Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke that changed how she thinks about the brain and spirituality. She experienced her right hemisphere without her left, which shifted her focus from individual achievement to collective well-being and what she calls whole brain living.
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I'm just curious, after that stroke that you had when your left brain shut down, did any of that influence your lifestyle choices today?
To live in that existence for eight years, you don't walk away from that experience and go back to being what you used to be. My values have changed, my intention has changed. My positioning of myself as a living person in relationship to my fellow humanity has completely changed. I'm motivated by the we. I'm not much motivated by me, the individual. It's really all about how do I create balance, how do we do whole brain living, but really come into the world through the values of the right brain, which is the collective whole, and then use the power of what I am as a living being and me the individual, in order to influence the world in a positive way.