Sentence-Summary: My Stroke Of Insight teaches you how to calm yourself anytime by simply tuning into the inherent peacefulness of the right side of the brain. Rather than debilitating her, the left-sided stroke and resulting brain damage revealed to Taylor the power of the unharmed right side of her brain.

Without knowing who you are, you have no data about your life beyond the present moment experience of being hungry or being tired or being in awe.They also suggest making sure there are opportunities for restful sleep, serving appetizing foods, and encouraging patients to move around when possible. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. You know from the beginning of this book that Taylor must have recovered reasonably well from her stroke.

As our higher cortical cells mature and become integrated in complex networks with other neurons, we gain the ability to take "new pictures" of the present moment. This is an x-ray used to see the blood vessels in the brain so that the doctor can understand what type of stroke they’re dealing with and treat the patient accordingly. Taylor’s brain injury caused her to have a spiritual experience in which she felt connected to everything around her.By breathing deeply and repeating the phrase In this moment I reclaim my JOY or In this moment I am perfect, whole and beautiful, or I am an innocent and peaceful child of the universe, I shift back into the consciousness of my right mind. I think part of that was because I had already been a competent human being — and so I knew the rewards of being a competent human being. It was an enormous workout, but it was a fantastic exercise in pushing my brain to its highest capacity. Via our left hemisphere language centers, our mind speaks to us constantly, a phenomenon I refer to as “brain chatter. When I left the hospital after the stroke, my neurologist said to me, “We won’t know anything for a couple of years.

This has led to disruptions that can lead to stressors such as noise pollution, lack of privacy and consideration for incapacitated patients. Firstly, she realized the importance of being surrounded by others who believed in her recovery and treated her accordingly.For some, our dialogue of brain chatter runs so fast that we can barely keep up with what we are thinking. I find that using repetitious sound patterns such as mantra (which literally means “place to rest the mind”) is very helpful. Since everything is connected, there is an intimate relationship between the atomic space around and within me, and the atomic space around and within you - regardless of where we are.