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Right Brain

Inspiration, or More Perspiration in Problem Solving?

Bill Donius | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business
Bill Donius

Inspiration and imagination are part of what Einstein called the "sacred gift." Without it, an individual can go through life much like a robot or dro...

100 Ways to Be More Creative at Work

Mitch Ditkoff | Posted 05.02.2013 | Business
Mitch Ditkoff

Psychologists agree that human beings are most creative at the age of five. After that, it's a slow and steady decline -- especially in the workplace. But wait! It doesn't have to be that way .

Neuroscientist Says Green Consciousness Is in Right Brain

Linda Buzzell | Posted 03.11.2013 | Healthy Living
Linda Buzzell

For those of us interested in how right-brain connection could alter our species' presently destructive relationship with the rest of nature, it seems critical that many more people experience the holistic, blissful feeling of oneness with all there is in our amazing universe.

Insights vs. Myths About the Brain

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 03.08.2013 | TED Weekends
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Phrenology, which flourished in the 1820s and 1830s, claimed that bumps on one's head corresponded to these various traits, and could be measured by assessing the size of each bump.

The Woman With Two Brains

Benjamin K. Bergen | Posted 03.08.2013 | TED Weekends
Benjamin K. Bergen

The two hemispheres of the brain are extremely similar from their global organization down to the minute details like the distribution of specific neurotransmitters used in particular corresponding regions across the two hemispheres.

Does Our Planet Need A Stroke of Insight?

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor | Posted 03.06.2013 | TED Weekends
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

2013-01-03-boltetaylorpullThe issues of mental health and global health are closely linked -- if not one and the same. Similar processes we use to improve our mental health can help us make better, more responsible decisions as a society -- by focusing on the compassion and integrity of our right brain, rather than the judgment, punishment and deception of our left brain.

Beautiful Limits

Juliet Asante | Posted 10.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Juliet Asante

May we learn to live with limits and understand that enough is the point at which we become human again... ascended and not descended from our ancestors, the ape.

Drawing for the Soul

Penny Will | Posted 09.26.2012 | Healthy Living
Penny Will

My very favorite time to draw is in the evening. I like to settle into my comfy chair with a clip board, lots of paper and pencils jammed conveniently in my hair. The movement of the pencil on the paper is rather hypnotic, and before I know it, hours have gone by.

How Your Teenager Will Get Hired This Summer

Liz Ryan | Posted 09.15.2012 | Parents
Liz Ryan

Employers don't care how a kid got paid. They want to know that a kid understands what work is and how to show up to work on time and get things done.

Unlocking the Secrets of Innovation: Thinking Different

John M. Eger | Posted 06.19.2012 | Arts
John M. Eger

Learning to be creative opens the door to painting or performing or pursuing a new vocation or hobby. Unfortunately, we live in a left brained world and most people have forgotten how to exercise the right hemisphere.

Thinking Different: Unlocking The Keys To Your Creativity

John M. Eger | Posted 06.19.2012 | Home
John M. Eger

Drawing on both the right and the left logical side is more difficult in large part because we have not used the right side much. Most education aims at nurturing the left side so after a time the right side kind of atrophies.

Can You Really Unlock Your "Inner Genius"?

Bill Donius | Posted 01.31.2013 | GPS for the Soul
Bill Donius

Is tapping into your right brain the equivalent of tapping into your "inner genius"?

Left Ear Or Right, What Cellphone Habit Says About Your Brain

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 02.25.2012 | Science

When it comes to using your cellphone, are you a righty or a lefty? A provocative new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit suggests that the ...

Delightfully Gray: Embracing Life's Extremes

Kristi Anderson | Posted 07.21.2011 | Healthy Living
Kristi Anderson

We all know it is entirely possible for one person to embody emotions so vast, seemingly as far as the East is from the West.

We Can All Be Creative

John M. Eger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
John M. Eger

Many neuroscientists are beginning to say we can all be creative. Indeed, Sir Ken Robinson, an educator not a neuroscientist believes we are all crea...

Why Are You Always Walking in Circles?

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Mark Morford

No matter if you're right-brained or left, pygmy or giant, black or white, gay or straight, hairy or bald, French or Scandinavian, you will, eventually and no matter what, walk in a circle!

The Dis-Ease of the Western Mind

Ervin Laszlo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Ervin Laszlo

The dis-ease of the Western mind is a product of historical circumstance. But it is not fated; we could overcome our one-sided heritage of the past. The key to it is using our brain more fully.

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 8: What are the Sefirot?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jay Michaelson

Ten sefirot of no-thing, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Understand in wisdom, be wise and understanding. Examine them, explore them. Know, cont...

My Friend Ian Browde's Right Brain Reflections

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Yvonne R. Davis

With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.

Right Brain Thinking is the Hottest New Fad! Ways to Enhance Your Intuition

Margaret Ruth | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Margaret Ruth

There is a burgeoning cultural awareness that the more creative, intuitive ways of processing information have enormous value in our daily personal and business lives.

Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment

Kay Goldstein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kay Goldstein

Have you ever noticed how advertising agencies claim to know what will make us happy? They know we're worried about our happiness quotient and can easily seduce us.

An Obama Victory Will Itself Reassert US Leadership: First Person of Color to Govern Any Country with a White Majority, Ever

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Abrams

The election of an African-American man to the presidency is an achievement for which no description is hyperbole: earthquake, transformational, monumental, whatever your pleasure.