I’ve had a stroke. It has been eleven months. I could not even say yes or no when it happened, or for a few days later. I felt and continue to feel the sense of Nirvana. It has pushed me to recover, not for myself, but for others. This took me 30 minutes to write. Time for a nap. : )
Yes~ every time. I’m here again (& try to remember to watch at least once a year as a reminder) as it came up in conversation today. I actually rewatched it a month ago too~ cry love tears every time. = is what the world needs/yearns for at this time. ✨💗⚡️💫🌀💎🕊️
Every once in a while, I come back and rewatch this talk. It’s one of the most inspiring and powerful talks I’ve heard. It gives me the chills every time.
''The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.'' A. Einstein
+dmcrluv - Beautifully summed up. Intution (spiritual intelligence) vs intellect(human intelligence). The second one is way overrated in the modern world and hence the depression and wars and all the madness.
+Gurubharan S i wonder where you are getting that definition of intuition haha, please. its more honest to substitute 'intuition' with 'superstition'. and the irony is so-called spiritual intelligence and any idea that isn't based in sound evidence actually causes much war and madness.
+Dmicroluv quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/18/intuitive-mind/ about how it's really a quote by Bob Samples talking about A. Einstein's body of work. Your faithful servant (who wholeheartedly agrees with that insightful statement)
+Dmicroluv "You should not believe something was said by me just because someone attached my name to a quote on the Internet. Most of the time it is just the case of someone trying make their psuedo-profundity escape scrutiny". Albert Einstein.
My favorite type of ppl in the whole wide world are "spiritual scientists" People, who talk about spiritual things with a scientific mind They speak my language
Six weeks ago I had four ischemic strokes in a two week period after surgical procedure. Although I am still recovering none were cognitively or physically devastating. The strongest of the four strokes was in the left hemisphere. What I experienced was beautiful and I must say a gift. Love and unity of all life. I will never be the same.
Thanks to this speech I was able to recognize the stroke of one of my beloved one from a phone call and to react immediatly. Thank you for your scientific dissemination.
@@annabelleyoung7213 me too! She is fantastic, isn't she? Really got me thru these crazy times. And continues to do so with her sweetness, strength, calm and positiveness. Greetings to you from Germany!
As a stroke survivor from 15 days ago, this talk touched my soul. Her description of what was happening physically, mentally and spiritually during the stroke accurately describes my experience. Jill Bolte Taylor, you have made such a difference for me. Thanks for sharing your story!
I have seen this video multiple times in the last 12 years, and every time it brings tears of joy to be reminded of who we really are. Thank you again, Jill Bolte Taylor for being part of my right-brain interrupt - inspiring my left brain to shine and become the light I intended to be in this world. Namaste!
your comment makes me happy with tears of joy....It is said that the 2 most important days of our life is the day you are born,and the day that you find out WHY! Namaste to U!
@PatioPrimate You say "probably" with your limited materialistic worldview based on the experience you have during ordinary wakefulness which to the largest extent is an illusion, too. Most scientists just assume that consciousness is being generated by the brain and can't exist without it and then they choose this assumption to be the fundament of their whole world view. You say "probably" without further questioning your position, because you like to conveniently base your oppinion what most people (in the form of science) believe. But maybe you should focus more on discovering life for yourself and to find your own reality. Nobody else is going to tell you what truth is. Personally, I think it's much more probable that you are the infinite universe which at some point was bored by all of this infinity and decided to go for an adventure and it chose to forget everything past and start as a naive human baby believing that it is something separate from the universe.
@PatioPrimate And what convinces you that your "real world" is not an illusion/in your head? You better go check out what there is before you make your oppinion.
@@quinxx12 "you are the infinite universe which at some point was bored by all of this infinity and decided to go for an adventure and it chose to forget everything past and start as a naive human baby believing that it is something separate from the universe." What does that even mean . . . ? Meaningless pablum.
WOW a scientist that was given the opportunity to experience what it is like to be completely at one with the universe, to realize how expansive we all are, and how connected we all are. And that she can explain in scientific terms why this happened and is possible. Finally science and spirit coming together. She has a special purpose indeed in this world. This also explains so much about myself. My left hemisphere (my critical analytical side) needs to be quiet and go to sleep sometimes so that my right side can take over and allow me to fully step into my intuitive and empathic gifts and experience more. Beautiful. I would love to learn more from her.
+Alejandro Gutierrez since spirtuality is completely subjective and benefits from ambiguity due to lack of science, that is an untrue statement. i did enjoy the vid though. great stuff
Brooke Bailey Lovely comment here. Yes finally science and spirit have the great opportunity to come together and if a critical mass of us humans on earth could manage to experience it directly, e.g. through insight Meditation, than we would have the opportunity to understand, what a beautiful and powerful couple our brainhemispheres are together, as long as we give both of them equal rights, instead of the domination by the leftbrain dictatorship, others call Patriarchy. We would be driven by compassion and be motivated to solve problems sustainably, that promotes wellbeing of others and myself, gardening, caring and Therapy and less division from others for the sake of shortminded "selfprofit". Jill Bolte Taylor sends out a tremendous message here, that supports the meassage of very insightful beings in the past, like Jesus, Buddha, Theresa of Avila, St. Francis, Peace Pilgrim, Rumi and many many others who, appeared at different times and in different cultures to remind us of our heritage, given to us since our birth and how to overcome our narrowminded, onesided, leftbrain and much to often selfcentered behaviour.
Her scientific knowledge and this experiences doesn't necessarily mean that this story she tells is complete. It doesn't mean you can make a spiritual explanation for anything. As a person that was probably already spiritual, she let her experience and belief validate it all. However with her mind she has the intellect and it becomes easier for her to convince herself this all goes together. If you ask me I think this entire experienced sounded like one of someone who had a physical impact (the hemorrhage) effect her sensory to the extend of temporary psychosis.
Just over 2 years post stroke, while driving. It is hard for me to put into words what I experienced, so let me say I can sooo relate to this description.
Bless you my dear brother. You have seen the light. Although odd and painful, you have learned something that most of us will spend a lifetime searching for... While some will have to come back and repeat the exercise. Namaskar!
***** Thanks so much for your words, bro. Your work down here is intensive, and will harvest wonderful fruit for your coming lives... Bless you my friend and just remember: I Am, You Are, We Are. That's a fact.
Whilst I agree from some respects, I don't think I could cope with seeing this point of view unless I had no other choice to do so. Perhaps this is the perfect argument to make said film?
@@elchatodeoro1 i intially felt the same way you did, but then i realized that you and i are never going to truly understand what she is saying until we personally experience what she did. she may be using technical scientific words pseudoscientifically, but it's only because her experience is verbally ineffable. this is the only way she can convey what she underwent. and i think she did a marvelous job doing it. no need to be rude just because you are incapable of comprehending the incomprehensible.
When my father had his first stroke at age 54 it effected his cognitive abilities and personality more than physically. My dad couldn't explain what it was like inside his mind when it happened, but whatever it was he became a different person. I'm a nurse and I learned so much from him about having a stroke and it completely changed the way I cared for stroke patients. Totally different from how the other nurses did. My dad's stroke was my stroke of insight in caring for people who have experienced this.
Brilliant! I think this might just be THE best Ted Talk I've ever seen/heard/felt. I was so moved, intellectually and spiritually by her presentation. Thank you Jill!
+Trish Truitt I've loved it, but, this version was a bit over-spiritual in my mind. I prefer the version up on Ted Radio Hour (NPR). They play this clip, and ask Jill to expand on the various things she said.
I've read her book about it, "My Stroke of Insight," but actually listening to her talk about it is better. She really brings the experience to life. What's interesting is that I abandoned Western religion many decades ago and am still sure it's mythology. But in the past few years I've felt a desire to find others who believe what I do, and found that in Zen Buddhism. That's exactly the state I seek in meditation. and she has made my belief in Buddhism explainable by science, which I find is very cool. Buddha himself said not to believe anything he said unless it agrees with your own mind and makes sense scientifically. Some things we can't prove one way or another, like what happens after we die and the concept of karma, but there are many other concepts that science can be applied to.
@@eaglecentury3409 Your obviously mainly a "left" brainer....Its not "overly spiritual " in my mind since in truth we actually ARE spirits+ NOT these human bodies were inhabiting at the moment...that may be hard for YOU to accept that at this point in your spiritual evolution,but for me lts a "no brainer"since I have had OBE's(out of body experiences) that have proven this to be true beyond a doubt..I don't BELIEVE it to be true...I "KNOW" it to be true good luck in YOUR search for the TRUTH....Namaste.
Probably the most expansive talk I've ever had the privilege of hearing. Incredibly moving, positive and enlightening. And yes, it is definitely an idea worth spreading. Thank you Jill for your courage, strength and hope ❤ 🙏
I have never heard anyone describe a stroke as lovingly as she and viewing it as a gift. She surely was engulfed in the love of the universal energy. A person well worth meeting...perhaps in the next energy field I will someday enter. Wow! what a tremendous woman and scientist!
I had a stroke just not long ago, it was (still is) the most scary and painful period. My age was considered “too young” to have a stroke. My experiences were similar to Dr. Taylor’s, but mine might be worse. I promised myself when I feel much better I would share my story. Thank you Dr. Taylor for sharing yours.
Its difficult for me to describe what i have done the whole day. The way she described the whole thing even when she is in semi-conscious is fucking awesome. The way she explained made me feel, that i lived there in that moments while she is experiencing "Hemorrhage". What a tremendous gift that experience could be in her life!!
Usually, if something is so memorable, our brain records every detail of it and the memory may stay there for a long time or even forever. I remember an event (family celebration) when I was a child, I can even describe what I felt, the chronology of the event, my family's facial mimic and reaction, although I didn't have a concept of my own age. Last year, I found out that the event happened when I was 1 year old and was just learning to walk. I am 42 years old now.
One of the best speakers I have ever seen. Her ways of communicating with audience, facial expression&actions with abundant emotions, and of course strong passion and knowledge. I use her speech in sharing with my students what a great speaker looks like.
astridjl85 same reaction for me. I usually cry when something hits the very deep of my "myself", my heart, my whole being, and I know then that it's genuinely and totally true.
BRILLIANT!!! One of the best emotionally insightful experiences I’ve had that highlights and reminds us all - THAT WE DO HAVE CHOICES and by deliberately choosing an expanded state of consciousness- we shape our realities and influence others in the most loving and positive way! ❤
I have secondary progressive MS, and have being experiencing episodes during some of my days, that I can only explain as being in a coma. I can hear everything around me going on. I can hear the questions that are being asked of me. I cant open my eyes, nor can I speak to answer. The words I try to get out of my mouth are slurred, and I am completely unable to be understood. I try to wake up, yet what I am feeling is so relaxing, almost like the most wonderful, comfortable sleep that you only dream of. I am tryng to explain these experiences to my son and daughter-in-law. And she tells me, "Oh my God! Have you heard of this person? What you just explained is very similar to this experience that Jill Bolte Taylor had." So she sent me the link for this video. Watchng ths video made me cry, because it is the first time I have felt understood. Although, I am not experiencing a stroke, these episodes that i have had, are so similar to what you described. As you were talking about your stroke, I found it amazing what you said, is exactly what I have been trying to put into words, to help my family understand what I am going through when I check out for a few hours lately. So, thank you so much! This is something that will be forwarded to my famliy. Vickie Case
Please TH-cam search "Dr. Wahls protocol" MS is meyelin related. Eat your vegetables. ☮️ Take Care. May the inner peace be with you. Dr. Wahls had MS. But she researched the cause and found a cure through nutrition. Let food by thy medicine.
@@angelinarobert622 Thank you for this. I am suspected to have MS. I have been on vegetarian diet for past 1 months which I started as part of loosing weight and I noticed in 2weeks that my symptoms have significantly come down. It was an accidental discovery. I will surely be learning about the protocol that you have mentioned.
she evokes empathy from us...look how captivated the audience was with her here while she was speaking...and the standing ovation at the end...She as speaking the TRUTH from her heart...and we KNEW it in our hearts to be true!
Maybe thats why some people say death is peacful sometimes. Cause they experience their left side of the brain shutoff first and all of a sudden you have the same joy you had as a child again.
My husband had a stroke on Thursday and I stumbled upon this TED talk in tears last night. I found Dr Jill’s experience so helpful and positive. While I am still concerned about my husband, I feel so much better and calmer about the situation.
What this woman says it right on. I had a stroke 2 months ago and experienced many of the same things. But most importantly, I experienced that deep deep inside in that area of the brain that no man can touch….GOD was there waiting peacefully for me and gave me peace and nothing in the world mattered. And now this moment the pain of my adult kids not speaking to me is not important. I can chose to be in that happy peaceful place while I am alive, that pain does not exist unless I let it in.
After 10 years of watching this Ted talk for the first time I still find myself coming back to here from time to time. The best Ted talk I’ve ever watched, this story was inspirational
thats the question. this or similar experiences has happened to many people, and we do know that the fundamental mechanisms of reality is energy.....and that separation is a conscious/human construct to make sense of the world but doesn't intrinsically exist in the universe.....so based on the stuff we do know there is some truth into what shes saying....she just said it poetically
This just answered my life search for meaning and understanding. Decades I’ve had of guilt and shame unnecessary brain chatter that has taken decades of trials and tribulation only to find myself at the beginning of that loop and I’d go along for another decade of misunderstanding and judgment and that baggage. I watched this and I wish I had known what she learned through this horrible yet beautiful life experience of experiencing one of the most rare and dangerous strokes a human can ever have. What a stroke of insight indeed. I feel like I can finally dump the horrors I’ve experienced and finally grasp the right here right now, through all the self discovery I was begging for.....and books I read and read again and I just couldn’t figure out how it worked. She explained it all so beautifully in 15 minutes. I feel like I can now enjoy and understand why everything happened and have peace in my life. Thank you Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, I’m 14 years late for your TED Talk but I finally showed up. W O W!!!!
This is the very first TED talk I had ever heard. Roughly a decade ago. This is still so very gripping. So profound. So physiologically relatable. The human mind is an unknown ❤
So far this also one of the most moving and emotional talks for me. I as well had a an injury like a stoke where I hit one of those concrete poles around a gas pump after having a grand mal seizure from my epilepsy, which I had just been dx 2 years before. It not only shredded the left half of my face but was left with a tbi. After a couple months of healing the face thing, realized now I have to start relearning who and what I was! That was 15 years ago and still to this day I'm working to gain what I had lost, yet move on to realize and accept the new me, and know that life goes on
I’ve encountered this idea before and it really resonates with me; that things we callously categorize as mental illnesses and medical emergencies could very possibly be glimpses of alternate states of being and layers/perspectives of reality we are blind to and can not comprehend in our stifled state.
Her words are simple yet profound. We are born without ego. And as we age, most of us develop an imbalance between these 'sides' of our brains. We think of ourselves as separate from the world. We worry about our mortality. If can you let go (or at least minimize) your ego, then you are truly free. This is something to reach through much effort and repetition, resetting your neurochemistry. It may take years through means such as meditation, but the journey is a worthy and beautiful one.
tate mac I think it's better to see it as a wonderful walk through an experience of a specific stroke, rather than a revelation of the binary world of the hemispheres. For instance, little children who undergo hemispherectomy show "no significant long-term effects on memory, personality or humor and minimal changes in cognitive function overall". Granted, they have neuroplasticity, but the more we learn of the function of the hemispheres, the more we realize it works more like a network than two communicating entities. And since she had a hemorrhage, it's possible that the right side of her brain was affected as well, since the blood would raise intracranial pressure and "squeeze" her entire brain in the skull. For all we know, the "I feel like the life force" could just have been a hallucination or epileptiform activity.
Kat Rido Totally true about neuroplasticity and kids with hemispherectomies, but generally speaking brains organize themselves in similar ways- there is truth behind the right/creative left/analytical. Your brain will balance itself out if something goes wrong, but otherwise, we do have a "language" part, "senses" part, "imagination" part, etc. It's not totally random and different in each person
Alexander DeBavelaere True, but each part is not an autonomous entity and our understanding of more obscure functions (emotions, thoughts, personality) is still limited and imprecise. I've worked as a neuroanatomy peer teacher and I've completed my neurology rounds. And the whole dominant hemisphere theory only describes where the language center is. There is evidence of different functions of the left and right frontal lobes, but her assertion that each hemisphere is somehow a gateway to a completely different perception of being is at best a blatant assumption.
16:08 finding peace. This is so powerful. We have the intrinsic ability to choose to use our right hemispheres for healing ourselves and spreading good to the world. Thank you.
Remember to not associate what you want to acheive again with your past experience, but rather think about what you find amazing about you acheiving it now, focus on the process of being where you are to where you can just as easily be
I've experienced it multiple times with meditation and yoga. Meditation where you focus on the hands instead of the breath and with hatha yoga. But you have to find the right yoga instructor..try looking for one on youtube. the key is to find the right platform to feel that incredible feeling. Also try the hand meditation, it is very similar to walking meditation. hope this helps :)
What you have experienced is an initiate stage of dhyana. Keep your awareness in any meditation. You may pass few more dhyana stages before achieving nirvana. Instead of samatha meditation methods try practicing vipassana methods. Some might falsely thought that they experienced nirvana. This is a good key to test your self, if you ever think you achieved nirvana then you're not. Also someone who experienced nirvana will never cry.
Very powerful. Wished everyone would experience that peacefulness and project it throughout the world. I'm sick and tired of War , hunger, murder, lies, deceitful , power hungry & wicked people.
Brett Clark all you are doing is closing your eyes to the outside world, these experiences won't change the world, without the drive for more we would just stop and fade away into nothing.
According to the logic here, you wouldn't be sick and tired of anything if you were cut off from your left brain. The world would be perfect and just the way it's meant to be. Your survival desires and fears would be gone, and, soon after, without routine and constant assistance, you'd be gone too.
I've rewatched this so many times over the years and hadn't heard it in a few years. Listening to it today, her words are even stronger. In 2017, after years of doing my sleep rituals, I got to this magic place that I couldn't articulate into words. She's captured this moment in this talk. There's a surrendering of self, of yesterday, of tomorrow and of now that's allowed me to fully appreciate and love with every essence of my being. Since that moment of 2017, I found my joy, I found life. I found love without words. I feel lucky and greatful to live from this place and the opportunity to share this energy and me with all the peeps, I come across with. Thank you Jill for putting your life experience in the best way possible!
Namaskar this exactly what Advait Vedanta philosophy teaches .may all humanity get this Advait atma Anubhuti. May all living beings find this peacefulness. Oom tat sat .aham brahasmi
This is probably the most important video I ever saw. 12 or 13 years ago it set me on a path which completely upended my ideas about reality and brought me to study nonduality. Jill was so generous in sharing this experience cogently and honestly.
Two weeks because my brother told me who you are and because of a distant memory I called on you though your Ted Talk gift. I was conscious and could say ambulance. My husband found me on the floor after the dogwalk. Ten minute’s later I was traveling again somewhere in the ambulance was my body along for the ride Anyway Grace entered and has stayed. Thank you so much you are a gift of insight. And that I am also Grateful and your humanity this Talk is just what the doctor ordered.
My grandfather had a stroke right before my 3rd year exams in campus. It is one of the most difficult experiences I have lived through. And yet it is not enough to picture from this perspective how much it has done to him. I love him more than I love my own father. This video is profound to me, as I can empathize with his state a little better than I ever could.
I will be sitting on the right side of my father cast all your fish net to the right side of the boat has given you meaning of the Bible which I know is a Biology book about your body and your brain! The Gospel of Jesus is the way you're right brain hemisphere function
spir·it (sprt) n. 1. a. The vital principle or animating force within living beings. b. Incorporeal consciousness. ... 5. a. The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings: Though unable to join us today, they are with us in spirit. b. The essential nature of a person or group. Among other definitions. So, as you can see Kile Slice, Spirit has a definition beyond what you were taught in sunday school or whatever religion you have. Especially considering what she says starting in 16:48
Pejeno Pejeno Well sir, I wonder where the definition you provided us was derived from!? Or better yet what was the first form of belief or institution to bring it to light. Spirit has come from religion and then later on philosophy or "Sunday school" and scientist have now began to accept it and define it in their own language... In the future try to refrain yourself from snarky judgements, it throws out your so called "intellect" you are trying to project from that ignorant comment.
terms get misused , to inquire into culture of a religion is one thing. To doubtlessly believe in everything that religion propagates is to be religious in my view which is very different from being spiritual. Some people use the words differently dou , if you want to understand people you cant rush to your own understanding , but inquire into their own .
We grow up in a culture where individuality is highly emphasized. Everywhere there's talk of leaving your own impression, making your own mark, fulfilling your own desire, enhancing your own self-affirmation in this world. But along the way does this also underrate the importance of sparing a thought for the others, spending some time looking around you, and feeling that magical bond essentially connecting every single individual in the world? And can we expect that a moment of "living with only your right hemisphere", being merged into the common, and experiencing the very beauty of it... would instill in a person the wanting to connect more with his fellow beings and live for the common good? Totally absorbed and speechless during this unforgettable 20-minute experience. A really, really refreshing idea. Think less of your very own self, blend more in with the mutual self of our universe.
Isn't "either/or" thinking part of the left side thinking, though? Why two hemispheres if one is morally bad? The answer isn't so simple and India and China who had the religions that preached Nirvana for centuries still had wars and atrocities not to mention the real evil of totalitarianism. Also the kind of peace of the right brain excludes rational thought which can bring evil into the world as well. Nirvana is only good if you are leaving this world forever. Everyone, even those clapping, also wondered about her emotional stability. One commenter here made the statement "those who left a negative need to step to the right" and I thought, how quickly we take up resentment and sides when we are emotional. How quickly they should can become we will make them. Witness the coercive nature of political correctness for example.
This is my favorite ted talk of all time. I remember watching this video years ago after a chemistry class where I began to question the theories that she’s suggesting. It was my introduction into ted talks and as I said to this day, it’s still my favorite.
Many people find it hard to believe in such ideas like this, but this woman is definitely now one of my inspirations in believing in the spiritual life. Our own human mind and perception just cannot understand the concept of the spirit, or even the idea of something that goes on forever; its like were in an unpopable bubble. I praise this woman xD this story was definitely amazing!
Having suffered not a stroke but aTBI as an infant and recently realizing how it's affected my life, after watching this..i question whether or not that almost dying even as an infant has given me a much different view and outlook on life than most people I've encountered. Sure i went off to live my first almost 40 years fairly normal and extremely broken... But with certain desires that made me feel both incredibly small and ginormous at the same time. A knowing of sorts. Thank you for this talk. I now have a bit of gratitude towards my near death experience that i have no recollection of.
This is way out of left field no pun intended...beyond any of my previous inklings or knowledge....incredible description with a tangible passion by this lady for peace to be expressed by and for us all....holy fkn WOW.
I immediately drifted right back out into the consciousness. I affectionately refer to this place as La La Land, but it was beautiful there. Can you imagine what it would be like to be totally disconnected from your brain chatter that connects you to the external world? Imagine what it would be like to lose 37 years of emotional baggage. - 9:25 Jill Taylor
It is scary how alike the symptoms of a bad migraine attack is to a stroke. As someone who suffers migraine attacks, based on just what she says, when experiencing this, I wouldn't realise the difference. That is scary to think about.
I lost my wife to a stroke last year and she had migraines too,so we couldn't tell the difference, please do get a CT Scan if you feel the pain is severe or abnormally painful.
@@abilashraman3810 I had migraines with my best friend for 17 years. Then she had a massive brain stem stroke. I hit menopause and my migraines stopped (for a few years) My best friend was so young, she hadn't hit menopause yet. She was only 44. I'm sorry for your loss, it's a traumatic way to lose someone.
@@ComfortablyYum Thank you for your kind words, really appreciate it. My wife was all of 37 years old, her death was due to a clot build up in her brain, she did complain of headaches days before her death, but she never explained the severity of it. Death was due to Intracranial Hemmorage which caused the stroke , coma and instant death. The key here is to listen to our bodies it always gives us warnings of something that could go wrong in the future, early diagnosis is key.
I think you would know the difference. I just had a stroke in September (nothing as bad as this speaker) and I also have a history of migraines. Oddly enough, I didn’t have a headache but rather a really stiff neck. I blew my nose and felt an electric bolt hit the top of my head and travel down my spine. I just knew something bad had happened and called 911.
(min: 15:20) 'There is no way I would ever be able to squeeze the enormousness of myself back inside this tiny little body'. Amazing feeling, no need to wait for a stroke; meditation can take us there. Thanks Jill.
This is incredible. She is incredible. Her explanation is so beautiful and easily understood. From someone who doesn't understand the human brain as much as some, she made me understand and relate to her entire experience. Miss Ted Talk lady, I'm thankful you survived this stroke and maintained your intelligence all while delivering education to those who want to listen. I came across this video years ago and still watch / share it with others. I wish more people were educated on strokes. TH-cam friends, does she have other videos? Id love to listen to her more. Also, Ted talk lady , come to Shambhala anytime. Wed love to have you
I’ve watched this so many time & it still gets me emotional. The story is beyond incredible, but the manner in which she recounts it is awe inspiring, powerful & poetic. Thank you for being a story we can all com back to time & time again. Utterly moving. ✨
I felt a similar experience when I was delivering my first child under cesarean section. Euphoric is the word! I felt like I was one with the coconut tree and when it's branch swayed, it was like my hands swaying. That's the kind of expanse I felt. When I regained my consciousness from general anasthesia, tears were flowing and I thanked the doctor. She thought it was for delivering my child. Thank you doctor. I think now my left brain had disconnected because of the anaesthesia.
One of my absolutely FAVORITE talks!!! Incredible to hear a trained observer recalling their own experiences in crisis. Such an incredible opportunity for insight.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ...I see this seven months after my father passed away after suffering a stroke . I wish i knew this at that time , but I also now know what he felt , who he was in those three months of stroke , what was healing him and what finally stopped healing him . It was energy around him .
I've experienced some of the things she described on an LSD trip. I had different parts of my body talking to me. I felt disconnected from this world and felt very connected in another.
A powerful, natural and effortless presentation by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. This is by far the most striking video for it prompts us to seriously reflect on the essence of our existence.
My husband as well. He sees some of her experience in his. He was a different person after. Softer and kinder. He can’t really explain it. We actually know very little about the complicated and complexity of the brain. It is a puny mind that can’t be open to further revelation or knowledge. Sad.
I’ve had a stroke. It has been eleven months. I could not even say yes or no when it happened, or for a few days later. I felt and continue to feel the sense of Nirvana. It has pushed me to recover, not for myself, but for others. This took me 30 minutes to write. Time for a nap. : )
i love this comment
You are an inspiration!!
you're amazing, literally an inspiration. take care of yourself, i hope you have a good day ❤
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
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I was in the audience. Unforgettable.
Wow!! Was it as quiet as it seems after she told her epiphany?
16 years and I still cry at the end. Best TED talk ever. Thank you.
Don't know I...and I just did again
I meant to say so do I and I just did again.
It never gets old ❤
I have never in my life felt such emotion from something so distant as a speech, but I cried too
Yes~ every time. I’m here again (& try to remember to watch at least once a year as a reminder) as it came up in conversation today. I actually rewatched it a month ago too~ cry love tears every time. = is what the world needs/yearns for at this time. ✨💗⚡️💫🌀💎🕊️
Every once in a while, I come back and rewatch this talk. It’s one of the most inspiring and powerful talks I’ve heard. It gives me the chills every time.
I do exactly the same thing, today was the day
Me too
Me too 😄
Same here, very inspiring and beneficial to really understand what LIFE is all about .. rewatching this regularly is a must do.
Same. My auntie just had one
10 years later, still the best TED talk I've ever watched.
Agreed, this one really left an impact on me.
Oh man, thats it! She reached another level...
Agreed
same
I agree! and have seen it like 6 times
''The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.'' A. Einstein
Wow...love that quote!
+dmcrluv - Beautifully summed up. Intution (spiritual intelligence) vs intellect(human intelligence). The second one is way overrated in the modern world and hence the depression and wars and all the madness.
+Gurubharan S i wonder where you are getting that definition of intuition haha, please. its more honest to substitute 'intuition' with 'superstition'. and the irony is so-called spiritual intelligence and any idea that isn't based in sound evidence actually causes much war and madness.
+Dmicroluv quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/18/intuitive-mind/ about how it's really a quote by Bob Samples talking about A. Einstein's body of work.
Your faithful servant (who wholeheartedly agrees with that insightful statement)
+Dmicroluv "You should not believe something was said by me just because someone attached my name to a quote on the Internet. Most of the time it is just the case of someone trying make their psuedo-profundity escape scrutiny". Albert Einstein.
My favorite type of ppl in the whole wide world are "spiritual scientists"
People, who talk about spiritual things with a scientific mind
They speak my language
zotharr Totally agree!!!
zotharr me too! only! that's more than religion. that's just true experience!
+zotharr I couldn't have said it better. Thank you for your words.
+zotharr It is without saying that the world could be a better place with this kind of thinking.
Un Usuario
;)
Six weeks ago I had four ischemic strokes in a two week period after surgical procedure. Although I am still recovering none were cognitively or physically devastating. The strongest of the four strokes was in the left hemisphere. What I experienced was beautiful and I must say a gift. Love and unity of all life. I will never be the same.
Wonderful. Much love and good health to you.
So interesting to read this. Has that sense of its being a gift endured in a life-enhancing way?
Thanks to this speech I was able to recognize the stroke of one of my beloved one from a phone call and to react immediatly. Thank you for your scientific dissemination.
Wow what A amazing miracle that happened
I cried at the end , too.
So much sense.
Here thanks to Pam Gregory’s recommendation.
Me too!!
@@annabelleyoung7213 me too! She is fantastic, isn't she? Really got me thru these crazy times. And continues to do so with her sweetness, strength, calm and positiveness. Greetings to you from Germany!
Also saw this, as recommended by Pam G
@@PUALI57Thank you!
All the best to you, too.
❤
Me too
As a stroke survivor from 15 days ago, this talk touched my soul. Her description of what was happening physically, mentally and spiritually during the stroke accurately describes my experience. Jill Bolte Taylor, you have made such a difference for me. Thanks for sharing your story!
Mine was 7 months ago and her description was completely on point.
I hope you are doing well and loving life. I send you love ❤
@@heatherghere4509 I hope you, too, are doing well and loving life. I send you love ❤
I have seen this video multiple times in the last 12 years, and every time it brings tears of joy to be reminded of who we really are. Thank you again, Jill Bolte Taylor for being part of my right-brain interrupt - inspiring my left brain to shine and become the light I intended to be in this world. Namaste!
Namaste from india love and bliss peace to you . oom namah shivaya.aham brasmi.
your comment makes me happy with tears of joy....It is said that the 2 most important days of our life is the day you are born,and the day that you find out WHY! Namaste to U!
Nice comment my friend.
You said what needs be to said.
Same feeling every time.
Wow !! Jill Bolte Taylor Wow !!
Amazing talk! Thank you so much! I felt like you were describing my own experiences.😂🤣 👋❤️❤️❤️
I love how she presents so gracefully and simply that science and spirituality are one.
PatioPrimate if you really think she has an “idea worth spreading”, surely you can find better words and spirit to support her.
@PatioPrimate You say "probably" with your limited materialistic worldview based on the experience you have during ordinary wakefulness which to the largest extent is an illusion, too. Most scientists just assume that consciousness is being generated by the brain and can't exist without it and then they choose this assumption to be the fundament of their whole world view. You say "probably" without further questioning your position, because you like to conveniently base your oppinion what most people (in the form of science) believe. But maybe you should focus more on discovering life for yourself and to find your own reality. Nobody else is going to tell you what truth is.
Personally, I think it's much more probable that you are the infinite universe which at some point was bored by all of this infinity and decided to go for an adventure and it chose to forget everything past and start as a naive human baby believing that it is something separate from the universe.
I like my narcissism
@PatioPrimate And what convinces you that your "real world" is not an illusion/in your head? You better go check out what there is before you make your oppinion.
@@quinxx12 "you are the infinite universe which at some point was bored by all of this infinity and decided to go for an adventure and it chose to forget everything past and start as a naive human baby believing that it is something separate from the universe."
What does that even mean . . . ? Meaningless pablum.
WOW a scientist that was given the opportunity to experience what it is like to be completely at one with the universe, to realize how expansive we all are, and how connected we all are. And that she can explain in scientific terms why this happened and is possible. Finally science and spirit coming together. She has a special purpose indeed in this world. This also explains so much about myself. My left hemisphere (my critical analytical side) needs to be quiet and go to sleep sometimes so that my right side can take over and allow me to fully step into my intuitive and empathic gifts and experience more. Beautiful. I would love to learn more from her.
agreed. made me tear up. science and spirituality are one.
+Alejandro Gutierrez since spirtuality is completely subjective and benefits from ambiguity due to lack of science, that is an untrue statement. i did enjoy the vid though. great stuff
Brooke Bailey
Lovely comment here. Yes finally science and spirit have the great opportunity to come together and if a critical mass of us humans on earth could manage to experience it directly, e.g. through insight Meditation, than we would have the opportunity to understand, what a beautiful and powerful couple our brainhemispheres are together, as long as we give both of them equal rights, instead of the domination by the leftbrain dictatorship, others call Patriarchy. We would be driven by compassion and be motivated to solve problems sustainably, that promotes wellbeing of others and myself, gardening, caring and Therapy and less division from others for the sake of shortminded "selfprofit".
Jill Bolte Taylor sends out a tremendous message here, that supports the meassage of very insightful beings in the past, like Jesus, Buddha, Theresa of Avila, St. Francis, Peace Pilgrim, Rumi and many many others who, appeared at different times and in different cultures to remind us of our heritage, given to us since our birth and how to overcome our narrowminded, onesided, leftbrain and much to often selfcentered behaviour.
Her scientific knowledge and this experiences doesn't necessarily mean that this story she tells is complete. It doesn't mean you can make a spiritual explanation for anything. As a person that was probably already spiritual, she let her experience and belief validate it all. However with her mind she has the intellect and it becomes easier for her to convince herself this all goes together.
If you ask me I think this entire experienced sounded like one of someone who had a physical impact (the hemorrhage) effect her sensory to the extend of temporary psychosis.
Milano Martin you can not choose to be spiritual. You are spirituality! Youre a spiritual being having a human experience
Just over 2 years post stroke, while driving. It is hard for me to put into words what I experienced, so let me say I can sooo relate to this description.
Bless you my dear brother.
You have seen the light. Although odd and painful, you have learned something that most of us will spend a lifetime searching for...
While some will have to come back and repeat the exercise.
Namaskar!
Go ahead live the present friend :D
Mario Hidalgo Doing my best!
As I tell everyone, practicing practicing!
Bless!
***** Thanks so much for your words, bro. Your work down here is intensive, and will harvest wonderful fruit for your coming lives...
Bless you my friend and just remember: I Am, You Are, We Are. That's a fact.
The brain
She had a burning question within her. So universe decided to answer her through her own experience. She is indeed an Yogi. 🙏.
A Yogini to be exact
Well said @Rudra-Thandavam
this is story for oscar award.Incredible !
Stvarno me nekad oduševiš koliko si svestran...
II would urge everyone to read this remarkable lady,’s book with the same title as that of the talk which summarised so well the insight she gained.
Whilst I agree from some respects, I don't think I could cope with seeing this point of view unless I had no other choice to do so. Perhaps this is the perfect argument to make said film?
I'm pretty sure it's not an act.
I'm skeptical also. How could she not have thought to call 911?
"a stroke of insight"
10/10 for creativity
I watch this regularly. It has profoundly impacted my life and the way I live.
and 3 years later? what>? you realize this is bullshit?
Me too! She's really on to something
elchatodeoro1 ???
Same!! This really validated a lot of how I understood my own experience after stroke and tbi and the changes iv experienced.
@@elchatodeoro1 i intially felt the same way you did, but then i realized that you and i are never going to truly understand what she is saying until we personally experience what she did. she may be using technical scientific words pseudoscientifically, but it's only because her experience is verbally ineffable. this is the only way she can convey what she underwent. and i think she did a marvelous job doing it. no need to be rude just because you are incapable of comprehending the incomprehensible.
When my father had his first stroke at age 54 it effected his cognitive abilities and personality more than physically. My dad couldn't explain what it was like inside his mind when it happened, but whatever it was he became a different person. I'm a nurse and I learned so much from him about having a stroke and it completely changed the way I cared for stroke patients. Totally different from how the other nurses did. My dad's stroke was my stroke of insight in caring for people who have experienced this.
It would be interesting to know how your care of the patients changed.. also how is your dad now?
@@monicasweer7253 @Lynn Roney I would love to know, too!
@Lynn Roney - Reiterating other's questions - Can you describe how your approach is different?
Blessings to both you and your Dad! /|\
God bless you.
i hope you and your family are healthy now, have a good day
Brilliant! I think this might just be THE best Ted Talk I've ever seen/heard/felt. I was so moved, intellectually and spiritually by her presentation. Thank you Jill!
+Trish Truitt I've loved it, but, this version was a bit over-spiritual in my mind. I prefer the version up on Ted Radio Hour (NPR). They play this clip, and ask Jill to expand on the various things she said.
I've read her book about it, "My Stroke of Insight," but actually listening to her talk about it is better. She really brings the experience to life. What's interesting is that I abandoned Western religion many decades ago and am still sure it's mythology. But in the past few years I've felt a desire to find others who believe what I do, and found that in Zen Buddhism. That's exactly the state I seek in meditation. and she has made my belief in Buddhism explainable by science, which I find is very cool. Buddha himself said not to believe anything he said unless it agrees with your own mind and makes sense scientifically. Some things we can't prove one way or another, like what happens after we die and the concept of karma, but there are many other concepts that science can be applied to.
@@eaglecentury3409 Your obviously mainly a "left" brainer....Its not "overly spiritual " in my mind since in truth we actually ARE spirits+ NOT these human bodies were inhabiting at the moment...that may be hard for YOU to accept that at this point in your spiritual evolution,but for me lts a "no brainer"since I have had OBE's(out of body experiences) that have proven this to be true beyond a doubt..I don't BELIEVE it to be true...I "KNOW" it to be true good luck in YOUR search for the TRUTH....Namaste.
Honestly the most impactful TED I've ever seen. Her book is also INCREDIBLE. One of the most important books I've ever read.
Tell me the name please
@@jhonnycastro383 "My Stroke of Insight"
Yes, I have referred many medical staff to her book to better understanding treating stroke patients.
Great book😊
Probably the most expansive talk I've ever had the privilege of hearing. Incredibly moving, positive and enlightening. And yes, it is definitely an idea worth spreading.
Thank you Jill for your courage, strength and hope ❤ 🙏
I have never heard anyone describe a stroke as lovingly as she and viewing it as a gift. She surely was engulfed in the love of the universal energy. A person well worth meeting...perhaps in the next energy field I will someday enter. Wow! what a tremendous woman and scientist!
I had a stroke just not long ago, it was (still is) the most scary and painful period. My age was considered “too young” to have a stroke. My experiences were similar to Dr. Taylor’s, but mine might be worse. I promised myself when I feel much better I would share my story. Thank you Dr. Taylor for sharing yours.
I hope you're feeling better 💖
May I ask what is too young to have a stroke?
Its difficult for me to describe what i have done the whole day. The way she described the whole thing even when she is in semi-conscious is fucking awesome. The way she explained made me feel, that i lived there in that moments while she is experiencing "Hemorrhage". What a tremendous gift that experience could be in her life!!
exactly
Usually, if something is so memorable, our brain records every detail of it and the memory may stay there for a long time or even forever. I remember an event (family celebration) when I was a child, I can even describe what I felt, the chronology of the event, my family's facial mimic and reaction, although I didn't have a concept of my own age. Last year, I found out that the event happened when I was 1 year old and was just learning to walk. I am 42 years old now.
One of the best speakers I have ever seen. Her ways of communicating with audience, facial expression&actions with abundant emotions, and of course strong passion and knowledge. I use her speech in sharing with my students what a great speaker looks like.
Every time I watch this video I cry, because it just rings true. And we have to remember this more often.
astridjl85 same reaction for me. I usually cry when something hits the very deep of my "myself", my heart, my whole being, and I know then that it's genuinely and totally true.
Me too!
Same here. Totally unexpected. I bawled.
BRILLIANT!!! One of the best emotionally insightful experiences I’ve had that highlights and reminds us all - THAT WE DO HAVE CHOICES and by deliberately choosing an expanded state of consciousness- we shape our realities and influence others in the most loving and positive way! ❤
I have secondary progressive MS, and have being experiencing episodes during some of my days, that I can only explain as being in a coma. I can hear everything around me going on. I can hear the questions that are being asked of me. I cant open my eyes, nor can I speak to answer. The words I try to get out of my mouth are slurred, and I am completely unable to be understood. I try to wake up, yet what I am feeling is so relaxing, almost like the most wonderful, comfortable sleep that you only dream of.
I am tryng to explain these experiences to my son and daughter-in-law. And she tells me, "Oh my God! Have you heard of this person? What you just explained is very similar to this experience that Jill Bolte Taylor had." So she sent me the link for this video.
Watchng ths video made me cry, because it is the first time I have felt understood. Although, I am not experiencing a stroke, these episodes that i have had, are so similar to what you described. As you were talking about your stroke, I found it amazing what you said, is exactly what I have been trying to put into words, to help my family understand what I am going through when I check out for a few hours lately.
So, thank you so much! This is something that will be forwarded to my famliy.
Vickie Case
Please TH-cam search "Dr. Wahls protocol" MS is meyelin related. Eat your vegetables. ☮️ Take Care. May the inner peace be with you. Dr. Wahls had MS. But she researched the cause and found a cure through nutrition. Let food by thy medicine.
Thanks for sharing your story, I hope your doing well
Vicki
13 months ago I had a stroke.
My tongue/lip are still a bit numb. It's worse I'm cold weather, when I'm tired.
@@angelinarobert622 Thank you for this. I am suspected to have MS. I have been on vegetarian diet for past 1 months which I started as part of loosing weight and I noticed in 2weeks that my symptoms have significantly come down. It was an accidental discovery. I will surely be learning about the protocol that you have mentioned.
What a brilliant speaker.
she evokes empathy from us...look how captivated the audience was with her here while she was speaking...and the standing ovation at the end...She as speaking the TRUTH from her heart...and we KNEW it in our hearts to be true!
It is extraordinarily rare that I cry. I can’t even remember the last time. This made me weep. Wow.
You can FEEL her sincerity and honesty....she is the new "GURU" of the "left brain-washed" World which dominates our culture
Same
@@mustangmikep51 Politics are brainrot
Me too, I’m a mess.
Makes me tear up everytime i watch this…. It is like a sermon infused with wisdom and love….
when science become an art
patioprimate It fact, I think it is...But depends on how one expresses herself, I guess
Maybe thats why some people say death is peacful sometimes. Cause they experience their left side of the brain shutoff first and all of a sudden you have the same joy you had as a child again.
Interesting. Thank you.
That sounds plausible and I'd like to think it's true. I wonder if there's research?
@@dontaylor7315 Kind of hard to research how people feel just before they die
@@patrickpeters6016 I meant neural data.
@@dontaylor7315 Yeah, that would be really interesting. IDK if that is possible though
My husband had a stroke on Thursday and I stumbled upon this TED talk in tears last night. I found Dr Jill’s experience so helpful and positive. While I am still concerned about my husband, I feel so much better and calmer about the situation.
I hope he recovers! All the best
best wishes to your husband!!
What this woman says it right on. I had a stroke 2 months ago and experienced many of the same things. But most importantly, I experienced that deep deep inside in that area of the brain that no man can touch….GOD was there waiting peacefully for me and gave me peace and nothing in the world mattered. And now this moment the pain of my adult kids not speaking to me is not important. I can chose to be in that happy peaceful place while I am alive, that pain does not exist unless I let it in.
I hope he is ok now🙏🏻
Comment va votre mari aujourd’hui? Mon mari vient de faire un AVC et c’est très éprouvant.
Oh my lord,... that was a lot. I'm crying. Thank you for sharing that worthwhile idea. TED talks always get me. Poignant and beautiful
Who else cried? Thank you Jill from the bottom of my heart.❤️
This woman knows nothing. Her mind was clouded by woo woo bullshit
This “woman” doesnt know anything
@@itsallgoodman4108what
@@itsallgoodman4108You need to have a stroke of insight.
@@furballrage595 after you furball
After 10 years of watching this Ted talk for the first time I still find myself coming back to here from time to time. The best Ted talk I’ve ever watched, this story was inspirational
Try to see past your own cynicism and realize that she is giving something amazing to us.
Thank you for not being a sheep
thats the question. this or similar experiences has happened to many people, and we do know that the fundamental mechanisms of reality is energy.....and that separation is a conscious/human construct to make sense of the world but doesn't intrinsically exist in the universe.....so based on the stuff we do know there is some truth into what shes saying....she just said it poetically
...okay.,
she experienced SELF-realization...the hard/dangerous way! Better to meditate......
Huh? Sorry, I'm on my right side now. It was Nirvana. I was laughing so hard, loved it.
This just answered my life search for meaning and understanding. Decades I’ve had of guilt and shame unnecessary brain chatter that has taken decades of trials and tribulation only to find myself at the beginning of that loop and I’d go along for another decade of misunderstanding and judgment and that baggage. I watched this and I wish I had known what she learned through this horrible yet beautiful life experience of experiencing one of the most rare and dangerous strokes a human can ever have. What a stroke of insight indeed. I feel like I can finally dump the horrors I’ve experienced and finally grasp the right here right now, through all the self discovery I was begging for.....and books I read and read again and I just couldn’t figure out how it worked. She explained it all so beautifully in 15 minutes. I feel like I can now enjoy and understand why everything happened and have peace in my life. Thank you Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, I’m 14 years late for your TED Talk but I finally showed up. W O W!!!!
This is the very first TED talk I had ever heard. Roughly a decade ago. This is still so very gripping. So profound. So physiologically relatable. The human mind is an unknown ❤
What do you think the purpose of this speech was?
@@vellyvids7991 To help humanity awaken to their true nature. And you?
So far this also one of the most moving and emotional talks for me. I as well had a an injury like a stoke where I hit one of those concrete poles around a gas pump after having a grand mal seizure from my epilepsy, which I had just been dx 2 years before. It not only shredded the left half of my face but was left with a tbi. After a couple months of healing the face thing, realized now I have to start relearning who and what I was! That was 15 years ago and still to this day I'm working to gain what I had lost, yet move on to realize and accept the new me, and know that life goes on
God always compensates if you give Him a chance.
This woman and this speech are just incredible! So powerful!!!
I’ve encountered this idea before and it really resonates with me; that things we callously categorize as mental illnesses and medical emergencies could very possibly be glimpses of alternate states of being and layers/perspectives of reality we are blind to and can not comprehend in our stifled state.
Her words are simple yet profound. We are born without ego. And as we age, most of us develop an imbalance between these 'sides' of our brains. We think of ourselves as separate from the world. We worry about our mortality. If can you let go (or at least minimize) your ego, then you are truly free. This is something to reach through much effort and repetition, resetting your neurochemistry. It may take years through means such as meditation, but the journey is a worthy and beautiful one.
Dear Jill, your humor, and your very lovely detailed story along with your bravery give all of us hope to live our life without fear and with joy.
She's a great speaker, and it felt like we were reliving the moment along side her, however the shrooms definitely hit at 14:56
tate mac Yes they sure did.. O.O
tate mac Don't worry about it and just go back to sleep. The government never lies and has your best interests at heart. You are free and have rights.
tate mac I think it's better to see it as a wonderful walk through an experience of a specific stroke, rather than a revelation of the binary world of the hemispheres. For instance, little children who undergo hemispherectomy show "no significant long-term effects on memory, personality or humor and minimal changes in cognitive function overall". Granted, they have neuroplasticity, but the more we learn of the function of the hemispheres, the more we realize it works more like a network than two communicating entities. And since she had a hemorrhage, it's possible that the right side of her brain was affected as well, since the blood would raise intracranial pressure and "squeeze" her entire brain in the skull. For all we know, the "I feel like the life force" could just have been a hallucination or epileptiform activity.
Kat Rido Totally true about neuroplasticity and kids with hemispherectomies, but generally speaking brains organize themselves in similar ways- there is truth behind the right/creative left/analytical. Your brain will balance itself out if something goes wrong, but otherwise, we do have a "language" part, "senses" part, "imagination" part, etc. It's not totally random and different in each person
Alexander DeBavelaere True, but each part is not an autonomous entity and our understanding of more obscure functions (emotions, thoughts, personality) is still limited and imprecise. I've worked as a neuroanatomy peer teacher and I've completed my neurology rounds. And the whole dominant hemisphere theory only describes where the language center is. There is evidence of different functions of the left and right frontal lobes, but her assertion that each hemisphere is somehow a gateway to a completely different perception of being is at best a blatant assumption.
16:08 finding peace. This is so powerful. We have the intrinsic ability to choose to use our right hemispheres for healing ourselves and spreading good to the world. Thank you.
Even after 10 years from when I first heard this, I'm still in awe almost to the brink of tears every time I hear this talk.
I've felt that through meditation. Only once, but I keep trying to get back to it
Remember to not associate what you want to acheive again with your past experience, but rather think about what you find amazing about you acheiving it now, focus on the process of being where you are to where you can just as easily be
I've experienced it multiple times with meditation and yoga. Meditation where you focus on the hands instead of the breath and with hatha yoga. But you have to find the right yoga instructor..try looking for one on youtube. the key is to find the right platform to feel that incredible feeling. Also try the hand meditation, it is very similar to walking meditation. hope this helps :)
Hello, what do you mean platform? And what kind of meditation is a hand meditation? Is it mudras? Thank you!
I experienced this through mushrooms
What you have experienced is an initiate stage of dhyana. Keep your awareness in any meditation. You may pass few more dhyana stages before achieving nirvana. Instead of samatha meditation methods try practicing vipassana methods. Some might falsely thought that they experienced nirvana. This is a good key to test your self, if you ever think you achieved nirvana then you're not. Also someone who experienced nirvana will never cry.
Very powerful. Wished everyone would experience that peacefulness and project it throughout the world. I'm sick and tired of War , hunger, murder, lies, deceitful , power hungry & wicked people.
Brett Clark I feel you.
Brett Clark all you are doing is closing your eyes to the outside world, these experiences won't change the world, without the drive for more we would just stop and fade away into nothing.
I lovr War and power. Ill conquer you Beta!!!
Love, tolerance, rationality are the three words that form the key to true freedom. And true freedom is the key to peace.
According to the logic here, you wouldn't be sick and tired of anything if you were cut off from your left brain. The world would be perfect and just the way it's meant to be. Your survival desires and fears would be gone, and, soon after, without routine and constant assistance, you'd be gone too.
I've rewatched this so many times over the years and hadn't heard it in a few years. Listening to it today, her words are even stronger. In 2017, after years of doing my sleep rituals, I got to this magic place that I couldn't articulate into words. She's captured this moment in this talk. There's a surrendering of self, of yesterday, of tomorrow and of now that's allowed me to fully appreciate and love with every essence of my being. Since that moment of 2017, I found my joy, I found life. I found love without words. I feel lucky and greatful to live from this place and the opportunity to share this energy and me with all the peeps, I come across with. Thank you Jill for putting your life experience in the best way possible!
Which is sleep rituals bro? Please , share , it can be my need?
Cant stop my tears, jill you are FREE. Lots of Love and Wishes. Namaskaram
I'm there with you
Namaskar this exactly what Advait Vedanta philosophy teaches .may all humanity get this Advait atma Anubhuti.
May all living beings find this peacefulness. Oom tat sat .aham brahasmi
@@masonart4950 me too!
This is probably the most important video I ever saw. 12 or 13 years ago it set me on a path which completely upended my ideas about reality and brought me to study nonduality. Jill was so generous in sharing this experience cogently and honestly.
I was born without a Corpus Callosum. Discovering this, changed my life.
Wow never heard of such a thing before.
This is seriously the most inspirational talk I’ve ever seen. I do NOT say that lightly!
Two weeks because my brother told me who you are and because of a distant memory I called on you though your Ted Talk gift.
I was conscious and could say ambulance.
My husband found me on the floor after the dogwalk. Ten minute’s later I was traveling again somewhere in the ambulance was my body along for the ride
Anyway Grace entered and has stayed.
Thank you so much you are a gift of insight.
And that I am
also Grateful and your humanity this Talk is just what the doctor ordered.
greatest TED Talk of all time?
Yes
I had that when I was 16 and 10 months and 21 days. The same awakening. The world is too bright and excessively noisy.
The other 2? asking for a friend :p
oh okay, after watching this i see you were being sarcastic, lol
Benjamin Jack Kata Finau Absolutely!
I came back to this speech 4 years after I commented on this clip. It is still the best speech I've ever heard in my lifetime.
The human brain is fascinating - the more discoveries we make the more astounding it is.
I come back to this video when the state of our Earth is just too much to bear. She's wonderful and once again she makes me weep.
This talk is so good I've come back multiple times over the past years to re-watch it.
I watch this regullary!
Same! I love it
hands down the BEST Ted talk I've seen.... and i bet that's EVER been done. truly amazing.
Oh I am so thankful 🙏 I found you.
10months into my stroke.
It's so hard.
I'm not alone.
Thank you for sharing.
My grandfather had a stroke right before my 3rd year exams in campus. It is one of the most difficult experiences I have lived through. And yet it is not enough to picture from this perspective how much it has done to him. I love him more than I love my own father. This video is profound to me, as I can empathize with his state a little better than I ever could.
She's so, soo into her speech... I felt her speech deep down in my heart. Oh God....
I will be sitting on the right side of my father cast all your fish net to the right side of the boat has given you meaning of the Bible which I know is a Biology book about your body and your brain!
The Gospel of Jesus is the way you're right brain hemisphere function
Incredible communicator. Such great use of descriptive language in her explanation of her experience.
Wow, there is so much to talk about. But hearing a scientist talk about spirit is realy a great surprise.
Guess that's just the force of habit. Unless she really is religious or something then it's sad xD
spir·it (sprt) n.
1. a. The vital principle or animating force within living beings. b. Incorporeal consciousness.
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5. a. The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings: Though unable to join us today, they are with us in spirit. b. The essential nature of a person or group.
Among other definitions.
So, as you can see Kile Slice, Spirit has a definition beyond what you were taught in sunday school or whatever religion you have. Especially considering what she says starting in 16:48
Pejeno Pejeno Well sir, I wonder where the definition you provided us was derived from!? Or better yet what was the first form of belief or institution to bring it to light. Spirit has come from religion and then later on philosophy or "Sunday school" and scientist have now began to accept it and define it in their own language... In the future try to refrain yourself from snarky judgements, it throws out your so called "intellect" you are trying to project from that ignorant comment.
Klajdi C I think he was just saying the definition isn't restricted to the religious view of the spirit, but yes you have a point
terms get misused , to inquire into culture of a religion is one thing. To doubtlessly believe in everything that religion propagates is to be religious in my view which is very different from being spiritual. Some people use the words differently dou , if you want to understand people you cant rush to your own understanding , but inquire into their own .
I was 33 when I had my stroke 7 months ago and she perfectly what I couldn't put into words of my experience. The whole way through.
We grow up in a culture where individuality is highly emphasized. Everywhere there's talk of leaving your own impression, making your own mark, fulfilling your own desire, enhancing your own self-affirmation in this world. But along the way does this also underrate the importance of sparing a thought for the others, spending some time looking around you, and feeling that magical bond essentially connecting every single individual in the world?
And can we expect that a moment of "living with only your right hemisphere", being merged into the common, and experiencing the very beauty of it... would instill in a person the wanting to connect more with his fellow beings and live for the common good?
Totally absorbed and speechless during this unforgettable 20-minute experience. A really, really refreshing idea. Think less of your very own self, blend more in with the mutual self of our universe.
Isn't "either/or" thinking part of the left side thinking, though? Why two hemispheres if one is morally bad? The answer isn't so simple and India and China who had the religions that preached Nirvana for centuries still had wars and atrocities not to mention the real evil of totalitarianism. Also the kind of peace of the right brain excludes rational thought which can bring evil into the world as well. Nirvana is only good if you are leaving this world forever. Everyone, even those clapping, also wondered about her emotional stability. One commenter here made the statement "those who left a negative need to step to the right" and I thought, how quickly we take up resentment and sides when we are emotional. How quickly they should can become we will make them. Witness the coercive nature of political correctness for example.
JEFFREY Bensley not sure you “got it” my friend.
This is my favorite ted talk of all time. I remember watching this video years ago after a chemistry class where I began to question the theories that she’s suggesting. It was my introduction into ted talks and as I said to this day, it’s still my favorite.
Many people find it hard to believe in such ideas like this, but this woman is definitely now one of my inspirations in believing in the spiritual life. Our own human mind and perception just cannot understand the concept of the spirit, or even the idea of something that goes on forever; its like were in an unpopable bubble. I praise this woman xD this story was definitely amazing!
Having suffered not a stroke but aTBI as an infant and recently realizing how it's affected my life, after watching this..i question whether or not that almost dying even as an infant has given me a much different view and outlook on life than most people I've encountered. Sure i went off to live my first almost 40 years fairly normal and extremely broken... But with certain desires that made me feel both incredibly small and ginormous at the same time. A knowing of sorts. Thank you for this talk. I now have a bit of gratitude towards my near death experience that i have no recollection of.
This is way out of left field no pun intended...beyond any of my previous inklings or knowledge....incredible description with a tangible passion by this lady for peace to be expressed by and for us all....holy fkn WOW.
I immediately drifted right back out into the consciousness. I affectionately refer to this place as La La Land, but it was beautiful there. Can you imagine what it would be like to be totally disconnected from your brain chatter that connects you to the external world? Imagine what it would be like to lose 37 years of emotional baggage. - 9:25 Jill Taylor
That was one of the most powerful and potentially life changing videos I’ve ever watched. Actually had me weeping toward the end.
Such an incredible way to describe something that would otherwise seem so terribly frightening. Thank you for your story!
One of my favorite TED talks.
It is scary how alike the symptoms of a bad migraine attack is to a stroke. As someone who suffers migraine attacks, based on just what she says, when experiencing this, I wouldn't realise the difference. That is scary to think about.
I lost my wife to a stroke last year and she had migraines too,so we couldn't tell the difference, please do get a CT Scan if you feel the pain is severe or abnormally painful.
I was thinking the same thing!
@@abilashraman3810 I had migraines with my best friend for 17 years. Then she had a massive brain stem stroke. I hit menopause and my migraines stopped (for a few years) My best friend was so young, she hadn't hit menopause yet. She was only 44.
I'm sorry for your loss, it's a traumatic way to lose someone.
@@ComfortablyYum Thank you for your kind words, really appreciate it. My wife was all of 37 years old, her death was due to a clot build up in her brain, she did complain of headaches days before her death, but she never explained the severity of it. Death was due to Intracranial Hemmorage which caused the stroke , coma and instant death. The key here is to listen to our bodies it always gives us warnings of something that could go wrong in the future, early diagnosis is key.
I think you would know the difference. I just had a stroke in September (nothing as bad as this speaker) and I also have a history of migraines. Oddly enough, I didn’t have a headache but rather a really stiff neck. I blew my nose and felt an electric bolt hit the top of my head and travel down my spine. I just knew something bad had happened and called 911.
I never tire of listening to this. What a Champion of a woman! I just received her second book and am enjoying it so much already. Thanks Jill. x
This is my all-time favorite TED talk. Idk how many times I’ve viewed this over the years. Fascinating!
What an amazing story. I'm actually jealous... It sounds like she experienced enlightenment
(min: 15:20) 'There is no way I would ever be able to squeeze the enormousness of myself back inside this tiny little body'. Amazing feeling, no need to wait for a stroke; meditation can take us there. Thanks Jill.
This is incredible. She is incredible. Her explanation is so beautiful and easily understood. From someone who doesn't understand the human brain as much as some, she made me understand and relate to her entire experience.
Miss Ted Talk lady, I'm thankful you survived this stroke and maintained your intelligence all while delivering education to those who want to listen. I came across this video years ago and still watch / share it with others. I wish more people were educated on strokes.
TH-cam friends, does she have other videos? Id love to listen to her more.
Also, Ted talk lady , come to Shambhala anytime. Wed love to have you
As someone who has also had a near death experience, being declared 60% dead, I highly relate to her experience. Brought tears to my eyes!
I have this experience... AND I FEEL THE SAME OR MORE
What is 60% dead?
@@ASLUHLUHC3 its not dead
@@ASLUHLUHC3 40% alive
I’m studying the Buda and his ideas, when I remembered about this talk. It’s the meditations mind that he talks about.
so you meditate I'm guessing? what are the most noticeable benefits?
What she described many people call enlightenment. Losing the ego, the self and being one with the world.
I’ve watched this so many time & it still gets me emotional. The story is beyond incredible, but the manner in which she recounts it is awe inspiring, powerful & poetic. Thank you for being a story we can all com back to time & time again. Utterly moving. ✨
I wish this was in HD. 240p is disappointing. Good thing this AMAZING talk makes up for it.
I felt a similar experience when I was delivering my first child under cesarean section. Euphoric is the word! I felt like I was one with the coconut tree and when it's branch swayed, it was like my hands swaying. That's the kind of expanse I felt. When I regained my consciousness from general anasthesia, tears were flowing and I thanked the doctor. She thought it was for delivering my child. Thank you doctor. I think now my left brain had disconnected because of the anaesthesia.
Found myself clapping at the screen with tear-filled eyes at the end. Definitely an idea worth spreading, thank you!!!
One of my absolutely FAVORITE talks!!! Incredible to hear a trained observer recalling their own experiences in crisis. Such an incredible opportunity for insight.
I have watched this so many times and I am still moved each time I see it. Amazing. What a story. What a message. Thank you!
I watch this presentation several times, every time I can learn something new.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ...I see this seven months after my father passed away after suffering a stroke . I wish i knew this at that time , but I also now know what he felt , who he was in those three months of stroke , what was healing him and what finally stopped healing him . It was energy around him .
Jill Taylor, thank you so much for sharing your story. You are a gift to humanity x
I've experienced some of the things she described on an LSD trip. I had different parts of my body talking to me. I felt disconnected from this world and felt very connected in another.
That moment when you realize you're just an energy bean.
Doik Yeah.....usually 'bout 2 hours, after I've had a can of them....
♫ A real human bean ♫
it's energy being :)
+Queef
♫ And a real hero ♫
BEAMS!!!!
This is an amazing experience. Not many can live to tell their story. Thank you Jill.
A powerful, natural and effortless presentation by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. This is by far the most striking video for it prompts us to seriously reflect on the essence of our existence.
I lovehowcandid she is I'm recovering from my first stroke right now and I can relate to what she's saying
My husband as well. He sees some of her experience in his. He was a different person after. Softer and kinder. He can’t really explain it. We actually know very little about the complicated and complexity of the brain. It is a puny mind that can’t be open to further revelation or knowledge. Sad.