{"id":109276,"date":"2020-06-29T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-power-struggle-that-resides-within-our-brain"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:02:29","slug":"the-power-struggle-that-resides-within-our-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-power-struggle-that-resides-within-our-brain","title":{"rendered":"The power struggle that resides within our brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-power-struggle-that-resides-within-our-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our brain is divided. We just don\u2019t know it. Or we do, but not in the way one thinks. To put it simply \u2013 a power struggle has been going on between the left side of our brain, or the analytical side, and the right side, the emotional side. It\u2019s been going on for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>There have always been rumblings of the imbalance between the two for years, certainly covered off in a critical work of near genius by renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Iain McGilchrist, (<a href=\"https:\/\/iainmcgilchrist.com\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iainmcgilchrist.com\">iainmcgilchrist.com<\/a><\/a>), author of the acclaimed <em>The Master and his Emissary: the Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brain is divided. We just don\u2019t know it. Or we do, but not in the way one thinks. To put it simply \u2013 a power struggle has been going on between the left side of our brain, or the analytical side, and the right side, the emotional side. It\u2019s been going on for quite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}