Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I had Asian food.

Okay.

Where did you go in order to remember that, right?

You don't have the Asian food right here in front of you.

You have stepped out.

You have left me here alone in the present moment.

You have stepped into another consciousness that is constantly running in the background.

And the beauty of that group of cells, those emotional cells, is that everything that I ever experienced is running and it's running and it's always there for me to refer to.

And oh my gosh, let's say now something happens in this moment.

And let's say all of a sudden the ground should start to shake.

And as the ground starts to shake, your brain goes and it says, oh my gosh, I'm not safe.

I don't care about Jill anymore.

I got to get out of the building because there's an earthquake.

And you know what the experience is because you have information about that.

So our emotional reactivity is designed to protect us

in the present moment based on experiences we have had in the past.

So if I'm running a consciousness where I'm literally as big as the universe with the right thinking tissue, and I'm running a consciousness in the right experiential, what does it feel like to be in my body and to be engaging?

and I'm running a consciousness in my left emotional tissue that is reminding me of everything that ever happened in my past so I can protect myself in the present based on that past.

And then, oh my gosh, I have left thinking tissue

And that is my A-type personality.