QUIZ: Brain Hemisphere Balance

Intelliscript.net via Cary Harrison,TheSmartShow.org; Wisdom Quarterly

Right Brain/ Left Brain Quiz The higher the number below the more dominant the hemisphere. Recognizing a right brain or left brain tendency helps one to cope. Left Brain Dominance: (8) Right Brain Dominance: (8) Right Brain/ Left Brain

  

Which hemisphere is dominant? Take a look at the characteristics chart below to determine if the space separating the ears is left dominant, right dominant, or balanced. Then take the QUIZ to confirm. Dominance to one side seems to indicate an easier time "meditating" or allowing stillness and cultivating mindfulness and insight once seated. Dominance  to the other side suggests more sitting but less bliss, allowing, and realizing our innate potential to gain knowledge-and-vision of things as they really are without our biased interpretations.

  

Right and Left Brain Characteristics

Hemispheric Styles

Rational

• Responds to verbal instructions
• Problem solves by logically and sequentially looking at the parts of things
• Looks at differences
• Is planned and structured
• Prefers established, certain information
• Prefers talking and writing
• Prefers multiple choice tests
• Controls feelings
• Prefers ranked authority structures

Intuitive

• Responds to demonstrated instructions
• Problem solves with hunches, looking for patterns and configurations
• Looks at similarities
• Is fluid and spontaneous
• Prefers elusive, uncertain information
• Prefers drawing and manipulating objects
• Prefers open ended questions
• Free with feelings
• Prefers collegial authority structures... More