welcome to new connection where you can tune in and grow i'm your host vicky thompson you may be familiar with new connection magazine for conscious living which has been enjoyed by readers in the pacific northwest for more than seventeen years now are excited to bring new connection to life in your home a new connection we welcome authors practitioners and visionaries to share new ideas for alternative health spirituality and personal growth since then like to welcome to new connection sandra rodman who the president of right brain of rollbacks after decades of working in fortune five hundred companies she's created one of the first mainstream business programs to use right brain thinking at work sandra welcome to new connection i'm very happy to be here new connection journal is one of my most favorite things and i just discovered a new connection t v and watched most of the videos this is a terrific idea all on the same pa under very good well i'm so glad to have you here today it's exciting too because you had a long career working with fortune five hundred companies you work for merrill lynch you work for eighteen t wireless and so where did that change come in  fortune five hundred to right brain aerobics i think anybody listening to this program has a passion and lives on almost shabda live where you work at your passion i studied right brain development from the time i was three i just didn't know i was preparing to create right brain aerobics when i left the t n t wireless i was driven about something new i always tended to be a little ahead of my time i would i was bringing the internet into internal merrill lynch and having a lot of arguments about it is this going to have a future but that was a horribly open and creative community and they allowed me to be right brain when i left i thought we really need this development across the board in corporations so i went after my passion i took a flying leap and i said ok i'm going to use every resource i have to develop something and that something new became something for corporations and not just a private class that's more metaphysical so if we have metaphysical listeners i'm going to speak today in a little bit more mainstream language but if you would like for me to translate this back into metaphysics i can tell you that a lot of right brain development a lot of mental focus exercise every day w blow your mind and a way that was so shocking for me i was working on this when i was still a senior director and a corporation i know that there are listeners out there doing this this is partly to encourage you to do this in your career and right brain aerobics gives you both a language and an excuse to take right brain thinking back in the company because normally you don't know how to talk about it right or you would feel funny saying gee i think we are all meditate on this in a board meeting but right brain start up which is an exercise we're going to do today went right into a board meeting all right brain start up we can do that so it's part of it is language and part of it is really affirmative intention to be who you are that's why i did this i went from technology which was my focus and corporations and a nonprofit i spent many years  nonprofit into human knowledge because i believe the coming of age in business in your neighborhood and community organizations is going to be about the right  of brain and balls meditation prayer spiritual development and b and cultures because the most powerful thing we can do as a self mental way was locked into cultural divides and religious divides we've kept out the power of the whole self and the whole brain out of business and even out of science but now there are very courageous scientists and business people who are beginning to explore this what i was doing was trying to translate translating came because there was a very precise and long thinking  executive named bill gallagher president of gallagher management and he took a look at just the website of right brain around it and he said we need the thoughts of corporations but can you translate it and that was a good two years of my life six hundred pages of wired in the entire all of the manuals that's why this was so important because if you don't translate and you don't put it into a business bottom line development is a not doing creativity exercises if it were to be very easy we could all go wrong and we'd be there we'd have wonderful right brain development fact i strongly recommend spending as much time drawing with a pen and pad as you can but that's not right brain development and it took me a while to understand that real aha moments really profound ideas where you're touching the whole self with an idea at work and you get that feeling that is that charge that's the intuitive brain that comes out of mental focus and meditation and that's where i went and it was  related to why we haven't developed this before there is so much if you just google research meditation there are so many studies showing not just oh gee i'm calmer and i'm less stressed because i meditate incredible research showing distinctions and memory the ability to prioritize the building to put things in a certain order the building to execute the building to be healthier all of those things come with right brain development and i discovered it by accident i really wanted to have some fun and when i left the corporation and i put together classes that were everything i thought live you should put in so those components initially i started out with meditation now i call it mental focus and visualisation and i came up with my own exercises there this is there aren't any religious or spiritual techniques and here i was meditating now this is the secret i was meditating two or three hours a day think about that two to three hours a day if i had known in my twenty's sartain that's what would happen to your brain if you meditate two or three hours a day i would be in it i might be on another planet i don't know i it is the most phenomenal result just by accident i wanted to rest after i left the corporation i put those wonderful meditations into that and discovered amazing things can happen so it's meditation only now we use mental focus visualization we start the right brain up first though i have left that out i have left out simple little exercises we're going to do you want to start up the right brain then there's mental focus and visualization third we have a technique that we call affirmation and breakthrough thinking it's actually part of strategic learning systems i basically didn't sleep for about forty years so while i was working in corporations and rehabilitation in doing this metaphysics where i was also studying strategic learning systems and affirmation this is kitchen sink take it to work on monday morning these are these kinds of practices if you if you want to change how your brain works if you want to change how you respond to people and to be more open and loving with them even in the corporate setting there's so little of it you can advance just by being a human being at work you have to change the self the self that got you where you are now if you're not altogether happy with that has to expand and be new and the affirmation exercises which are also based on culture and background and you really firming all that you are and learning to affirm others and how to break through some of those boundaries there's nowhere else right now license to use strategic learning system so if you want to learn affirmation this is where you learn it after you've been through that we start to go through real intuition and to make this a lot easier for corporate people who are not going to read six hundred two volumes six hundred pages a manuals although some bankers have actually read every page and i really affirm them for doing that they said they never seen anything like it will it introduce concepts that a lot of people watching today know about psychometry read energy fails remote feeling i was teaching that this was a little bit much it one day training people are very stressed and corporations one right brain express we do one intuition exercise i don't care how many years you've been doing spiritual development i found this exercise quite changed me we call it c e q an a but you could also use other word genius q and a it's seeking the genius in yourself and you're learning to play to be a playwright at the same time you're writing out a script and answering yourself but in an altered right brain state so intuition is the last of the mental preparation component so you start at the right brain you do meditation or mental easy you're already in a creative mind state so there is a creativity component to use that and there is something new which i think will appeal to a lot of people in business call right brain strategies and there's an actual grid that you know for all of those previous components you've been learning to think way outside the box in the strategy grid you have an actual grid that has all the vectors for right brain the vectors for left brain you can make sure that your strategy isn't missing one of those and then it shows you how to synthesize strategy and part of this this idea of thinking strategically i learned by those twenty five years of study should teach it learning systems which was developed by elite johnson who used to teach at cornell and had amazing reductions and dropout rate people getting excited about learning doing this so and then after you've got your strategy where you use all of those techniques you've learned six hundred pages about them you can start to institutionalize right brain thinking we have for licensed companies we will give them all the components and they can a situational eyes that across the company but just for you as an individual you can begin to use this with a daily practice and i develop cheat sheet so you've got just a couple of pages she's ok i take this with me to day here's my right brain meeting strategies checklist i will be a star in meetings where most company time is wasted people are not inspired they're not led and they also aren't present in the meetings you have your daily practices and i think conservatively for me just the affirmation exercises changed my career from very local working in a nonprofit small to national i have a national position i went into fortune five hundred companies one of these actually sizes but my goal is to have people start to bring their whole self with these seven component into work and that those fields of you when you bring that whole self will change other people so that's where some of your biggest surprises in creating the right brain aerobics program well the first one was the physicist and the aerospace engineer and the very first right brain aerobics class a colleague of mine who was from an ivy league university in physics and another friend who was an aerospace engineer came to the class both male  kind of with me talking and saying i really want to i want to have many different people in the class and account and they were fantastic they did an incredible job my friend terms of physicists i think of now as a medical intuitive so in addition to this physics he meditate every day and has found like i that there are amazing things that you can have empirical data to check that you can do with your brain that would knock your socks off and the same for the aerospace engineer i was also extremely shocked with how well people did in every class if you can come to one of my classes and you do remote viewing you too will be surprised at how almost everybody will get some aspect of the target not because you're trying to get something or you're trying to guess the stock market because you're trying to change your brain exercise a different part of it thank you and since it does been referring to the right brain start up yes or size can we try it and we can try and going to do it and i also want to tell you right away i guess we start because i've talked about right brain most of us don't have an idea what that means i mean it does mean creativity but it also means an improvisational mind high risk taking much more collaborative team focused flexible illogical jumps quantum leap stuff that's where your genius is where as a left brain is a little bit more for protective logical inflexible rigid and isn't going to jump to centuries with an idea like  your right brain to work as my next book what this one is going to be for regular employees just to get the book ok all right if you're in a me they are going to meeting you're preparing for an interview like this we're going to go in groups of three and you don't have to close your eyes till i tell you been so the first thing to get started is three movements three changes and movement so if you're going to shift shift for a minute then maybe smile at somebody or do something like that three deep breath slowly and that's what begins to put oxygen which is sorely missing in your brain three sips of water water pure the water is no way for clarity it actually does something to the body in many movies and dramas they'll say so and so had water splashed on their face or go get them a drink of water to feel better this is to make you feel better before you go through the stress the third one is three things to be grateful for so three gratitude it's and here i would close my eyes from minute and just think of several things briefly that you could be grateful for try not to always repeat the same once think of something new and something profound to you as a whole self you want to get friend new experiences and who you are and also who you are the things that you can do and then you take three quick inventories this can really matter in anything that you do notice the physical environment who's in it what's there if you ever watched the t program psych it's entirely based on this he doesn't miss anything in the environment notice what's there how other people are dressed and centric just take a quick inventory then physical limit tori is you your body how you doing how you feeling does anything hurt are you sitting improperly especially if you're in a meeting or per presentation and last your emotional body and if you think spiritually or spiritual how do you feel right now just make sure you know where you are and the last piece of this is just quickly affirm yourself and you can do this with eyes closed our eyes open in strategic learning systems to the mantra is i am beautiful sensual and intelligent the reason you say those three words is because those are the words on the major that people have terrible trouble with that therefore if you say them i am very beautiful and very sensual i'm very intelligent you are reading for what's next and then you you know i'm sentient and i'm intelligent you did that right off a lot of people resist they won't say the word beauty they'll say i'm i have inner beauty or i think i'm ause that's one that can change your personal power and then there's three minutes of silence now even if you're a meeting you can grab one or two and sometimes even that meaning you can take a moment and just kind of think quietly it's good if you can do it with your eyes closed but you can quickly see that if you have three little movement so you're moving up the symbol to the right brain you're taking three deep breaths three subserve water three things to be grateful for notice your environment physical emotional affirm yourself and be still and don't do anything for a minute you do this several times a day especially if you're upset about something and it really can cause you to shift gears not fly off the handle not think you can't do something and for a start of starting a meeting are before i'm about to do something creative i do th i stop and i do them if i could think back to my years in america and i could see how this would be a very effective because i think sometimes when you're in corporate america and i'm in a different environment but it is stressful you know the stress of people that yes you know six impossible things before breakfast one of the impossible that we're going to do this but i want to say one of the impossible things before breakfast is activating your right brain right now and getting creative and i just want this was one of my biggest shocks and it relates to this exercise did you know that since nineteen forty four there has been an eighty percent drop in creativity skills eighty percent this is very precise it's done by the institute for electronics and electrical engineers seventh international conference proceedings artistic trait such as visual memory perception and critical eye for detail declined eighty percent compared to nineteen forty four this for for us to now reverse that and have us have both the left brain and the right brain working isn't one of these and six impossible things that stretches your brain how would you do if you walked around just on the left leg and somebody started talking to you about running with your whole body it would be impossible it would be an impossible thing are not using the right hand and only used the left hand civilization wouldn't exist well i think  different kind of civilization can exist which is my first impossible thing if you start right brain with a lot brain and become a whole brain so now we're going to do six impossible things and tell me how much time i have to do this about four minutes impossible things and the red queen says of course i imagine six impossible things before breakfast every morning this is in the latest version of alice in wonderland which helped me a lot i've written this exercise up and having  highlight this was of huge help if you started out in the morning when you actually imagine six impossible things and i mean you have to take them way up because what you think is impossible other people might not  president calls you is an impossible thing but so is getting your hair to be absolutely perfect when you're going on t v it's a bad thing so what are a few things you don't have to do all six but  several impossible things that you would love to see in the morning i think i'd love to receive a call out of them by someone who's just really thankful for something that showed on your connection or something that they read this is a that's not impossible for me it's something joyful and so it's something that would bring me great joy ok what's another impossible thing and maybe even expand farther something really impossible i would love one morning just to say oh my goodness i'm going to go to greece today and then just plan a trip and go to greece when you do that and you actually write it down you're supposed to write these down you actually begin to do it almost right brain impacts reality call in some of the advanced work unlike brain or robots were actually seeing this happen it is impossible but it happened now let's take the one for grey cells play like you did all six because i want to be mindful of our time is there something that's just as wild a solution and just impossible what how could to inform of us in reality what would be a solution to i'd like someone to call me about going to greece how could that actually happened well it's something that comes to as if i had a girlfriend or a friend who won some tickets to greece because i also like the magical aspect right but sometimes the magical is what happens in our lives and brings us joy and so i have a girlfriend i have tickets to gree and i want you to go with me or it might be that i find some funding might look somewhere in my funding in my budget and say tickets to greece are really cheap right now if you did new connections t v from del this would be quite profound i believe you can get a grant to do that tonight and i like you that's what i did in the corporation they would say this is impossible we can't be on the internet i was a sweet kid we really ca you can do this i want to see those programs happening now if you do this every morning and you write out your six some different ones every day not the same old routine and some solutions those things start to happen  i don't know how to guarantee this but truly they do start to happen and it's such a magical thing to know sandra it's been so wonderful having you here today to talk about right brain room pics i think you so much thank you you can learn more about