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we know that the left hemisphere carries an image only of the contralateral (right) side of the body – when the right hemisphere is incapacitated, the left part of the individual’s body virtually ceases to exist for that person. It is only the right parietal lobe that has a whole body image.329 Importantly this body image is not just a picture. It is not a representation (as it would be if it were in the left hemisphere), or just the sum of our bodily perceptions, or something imagined, but a living image, intimately linked to activity in the world – an essentially affective experience.330
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An arguments for awareness exercises like meditation. Also perhaps movement based awareness that aims to build connectections the body. E.g. Proper crawling with alternating, non-parralell arm and leg movement i.e. Left arm and right leg forwards, right arm and left legs forwards
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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