For the journey of right vs left
I read in a book recently called The Alphabet Vs the Goddess by Leonard Shlain, that the left part of our brain is not only something that we essentially aquired through evolution, but what gives us our ego, our individual identity vs. the world mentality. Coincidentally, the right brain -- the elder part of your brain -- is simultaneous. It gives us a sense of connection to the world, and makes us not only feel that we have a physical, ambitious identity as an individual, but makes us process simultaneously through a combination of emotions and intuition, that we exist, and are a part of something larger than ourselves.
I took a test a while back that said that I have about a 75% right brained mind set. In the world today, I think it's obvious that the left brain is dominant in most. But as always, there's a double-edged sword for having either mentality dominantly, and ignoring your other half.
I began thinking of this again while listening to Kokia (link) and watching her sing. Back in the day I kind of dreamed about the way she carried herself, and that overwhelming, spiritual and lyrical sound to her voice. I always thought that maybe I could offer a similar impression of myself one day, in some idealistic, hippy, maternal fashion. I decided, that if I couldn't understand the world from its predominantly left-brained point of view (though at the time I didn't know that that was the problem I faced; I figured there was just something significantly different, but never truly wrong -- about me) that I'd learn to conquer the way society handled themselves, and figure out everything essentially from my right-brained, feeling, and universal dialect (the way I saw the world). I knew there just had to be a method, a way of unlocking the world that would make me just as successful as the next person. I was just seeing the world through a different perspective.
Today though, from school, society and personal demands, I've learned to use and understand that left side of me, which is also known as the 'masculine' side of our brain. I no longer believe that a focus predominantely on either side is necessarily healthy. Rather, I only want to be an exemplary of balance, or rather, the journey towards balance, and explain to people that disregarding either can be devistating to your natural growth and wholeness as a human being. It will only ultimately make things more difficult than they need to be, and ultimately the goals and unraveling of life will be harder to achieve and discover.
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More on this later.
I took a test a while back that said that I have about a 75% right brained mind set. In the world today, I think it's obvious that the left brain is dominant in most. But as always, there's a double-edged sword for having either mentality dominantly, and ignoring your other half.
I began thinking of this again while listening to Kokia (link) and watching her sing. Back in the day I kind of dreamed about the way she carried herself, and that overwhelming, spiritual and lyrical sound to her voice. I always thought that maybe I could offer a similar impression of myself one day, in some idealistic, hippy, maternal fashion. I decided, that if I couldn't understand the world from its predominantly left-brained point of view (though at the time I didn't know that that was the problem I faced; I figured there was just something significantly different, but never truly wrong -- about me) that I'd learn to conquer the way society handled themselves, and figure out everything essentially from my right-brained, feeling, and universal dialect (the way I saw the world). I knew there just had to be a method, a way of unlocking the world that would make me just as successful as the next person. I was just seeing the world through a different perspective.
Today though, from school, society and personal demands, I've learned to use and understand that left side of me, which is also known as the 'masculine' side of our brain. I no longer believe that a focus predominantely on either side is necessarily healthy. Rather, I only want to be an exemplary of balance, or rather, the journey towards balance, and explain to people that disregarding either can be devistating to your natural growth and wholeness as a human being. It will only ultimately make things more difficult than they need to be, and ultimately the goals and unraveling of life will be harder to achieve and discover.
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