And they have not very good willpower to pull themselves out of it.
But if, for example, you’re a smoker or you drink lots of coffee, you could try to
cut one of those things out and dedicate yourself to cutting that out.
And that gives you a kind of...that gives you a kind of inner strength by building...building
the power of your will.
So, I also want to mention here that some people have imbalance...a little bit imbalanced
on the left side and a little imbalance on the right side.
So, if that applies to you, if you can see yourself in the two sides, then you want to
be trying some things that are good for balancing the left brain and some things that are good
for balancing the right brain.
It’s not a...the things that I’m telling you about today, it’s not like a quick fix
that you just do it for one week and suddenly you won’t have brain imbalance anymore.
This is more a...a mode of living for life.
For example, me doing the speech improvisation, which is all the videos on my channel.
I’ve learnt how to do this now, so I could stop, couldn’t I?
Could stop.
But I don’t stop, because there’s always deeper to go into it, and there’s always...you
can always improve and get better.
This path of pushing yourself in...developing your weaker side is another way of saying
it...is, over time...is going to bring very positive changes to anybody’s life, like
it has to mine.
I was doing this stuff without knowing what I was doing, but I can see that it’s taken
my life in a good direction.
So I would like that to happen for other people, and I would also like the positive changes
to happen in the world by having more balanced people out there, rather than all the controlling
types, or all the emotional, reactive, “can’t do anything” types.
So, thank you for watching, and join me again soon.
Bye-bye!