Her Stroke of Insight & How the Brain Works - Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. | The FitMind Podcast

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist and author with the 7th most viewed TED talk of all time, titled "My Stroke of Insight." She's been named by Time Magazine on a list of the 100 most influential people in the world and was the first guest on Oprah's SoulSeries show.
Dr. Taylor founded the nonprofit Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc. and is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center. She received a Ph.D. with postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. She's also the author of the bestselling book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists' Personal Journey.
In this episode, we talk about the brain hemorrhage that led to her stroke of insight and one of the most viewed TED talks of all time, her tips for taking control of our brains, how the brain works, the 90 second rule for emotions, becoming your best self, and how consciousness works.
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[@AnneBinning_VibrationalFitness]

Dr. Bolte Taylor had a near death experience. In order for her to be able to come back to this physical dimension, she had to change and that's what I'm hearing. She's a walking miracle. She wasn't finished doing what she came here to do. Yes, very powerful. She's more her true Self.

[@Yen486]

Amazing and powerful talk, thank you!

[@mollypinto4666]

Thank you both for this wonderfully informative podcast. Drm Jill...bless you for breaking it all down for us🙏💗🙏

[@sarahb112]

This is the most useful podcast I’ve heard from Dr Taylor for me. Helped me tremendously! Thank you both for this interaction. Invaluable information.

[@TheMtpleasantbc]

I’m recovering from a massive cask ganglia bleed,yiy give me hope, thsbk you!❤️

[@Domilo]

Jill, you are fantastic! Many thanks for all...

[@sandramccarl3459]

Thank you...I am dealing with a virus in my vestibular system and will need to rework my brain for balance. I have hope now!!!

[@catheybottiau6365]

Brilliant and fantastic. Thank you. ❤ Thinking about the left brain that contains our identity and files on who we are, but how many of those files are corrupted from birth on. Starting with ancestral genetics and belief systems to how one was raised, friends, schools, work influence, abuse or encouragement, we are not who we really are and how do you find out who you really are? Enters the right brain to help ground us, find a deeper part of ourselves even in it's expansivesess? What part of the brain is the subconscious considered, where changes can be made to left brain programming?

[@Pam74055]

Love her message and her dedication to helping humanity

[@ginaiosef]

I love this lady!!! ❤ Thank you

[@arthurthomasware5004]

If you can impartially observe the sensation generated by a thought for those 90 seconds, it would seem that the emotion generated by that thought will not be recorded as a 'sankara' within the mind-body. It will not be added to those already held within. This, it seems to me, is an important aspect of Vipassana Meditation. The other aspect is to systematically and gradually ameliorate what is already held within until all these deposits are gone. From my own experience of 37 years in this practice, it looks like it takes a long while.

[@Domilo]

Can we imagine that certain forms of autism are an attenuation of the left hemisphere in favor of the right? (or vice versa for others?)

[@davidb9166]

The stroke affected her left brain leaving her in a state of living in the "now". I wonder what would have happened if the stroke affected the right brain instead.

[@19battlehill]

I am interested in how she learned color and perception ----- what did she see before her mother taught her this????????????

[@deepdiver849]

The new definition of PhD for Jill: Passed hemorrhage with Divine Insight :)

[@mariemonn8912]

She couldn’t said it any simpler ..And once you understand this is your moral responsibility to renew the mind into Christ consciousness which means of kindness of compassion a peacefulness of loving nonjudgmental and empathy for each other

[@helicart]

Jill is not a clinician and never has been. If she had, she would understand pathology better, and the high variability in outcomes of brain insults. 1. In her case, she had a bleed of an AVM, which is an hemorrhagic stroke. These make up around 13% of all strokes. Most strokes are ischemic strokes, which means an artery gets blocked by a clot or clot material from elsewhere in the body. Bleeds are universally less damaging than ischemic strokes. Why? Because oxygen delivery to brain cells is more severely impaired when an artery is blocked. With a bleed, there is still some flow beyond the bleed so brain cells beyond the bleed do not die as quickly. Anyone who has worked in hospitals with acute and chronic strokes realizes the gross generalization and inappropriateness of Jill's message. 2. Many brain regions are very specialized, and have no capacity for plasticity or regeneration. If these are damaged, there is essentially zero capacity to regain the function lost. This is especially so with strokes. Why? because strokes tend to hit deep white matter which are concentrated signal transfer pathways. i.e. branches of the middle cerebral artery called the lenticulostriate arteries get damaged with chronic hypertension leading to lacunar infarcts, which kills surrounding white matter tracts permanently. People should worry less about what Jill has, and reduce the probability of having brain injury. You do this by eating a healthy diet and hydrating well, and avoiding excessive stress. It is hypertension that causes the lion's share of brain injuries from strokes, in addition to heart attacks. This occurs in conjunction with atherosclerosis, thickening of arteries due to a rubbish diet. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans are too educated to eat healthy despite the health advantages.

[@lovedivasong]

I wonder if she has had that experience again?

[@lovedivasong]

@Tararyze 11 Yeah, I was not refering to the stroke (sorry that wasn't clear) I was mostly asking if she has had the experience of being in "la la land" swiming in the sea of conciousness again? I have had similar experiences like the ones she has described in her TED Talk with mushrooms... so I wonder if she has had it again, maybe thru meditation, slow living, mindfullness, a substance, etc.? Or is she there all the time now that she has had the experience and can revisit it.

[@jindhamma5451]

phassa sati vedanā hoti, phassa uppādā vedanā uppajjati. [ Pali texts ] When there is contact feeling is , with contact as arising, feeling arise. [ English ] Jill : So right now you can stop and think about taxes. How did that feel in your body? Oprah : Not so good... Jill : Exactly

[@mysticoversoul]

Ummm. Quite a cute dude.

[@davidleesn]

It is a pity that she shouts like many loud Americans as if there isn't enough time to let the whole world know her world (ego?).. her aha !best self (that she had discovered) !.. [ celebrating with her 2nd book coming...!] ...unlike your more acceptable sound( without shouting, beautiful)...!! No wonder she needs her wise choice of boathouse, nature and the silence that goes with those to balance her rather frantic 90 seconds rule -- conscious living...! It is one step nearer to breathing and sleeping like the dolphins that you have picked up !?! It may need another life time for her to hear the relaxation 鬆 with deeper breathing ...right to those trusty brain cells she is celebrating... without which ...(while it had fuelled her to achieve her brilliant academic career etc ....). the stress also contributed to the revealing insightful stroke in the first place ??! Life is such a paradox ! I hope not ... that she will, if she hasn't found it already.... find yoga, qigong, meditation to enlarge her contemplation of nature to a better paced speech and posture as well as life. When she can see the unifying spiral... (of the 2 brain hemispheres) one side opening, the other side focussing into a detail with the centre of the spiral HAVING the same trajectory of THE CHOSEN DIRECTION OF THIS MOMENT. .. of thought to emotion to physical response (even in the very subdued body language...nuanced ! or endeavoured to suppress even!), all done at the speed of electricity that feels 'immediately' to us humans.

[@KK-qd6ro]

@davidlessn What if you where to see this lady as a mirror? And the things you see are your reflections? Now don't go off at me before you take the 90 seconds to read the rest. What if we make that mirror idea true for us?What if i put a mirror up to you? I see someone who is angry about the way someone is talking(not necessarily what she is saying because you did take the time to listen and respond) What does that reflect for me ? I am afraid to speak my truth because i might be judged.So I thank you for your post and the opportunity to get my response to people under control (more than one 90 second cycle this time ; ) I hope you can see the "good" in people and use the "Bad" you see to help you see more "good".