this month’s newsletter I really want to
focus on something called an urban myth
and this particular urban myth is the
belief that we only operate off of 10%
of our brain so we’ve all heard that yes
we’re only using 10% of our brain boy if
we could use all the rest of it we’d be
super smart but hey that’s all we use
firstly where did that number come from
10% a long time ago when putting the
body together through an understanding
of histology and the cells that make up
organs a study of the brain revealed one
very important fact and that is only 10%
of the brain was made up of neurons 90%
of the cells in the brain were not
neurons but they were called supporting
or connective tissue and given the name
glial cells well what’s really
interesting about that is in the neuron
principle the neuron doctrine it was
believed that the neurons were the
functional cells of the brain and the
glial cells were more or less just
support well then by definition right
away it says then you’re only using 10%
of your brain because that’s all the the
neurons comprised in the brain 10% for a
long time the glial cells again were
thought to be just like connective
tissue support physically and
nutritionally the neurons but over the
last number of decades what we started
to find is this there was a
misunderstanding about glial cells that
glial cells are a lot more important in
neural function than just physical
support glial cells can inhibit or
activate neurons glial cells connect to
neurons glial cells can control the
activity of neurons so all of a sudden
these glial cells which were looked at
as just passed up cells in the brain
turn out to be actually quite functional
and integrating the nature of how the
brain works and a way of looking at it
in a simple analogy consider that the
neurons are nouns in a sentence and that
the glial cells are the verbs and the
adjectives and the adverbs the modifiers
of all the nouns so the glial cells
create a fulfilment of a picture so
neurons are like a stick figure and when
you add the glial cells you fill out the
nature of the whole human so glial cells
become a very
functional integrated part of all
neuronal activity so the concept of the
neuron doctrine that said only neurons
are involved with functioning in the
nervous system it turns out the glial
cells are as well so now we’re not
dealing with 10% of the brain we’re
dealing with a hundred percent of the
brain yes you have access to a hundred
percent of your brain all of the time
but does that mean that we actually use
the whole brain all of the time and the
answer is no because what we start to
find out is when we start to live in
patterns and in habits that what happens
is we just activate certain neuronal
pathways that are habitual pathways and
as a result these are the pathways that
have preference in our everyday life but
if you can engage whole brain activity
you can enhance your consciousness and
your awareness and your ability to
control your life so basically says that
we can become whole brain when we start
to think holistically instead of just
playing recurrent programs that play
over and over again and activate the
same pathways so the relevance is that
once we start to engage in whole brain
activity we enhance our ability as
humans on this planet and now we’re
beginning to find out there are many
different ways to engage and activate
the whole brain some of them involve
simple exercises such as something
called brain gym and brain gym is a very
interesting exercise of the body and the
nervous system integration in this way
my right hand is controlled by my left
hemisphere my left hand it controlled by
my right hemisphere but here’s an
interesting story if my right hand
controlled by my left hemisphere crosses
the midline
then it simultaneously gets picked up by
the other hemisphere because now it’s in
that territory as well so when you cross
your arms and when you cross your legs
what you’re doing is causing the right
and the left hemispheres to work
together in harmony
when we are activating brain
synchronization we’re right and left
hemispheres are in
gage together simultaneously it
activates something like super learning
with both hemispheres working together
we have much more superior
characteristics of neural function
however after age seven and eight we
start to express what is called brain
dominance meaning during the day we
don’t have synchronization of both
hemispheres during the day it’s like a
wave form sometimes we’re more in the
left hemisphere sometimes we’re more in
the right then it comes back to the left
and back to the right so that we’re
cycling through one hemisphere at a time
this is called brain dominance where one
hemisphere is dominant over the other
hemisphere
well the relevance about that is
integrating our lives is very difficult
in brain dominance for simple reason has
been suggested our left hemisphere is
based on logic and details our right
hemisphere is actually associated with
emotions and wholeness and this becomes
very important because if you’re only
looking with your left hemisphere then
all the logic things make sense but
there’s no emotional component to it and
reverse if you’re in the right
hemisphere you get emotionally tied up
but the logic drops out well this
happens to us ever since the time we
were eight through our adult life if you
can get both hemispheres to be in sync
hemi-sync then you’re engaging logic and
emotions at the same time that opens up
a window for super learning
opportunities where you can download
information very very quickly and very
fast but it also opens up a whole wide
range of thinking that includes an
emotional component as well as an
intellectual component which is
necessary to fulfill a whole picture so
if you’re operating from brain dominance
you’re actually shutting off one
component of your nervous system at that
time so if you do an exercise like brain
gym where you’re involved with crossing
your arms and your legs when you do that
you start to integrate both very
interestingly when we have hemi-sync
we’re much more calm
and able to really express neurological
functions that are very fully supporting
of ourselves and this is why it’s very
interesting when you go home and relax
at night sometimes you find yourself
with your ankles crossed over each other
just sitting in your chair without even
knowing what you’re doing by crossing
your ankles you’re actually engaging a
whole brain process so if you’re
stressed for example during the day or
you just want to relax when you go home
at night crossing your arms and legs
actually engages both hemispheres which
calms the system down but engages a
whole brain process so you become much
more effective in your relaxed state so
if you’re having a tough moment during
the day just take a moment and cross
your arms and legs hold them together
and just wait for about 3 or 4 minutes
and you’ll start to feel a calmness
overcoming and in this calmness your
neurological functions will be totally
enhanced when we start to operate from
patterns that are replayed every day we
start to express very specific pathways
that are reused over and over and over
again and as a result we actually shut
down a large amount of functioning of
the brain and just go through the habit
the patterns that replay themselves over
and over again so basically what you
really have to understand is this we can
use a hundred percent of the brain but
if we play the same patterns over and
over again we don’t need to use a
hundred percent of the brain so simple
point I just like to suggest that you
know once you start to recognize that
you can have hemi-sync where you can get
right and left hemispheres to engage
together and stay conscious you are
using 100% of your brain activity and
when you do that you’ll also find that
your life is easier more harmonious and
healthier because when you’re using your
full nervous system it will support your
life and enhance your growth and this
becomes important so don’t get stuck
that I’m only using 10% of my brain that
story is false you can use a hundred
percent and it’s available to us and
basically all you have to understand is
this stay conscious stay mindful
stop playing the same patterns over and
over again because that opens up an
opportunity to create new behavior when you stop playing the programs
focus on something called an urban myth
and this particular urban myth is the
belief that we only operate off of 10%
of our brain so we’ve all heard that yes
we’re only using 10% of our brain boy if
we could use all the rest of it we’d be
super smart but hey that’s all we use
firstly where did that number come from
10% a long time ago when putting the
body together through an understanding
of histology and the cells that make up
organs a study of the brain revealed one
very important fact and that is only 10%
of the brain was made up of neurons 90%
of the cells in the brain were not
neurons but they were called supporting
or connective tissue and given the name
glial cells well what’s really
interesting about that is in the neuron
principle the neuron doctrine it was
believed that the neurons were the
functional cells of the brain and the
glial cells were more or less just
support well then by definition right
away it says then you’re only using 10%
of your brain because that’s all the the
neurons comprised in the brain 10% for a
long time the glial cells again were
thought to be just like connective
tissue support physically and
nutritionally the neurons but over the
last number of decades what we started
to find is this there was a
misunderstanding about glial cells that
glial cells are a lot more important in
neural function than just physical
support glial cells can inhibit or
activate neurons glial cells connect to
neurons glial cells can control the
activity of neurons so all of a sudden
these glial cells which were looked at
as just passed up cells in the brain
turn out to be actually quite functional
and integrating the nature of how the
brain works and a way of looking at it
in a simple analogy consider that the
neurons are nouns in a sentence and that
the glial cells are the verbs and the
adjectives and the adverbs the modifiers
of all the nouns so the glial cells
create a fulfilment of a picture so
neurons are like a stick figure and when
you add the glial cells you fill out the
nature of the whole human so glial cells
become a very
functional integrated part of all
neuronal activity so the concept of the
neuron doctrine that said only neurons
are involved with functioning in the
nervous system it turns out the glial
cells are as well so now we’re not
dealing with 10% of the brain we’re
dealing with a hundred percent of the
brain yes you have access to a hundred
percent of your brain all of the time
but does that mean that we actually use
the whole brain all of the time and the
answer is no because what we start to
find out is when we start to live in
patterns and in habits that what happens
is we just activate certain neuronal
pathways that are habitual pathways and
as a result these are the pathways that
have preference in our everyday life but
if you can engage whole brain activity
you can enhance your consciousness and
your awareness and your ability to
control your life so basically says that
we can become whole brain when we start
to think holistically instead of just
playing recurrent programs that play
over and over again and activate the
same pathways so the relevance is that
once we start to engage in whole brain
activity we enhance our ability as
humans on this planet and now we’re
beginning to find out there are many
different ways to engage and activate
the whole brain some of them involve
simple exercises such as something
called brain gym and brain gym is a very
interesting exercise of the body and the
nervous system integration in this way
my right hand is controlled by my left
hemisphere my left hand it controlled by
my right hemisphere but here’s an
interesting story if my right hand
controlled by my left hemisphere crosses
the midline
then it simultaneously gets picked up by
the other hemisphere because now it’s in
that territory as well so when you cross
your arms and when you cross your legs
what you’re doing is causing the right
and the left hemispheres to work
together in harmony
when we are activating brain
synchronization we’re right and left
hemispheres are in
gage together simultaneously it
activates something like super learning
with both hemispheres working together
we have much more superior
characteristics of neural function
however after age seven and eight we
start to express what is called brain
dominance meaning during the day we
don’t have synchronization of both
hemispheres during the day it’s like a
wave form sometimes we’re more in the
left hemisphere sometimes we’re more in
the right then it comes back to the left
and back to the right so that we’re
cycling through one hemisphere at a time
this is called brain dominance where one
hemisphere is dominant over the other
hemisphere
well the relevance about that is
integrating our lives is very difficult
in brain dominance for simple reason has
been suggested our left hemisphere is
based on logic and details our right
hemisphere is actually associated with
emotions and wholeness and this becomes
very important because if you’re only
looking with your left hemisphere then
all the logic things make sense but
there’s no emotional component to it and
reverse if you’re in the right
hemisphere you get emotionally tied up
but the logic drops out well this
happens to us ever since the time we
were eight through our adult life if you
can get both hemispheres to be in sync
hemi-sync then you’re engaging logic and
emotions at the same time that opens up
a window for super learning
opportunities where you can download
information very very quickly and very
fast but it also opens up a whole wide
range of thinking that includes an
emotional component as well as an
intellectual component which is
necessary to fulfill a whole picture so
if you’re operating from brain dominance
you’re actually shutting off one
component of your nervous system at that
time so if you do an exercise like brain
gym where you’re involved with crossing
your arms and your legs when you do that
you start to integrate both very
interestingly when we have hemi-sync
we’re much more calm
and able to really express neurological
functions that are very fully supporting
of ourselves and this is why it’s very
interesting when you go home and relax
at night sometimes you find yourself
with your ankles crossed over each other
just sitting in your chair without even
knowing what you’re doing by crossing
your ankles you’re actually engaging a
whole brain process so if you’re
stressed for example during the day or
you just want to relax when you go home
at night crossing your arms and legs
actually engages both hemispheres which
calms the system down but engages a
whole brain process so you become much
more effective in your relaxed state so
if you’re having a tough moment during
the day just take a moment and cross
your arms and legs hold them together
and just wait for about 3 or 4 minutes
and you’ll start to feel a calmness
overcoming and in this calmness your
neurological functions will be totally
enhanced when we start to operate from
patterns that are replayed every day we
start to express very specific pathways
that are reused over and over and over
again and as a result we actually shut
down a large amount of functioning of
the brain and just go through the habit
the patterns that replay themselves over
and over again so basically what you
really have to understand is this we can
use a hundred percent of the brain but
if we play the same patterns over and
over again we don’t need to use a
hundred percent of the brain so simple
point I just like to suggest that you
know once you start to recognize that
you can have hemi-sync where you can get
right and left hemispheres to engage
together and stay conscious you are
using 100% of your brain activity and
when you do that you’ll also find that
your life is easier more harmonious and
healthier because when you’re using your
full nervous system it will support your
life and enhance your growth and this
becomes important so don’t get stuck
that I’m only using 10% of my brain that
story is false you can use a hundred
percent and it’s available to us and
basically all you have to understand is
this stay conscious stay mindful
stop playing the same patterns over and
over again because that opens up an
opportunity to create new behavior when you stop playing the programs
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