Jill Boblte Taylor Analysis

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After viewing Jill Bolte-Taylor describe her inner experience, I fell in absolute astonishment particularly in how we can control the way we perceive the exterior world. It is truly remarkable how we have the opportunity to choose between these two powerful cognitive hemispheres, the energy and the separate being, and select the way we want to be in the world. While her left hemisphere was mute she says she felt expansive and found nirvana, picturing a world of compassionate people; a pure stroke of insight to how we live our lives. Retelling her experience gave me hope that the more time we spend in the right hemisphere, the more peaceful our world will be.

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