How Can Art Therapy and Kundalini Yoga Optimize Brain Functioning?

Both Art Therapy and Kundalini Yoga share the powerful healing effect of integrating the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Typically the left side of the brain rules the orderly, statistical, mathematical, logical, practical, rational way of thinking, seeing things in straight lines. The right side of the brain represents passion, experience of taste and feelings, creativity, free spirit, imagination, yearning, sensuality, movement, vivid colours and the senses.

Without activities that stimulate integration within each side of the brain, it is difficult for one side to make sense of how the other sees things. You cannot put feelings and expressions into boxes as the left hemisphere would require, they will become restricted; they must be felt to truly be experienced. Subsequently, the right brain also has difficulty making sense of how the left-brain sees things. As a society, we tend to be mostly left brain dominant and this causes an imbalance that can create a great disruption in the natural flow of everyday living. This is why it is so important to create integration and balance within both sides of the brain.

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