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2. Develop The Fundamental Skills of Creative Thinking with Juxtaerobix

Juxtaerobix workouts are an excellent type of mental aerobics that provides the necessary stimuli to the two halves of your whole brain!

Juxtaerobix does it by getting the two brains to talk and work together! A classic case of “Two heads are better than one.”

Juxtaerobix is a series of high impact, high fun energy and mentally gyrating workouts for the whole brain. Juxtaerobix is to our brain what aerobics is to our body.

The word Juxtaerobix is a hybrid word derived from "juxtaposition" meaning the art of placing things side by side to conjure new meaning; and "aerobics" depicting workouts that generate the efficient taking of oxygen supply into our bodies.

Juxtaerobix as a series of brain workouts is powered by the art form of Word Juxtapoz®.

The Physical Attributes Of A Juxtaerobix Workout
Each Juxtaerobix workout consists of some left brain element(s) and right brain element(s): words, letters, symbols (left-brain) and pictures, images, cartoons, illustrations, visuals, colors (right-brain). These are the left-brain logic, structure and organization components and the right-brain creating conceptualization and visualization components.

Put simply, the left hemisphere of our brain has the primary function of distilling information down into component parts for analysis and sequencing. It quantifies, establishes procedures, recognizes words and symbols, organizes, plans; it’s logical, analytical, systematic, practical, rational, critical, numerate, mathematical, and accomplishes tasks. This side of our brain is largely associated with our language ability.

The right side of our brain is designed to see the world as a whole and has the ability to synthesize parts to form a whole. It imagines, infers, speculates, feels, responds to touch and music; it’s sensitive, intuitive, emotional, curious, expressive, holistic, visual, and originative. This right of our brain is largely associated with our spatial appreciation.

By employing the art of Word Juxtapoz® "(which is created by Patrick Chan), Juxtaerobix is formed or conceptualized through the clever juxtaposition of left- and right-brain elements of words, letters of the alphabet, symbols, punctuation points, visuals, pictures, images, illustrations and even colors to depict meanings or messages that are not apparent. One has to navigate through the maze of elements and discover their relationships between one another in order to decipher the hidden meaning or "solution". The message is in fact in the medium itself.

Hence in sum, each Juxtaerobix workout compels a user to develop his or her natural whole brain thinking. The ultimate outcome: A holistic creative thinker!

Juxtaerobix: Develop Your Creativity Thinking Skills While You're Having Fun
1. Juxtaerobix as a series of high impact, high fun energy and mentally gyrating workouts for the whole brain, provides ample opportunities for you to seize to liberate the creative child inside you.

2. Juxtaerobix presents the necessary stimuli that will elicit certain responses and your particular response will depend on the assumptions you make. When you successfully challenge some of your assumptions, you will finally see the light to the hidden code behind each Juxtaerobix teaser.

3. Because Juxtaerobix brain workouts involve only the risks of idea generation and not the risks of implementation, you can “safely” force yourself to be willing to suggest whatever ideas pop up.

4. Each Juxtaerobix workout will help you produce new perspectives, and see problems with association, combining problem elements, or eliciting responses to various stimuli. In each case, the outcome is the same: new ways of thinking about a problem.

5. The best way to tackle Juxtaerobix is to think ambiguously. The more you’re able to do so, the more insights to the “suggested solution” you’ll receive. By thinking ambiguously, you’re actually going with the flow and design of the Juxtaerobix. Conversely, rigid thinking will only bring about frustration.