I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.
Jill Bolte TaylorI have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.
Jill Bolte TaylorOur right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.
Jill Bolte TaylorI'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.
Jill Bolte TaylorFrom watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.
Jill Bolte Taylor