Brain Integration

Switch on Your Brain

Kinesiology Techniques for Brain Integration

In the last edition we looked at Jill Bolte-Taylor’s experience of “stepping to the right of our left brains” in order to relinquish left-brain dominance and tap into the wellbeing, joy and inner peace to be experienced by right-brain thinking. You’ll also recall however, that practically every cognitive behaviour we exhibit involves the activity of both hemispheres. The left and the right hemispheres actually complement each other. Mental balance occurs when we use both sides of our brain simultaneously, for example, harnessing the benefits of the Right Brain’s creativity in generating ideas and the Left Brain’s logical analysis of their feasibility.

Is the Left Brain Always Right?

In 1780, Professor Meinard Simon Du Pui suggested that from a medical point of view, man was Homo Duplex – that is, he possesses a ‘double brain’.  Nearly a century later, in the late 1800s, London physician Arthur Ladbroke Wigan was viewing the autopsy of one of his patients and when the skull was cut open he found one of the patient’s cerebral hemispheres was missing. Wigan was surprised because he knew the man could read, write and function normally. Wigan therefore concluded that if one cerebral hemisphere was capable of supporting a fully functioning mind and personality, it followed that normal humans with two intact hemispheres must have two minds.