Is Phonemic Awareness a Right Brain or Left Brain Hemisphere Skill?

First, I know many of you in the Blue Lotus Living Community would like to know…what is phonemic awareness?  Those of you who do know what phonemic awareness is may wonder what it has to do with metaphysics, spiritual development, or personal development. 

Well, let’s define what Phonemic Awareness is and then we can get into how it relates to metaphysics, spiritual development, and personal development.  Phonemic Awareness is a branch of phonological awareness which is used to increase reading skills.  It requires segmenting, blending, manipulating, and isolating specific sounds such as in the word “WET” which would be W/E/T in order to:

(1)   build skills for reading comprehension

(2)   help build understanding of the English Language

(3)   increase oral reading fluency

(4)   increase understanding of text

Now, with a concrete understanding of what phonemic awareness is, we can understand something new about the power of reading and whether or not reading enhances the skills of the right brain or left brain.

While reading requires the use of left brain and right brain skills, as we look closer at the attributes associated with the left brain hemisphere and the right brain hemisphere, reading is proving to be right brain skill more than a left brain skill chiefly because of the phonemic awareness.  Phonemic awareness requires reasoning skills (manipulating and blending) which are right brain hemisphere attributes.  Phonemic awareness requires fluidity which are right brain attributes. 

The Right Brain Hemisphere is associated with creativity.  This proves that by increasing your reading skills you can also enhance your creativity.  With this in mind, it is important that we read daily for pleasure and creativity enhancement. 

Reading daily is important for children as well as adults.  It is the phonemic awareness process which requires that we remain present moment aware.  You can not think about lunch and how terrible the traffic will be tomorrow while reading.  Reading is fluid—it has flow which means you must remain conscious and aware in the moment in order to read effectively otherwise, you are just perusing. 

The creativity enhancement of reading for pleasure and skill development can seep into our spiritual and personal development.  Fluidity and creativity is a huge part of our empowerment as co-creators.  Reading requires visualization which is a very powerful spiritual and personal development technology.  With this realization, it is no wonder they say, “Readers are leaders.”

Until next time, read more and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

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