Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight (Ted Talks 2008)

This is a lively and fascinating video I saw before. Every time a friend has a stroke, I recall Jill Bolte Taylor's 18 minute message and I search it out on Ted Talks (www.ted.com) . I'm sharing it here and now as I think of a friend recovering from a stroke:


2 comments:

Jim said...

Well now, isn't that intresting. I wonder if that state of seprateness might be achieved through meditdtion. I have always thought my brain talked to it's self much to my discomfort. Usually one saying to another 'what the hell are you doing'. I suppose some expermental meditation might be in order, if I can work out how to do it. Jim

Pat Klemme said...

I have a hard time with purposeful meditation and I think it is due more to sheer laziness than anything else. I can relate to her sense of oneness or wholeness with the universe at the twilight between wakefulness and sleep. If I think about it as I'm going to sleep, I really feel it. I really sleep better when I do that, too!