my stroke insight

Bolte Taylor, Jill

Science & Math

Hodder Paperbacks

Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life

The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;best-selling author of&nbsp;My Stroke of Insight&nbsp;blends neuroanatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace. For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple: in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain&nbsp;and&nbsp;a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four&nbsp;characters&nbsp;that make up who we are: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking. Everything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon brain cells to perform that function. Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells that feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts. In&nbsp;Whole Brain Living,&nbsp;Dr. Taylor shows us how to get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well. And she introduces a practice called the Brain Huddle--a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another so we can tap their respective strengths and choose which one to embody in any situation. The more we become familiar with each of the characters in ourselves and others, the more power we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives. Indeed, we discover that we have the power to choose&nbsp;who&nbsp;and&nbsp;how&nbsp;we want to be in every moment. And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Hay House LLC

The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroanatomy with psychology to show how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find our way to peace.\nFor half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it’s not that simple: in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently, each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor—author of the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight—presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are: Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking.\nEverything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon brain cells to perform that function. Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells that feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts. In Whole Brain Living, available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Taylor blends neuroanatomy with psychology to help us: 
Get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well Apply the wisdom of the Four Characters to every area of life—from work to relationships to health Use a powerful practice called the Brain Huddle—a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another—to short-circuit emotional reactivity, tap our characters’ respective strengths, and choose which one to embody in any situation 
The more we become familiar with each of the characters in ourselves and others, the more power we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives. Indeed, we discover that we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every moment. And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace.

Le cerveau extralucide

J'Ai Lu

Conoce tus hemisferios cerebrales y elige quién y cómo quieres ser en cada momento de tu vida 
Durante medio siglo hemos creído que el hemisferio cerebral derecho es nuestro «cerebro emocional» y que el izquierdo alberga nuestro pensamiento racional. Sin embargo, la neurociencia ha demostrado que no es exactamente así, ya que nuestro tejido límbico emocional está dividido a partes iguales entre nuestros dos hemisferios. Eso implica que cada uno de ellos cuenta con un cerebro emocional y un cerebro pensante. 
En este libro innovador, la neuroanatomista Jill Bolte Taylor, autora de la obra superventas Un ataque de lucidez, propone un modelo psicológico que se estructura en torno a los cuatro módulos neuronales que componen el cerebro, y que ella describe como cuatro personajes que conforman lo que somos: el pensamiento del hemisferio izquierdo, las emociones del hemisferio izquierdo, las emociones del hemisferio derecho y el pensamiento del hemisferio derecho. La autora presenta, además, una práctica herramienta con la que podremos poner a nuestros cuatro personajes a «conversar» entre sí para aprovechar sus respectivos puntos fuertes y elegir a cuál recurrir en cada situación. Según Bolte Taylor, cuanto más nos familiaricemos con cada uno de esos personajes ―tanto los nuestros como los de los demás―, más poder ejerceremos sobre nuestros pensamientos, sentimientos y relaciones, y más sencillo nos resultará vivir el momento presente, salir de la ansiedad y alcanzar una profunda paz interior.

Cerebro lúcido: Los cuatro personajes que hay en tu cerebro y cómo integrarlos para decidir quién quieres ser

Gaia Ediciones

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