Posts made in February, 2015

A Stroke of Insight

Posted by Beth on Feb 21, 2015

I recently read a book by Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who experienced the results of a stroke that incapacitated almost the entire left side of her brain. Most people are aware that our left and right brains carry out very different functions, the left keeps time, makes comparisons, judges, categorises and labels. It contains our to do lists, our recollection of past and our future and also gives us our capacity for skills like language and mathematics. It provides us with a perception of our boundaries and a sense of who we are in the world, our name, age, occupation and our standing in society.     It was these analytical and ego functions that Jill...