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Dr. Martha Beck

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2715 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But he talks about how our particular culture for the last few hundred years has veered towards stuff that is preferentially favored by the left hemisphere of the brain. And it has to do with grasping things and producing physical things and getting things to happen, controlling them, where the right side of the brain, and of course, it's all I'm oversimplifying massively.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But he talks about how our particular culture for the last few hundred years has veered towards stuff that is preferentially favored by the left hemisphere of the brain. And it has to do with grasping things and producing physical things and getting things to happen, controlling them, where the right side of the brain, and of course, it's all I'm oversimplifying massively.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But functions like meaning, synthesis, combinations of different bits of knowledge, we're moving away from those. And one of my good friends is Jill Bolte-Taylor who had, she was a Harvard neuroanatomist and she had a massive left hemisphere stroke. And so she suddenly, she watched her left hemisphere go off. She had a brain bleed and it would pulse.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But functions like meaning, synthesis, combinations of different bits of knowledge, we're moving away from those. And one of my good friends is Jill Bolte-Taylor who had, she was a Harvard neuroanatomist and she had a massive left hemisphere stroke. And so she suddenly, she watched her left hemisphere go off. She had a brain bleed and it would pulse.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But functions like meaning, synthesis, combinations of different bits of knowledge, we're moving away from those. And one of my good friends is Jill Bolte-Taylor who had, she was a Harvard neuroanatomist and she had a massive left hemisphere stroke. And so she suddenly, she watched her left hemisphere go off. She had a brain bleed and it would pulse.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

So her left hemisphere would be there, and she'd see everything as solid and measurable and verbal, and then it would go off. And she was in a world where she was like a fluid the size of the universe. And she would watch. She was in the shower, and she watched her hand on the tiles dissolve into fields of energy. And you were talking about energy earlier.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

So her left hemisphere would be there, and she'd see everything as solid and measurable and verbal, and then it would go off. And she was in a world where she was like a fluid the size of the universe. And she would watch. She was in the shower, and she watched her hand on the tiles dissolve into fields of energy. And you were talking about energy earlier.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

So her left hemisphere would be there, and she'd see everything as solid and measurable and verbal, and then it would go off. And she was in a world where she was like a fluid the size of the universe. And she would watch. She was in the shower, and she watched her hand on the tiles dissolve into fields of energy. And you were talking about energy earlier.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

She said by the time her left hemisphere had shut down completely, a phone call made. She couldn't talk by the time the phone call went through. She got to a hospital, took her eight years to come back to full functioning. But she said, during that time, I did not know people's names, I didn't know the word person, but boy, could I feel people's energy.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

She said by the time her left hemisphere had shut down completely, a phone call made. She couldn't talk by the time the phone call went through. She got to a hospital, took her eight years to come back to full functioning. But she said, during that time, I did not know people's names, I didn't know the word person, but boy, could I feel people's energy.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

She said by the time her left hemisphere had shut down completely, a phone call made. She couldn't talk by the time the phone call went through. She got to a hospital, took her eight years to come back to full functioning. But she said, during that time, I did not know people's names, I didn't know the word person, but boy, could I feel people's energy.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And as she healed, she didn't bother to get rid of her ability to feel people's energy. So she's a great fan of using the whole brain. Whole Brain Living is her latest book, and it's great.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And as she healed, she didn't bother to get rid of her ability to feel people's energy. So she's a great fan of using the whole brain. Whole Brain Living is her latest book, and it's great.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And as she healed, she didn't bother to get rid of her ability to feel people's energy. So she's a great fan of using the whole brain. Whole Brain Living is her latest book, and it's great.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But Ian McGilchrist talks about how when we don't use the whole brain, his book The Master and His Emissary says the part of the brain that knows meaning should be the master, and the data collector is just the emissary. But the data collector has taken over in Western medicine. society, Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic, if you want to get technical.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But Ian McGilchrist talks about how when we don't use the whole brain, his book The Master and His Emissary says the part of the brain that knows meaning should be the master, and the data collector is just the emissary. But the data collector has taken over in Western medicine. society, Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic, if you want to get technical.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

But Ian McGilchrist talks about how when we don't use the whole brain, his book The Master and His Emissary says the part of the brain that knows meaning should be the master, and the data collector is just the emissary. But the data collector has taken over in Western medicine. society, Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic, if you want to get technical.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And so what you were doing to yourself was completely irrational, completely. You should get the Darwin Award for taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And so what you were doing to yourself was completely irrational, completely. You should get the Darwin Award for taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Huberman Lab
Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination | Dr. Martha Beck

And so what you were doing to yourself was completely irrational, completely. You should get the Darwin Award for taking yourself out of the gene pool.