While there is objective reality how a person deals with it will vary. I always found a 4 hour minimum hike in the mountains cleared away all the shadows. Repeated as often as necessary. A clear mind is a rational mind a rational mind prevails over a tormented mind. Then there is always aim small, miss small if that's what it takes to persist as defense is an Inherent Right. All the best.
when i was still in school, i did most of the best thinking while either walking (not hiking though, haha, too hard for me) or driving. i kept a notepad and pens on the dashboard, not to lose track of those key moments of thought streams. later i learned that it is a universal experience. left brain, right brain etc.
Funny you should mention that. I did an episode called Imagination Seeks Attention that talks about those 'unfocused' undistracted moments. And it talks about a TED talk on My Stroke of Insight that describes the left/ right brain division so beautifully, really in keeping with what Caitlin is saying. Her TED talk is embedded in my episode, you might like it:
thank you for your insight and the link, which i watched in its entirety laughing and in awe. i know better than claiming any understanding of biology (anatomy of human body) and psychology, which is already revealing i'm a rather extreme case of the left brain person. after my formal education in which i exclusively used my left brain, i had the informal education of (or while) living with an extreme case of the right brain person and raising a child with a brain electric in both sides. learning and appreciating continues.
Oh I'm so glad you enjoyed the Jill Bolte Taylor talk. Isn't she so genuine? I don't know if you read in my episode that I was once getting my doctorate in the psychology of creativity, where the difference between schizophrenia and creativity, and right-left brain was a subtopic. What the research showed is that the corpus collosum is key, and the speed between passing thoughts from the realm of imagery to the area of analysis and back. So people who are only right-brained lack a reality check on their ideas, and those who are only left-brained are more like an autistic savant dealing only with the literal.
So it's not like people who have more of one have necessarily less of another. It's like masculine-feminine, someone can be high on the attributes of both scales--and I think the right side IS the feminine and the left the masculine, which we all have. That resonated with me because I'm the most analytical person I know, the Mr. Spock of spirituality, but am also a poet. Caitlin has the corpus callosum autobahn with facts and statistics zipping one way and lush imagery zipping the other. So your electric brain child has some good precedents!
thanks for your interested comment. surely we have both sides of the functioning (not extinguished by hemorage!) brain and should try to use both to the max. as a side observation, i don't do literal, i can only make sense of anything by putting it in a context. for instance, i find the beginning of most novels very hard to get through as my brain keeps searching for a referential point that is yet to present itself or may never come the way i can relate to, and i can't move to the second sentence until i understand the first sentence, hahahaha. some (limited number of) books instantly click into my world of references. i definitely need to explore more the liberating and ever-expanding world of senses that my right brain has to offer if it isn't fossilized yet..
Hahaha. I definitely relate to that. I was reading a novel / trilogy in one book that followed three different story lines in three locations with three casts of characters. And then they insisted on giving them each at least two names. It was maddening! I had a four-hour delay between two five hour flights, or I think I would never have put in the commitment to get into it. Once I did, it was fun. Here's to non-fossilized non-flooded brains!
There are. Cornwall was my favourite holiday destination as a child. I haven't been there since 1987. I was wondering only yesterday if I'd ever get a chance to return.
While there is objective reality how a person deals with it will vary. I always found a 4 hour minimum hike in the mountains cleared away all the shadows. Repeated as often as necessary. A clear mind is a rational mind a rational mind prevails over a tormented mind. Then there is always aim small, miss small if that's what it takes to persist as defense is an Inherent Right. All the best.
when i was still in school, i did most of the best thinking while either walking (not hiking though, haha, too hard for me) or driving. i kept a notepad and pens on the dashboard, not to lose track of those key moments of thought streams. later i learned that it is a universal experience. left brain, right brain etc.
Funny you should mention that. I did an episode called Imagination Seeks Attention that talks about those 'unfocused' undistracted moments. And it talks about a TED talk on My Stroke of Insight that describes the left/ right brain division so beautifully, really in keeping with what Caitlin is saying. Her TED talk is embedded in my episode, you might like it:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/imagination-seeks-attention
thank you for your insight and the link, which i watched in its entirety laughing and in awe. i know better than claiming any understanding of biology (anatomy of human body) and psychology, which is already revealing i'm a rather extreme case of the left brain person. after my formal education in which i exclusively used my left brain, i had the informal education of (or while) living with an extreme case of the right brain person and raising a child with a brain electric in both sides. learning and appreciating continues.
Oh I'm so glad you enjoyed the Jill Bolte Taylor talk. Isn't she so genuine? I don't know if you read in my episode that I was once getting my doctorate in the psychology of creativity, where the difference between schizophrenia and creativity, and right-left brain was a subtopic. What the research showed is that the corpus collosum is key, and the speed between passing thoughts from the realm of imagery to the area of analysis and back. So people who are only right-brained lack a reality check on their ideas, and those who are only left-brained are more like an autistic savant dealing only with the literal.
So it's not like people who have more of one have necessarily less of another. It's like masculine-feminine, someone can be high on the attributes of both scales--and I think the right side IS the feminine and the left the masculine, which we all have. That resonated with me because I'm the most analytical person I know, the Mr. Spock of spirituality, but am also a poet. Caitlin has the corpus callosum autobahn with facts and statistics zipping one way and lush imagery zipping the other. So your electric brain child has some good precedents!
thanks for your interested comment. surely we have both sides of the functioning (not extinguished by hemorage!) brain and should try to use both to the max. as a side observation, i don't do literal, i can only make sense of anything by putting it in a context. for instance, i find the beginning of most novels very hard to get through as my brain keeps searching for a referential point that is yet to present itself or may never come the way i can relate to, and i can't move to the second sentence until i understand the first sentence, hahahaha. some (limited number of) books instantly click into my world of references. i definitely need to explore more the liberating and ever-expanding world of senses that my right brain has to offer if it isn't fossilized yet..
Hahaha. I definitely relate to that. I was reading a novel / trilogy in one book that followed three different story lines in three locations with three casts of characters. And then they insisted on giving them each at least two names. It was maddening! I had a four-hour delay between two five hour flights, or I think I would never have put in the commitment to get into it. Once I did, it was fun. Here's to non-fossilized non-flooded brains!
How does it work when your knees no longer tolerate that 4 hour hike in the mountains? Asking for a friend....
We don't really have mountains here in England. I make do with the countryside at weekends.
Move to Cornwall. I watched "Doc Martin". There are cliffs.
There are. Cornwall was my favourite holiday destination as a child. I haven't been there since 1987. I was wondering only yesterday if I'd ever get a chance to return.