My Stroke of Insight  -  $29.00

Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist who, at 37, watched her brain unravel as a haemorrhage in the left hemisphere gradually obliterated her story, her separateness, her past, her future, her inner critic and her capacities to comprehend letters, numbers and speech. She was left with profound bliss in the present moment and discovered that this experience (of bliss) is possible for everyone – and better still, that we don’t need to suffer a stroke in order to achieve it! Through determination and hard work, Jill fully recovered all her capacities and found that she had a choice about which parts of her story she would retrieve. For instance, she had been quite an angry person and she simply decided not to re-establish any of the patterns from the past which no longer served this new heightened state of awareness, gratitude and contentment.

With great humour and passion Jill takes the reader on a journey that educates, inspires and encourages us to choose peace in every moment and to believe in the power of the human capacity to live with profound bliss, gratitude and love. She is still a neuro-anatomist but her passion is now to educate people about their own remarkable self-healing and self-realising capacities and to understand how the brain works. This book is a joy to read and will become a friend to anyone in need of healing. I’d give it a five star recommendation. You can also find Jill on YouTube delivering a TED talk.