Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor @DrJBT on #SuperSoulSunday

I just love Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. I think she's what sparked my interest in brain books. If you don't know her, she's a Harvard neuroanatomist who had a stroke and lost the use of her left brain.

You know what that does? Turns a scientist into an artist. She suddenly has lost the ability to "reason" and everything is right brain, and how does this feel??

So if she KNEW, from her right brain that a doctor or medical expert didn't really want to help her. Ie., she felt their disinterest, she didn't want them anywhere near her.

She learned there were two kinds of people. "People who bring you energy and people who take your energy away."

This book, "Stroke of Insight" was so life-changing to me, because I learned that I am SOOO right-brained and when you bring me your bad energy, it will suck me dry.

She said she really needed people to be responsible for the energy they brought with them. I TOTALLY need that too, and I did not have a stroke.

Dr. Taylor continues to work with NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness) as her brother has schizophrenia and speak up for those who suffer from brain injury. That is SERIOUSLY using all the negative in your life for good. Can you imagine if you had to start your entire life all over again at 37? She is so my hero.

Read more on her here:

http://www.oprah.com/own-supersoulsunday/blogs/Dr-Jill-Bolte-Taylor-Peace-of-Mind

Comments

[Tonya]

i saw her on Oprah & was fascinated! Yesterday, I saw a thing with Dr Meg Jay who wrote "the defining decade" and talks about how our brain works in our 20s & how it sets up the rest of our life. That was super interesting too.

[Tony]

It's stories like this that remind me of how lacking our theories on personality are. Our brain has the physical "equipment" to use both yet we tend to favor one or the other and that comes out in how we view life. My question would be why does our brain choose to use one side over another be it a biological predisposition or do we have a say in the matter.

[Kristin Billerbeck]

Her book claims we do with practice.

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