A dancer focuses on a spot on the wall when executing pirouettes, a useful cognitive application when surfing. Flexibility is the ability to see all sides of an issue, exceeding the limits of dogma, fear, and prejudice. Because of the vast amount of information we must get through, it is important to develop speed. Aerobic training can help increase our ability to read, write and think quickly. Posture refers to the body's alignment in relation to gravity, space and motion.
Mental posture establishes voice or presence.
In the Brain Gymnasium, we work on mindbody conditioning, assessing and understanding our cognitive domains, and changing our cerebral grooves for more potent creativity. Creativity is closely related to destruction and therefore the mind must be constantly erased through meditation and cognitive colonics. A 15 page final paper is due July 25. The final rewrite is due August 1. You choose the topic but it must be a synthesis of core material, insights from your webfolio, ideas from the midterm, incorporating the latest research from cognitive neuroscience around a very specific original research project of your own.