“Mother-child” describes one of the two fundamental relationship categories that you use to “map” individuals that you know within your psyche.

Your nervous system organizes all relationships into two fundamental categories based on how you perceive their evolutionary biological roles.

Your partner category encompasses all relationships that are peer-based, competitive, territorial, or sexual.

The mother-child category of individuals you know encompasses all the individuals in which you experience a relationship of unequal dependance, such as the way a baby depends on his mother’s nurturing, or such as the way a parent feels unconditionally loving toward a helpless child who depends upon the parent.

In a right-handed person, the mother-child side is the left side of the body; in a left-handed person, the right side.

Whether you “map” someone as a mother or a child is purely subjective; it does not depend on whether the individual (person or animal) involved is biologically your mother or child. Nor does your perception of that individual depend on whether that individual sees you as a mother or child.

You map relationships of unconditional nurturing (whether you experience yourself as an unconditional receiver of unconditional nurturing or a giver of it) on the non-dominant side of your body, if the conflict is relayed through

• your cerebellum (old mesoderm germ layer). Conflicts of worry or argument about or with someone you perceive as a “mother” or a “child” will relay to the breast glands on your non-dominant side.
• your cerebral medulla (new mesoderm germ layer). Conflicts of devaluation and inability in relation to mother or child will relay to musculoskeletal tissue on your non-dominant side.
• your cerebral cortex (ectoderm germ layer). Conflicts of separation from (or desired separation from) mother or child (including auditory, smell, visual, touch, and taste separation) will produce tissue and functional changes on your non-dominant side. Motor conflicts (the”play-dead” reflex or the “freeze” aspect of fight-flight-freeze) having to do with someone you see as mother or child will cause paralysis and low muscle tone on your non-dominant side.

However, if your conflict is relayed through the pons of your brainstem, your laterality does not matter. Neurological dominance does not affect special biological programs involving the pons of the brainstem.