[fayray]

From my own personal experiences, I'd say I'm fairly balanced in brain activity. However, I think that being balanced also offers some problems because you still run into brain communication issues. Like, I'm often torn in what responses to use in what situations. Sometimes I'm filtering through the left brain, sometimes the right. People find my responses very unpredictable and it can create a communication barrier in my relationships. I often feel a certain isolation because of it.
Does anyone else experience anything similar? =/

[slip]

Yeah, but I doubt it has to do with brain balance....

[freeeekyyy]

I think I definitely lean left. So while I can view things in an all-encompassing, global manner (a requirement for INTJs) if there's ever any conflict, the left wins. Keeps things going.

[Zsych]

I tried practices for balancing my brain, but it felt like my brain wasn't working too well with those... you've developed systems, and developing new systems even based on a better basis, to the point that they work well, would take time.

[Scatterbrane]

I happen to have rather unstable hemisphere dominance in handedness, eyesight, etc. When I notice I'm displaying both indecision and roughly equal dominance, I'll sometimes consciously take one eye out of focus, stop using one arm etc. in order to establish unilateral dominance. I also have mental stereotypes of myself that I try to empathize with, put myself into a particular frame of mind.

Do you have any clinical diagnosis related to these issues?

[thoughtjunky]

As far as I know, I've pretty much always been balanced brained. I'd like to think it helps me make decisions more than lead to indecision. Generally speaking, the left hemisphere goes for the "correct/calculated" answer while the right goes for the "creative" one. Correct and creative don't have to oppose each other. I've always both calculated and felt out my decisions.

I never really thought about how it effected my personal relationships, people love my unpredictable randomness, it keeps them on their toes thinking and fights the monotony of everyday life.

Though I have been led to believe that I am slightly left dominate since people constantly comment on how I'm always right and although I can recognize beauty when I see it, I've never been good at capturing it except that I recently found I have a gift for photography and I'm a total audiophile.

I find it hard to believe that one could attribute a communication barrier to being balanced brained. When I find I can't relay my thoughts/feelings accurately it's usually because I just can't find words to fit it. I fight this through building up my vocabulary, but some things just can't be communicated through spoken (or unspoken) language. If it's a filtering issue, then you just need to break out of your comfort zone.

[Scatterbrane]

	Originally Posted by thoughtjunkie
	I find it hard to believe that one could attribute a communication barrier to being balanced brained.

As do I. If anything, balance implies to me a degree of maturity.

I'm not so much balanced as variably imbalanced, and it sounds like the OP's issues are something of the sort.

There are ways to attain balance, my favorite of late being meditation techniques and similar, e.g. palming. These increase inter-hemispheric communication.

[Somniloquent]

I think I have a pretty balanced brain and I know I'm unpredictable, but that's not always bad. I do find that sometimes I'm in one mode and sometimes another. It can be funny, because one moment I might be cooing stupidly over a cute handbag and the next moment giving an analytical critique of the functionality its design. Or I'm very friendly and warm towards someone I've been looking forward to meeting – but when they say something illogical, it's my duty to tear it apart. Or I'll be engaged in a deeply profound discussion, conveying my beliefs with elegance and incisiveness, only to cut myself off with 'OMG those donuts have sprinkles? Want!' It throws people off, but I just accept it as part of my personality.

Maybe if you keep track of what responses you've made that are inappropriate, you can decide how to act when those situations come up again.

[Nightsun]

I have a balanced brain. I think that the important thing is "divide". I use left in this step, right in that step, etc.. you just need brain ecology.

[fayray]

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I think I have a pretty balanced brain and I know I'm unpredictable, but that's not always bad. I do find that sometimes I'm in one mode and sometimes another. It can be funny, because one moment I might be cooing stupidly over a cute handbag and the next moment giving an analytical critique of the functionality its design. Or I'm very friendly and warm towards someone I've been looking forward to meeting – but when they say something illogical, it's my duty to tear it apart. Or I'll be engaged in a deeply profound discussion, conveying my beliefs with elegance and incisiveness, only to cut myself off with 'OMG those donuts have sprinkles? Want!' It throws people off, but I just accept it as part of my personality.

I'm the same exact way. I just notice that if I'm not around people who are goofy or eccentric, I kinda turn people off. Usually the major left brainers.