After Reading This Article, You Won’t See Your Brain The Same Way
These are surprising facts, great discoveries that stir us up and divide our lives between a before and an after, and which have the power to make us grow.
In this article, we’re going to walk you through a story that has all the right ingredients to make you feel like you’ve experienced one of those moments after hearing it.
This is the revealing lecture by neurologist and doctor from Harvard University (USA) Jill Bolte Taylor.
This talk explains some things to us about the brain and the difference between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere with a real brain present on the stage.
She makes many people in the audience laugh because she tells us about her incredible experience.
Jill decided to study neuroanatomy because her brother suffered from schizophrenia and she wanted to know, understand, what was going on between a “normal” brain and a brain affected by a mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Who was going to tell her that one day she would wake up with a strange sensation that turned out to be a stroke, from which she would not fully recover until eight years later?
In a fun way, she explains to us the clear symptoms that identify a stroke.
If you pay attention to her speech, she tells us intelligibly what happened to her and how she felt when she woke up.
It was like altered consciousness and sudden confusion, sudden loss of strength in an arm or leg, difficulty speaking, loss of vision, severe headaches, loss of balance and coordination, difficulty walking and tingling.
Jill tells us how her left hemisphere became disconnected, how she lost perception of reality, and how her right hemisphere gave her a sense of peace and happiness, which she herself qualifies as Nirvana.
It was incredible and for her it was a revealing, mystical and profound experience that she had to relate to the world.
So her stress was gone, as were her worries and to her surprise, she had a silent brain that didn’t bother her.
Losing 37 years of emotional charge is so liberating!
After this experience, Jill invites us to be masters of our lives, without complicating ourselves too much, to disconnect our left hemisphere, because we have the power to disconnect!
Between laughter and tears Jill really manages to move us and make us think about the true meaning of life.
She is leading thinking about how sometimes we need a warning to realize how lucky we are …
Regarding this article and this eye-opening lecture, I would like to humbly encourage you to view this video if you have had a stroke or a member of your family has had a stroke.
Talk with your loved ones fear you felt or how you feel again, by expressing frankly crying if you need it and by relying on the shoulder of a friend, because there is always someone ready to help and understand you.
