Stoke & Transformation | Jill Bolte Taylor, Part 9 of 12

Oprah's Soul Series. 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. 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. She's now an artist as well as a scientist, creating anatomically correct stained-glass replicas of brains that are sold as fine art. She's also published My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey . The book explains in scientific detail exactly what happened during Jill's stroke and how she recovered. It also takes a closer look at how the right hemisphere of the brain works and how Jill says people with normal brains can access it to find their own inner peace and improve their quality of life and the lives of others.

Read: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0031MA7RA?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwdramat-20&... "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey."

Read: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452289963?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwdramat-20&... "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose."


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[chicolofi]

"Pay attention to what you're thinking. You are not your thoughts. Your thoughts are created by a tiny, tiny little group of cells about the size of a peanut sitting in your left hemisphere, and many of us let that little peanut rule our lives. And you have to recognize that it's just a group of cells that is designed to tell stories, so that we feel safe in the external world".

[AcidProblemChild]

7:50 "unless I take some kind of drug"

I normally really don't like this word, but:

DUH!

People aren't talking gibberish when they speak of transcendent experiences whilst on drugs you know.

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is just energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all just one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."

[chicolofi]

"The thing about cells is that the more you let them do what they do, the more they do it without you having to tell them to do it".

[jarhead540]

New meaning to the phrase "Peanut gallery"

[mistermarcus07]

A lot of this stuff is very "perfect world" & easier said than done, & impractical.

Take a person who has just been savagely attacked by a dog. Then try telling them not to feel fear and anxiety in a week or so around dogs, because it is in the past, and the past "has no power over the present moment of now". Of course past events have power over the present moment. Many incidents have long lasting effects. Try telling someone who has just been left by a lover not to "run sad circuitry". As if

[Nautilus1972]

@Vittoria10538 Exactly. We create our own universe. We can't help how we feel sometimes, but we can choose not to be a slave to those feelings, and choose to feel better by building better circuits.

[lamin14]

some left brain clown disliked this ...

[Vittoria10538]

The idea that keeps occurring to me is that the "me" that decides whether or not to run certain circuitry is obviously not a PART of that circuitry; i.e., "I" am not my brain. I am she who decides what my brain will think. As Deepak would say, I am not my thoughts. I am the thinker of my thoughts.

[mckinlsa]

this lady is so smart

[Truthchanji]

中阴身