The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroAnatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace.
And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a Whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace..
Indeed, we discover That we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every moment.
The more we become familiar with each of the Characters in ourselves and others, the more power we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives.
And she introduces a practice called the Brain Huddle--a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another so we can tap their respective strengths and choose which one to embody in any situation.
Taylor shows us how to get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well.
In Whole Brain Living, Dr.
Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells That feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts.
Everything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon Brain cells to perform That function.
Jill Bolte Taylor presents these Four distinct modules of cells as Four Characters That make up who we are: Character 1, Left Thinking
Character 2, Left Emotion
Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking.
In this groundbreaking new book, Dr.
Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional Brain and a thinking brain.
Now neuroscience shows That it\'s not That simple: in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres.
For half a century we have been trained to believe That our right Brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left Brain houses our rational thinking.
The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroAnatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace
