My Stroke of Insight is a New York Times Bestseller from 2008 and is published by Penguin Group USA. You may order a copy through online stores including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or ask your local bookstore. It is available in hardcover, paperback, audio (abridged and unabridged, both read by the author), and large-print edition. Foreign editions are also available and published in Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. Other translations are scheduled to be published in the coming months. (For an updated list of foreign versions and their publishers, please visit Jill Bolte Taylor on Wikipedia.com.)
Jill
Bolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained and published brain
scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes
of a curious neuroanatomist, she watched her mind completely
deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall
any of her life. Because of her understanding of how the brain works,
her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing
mother, Jill completely recovered her mind, brain and body. In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey,
Jill shares with us her recommendations for recovery and the insight
she gained into the unique functions of the right and left halves of
her brain. Having lost the categorizing, organizing, describing,
judging and critically analyzing skills of her left brain, along with
its language centers and thus ego center, Jill’s consciousness shifted
away from normal reality. In the absence of her left brain’s neural
circuitry, her consciousness shifted into present moment thinking
whereby she experienced herself “at one with the universe.”
Based upon her academic training and personal experience, Jill helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can ‘tend the garden of our minds’ to maximize our quality of life. Jill pushes the envelope in our understanding about how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel, and how we react to life’s circumstances. Jill teaches us through her own example how we might more readily exercise our own right hemispheric circuitry with the intention of helping all human beings become more humane. “I believe the more time we spend running our deep inner peace circuitry, then the more peace we will project into the world, and ultimately the more peace we will have on the planet.”
Based upon her academic training and personal experience, Jill helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can ‘tend the garden of our minds’ to maximize our quality of life. Jill pushes the envelope in our understanding about how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel, and how we react to life’s circumstances. Jill teaches us through her own example how we might more readily exercise our own right hemispheric circuitry with the intention of helping all human beings become more humane. “I believe the more time we spend running our deep inner peace circuitry, then the more peace we will project into the world, and ultimately the more peace we will have on the planet.”
My Stroke of Insight is available at your local bookstore or online merchants including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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For press inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Keenan, at elizabeth.keenan@us.penguingroup.com.
For speaking engagements, please contact adam@mystrokeofinsight.com.
We have set up a forum for people who want to build a community around the ideas presented in the best-selling book. There is a forum for people who have experienced stroke or other medical issues first-hand or through a loved one; another forum focuses on techniques for how to achieve a balanced brain; and yet another allows people to share their stories of insight and the life lessons they have learned. These forums can be found on the website, www.mystrokeofinsight.com. Read beautiful stories and learn more about the ideas presented in My Stroke of Insight.