Posted by Helen on: 09.10.2008 /
I enjoyed Cathleen Falsani’s post Peace is all in our minds
First Cathleen shares about how the joyful spirit of someone sitting next to her at a show helped lift hers (as well as some remorse on her behalf for being unfriendly at first).
Then she discusses an autobiographical book by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who suffered a stroke. Cathleen ends her post with this fascinating video of a talk by Jill. It took Jill eight years to fully recover from her stroke, which took away all her language skills. In the video Jill describes what it was like to have her left brain shut down during the stroke, then shares what she learned from that experience
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
Comment by: Julie Marie
1 09/13/08 5:03 AM | Comment Link |I found her story fascinating. I remember back when I was doing yoga regularly (we had yoga at work for awhile, which was really an easy way to fit it in my day!) I did feel more peaceful overall - despite the various storms going on around me. And I remember too, back when I used to pray - praying for insight, guidance - I also .used to have that same overarching groundedness. I like her statement about “stepping to the right of your left brain” as a way to describe what is going on.
I think I’ll go back to yoga class. Its not as convenient now - I actually have to go to a gym rather than just run upstairs on my lunch break - but getting a part of that peace back sure would be nice!
Comment by: Jason Horton
2 09/17/08 8:11 AM | Comment Link |A 20 minute clip. Well worth watching the whole thing. What an amazing experience and what a lesson to us to take the very best of any situation rather than focus on the negative.