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694. Optimize Your Mind Jim Kwik & Dr. Daniel Amen

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The Power of Alternate Hemisphere Stimulation

Researchers have found in studying treatments like EMDR that when you stimulate both hemispheres at the same time, it actually calms down the fear centers in the brain. And it's just so simple, so powerful at a child that was their parents read them a scary book. If you look at Grimm's fairy tales, they're grim. Don't do that before bed unless you hate your children. But the child just got stuck on it. So what we did was this alternate hemisphere stimulation, you know, stimulating his left and right arms like this, and gave him some really simple suggestions. He went to sleep.

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