Amazing must see video

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Here's the description-

" Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte had an opportunity few brain

scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a

massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip

away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and

remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains

define us and connect us to the world and to one another "

Lots of insights on living mindfully; scientifically for me. I love

this story, and it's very moving and inspiring.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

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I found this video remarkable.

You have to watch the video for the following remarks to make any

sense; ergo, if you haven't watched the video, just breeze on by. If

you have watched the video, the following may not make any sense

anyway. <<smile>>

I mean no disrespect by my comments.

's experience reminds me of when I used to drink and drug.

Then, and only then, could I escape myself, or as she expresses it,

escape my serial processor or left hemisphere of my brain.

With the chatter silent, or at least quieted, I could perceive the now

and perceive in a parallel (i.e., simultaneous) process with minimum

conceptualization the beauty of all that which my senses perceived,

and I could experience our oneness as people--our beautiful

commonality--as well as our wonderful distinctions without judgment.

Since I got gave up drug 23 years ago, I've been a captive by my left

hemisphere. Always conceptualizing with language--always reminiscing,

always projecting, rarely in the now. I am a captive. Who imprisons

me? I do. Then why am I not free?

There's an old 12-step joke about a prisoner in a cell with a jailer

outside the door. Whenever it's opened, the prisoner rushes the door,

but the jailer clubs the prisoner in the head and throws him back into

the cell. This happens over and over and over . . . . One day the

door is open, and the jailer is not outside. The prisoner rushes the

door, grabs the club, hits himself over the head, and throws himself

back into the cell.

Regardless of the handicap of conceptualization and language, I'm at

least sober and alive and not in jail or institutionalized, and I have

yet another opportunity at this point in my life to change the

emphasis of my life.

" I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner

peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will

project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I

thought that was an idea worth spreading. " --Jill Bolte

Thank you, Ms. , and thank you, Shayla Kaye.