| Copyright 2006 Cole's Poetic License
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| | Davidson of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for
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| If you are in good health, you're
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| | Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior
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| balanced. If you are sick, you've lost
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| | studied the brain waves of some Tibetan
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| some balance, temporarily I hope.
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| | Buddhist monks, including the Dalai Lama.
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| Hang with me here.
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| | He found unusually high amounts of
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| Picture yourself swinging between Yang
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| | gamma brain wavesbrain waves that
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| and Yin over a precipice. When you stop
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| | increase compassion for others.
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| swinging you see a ledge. You stand on
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| | Compassion comes out of good balance and
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| it, safely.
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| | good health.
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| Now, if you're unfamiliar with Eastern
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| | Bill Harris, Director of Centerpointe,
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| medicine, consider the Aristotelian Mean.
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| | created a sound track designed to create
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| Aristotle advocated following a path
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| | the same brain waves experienced by the
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| between two extremes. If you swing too
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| | Buddhist monks. I have benefited from
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| far in either direction you are apt to
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| | Centerpointe's sound tracks. They put my
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| get sick.
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| | left and right brains in balance and
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| Since I have skimmed the surface of
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| | kicked out my shy bone by broadcasting my
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| Eastern Philosophy, Aristotle, Stephen
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| | words subliminally into each ear at
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| Hawkings' string theory, brain research,
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| | different rates of speed.
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| religions, meditation, and Western
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| | Learning Strategies, Inc. has a program
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| medical science, I am no authority, but I
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| | called Spring Forest QiGong that teaches
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| can show you how they relate to good
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| | you how to heal yourself whenever you get
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| health.
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| | sick. Guess howbalancing energy! I
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| First, Yang refers to the masculine,
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| | recommend the book, "Born a Healer" by
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| left-brained energy in everyone and Yin
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| | Chunyi Lin.
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| the right-brained, feminine energy. When
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| | Finally, there's nothing like Western
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| these two are out of balance, things go
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| | medicine when you tear a meniscus or get
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| awry. Acupuncture is the medical
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| | a concussion, among other off-balance
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| practice of releasing blocked flow of
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| | things.
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| energy to regain balance and good health.
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| | In our Western World fear hovers below
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| Obviously, it works.
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| | the surface. The more money and power we
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| String theory, I think, says everything
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| | have, the more fear. We are not openly
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| in the universe consists of strings of
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| | afraid. It shows up as anxiety in our
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| energy. Nothing is solid. (Phew, wish I
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| | dreams and in our bodies.
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| could understand physics!)
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| | Anxiety is catching, like bird flu. I
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| Brain research shows three major parts to
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| | spent a lifetime hunching up my
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| the human brain: reptile, limbic, and
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| | shoulders, anxiously expecting to be
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| neo-cortex. We use our reptile brain
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| | yelled at for something I did wrong. My
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| whenever we feel our survival threatened.
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| | shoulders finally gave out. I had them
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| (Explains continual warfare.) The limbic
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| | replaced. Now they set off security
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| system, our midbrain or early mammalian
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| | alarms. Sweet revenge?
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| brain, stores our emotions. We use the
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| | Since you have read this far, you will be
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| neo-cortex for thinking, forward planning
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| | fascinated by "Does Mind-Over-Body
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| and problem solving. All three brains
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| | Healing Work?" It's an article by an
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| are interdependent and function together.
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| | African professor of Western Medicine
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| The neo-cortex houses the right and left
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| | that begins, "Life is energy, and all
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| brain. When either of these is too far
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| | living beings are energy beings."
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| out of balance we suffer.
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| | Google the title. You may be surprised by
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| You may know, slightly, an accountant or
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| | his thesis.
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| computer programmer who is so
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| | Here's to your good balance and good
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| left-brained he is practically a hermit.
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| | health.
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| Or you may know an artist who is so
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| | Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, The Whole-mind
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| right-brained he forgets to pay his rent
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| | Writer,
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| and is often in some kind of trouble.
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| | Coles chief aim in life is to convince
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| I think most physicists use all three
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| | everyone to understand the power of the
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| brains in balance. I may be wrong.
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| | subconscious mind and synchronize it with
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| Experiments with meditation have shown
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| | goals of the conscious mind.
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| some amazing results. Dr. Richard
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