Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

She's giving you facts and details.

She is all about what is right and wrong and good and bad.

How do I fit myself into a society?

How do I use my words in order to communicate?

So this is the part of us that goes to work.

It's our A-type personality.

Character one, left thinking.

Yeah.

Well, it's this outer.

This outer layer of cells is called the cerebral cortex.

And the cerebral cortex is actually in human made up of mostly six layers of cells.

It's very complex.

In some areas, especially where you have sensory systems, it's just going to be four layers.

But this is a complex portion of the organ that separates us from other animals.

So character two is going to be the left emotion.

Now, the difference between the things you can say predictably about the left hemisphere is it has linearity across time, and it has me, the individual.

And my emotional system then has my past pain, and it's kind of always looking for a reason to knee-jerk react and have emotional reactivity.

So many people are trying to fix or heal or get rid of their emotional reactivity when this is a portion of our brain which is running constantly in the background to protect us in the present moment when new information comes in.

So we want to work with that and we want to appreciate it and we want to love on it and we want to be kind to it because it's generally not very happy because it is storing all of our pain from the past.

Character two.