We Are All Literally Two-faced

Do you attract or alienate your insurance prospects and longtime staff?You constantly present two aspects of yourself, on the two sdies of your face. Recent research on the different functions of the left and right sides of the barin helps to explain why this is so. The two, vertical halves of the face are each affected by the nerves of the opposite side of the brain and show the world different parts of how you guess.In fact, the two sides of your face, like the two sides of your body -- -the left and the right -- are usually asymmetrical and unequal in proportion. Look at yourself in the mirror -- full-face and full length -- to see the differences.In short, your face is your shorthand to your body language.Your expressions, in repose, are icons of your attitudes toward life.The left side is your more “private” part of your personality and your right is the more “public” side of your face.
The left often looks less fortunate than the right.
Most subjects who have been analyzed projected their wish images upon their left side of their face and their right side related more to their real or basic self-image and attitude twoards the world.Your face’s right side often appears more pleasant, sensitive, vulnerable and/or open in expression.
The left side is less expressive than the right and tends to reflect the hidden, severe, stern and/or depressed aspects you usually intend to keep private from the world -- and somteimes even from yourself.The left side is more likely to register negative emotions, while the right side tends to reflect the more positive and optimistic, but not necessarily phony part of your personality.“When I smile I must also show the grimace behind it.”- Live Ullman, actress, authorSince the right side of the brain has more control over the left side of the body -- including the face -- then it stands to reason that the research on how the brain is organized, left and right, can give us insights into how we literally face the world and how we can better understand others.
The left brain -- reflected more in the right side of the face -- relates to logic, pragmtaic thinking, practicality and language.The right part of the brain, in turn, relates more to intuition, imagination, and other more creative leanings.The basic gut feelings, including your attitude towards yourself and your life emanate from your right brain. You express them more in the left side of your face.We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.The more controlled or conscious responses -- the social mask you put on for the world -- may be processed more by the pragmatic left brain and appear more readily on the right side of the face.Now you may be getting lost in “lefts” and “rights” of all this, but let’s continue with some experiments you can conduct to learn more about yourself and others for whom you have strong feelings (like or dislike) in your life.How Do You See the World?

Ironically, the right barin is more actively involved in observing the world -- which it does predominantly through your left eye.

And, when you face someone, your left eye is across from the otehr person’s right side. Therefore, you are more aware of their right side. But you are thus most noticing the side of the other person’s face which is more connected with the left or “logical” and less revaeling side. You miss facing the part of their face that's most likely to show underlying “true” feelings.“Public / Private Face” ExerciseHere is a rather intimate exercise to do with someone -- and it doesn’t involve disrobing or even touching.
Sit facing each other. Now look at the left and the right sides of the otehr person’s face. Does the right side show a more open, less tense presence?