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| Image from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor 's TED Talk - "Stroke of | Insight" |
Saw this amazing TED talk by Jill Bolte Taylor. She is an accomplished Neurologist that ends up having a stroke. Through her experience of the stroke she is able to experience her brain in a unique and powerful manner. Her experiences got me thinking about how it overlaps with Brainspotting. Brainspotting is a very neurologically based approached which use brain specific process and indications as markers in the healing process. In her talk, Dr. Taylor talks about the right hemisphere of her brain feeling like the global or spiritual link to the world around her while her left hemisphere is where she experiences the self or her personal dimensions. Sometimes when we are processing material using Brainspotting, we will use goggles that cover up either the left eye or the right which allows for a reduction in the overall distress while processing however it also can be flipped around where one eye may be a source of distress the other eye's perceptions can be experience as a resource because it is is less activating. This got me thinking that our trauma can be simply seen as a personal or spiritual trauma thus something that takes me away from connection with myself or that which is greater than me. So when we are healing traumas, we are essentially healing relationships either with ourselves or with the spiritual relationships for which arise.
Check out Dr. Taylor's talk below and I hope you enjoy it. Leave a comment to your thoughts on this topic.
Stroke of Insight Link
Jeff Ryan, LPCIT, CSAC
Therapist
Get Connected Counseling, LLC
Appleton, WI
920-750-6120
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