

The Brain and the Kalimba – 1
They say you can only think of one thing at a time – kalimba requires you to think of two things at a time! When I was 10 years old, my father said “I’ll give you a dollar if you can go 10 seconds without thinking of a brown bear!” I jumped up from the dinner table, went to stand in the corner, and started chanting “White bear! White bear!” and got a huge laugh from my whole family. But truth be told? I was actually thinking of brown bears the entire time I was trying to fill my mind with images and words of white bears. Playing kalimba is