Locations in the mind

I've a question, that bears some explaining. The question is : Has anyone else noticed that parts of the brain correlate to the movement of the body, and the sound of our voice?

Now, I know that science talks about how the brain controls the body, but this isn't exactly what I mean.

From Neuro Linguistic Programming, we learnt (or was it from an earlier field of psychology) that the way the eyes move show which part of the brain is being accessed...generally speaking, eyes up and to the right = accessing the visual creative right side of the brain, eyes up and to the left = visual memory recall, eyes down & to the right = accessing emotions etc.

I note that 'body cue' goes further, and that if you tilt your head right, you access the creative side of the brain, left, the memory recall side...and that there are meansing for forward and backward tilts, and also meaning for combinations of head tilt and eye direction.

A test that I discovered, by accident, about how we can consciously use parts of the brain was this :
- Imagine a point, a metre above your head and in front of it...'push' your brain into that point (ie imagine that your brain is located out there, in that point)....focus on it, and think of something.
- now, do the same thing, except imagine that point is behind you and a metre downwards....push your brain down there...focus on holding it there...and think of something...

The result of that last test should be that you find it difficult, if not impossible, to think in words....whereas the first test, it should have been quite easy to do so.

For the voice test, do this : Sing (any tune well known to you) and while doing so :
...now, push your mind to the front right hand side and sing
...then, push your mind to the front left and sing
...push your mind to the rear left and sing
...push your mind to the rear right and sing

...each location should produce a distinctly different voice quality to your singing.

As a further test while singing.... draw spirals in your mind. Experiment with the shapes you make...draw a sharp knife stab zig zag and sing the same song...

Large arcs in the front of the mind should sound warm...sharp cutting shapes should sound (you guessed it, sharp)...etc

Further, our language is full of hidden, mostly unacknowledged meaning that coincides with the parts of the brain we use when we feel certain emotions :

Passion : blown his top, over the top, high on life...
Love : the depths of love, from the bottom of my soul, it wells up...
Caught by surprise : that came from right field
Memory : he was left behind, nothing left but a memory, from left field
Problem solving (which is mostly creative) : you're right, that sounds right,
Shame : the depths of degradation, how low can you sink
Reticence : don't hold back
Fear : he's always looking over his shoulder,

I'm sure there's hundreds of words like this in the English language - these are ones I thought of on the spot.

If you think about the body language used - it matches the verbal language :

Passion - jumping up in the air, pumping your fists into the air
Memory - guesturing behind you
Reticence - turning away, moving backwards, tilting head back
Fear - looking over shoulder, sharp movement backwards, slow movement backwards
Caught by surprise : (I'm sure we all know the reaction)

Now look at the body language that indicates warmth : open arms? Yes the arms are open, but what else is there about the arms?...both arms are wide (indicating access to both sides of the brain), they are both in front (rather than tucked behind, indicating access to the front of the brain), and when they move they make round guestures (rather than sharp) - indicating access to all parts of the front of the brain...guestures that both arms do together (rather than one arm moving while the other stays still) - indicating that both right and left brain are working together.

Look at the guestures for Anger...can you pick which parts of the brain are being used just by the body language?

You could do the same for any emotion.

Now back to the original test of pushing your brain down and behind you...or the singing tests...which show, that we can consciously choose which parts of the brain we wish to access.

Another test I found (though I'm sure others have found it before)...as you breath...as you breath out, imagine your mind sinking lower and lower till it's in your feet (then hold it there until you breath in)...and as you breath in, imagine your mind elevating until its at the very top of your head... The affects on perspective...

I'm not sure of all the ways this can be used, but feel free to add, question, or criticise.