Stroke of Insight

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“I grew up to study the brain,” says Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor. “Because I have a brother who has been diagnosed with a brain disorder schizophrenia.” This is the reason why she dedicated her career to research severe mental illnesses. And she moved to Boston from Indiana, started to work in Harvard, Department of Psychiatry. At that time they were researching the biological differences between the brains of individuals. She was one of the researchers but on the other hand she used to travel on weekends as an advocate of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).
December 10, 1996 she woke up to discover that she had a brain disorder of her own. A blood vessel exploded in the left half of her brain. Then Dr. Jill talks about the different characteristics in the left and right hemispheres. Like she states that our right hemisphere is all about present moment. It thinks and learns Information, in the form of energy, streams simultaneously through all of our sensor systems. However our left hemisphere is a very different place. It thinks linearly and methodically. It thinks in language and also it’s that ongoing brain chatter that connects us and our internal world to our external world.
Dr.Jill woke up with a pain behind her left eye. She didn’t care about it; at first she thought it will get better. Then she started her daily exercise, and realizes that she is losing her consciousness. She tried to go to the shower but she lost her balance. She wasn’t able to identify the boundaries of her body, she felt enormous and expansive. Then her left hemisphere came back online so she realized that something was wrong. Her right hand got paralyzed. She figured that she was having a stroke. Somehow she found her business card and called the office. Even the guy on the phone was not able to understand her (also she wasn’t able to understand him), he figured that something was wrong with Dr.Jill.
She says when I woke up I was shocked to discover that I was still alive. And she also says she found nirvana, she thought there was no way to get back inside of her tiny little body. I was really amazed during the whole video. The way she describes her feelings is perfect and makes you feel, imagine her whole experience. This quote took my attention “But then I realized, but I’m still alive! I’m still alive, and I have found Nirvana. And if I have found Nirvana and I’m still alive, then everyone who is alive can find nirvana.” It took her eight years to fully recover. But now she is on stages and telling people her breath-taking story from a scientist’s perspective.
We have power to choose who and how we want to be in the world (right hemisphere: force power of the universe, left hemisphere: an individual, a solid).At the end of the video she asks which one do you choose? I choose to be a force power of the universe. I know that I’m a part of those huge flooding energy particles. And it makes me feel good when I think about it. I’m not alone; I’m a part of this whole cosmic universe. However there are billions of fools out there who choose to be an individual (all the time). In my opinion those are the ones who got trapped within this capitalist world. Their numbers are getting greater every single day. They are helpless. Those are the ones who forget the reason of life. We are a fluke of the universe we are here because our ancestors tried really hard and they survived. And the reason of why we live is “to be happy”. (I mean to live, love, laugh, get drunk, have sex, get married, procreate etc.) Not to own this whole world or get as rich as we can by working for hours and taking benefit of this capitalist system. I think they are all meaningless if we really think about what Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor has lived and what she is telling us. “I believe that more time we spend choosing to run deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and more peaceful our planet will be” Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor.




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