Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
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Stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor on TED
on Oct 16 in Medicine, Movement, Psychology, Science, Wisdom, Wisdom Current tagged Balance, Science, Ted, The Brain, Wisdom by David Sunshine
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David Sunshine has passionately pursued yoga and Eastern Philosophy throughout his life. He visits India regularly and has had the opportunity to meet and study under a number of great teachers and luminaries such as Ramanand Patel, BKS Iyengar, TKV Desikachar, and H.H. The Dalai Lama. For the past 14 years David has owned and directed the Dallas Yoga Center and recently he has created a gorgeous healing oasis retreat called the DYC Holistic Wellness Center.
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Love this! Truly one of the best videos freely available on the web, in my opinion. I saw Taylor's TED talk for the first time a couple years ago, and I've probably rewatched it another dozen or so times since then– especially when I'm feeling hopeless or lost. Her "stroke of insight" reminds me that it's often the darkest, most frightening moments of our lives that give birth to the light we carry out into the world. Thank you for sharing, David.
This is amazing. Beautiful, and moving. "Becoming an infant in a woman’s body…people purposely choosing to step to the right of their left hemispheres and find their Nirvana…"
This "ode" to the right hemisphere, to the "here and now", to a space with no past, no future, no mind, reminds me of when we language teachers strive to help our adult learners forget they are "thinking beings" for a while, and acquire the new language as if they were children: holistically, globally, emotionally, creatively, kinesthetically. Letting their approach to the new language be guided by their right hemisphere first, and become more analytic and logic only at a later stage.
I’m not sure there is just one single, "most appropriate" way of "becoming infants in our adults’ bodies", of "choosing to step to the right of our left hemispheres and find our Nirvana", but I think a deeper focus on (and love of!) our body, a deeper awareness of our physical sensations – as it occurs in yoga, in dance, or in every move we take every day in our lives – may be a simple, beautiful way to cherish our "here and now"… and our often neglected right hemispheres!