One mental technique I use to solve encountered problems involves a process often alluded to as lucid dreaming. Immediately before falling asleep I reflect upon the challenge I am facing and begin imagining a solution which actually transforms the challenge into an opportunity. In my research, I had discovered that when the brain hemispheres are severed, the left, speech-centered half will confabulate - make up - explanations as to the actions the right half is doing. Dyslexia predominantly involves mixed dominance (including ambidexterity) where the sidedness of the brain is connected across both hemispheres like a lightning storm. Certain skills will be left handed and others right handed; some both. I noticed early on, and then later confirmed in my research, that this same neural network which storms throughout the neocortex creating mixed dominance also allows dyslexics to step outside otherwise orthodox boundaries of the currently possible through this process of confabulation. This same phenomenon allowed famous dyslexics like Alberto Einstein to think outside the conventional parameters of his field. As Einstein once said, I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards. Einsteins solutions werent particularly complicated; in fact the were very simple in process and product, but how many thousands of other thinkers were completely incapable of thinking through Einsteins simple mental exercises and create solutions which have changed our world? My technique, used many other thinkers, lets the dreaming thought process sidestep learned rigidity and consider flexible, rule-bending solutions. Rarely are these solutions complicated. For example, I was born with a joint disease called osteochondrosis, where conventional weight lifting created great pain to my underdeveloped connective tissue due to the dramatic compression the exercise causes. Programming my mind one night before sleeping, I had sought to create an alternative to this problem. How could my disease be an advantage here, I asked. My dreams allowed me to use nondirected thinking. I dreamed of being in a large battle wielding a club where the stronger my opponents the stronger I became. When I awoke I recorded my dream in my journal to encode it into my waking directed thinking. During my morning run up the mountain where I had lived at the time, I had recalled the Tajikistan Team at World Championships practicing another sport called Zurkhenah (including swinging heavy wooden clubs) as an activity before their grappling matches. The hypothesis dawned on me at the top of the mountain in 2001: 1. if compressive forces caused me joint pain, 2. and tissue grows just as effectively from traction as it does compression, 3. and traction was one of the recommended curative solutions to my connective tissue challenges, 4. wouldnt exercising in a way that creates traction, make me just as strong but without pain? Two years later, I brought my patented line of Clubbells to the world using the sports biomechanics I had studied in Russia to make the system of progressive resistance known as the Circular Strength Training system now found in 68 countries. Some know me exclusively from that line of equipment and training system. It wasnt a particularly complicated solution. But no one else had brought it to the world because exercise had been considered a compression-only activity. I merely had thought, Instead of lifting, why not swinging weight? That one lucid dream confabulated an idea which eventually (after many years of hard work and teaching) transformed the fitness industry. Once practiced, you can use this back-burner technique to simmer solutions even while awake and performing other automatic tasks, such as driving, showering, walking, and gardening. Your brain is so much more powerful than you can imagine. Give lucid dreaming a try for a few weeks, direct your problems before sleeping (but dont try and directly solve it to avoid becoming an insomniac). Think about the current problem; ask for a solution that can transform into new potential. Record your lucid dream as soon as you awake, and then allow the idea to sublimate to your conscious mind throughout your day. Very Respectfully, Scott Sonnon facebook/ScottSonnon
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:03:02 +0000
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