Test Your Brain Dominance
What do you see when you glance the above picture ?
1) I see two old people facing each other
2) I see two people with hat, one is playing an instrument and other is placing his hand on the hat.

What you see depends on how your brain functions
If you experience the option number 1 then it means you are a right brain dominant and if you experience the option number 2 then you are left side dominant. If you experience both option 1 and 2 then your brain dominance is balanced. Both the right brain hemisphere and the left brain hemisphere is balanced.

Have you ever thought why some people can paint beautifully, but have difficulty adding two and two? Or why some people can understand the intricacies of calculus effortlessly, but struggle to write a one-page essay?   It’s all about which side of your brain dominates -  the left or the right.An entry to the secret genius code is available through our infant education

To know more on brain dominance and brain functions read the following:

Functions of the left brain and right brain:
The brain is divided into the left and the right hemisphere.The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body and the left hemisphere operates the right side of the body. The right brain is the more imaginative or emotive hemisphere and the left brain is the analytical and judgmental hemisphere.Anything that is new or not familiar to an individual is controlled by right brain . Anything that is usual is controlled by left brain .

Along with right and left brain there are different parts of the brain. The frontal lobe controls your personality, the temporal lobe deals with short and long term memory, the parietal lobe is the lobe of the hand, and the occipital lobe, the very back part of the head, masters vision.

Interest in brain research has peaked in the last two decade. Exciting discoveries in neuroscience led to new theories about brain development. In particular, public interest focused on relating findings from neuroscience to educational contexts with an emphasis on the effects of early experiences on the development of young children’s brain.

The Thinking Brain
The human brain is a complex and intricate structure that is composed of different regions. It is now believed that the different regions perform specific functions. For example, the cortex, the uppermost anatomical structure in the brain, sometimes called the “thinking brain” is connected with ‘higher level’ functions, such as the ability to make decisions and judgment, plan and organize, reason, process emotions, make sense of experience, and reflect on one’s own learning.

The Emotional Brain
The limbic system, the “emotional brain” situated beneath the cortex, is linked with emotional responding and aspects of attention and memory. The lower part of the brain consists of the brainstem and cerebellum which control automatic functions, such as heart rate,breathing, coordination and balance. All brain areas are connected to each other through a complicated inter-communication system of brain cells, called neurons.

Brain Plasticity
Perhaps the most exiting finding of brain research is the notion of brain plasticity. The idea that brain structure, in particular the connections between neurons in the cortex, are constantly modified and that the brain changes physiologically and psychologically throughout our lives; our brains continually rewire themselves in response to passing experience. This finding gives increased value to the environment within which the brain interacts. It may also hint that IQ is not fixed at birth. Furthermore, this fact suggests that no two human brains are exactly alike and that brain diversity is infinite. Finally, it supports the idea that education is a life-long project!

Neurons send messages to neighboring neurons in the form of electrical pulses across a synapse (a small gap separating neurons). A neuron is built up of the cell body, the dendrites, and the axons. Dendrites bring information to the cell body and axons take information away from the cell body. These connections, or ‘wiring’ in the brain is what gives the brain its unique structure and what allows the brain to operate in a coordinated way.

Why brain stimulation is necessary ? What are stimulated and non stimulated brain cells ? Why learning is necessary at the early age ?
While we are born with a complete set of neurons and some genetically ‘wired’ connections, many connections between neurons are determined by a learning process; learning organizes and reorganizes the brain. Hence, brain development is related to the ongoing process of connecting neurons. The number of neurons seems to be less crucial than the strength of the connections between neurons. Learning and memory are believed to result from long-term changes in synaptic strength.

The above picture shows the difference between the stimulated and unstimulated brain cells. When the cells are stimulated the cells will fire together and wire together, the more the connections the better brain power.

Unfortunately, the school education system with its emphasis on exam syllabi is more tuned to encouraging left-brain activity, often to the detriment of right brain creativity. School examinations are designed to test left-brain activity and encourage conformity in thought. There is a possibility that if right brain skills are not exercised, they may not develop sufficiently.When it comes to academics, left brain dominated children do well at school, as they are more likely to respond to formal learning. They exhibit greater responsibility, are quite content to study by themselves and have greater concentration. Right brain dominated children, on the other hand, are less likely to perform well academically. They prefer to study with company, cannot sit still for very long and are more responsive in informal settings. But when you provide a our infant education they are trained to balance both the left and the right brain skills resulting in awesome results in right brain and left brain skills.

In the period of age between 0 and 5 years, baby’s brain develops fast which is signed by the fast development of branch nerves ‘dendrite’ in the brain. Therefore, this is time for parents to optimize the stimulation process for baby’s motor system (regulate body to make a movement), sensory system (regulate body to feel a sensation), and also it is time to teach baby knowledge as early as possible. Stimulate baby’s brain will come many benefits for your beloved one through infant education.

Hope you like this post, are your left or right or balanced? . Make your child a genius by providing our infant education for better future.

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Almost every house has a child prodigy these days,the new generation of toddlers are much more brilliant than the previous generation. They might be little but they are pride of their parents.When you step into the world of Little Gems institution run by Revathi Sankaran Tv personality and specialist in infant and prenatal education, you can see brilliant children’s who can recite Thirukkural couplets,see them point of national flags of every corner of the world,correctly name the capitals of the major countries and even get certificate as animation expert at the age of ३ years.

As many parents want to give best education to their children to make them achievers. Little Gems education institute has been developing thousands of young genius in India since 1993 . According to Little Gems the learning starts while the child is in womb as it learns to hear the mother’s voice,external sound and also understands mothers mood .This is based on Indian wisdom and modern science with well researched and proven methods which have been successful in developing the mothers mindset during pregnancy to give birth to a healthy and genius baby through educating them to provide a favorable internal and external environment for the fetus develop better and also to improve infants intellect through natural brain stimulation .

A child’s internal world is a pure and beautiful place. Children are naturally full of creativity.” Parents shouldn’t ignore children’s core being by sending them off to attend extra-curricular classes so they can “learn something.” What they should do is enter into their children’s internal world, guiding and appreciating the imagination and creativity that children are born with these abilities naturally and activating them in the right age will ensure a stress free whole brain activation.

Every child is born with enormous capacity to learn. We as parents can unlock the hidden potential.In our country the system of education is so stressful and degree oriented rather than helping them increase their level of knowledge, whereas the new system of whole brain learning is able to find out the child’s real interest in the particular subject and develop the same in order to make him/her a genius.

This method of training the brain will activate the brain through techniques like mental imaging, photo memory, Observation training will develops handwriting, makes them learn any language faster and help in whole brain activation.

Five sixth of the brain development in humans takes place birth till five years and many research proves that the blood flow shows a right hemispheric predominance, mainly due to the activity in the posterior associative area. Asymmetry shifts to the left brain after 5 years. The subsequent time course of changes appear to follow the emergence of functions localized initially on the right, but later on the left hemisphere (i.e. visuospatial and later language abilities). These findings proves that children who gained early proficiency in reading, writing and maths tend to mature early became confident enough to choose the stress free life.

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India is the spiritual leader and our strong spiritual consciousness is the ultimate source of genius. A child’s IQ is tested on the basis of the three categories

1. verbal
2. quantitative
3. and non-verbal

However, Gardner categorizes intelligence into eight.
1.Logical: Think sequential, analytical, and abstract. This intelligence is capable of long chains of reasoning useful in mathematics, the sciences, and even detective work.
2. Linguistic: Emphasizes itself through word choice, rhetoric, and meaning. Writers and speakers utilize this intelligence when they communicate with language.
3. Musical: This concept is the intelligence of understanding the complex nature of sounds. Pitches, rhythms, and vibrational levels are all isolated and categorized with thisintelligence. Professions as diverse as musicians and auto mechanics can value this intelligence.
4. Intrapersonal: This self-reflective intelligence enables us to define and set goals for performance based upon our previous efforts. Insight into feelings and distinguishing the impact of such things as
mood and behavior are part of this intelligence. Psychologists and researchers share this skill.
5. Interpersonal: Interpersonal is the ability to relate and understand others and communicate effectively with them. Teachers and effective leaders use thisintelligence to send and receive
information with their audiences.
6. Spatial: Image perception, ransformation, and recreating graphic images are elements of this intelligence, including an eye for symmetry and balance and the ability to look at two-dimensional renderings and see the three-dimensional product. Spatial vision is a trait shared by artists and designers.
7. Kinesthetic: Kinesthetic is the intelligence of physical movement. From people who are good with their hands to athletes, this agility intelligence enables individuals to learn through movement of their bodies. This intelligence is as important to a surgeon as it is to a quarterback.
8. Naturalist: This concept is a relatively new addition to the model. It focuses upon the intelligence of classifying, understanding, and utilizing features of the environment. The ability to develop a rapport with animals and nature are characteristic of the naturalistintelligence.

Though we cannot calculate the IQ based on the above catagories, a normal human being will have all these intelligence in different proportions.

Unfortunately for a country that wants to be competitive and highly developed in the next millennium, it becomes necessary to stimulate in early form the new born, and even before birth. However Gardner did left out the most important intelligence which is “The Ninth Intelligence ” – ” The Spiritual Intelligence” this intelligence is the ultimate of all and can be achieved at the early age , while the child is in womb with the constant bonding process between the parents, specifically by the mother. This awareness and the spiritual bonding or connection between the mother and the child will decide the future intelligence of the unborn child.

—– Happy Normal Pregnancy

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Question:
“I am feeding my baby and i would like to stop now but she is more demanding and cries lot . pls do suggest way to change her behavior.”

Answer:

This was a question sent to me from one of client .

Most of the kids gradually leave the breast feeding once they get the supplement food apart from milk after a year, however some kids may want to drink milk even when they have started having food due to the immense bonding . Since your kid is 14 months it might already have milk teeth and as a mother i can understand the pain you are going through.
a) Use neem paste and see if this stops her breast feeding as it will have a bitter taste and most of the kids dont like that and they may stop feeding milk.
b) Provide an increased quantity of supplement food apart from mothers milk
c) Use a bottle to give mother milk
d) Restrict your kid by reducing the sessions gradually but not suddenly.
e) Tell her that “You are a big girl now, and big girls don’t breastfeed”.
f) When you slowly reduce the session you might undergo condition in which breasts become overly full of milk or engorgement to stop the pain, crush the cabbage leaves with a rolling pin if the leaves do not accommodate to the shape of your breast. Wrap the cabbage leaves around the breast and leave on for about 20 minutes. Twice daily is enough. It is usual to use the cabbage leaf treatment two or three times or less. You can use the cabbage leaves after each feeding and leave them on until they wilt.

For many children, the longer they are breastfed, the more difficult it is for them to give it up, especially after they are a year old.  They like the protective feeling of being close to their mother, especially during the night feed.  Since breastfeeding for them is an emotional attachment, you should ensure that you gradually reduce your feeds.  They may cry a little at the time of the feed, but if you are there with them giving them all the love and affection they want, they will feel less insecure and upset.

As you know that mothers milk is the best diet for your kid, dont follow any of the above steps if you kid is sick as kids need mothers milk to fight any fever or sickness.

There is normally three ways, either of which mothers choose to wean their babies -

1) Abrupt weaning

2) Gradual weaning

3) Partial weaning (night weaning).

Abrupt Weaning: Stopping to breastfeeding a child all of a sudden or abruptly is often found to be difficult for both the mother and the child. Sometimes mothers have to take such decisions when they fall acutely ill or for other medical reasons. It is important to consult a doctor under such circumstances.

Gradual Weaning: This is the best and the most preferred way to stop breastfeeding a baby. In gradual weaning, the mother reduces one time breastfeeding of the baby and substitutes it with another form of nourishment. She may adhere to this policy every alternate day, before increasing the frequency and finally terminating breastfeeding altogether.

Partial Weaning:  This happens when the mother plans to keep one or two nursing sessions in one day depending upon her convenience. The nursing sessions can be slowly reduced as the baby grows up and substituted with other nourishments.

Finally a stage will come, when the baby is fully ready to be weaned away from breastfeeding.

Natural or Child-led Weaning : This particular process is one when the child decides that he or she is ready to do away with momma’s nursing and this could be abrupt or gradual. This does not signify that the mother cannot coax or distract the child while a breastfeeding session is on to take the child off the habit of breastfeeding.

Substituting Breast Milk with Other Baby Nourishment’s It is important that your decision to stop breastfeeding your baby is taken as per your own convenience and not under somebody else pressurization. Further, you can use baby products like sippy cups, baby bottle, etc. to easily wean your baby. Also introduce other nourishment substitutes like fruits, cereals, etc. while cutting down upon the number of baby breastfeeding sessions.

Hope this suggestions would help you. If you do know other ways please feel free to share them here.

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A harvest festival is an annual celebration which occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. Given the differences in climate and crops around the world, harvest festivals can be found at various times throughout the world.Harvest festival is celebrated across different parts of India in different names.

In Tamil Nadu harvest festival- Sankrant is called by the name of ‘Pongal’, which takes its name from the surging of rice boiled in a pot of milk, and this festival has as much or more significance than even Diwali. It is very popular particularly amongst farmers. Farmers and people all across tamil nadu celebrate by cooking the rice and pulses to form the dish called as “pongal” and serve it to “SUN” as GOD.Like tamil nadu in Andhra Pradesh, it is celebrated as a three-day harvest festival Pongal. It is a big event for the people of Andhra Pradesh. The Telugus like to call it ‘Pedda Panduga’ meaning big festival. The whole festival lasts for four days, the first day Bhogi, the second day Sankranti, the third day Kanuma and the fourth day, Mukkanuma.Kite flying has been associated with this festival  and its internationally recognised. Onam which is celebrated during August-September is the famous harvest festival in Kerala

In Uttar Pradesh, it is celebrated as ‘Khichiri’. Taking  bath in the holy rivers is considered most auspicious during this day. In Bengal the celebrations are held at Ganga Sagar river which is believed vivified the ashes of the sixty thousand ancestors of King Bhagirath and you can find lot of pilgrims from all across the India. Its also celebrated in Punjab,Gujarat,Maharashtra, Bundelkhand, Assam, and in all parts of India.

We wish you and your family and children a very happy harvest festival!!

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Brain is a multi-factorial part of our body. Science has come a long way and still researching the complexity of human brain. However, more practical concept of the brain is divided into two hemispheres. Left brain hemisphere or L-mode hemisphere is responsible for analytical more logical processing while the Right brain hemisphere or R -mode hemisphere is more emotive,creative & non-rational or intuitive.

With the advent of tools like the f MRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) , knowledge about the brain has taken a new shape.

Today we know that the right brain and left brain hemispheres operate in different ways, but both are critical to almost anything and everything we do.And yet each of the two halves is particularly important for certain kinds of activity:

Brain Damaged but GENIUS
Many people have succeeded in life using more of right brain than left.Does it mean that people with left brain damaged or right brain damaged can still be genius?

The answer is YES.

There are many genius who have had brain injury and suffered from ADHD,ADD, Dyslexic etc., Einstein, Edison and Disney may have had Dyslexia — that certainly verifies that they are all right brain learners are really Genius.

Einstein said “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

What was even more important was to recognize these Dyslexic Geniuses learned differently — they were probably right-brained learners, who had difficulty in left-brained schools — the right-brain is the creative and problem solving side — while the left-brain is the
logical, sequential and auditory side — that is favored by schools.

Code name “Genius” = “Right Brain”
The following are the right brain GENIUS and most of them are brain injured. People called them as “Genius”, “The entrepreneur”, “The Inventor”,”The Leader”, “The Athlete”,”The Rock Star”,”The warrior”,”The Healer”,”The Mystic”,”The Hero” etc.,

Thomas Edison

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Run

Walt Disney

General George Patton

Nelson Rockefeller

Hans Christian Anderson

Leonardo da Vinci

Sir Winston Churchill

Benjamin Franklin

John F. Kennedy

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

John Lennon

Louis Pasteur

Orville and Wilber Wright

Alexander Graham Bell

Ludwig Van Beetoven

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Vincent Van Gogh

Agatha Christie

Ernest Hemmingway

Mark Twain

Anna Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

King Gustav IV of Sweden

Albert Einstein

Marie and Pierre Curie

Socrates

Galileo Galilei

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Abraham Lincoln

Steven Spielberg

Bill Gates

Thomas Edison

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Run

Walt Disney

General George Patton

Nelson Rockefeller

Hans Christian Anderson

Leonardo da Vinci

Sir Winston Churchill

Benjamin Franklin

John F. Kennedy

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

John Lennon

Louis Pasteur

Orville and Wilber Wright

Alexander Graham Bell

Ludwig Van Beetoven

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Vincent Van Gogh

Agatha Christie

Ernest Hemmingway

Mark Twain

Anna Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

King Gustav IV of Sweden

Albert Einstein

Marie and Pierre Curie

Socrates

Galileo Galilei

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Abraham Lincoln

Steven Spielberg

Bill Gates

Thomas Edison

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Pablo Picasso

Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Run

Walt Disney

General George Patton

Nelson Rockefeller

Hans Christian Anderson

Leonardo da Vinci

Sir Winston Churchill

Benjamin Franklin

John F. Kennedy

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

John Lennon

Louis Pasteur

Orville and Wilber Wright

Alexander Graham Bell

Ludwig Van Beetoven

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Vincent Van Gogh

Agatha Christie

Ernest Hemmingway

Mark Twain

Anna Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

King Gustav IV of Sweden

Albert Einstein

Marie and Pierre Curie

Socrates

Galileo Galilei

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Abraham Lincoln

Steven Spielberg

Bill Gates

Brain facts:

You read from the left. The left brain controls the right half of your body,and the right brain controls the left. If you look or turn to the right, your left brain is in charge. Since Westerners read from left to right, for us language is left brain activity.

Your left brain is sequential. The left brain is particularly good at going from “A” to “B,” taking one step at a time. The right brain, however, can see many things at the same time.

Your right brain reads between the lines. Your left brain understands language and interprets text literally. It’s your right brain that allows you to pick up nuance, to understand metaphors, and to grasp context and relationships.

Your right brain grasps the big picture. Your linear left brain can sort out the details, but it’s the more global approach of the right brain that synthesizes them.

Though we know that emotions are handled by the right brain, emotion researchers such as Drevets and Damasio have shown that the right hemisphere is specialized for the experience of only negative emotions, while the left handles the positive emotions. This was even proved through the left brain stroke patients as they have found to be more depressed than right brain stroke patients.

Balance between the Right Brain and the Left Brain :

Striking the right balance is always the key. It’s up to you to use your left and right brain in a way to keep the balance going in life.

Skills necessary for success in the Agricultural and Industrial Ages were physical strength and endurance. The Information Age called for linear, logical, analytical reasoning (left-brained or L-directed skills). The Conceptual Age, however, will demand we draw from the right side of our brains, developing what have been consider “soft” (right-brained or R-directed) skills, such as creativity, empathy, and intuition.

“The two hemispheres of our brains don’t operate as on-off switches
– one powering down as soon as the other starts lighting up. Both halves play a role in nearly everything we do.” A whole new mind by Daniel Pink

Brain Hemisphere Balancing Techniques :

If you found that you are Left brain dominant try the following to balance your brain.

The following recommended procedures will activate the right brain cells.

To activate the right brain:Take a drawing class;
To activate the right brain:Visit art museums;
To activate the right brain:Learn to Dance;

To activate the right brain:Learn to tell stories;
To activate the right brain:Join a “laughter club”;
To activate the right brain: Explore techniques for increasing your empathy with co-workers;
To activate the right brain lay games;

If you found that you are Right brain dominant try the following to balance your brain.

To activate the left brain:Solve Analock puzzles – This involves anagrams
To activate the left brain:Solve crossword puzzles – you will use all 26 letters in the alphabet to solve the puzzle words.
To activate the left brain:Solve Number Lockers – a cross word puzzle.
To activate the left brain:Solve Add locks – is also another cross word puzzle.
The above will activate your left brain cells.

If you want to activate both the right brain hemisphere and the left brain hemisphere you can activate it through Pranayama it is the ultimate of all.

We will discuss more of these individually in my future posts.

Develop your child’s genius:

Parents blame children that they do not study well, do not concentrate , do not have attention in anything., a learning difference may be the single most important one to recognize — because it changes teaching style depending on your child’s best dominant side of the brain, how you communicate with them and which teachers, tutors and programs will serve them well. The right time to overcome any of these problem in future is to provide the right infant education program which is suitable according to your child’s brain dominance.

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