Left and Right

Today was my first day of a series of yoga days that I have decided to partake in. Although I am not fat, I am noticeably off balance and wouldn't mind being that fit. As I was doing the various exercises, stretches, and poses, I noticed that everything was done on both the left and the right side. After I had mastered a pose on the right side, I would change to the left side and find that I had to start all over again, retraining and balancing once again. This made me think of how you have to train a horse to do something on both the left and right side of their body, to be equivalently strong on both sides. I found that I am much stronger on my right side (also the side that I right with) and that when standing on my left foot, it was noticeably more off balance than the other. Horses are the same way- their balance may be stronger on one side than the other, and usually is. Unfortunately most people do not realize that horses have sides just as horses do. Being equivalent is something extremely important- both physically and mentally and emotionally.

Both humans and horses have Left and Right sides to their brain. Although they are usually more dominant on one side over the other, it is still good to practice using your less developed side. The only way to be a balanced person is to have a nearly equivalent personality from both your Left and Right brains, from both your Introvert and Extrovert, from both your Intuition and Sensory, your Thinking and Feeling, and your Perceiving and Judging qualities. Why do I say all of these things? These are all parts of MBTI profiling, which isn't wonderful but is fairly easy to learn and has greatly expanded my knowledge of psychology. 

So often we leave out the underdeveloped side of things- no matter what it is. I challenge you to balance out your [insert unbalanced thing here].