This you can practice any time anywhere. If we are going to learn to become right minded, it needs to be easy, gentle, and accessible.
The most direct path in strengthening your right hemisphere is to become embodied. This means focusing your attention on how it feels to be in your body. You are moving your state of consciousness to become concentrated primarily in your right hemisphere. Remember that there are no words in this state of consciousness, only impressions and felt experience. You are having a direct experience rather than an abstracted one.
The instructions are simple yet subtle. You are to move gracefully. To do this you become fully aware of your movements. You move your body – arms, legs, head, torso, neck, face – with smoothness and elegance. It is the opposite of jerky motion. Your movements become intentional, coordinated, and purposeful. You are going about your daily business while simultaneously being mindful of how your body is engaging with it. As you pay close attention you will notice that it is quite mysterious how your body is moving at your command without you formally giving it a command. It is automatically responding to how you want to express yourself and what you need to acquire. It is operating unconsciously and you are bringing your consciousness to it. It’s a true mystery on how this happens. Becoming right minded allows you delve deeper into this mystery and offers you an understanding that cannot be expressed in words.
Think of the word grace. It’s defined as a quality of moving in a smooth, relaxed, and elegant way. It’s also the quality of being polite, kind, honest, and forgiving. Grace also demonstrates God’s abundant love, blessings, and compassion toward humanity.
When you move gracefully these attributes become an expression of your inner being that resides in your right hemisphere. Enjoy what you find as you explore this half of your brain. It will always remain a mystery on how it is possible for you to move your body, or how your body moves you, depending upon how you look at it. And of course, they are paradoxically both happening at the same time. Your left hemisphere will never be able to grasp this, which is why we need the right hemisphere to comprehend it.
The more often you practice this, the deeper and broader you will engage your right hemisphere. Your right hemisphere obtains permission to balance the power of your left. Your goal, as always, is to have your right hemisphere be the master and your left hemisphere your emissary.
I find it philosophically challenging to ask the question who is making the conscious decision to engage the right hemisphere. Who is it that can even assess whether we are acting from the consciousness of the left hemisphere or the consciousness of the right hemisphere? Since they actively inhibit each other, theoretically we cannot be in both at the same time. I believe what happens is that the speed of the shifting between the two increases and becomes more fluid. A healthy brain would appear to be one where consciousness by default is in the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere is only used for specific purposes when needed. When the task is done, the energy moves back to the right hemisphere. In other words, our natural state is a direct experience of the world without the use of words, categories, opinions, and judgments floating through our mind. Thinking is overrated. We can function quite well without continuous self talk. In fact, we function even better. We become more intuitive, more in contact with reality, and more open to a connection with God.