Stroke Of Insight Summary

In viewing the Stroke of Insight video I found the introduction of Dr. Bolte Taylor’s speech to be interesting, yet not attention grabbing initially. However, her ability to incorporable the different visual aids, such as the real life human brain and her brain scan, these tools she used helped to spark my interest, and further hold my attention to her topic of brain disorders that were effecting both her and her brother. After watching the video a few times and evaluating the different components that Dr. Bolte Taylor used within her communication, the Linear Model of Communication was used during Dr. Bolte Taylor’s speech. The Linear Model of Communication applies to this speech as the channel is one way communication, the sender sends the …show more content…
From how Dr. Bolte Taylor can describe every sensation of her body functions, to her inability to perform cognitively, Dr. Bolte Taylor takes us on a journey of unworldly enlightenment, “Insight” through her medical symptoms. I became fascinated in her vivid depiction of her experience of what she has been studying for so long. The new aspect and appreciation within her stroke by the feeling of freedom and utopia, for example, “So here I am in this space and any stress related to my, to my job, it was gone. And I felt lighter in my body”. My preconceived idea was the video would be based on medical sciences and her studies of the brain and the severe mental illness that she dedicated her life to studying, I never had imagined it would turn out to be such an emotional near death experience, as when she mentions, “ 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”. I believe her experiences were valid, everyone has their own journey and spirituality, and the positive message that was brought back from her stroke goes beyond theory and I believe is her message to all, “I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, …show more content…
Personally, my biggest barrier that interfered with me listening to the video was my personally thoughts going on inside my head and all the stress that I felt to get my assignments done on time. The Psychological Noise in my head kept me thinking about the extremely heavy course load this semester has and if I can get all my assignments done and doubting myself. The other noise barrier I experienced during watching the video was Physiological, I was overly tired from the night before and stressed by every noise that I heard, I found it extremely hard to concentrate on the video and the background noise seemed amplified as I was listening to the video, which I watched numerous times to absorb