I am sure you have all seen this by now – the video with Jill Bolte Taylor. I’ve rec’d at least 20 emails from different people telling me to watch it (thank you!) and it’s all over the internet, but just in case you have not seen or heard about this yet, it’s very interesting.
“Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.”
You can read the transcript of Jill’s talk or you can watch a video
thank you for sharing! WOW!
Thanks, Lisa, for posting this. This was VERY interesting.
Thanks Lisa. That was an AWESOME video. I wonder if Oprah has seen it. It is so relevant to what she is doing with Eckhart, as well as ACIM. The right brain (NOW) and left brain (ego) explanation was fascinating. I litteraly got chills when she described how with only her right brain functioning, she could see how everything was pure enerygy and how she could not tell where her body stopped and other “forms” started. Funny, people sometimes tell me I only have half a brain. I WISH.
Thank you for that. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight is one of the most incredible stories I’ve heard in a long time. Her TEDTalk video blew my mind wide open to new possibilities. On the one hand, there’s what she went through and how she emerged from it. On the other hand, there’s what she can teach all of us.
I saw the 4 part Oprah interview on Oprah dot com Soul Series and I did learn a lot from that, but I’d like to find our more of how to do what Dr. Taylor did, without having a stroke of course!
Thin how many of us are living too much in the head, and not the heart. And of course, you can’t get more left brain than a Harvard Brain Scientist. Isn’t it ironic that she should be the one to have the stroke and transform from the quintessential left brainer into this “”seen the light”" disciple of finding inner peace?
I hope this movement keeps going. Maybe there will be My Stroke of Insight classes where we can practice what Jill Bolte Taylor is preaching.
MY STROKE OF INSIGHT was ranked #5 in all books sold on Amazon today and #1 in Memoirs above even Barbara Walters’ memoir. Babs had been promoting her book for months in advance and Dr. Taylor’s book was self-published.
Then Oprah recommended it. There’s the Power of Now, and then there’s the Power of Oprah!!
“My Stroke of Insight” is out in Hardcover now for less than the old paperback edition. Amazon has it for 40% off.