[Music] [Applause] [Music] hi dear friends cultural creatives and imaginal cells everywhere Bruce back and 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 that 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 and 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 passive cells in the brain turn out to be actually quite functional and integrating the nature of how the brain works in 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 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 that 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 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 engaged 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 waveform sometimes we're more in the left hemisphere sometimes for more on the right then it goes 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 that you start to integrate both very interestingly when we have hemi-sync were much
more calm collected 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 three or four minutes and you'll start to feel a calmness over coming 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 percent 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 and 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
