The right-mind according to Dr. Jill, “is all about the richness of this present moment. It is filled with gratitude for my life and everyone and everything in it. It is content, compassionate, nurturing and eternally optimistic. To my right mind character, there is no judgment of good/bad or right/wrong, so everything exists on a continuum of relativity. It takes things as they are and acknowledges what is in the present moment……to my right mind, we are all equal members of the human family.”
My left mind is the tool I use to communicate with the external world. Just as my right mind thinks in collages of images, my left mind thinks in language and speaks to me constantly. Through the use of brain chatter, it not only keeps me abreast of my life, but also manifests my identity. Via my left brain language center’s ability to say “I am,” I become an independent entity separate from the eternal flow. As such, I become a single from the whole.
From the book, My Stroke of Insight, by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor.
Just knowing that there are two minds, “I am of two minds…” I wonder where that saying came from.
Anyway, just knowing that inside of my head is an instrument that has two sides, two separate ways to process life, helps me understand my unravel or my fall into what I call reality.
Isn’t it amazing that we can be inside of us looking around and using this side or that side of the mind to process our lives?
And I believe we switch from side to side unknowingly most of the time!
There are times in my life that I am at total peace, where I am overfull of gratitude that it literally overwhelms me. When I am in my right mind creating wonderful Art and not even knowing there is a me, just Art.
There are also times that ME is front and center, and I am way an individual and very much defensive in my stance against life, reality and others.
What would happen if we just rode along for the ride, to welcome thoughts coming and going, to even welcome which side of the mind we are experiencing life with, to see this body as a body and not take it all so personally.
I am learning that the more I am disconnecting my sense of self in things, the easier it is to just be.
It is when we treat each incident in life as a personal part of who we are.
The body runs alone, it surely doesn’t need us to tell it what to do, we are not forever reminding it to breathe, to digest food, to pump blood, it all seems to move gracefully without our input.
The world also runs without our running agendas, we really have little control of anything, not the world, our bodies, or even our thoughts.
It seems it is all run for us. Like we are the queens of life itself.
Sit back and watch and listen to all that happens for you.
As I sit now, I am in a Library by the lake, birds fly by from time to time, boat motors by slowly, a woman sits nearby, raindrops are tapping lightly on the window, voices in a distance, warmth of the laptop on my lap, so much to take in, in this one breath.
For now I am viewing life from the right mind and using my left mind language center to tell you about it.
I am just a woman sitting here observing.
How much time do we observe, compare to the times we literally are talking against what is happening.
Talking or whining about what is happening. Like our long drawn out dialogue will change anything outside. Is that when we get lost in our left mind file room sorting out what should have happened, what we could have done, instead of being with what is.
Mindlessly is really meandering around oblivious to what is occurring, we are not aware of reality, the sky, the birds, the ground, the flowers, our bodies wonderfully operating silently without any recognition, we are meandering around in our heads instead.
Mind talking in our heads is so loud sometimes we can’t see for the loudness.
That now stresses me out, and I have to walk outside sometimes to get back to now and then I seem to switch to Right mind.
I am happy that I have both sides, and I am happy to be aware of them and their functions. I am in utter amazement at this body and how life unfolds.
We literally have no idea what will happen next. It is like being in an action adventure, being the main character and not even knowing our lines, it will all depend what will happen next.
Isn’t it a cosmic joke, that we focus on ‘owning’ things, when all along, there is so much at our fingertips, even our fingertips are ours to use.
Imagine what your hands touch in a day, what they do for you, just little fingertips.
Our bodies are ours to use, the planet is set up with a zillion things for us to use. Whether we see the sunsets and sunrises, the flowers and intricate designs of the clouds, they simply are there. We did nothing for them.
The more you see, the more there is to notice, the more you hear, the more sounds appear. It seems that it was just there waiting for you to notice!
No need to get ahead, to plan ahead to even contemplate the future, the future is here, while your busy trying to get somewhere, somewhere arrives!
What is there for me to do, but notice.
