Use Your Sacred Gift!

Albert Einstein once said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.  We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”  I couldn’t agree more!  But, I also feel a shift taking place where we are honoring our intuition more and even admitting it! 

The rational mind or left brain helps us to function as humans in society – to get up each day and be productive.  But as Einstein’s quote suggests, we have strayed too far in honoring our rational mind over the intuitive mind and have created an imbalance in our society.  I think he is right on!  Our rational mind is also our ego at work trying to convince us that we are all separate from each other and everything and that we must fight to maintain our independence to survive as individuals, countries, religions, political parties, etc.  I think most of the issues in our world have been created by too much left brain, ego-centric thinking, and we won’t correct them with the same type of thinking that created them in the first place.    

We are striving for balance, however, and not forsaking the left brain.  We need them both to maximize our potential as humans and as a society.  There are huge benefits to developing your right brain.  Have you ever read Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book called, My Stroke of Insight?  Jill was a brain scientist who had a stroke in her early 30’s, knew what was happening to her as she went through the different stages of the stroke, and, luckily, lived to write about.  She describes what occurred as she began to lose the functions of her left brain (rational, analytical, task driven, logical) and was eventually left with only the right brain function (creative, imaginative, wholeness, daydreaming).  She went into a euphoric state – hey, isn’t that what we all want - and couldn’t sense where her body ended and someone else’s started.  From a scientific perspective, everything is energy, including all of us, and that means that we are all connected and not separate at all! 

The other benefit to developing your right brain is that you start to develop your intuition or intuitive mind which allows steers you correctly.  Your intuitive mind knows what is best for you and the more you develop it, the better you will get and the more you will listen to it.  You will start to let it win arguments over your rational mind or “brain chatter”  You know what I mean - the part inside of you that won’t shut up and makes you keep thinking when you would rather not!

Ways To Develop Your Right Brain:
 
Meditatation
Yoga
Listening to or playing music
Dancing
Painting
Doing anything you love where you lose track of time (Not sure my HGTV addiction counts here though)

So, if you were a child that was accused of daydreaming or having too much of an imagination, remember that you were just way ahead of the curve in balancing the two hemispheres of your brain and  were placed on this earth to help balance it.  If you have children that exhibit a lot of right brain activities, encourage them and foster their development.  They might be the Einstein of tomorrow that we will be quoting!