all right this is what I do before I get
ready to go to learn something or go on
stage okay so there's called it's out of
a science called educational Kinesiology
and it goes like this these are
different sets of exercises so one is
taking your elbow and touching it to the
opposite leg it's kind of like this they
are called cross crawls according to uh
brain gym
hey brain gym my name is Jim
hahaha
so you're just doing this and basically
anything that you know that anything
below the neck is controlled by the
opposite side of the brain so you know
that the left side of your brain
controls the opposite side of the body
and vice versa and so on and so this
helps to be able to connect more of your
corpus callosum left brain right brain
more integrated which is very critical
check this one out so a lot of us spend
a lot of time on the computer so it's
kind of like you're shaking out your
hands like this all right checking out
your hands
getting some fluidity in your wrists and
now watch this now one is going to go
twice as fast as the other so watch this
just try this now
like this very simple
can I see that cool
and then I could also reverse it too
right
I think I do with the opposite hand all
right kind of fun exercises kind of wake
up get you thinking a little bit
another one is this if you take your
arms and you just kind of bring them
towards you like you're moving energy
towards you and kind of bring it towards
you pulling it in like this
like this
and now do this do one towards you and
one away from you like that
so you're just making these circles
and you can do opposite also
and breathe also some people hold their
breath for some reason when they do this
so it's like this
and if that's too difficult you could
just Pat your head and rub your stomach
they say juggling is really good for
your brain also there's a study done in
Oxford
chokos have really good brains which is
really also good for speed reading
because in order to look at these three
balls I only have two eyes I have to
kind of soften my folio vision and
expand my peripheral vision relax a
little more so I could take in more
words and which is obviously really
great for reading also as well but
juggling actually builds more brain
power actually creates more white matter
all right so juggling you kept two in
one hand one in the other and so
juggling is really simple it's something
that you could do really easily you
start with one
and um if you're gonna learn how to
juggle I'm not a professional juggler
but um I self-taught because I used to
teach tennis a lot and when you're
waiting for a court to open up you only
have like three balls to kind of keep
you occupied so so you take this Let's
Pretend This is a ball or rolled up
socks socks work really well because
they don't roll around like walls could
go everywhere it's also nice to have
your first time juggler to do this over
like a table or a couch somewhere so you
don't have to always just kind of bend
down and catch it so you're taking this
and you are oh
is it good you're taking this and you're
throwing it up and you're just catching
it like this so if I just throw it up
and catch it and you really want to get
this to about
um about the tip of your head like that
right and just looking forward you're
doing that and that's that's the toss
right and so the second one this is
where it gets a little bit interesting
what I visualize is I visualize two
peaks so two peaks because you can't
toss it on the same Peak because they'll
just collide with each other right so
you and one here and then one here and
the trick is is when this reaches its
peak that's your signal for tossing the
other one so you're going one two and
then catching right so two different
Peaks catch
and then you stop
like that and then so the third one gets
really interesting because then you
don't stop you just go Peak peek every
time you reach one to the top I imagine
there's like a box like here and I'm
just hitting this corner and this corner
this corner in this corner so it looks
like theoretically this is how it works
looks like this
and notice like I'm looking directly at
at you because I'm not focusing on any
one of these because then my attention
will be everywhere but I'm just
like this and I'm breathing
and juggling builds good brains so you
should never actually done yeah so it's
pretty easy so two in one hand and you
just throw and this is a good metaphor
also for life because how many of us
feel like we're like juggling in life
that we have lots of different things up
in the air that we have flaming swords
and and such because we wear many
different caps so that's the that's
multitasking
