The brain. Unique in its design, purposeful in its creation and wonderfully made
(Ps. 139).
This is what we know at the present time about our brain:
The left side has its own unique functions as does the right side. The thinking pattern of the left side of the brain is analytical, linear, explicit, sequential, verbal, rational, and goal-oriented. It holds your beliefs, values and expectations. This hemisphere controls language and reading skills. It will gather information and process it logically in a step-by-step fashion. (Some individuals are extremely left brained in their approach to life. And some seem to go through life reflecting just the right side. Others have a mixed dominance).
The right side is spontaneous, intuitive, emotional, non-verbal, visual, artistic, and spatial. It’s a picture album. The left does the thinking and the right side has the pictures. It stores memories as pictures. Many are imbedded with energy and power and so just talking about the pictures doesn’t remove it. The language here is not words but a picture. This is where Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) pictures come from. And traumatic memory is like a series of still snapshots or a silent movie. There is no music or words.1 This side processes patterns of information. It’s the host of our emotions.