Why anti clockwise?
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now has a conclusive answer: opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of clinging to accepted notions about what’s not, can lead to better health at any age.
Drawing on her own body of colorful experiments—including the first detailed discussion of her landmark 1979 “counterclockwise” study in which elderly men lived for a week as though it was 1959 and seemed to grow younger—and important works by other researchers, Langer proves that the magic lies in being aware of the ways we mindlessly react to cultural cues.
Counterclockwise shows how we can actively challenge these ingrained behaviors by making subtle changes in our everyday lives. Langer describes ways to reorient our attitudes and language in order to achieve better health; she shows us the ways in which our belief in physical limits constrains us; and she demonstrates how our desire for certainty in medical diagnosis and treatment often prevents us from fully exploiting the power of uncertainty.
Scientifically riveting and practically empowering, Counterclockwise holds enormously exciting implications for our general health—including vision, old age, cancer, weight, and heart health—as well as for our fundamental happiness.
Do you realise almost all planets rotating anti clockwise??
The Earth revolves (orbits) counter-clockwise around the Sun as viewed from above the North Pole. The Earth rotates (spins) on its axis counter-clockwise as well. The Moon also revolves around the Earth counter-clockwise.
In general (there are a few exceptions) all the material that formed the Solar system revolved around the Sun in a counter-clockwise direction due to the conservation of angular momentum when the material contracted to form the planetary disk.
All the major planets except one if viewed from above their northern pole, rotate anti clockwise and orbit the sun in an anti clockwise direction. Venus is an odd one out, as it rotates clockwise and orbits the sun in clockwise direction.
Why do runners always run in COUNTER CLOCKWISE direction??
This is a very different discussion and I believe that many of us are unaware of this fact. It is very simple fact, yet, most often we forget to observe this, whenever we watch any track and field event, in specific, running.We just watch the speed in which the athletes run, but fail to notice one thing? In any track and field event runners run in counter clockwise direction.So let us discuss the reason behind this.
Really I was unaware of this fact, until i read about this fact in a book. It is true that all the runners in athletics runs only in a counter clockwise direction and you can notice that there is only left turns on their path( usually when it is 400 m, 800 m or more, you can see that the runners have to cover more laps and on their way they have only left turns).Well friends, don't confuse which is clockwise and counter clockwise. just imagine the situation, as such you are watching the runners, sitting in the stadium.Then you can clear understand that the runners run in counter clockwise direction all time ( i.e for example... opposite to the direction, in wish you brush your teeth, if you are a right handed ). Still you are confused, you can watch the video( Usain Bolt's 100 meter final at Olympics ) below which explains the direction (counter clockwise), in which the runners usually run.
So I guess, by this time you are clear about the direction in which the runners run.So let us see the reason why runners always run in the counter clockwise direction. The reason is simple and it is also based on the structure of the human body. The most precious part of any human body is heart and it is located on the left side of the body. So running in the anticlockwise direction ensures that the centrifugal force force in the body to act from left to right and as a result we can say that the blood circulation is very good.
The principal vein carrying blood to the hear is known as Superior Venecava, and it takes the heart aided by heart suction and more importantly this vein carries deoxygenated blood from the upper half of the body to the heart's right atrium
So this centrifugal force, due to running in counter clockwise direction, will helps this and also increase the blood circulation and it does not make the athlete tired very soon. On the other hand running in clockwise direction, will make the centrifugal force to impede suction and it tires athletes.It is also said that, when an athlete runs in counter clockwise direction, he encounters only left turns and as a matter of fact left turns are more easier than that of right turns.I guess this fact would have helped you to know something interesting and i also thank for all those who actually find the reason for runners running in counter clockwise direction.
THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Click on this picture
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
