January 3rd, 2009 | |
Posted in Addicted
To this book. My grandma is in the hospital recovering her brain from a stroke. We do not know how she’ll turn out to be, and even though this book is hardly about my gandma’s case, it’s still interesting to read about Dr Jill’s case, which she delivers in a light, well explained and simple way that is very easy to read and very hard to put down once you start.
And I can’t help but kind of wish sometimes to be in that nirvana place that she describes. But I know what that would mean. It would mean giving up the very essence of being me, for the sake of feeling at one with the universe. No, thanks, I’ll pass.
What really caught my attention was this excerpt. I really want to live by that.
“I knew that no one had the power to make me feel anything, except for me and my brain. Nothing external to me had the power to take away my peace of heart and mind. That was completely up to me. I may not be in total control of what happens to my life, but I certainly am in charge of how I choose to perceive my experience.”
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D - My Stroke of Insight.