Neurobiology shows that there is a crossover between head and body; the Left Brain correlates with the Right Side or Wing, and the Right Brain correlates with the Left Wing or Side.
A key to health is integration of the left/right characteristics, but in a non integrated or dis-integrated brain, particularly under stress or duress, the Left Brain falls back to rigidity, and the Right Brain falls back to chaos.
Not surprisingly, this correlates with Right and Left politics. To paint a broad swath at the risk of being reductionistic, the essence is that The Right Wingers want top down, rule based, rigid control; and are terrified of uncertainty and change. By the Book. Just following orders. Law and Order. The Left Wingers (who are actually in their Right Brain) are not terrified of change but tend to be a bit disorganized. Idealists. Will Rogers: “I’m not a member of any organized political party…I’m a Democrat”.
There is a healthier way of integration where the sum is much greater than the parts; neither chaotic nor rigid reactions, but with flexible, current, present, adaptable, compassionate responses. That’s what responsible means. Response-able.

