It’s an intriguing question, isn’t it?

Tom Cruise has had a couple of divorces and some public splits with his girlfriends. But then any actor as well known as Tom Cruise is likely to attract attention.

One thing I’ve noticed though, he always seems to lean into the right ear of his latest squeeze when whispering what I guess would be words of love.

So why might that be a bad thing? And what on earth does that have to do with how your mind works?

Well, you might find the explanation just a little bit weird. It seems that we remember emotional words when we hear them in our left ear, much more so than if we heard them in our right ear.

Yes, that’s right. A recent study by Sam Houston University shows that women and men recall emotional words far better when they’re heard by the left ear. It’s over 20% increase in fact.

Here’s the thing: what your left ear hears is processed by the right side of your brain. And the right ear pipes sound to the left side of your brain. The neuropsychologist who led the study had this to say: “We found a left ear advantage and the results are consistent with that.”

Musical melodies seem to be more accurately recognised by the left ear as well. Since music has tremendous power to move us emotionally that would seem to make a lot of sense.

Scientists have known for a long time that certain activities and functions seem to be right or left brain oriented. But this study shows very clearly that the right half of the brain (fed by the left ear) is particularly suited to the reception on emotional words. Oh yes, the words can be negative as well as positive.

The right ear/left brain seems to process information logically so if you’re angry with your partner maybe speaking into their right ear would be a good idea. Save the left ear for moments of emotional connection.

In the field of subliminal mind conditioning there is a technique known as ’stereo confusion’, where different messages are presented to each ear. Since the messages are targeted to the emotional, or intellectual side of the brain there is a better fit to how each side of the brain processes - and acts on - the subliminal conditioning presented. In the field of personal development such techniques can increase the effectiveness of a program significantly.

A different study even goes so far as to suggest that the tendency for mothers to hold the babies on the left of the body puts the infant into a position where the mother is speaking into the baby’s left ear. That in turn sends the messages of love and security straight to the most receptive part of the infant’s brain.

So Tom seems to be whispering into the wrong ear, if he wants to make an emotional connection.

How can you use this to your benefit in daily life? Well, you could certainly aim for the left ear when you’re whispering messages of love. Or you could go for the right ear if your message is equally emotional, but negative. That might enable the left brain to process the information logically and take the sting out of a potential argument. And if you’re talking to your loved ones it might be worth favoring their left ear when you’re telling them how much you love them.

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Amin Motin has been involved in self-help technologies for over 15 years, particularly in the field of audio subliminal mind conditioning. With extensive experience in helping people to reframe their mental attitudes toward life and in creating success, he knows first hand the power mind conditioning.

Using simple techniques he has helped many people overcome fear of success, fear of failure and fear of life. As Amin says, ‘It only takes a second to change your mind’.

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