Your brain does three things. It receives information from your surroundings, processes it, and acts on whatever it concludes. Every aspect of your physiology, every organ, every muscle, and every cell can be thought of as an extension of the brain.

The right half of the brain sees, hears, and feels new things. If you want to learn a new movement, word, sound, or idea you must first be able to feel, see, or hear it.

Suppose you lose your job you had for 20 years. You are now faced with a new situation. The right half of your brain gets much more active as you absorb the reality of this new situation. You might find yourself feeling lost, daydreaming, gazing, and confused. These are all good signs that you are finding a way to assess your situation.

At some point, assuming you were able to reflect on the job loss, a light will go off in your head. It is important to know that this epiphany is not related to time per se, but the reflection you had been doing. If this reflection did not take place, you may never make sense of your situation.

Perhaps it will come in the middle of the night. I know. I have always been good at writing and I love it. I could apply for a job with a newspaper. First, I will make a resume, the I will get a list of newspapers, etc

The solution is now flowing into the left half of the brain, which specializes in carrying out the actual plan. You feel excited, inspired, goal-oriented, and energized. Behind the scenes your body is producing more serotonin, adrenaline, and endorphins.

This example is just the tip of the iceberg. Every area of life involves this left-brain right-brain interaction. This is by far the most important thing you could for health. This philosophy is contained within all the programs we offer.

Where Does The Left Right Brain Process Break Down?

This is the key question not only for physiology, but theology. The answer is a matter of perspective. In order for you to work right, there are three necessary ingredients, and all three revolve around what I think of as Faith.

1. In order to see new patterns, you must have the capacity and willingness to see things new. But if you already think you see perfectly, you will never see anything new. It is your current paradigms that are the greatest enemy of your ability to use your right brain. Every one of us has areas where we are convinced our ideas are correct. Those are the exact areas that cause your health to break down. Our physiology is driven not by how well we see, but instead on whether or not we see better today than we did yesterday. None of your political, religious, or any other beliefs are exactly right. They are always limited by your imperfect perceptions. Faith, in part, is trusting that the unknown is good. Once you make that decision, you will seek new patterns instead of seeking the comfort of surrounding yourself only with things that affirm you. So it is the worship of comfort that most prevents your brain from functioning properly. Remember the pride that comes before the fall?


2. You need time to process. In the example of the guy who lost his job, he needed time to organize this new situation in his brain so he could make some sense out of it. We live in a very busy society. It would not be unusual for someone to be exposed to many possible life-changing events on a daily basis and never have time for those events to actually change him. It takes time for the brain to mold.

   During that processing time, new patterns bounced around and compared with past experiences. Again, many of us don’t like this process. Most often we treat this phase as a disease. Normally it is called depression, or lack of motivation. In fact, it is not anything to treat. It is a treatment. Even if you don’t take meds for this treatment, most of us use food, distractions, etc to deal with the down feelings associated with this phase. The paradox is that treating it prevents the exhilaration sure to come from it.



3. Action: This is the third step in the left right brain interaction. This is where your new beliefs, knowledge, are translated into a concrete plan. Society has a way of really destroying you by whispering to you, “Don’t do it. You might fail.”

   Fear can prevent you from doing anything different. Routine prevent transformation. Transformation is the fuel that drives your brain, and the brain is the computer that drives every cell in your body. Ironically, the action you take will never be perfect, but you won’t know until you do it. At that point, you reevaluate the action with the right brain and the process repeats itself indefinitely.

Your colon, your heart, your muscles, your kidneys, and your hormones: None of these things can function well without the brain functioning well. The brain cannot function well without the left right brain interaction. In order for the left right interaction, you must become conscientious. You must seek truth, understand truth, and act according to truth. Close mindedness, distraction and fear are used to prevent you from listening, processing, and fulfilling your most current understanding of truth.

No amount of treatment can allow you to escape this process except by masking it. Your body cannot work well outside going through the ups and downs of the left right brain interaction. The only way to escape this process is by numbing your senses. Ironically, this numbing is often called health, and is the best way to assure no life and an early death.

Do not take my word for this model. Look at your own experience. You might start to notice that you go through these phases. The key is to stop resisting the ups and downs. It is the extremes that are the engine of growth and life. Reflection without action is destructive. Action without reflection is the seed that produces the likes of Hitler. Alternating between these two keeps you moving while providing direction. Health, as we would define it, is the unintended by-product of this interaction.