More about “Left Mind vs. Right Mind”

From the book: “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylo, Chapter 16.

Right Mind: 

• It’s all about right here, right now, the richness of the moment, filled with gratitude for my life and every one in it.
• It smiles a lot and is extremely friendly.
• Compassionate, nurturing and eternally optimistic
• It observes without judgment. No judgment of good/bad or right/wrong.
• It is sensitive to non-verbal communication, and accurately decodes emotion.
• It is your intuition and higher consciousness.
• Highly creative: thinks out of the box. Not limited by the rules of regulations set by the left mind.
• Free, not bogged by the past or fearful of what the future may bring or not bring.
• Thinks in images/pictures.
• Looks at the big picture and how things relate to each other.
• The Extreme Right Mind: seldom connect to a common reality and spend most of our time with head in the clouds.

Left Mind: 

• Preoccupied with details and runs your life on a tight schedule.
• The more serious side.
• It defines boundaries and judges everything as right/wrong or good/bad.
• Responsible for transforming all the information and possibilities into something manageable.
• It is what you use to communicate to the external world.
• Thinks in language and speaks to you constantly.
• Your organizer: has the ability to organize, categorize, describe, judge and critically analyze everything.
• Has the ability to multitask.
• Identifies patterns.
• Processes large volumes of information (much faster that that the right mind).
• The storyteller: brilliant at making up stories, filling the blanks where there are gaps in data and generating alternative scenarios.
• Genius at generating What-if possibilities and drawing conclusions.
• Your ego center.
• Your critical analytical mind.
• The Extreme Left Mind: exhibits extremely rigid thinking patterns that are analytically critical.