Summary on Right Brain Training (0-3 yo)

After reading the three books by Dr. Shichida, this is my conclusion. I don't need to get Valerie to remember everything that I flash to her. But rather, understand that part of right brain training is to have the ability to image. Once a child knows how to image, she will have unlimited ability to perform instant memory, maths calculation ability etc.. So there is no need to be frustrated if your child doesn't remember or understand the 200 cards you flashed to her.

For right brain training to work, we first need to have a strong love relationship with our child. Because right brain education works best when the child is happy, feel loved by her parents. When the child is stressed, unhappy or crying, the right brain will shut off. So it is no point forcing the kid to sit through a flash card session when she's crying and doesn't want to pay attention.

Three ways to communicate love to children:
1. Hugging
When a child has completed a task, hug the child and thank her for the help. Tell her she is a big help and how much you love her. Give a strong hug for about 8 seconds. This is to communiate mother's love to the child's heart. Many times we just give a hug but very brief hug, that is not enough to make the child feel love.

2. Listening to child's conversation
Listen carefully to what the child has to say, this willl capture the heart of the child. Use the echo method. If the child say "I'm feeling sad", You ask "Oh, why are you feeling sad?". By echoing after her, it is an effective method to converse with the child.

Avoid using commands and instructive words, but rather in a tone of request when we want to ask the child to do something. Instead of 'Put the toy back into the basket', we can say 'Amy, could you please put the toy back, this will make mommy very happy'.

3. Five minute suggestion
5 minute suggestion is used when the child has just gone to sleep. During the first 5 mins after the child has slept, the conscious mind goes to sleep but the subconscious is still actively functioning. So this is a good time to work on the subconscious mind. Speak to the child softly any good things you want her to achieve (like throwing bad habits, healing) and good to express your love to her also.

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There are six special abilities of right brain:
1. ESP - 5 senses of the right brain
2. Intuitive Image - right brain memory
3. Speed Reading - right brain photographic memory
4. Computer Ability- right brain calculation ability
5. Perfect Pitch - right brain music ability
6. Language Acquisition Ability - right brain language ability

As there are too many methods described in the books, I only managed to list out what is relevant to Valerie at her age now. The trainings look simple but getting Valerie to follow through is not easy.

How to Train Right Brain (0-3 years old).

1. ESP Training
1 (a) Telepathy Play
Hold your child in your hands and give a strong hug saying "I love you. You and I are one in our heart". Then image in your forehead a square red colour and say "Mommy images a colour in my forehead and sends it to your forehead. You can see the colour, because you have the third eye in your forehead, OK? Now close your eyes and catch the colour and please tell mommy what colour it is".

1(b) Clairvoyance Play
Place 5 ESP cards in a row face up. Have the child hold another set of 5 ESP cards in hand facedown. Let them place one card after another facedown, corresponding to what they think is the same card as the upper row. After they have placed all the 5 cards, let them turn over the cards to check of they are the same cards with the cards in the upper row.

2. Flash Card
Show the child picture cards and dot cards at the rate of 0.5 s per card. Flash about 200 cards per day. This is to open up the right brain. It may seems that memory training is better accomplished by showing the cards slowly and explaining one by one, but this is left brain training method. This will cause the left brain to function and the right brain unable to function.

Right brain education utilises unconscious and large quantity input without the use of memorisation. Mechanical repetition without seeking comprehension opens up right brain circuits. By flashing cards, you show pictures and say words at the same time. So you connect both brains. Pictures and images are processed by the right brain, while language and words are processed by the left brain. Flashing cards strengthened both processing.

When shown a large quantity of cards at high speed, the right brain memory that allows us to memorise things in a flash will be developed.

3. Memory Training
3(a) Linking Memory
Use picture cards. Pick 2 cards randomly and make a story. For eg, 'Rabbit' and 'Hat'. The rabbit jumped over the hat. And show the cards to your child and put them face down. Have your child tell what pictures the cards contain. Once she can tell the pictures in the 2 cards, increase to 3.. and then to 4 etc. Make sure to use the cards in the order you started. So 'Rabbit' will always be the first card, and 'Hat' always the second. Once the child can memorise about 40 - 50 cards, something amazing will happen. She will be able to memorise the order of the cards in one glance as an image without the help of words.


3(b) Mandara
Have your child look at the mandara card for 20 secs and memorise it. Then put the card down and give her a blank card. Have her colour the blank card as she remembers the mandara card with colour pencils.

Another one is to have your child keep the mandara card in her pockets all the time and tell her to look at the card when she has spare time. Look for 5 secs and close her eyes and see the after image. Repeat the procedure until the child can create the image clearly in her mind when she closes her eyes. Imagining ability can be developed using this way.

4. Vocabulary
Continue to teach the child more words. Point to objects and name them. Read books to them. Sing songs.


5. Computer Calculating Ability
When a child is at right brain predominance, she can easily develop numerical calculation ability. Dot cards and simple equation cards are used to develop this ability. Dot cards are a set of 100 cards which 1 - 100 red dots 2cm in diameter are printed randomly. You can show dot cards to your child at the rate of one card per sec. For the full 65 days Shichida maths program, please refer to http://figur8.net/baby/2010/08/22/how-to-teach-math-using-shichidas-65-day-program/

6. Language
Let the child listen to the language tape for 30 mins starting at age of 2. The more words in large quantity children receive every day, the more naturally they will activate their right brain to master the language without any forced effort.

I'm thinking of getting Ivan to download some japanese anime for her to watch. Maybe doraemon in japanese to pick up japanese? Hehe.. wishful thinking... but worth a try...