Quite often we pick people as partners/friends who have the opposite brain make up of ourselves. 
I think this tendency is a response to an inner drive to be complete, and so we draw people into our lives who represent a different way of being and living in this world in order to learn from them.  I have found this in many people I work with and in my own relationships. 
It's almost like the two people together make up a whole brain, and though one complete brain is good, two complete brains choosing to spend time together is even better.  
The thing is, seeing things from someone else's perspective is difficult, especially when your brain tends to see, analyze, understand things in a very specific and unique way.  

Do you ever get into a (heated) discussion with your significant other when after a while you realize that you both have been arguing for and wanting basically the  same thing but because it was communicated in a certain way, you were not hearing each other?
Or do you ever feel like you explain things a million different ways but they just don't  "get it" or "get you"? It's frustrating because it seems so obvious to you, but to the other person with a different brain make up, it is not obvious.
In these cases, we often just, "agree to disagree" and resign ourselves to just relate in this way or expect a struggle when it comes to communication.

But things don't have to be/stay this way.

I recently had a chance to work with a couple, in real time, to balance both their brains to become more whole brained in themselves and then relate to each other from there.  They were both able to turn on both sides of their brain, the logical/linear action brain, as well as their big picture/reading-between-the-lines receptive brain, and they felt like they reached a new level of "seeing where the other person was coming from".  

In what areas of relationship do you find struggle?
How would you like to deepen your relationship today?
Both partners need not be present for this change to happen.
Come do a session to become more whole brained, and thereby more satisfied in your relationship today!

Last week I had the pleasure of teaching brain gym to a lovely group of yoga teachers, therapists, and parents.  We are doing the brain gym course over many weeks, which gives us a chance to really understand how to use brain gym from the inside out.
One of the yoga instructors, who is a runner, shared that she used to run long distances but always struggled to get her pace under 9 minutes. 
This week she was doing a brain gym sequence called PACE everyday and and a few others as they felt appropriate. 
She said that when she went for a run after doing some brain gym, she had run 8 miles with her time at 6 minutes45 seconds a mile!
The thing that struck her was that she made such great time but she didn't feel like she was working harder.

The reason for this is because when you stimulate the brain with brain gym, the muscles all move and work in a coordinated way. 
Even when you are good at the task, whether it be running or any other sport, there is less resistance within your body for moving forward. 

What a cool outcome!
What do you love to do that you would like to make even more effortless?
What athletic activity would you like to take to the next level?

I always think of families like a garden. If the kids are the plants, then the parents are like the soil and water. Siblings are like co-habitating plants. I always operate under this premise and work on parents of the kids I work with as much as possible because how can plants thrive if the earth and the water are out of balance?
The greatest experience I had today was in working with the older brother of a child with autism. Kids with challenges take a lot of resources, not only materially, but emotionally and in time. This older brother was such a sweet one, learning to put his needs aside to help his brother, but as I've been working with his family, he had been getting increasingly "annoyed" with his brother. A feeling he never really had before. It came up today that it was his turn to get worked on and when I put my attention wholly on him, he was at once relishing it and not knowing what to do with all the attention. It's like he was finally getting what he has been wanting but it's so much information that it's uncomfortable. So the goal we came up with was that "It's ok for me to focus on myself." It was a quick little procedure, some movements and a repatterning, but his whole attitude shifted, and when we were done with the balancing procedure, his little brother(as if on cue) turned up the volume on his game to the max. But rather than jump off the table to attend to his brother's behavior, he just laid there on the table, still paying attention to his own body. I told him, "did you notice that you were not only paying attention to what your brother was doing and you kept yourself focused on what we were working on?" He thought for a moment and said, "Oh....yeah. It doesn't really bother me anymore". His mom gave him a hug after he got off the table and this time rather than giggling uncomfortably, he faced her full on and really received her hug. It was beautiful to watch.