TURNING TO THE RIGHT BRAIN FOR CREATIVE GROWTH

Listening to the Right Brain  paper on  masonite  Laura Cerwinske, 2014 

A HOME RUN FOR PERSONAL GROWTH

Baseball great David Ortiz was the once-ferocious hitter who could not hit anymore. His futility grew week after week and left the Boston Red Sox wondering if he would ever be formidable again. When Ortiz was beyond weary about being unproductive, he decided it could not hurt him to try to an altogether different approach to resolving his problem. He decided to play the carefree 12-year-old he once was. He simply woke up one morning and told himself “to act like a kid and just go and play baseball, that’s it.” Ortiz stopped taking extra batting practice, stopped obsessing over videotapes and stopped listening to every tidbit of advice. Not long afterward, he became a solid hitter again.  He is still playing today, years later, near retirement, but still playing....like a kid.

The point of this story is to demonstrate the power of the left brain, the side of our neural anatomy that works analytically, logically, processes everything as if it were measurable data. Today research has shown that when trying to solve a problem—any type of problem -- it can be greatly beneficial to go offline, mentally. That is, rather than fixating on analysis, a more productive approach is to engage the right brain and allow your thoughts to wander. The result: fear diminishes, new ideas flow, and your personal growth surges.

The left brain is the seat of scientific, logical, or linear thinking which is based on the objective weighing of fact and detail. The left brain calls on a mode of seeing devoid of imagination, and therefore incapable of refreshing the conscious mind and anxious body. Right brain thinking, on the other hand, is nonliteral, nonlogical, instinctual. It draws on the imagination and is therefore imbued with imagery color, texture, and detail. Determinations, such as Ortiz’s to return to an “instinctive” way of playing, are invigorating. They interrupt futile repetition and propel personal growth by introducing new energy and ideas into stagnant situations.

Creative writing workshops, such as RADICAL WRITING, allow the hand, work with the right brain to allow your fingers rather than your head to do your thinking. The result is an immediate intimacy with your thoughts in a safe, supportive creative environment. By writing out feelings in the free and exaggerated way RADICAL WRITING teaches your become fluently self-expressive. The writing stimulates awareness and thereby perpetuates personal growth. This act of writing purely for self-expression alchemizes your mental activity and provides fuel for liberation, creativity, transformation, and healing.

Right-brain writing, which is to say creative writing, provides direct access to the imagination. As it expands your awareness, your instincts grow keener. You relax in making choices and decisions. You breathe easier. RADICAL WRITING makes creative writing as fluid as a reflex. RADICAL WRITING makes personal growth effortless. RADICAL WRITING holds up to you a forgiving mirror in which, like David Ortiz, you can go out again and play.

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TAKING THE LEAP

TAKING THE LEAP
The Way to Realize your Personal Growth Goals
with Radical Writing 

Conscious, nonjudgmental observation produces change.
Heisenberg’s Law of Uncertainty,
the foundation of quantum physics 

Radical Writing is a technique of uncensored writing that brings your deepest desires, hidden motivations, and unidentified obstacles safely into focus so that you can consciously choose how to act  -- or not act -- upon them. This method of self-exploration creates a safe place to vent, act out, fantasize, take revenge, grieve, destroy, and plead. It provides an unconditionally accepting confessor and private oracle all in one.
 

Moving from “trance-formation” to transformation

Regardless of whether the transformation we seek is from deprivation to abundance, from disease to health, from struggle to ease, or from unrelenting ambition to relaxation, the change cannot be made in leaps and bounds. Safely, the process can be taken only one step at a time. Leaps, in the physical world, require muscle and choreography. Unpracticed, they are dangerous to body and spirit and can leave us cripplingly unbalanced. Imbalance fosters doubt, doubt prompts fear, and fear leads to regression and paralysis. Only a step-by-step progression allows us the security we need for successful and sustained transformation.

Radical Writing teaches The Six Universal Principles of Transformation as a foundation upon which we can take incremental steps in the outer world while indulging leaps of the imagination. The more mindful we become of how these principles operate in our lives, the more quickly and accurately we will be able to identify underlying motivations for our feelings and actions.

The practice of recognizing these principles in our own minds and in others’ actions intensifies our abilities to observe and intuit. Applying the principles trains us to hear more clearly our own thoughts and beliefs, to observe more keenly how the world mirrors these thoughts and beliefs, and to sense more acutely how and where the activity of the conscious and subconscious minds affects our physical bodies.

By practicing The Six Universal Principles of Transformation, we increase our awareness of exactly how we create, promote, and/or allow chronic situations to perpetuate in our lives. When we apply the principles to recollections of our own history, we see how our thoughts affected our levels of power—some thoughts magnifying it, others insidiously or flagrantly leeching it from the cells of tissues where memory is stored.

“Wait a minute! You’re telling me that I’m creating, promoting, and allowing for the pain in my life and the disruption of my happiness?” you might wonder.

Yes, I am saying exactly that.

“How could weak men who are terrified of commitment, demanding women who are impossible to satisfy, parasitic children who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives, corporate downsizing, unfair child support laws, headaches, backaches, allergies, PMS, chronic fatigue, cancer, or addiction be of my creation?” writers want to know.

The answer is simple—and a great rub to the ego. Chronic issues or patterns serve to keep us enrolled in our stories. They perpetuate the trances we have cast upon ourselves in our chosen roles -- as victim, survivor, rescuer, loyal supporter, traitor, savior, romantic, realist, good parent, black sheep, scapegoat. We break the spell simply by recognizing and non-judgmentally observing what we have done in the past and continue to do in the present to create, promote, or allow our pain. These are:
 

The Six Universal Principles
of Transformation

1. What you resist persists.
2. What you acknowledge increases.
3. What you withhold is withheld from you.
4. All perception is projection.
5. You get not what you want, but what you believe.
6. What you give out is what you want most.

To learn more about these powerful principles and how to incorporate them into your personal growth plan, go to http://www.radicalwriting.com