Which brain hemisphere dominates your life?

Do you know which cerebral hemisphere dominates your life? Before we delve deeper into this, let’s tell you a brief story. A businessman sent his twin sons to a country to assess the opportunities of his footwear business. After a while, he received an email from each of his children.

The first said: “dear father, after days touring this country, I have observed that there are few stores and that the supply of footwear is not of quality. People live in the countryside, where the roads are unpaved. Honestly, I don’t think it is a suitable place to sell our shoes”.

The second said: “dear father, after days touring this country, I have observed that there are few stores, that the supply of footwear is not of quality. People live in the countryside, where the roads are unpaved. I think it will be a very good place to sell our shoes”.

The two hemispheres of our brain

Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, left and right.. Each cerebral hemisphere processes external information differently, but both have independent personalities. The curious thing is that in each person one hemisphere has more relevance than the other. Today you will be able to discover if the left hemisphere or the right hemisphere predominates in your way of being, feeling and living.

The left one is responsible of verbal language, mathematical problem solving, rational thinking and memory. It stores theoretical and numerical information and is responsible for structuring, ordering and planning. It is governed by norms, rules, laws, and tries to find certainties and results in everything it does. Between black and white he is unable to glimpse the color gray. It is a hemisphere that only focuses on the quantitative and material dimension of things.

The right hemisphere is linked to the sensory part; everything that cannot be defined with words. This hemisphere perceives signals, signs, metaphors and hidden meanings of things. It brings us directly closer to the emotional and spiritual dimension of the human condition, to the point of allowing us to feel the immaterial part of things.

The tyranny of the left hemisphere

More original and rebellious than the left hemisphere, the right hemisphere breaks social norms, remains oblivious to guidelines, while its empathy, compassion and ability to communicate non-verbally is incredibly skillful. Develops imagination, innovation, intuitive and creative thinking.

Neurologists confirm that both hemispheres interact, that they are complementary and that none is more relevant than the other. However, when one analyzes his way of being, one may feel more identified with the right hemisphere, for example, and not with the left. Although, of course, it continues to be present in our lives, but we squeeze more or “use” the other cerebral hemisphere more.

In healthy people, both hemispheres are well connected and have developed to work together, sharing information through the bridge of the corpus callosum. We continue to think that logical and rational thinking (which offered such good results throughout the industrial era) is more important and superior than imagination, intuition and creativity.

Just as the human being’s ability to reason is marked from birth, creative thinking is another form of expression inherent to the human condition. AND We must be so brave to listen to our minds, as well as to listen to our hearts..

The Herrmann test of brain dominance

The theory of cerebral dominance, from which this idea of ​​tyrannical hemispheres derives, was proposed by Ned Hermann and brings together the model of the cerebral hemispheres and McLean’s triune model. Here, the author divides the brain into quadrants:

Left cortical area (A): Logical and calculating abilities are concentrated here.Left limbic quadrant (B): the organizer, who orders and classifies the perceptions of the environment.Right limbic quadrant (C): Emotions, expressiveness and emotional sensitivity predominate here.Right cortical area (D): the area of ​​intuition, the integration of concepts and creativity.

To evaluate this dominance, Hermann designed a test that results in the most predominant area in each person. It is necessary to add that the entire brain is functional in a healthy person and that the test only discovers which areas are more developed.

Now that you know a little better about the two hemispheres of the brain, have you discovered which brain hemisphere predominates more in you? Are you more logical or more intuitive? Do you have a great imagination and creativity or are you more mathematical and analytical? Discovering which cerebral hemisphere predominates in you can help you put into practice various activities that also stimulate the other.

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