Based on the video presented below, the left hemisphere of our brain operates in a methodical and organized manner. It organizes and categorizes information from the past along with new information to project the impact on our future. It is responsible for analytic thought, logic, language, reasoning and numbers. It is also responsible for our ability to identify ourselves as separate beings, the aspect of self we call ego. Our right brain hemisphere, on the other hand, connects us to the present moment. It operates holistically by providing data in the form of pictures. It is the area of the brain responsible for art awareness, creativity, insight, intuition, music and spatial (3-d) awareness.
On December 10, 1996 Dr, Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard neuroanatomist, suffered a stroke on the left side of her brain. This video is a TED talk in which Dr. Taylor describes her experience of a left brain stroke and what she learned from it.....namely that we have the choice, moment by moment, to choose who we are and how we want to be in the world (i.e. to be aware enough to consciously select, at any given moment, which side of our brain we give priority to....the side that identifies us as a separate entity or the side which sees us as simply part of a whole.
She expresses it much more lucidly, I think, in the attached video:
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