Why alternating tones?
A MEETING OF THE MIND: Alternating tones, taps, or eye movements boost the brain s ability to process with the whole brain: the emotional right brain and the logical left brain. You are probably aware of times when your logical (left) brain said, Don t say anything. But words kept coming out of your mouth even while you were trying to stop yourself. Your emotional right brain had a mind of it s own and over ruled your logic. At other times your logical left brain said, Go ahead and say it. You know the answer. But your emotional right brain made you mute. You might KNOW (left) that the spider can t really hurt you or that the elevator is safe, but your irrational fear (right) immobilizes you. An anorexic teenager may know logically that she is underweight and that her health is at risk (left brain), but she is emotionally overwhelmed by the thought of eating or gaining any weight and may feel irrational guilt for eating (right brain). These are just a few examples of how we have two in
