What if you could train your brain without needing a computer or a book?

What if you could train your coordination, your proprioception (your ability to feel your body), your ability to use the left and right sides of your brain, short term memory and long term memory, and also exercise your ability to sense inputs and respond with different outputs all at the same time. You can also increase your creativity, your ability to think outside of the box and you can develop the ability to create the box that you think within. You can learn how to sense potential, the ways to do things rather than the reasons to stop, and balance the sides of your upper body.

You can even learn to think from right to left as well as from left to right which is like learning how to think from "another point of view."

The Dance of Shiva offers all of these advantages, while exercising the brain and the body at the same time.

Memory
and Understanding

In the Dance of Shiva a small part of training the brain involves memorization.

Is that enough to turn you off of training your brain?

What if memorizing was made simple. Rather than focusing on the idea that you have lots to remember, why not focus on learning little bits at a time.

It's not a big stretch to remember bits at a time. So while comfortable and doable, how does this train the brain?

It's like having learned to ride a bicycle using training wheels. Once you've learned to ride a bike without training wheels using training wheels is an encumbarance. Likewise in the dance of shiva. Once you've memorized the basic positions and movements instead of trying to remember what the positions and the moves are you can focus on doing them. You can focus on observing yourself and correcting yourself when necessary. You can also focus on doing the moves faster while still doing them correctly.

The faster you do the movements the faster you have to use your brain to check and correct your positions if necessary.

In my introductory web page I talked about how in Dr Ryuta Kawashima's "Train your brain: 60 days to a Better Brain" you train you brain by solving math equations as fast as you can. In the dance of shiva you can do the same thing once you've learned the moves, focus on doing the moves as quickly as you can. This

This technique or method doesn't have to be restricted to answering math equations or doing the dance of shiva. In anthing we do in life if we "learn" and "understand" what it is that we are trying to do we can watch ourselves while we are doing and correct ourselves when we make mistakes. Thus our daily life can turn into training our brain.

No special tools required but do take a break.

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All the best

Neil Keleher