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

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

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

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

by Jill Bolte Taylor

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Overview

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.

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 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.

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 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.

    Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9781401965549
    Publisher: Hay House Inc.
    Publication date: 08/09/2022
    Pages: 304
    Sales rank: 74,514
    Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

    About the Author

    Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and is still routinely the #1 book about stroke on Amazon.

    Dr. Taylor is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating all age groups, academic levels, as well as corporations about the beauty of our human brain and its ability to recover from trauma. In 2008 she gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 26 million views. Also in 2008, Dr. Taylor was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World” and was the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” web-cast.

    Table of Contents

    Preface: Peace Is Just a Thought Away ix

    Part I A Brief Look inside Your Brain 1

    Chapter 1 My Story and Our Brain 3

    Chapter 2 Brain Anatomy and Personality 21

    Chapter 3 Our Brain's Team: The Four Characters 31

    Part II Your Four Characters 45

    Chapter 4 Character 1-Left Brain Thinking 47

    Chapter 5 Character 2-Left Brain Emotional 75

    Chapter 6 Character 3-Right Brain Emotional 103

    Chapter 7 Character 4-Right Brain Thinking 125

    Chapter 8 The Brain Huddle: Your Power Tool for Peace 149

    Part III The Four Characters in the Wild 173

    Chapter 9 Connection to Ourself-Our Four Characters and the Body 175

    Chapter 10 Connection with Others-Our Four Characters in Romantic Relationships 191

    Chapter 11 Disconnection and Reconnection-Our Four Characters in Addiction and Recovery 205

    Chapter 12 The Last 100 Years-Our Four Characters and the Influence of Technology 235

    Chapter 13 Perfect, Whole, and Beautiful 259

    Index 277

    Acknowledgments 287

    About the Author 289

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