| If you are in good health, you're
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| | (Phew, wish I could understand
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| balanced. If you are sick, you've lost
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| | physics!)Brain research shows three major
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| some balance, temporarily I hope.Hang
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| | parts to the human brain: reptile,
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| with me here.Picture yourself swinging
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| | limbic, and neo-cortex. We use our
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| between Yang and Yin over a precipice.
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| | reptile brain whenever we feel our
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| When you stop swinging you see a ledge.
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| | survival threatened. (Explains continual
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| You stand on it, safely.Now, if you're
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| | warfare.) The limbic system, our midbrain
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| unfamiliar with Eastern medicine,
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| | or early mammalian brain, stores our
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| consider the Aristotelian Mean.
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| | emotions. We use the neo-cortex for
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| Aristotle advocated following a path
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| | thinking, forward planning and problem
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| between two extremes. If you swing too
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| | solving. All three brains are
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| far in either direction you are apt to
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| | interdependent and function together. The
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| get sick.Since I have skimmed the surface
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| | neo-cortex houses the right and left
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| of Eastern Philosophy, Aristotle, Stephen
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| | brain. When either of these is too far
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| Hawkings' string theory, brain research,
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| | out of balance we suffer.You may know,
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| religions, meditation, and Western
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| | slightly, an accountant or computer
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| medical science, I am no authority, but I
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| | programmer who is so left-brained he is
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| can show you how they relate to good
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| | practically a hermit. Or you may know an
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| health.First, Yang refers to the
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| | artist who is so right-brained he forgets
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| masculine, left-brained energy in
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| | to pay his rent and is often in some kind
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| everyone and Yin the right-brained,
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| | of trouble.I think most physicists use
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| feminine energy. When these two are out
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| | all three brains in balance. I may be
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| of balance, things go awry. Acupuncture
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| | wrong.Experiments with meditation have
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| is the medical practice of releasing
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| | shown some amazing results. Dr. Richard
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| blocked flow of energy to regain balance
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| | Davidson of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for
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| and good health. Obviously, it
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| | Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior
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| works.String theory, I think, says
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| | studied the brain waves of some Tibetan
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| everything in the universe consists of
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| | Buddhist monks, including the Dalai Lama.
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| strings of energy. Nothing is solid.
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