THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN
This blog is written specifically for Counter-Strike players and other professionals for whom reaction time is very very short while working. Every person who believes in the power of perception will also find it thrilling.
It has come to my attention that many CS players would like to improve their aim. They analyze and try so hard to get better aim but without any luck. Sometimes you would see that you are focusing so hard still some quiet kid will come by and shoot you in the head. This is a frustrating experience. Sometimes your aim is just there and you can’t quite explain it and then when you try to get back to that place where your aiming is just perfect, you can’t really do it. That’s frustrating too.
This phenomenon has a lot to do with your brain. Our brain has two parts – the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere, which are connected by the Corpus Callosum. Your brain is usually dominated by one side, meaning you use that side more often, and usually that side happens to be the left. We live in a society full of left brain dominated people and we don’t happen to know how it all connects and how it all works. Each side has its own perspectives, has its own strengths and weaknesses.
The left side of the brain is analytical. It thinks in symbols, which means that mathematics and languages are processed in the left side. The left brain sees the details and creates a bigger picture with those details. It is conscious of time, it knows how much time is remaining or elapsed. However most of the time the left brain tries to do things those the right brain is so much better suited for but with terrible efficiency. That’s where the right brain comes in. The right brain does not think in words, it does not analyze, its terrible at mathematics and languages. Instead the right brain thinks in feelings. It controls your emotions, interprets your senses much more precisely. The right side also sees the big picture, it has no idea how much time has gone by. So if you’ve ever had this experience of being asked what hour it is or how much time has elapsed since you started doing something, and you have no idea of the time, then you were definitely in the right side. The right brain feels special perceptions very very well, it knows the distances, it feels the spaces and this is where the great aiming comes from.
So now I’m going to use my right brain. But how am I going to do that? Using your right brain is an interesting sensation compared to using your left brain. You do not try hard to get to the right brain. Many people refer the way of getting into the right brain by relaxing. This however is not really accurate, you are not trying to go sleep while you get into the right brain. Then how would you get into the right brain, the answer is you just feel. When you try to enter the right side, the left side will say this is useless, this is stupid, this is not going to work, this is going to be a total waste of time. What you need to do is to ignore that and eventually the left side will give to the right side. Just feel the spaces and the colours on your screen. At first don’t read anything, because that’s a left brain activity and it will get you out of the right side. Sometimes you will be able to be in your right brain for only one second, only to hear your left brain talk to you the next second. This is normal and expected, but eventually you will be able to be in the right side for ten seconds or even a minute and someday you will be able to control that at will. This makes aiming so much easier. Obviously communication is very important in today’s modern games, so while you talk you have to leave your right brain, its natural. All that means is that when you are aiming do not talk, just feel and pull the trigger.
Going through this process will change you as a person, you will perceive life in a different light that you have never seen before. You will be able to enjoy art in a different manner, you might even be able to draw, music will mean something different to you and so will life.
with love,
Ishan
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