WE ARE ALL BORN
CREATIVE!
12 Things You Were Not Taught in School
9 Things Educators Need to Know
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey
You never change things by fighting
Young
children, before school age, have a tendency toward being more
right-brained and their grasp of creative solutions, risk-taking
endeavors, and artistic abilities runs high. Statistics show that only a
very small portion of our population, following our left-brained
educational system, retain that deep connection to our right-brain
after graduation. We tend to tip the scales toward the left. Our hemispheres become unbalanced and we stop using a good portion of what we were given.
As an educator, this fascinated me!
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." ~Henri Poincare
If we want to be whole, we must learn to use insight ("in"-sight) to recognize and interpret the hidden relationships between our internal states of awareness (a right-brain function) and our external behaviors (executed by our left-brains).
Einstein said, "We can't change the problems of the world with the same thinking that created them."
Indeed.
Living from the heart encourages present, fluid, heart-felt, intentional interactions with the world. It arrives on the back of a whisper, a breath, a gnosis, an internal nudge and blossoms when invited in through the meditation that arises from engaged creativity. Focused on bringing the right brain back into an overtly left-brained world, this website is dedicated to passion, acknowledging your own individual gifts and talents and the courage to creatively follow and share what brings joy into your life - asking the inner (and outer) critics to step aside. Focusing more on doing what you love, on acting and being the change you wish to see in the world, and less on defining, categorizing and shoe-boxing yourself (and others).
Left and Right Brain Characteristics
| Left Hemisphere Style | Right Hemisphere Style |
|---|---|
Rational
|
Intuitive
|
Sequential
|
Simultaneous
|
| Draws on previously accumulated, organized information | Draws on unbounded qualitative patterns that are not organized into sequences, but that cluster around images |
| We need BOTH hemispheres. |
We need BALANCE! |
ENGAGING IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS ENCOURAGES LEFT AND RIGHT BRAIN INTEGRATION
Intuition arises from the right brain and, if given the attention and respect it is due from the rational, precise left-brain, holds the key to opening the doors to your own unique talents, creativity, and possibly even pointing the way to your life's passion.
Art (all forms) is based on emotional understanding, on the feeling of the unknown which lies behind the visible and the tangible, and on creative power, that is, to reconstruct in visible or audible forms the artists’ sensations, feeling, visions, and moods, and especially a certain fugitive sensation, which is, in fact, the feeling of the harmonious interconnection and oneness of everything and the feeling of the “soul” of things and phenomena…
Art is a definite way of knowledge.
Oupensky