Comments on: Book Review: My Stroke of Insight ~Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

By: patricia

patricia — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:03:15 +0000

Prof. Brohi,
Thank you for your insightful comments and I truly liked this book, it was helpful in working with my child who has a lesion in her brain at long term memory retrieval…
A very wonderful orator
Thank you for stopping by…

By: Prof. Shams Raza Brohi

Prof. Shams Raza Brohi — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:37:31 +0000

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s account of stroke is worth reading and inspiring as well in understanding of two hemispheres as a parallel and serial processors of computers. Her description of left lobe as a selfish lobe always thinking in future and past as compared to right which thinks right here and right now and connecting to whole universe, makes sense of functions of two orchestra conductors in the cerebral symphony.
she is wonderful orator.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:20:02 +0000

sensit,
I am on my way to check out your Buddhist perspective…thank you

By: sensit

sensit — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:58:05 +0000

Buddhist-influenced perspective on My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

http://sensit.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/my-stroke-of-insight-by-jill-bolte-taylor/

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:26:43 +0000

Descartes,
I found this book to be very interesting too and enjoyed reading it. It did not bother me to mix the self-help with the science and I think it assisted the author in her understanding – but each to his own.
I have a child with a lesion in her brain in long term memory. After figuring out how to help her learn, this book became even more fascinating as the author described so many of the things that I was doing and seeing.

Yes! it is very frightening to think about how quickly life can change and a new life emerge. Thankfully so many folks who sustain head injuries are now being “recovered”, though life seems to be a new adventure.

By: Descartes

Descartes — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:47:00 +0000

I found My Stroke of Insight to be interesting, but found all the New Age business about energy and negativity a bit distracting. I don’t like my science mixed up with my self help.

It is frightening that we are all one head injury away from being someone else.

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By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:19:20 +0000

I just found this book amazing from start to finish and discovered I did a lot of correct things in helping my youngest child learn. I also saw my father correct his problems himself after having a stroke - he started his career as a speech therapist in a school for the deaf and then went on to be a teacher, principal, and then State Director of Special Education... Good intuitive healing thanks for your comments Patricias last blog post..Factoid Friday: Architects

By: cathlawson

cathlawson — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:20:43 +0000

Hi Patricia – This sounds like an amazing book. And how wonderful that Jill was able to recover from her stroke and go on to write a book.

I once nursed a woman in her early fifties who’d had a stroke. I moved to a different hospital and I was delighted when I bumped into her in the canteen one day. She wasn’t completely recovered but she’d improved a great deal. It was brilliant to see that she was managing to recover from her stroke.