Jill Bolte Taylor Discusses Her “Stroke of Insight”
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If you haven’t already read Mother Hen’s fascinating post, Finding Your Bliss, you should. Aside from containing some excellent photographs, Mother Hen’s post explores the no-mind state of complete awareness, and how being able to access that state we become connected to the ever-present now, and possibly what can be nominated, our Buddha nature.
In the post, Finding Your Bliss, Mother Hen quotes Jill Bolte Taylor, a nuero-anatomist, who suffered a stroke, and then fully recovered. Something extraordinary happened to Taylor as a result of the stroke that befell her.
Thanks to MMA’s Holte Ender for bringing this video presentation to my attention in the comments below the article, Finding Your Bliss.
Mother Hen
September 20, 2010 at 5:18 pm
I think it is most profound how, once she learned how to do it, she became able to go to the “happy place” so easily after her stroke. Some people work all their lives toward getting a moment of happiness. Perhaps they are trying too hard. Once you watch the video, you can see how a person with OCD might NEVER find bliss!
(Show and tell with real human brains are usually reserved only for zombie buffets.)
The Lawyer
September 20, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I thought you would like the brains. OCD would be hell. There are two times in my life that my racing left brain about drove me nuts. When I was a teenager. I started meditating and it all came together for me. Then again when I was about 35. I about drove myself mad, until I started meditating again. In fact, when was mowing lawns I would make a point of just mowing–no thinking.
fourdinners
September 20, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Personally I find my happy place about half way down a bottle of vodka.
Not ideal perhaps but preferable to a stroke….
Remarkable lady!
Krell
September 21, 2010 at 6:02 am
She is a very good public speaker on a fascinating subject. I admire her a lot.