Stroke of Insight in Silent Euphoria

We must "Step to the Right" of your left hemisphere brain chatter in order to live a more balanced life.

When she was a young girl, brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor became fascinated with the functions of the human brain. Jill, one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2008, has a brother with schizophrenia, and his brain disorder led Jill to dedicate her career to studying severe mental illnesses as a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist. While she worked to uncover the differences between the brains of people born with mental illnesses and those who were not, something remarkable happened to Jill's own brain—it went silent.

On December 10, 1996, at age 37, Jill awoke with intense pain behind her left eye—a blood vessel had exploded in the left hemisphere of her brain and she was having a stroke. Within hours, Jill could no longer walk, talk, read or write. While Jill struggled to phone for help, she was aware that the left hemisphere of her brain was shutting down, taking with it her language, organizing and other analytical skills. Without the dominant left side of her brain controlling her thoughts, Jill says her mind went silent, leaving only the right side of the brain functioning. Through the right side of her brain, Jill says her consciousness shifted away from reality—and the trauma her body was suffering through—and into a place of inner peace and Nirvana.

The experience was life-changing. Not only did Jill face years of recovery after her stroke—and major brain surgery to remove a large blood clot in her brain—she also discovered a better quality of life through increased use of the right hemisphere of her brain.

Information in the form of energy
Streams in simultaneously
Through all of our sensory systems

And then it explodes into this enormous collage
Of what this present moment looks like
What it feels like
And what it sounds like

And then it explodes into this enormous collage
And in this moment we are perfect
We are whole and we are beautiful

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❤╚═╝❤╚═╝❤╚═╝❤╚═╝❤

:-) Zack

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ode to the Brain
• stroke of insight
• cognitive mind
• jill bolte taylor
• enlightenment
• out of body experience

[Sonnito]

I'd seen and heard this talk once before, I was re-moved and re-affected, again. What an incredible story she shares with us. What a magnificent and priviledged woman to recognize the unique opportunity she found to convey this simultaneously horrific and enlightening experience in such an inspiring way. To take such an obvious tragedy and convert it into a universal act of love.

[zackcovell]

@Sonnito Love is not a word...it's an energy. I feel blessed to have watched this story too.

[DithyrambTheatre]

That was deeply moving and emotionally stimulating - thank you for sharing.

[opalheart98]

I feel so much closer to my mind after seeing this... it's amazing how insightful she is. Is a stroke really all we as people need to become closer to our actual beings? I always think that if we cannot connect with others, a good place to start is connecting through yourself. What is what you give but part of yourself?

[2013JOHN]

PURE AWSOME!

[rhiyanaholiday]

Thank you Zack for sharing this. It just goes to show that cognitive thought doesn't take place in the brain. The brain is just the router to our higher, energetic being.

[targetisfun]

theres no way you wouldn't believe in a God after this! WOW.It proves just the scientifical part, that it's TOO much science for there NOT to be a God! Everything is just perfect in it's place.Thanks for sharing best speech/testamonie I've herd from a scientist :)

[galaxything]

So, david icke isn't nuts after all ;)

[DarkEierLight]

My Goddess.... these words.....

[InfinitExpanse]

speechless... thank you for uploading Zack