Left- and Right-Brain Preferences Profile

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1 Left- and Right-Bain Pefeences Pofile God gave man a total bain, and He expects us to pesent both sides of ou bains back to Him so that He can use them unde the diection of His Holy Spiit as He so desies (Rom. 12:1-2). ee ae two main hemisphees of the bain which cay out diffeent functions. e left side is the moe analytical and ational, while the ight side is moe intuitive and visionay. Obviously, we all use both sides, howeve most people tend to use one side a bit moe than the othe. You will want to discove which side of the bain you ae natually gifted by God to use, and conside the gifts that eside in that hemisphee as you conside you placement in ministy. Fo instance, if you ae left-bain (i.e., analytical and logical), you would find it consideably moe difficult to be an atist o a poet o a compose (all ministies which tend to flow fom the ight hemisphee of the bain). Convesely, if you wee moe ight-bain, these ministies would come easy fo you, and the thee R s, eading, witing, and aithmetic, would be moe difficult fo you. eefoe, it is helpful fo you to kw which hemisphee you lean towad, so you can moe pefectly fit youself into the ministy God has fo you. It is, of couse, also helpful fo you to kw these things about you spouse and childen so you can bette undestand them and diect them in the path most fetile fo them. e following chat gives an oveview of leftand ight-hemisphee bain functions. Answe the following questions as honestly and spontaneously as you can, checking the one answe that best applies. Even though you may want to check a couple of answes, if you think about it, you will pobably ecognize that you lean towad one specific answe most. Fo questions 8 and 33, you may give moe than one answe.

2 Left- and Right-Hemisphee Bain Functions

3 Bain Pefeence Indicato Test 1. In a poblem-solving situation, do you: c. d. 2. Daydeaming is: c. d. take a walk and mull solutions ove, then discuss them? think about, wite down all altenatives, aange them accoding to pioities, and then pick the best? ecall past expeiences that wee successful and implement them? wait to see if the situation will ight itself? a waste of time. amusing and elaxing. a eal help in poblem-solving and ceative thinking. a viable tool fo planning my futue. 3. Glance quickly at this pictue. Was the face smiling? 4. Concening hunches: c. d. I fequently have stong ones and follow them. I occasionally have hunches and place much faith in them. I occasionally have hunches but don t place much faith in them. I would t ely on hunches to help me make impotant decisions.

4 5. In thinking about the activities of you day, which is most typical of you style? c. d. I make a list of all the things I need to do, people to see. I pictue the places I will go, people I ll see, things I ll do. I just let it happen. I plan the day s schedule, block out appopiate times fo each item o activity. 6. Do you usually have a place fo eveything, a system fo doing things, and an ability to oganize infomation and mateials? 7. Do you like to move you funitue, change the deco of you home o office fequently? 8. Please check which of these activities you enjoy: swimming tennis golf camping/hiking skiing fishing singing gadening playing an instument home impovements sewing eading ats/cafts cooking photogaphy doing thing tavel bicycling collecting witing chess bidge oulette chaades dancing walking unning hugging kissing touching chatting debating 9. Do you lean athletics and dance bette by: imitation, getting the feel of the music o game? leaning the sequence and epeating the steps mentally?

5 10. In spots o pefoming in public do you often pefom bette than you taining and natual abilities waant? 11. Do you expess youself well vebally? 12. Ae you goal-oiented? 13. When you want to emembe diections, a name, o a news item, do you: c. d. visualize the infomation? wite tes? vebalize it (epeat it to youself o out loud)? associate it with pevious infomation? 14. Do you emembe faces easily? 15. In the use of language, do you: c. make up wods? devise hymes and incopoate metaphos? choose exact, pecise tems? 16. In a communication situation, ae you moe comfotable being the: listene talke 17. When you ae asked to speak extempoaneously at a meeting, do you: c. d. make a quick outline? just stat talking? shift the focus to someone else o say as little as possible? speak slowly and caefully?

6 18. In an agument, do you tend to: talk until you point is made? find an authoity to suppot you point? c. just become withdawn? d. push chai o table, pound table, talk loude yell? 19. Can you tell faily accuately how much time has passed without looking at you watch? 20. Do you pefe social situations that ae: planned in advance? spontaneous? 21. In pepaing youself fo a new o difficult task, do you: visualize youself accomplishing it effectively? ecall past successes in simila situations? c. pepae extensive data egading the task? 22. Do you pefe woking alone o in a goup? alone goup 23. When it comes to bending the ules o alteing company policy, do you feel: ules and policy ae to be followed? pogess comes though challenging the stuctue? c. ules ae made to be boken? 24. In school, did you pefe algeba geomety 25. Which of these handwiting positions most closely esembles yous? c. d. egula ight-hand position hooked ight-hand position (finges pointing towad you chest) egula left-hand position hooked left-hand position (finges pointing towad you chest)

7 26. In te taking, do you pint: neve fequently 27. Do you use gestues to emphasize a point? expess you feelings? 28. Do you instinctively feel an issue is ight o coect, o do you decide on the basis of infomation? feel decide 29. I enjoy taking isks. 30. Afte attending a musical: I can hum many pats of the scoe. I can ecall many of the lyics. 31. Please hold a pencil pependiculaly to the gound at am s length, centeed in you line of vision and lined up with a fame, boad, o doo. Holding that position, close you left eye. Did you pencil appea to move? Close you ight eye. Did you pencil appea to move? 32. Sit in a elaxed position and clasp you hands comfotably in you lap. Which thumb is on top? c. left ight paallel

8 33. Check as many of these items as you feel ae tue about you: 34. I have: I can extact meaning fom contacts, instuction manuals, and legal documents. I can undestand schematics and diagams. I stongly visualize the chaactes, setting, and plot of eading mateial. I pefe that fiends phone in advance of thei visits. I dislike chatting on the phone. I find it satisfying to plan and aange the details of a tip. I postpone making telephone calls. I can easily find wods in a dictionay, names in a phone book. I love puns. I take lots of tes at meetings and lectues. I feeze when I need to opeate mechanical things unde stess. Ideas fequently come to me out of whee. 35. l am: c. fequent mood changes. almost mood changes. t vey conscious of body language. I pefe to listen to what people say. good at intepeting body language. good at undestanding what people say and also the body language they use.

9 Scoing Key Hee is the scoing key to the self-test. Ente the numbes of each answe you checked in the ight-hand column povided. List the sum of the numbes in the two column questions. 1. a. 7 b. 1 c. 3 d a. 1 b. 5 c. 7 d a. 3 b a. 9 b. 7 c. 3 d a. 1 b. 7 c. 9 d a. 1 b a. 9 b swimming 9 tennis 4 golf 4 camping/hiking 7 skiing 7 fishing 8 singing 3 gadening 5 playing an instument 4 home impovements 3 sewing 3 eading 3 ats/cafts 5 cooking 5 photogaphy 3 doing thing 9 tavel 5 bicycling 8 collecting 1 witing 2 chess 2 bidge 2 oulette 7 chaades 5 dancing 7 walking 8 unning 8 hugging 9 kissing 9 touching 9 chatting 4 debating 2 9. a. 9 b a. 9 b a. 1 b. 7

10 12. a. 1 b a. 9 b. 1 c. 3 d a. 7 b a. 9 b. 5 c a. 6 b a. 1 b. 6 c. 9 d a. 3 b. 1 c. 7 d a. 1 b a. 1 b a. 9 b. 5 c a. 3 b a. 1 b. 5 c a. algeba 1 b. geomety a. 1 b. 7 c. 9 d a. 1 b a. 2 b a. 9 b a. 7 b a. 9 b a. 8 b a. 1 b. 9 c contacts 1 postpone 7 schematics 7 find wods 1 visualize 9 puns 3 advance 2 tes 1 chatting 3 feeze 3 plan tip 1 whee a. 9 b a. 1 b. 7 c. 5

11 Now add the numbe of points you listed on the ight and divide the total by the numbe of answes you checked. ( is latte numbe will vay among testes, since questions 8 and 33 have a lage numbe of pats.) Fo example: if you points totaled 300 in 40 answes, you Bain Pefeence Indicato (BPI) would be 7.5. Left Right e questions in this self-test cove the most salient diffeences between dominant ights and lefts. A scoe nea 5 would indicate that you ae using both halves of you bain togethe quite easily. A scoe nea 1 o 9 would indicate an exteme bain hemisphee pefeence, and you should wok on cultivating a geate ability to use the othe hemisphee of you bain. Most scoes will ange between 3 and 7. e one who uses all the giftedness inheent within him will be moe effective in sevice to the King, especially as he leans to yield these abilities to the Holy Spiit to flow though. Side te: Having all the membes of you family take this test and discussing each family membe s scoe and the esulting diffeences between each peson should help each family membe to become moe undestanding towad the othes. It should impove family elationships consideably. Remembe, we ae t out to ty to change othes pesonalities, but to undestand them and come alongside them and suppot them. I pesonally am a Luke. I get my evelation in a method simila to Luke s, using a lot of investigation. Othes will be moe like John. We do t have to tun Lukes into Johns o Johns into Lukes. Ho me diffeences which God has placed within His body. Don t ty to change them.