Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Flourish As You Age
MIND - Left Hemisphere Distortions
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A rose loses its "roseness" when perceived only through the Left Hemisphere perspective.
The man who mistook his wife for his hat had trouble identifying a rose. When Oliver Sacks presented him with a rose, Dr.P described it as "About six inches in length. A convoluted red form with a linear green attachment." He went on to observe that the perplexing object "lacks the simple symmetry of the Platonic solids, although it may have a higher symmetry of its own."
Dr. P suffered from a Right Hemisphere (RH) dysfunction that forced his mind to rely almost exclusively on his Left Hemisphere (LH) . Robbed of the unifying and organic perspective of the RH, Dr. P saw the world as a collection of abstractions, the LH perspective.
Our minds get muddled when our LH dominates and relate to the world through abstract representations of life, rather than on on direct experience.
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