The morning a blood vessel in her brain popped, Jill Bolte Taylor became the subject of her most important experiment.
She was a neuroscientist at Harvard University's brain research center. She woke up on December 10, 1996, to a piercing pain behind her left eye. It was a stroke.
Strangely, the pain gave way to deep peace—and then joy.
In her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, she recalls the event: "I felt like a genie liberated from its bottle. The energy of my spirit seemed to flow like a great whale gliding through a sea of silent euphoria."
As time went on, her mind became more still. She lived each day in a state much like deep meditation. Surgery removed the blood clot in her brain, but Dr. Taylor faced immense challenges during her eight years of recovery.
What happened during her stroke, Dr. Taylor says, was that her left brain hemisphere was temporarily disabled. The left hemisphere is the seat of language, logic, and planning. In contrast, the right hemisphere excels at images, creativity, and compassion.
While Dr. Taylor found the intensity of her present-moment experience of her right brain blissful, she struggled to rebuild her left brain neural network and re-integrate the two hemispheres. Today she's healthy and active and helping others recover from similar challenges.
Paraliminal learning: Fortunately, you can quickly access the riches of your right brain—while leaving your left brain functioning—using whole mind learning, the basis for Paraliminal learning technology.
When listening to a Paraliminal:
Create the ideal state for learning: Take a few moments right now to activate your right brain and get into state.
You've now cleared a mental space to efficiently learn and store new information.
Use the same steps later to effectively tap your memory system and recall that information when you need it. Give your inner mind a clear request to remember it. Then relax and let your right brain comply. With practice you'll find your brain responding with greater clarity and ease.
You can direct the nonconscious resources of your whole mind to help you in every aspect of your life using Paraliminals in the MINDTRX app.
Simply select a Paraliminal with your goal or issue in mind. Then push play, close your eyes, relax, and listen. This closed-eye process activates your whole mind with a precise blend of music and words to help you get the most out of every minute.
