What left brain right brain thinking means

What left brain right brain thinking means to you is it will shape your personal life because it is how you process things in your daily life. For example the right side is used for the creative and imagnative things we want to achieve.

The left side is the logic, analytical, numerical etc. Works things out logically. Now this does affect how we approach things and situations which come our way.

It has been said before by various people in the past that we only use a third of our brain and if we were to be tapping into our right side more we could be more creative and successful.

Now I am not a scientist I am writing this page based on my opinions as a Hypnotherapist. Now to me left brain right brain thinking is fascinating but I also want to talk and go into more detail about the parts of the brain and what they do and the effects.

Frontal Lobe

This part holds your Emotions, Personality, Intellect, Judgement, Language, Planning, Morality, Consciousness, Abstract Thought, Impulse controls, Voluntry Movement, Attention Span, Short Term Memeory, Smell Interpretation and Perseverance.

Now let us look at the:

Parietal Lobe

This are of the brain controls your sensory functions, Motor Functions, Pain, Temperature, Pressure, Position, Taste, Touch, Recognitions, Abstract responses, Body Image, Perceptual Functions, Left/right Awareness, and Reading Ability.

Next we can look at the:

Occipital Lobe

This is for vision and intergrating your vision with other sensory inputs.

Temporal Lobe.

I find the topic of left brain right brain thinking amaxing and look at what each section does and how it effects things.

Now we can also look at the inner brain which will explain things a little more and then we will look at behaviour of people etc and how and what left brain right brain thinking means to your life.

This area of the brain holds the following activity which is your attitude to things, your emotions, drive and social bonding with others, motivation and finally it influences your sexual activity and biological rhythms.

Now within the Inner Brain we will look at the sections of the above in more detail. This is great to look at when we are trying to get a better understanding of what Left Brain Right Brain thinking means.

Okay the first inner section is the:

Thalamus

This area affects our emotions, expressions, and integrates sensory input( sight, hearing, touch, taste)with emotional responses. It also regulates and maintains consciousness, Amazing or what!

Hypothalamus

This area is the autonomic nervous system, regulating the following, thirst, appetite, sleep, temperature, fat metabolism, and sexual response. Also interesting is this area is responsible for the hormones we secrete that produce a fight or flight response, blood pressure and emotions.

Amygdala

This is the heart of the limbic system, and regulates your heart beat, your mood, your emotional responses. Also it promotes fear through hormal regulation, the fight or flight response because it controls the autonomic nervous system. When you are in the mind set of the what if scenario or pre planning etc it originates here also.

Hippocampus

This is vital for organising your long term memeory and at the same time saving new memeories as they happen. Wow we really are organic computers aren't we!

Pineal Gland

This is also known as your "Third Eye" and this is a very sensitive area, producing melatonin which may affect the onset of puberty and development, and may also affect your immune system and controlling your body rhythms.

Now the next area we are going to look at which helps us even more with what left brain right brain thinking means.

Cerebellum

This area deals with your co-ordination of your muscles with their movement, balance, posture, and the ability to know when you are using your muscles too much!

Olfactory System

This area is an old primitive system responsible for smell, emotional tone, sexual activity etc.

The Brain Stem

This includes the whole brain minus the Cerebellum and Cerebrum and is consists of three parts:

Midbrain

This is a main nerve pathway affecting the following, body posture, the autonomic system, blood pressure, body temperature, emotional influences and consciousness. It also helps regulates appetitie and hormones.

Pons

Medulla

This area is the control center for sustaining your vital life processes. Controlling the heart, respiration and circulation. It affects your ability to cough, swallow, digest, gag and be sick.

So as you can see with all the above you have a clearer understanding of the left and right side of the brain. But we now need to look more at how left brain right brain thinking affects us all.

Now you could say a left brained person is a Thinky type person, uses logic thought to solve problems and a Feelytype person will use creative visualisation and imagination. Of course there are some of us who are both but usually one is slightly more prodominant.

So how would you know which one you were. Well I have some questions for you to think about and answer, these are just an example for illustration purposes.

Okay ready here is Question One:

When problem solving do you usually:

(a)Prefer to follow your instincts.

(b)Weigh up the pro's and con's to find a sensible solution.

Question Two:

If you had to choose, which of the following would you agree with?

(a)We all have psychic abilities some more than others.

(b)Apparent psychic abilities are just subconcsious processes at work.

Qusetion Three:

Some people are more unlucky than others. do you:

(a) Agree.

(b)Disagree

Now if you answered two or more(a's)chances are you are a Feely type person amd two or more (b's) is a Thinky type person. So this is helping you understand the left brain right brain thinking process.

Some people though find it hard to give a definative anser to the above questions so here is another set for you to think about and answer.

Okay for Question One:

Which of the following do you do first?

(a)Think of a solution then test it intuitively.

(b)Just somehow become aware of an answer which you would then test logically.

Question Two:

Do you think that:

(a)Most people do not have psychic ability.

(b)Most people do have psychic ability but simply fail to recognise it.

Question Three:

Do you think that luck is:

(a)Usually self-made.

(b)Associated with something we don't really properly understand.

Okay if you answer the question (a) you are a Thinky person, and (b) is a Feely type person. Now interstingly enough here is an important part of how left brain right brain thinking happens.

If say you are a Thinky person you will usually use your head as the part of the body to find your answers to questions, you are a intellectually orientated and analytical personality.

Now the Feelies will use there Heart more with there problem solving and processing. These people usually tend to put others before themselves and feel things more.Using the imagination and creative senses, where as the thinky will analyse more and be more logical with finding solutions.

Now another area that is important not just for left brain right brain thinking is how we have been so conditioned and programmed from birth by our parent who passed on to us what there parents passed on to them and so forth...

Really we have lost a lot of our instincts and a lot of us have forgotten what it is like to be a human being, because we are so brainwashed, manipulated and are so used to conforming to what a certain amount of people want us to do.

Here's the thing, you were born with a right to be here, we are all born with the same internal organs, we come onto this earth with nothing and leave with nothing. We are all equal but yet in society we are not all equal, we are bound by religion, colour of our skin, where we live, our education, status, class etc.

We have become lost and we need to find ourself more, we need to take a long hard look at ourself and change what we need to and perhaps being a human being again, someone who will help others etc. Perhaps being more a feely type person and swap the left brain right brain thinking to right brain left brain thinking!

This is just my opinion of course but I hope you have enjoyed my opinion on left brain right brain thinking. Please come back soon !

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