My Brain

We now know how the human brain works and how different and separate the two hemispheres are. Jill Bolte Taylor describes the right hemisphere as “all about this present moment. It's all about "right here, right now." Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies.” And the left hemisphere as thinking “linearly and methodically. Our left hemisphere is all about the past and it's all about the future. Our left hemisphere is designed to take that enormous collage of the present moment and start picking out details, and more details about those details. It then categorizes and organizes all that information, associates it with everything in the past we've ever learned, and projects into the future all of our possibilities.” Bolte also states that it thinks in language. Jill Bolte Taylor brought up a few interesting questions of which hemisphere would you choose? Which DO you choose? And when? I believe it is very important to take into account the way she describes the dramatic differences in the two sides of the brain when answering her such thought provoking questions. Though I naturally over think every little thing in life I have recently learned to start letting go, and would rather let my right hemisphere take over in this situation. Bliss and happiness comes from living in the present moment, from a certain unison feeling of ourselves and the rest of the earth around us, thinking us all as one. She is right in saying that the right hemisphere and understanding it is what will make the world a better and much calmer place. Yet, I know I can’t stop the left hemisphere from analyzing every situation. Personally, I have a default to relate everything and everyone to a past experience and worst case scenario, leading me to have a lot of paranoia and trust issues. This usually happens worse when I am in a new situation as in meeting new people, a new relationship, in a new place for the first time, etc. Though one can argue that yes, the left hemisphere can be useful in planning your future and thinking rationally, to me it seems more trouble than it’s worth when one could reach bliss in every present moment with the left side of the brain on a metaphorical mute button.