Monday, 23 June 2008

From being left handed to being left brain dominent

It is sometimes said that if you are left handed then you use the opposite side of the brain to right handed people - this is obviously not true, it's just something else left handed people have to put up with!!!!.
As we know people are either left brain or right brain dominated thinkers. The left side of the brain deals with all the logical stuff, facts, language, numbers and sequence; the right side of the brain deals with the creative stuff, feelings, emotions, pictures, and imagination.
People who use the right side of the brain more than the left side tend to be more imaginative and intuitive. They see things as a whole and are interested in patterns, shapes and sizes. The right brain is associated with artistic ability like singing, painting and being creative.
Left brain dominated people may find their thought processes vague and difficult to follow, for they are quite opposite in the way that they think.
Left brain dominated people tend to be more logical and analytical in their thinking and are usually good at maths and word skills.

But this doesn't mean that a person who is left or right brain dominated doesn't use the other side of their brain. For most people the two sides of the brain work in tandem to enable them to function as well rounded personalities. The right brain absorbs new information in chunks, but it is the job of the left brain to sort it in an organised fashion.
This is the theory however my husband insists that my left brain is only the size of a pea, as I continually fail to be able to follow instructions. There does seem some truth in his theory I've just being trying to set the time and date on my new voice activated digital recorder - the name makes me confused - and have failed totally, even though I was following the instructions - the fact that they all seemed to read like -blah, blah, blah, perhaps meant I was destined to fail! (and I can't do flat packed furniture either!)

How are your left and right brain - anyone else out there that feels they have a really strong dominance?

Here at Sahara Consultancy we run Blue Sky Thinking courses to help participants to unleash the potential of right brain thinking - a lot of which can be lost or undeveloped in a formal education system. For someone who is a right brain dominant thinker it is something I really love to do. Permission to come up with silly ideas - could the day get any better?

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