Balanced Brain

balance

One of the things I love about studying social work is the amount of self-reflection I am assigned. In this week's reflection, I found that I am as just as rational as I am emotional. As much as I like to organize things (even my checkbook), I also love to be an artist (and create mixed-media art from my garbage). 

I personally feel like I am fairly balanced between my right and left brain. This is something that I have noticed since I was a young adolescent. While I am not 100% ambidextrous, I am able to write with both hands pretty well. I also was introduced to this activity while I was an AmeriCorps volunteer which is able to determine and exercise each side of your brain. Which way does the ballerina turn for you and can you get her to turn the other way?

While the ballerina turns right for me upon first glance, I am able to see her from my left brain and switch back and forth. Sometimes it takes me longer than other times but it just means that I must change my focus (literally). I am happy to say that currently in my life I feel like I have a lot of balance. My ballerina spins every which way with a hot pink tutu. I think this has been due to a conscious effort to find balance after experiencing major imbalance at my last job. One year ago, I felt ungrounded and completely right-brained and emotional. Because this job consumed most of my time, I was constantly in a world where everything was abstract. 

Now that I have a job where the hours do not consume my whole life, my job is straightforward and the mission of the work is something that I am proud to stand by, I feel balance again.

Now my world has a foreground, a horizon and identifiable objects.

This is also pretty much what my view is on the other side of my driveway now!