How can YOUR BRAIN help YOU ReCREATE YOURSELF and how can YOU get the best results?

I’ll tell YOU how;  YOUR BRAIN is AMAZING !

MY FORMULA

CARTOONS = Stress Relief, Fun, Visuals, Relate meanings, Attitude…

FUN = increases Humour, Smiles, Happiness, Joy, Memory, Attitude…

COLORS =  Affect YOUR Mood,  Vibrations, Breathing, Senses, Stimulate YOUR Brian, Attitude…

WARM COLORS = Creativity and Happy Feelings…

REPITITION =  Is the Mother of Learning…

RIGHT and LEFT BRAIN =  Is Stimulated, and effected and engaged through all these techniques…

COMBINE THESE TECHNIQUES = Affect, Power, Change, Learning, Attitude, Happier and all of the above…

WHY DID I APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES TO THIS BOOK LIKE I HAVE?

To HELP YOU:

Yes, as you read YOU can discover many of the reasons I designed many of my books like this to give YOU maximum assistance for change and benefits, I am trying to help YOU ReCREATE YOURSELF, I am giving you the opportunity to get the best results:

Do YOU have One Brain or Two?

You actually have one brain. However, the cerebral hemispheres are divided right down the middle of the right and left hemisphere. Each hemisphere appears to be specialized for specific behaviors. The hemispheres communicate with each other through a thick band of 200-250 million nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.  (A smaller band of nerve fibers called the anterior commissure also connects parts of the cerebral hemispheres.)

ARE YOU RIGHT or LEFT HANDED?

You are right-handed or left-handed? As you probably know, about 90% of the population is right-handed - they would prefer to use their right hand for ballistic skills, such as throwing a ball, writing or swinging a hammer, which are strongly right-handed, while fine motor skills without a rapid sequence of movements are considerably less specialized. For example, threading a needle is only 77 percent right-handed.  So if this describes your preference to use your right hand you would see yourself as “Right Hand Dominant.”  However you could be one of the other 10% of the population that is Left Handed or "Left Hand Dominant."  There are few people who use each hand equally; they are considered: "Ambidextrous."  Most people also have a Dominant Eye and Dominant Ear which is referred to as your “Sidedness”. 

HANDEDNESS
Exactly why people are Right Handed or Left Handed is considered somewhat of a mystery. Handedness, however, is one of the special features on the human uniqueness list. There are no other animal species that consistently prefers the same hand for certain skilled actions.  I am referring to animals with a "vertebrate", therefore I am not referring to lobster or snapper shrimp who have their one giant crushing claw. Individual rats and monkeys may prefer to use their right hand, but there are always enough other rats and monkeys preferring left hands for similar actions so it all averages out. So interestingly the populations of animals as a whole do not possess any side preference.

Right Side  -  Left Side

The right side of the brain controls muscles on the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls muscles on the right side of the body. Also, in general, sensory information from the left side of the body crosses over to the right side of the brain and information from the right side of the body crosses over to the left side of the brain. Therefore, damage to one side of the brain will affect the opposite side of the body.

In 95% of Right Handers, the left side of the brain is dominant for language. Even in 60-70% of Left Handers, the left side of brain is used for language.

YOUR Left and Right Brain Processing System

The Left and the Right Hemispheres of the Brain process information differently.

Most people have a Dominant Hemisphere. This dominance affects their personality, abilities, skills, desires and learning styles.

• More girls than boys are Left Hemisphere dominant therefore more boys than girls are Right Hemisphere dominant.
• Most schools tend to favor left hemisphere dominant learners.
• Teachers should plan lessons that include activities that are directed at both hemispheres:
• Deal with concepts verbally and visually
• Discuss concepts logically and intuitively.
• Avoid conflicting messages.
• Design activities and Assessments for both hemispheres.

YOUR Left and Right Hemispheres of  
YOUR Brains Functions:

Dominant Functions of The Brain’s Left Hemisphere

• Language
• Math
• Logic

 Skills and Strategies for The Brain’s Left Hemisphere

• Organize the class into an efficient workplace. Distribute the talkers around the room; they will spark discussions when needed.
• Organize bulletin boards to be relevant to the current content and easily understood.
• Make sure blackboard is clean. This reduces the chance that previous and unrelated word cues will become associated with the topic under discussion.
• Let students read, write, and compute often to enhance left hemisphere activity.
• Create and analyze metaphors to enhance meaning and encourage higher order thinking.
• Stress the importance of being punctual. Encourage students to carry day timers.
• Teach students to set study goals for themselves, to stick to their goals, and to reward themselves when they achieve them.
• ASK "What If" questions to encourage logical thinking as they consider all possibilities for solving problems.

Dominant Functions of The Brain’s Right Hemisphere

• Spatial abilities
• Face recognition
• Visual imagery
• Music

Skills and Strategies for The Brain’s Right Hemisphere

• Give students options and allow them to do oral or written reports. Oral reports allow the right hemisphere to fit concepts together while requiring fewer mechanics than written work.
• Use the book, chalkboard and overhead projector to show illustrations, cartoons, charts, timelines and graphs (preferably in colors of the Rainbow) to allow students to visually organize information and relationships.
• Tying lessons together and using proper closure allows the brain to compare new information to previous learning.
• Use role playing and simulations to provide direct experiences where the learning may be applied.
• Allow students time to interact with each other as they discuss the new learning’s.
• Teach students to use generalities and perceptions. Have them use metaphors and similes to make connections between unlike items. This is an important function for future transfer of learning.
• Provide frequent opportunities for hands-on learning. Students need to realize that they must discover and order relationships in the real world.

Learning Which Requires both Hemispheres

• Acquiring a Second or more Languages
• Using imagery
• Visualized note taking
• Concept mapping
• Reading, comprehending and relating effectively
• The colors stimulate the brain for health, learning and memorizing

Bloom's Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom developed a system of classification or taxonomy which identifies six levels of complexity of thought. Using this taxonomy can improve the level of instruction and student learning. It is a useful tool for moving all learners’ especially slower learners to higher levels of thinking.

Complexity and difficulty are different. Complexity establishes the level of thought; difficulty determines the amount of work within a level.

Knowledge

• is defined as the mere rote recall of previously learned material.
• lowest level of learning in the cognitive domain.
• learner isn't asked for understanding.
• Activities at this level ask students to define, list, label, locate or recall information.
• Long term retention may be difficult for students with mild disabilities.

Comprehension

• describes the ability to make sense of the material.
• may require converting the material from one form to another
• repetition may be necessary for students with mild disabilities.
• concrete rather than abstract information is easier to understand.
• concepts become available for future use to solve problems and make decisions..
• Activities at this level ask students to compare, convert, explain, give examples or summarize.

Application

• is the ability to use learned material in new situations with little direction.
• includes the application of such things as rules, concepts, methods and theories to solve problems.
• learner uses convergent thinking to select, transfer, and apply data to a new task.
• need practice at this level
• handson teaching and functional uses of information make application easier for students.
• demonstrate and calculate are also activities.
  

Analysis

• is the ability to break material into parts so its structure may be understood.
• includes identifying parts, examining the relationships of the parts to the whole
• being able to organize and reorganize information into categories.
• use whole/part/whole teaching method.
• make analysis concrete by letting students see or touch the division of whole into parts.
• Activities could include analyse, contrast, deduce, differentiate, distinguish, infer, outline, diagnose, reduce, separate

Synthesis

• is the ability to put parts together to form a plan that is new to the learner.
• may involve production of an unique form of communicating the information.
• learners use divergent thinking to produce, rearrange, create, design, formulate, compose
• let students see or touch the combining of parts into a whole.
• Activities could include combine, compile, compose, create, design, propose, revise, extend, rewrite, generalize, rearrange, project.

Evaluation

• is the ability to judge the value of material based on specific criteria.
• learner may determine the criteria or they may be externally imposed.
• learners consolidate their thinking.
• this is the highest level of cognitive thought because it contains elements of all the other levels.
• evaluation in real life situations is a good approach to use.
• Opportunities are provided for the learner to support, judge, compare, weigh, deduce evaluate, criticize, assess or appraise.

MORE BENEFITS

First Cartoons are a release for stress:  Most of us know what it is like to experience stress.  Kids, Youth and Adults are all under so much pressure in this age.   Are these technological advancements at our detriment?  These brightly colored cartoons have been designed and added to develop your observation skills, wit, humour, imagination, laughter and add fun into YOUR Life.  They will help you relieve stress; 

Keep Laughing and Smiling; PLEASE !!!

Even FORCE YOURSELF, it is worth the little effort..

YOU were designed to have JOY
 and Find Happiness LEARNING…

The Colors

The Warm Colors such as the Red, Orange and Yellow will help make YOU more creative.   These colors also assist to release chemicals in Your Brain which is the same chemical produced and brings about the similar result as being happy.
So do YOU want to feel and be HAPPY?

CREATIVITY

4 Simple Steps I have found to further stimulate YOUR CREATIVITY are:

• Stair at a Wall Painted, a Painting or Page Printed in these warm colors; such as the Red, Orange or Yellow.  The Colors of the Rainbow is stimulating for YOUR Breathing and Health.        I have created some paintings for people to achieve this and other healthy effects being provide through my Art Website: www.RainbowArt.com and www.McCoysCartoons.com

• Squeeze YOUR Left Hand for 1 minute;  Your Right Hand Side of the Brain is Creative, and your Left Side of YOUR Brain controls the Rights Site of YOUR Body.  So squeeze YOUR Left Hand and it will help YOU achieve greater Creativity.

• Raise YOUR Eye Brows for a few minutes will also help YOU in YOUR Creativity.

• Use the 4 B’s:    Take a pen with YOU when YOU are in these Creative settings:

1.   In Bed
2.   In the Bath,
3.   On Bus, Train or Driving or Flying,
4.   In Bathroom -  sitting on the Toilet.