How Whole Brain Living Can Increase Your Emotional Wellness with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
What if, one day, you suddenly couldn’t do basic things or recall a single thing about your life?
At the age of 37, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a hemorrhage in the left side of her brain that left her without the ability to walk, speak, read, write, or remember anything about herself. It took her eight years to recover.
Now, she’s an author and advocate for teaching us that we can all recover from neurological and emotional trauma like she did. And she’s here today to discuss how you can increase your emotional wellness through Whole Brain Living and The BRAIN Huddle.
In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll learn about the four characters within the thinking and emotional sides of our brains and how they each exhibit a personality that creates a dynamic relationship within you as well as with other people. Dr. Taylor will also discuss how huddling these characters together helps you make decisions.
5:04 - What is Whole Brain Living? Dr. Taylor explains the four characters that drive our life
8:42 - How I approach the first two characters and how character #2 impacts the first
18:30 - Dr. Taylor explains her first and second characters (Helen and Abby) and how all four characters represent your choices
23:52 - The difference between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the effect of trauma to the left side, and how free will plays into your choices
30:41 - The consequences of character #3, Dr. Taylor’s third character (Pig-Pen), and what character #4 is
38:43 - Being feeling creatures who think and how the left and right hemispheres affect humanity in relationship to one another
47:43 - Clarification on my character #3 and Buddha’s real gift
58:43 - Dr. Taylor explains what the BRAIN Huddle is and how it works
About Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist, who experienced a major hemorrhage in the LEFT half of her brain at the age of 37. On the afternoon of the STROKE, Dr. Jill could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. It took eight years for her to completely rebuild her brain from the inside out. Now, she is a powerful voice for how we each can increase our emotional wellness. She is an international advocate for neuroplasticity, and teaches us that we each have the power to recover from neurological and emotional trauma. Through the practice of Whole Brain Living and the BRAIN Huddle, peace is just a thought away.
Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choices and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.