profits, promotions, sales, hiring and all that "jazz." BUT such things are still in the back of the mind – they are just out of at- tention at the moment

In my earlier statement I mentioned that there was no relaxation like becoming another person, i.e. ones femmeself. But, recently I have begun to be aware that this is not strictly a true statement. Oh, it is true that Jane is different from John, but not really a different person except in appearance and to some extent, in behaviour. But what is really happening?

Many of you have experi- enced meditation, many of you jog, some practice yoga, and some have experimented with bio-feedback, drugs and with various types of psychotherapy. What do all of these techniques have in common? They They all serve, in one way or another, to turn off the thinking, left- hemisphere (of the brain) and allow the individual to get into his or or her right hemisphere. This part of the brain doesn't analyse it synthesizes. That is, it doesn't examine things sequentially (one after the other) but sees everything all at once (simultaneously). It doesn't deal with ones total situation at the time but deals with patterns, not events and visually, not verbally. It, this right side of the brain, is the source of hunches, intuitions, sudden revelations of things we couldn't recall before, and provides solutions all-of-a- sudden to problems that we have been trying to analyse and figure out with our LEFT hemis- phere but unsuccessfully.

Well, it seems from modern experiments that women are much less "lateralized" than men -- that means that they are not so efficiently divided between right and left hemisphere func- tioning. That being the case, they are to themselves and re-

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present to men a life form that is not as subject to the stress, strain and tension that are under. That doesn't say that they can't be in fact, as more and more women get into responsible positions, they more and more take on the problems of men, the bad habits of men smoking and drinking and getting up tight over things. Consequently, the incidence of heart disease, gastric ulcers - previously mostly men's problems in women is increas- ing. But to most men, women lead a more relaxed life than they see themselves as living. Thus, if such men could become women, they would be free from many of the tensions that they experience daily as men. Free- dom from, or lessening of tensions, is precisely what Web-

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ster defines relaxation as being. Thus, getting into ones femme- self is not becoming another person - it is getting into the other half of ones own self namely into the right brain hemisphere. Although one still speaks and thinks (both left hemispheric processes), when in the femme role, the intensity and importance are much less and more on the order of how a woman would handle the same problem.

What this means, then, is that Crossdressers discovered long ago another way of getting out of their left-hemispheric mode and into the right hemis- pheric mode. So crossdressing can take its place right alongside yoga, meditation and the rest, as a passageway to a different part of himself.

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