Life in the Right Brain
The church painting is almost done… Posting the final version on Saturday!
Most people think of artists as ‘right brained’ people. Artists see the world a little differently and use visualization instead of language to communicate. I always found this an interesting idea. Being a person who loves to use both images and language, my understanding of the world is not so one sided.
I was watching the news last week and saw an interview with Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist that experienced the right side of her brain due to stroke. Her left brain and language centers were completely unable to function and her experience of existence was completely altered. She began to visualize instead of verbalize and began to see herself in an entirely new way.
I found Ms. Bolte Taylor’s descriptions fascinating. They offered a new point of view for me about how our brains connect us with the world and how each side plays a function in our experience of reality. I thought it to be very worth sharing.
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March 25th, 2009 at 8:56 am
I have alays throught of my process as being very analytical rather than right brained.
Love,
Linda
March 25th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hi dear Michelle, I have seen this video about 3 times and every single time I am fascinated by it and relate to her experience from my days in the rainforest where I lived so out of my body and merged with everything around me that I walked around in a constant “high” like she says. I heard music and had great visions. It’s where my music comes from; am working on a video of that for my blog.
When I returned to society it took me many years after living so wild and free to get back into my body and start to use more of my left brain. I had to do this as you can’t be in society and function without some left brain activity! LOL!! Now, I am at a place where I am starting to find balance. It’s an interesting time for me.
So glad you sparked all this in me.
Hugs, Robin
March 26th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hi Michelle: Is illness simply illness or is it itself a lesson? A way to learn more about the universe and how we are in it, just more molecules only able to be seen, as we think we look, with a human eye ?
When I first experienced the effects of M.S., I called it a “numbness” for lack of a better description, but Ms. Taylor described her body at one with the universe. No definition between the parts of the body and the atmosphere around it. She could feel the life force power of the universe around that part of the body that she no longer felt attached to.
My illness was totally different but it was amazing how the feelings of my body could relate to hers. It was as if the effected part of my body was no longer part of me but softly blended into the atmosphere around me.
I know your site is not about illness but I just needed to tell you how amazing it was to hear someone else describe a feeling I had negated as unrealistic and afraid to sound foolish to my medical advisors. There is that left brain kicking in again….
P.S. Robin, you sound like an amazing woman ! !
March 27th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Hello Michelle,
She also wrote a very interesting book about her experience and about living with our 2 brain’s sides.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Truly fascinating!For sometime now I have been very interested and fascinated with just how our brain ticks. I really enjoyed this video and could relate to the reason why I feel so whole and happy when I am painting. Being in the “zone” and living in the moment can be so therapeutic! Thanks for posting!
March 28th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I’ve seen that…a tremendously interesting lecture!
March 28th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Congrats on finishing the painting soon, btw!