Communication- Key to Your Marriage by H. Norman Wright

Author:H. Norman Wright [Wright, H. Norman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Communication in marriage—United States, Marriage—Religious aspects—Christianity
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Have you ever been in a class or even a church service where the speaker focused on dry, detailed facts? If he was inflexible, he was annoyed by interruptions to his train of thought, so after each distraction he would return to the beginning and review. The step-by-step speech was monotonous with little emotional expression. If so, you were listening to a person who was an extreme—and I mean extreme—left-brain dominant.

If you listen to a speaker or someone in a conversation who rambles from topic to topic, relies on his or her own opinions and feelings, is easily led away from the point, leaves gaps in the presentation to give the conclusion and uses emotional language and hunches, you’re in the presence of the extreme right-brain dominant. The left side wants to know, “What’s the bottom line?” The right side travels around the barn a few times to get there. And as you’ll see later, personality differences will affect how a person responds.

When you were in school you probably ran into individuals who excelled in math or reading but flunked playground! Why? They were functioning with a highly advanced left brain, but the right brain was less developed.

A man who is a highly proficient chemist also enjoys social activities and goes out dancing twice a week. Which portion of his brain is he using for these tasks? He is using the left side for his work, which must be careful, accurate and logical. When he’s out dancing, he feels the steps by shifting to the right side of his brain. The chemist may be more comfortable using his left side, but he’s able to make a switch for some right-brain activities. We shift back and forth between these two sides of the brain as we carry on our daily activities.

Remember, we will constantly reinforce our dominant side because it’s easier to go that route than to break new ground by using the less dominant side.

Brain Differences Between Men and Women

Let’s go back in time and look at the brain differences in boys and girls. Let’s assume you have X-ray glasses that allow you to look into their brains. As you look inside, you may see a discrepancy between boys and girls.

In the brain there is a section that connects the left and right hemispheres. It’s a bundle of nerves (the technical name is corpus callosum) and there are up to 40 percent more of these nerve bundles in girls than in boys. This means that women are able to use both sides of the brain at the same time, whereas men have to switch from one side of the brain to the other, depending upon what they need. Women can enjoy more cross talk between both sides of the brain. In other words, women use their brains holistically.

This extra connective tissue in girls is a reason why they develop language skills earlier than boys and will use many more words than the young males of our species. Do you know why boys often read more poorly than girls? It’s the brain again.

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