One of the most powerful reasons for taking on the task of balancing your Earth (left brain/lower chakra) and Sky (right brain/upper chakra) aspects is the miraculous improvement that can occur in your relationships with opposite polarity individuals. (See article on Creative personality balance for more information on this subject)

Inner balance leads to positive relationships with others who do not think or feel as you do. For Sky types of either gender, training themselves in creative balance permits them to improve their sensitivity to their own impact and to become more flexible and powerful in the ways they deal with conflict. For Earth individuals, balancing permits them to remain more centred and authentic. They give up their emotional manipulation, leading to cleaner, clearer and more grounded interactions. This gives them greater room to pursue their unique talents and joys. In short, communication and the resolution of conflicts is much much easier.

Why is this?
     As we have explained in our core article, Guide to Creative Personality Balance, that there are fundamentally two different approaches to dealing with life. Right brain-orientated Sky individuals “create” life from their imagination and have a value system that appears to be at odds with their left brain-orientated counterparts. They value the uniqueness of self-expression, visioning, dreaming up grand plans and idealistic scenarios. On the downside, they are easily overwhelmed by, and eventually fearful and resentful of, the emotional energy of Earth types whose position does not support their own.
    For a left-brain orientated Earth person who prefers to work through life from the point of view of “what is,” right brain people are interesting, fun and uplifting, but not the kind of people you rely upon to make everyday life easy. They seem to be uncontrollable, inconsistent, and downright unreasonable in conflict situations. They cannot be pinned down to regular community commitments that they forget easily.  Left-brain people prefer consensus, co-operation and a willingness to stick at it through thick and thin. They want the security of reliability and a comfortable home, socially acceptable kids and the mortgage paid preferably ahead of time!
    Inevitably these two kinds of people tend to rub each other up the wrong way when the normal stresses of living arise. Sky people become even more escapist than they usually are, and Earth people become Rotweillers (no insult to the dog!) in their attempts to grab hold of and control an out-of-control situation. They use, and irrationally cling to, various manipulative techniques to try to draw to the Sky person back to community feelings and obligations. To no avail: the more an Earth person clings, the more a Sky person looks to greener fields. Soon everyone is feeling furious, hurt and confused.

So how does balancing your own polarity help to change this?
   In essence, nobody likes his or her own polarity’s coping mechanism. Sky people have a deep sense of unconditional love and they would like to be at ease with and work effectively with others – so long as it doesn’t upset their freedom to express and be themselves. Earthdwellers secretly envy the Skywalkers’ ability to let go of obligations and duties and to drift away from the strife and struggle of mundane life – so long as in doing so they sustain the relationships they value.  
   We all secretly desire to be a little bit like the person who is driving us nuts!
   Balancing your brain polarity gives you this opportunity. But it does more than establishing new neural pathways to link to the powers of the hemisphere you are less familiar with; it also opens up your chakra consciousness to value and seek to be more like “the other.” The more you develop competence in powers of the less preferred polarity, the more you respect, value and understand the perspective and powers of your opposite polarity friends, and therefore get along with them much more easily.
    What is more, since our sense of inferiority revolves around the incompetence we feel in being unbalanced, the stronger  balance becomes, the less food the negative ego has to feed upon. Communication becomes less fraught and defensive, negotiated solutions are more enduring. Co-creation becomes more natural and we regain our ability to love and be at ease with those whose lives enrich us because they are indeed different.