Recently, I was introduced by one of our instructors to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s work and her book Stroke of Insight. Dr. Taylor is a neuroanatomist who had a massive stroke one morning and led her discovery of the “Stroke of insight”, which is a wonderful journey of her experiencing conscious awareness of her right-hemisphere existence. She explained our left hemisphere functions like the “parallel processor” of a computer and it thinks linearly and methodically. Our left hemisphere connects and categorizes the details from the past and projects them into the future, and represents the “I am” part in our existence which makes us a single solid individual, separate from the energy flow. On the contrary, our right hemisphere functions like the “serial processor” of a computer and it is all about this present moment. It thinks in pictures, and learns through the movements of our bodies. Our right hemisphere also receives information in the form of energy and transforms the energy into the look, taste, feel and sound of the present moment. It represents an energy-being connected to the energy all around us through the consciousness of the right hemisphere.
 
Below is an excerpt from her video that I would like to share with you all. I personally find it very inspirational and moving, and I encourage you to look into Stroke of Insight, written by Jill Bolte Taylor, and spread the peace to the people around you and your surroundings. As most of you know, the ND program that all accredited schools offer in North America is a very left brain dominated program and hopefully, when we finish our program we will be able to integrate more of the right hemisphere into our left brain dominated training.
 
“Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and 2 cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here, right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere, where we are. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is. Or, I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere, where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the “we” inside of me. Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend in choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemisphere, the more peace we will project into the world. And the more peaceful our world will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading.” 
 
For more information go to Dr. Jill’s video