Right Brain-Left Brain

While we have a natural tendency towards one way of thinking, the two sides of our brain work together in our everyday lives. The right brain of the brain focuses on the visual, and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details. The focus of the left brain is verbal, processing information in an analytical and sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get the whole.

The Left Brain

The left brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking. It excels in naming and categorizing things, symbolic abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is very linear: it places things in sequential order -- first things first and then second things second, etc. If you reflect back upon our own educational training, we have been traditionally taught to master the 3

R's: reading, writing and arithmetic -- the domain and strength of the left brain.

The Right Brain

The right brain, on the other hand, functions in a non-verbal manner and excels in visual, spatial, perceptual, and intuitive information.The right brain processes information differently than the left brain. For the right brain, processing happens very quickly and the style of processing is nonlinear and nonsequential. The right brain looks at the whole picture and quickly seeks to determine the spatial relationships of all the parts as they relate to the whole. This component of the brain is not concerned with things falling into patterns because of prescribed rules. On the contrary, the right brain seems to flourish dealing with complexity, ambiguity and paradox. At times, right brain thinking is difficult to put into words because of its complexity, its ability to process information quickly and its

non-verbal nature. The right brain has been associated with the realm of creativity.

Right brain

Images (non-verbal)

Intuitive, Color, Rhythm ,Imagination ,Daydreaming ,Dimension ,Creative Thinking intuition ,intuitive, holistic, relational ,synthesis ,wholes ,intuitive ,subjective ,random, whimsical, divergent ,concrete ,free , imaginative ,nonlinear ,multiple ,simultaneous ,mystical ,creative ,visual-pictorial aesthetics ,anagogic, submits, pattern seeker

Left Brain

Words (verbal),Logical,Black & White,Numbers,Sequence,Analysis,Lists,Critical,Thinking,intellect,rational,analytic,analysis,parts,

sequential,objective,logical,convergent,abstract,directed,propositional,linear,sequential,successive,

reasoning, mathematical, speaking, accuracy, digital, dominates, pattern user