Introduction 1: I want my right brain back!

Simply, this blog is about balance: whole brained balance, aha balance.

We live in a left brained adulthood world of work with:
rules,
guidelines,
laws,
expectations,
deadlines,
responsibilities,
logic,
plans,
budgets,
grades,
rankings,
feedback,
criticism,
workaholics,
competition,
answers, and
coloring within the lines.

Yet, many of us have grown up and out of our right brained childhood world of play that included:
recess,
toys,
games,
imagination,
hide and seek,
nap time,
hobbies,
active dreaming,
innocence,
curiosity,
originality,
naiveté,
simplicity,
questions, and
creative self-discovery.

Forgotten, unpracticed, undervalued, misunderstood, but not lost. My brain, the three pounds of wrinkled, pinkish-gray matter with the consistency of jelly, the central processing unit of all that is me, has become off balance, wobbly, gone askew, prematurely left brain heavy.

My life has become overtly logical, ordinarily normal, consciously redundant, excessively off balance. On these all too many days I am in need of a more balanced brain, an ambidextrous brain. My yin needs a yang. My negative needs a positive. My passive needs an active. My work needs a play. My left brain needs a right brain. I want my right brain back!

I long for the days when:
(1) imagination was more important than knowledge;
(2) time was more important than money;
(3) the journey was more important than the destination;
(4) questions were more important than answers;
(5) climbing the monkey bars was more important than climbing the corporate ladder;
(6) keeping up with the comics was more important than keeping up with the Jones; and
(7) friends were more important than possessions.

I long for the innate ability to self balance, to put things in the right brain perspective. And, thus I write this blog for you and me alike.

On an irregular and unplanned basis I will blog post my “Thought Breaker” exercises, questions and “Aha! Experiments” to wittingly amuse, promote, encourage, enlighten, and enthuse opportunities for you to “play with your right brain.”

Copyright 2008 by Denny E. McCorkle. All rights reserved.
"Play With Your Right Brain," "Thought Breakers," "Aha! Experiments," and “Aha! Lessons”
are trademarks of Denny E. McCorkle.

Read my whimsical short story about growing up in a left-brained world and discovering a life more happily creative ever after: Play With Your Right Brain.