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The Chi Machine Integrates The Brain & Body Continued... |
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| Perception and Reality |
| We may perceive our world from two entirely different perspectives or points of view; either as a whole (through the gestalt hemisphere) or one piece at a time (through the analytical hemisphere). Our awareness of what we know depends upon the hemispheres of the brain. Although neurologically more complicated, the metaphor of the receptive/gestalt view of reality and the expressive/analytic view of reality as two distinct systems can help us to understand and make changes in function. |
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| Receptive/Gestalt Consciousness |
| The receptive brain, usually in the right hemisphere, is wholistic and grasps the biggest picture of "whole" available, rather than perceiving the parts and putting them back together. It is the receptivegestalt brain which specializes in the recognition of face, an ability most people still have long after they have forgotten someone's name. The receptivegestalt brain is responsible for other long-term visual memories, orientation in space, rhythm and tone, body awareness, and artistic abilities (such as sense of color and spatial relationships). This brain is necessary when we need to process information in recognizable "chunks" where no analysis or linear, sequential operation is necessary. This receptive brain receives information passively, without judgement or sense of limitation. |
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| Expressive/Analytical Consciousness |
| The expressive/analytic brain, usually located in the left hemisphere, has an entirely different perception of reality. It is critical, judgemental, and acutely aware of time and survival. It works in terms of goals, language, and self-expression. It processes in computer-like fashion, breaking down information into tiny bits which it can sequence and order, one at a time. This analytic brain is the language center where the ability to speak and understand verbal information is generated and stored. This hemisphere contains the Common Integrative Area where the learning process is completed and comprehension takes place. The Common Integrative Area is activated when experiences are internalized and become a part of the Ego. |
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| The One-Sided State |
| The first step towards the integrated state is bilateral integration, where one has access to both right and left hemispheres at the same time, and therefore, both eyes, both ears, and both sides of the body. The homolateral person is limited to "one-sided" thinking because he has access to only one side of the brain at a time, and must "switch off" one side each time he wants to use the other, in alternating fashion. Although he can be adept at this "parallel processing," the homolateral person always experiences a coordination problem, at some level, depending upon the severity of his disability. Whether it affects his eyes, ears, or body as a whole, he doesn't seem to use the two sides of the brain together through the corpus callosum as nature intended. |
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| For example, this might be the child who switches off the analytic/language ear in school. He becomes so absorbed in the gestalt, the intonation of the teacher's voice or outside noises, that he loses all sense of the meaning of the words. As a reader, he might switch off his gestalt eye, therefore breaking down the words into sounds but unable to blend them into whole units, or to register them in his long-term visual memory. |
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| The homolateral person is confused (and therefore tests weak with muscle testing) by bilateral activity. Walking, swimming, running, or jogging all require increased conscious effort and conscious control, which causes him to switch off the gestalt brain. Instead of relaxing and energizing him, these activities seem to bring him further frustration and may even lead to injury. His tendency may be to avoid large muscle activity or to place high demands on his body to achieve through competition or goal setting, as opposed to the pure intrinsic reward of joyful movement. |
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