My Stroke of Insight Audiobook (Free)

The astonishing NYC Times bestseller that chronicles what sort of brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment.

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained human brain scientist experienced an enormous stroke in the left hemisphere of her mind. As she noticed her brain deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, browse, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours­-Taylor alternated between your euphoria from the intuitive and about My Heart stroke of Understanding kinesthetic right human brain, where she felt a feeling of full well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left mind, which acknowledged she was having a stroke and allowed her to get help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.

For Taylor, her heart stroke was a blessing and a surprising rvelation. It taught her that by ‘moving to the correct’ of our remaining brains, we are able to uncover emotions of well-being that are often sidelined by ‘human brain chatter.’ Reaching wide audiences through her talk in the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) meeting and her appearance on Oprah’s online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.