Our Ego Makes Us The Center Of Our Own World

Before the hero’s left-brain ego-cells developed his perception of himself as an individual, he possessed the collective knowledge of his right brain’s unconscious mind. With time, as the individuation of his left brain developed, it grew to dominate and inhibit the knowledge of his right-brain m...

There is an electromagnetic field of atoms and molecules that surrounds us, and we exist within it and it exists within us. Our left brain is unaware of this sea of energy because a small group of cells in our parietal region defines the boundaries of our body, surmising the separation.

Ho...

Jill Bolte Taylor's story is fascinating. At age 37 in 1996, she suffered a left hemisphere stroke which caused her right hemisphere to become temporarily dominant. It took her 8 years to recover.

She could no longer experience the linearity of time or a sense of urgency; speak or understan...

Before the stroke, I was willing to compromise my relationships by moving away from both my home and those I loved for the status and monetary gain of a career as a neuroanatomist at Harvard.

Although I was truly grateful to recover the vast and important abilities of my left ...

By having both of these hemispheres working together inside of one head, we experience a natural duality.

It is normal for us to endure an ongoing internal conflict, based completely on the two uniquely autonomous perspectives of our left and right brains.

Our right and left brains w...

When we know, understand, and nurture our own Four Characters, their relationships with one another, and their collective power within us, we promote our own cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness.

The better we understand the various groups of cells inside of our brain, how...

When my left thinking network went off-line, a specific part of my personality, a character that I had known for decades as my ego-self, also disappeared.

 It was not as though I was missing a memory that I simply could not put my finger on; i...

With that internal dialogue circuitry shut off, I sat in the center of a completely silent brain for five full weeks. I even lost that little voice of my left-brain ego-self that could say, ‘I am an individual, separate from the whole. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor.’

In the absenc...

Reptilian Brain (Brain Stem): Instinctual survival; fundamental activities (breathing, heartbeat); regulating body temperature; managing our balance; processes pain, aggression, pleasure, and our drive to mate

Mammalian Brain (Emotional Limbic System Tissue):

Nonverbal, thinks in pictures, thinks experientially, present moment-based, kinesthetic/body, looks holistically at the big picture, seeks similarities, compassionate, lost in the flow of time, collective, flexible/resilient, open to possibilities, focus on WE, available, unconscious, fluid/f...

Humanity exists in an ongoing state of evolution:

First, we are actively integrating the newly added-on tissue of our left thinking brain (Character 1) with the tissue of the underlying left emotional brain tissue (Character 2), then we are integrating the new tissue in our right thinking b...

Expansive, open, experiential, risk-taking, fearless, friendly, kind, empathic, loves unconditionally, forgiving, trusts, supports, grateful, playful, joyful, goes with the flow, awe-inspired, curious, creative/innovative, collective, sharing, equality, contextual, style, hopeful.

The author had a unique experience after the stroke:

Peaceful euphoria and bliss of the eternal timelessness of the present moment; oneness with the universe; a gigantic ball of energy that blended fluidly with the rest of the energy in the universe; could only perceive the pixelated at...

It is a relief for me to experience my emotions again, as they not only add depth to life, but they stretch my boundaries for personal growth.

I regained the emotional circuits of resentment, guilt, and embarrassment, as well as all of the other more subtle feelings and emotion...

The Hero enters into the realm of the unconscious (right brain) and embodies the merciful characteristics of the compassionate right brain; battles the fear of death and all the other left-brain monsters; gains the insights of his heroic quest while enveloped in the wisdom of his euphoric right b...

We each have four distinctive groups of cells, divided between our two brain hemispheres, that generate four consistent and predictable personalities.

Character 1: Left-Brain Thinking (Serial Processor)

Verbal, thinks in language, thinks linearly, past/future base...

Constricted, rigid, cautious, fear-based, stern, loves conditionally, doubts, bullies, righteous, manipulates, deceives, tried and true.

• Compares present vs past memories.
• Deepest emotions.
• Emotional volatility and reactivity.
• Happiness: the natural und...

At any given moment, there are three things going on in our brain: think thoughts, feel emotions, and run physiological responses to what we are thinking and feeling. Each of these activities is completely dependent on the health and well-being of the cells that are performing those functions.