Jill Bolte Taylor (Neuroscientist): Balanced Brain Model Reduces Stress

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist who experienced a stroke and wrote about her wisdom in her book "My Stroke of Insight". In this interview, she is calls for a balanced brain model. The left hemisphere of our brain notices our differences, not our similarities. We give this power because it is the language part of the brain which talks to us. We live in an imbalanced brain society which values thinking over feeling, the domain of the right brain. This brings us stress, and leads to a tendency to miss the present moment, which is where our joy is.