Think of your brain as if it were a beautiful butterfly, and the spread open wings are like the two hemispheres. In the various stages of transformation during metamorphosis, a butterfly emerges after months of physically changing from a caterpillar.

The chrysalis cocooning represents the being state of non-action, or feminine right hemisphere.

The transformation process itself requires the doing state of action, or masculine left hemisphere in order to complete its gestation cycle and finally emerge as a new creation.

Butterflies often represent transformation of the soul. That process figuratively takes you from that long inner chrysalis stage, where waiting and complete changes must take place, before you can emerge and move forward into action. Although the cocoon stage may progress so slowly that it can seem as if little to no change is taking place, that is not so.

All transformation requires time, patience and a lot of energy, just as it is with the butterfly. When you begin your own transformation process by using these exercises and applying these principles to your life, it can be slow, and sometimes seem as if you aren’t accomplishing anything at all. Don’t let that discourage you. Keep going! If you do not give up, eventually you too will emerge like the beautiful butterfly and be able to set forth into the purpose for which you were created. 

Transformational Guided Imagery (TGI) provides the most effective vehicle to introduce the inner divine marriage, this unity between both male and female, offers the ability to see the subjective in the objective, the higher harmonic, the higher love. The mystical marriage between the hemispheres goes beyond the object-oriented, e.g., traditional science, to HUman-oriented, which is the new supra-conscious spirituality. TGI nurtures both sides of your brain and provides the clearest most direct way to be completely effective in your daily life.

„I drank that wine of which the soul is its vessel.
Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
A light came and kindled a flame
in the depth of my soul.
A light so radiant that
the sun orbits around it
like a butterfly.“

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

Differences in the Brain’s Hemispheres

Below is an infographic and extensive listing of the differences between the many unique, yet subtle, differences between the brain’s hemispheres

Hemisphere Archetypal Attributes and Symbols

Image Source & Credits: Hubble NASA ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) NGC 6302: The "Butterfly Nebula"

  DID YOU KNOW:
There are over 15 TGI Exercises found in Deidre's book, Happily Inner After (buy on Amazon)