Seeing

Sometimes the strangest things become an unexpected mirror and I notice something I haven't seen about myself in awhile. The recent mirror was a silly facebook quiz about being a right brained or left brained dominant person. Prior to the quiz, I would've said I operated as a left brained person as a child and all through college. After working through some pain and tapping into my emotional, intuitive side in my early 20's, I'd have guessed I'd come out fairly even on the test now . . . maybe even slightly more right brained. HA!

I was in shock to see the first result being 73% left brained (digital, objective, math, rational, order, analytic, symbolic) and 27% right brained (creative, memory, emotion, art, instinct, music, imagination). I took the darn thing three times and it only changed to 66% left and 34% right. Hmmm. Ok, so it's just a dumb facebook quiz created to waste time. But my reflection in this mirror made me stop in my tracks.

I've been downplaying or maybe ignoring how naturally left brained I really am. I've put loads of effort into finding my emotion, living more relaxed, letting myself BE instead of DO, throwing out a rigid schedule and agenda, trusting my intuition, digging for the feeling, seeing the beauty in every moment - even the unplanned ones. Don't get me wrong, I'm super glad I've adopted some significant right brain skills. (And my kids are even more thankful for my softening and relaxing into a more flowing lifestyle.) I feel more at peace, more healthy, more flexible, more intuitive, more passionate, even a bit more creative and I like all those things. This quiz simply put the spotlight back on my natural bent. I feel like my favorite old roomie is coming to live with me again. It's time to embrace both sides of my brain and weave the right brain skills I've acquired into the fabric of all my natural left brain strengths with joy. Watch out world. I'm using both sides of my brain now!

Can someone draw a left brain representation that doesn't look quite so boring, please? I think we can all appreciate how much beauty is found in research and thinking logically and analytically. At least give it a splash of color. ;-)