Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist at Harvard who had a massive left-hemisphere stroke. In the two videos below she explains how the stroke left her in a state of right-brain facilitated bliss, and how she struggled for 8 years to regain the use of her left brain hemisphere. Streaming video feed
from the Canadian Broadcasting Company of the 2009 piece Stroke
of Insight Streaming video feed from the TED website of Jill
Bolte Taylor's 2008 TED Conference Talk The CBC video goes more deeply into the recovery process, the TED video more deeply into the neurology.
In these videos, her book My Stroke of Insight, and her public lectures she notes that we all have a similar right brain hemisphere, and she encourages us to enter this state of always-available inner peace and happiness. Many meditative practices are designed to help us do this by quieting the active, thinking, planning, noisy left brain hemisphere. |