In this episode I describe Dr Iain McGilchrist’s excellent research into why our brains are divided into two halves.
Each half of the cerebral cortex attends to the world in a different way, the right with broad, vigilant attention, and the left with focused, narrow attention.
Information flows into our bodies, up to the right hemisphere which hands off some of it to the left for it to process differently. The results of its analysis should then be passed back to the right for re-integration into the whole.
However, over time we’ve become imbalanced, relying too heavily on the left. That’s created a problem.
How do we re-balance the two halves? It’s very similar to how we have more good days.
As always, I’ve created a half hour playlist of music to accompany this episode. You can find it on Spotify here -
Oh, and if you’d like to explore this subject a bit more, check out issue 7 of my More Good Days newsletter, The Divided Brain.
(As always, the music played at the beginning and end of my podcast is What A Wonderful Day by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com)
