Tag: Lateralization of brain function

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How TV Affects Your Brain Chemistry for the Worst

By Heather Callaghan Have you ever overheard an intense or heart-wrenching discussion only to find out the talkers were actually hashing out the lives of fictional TV characters? Do you ever wonder why people are so easily beguiled into trusting the talking heads? It might not be such a mystery when you find out how easy it is for TV programming – the waves it emits, the storytelling – to override basic brain function and even damage your body. Reported earlier by Truthstream Media: Back in 1969, a man named Herbert Krugman conducted a series of experiments regarding the effect of television on a person’s brainwaves. What he found was pretty startling: “Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of […] Read More

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Why meditation can help you

It doesn’t make sense when you are told to retreat relax and meditate when in a financial crisis. It’s rather reasonable that you don’t settle down until you come out of that huge financial burden that is tolling down on you. Meditation? Ooh please no! It has been said that people who don’t meditate are often more ignorant and are susceptible to making careless rushed choices that plunges them in a deeper trouble than the one they are in. This is why it’s important to free your mind and relax when in a financial crisis. It will help a million miles and you will be amazed at how quickly you will be able to harness your mental strength again and come up with strategic points […] Read More

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Get Rhythm – Drumming Technique

By Robert Lawrence Friedman When Ginger Graziano lost her 19-year-old son to cancer, a tsunami of grief poured over her, leaving her in a seething, inarticulate depression. Without a way to express her anguish, she says, the pain became unbearable. Then one day she heard a drum beat from a nearby meadow and felt an immediate, visceral response. Although she had never played any kind of drum before, she went right out and bought one’a djembe, an African drum. Some instinct told her that whatever she needed to heal, she could access by drumming. The first time she sat down and began to beat on the drum, she felt the naked ferocity of anger pouring through her hands. Over time, however, anger gave way to […] Read More