Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

According to the traditional medical world, only one quarter of our brain is conscious, and that's the left thinking tissue.

Okay, let's look at the condition of the world, right?

We're kind of a mess.

We're killing each other.

I mean, it is like what we value is just that one portion.

So imagine the world we could live in if we actually didn't think everything else was unconscious and out of our control, and so we didn't have to take any responsibility for it.

Well, if I know what's going on in these four major portions, modules of cells, and I have the power to recognize in any moment which of those four parts I'm in, which character

Am I exhibiting in the world based on what those cells, skill sets give to me?

And in this moment I'm exhibiting, when I know all four, it's kind of like a hand.

If I just have a hand and I'm flopping things and pushing things and smashing things and, you know, it's not very sophisticated.

But as soon as I can differentiate between those four digits of my hand, I have exponentially expanded

Reloaded my capacity to using that hand.

And the same is true for our brain.

So whole brain living is about figuring out, recognizing what parts am I using when?

Am I happy about that?

Am I remotely in balance?

Do I need a little more play in my life because my left circuitry is running all the time and that's my stress circuitry and it really has interfered with my relationships and it drive, drive, drives me, but it's probably interrupting my sleep as well and my overall wellness.

So as we look at these different parts of who we are,

Then we can spread the love, essentially, in I'm not just a biological creature.

I'm not a single-celled organism.