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Huh, came across questions I had 10 months ago and now I have a new clue towards an answer! @visakanvhttps://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1011952824048111623 …

I still don't understand the full structure, but one thing I've learned in the meantime from reading McGilchrist's book on the @divided_brain is that: A) most emotions (grief for sure) are mostly based in RightHem B) anger is based in LHem C) grasping for need to control is LHem

So from the left hemisphere's perspective, it can maintain its sense of control by feeling anger rather than grief. And having this control matters to it a lot. A well-integrated brain isn't subject to this need for control, but can hold it as part of a larger picture.

But, as McGilchrist points out, most people in the modern western world don't have well-integrated brains! Our left hemispheres have taken over in a certain ways, and the result is the identification with this need for control & certainty & being right: hence, anger.

I'm valuing, in this moment, that even as I feel a deepened sense of understanding here, I also feel aware of how much I still don't know. (This too is a hemispheres thing.)https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/979441452114677761 …