Check out this YouTube link to learn about a pose called Super Brain Yoga. This pose is not typically taught in traditional adult or child yoga classes, but I like to incorporate it into the classes I teach.
Bend your elbows, crossing one over the other, gently grabbing the opposite earlobe. Inhale as you squat down and exhale as you rise up, gently squeezing the earlobes the whole time. Do this for 1-2 minutes and then recross the arms and do for another 1-2 minutes. Try it each day for 3-5 minutes, if possible. Try it before you need to focus or concentrate on an assignment, activity or exercise.
The benefits of this Super Brain Yoga pose:
Crossing the midline and activating the corpus callosum.
The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. Both sides are forced to communicate when there is a physical cross over, when a body part from the right side of your body moves across the midline and over to the left side of your body (and left to right). This crossing over activates the corpus callosum.
The corpus callosum is a band of nerve fibers that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain. It is like a communication highway between the left and right sides of the brain. The corpus callosum helps the sides of the brain “talk” to each other better. By doing brain balance poses and exercises, you can “exercise” your corpus callosum. Using both sides of the brain makes communication between the two halves more active. The more active the corpus callosum, the better the two sides will communicate, and the more well-rounded learning will become.
"Albert Einstein, who discovered the theory of relativity, is said to have used both hemispheres of his brain simultaneously. His ideas came first as visual images, which he then translated into words and mathematical equations. In his opinion, the most important aspect of intelligence is the ability to use imagery with the information we know."
[from Spinning Inward, by M. Murdock, p. 6-7]
To learn about more benefits of this pose, including ear acupuncture, go here.
Love this! The images from the right enable the abilities to develop in the left. This is part of what Hypnotherapy is all about. If you can imagine doing well and feeling good then your brain has experienced it. The brain does not differentiate between the pictures in our imagination whether they are real or imagined. Thank you!
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