Tonight we're going to be talking about going with the flow,

resilience, the ability to adapt to unforeseen setbacks and changes in life. We'll be covering a lot of different ground and it will lead into a meditation which will hopefully

cultivate a greater degree of capability to withstand the

unforeseen and to also adapt in life with confidence. So the bilateral brain, which means the brain is two

hemispheres developed over the course of evolution so that each the left and right

brain fulfill different necessary functions. At first, when during the split brain work of Rogers Perry in the early 60s, there was this rush of

excitement and real simplification of what the findings were.

But we now today some 50, 60 years later came with confidence note that the right brain is responsible for having this very

broad non-focused attention sort of like a floodlight in the theater.

And what it does in the background of awareness is it looks for threats.

It looks for any cues of cues of both safety, where to achieve it, and danger in our species doesn't only mean something that could attack us or kill us.

Danger can also mean anything that changes our tribal status.

Someone looking at us, a scant, someone looking at us a scan, someone sending us negative facial expressions

and so forth.

So the right brain works largely in the background of attention.

It's mostly non-conscious in our adult life.

It has limited language. in our

It has limited language faculties. It is responsible though for those

metaphors we use in poetry and songs that are resistant to logical explanation.

So it's very open-ended.

Your right brain views us all as interdependent and it's most responsible for activating the

emotional cues that underlie our our behaviors and our actions.

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