The Left and Right Sides of the Brain :: Health Medicine

The Left and Right Sides of the BrainYour brain has two sides. And each has a distinctly different counseling oflooking at the world. Do you realize that in order for you to read this article, the twosides of your brain must do completely different things? The more we commix those two sides, the more integrated we become as people.Integration not only increases our ability to solve problems morecreatively, but to control physical maladies much(prenominal) as epilepsy and migranes,replace certain damaged brain functions and even learn to thin into thefuture. Even more startling is evidence coming to light that we paybecome a left-brain culture. Your brains right and left side have distinctly different ways oflooking at the world. Your two hemispheres are as different from eachother as, oh, Micheal Wilson and Shirley Maclean. The left brain controlsthe right side of the body (this is reversed in about half of the 15percent of the population that is left-handed) a nd, in essence, is logicalanalytical, judgemental and verbal. Its interested in the bottom line, inbeing efficent. The right brain controls the left side of the body andleans more to the creative, the splanchnic. It is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of life. Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more withtheir left brain. In fact, many of us think we are our left brains. tout ensembleof that non-stop verbalization that goes on in our heads is the dominantleft brain talking to itself. Our culture- particularly our school systemwith its emphasis on the three Rs (decidedly left-brain territory) -effectively represses the intuitive and artistic right brain. If you dontbelieve it, see how far you get at the office with the right brain activityof daydreaming. As you read, your left-side is sensibly making connections andanalysing the heart and soul of the words, the syntax and other complex relation-ships while putting it into a l anguage you can understand. Meanwhile,the right side is providing emotional and even humerous cues, decodingvisual nurture and maintaining an integrated story structure. While all of this is going on, the two sides are constantlycommunicating with each other across a connecting fibre pathway called the