Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

How much rest are you getting then?

And how stressful are you?

Well, the stress circuitry is a go, go, go, go, go, do, do, go, go, more, more.

Okay, I reached a goal, but I'll celebrate for this long.

And then I want more.

There's always this driving force of that left brain that wants more.

So there are things that we really can do.

And let me say this, Hala, about the brain and our vulnerability.

is if you look at a human brain, you can see the blood inside of the blood vessels because the walls of the blood vessels in the brain are so thin, they're transparent.

So the pressure system, when we get angry and when we get mad, when we're holding it in or letting it out, but we're in that rage or we're in deep fear or we're just feeling out of control,

This is impacting the internal pressure system of what's going on inside of the brain.

And, you know, it's not healthy for the overall animal, the overall organism that we are biologically.

What was really interesting to me was, you know, when we look at a human brain, it has these two hemispheres.

And these two hemispheres process different information in different kinds of ways.

And the left hemisphere has language, and language is my ability to create sound.

Dog is a sound, and then we can comprehend what is that sound and what is the meaning of that sound.

We can read, we can write, we have mathematics, we can speak multiple languages.

I mean, the left hemisphere is this very, very busy place.

And so the hemorrhage was happening in my left hemisphere.

And so that left hemisphere would kind of go offline for a little while and I would drift into the present moment because the right hemisphere, it's just a right here, right now machine.