The right brain controls the left side of the body and the left brain controls the right side of the body. The right brain is the most creative or emotional hemisphere and the left brain is the analytical and critical hemisphere. Everything that is new or unfamiliar to an individual is dominant on the right side of the brain. All that is familiar is the dominant left hemisphere.

Along with the right and left brain, there are different parts of the brain. The frontal lobe controls your personality, the temporal lobe deals with short- and long-term memory, the parietal lobe is the lobe of the hand, and the occipital lobe, the back of the head, controls vision.

There are specific activities that can stimulate the right or left brain.

Activities that stimulate the left side of the brain are solving crosswords or word search puzzles, performing learned tasks, using language, both comprehensive and expressive, analytical information, problem solving, and remembering new information. Geometric or spatial memory, hand gestures, writing one’s name, classifying images or words into categories, remembering complex narratives, recognizing someone you’ve met, and recognizing names are also left-brain activities. .

Activities that stimulate the right side of the brain include emotional issues, the creative process, remembering memorized lists, any unfamiliar events or activities, and maintaining attention span. Seeing or feeling different sizes, seeing different colors, attention exercises that involve time, seeing unfamiliar faces, and meeting someone new also stimulate the right brain.

You are not dead until your brain is dead. Your brain needs two things to survive: fuel and activation. Fuel comes in the form of oxygen and glucose. Glucose comes from the food you eat and oxygen comes from the air you breathe. The normal inspiration / expiration ratio should be exhalation twice as long as inhalation. That is, breathe out twice as long as you breathe in.

There are also specific treatment modalities that a doctor can use to increase left or right brain function or activation. An example is large letters made up of small letters. If you look at the small print, you will shoot the right cerebellum to the left brain. If you look at the big letters, you will shoot the left cerebellum to the right brain.

Auditory stimulation (hearing the sounds of nature, the clicks of a metronome or Mozart in a major key) in the left ear goes up through the brainstem to the right brain and vice versa for the right ear.

Visual stimulation from the left side in a checkerboard pattern using different colors reaches through the optic pathway to the brain stem and into the right brain. The TENS unit established at the subthreshold stimulates large diameter nerves that fire to the cerebellum and the opposite brain.