In this video, Brain researcher Jill Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened. One morning, a blood vessel in Jill's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right.
Please trust me - this video is worth watching!
Much of what she talks about from a scientific point of view and then from her actual experience is so closely in line with my beliefs that listening to her was a very very emotional experience for me. My whole life I was taught that we're imperfect, and that ultimately we live our lives together but that we are separate beings from each other... each individually held responsible by a higher source ("God"). This has not set well with me for over a decade since I abolished my belief in what I was taught as a Christian. I feel far more connected to everyone and everything than I ever did growing up.***Please enjoy this video... with an open mind.***
If this video doesn't work through my blog, watch it from the TED.com website here:
Jill Taylor Video on TED.com
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