We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness.

Jill Bolte Taylor

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I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

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The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.

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I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.

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It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.

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Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

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Peace is only a thought away.

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My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

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The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.

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From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.

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I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

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I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.

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If I can choose who I am in the moment, then I can choose to come in as my left brain personality and all of the skill sets that goes with that.

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I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.

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Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe.

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Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

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I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.

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I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

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The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.

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chaos is the first step in the creative process.

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I don't have time for a stroke!

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