Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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Now, a lot of people might dive in the water because I'm racing and the whole goal is to get to the end because I got that left brain thing going on and that's the goal.
But if I'm just being, this is, you know, are you being or are you doing, right?
When we're being, we're simply being here.
We're being alive.
We're being aware.
We're being an experience.
So as I take in this room, I take in this whole room, right?
My left brain says, I'm going to focus on you and I got these books and I've got these things and I got the brains and everything and everything's a thing.
But to the right brain, everything is one thing.
And when I live my life, knowing that I can shift out of the stress circuitry of that left brain that says more cortisol, more cortisol, do, do, do.
then when I, it's the, it's the, that's the push.
The right brain is the pause.
And that's why I was saying before, we're not a robot.
We're not a computer.
We are a biological organism.
And so we don't plug ourselves in and turn it on and it stays on and forever until it dies.
And then we buy a new one.
We have rhythms, we have natural patterns and we have to push and
And we have to pause and we have to pause because we are 50 trillion molecular geniuses that are eating and creating waste and we need to clean up the mess.
And that's what happens during sleep.