New Science Finds Thinking and Feeling in Both Sides of Your Brain – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor with Dave Asprey : 828

<p>When Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was 37, she had a stroke that completely shut down the left hemisphere of her brain. Her eight-year recovery led her to some of the greatest discoveries of what our brains can do.&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Jill is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist and neuroanatomist with a broad area of brain expertise. She’s also well known for her TEDtalks since her stroke:&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/UyyjU8fzEYU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My Stroke of Insight</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/PEzzZ__ccgQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Right Brain vs. Left Brain Experience</a>.</p><p>In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we’re talking all about her personal journey, insights and new research.</p><p>For 50 years, we’ve been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it’s not that simple. In fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. This means each hemisphere has both an emotional brain&nbsp;<em>and&nbsp;</em>a thinking brain.</p><p>To put it simply, the left brain defines your individuality. There’s a group of cells working to constantly take in more information to define you. The right brain processes everything through an emotional and not-so-linear lens, telling us we are as big and open and expansive as the universe.&nbsp;</p><p>“From my perspective, I became&nbsp;<em>more</em>&nbsp;when I experienced the stroke, because what I gained was the awareness that I was as big as the universe,” Dr. Jill explains. “As I gained my relationship to the atoms and molecules around me, I expanded and became open. And then I became aware that if I'm going to be a functional human being in the world, I needed to gain some of those skill sets back from that left hemisphere,” she says. “I have so much awareness now of who and what I really am as a living being.”</p><p>In her new book “<a href="https://www.peng