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Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk

February 10, 2014 By Grace Sakoma

This Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk about why she became a brain scientist…her brother was schizophrenic…and how she discovered her right brain when a stroke shut down her left brain. And how she learned to “tend the garden of my mind.”

 

JILL BOLTE TAYLOR’S STROKE OF INSIGHT INTERVIEW

December 18, 2013 By JudySteed

The clearest description of how the brain functions comes — for me — from Jill Bolte Taylor. Her book, My Stroke of Insight, gives wonderful insight into the right brain, which has been so neglected in our left brain culture.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor Describes Her Stroke

On Oprah’s Soul Series, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor talks with Oprah about what happened the morning the doctor had a hemorrhagic stroke.

Stress Proof Your Brain with Dr Rick Hanson

December 11, 2013 By JudySteed

Rick Hanson is the author of the New York Times best seller Buddha’s Brain the practical neuroscience of happiness love and wisdom.

Leading Edge Seminars recently brought Rick Hanson to Toronto for a two-day session that quickly sold out. The audience consisted mostly of people in the helping professions — the majority were therapists — for whom learning and teaching mindfulness are key factors in their approach to well being.

Hanson started by drawing our attention to the brain itself: “three pounds of tofu-like tissue containing 1.1 trillion cells, including 100 billion neurons.” Chemicals called neurotransmitters enable neurons to receive signals telling the neurons to fire. When they fire, they send signals to other neurons….and as the famous saying goes, neurons that fire together wire together. Which is the good news and the bad news.Continue Reading

Boomer Tsunami

December 11, 2013 By JudySteed

HERE’S the link or pdf for BOOMER TSUNAMI, as published in the Toronto Star in 2008.

For a journalist with close to 30 years experience in the trenches, writing features about everything from canoeing the Nahanni River – on the border of the Yukon and Northwest Territories — to Nanasivik, the coldest mine on earth – on Baffin Island; try visiting in winter! — to the Harvard Business School, MIT and many other seats of higher learning. To Jamaica — I interviewed Michael Manley — then at sea with Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd Society saviour of whales), then off to the rain forests of Costa Rica, and dropping by helicopter onto an offshore oil rig after the Ocean Ranger went down…Quebec politics and feminism (special interests), sports (I played hockey on a boy’s team when I was a kid) and delving into the toughest topic of all: child sexual abuse. My book OUR LITTLE SECRET grew out of cases I wrote about for the Toronto Star…..politicians, business leaders, local heroes, the struggles of people, giving a voice to people who felt they had no voice, contributing to the shaping of public opinion….it was a very rich and meaningful life.Continue Reading

Mindfulness and Guided Practice

December 4, 2013 By JudySteed

judy-meditationThree books by brain scientists are at the core of my approach to mindfulness and guided practice:  Norman Doidge’s THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF: STORIES OF PERSONAL TRIUMPH FROM THE FRONTIERS OF BRAIN SCIENCE, Jill Bolte Taylor’s, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, and Rick Hanson’s BUDDHA’S BRAIN: THE PRACTICAL NEUROSCIENCE OF HAPPINESS, LOVE AND WISDOM.

(Photo: that is me after a yoga class at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.)
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About Judy


Award-winning author & journalist (Globe & Mail, Toronto Star), recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship for BOOMER TSUNAMI, her series on aging, demographics and brain plasticity, Judy Steed shares new skills & techniques to enhance memory, reduce stress, practice mindfulness & find inner peace & contentment. WHAT WE THINK AND HOW WE THINK ACTUALLY CHANGES THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN.
Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk

Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk

This Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk about why she … [Read More...]

JILL BOLTE TAYLOR’S  STROKE OF INSIGHT INTERVIEW

JILL BOLTE TAYLOR’S STROKE OF INSIGHT INTERVIEW

The clearest description of how the brain … [Read More...]

Stress Proof Your Brain with Dr Rick Hanson

Stress Proof Your Brain with Dr Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson is the author of the New York Times … [Read More...]

Boomer Tsunami

Boomer Tsunami

HERE’S the link or pdf for BOOMER TSUNAMI, as … [Read More...]

Mindfulness and Guided Practice

Mindfulness and Guided Practice

Three books by brain scientists are at the core of … [Read More...]

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