New Research: Reduce Stress & Find Peace, with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

[@MayimBialik]

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[@JerzeyBird]

The best - and most helpful - conversation on the internet.

[@darcy5823]

The story about the doc touching your toe meant a lot to me. I'm a nurse in long term care and do these little things. I talk to people assuming there stuck inside and need to be "seen". Some days I'm so busy I rush and/or think I'm being too woo-woo. Hearing that story will stick with me and I'll never be too busy to touch a toe again!!!

[@smallhouseinthemeadow6131]

I can't tell you how much I love this Lady. I just ordered her book. After my first bout of Covid four years ago and going off of 36 years of prescribed benzidiazapines, surviving grief from two family suicides and two loved one's cancers and two cats getting eaten by Coyotes,not to mention a crazy past and insane PTSD, I am trying to re-regulate my nervous system. It feels like it is on fire and I feel like I am living in an almost constant hell. Me and my characters are going to read Jill's book and try to find peace. I had two heart attacks and a mini stroke last year(Covid related) and it doesn't escape me how lucky I am. I am so grateful for this beautiful life. I get high off of nature too.

[@tonithomas3022]

I love your mindset. You see the beauty in your life and are grateful even though you’ve had so much heartbreak and health challenges. Your story touched my heart ❤❤

[@lowiep.9258]

All the best to you. You have great courage. Havening Techniques helped me a great deal during something similar. It’s a neurologically based technique used for trauma. Super simple and miraculous. Lots of free videos online.🙏🏻✨

[@smallhouseinthemeadow6131]

@@lowiep.9258 Thank you so much!

[@smallhouseinthemeadow6131]

@@tonithomas3022 Knowing that I touched your heart brings a big smile to my face.I am so happy that I could do that.Thank you!

[@Reece-12345]

Thanks for your comment, I've been struggling with grief for 8 years, you give me hope that I might be able to get some relief and maybe enjoy walks and drives again

[@Miranda_Wilson]

Her saying " I am feeling abandoned... I need your love, I don't need you to question me" Broke me 😢😢😢

[@Mid-Century-Modern-Woman]

I love your podcast and you and Johnathon! These days you are such a ray of sunshine in our world.

[@ActituddeGratitud]

Dr. Jill for President! Make the whole world whole brain living again!🎉👏🏾🙏🏽

[@nancyasaunders]

I can’t find the accurate words to describe how phenomenal this podcast is. I’m sharing it with many people, but don’t know how to share it with the world. Thank you all for the podcast of the century.

[@SoulInquiries]

Mayim, thank you for all you do for humanity. This topic is, in my opinion, THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPIC of ALL time. Everyone in this world is walking around with some sort of trauma that needs to be addressed, whether it's big T or little T trauma, it's absolutely the key to mental, emotional and physical wellness. Lets not even get started with inherited trauma (epigenetics) which only adds to the trauma load. BRAVO MS MAYIM!!!! You are truly using your power for good in the world. ❤️❤️❤️ my respect for you keeps growing and growing.

[@NickUncommon]

Jill Bolte Taylor, was the same age as me, when we both experienced the shutdown of the left parieto occipital lobe. It profoundly changed the outlook on life.

[@Sande-yb3cl]

Massive brain aneurysm in 2016 (best shape of my life) I've still tried to make sense of my depression that happened ever since. Thank you for putting into words that aligned with the new world I'm learning to live. A bit lonely, yet more self-love. Appreciate being able to hear everything she had to explain. I may have been missing my old favorite character, organising. My mind is so connected with the universe now more than ever, yet life got disconnected. Trying to balance.

[@maryannribble3254]

Maliak and Jonathan, At seventy - self educated etc. you share so many subjects and areas f human life and development - as I have been talking ans expressing about , as a deaf woman - which doesn’t and hasn’t gone over with welcome in the “hearing and normal “ world ! You give me hope to formally begin to share more through media and writing - so I can “stop fighting “ within ! This video captures exactly what I discovered ( unknowingly ) when I lost my hearing @ age 2 1/2 years … communication and connection in all its forms - IS WHAT We’re about. Thank You! 💖🌈

[@genealvivergara955]

I've never clicked a notification this fast in my entire life

[@yourock8672]

Same here! Love this channel. I have learned so much here, thank you very much ‼️❤️

[@bliss4glory]

Same!

[@eileenrich6449]

Same here! So exciting to see Jill Bolte Taylor here! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

[@TroyCanDance]

Same. I think I pulled a hamstring in the process…

[@NonyaBizznus]

lol same!

[@tamrahostens1009]

Absolutely one of my favorite episodes as in it touched so significantly as took care of my father after a severe stroke where he learned to walk, talk, eat, dress himself and even drive before a massive stroke during a routine surgery a year later took his life at 59 yrs old, took care of my mother in my home with dementia for 10 years before she died peacefully in her sleep, and took care of my husband with multiple ailments created by a medication that gave him lupus and ultimately killed him. I want that healing connection with my own cells and will continue to learn! I appreciate your program more than I can put into words!❤

[@smallhouseinthemeadow6131]

It is your time now. I pray that you will heal yourself and live a beautiful life.

[@susansnyder2420]

I love Dr. Bolte Taylor’s work!! Thanks Jonathan for asking about what happens after death. It appears that because Dr. Bolte Taylor didn’t die, her framework of consciousness is that it arises from our cellular structure. I haven’t died either but I’ve had enough metaphysical experiences to believe that our physical experience in totality arises from non-physical consciousness. If it didn’t, we couldn’t communicate with the dead. In any case, thank you for the wonderful interview!

[@Lorrieonline]

Fabulous! I've followed Dr. Jill for a while now - love hearing her speak on the brain and neuroscience!

[@Obsidian_Mirror]

Is there anything specific of here that you recommend? Books? Podcast? Thanks

[@Lorrieonline]

@@Obsidian_Mirror Tedx - My Stroke of Insight Hay House Featured an introduction to Whole Brain Living 4 day webinar The Jill Bolte Taylor has loads of videos - "Pain from the Past Belong in the Past - The Brain Bar Salon" is really good too.

[@rachelcoppola3984]

I LOVE your podcast. THIS episode is the absolute BEST EVER. My mind is blown and I am so grateful. Thank you to you and Jonathan for always asking the questions that are on my mind and for navigating the conversations with the utmost respect for the guest, one another and your listeners. Truly…🤯🙏🏻💜

[@slimsonite2111]

"My drug is nature" 🥰 Yep! Mine too these days. I can't get enough. It's extra special when I turn off all devices for a day. Rejuvenating! 🥰

[@vanessawhitneypro]

Oh, my goodness this made my day... Maybe my week... Nope... My entire year. Thank you SO much. I'll look up Dr. Bolte Taylor's writing. I am recovering and moving forward from PTSD... So many things that Dr. Bolte Taylor said really resonated with me.

[@hillbillyherb]

Tripping Ballz indeed. A transcendent spiritual awakening to be sure. The universe works in amazing and mysterious ways 🙏

[@silviasevilla239]

This is so interesting. There was this Buddhist Lama that has a stroke while giving teachings. People noticed that he was speaking differently but he did not stop. He knew that something was happening but he kept teaching till the end. He was paralyzed on his right side but did not stop teachings he died suddenly some years ago. His name was Lama Zopa Rinpoche he was really amazing.

[@marisamartinezolivera]

With my actual hectic life, learning about the four characters and the tools from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor has been the better and much needed thing for me today. Thanks Mayim, JC, guest and MBB team! So, guys out there: SUBSCRIBE!!!

[@GinaTeolis]

What you guys are discussing here is like the work they do at the Monroe Institute with Hemi-Sync, etc. It also kind of reminds me of the work that Dr. Jacobo Grinberg was doing with interhemispherical correlation & the syntergic theory. It is mind-blowing & world changing kind of stuff that I do hope far more people around the world will begin to study! ❤

[@roxannameza390]

This episode is what we all need to pay attention to once in our lifetime. Discussions like these never come across unless we are reading Dr. Bolte Taylor's book. Sooo appreciate her❤. Your wit Mayim is so right on 😅 1:30:27--1:31:52. Thank you!

[@yourock8672]

This is the best channel on KZbin ‼️ Thank y’all very much ❤

[@TheresaDisharoon]

Parts work saved me, but I now remembered this tool. Thanks for the reminder.

[@laurafahey542]

Yep I’m a late bloomer I found my soul mate at age 60 finally a soulmate the others were soulmates yet lessons if course n my last one was a TF no goid for me red flags tons yet i cldnt let go . Kept thinking he wld come bck oh he did . Yet finally I had let go . N literally called in my niw soul mate n he’s so kind loyal , giving n he’d 20 years younger then me yet he’s a grown ass man now 41 lol n has 1 son niw 11 n i luv kids didn’t have a un I luv kids / I lost 2 in uteri .;) n do I get a little boy well he’s very smart all boy lol ❤

[@goodgoodgood321]

My worlds have collided: I love Mayim Bialik, I love Jill Bolte Taylor, I love angel cards, my favourite line in Stroke of Insight is "like a whale gliding through a sea of silent euphoria". Thank you all for this interview!

[@kcook2256]

Wow, talk about timing. Years back I bought her book and loved it. Yesterday I got another copy to gift (Stroke of insight). My mother had a stroke. Also my husband had a brain trauma. Just found out I have had a mild stroke. I started to read the book again. How interesting to hear her on your program. Thanks

[@jenniferdouglas-craig1095]

I love Jill Bolte Taylor so much!!!! I’m so glad she’s on the podcast!!

[@carolh312]

This was an amazing, intriguing and inspirational interview! Jill’s determination and her mother’s determination to reach through to her and not give up. It was a truly fascinating discussion showing how aware she was without the tools to communicate it. Explaining the ‘S’ had not meaning to her as a letter and as a sound stood out for me. That she could get herself out of the unknowing into her beautiful, succinctly authentic and aware being is amazing. An inspiration for us all. ❤

[@JustWestie]

"Skills of distraction" - beautiful. 😎

[@angelaped]

I love Mayim and this channel! Each episode tops the last. Thank you for combining science, spirituality, real life challenges (or 💩rather!), and being sooooo honest, authentic, brilliant, and real. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@slimsonite2111]

I was blown away by her story when I heard it years ago and listened to her book...glad to see her on here 😊

[@donnadevens1897]

JBT is awesome. So great to have the two of you talking about the brain. ❣️

[@hilarykey8189]

I LOVED her book!! My Stroke of Insight is a masterpiece.

[@suerichardson570]

This is an insanely good video! I am so inspired by this woman and what she’s gone through. After a year of a major health crisis, and trying to get my life back on track, I’m newly inspired to see it all in a different light. Thank you so much! ❤

[@PattyDelMonaco]

OUTSTANDING!!! Thank you all so much . Getting the book now 🎉 🙏🏼

[@wednesday55]

I had this experience, too. It occurred to me that language is built upon a false premise of separation. A chair is separate from a table, which is separate from the floor, etc. Every word we use to communicate is based on the illusion of boundaries, definitions, and separations that are entirely fabricated (man-made) and not true to life. The truth is that everything is a part of everything else, and when your ability to speak and think in terms of language is pulled offline, suddenly you see the world as it really is. (And the illusion of your self as separate from everything else disappears as well.) The difficult thing is, once you regain your normal mode of consciousness, you can never accurately communicate the experience, other than to say, "Words cannot express..."

[@luannianke8110]

You and Jonathan did such a great job with this podcast not interrupting/talking over Jill or each other. It was great hearing each party fully express themselves. Very satisfying conversation. MO, USA

[@KBoyd-nm4jt]

This was amazing. I have to say the last part had me tearing up. It touched so close to home. Love your podcast and the amazing people you bring on.

[@louisbonilla6780]

So glad Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor addressed psychedelics something my peers indulge in - I don't trust narcotics unless they are prescribed - great episode Mayim & Jonathan ❤

[@dahVEEDBBone]

Psychedelics are not narcotics (science!). Let google be your friend. Psychedelics should be done with a sitter and afterward do an integration session with a certified mental health professional.

[@louisbonilla6780]

@@dahVEEDBBone Thanks

[@dahVEEDBBone]

@@louisbonilla6780 ​ Abrazos, hermano.

[@orlihimmelweit2105]

Thank you so much for having Jill Bolte Taylor on your podcast.

[@KristenSwain-ye7mb]

My stroke of insight got me through the trauma of the strokes that occurred in my right-side Basil Ganglia in 2012. She's amazing. I gotta check out Whole Brain Living. Dr. Taylor is amazing!!!

[@FidP0908]

One of my favorite TED talks.❤❤❤

[@truelily7]

I discovered Jill B. Taylor a few years ago. I have a dvd in my collection of My Stroke of Insight. I have been on an evolving spiritual path most of my life. But here is my issue. I am 72 years old with late discovered Inattentive ADHD and Dyscalculia. A very artsy, literary and very liberal old counterculture type. How do I navigate these issues using this whole brain living practice? There are many people with my challenges and others like Austism Spectrum, hyper ADHD, and other problems. And what about all the people who are just cut and dried, conservatives who don't go beyond just black and white day to day existence? I haven't read the actual book yet. Perhaps there is my answer-not sure.

[@angelal7733]

Mayim, you’ve got to interview Tim Fletcher from Canada-no one knows Trauma like he does. Please look into him! 🦋

[@Mary_Be93]

So very glad JBT was on the Breakdown! Hearing from Dr Jill a few years back that we have TWO amygdalas (and that those are the gatekeepers between left/right brain comm) was a HUGE a ha for me. And I'm intrigued by how this maps to IFS. The way I see it is that each of JBT's "characters" correspond to the larger groups in IFS. Character 1 are the managers, character 2 the exiles, character 3 the firefighters, and character 4 the Self. What I also like is the idea of bringing ALL to the party. JBT's brain huddle is Dick Schwartz's orchestra. This means having character 4/Self as "orchestra leader" and not solely focusing on living in Self-land being blissed out all the time. I had a spiritualizer part that was relentless on that goal. BTW, I msg'd Dr Jill back then that I see my 4 characters as the 4 daughters in Little Women. Not an exact fit, but very close! 😁

[@SimbaAliaye]

My brother got schizophrenia entering the army Boot Camp experimenting with psychedelics. He was given an honorable discharge and sent home even before Boot Camp ended. He was institutionalized for the rest of his life up until an early death a few years ago.

[@lisastarshine2541]

Such an emotional one. Once again. Thank you thank you thank you. It's like you read my mind mayim every episode❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ValentineGalindo-lc4uz]

At first I had a hard time understanding Dr Taylor until she described the self that was manic and angry and living in the past and lashing out, to the self that suddenly took charge to answer the phone! Yay! I'm not bi-polar! Well... perimenopausal hormones make that questionable...but it was so enlightening to hear that we can do this with purposeful thought! Now to practice this...yikes! What a challenge! When I'm feisty...I'm feisty! LOL...to redirect that to a normal level makes me feel like I'm gonna blow a vein in my brain. 😊

[@ThatBearKat]

I love her talking about the "the void", it really reminds me so much of Da'at.

[@DovetteCross]

I am mentally ill with PTSD as well as bipolar and I take a class called dialectical behavioral therapy which is supposed to help you retrain your brain not to react so strongly to your triggers and therapy called EMDR to try to let go of a lot of the trauma from my past have learned many skills there such as radical acceptance

[@megb9700]

This explanation, of shutting down the left brain to feel oneness with the world, makes me wonder if some people are innately born with easier access that “spiritual “ oneness?

[@slimsonite2111]

I really needed this. WE needed this 🙏🏼

[@jillmacchitelli6473]

What an amazing lady. She is a true inspiration. My character 2 is telling me to get up off the couch and fold my laundry lol. Thanks for another awesome show.

[@Alex-js5lg]

"Hurt people hurt people," as I've heard it put before.

[@nicolecorsillo]

This has blown my mind! Literally the best interview I’ve ever seen! Wow! Thank you, doctors! ❤ Please look into having Dr. Brooke Goldner on!

[@Gd577-q9w]

Hi Mayiiiiiiiiim! I love you! Much hugs! 🫂🎀

[@tracyladams3601]

Bear with me people. This was enlightening and prompted questions. Jill stated that it takes the brain on average of 90 seconds to come back into “character 1”. What about those who have suffered trauma? There are schools of thought that believe that trauma is a physiological affect ( Bessel Van Der Kolk and Stephen Porges) that has limitations when treated from a top- down cognitive level, hence why we are seeing a shift in trauma being treated through somatic modalities. In reference to children, aren’t their character 1’s biologically underdeveloped, therefore less accessible to them for emotional regulation? Isn’t that why they biologically are wired to learn regulation overtime through natural biological processes and how their caregiver reflects their own ability to emotionally regulate? I appreciate Jill’s conceptual model to help shift our understanding and move toward healthier living but it may have limitations for some. We must also acknowledge that the body has intelligence we are just beginning to realize has potentially greater implications when it comes to shifting out of our “character 2”, nervous system part.

[@Pr3stss]

I love Jill Bolte Taylor. So excited about this ep!

[@bombadillo]

I think this way of thinking could be so helpful to me. I’m deep diving into this guest!!

[@SimbaAliaye]

😭😭😭who we are expecting them to be in the moment (unconsciously)! Truth! Coming in at this from a new angle using 1-4💥

[@sheilawiley]

I learned SO much! Wow. ❤

[@adunzoroq33]

Would love to hear Jill converse with Ian McGilchrist, autor of the Master and his Emissary Theres so much wisdom in their approach to how our brains function

[@alexandrawilliams7669]

Please please bring her back to talk about the teenage brain 🙌🏻😍

[@67Star65]

Blessed Be!!! Namaste!! Amen!

[@TenaciousDmitchell]

Thank you for this very interesting subject. I have been a fan of psychology since I was a teenager. About a year ago I had an unusual pain on. I forgot what side of my brain, but it was kind of a sharp pain which I’ve never experienced before and it didn’t last very long thank God I was just wondering what that might’ve been. I’m gonna tell my doctor about it when I schedule my next meeting.

[@iwnunn7999]

Dr Jill speaks like a southern minister.... In tone, inflection, and cadence only of course.

[@yaroslavlevanenko3481]

Dr. Bialik your are very cool! Outstanding example very positive and successful woman in several Great of peoples activity!

[@antoninazablocka2983]

Loved you in the Big Bang, love your work now! Thank you for this amazing interview!

[@Rissa_Clare]

Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

[@SimbaAliaye]

This is going on LOOP. And then a trip to the library!

[@David-281]

Mayim‘s coolness is just something else.!

[@alexandrawilliams7669]

“Trauma is information it’s not meant to be a lifestyle” 🤯

[@jandardenne652]

Incredible! It's like an explanation of life itself. I'm commenting before it ended, but it occurs to me that alcohol totally turns off that character that warns you not to go in the neighbors pool.😅

[@SimbaAliaye]

My sister-in-law’s son experimented with psychedelics in freshman year of college and was forced to leave due to a psychotic episode. Progressed to the point where he murdered his father-gruesome. His aunt had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. It’s abhorrent that no medical staff had ever warned him never to experiment with drugs given his family history.

[@CricketWorlddaily12345]

Great and informative episode, Mayim! Loved it! ❤️

[@sarajoy6748]

Yes..yes…yes….Thank you so much !

[@DovetteCross]

Love watching your show you and Jonathan are hilarious and have so many different levels to each other and your guests amazing thank you for the show

[@divineunion]

Oh my god i have been hoping for this.. i am sick but once better will watch.

[@jeffdahlman8581]

THE GREATEST episode ever - I have watched this 3 times over the week - the absolute joy in your face Mayim when talking with Jill is so infectious - I love Jills enthusiasm when talking about her learned experience. ALOT that we can all learn from !!

[@delphinidin]

Okay, this is interesting synthesizing this with my parts work in therapy. I have a part who is usually a little girl, and her two modes are 1) freaking out and 2) doing art/play. So according to Dr. Bolte Taylor's parts, it's the two emotional sides of my brain: characters 2 (trauma) and 3 (flow state). It's interesting that lately, since my mental health has been better, Character 3 has been presenting, not as a little girl, but as a more mature person (teen? early twenties?). It's almost like Character 1 is mixing with Character 3 to make me more rational and better adjusted emotionally lol // It also sounds like Character 3 is what happy-hypomania felt like for me (as opposite to anxious-hypomania). In the moment, experimenting, enjoying, not giving a single shit about what anybody thinks of me (Character 1).

[@sherrilawrence662]

Jonathan I love that sweater/ sweatshirt. And I love this podcast. You bring out the best of Mayim and guests! ❤ at least that is my humble opinion from listening to this great podcast 👏 with so so many cool and interesting topics and guests!

[@orland0110]

Your channel is amazing! I really enjoyed this particular episode! Both you, Mayim and Jonathan, are awesome! ❤

[@cheryljacobson1429]

Best interview ever thanks

[@JackieOelke-wi7ld]

This is amazing. I needed this now more than ever.

[@Shelleyb4028]

Fantastic episode and amazing guest!! Thank you ❤

[@allalone1461]

omg i learned so so so much. and yes the best channel thank you Dr. Bialik and thank you John and thank you Jill, going to get that book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@allalone1461]

DR. JILL*

[@Sketcher93]

I have read both of your books Jill and I'm glued to you wherever you appear. So fascinating to hear you speak. I have a serious question. In your statement about your brother who ended up with a lifetime of schizophrenia "because"... (cause from) He dabbled with these drugs as a teenager. I've never seen the evidence that would support this and if there is evidence of it please share it with me. It's fascinating. I have the same questions about my brother's dabbling and then becoming schizophrenic but millions of others who aren't dabbling also become schizophrenic. Please State anything you know in this area of study. ❤️🥰

[@thegrayfortress8788]

Book ordered. Thank you for this interview and every other.

[@suzannerego5776]

As usual, a great show! Dr Jill sounds like the adult version of 'Inside Out' - love it!

[@Tygo423]

On my goodness!!! I dreamt of this interview with both of you!

[@ranahammad5165]

This was truly inspiring and worth the 2 somthing hours i spent listening to it ❤ 😅

[@christinakoch2738]

Great episode, Mayim! ❤️

[@kslinaz5668]

People who get stuck in whatever, including meditation practice, it's their attachment to expectation. Learning to let go of that expectation is the key.❤🎉🪇

[@nellebuhrmann5343]

I must say - I was lying down, closing my eyes and aiting distress by just listening to her voice NOT!!!😂😵‍💫 I will definitely listen to it though.

[@rainbowtravelingyogi]

Loved this, love her ❤also, my brother also became schizophrenic from using pot and shrooms as a teenager. The version of himself before no longer exists.

[@patreeseeahhh1606]

When science & spirituality collide 👀! Jill Bolte Taylor & Michael Singer seem to have very similar life experiences 😌 explained a little differently 😄

[@sherrilawrence662]

LOVE LOVE LOVE your podcasts ❤

[@slimsonite2111]

1:26:56 "Wee! Ive got little toes" 😆🥰