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Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight

Below is a truly remarkable video about neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. She had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

We are so much more than the labels we've allowed others to give us or that we've given ourselves.  There is so much more to life than worry, stress, heartache, pain, and suffering.  It IS possible to be happy, truly joyful, amidst all the negative that surrounds us.  We all, each of us, have a positive purpose here on earth.  We're here for a reason, not haphazardly.  You have something to offer this world and you also have something to receive from this world. 

We are sooo much more...WE ARE, YOU ARE, I AM....I AM THAT I AM...

Please watch and leave your comments below...

My Stroke of Insight

by Jill Bolte Taylor

Accepting Yourself (Daily Om)

March 25, 2008
Accepting Yourself

A Dynamic Choice-Maker

There is no such thing as a good person or a bad person. There are choices and actions that lead us in different directions, and it is through those choices and actions that we create our realities. Sometimes we choose or do something that takes us in the opposite direction of the reality we want to create for ourselves. When we do this, we feel bad—uneasy, unhappy, unsure. We might go so far as to label ourselves “bad” when a situation like this arises. Instead of labeling ourselves, though, we could simply acknowledge that we made a choice that lead us down a particular path, and then let it go, forgiving ourselves and preparing for our next opportunity to choose, and act, in ways that support our best intentions.

Many of us experienced childhoods in which the words good and bad were used as weapons to control us—you were good if you did what you were told and bad if you didn’t. This kind of discipline undermines a person’s ability to find their own moral center and to trust and be guided by their own inner self. If you were raised this way, you may find yourself feeling shockwaves of badness when you do something you were taught was wrong, even if now you don’t agree that it’s bad. Conversely, you may feel good when you do what you learned was right. Notice how this puts you in something of a straitjacket. An important part of our spiritual unfolding requires that we grow beyond what we learned and take responsibility for our own liberation in our own terms.

You are a human being with every right to be here, learning and exploring. To label yourself good or bad is to think too small. What you are is a decision-maker and every moment provides you the opportunity to move in the direction of your higher self or in the direction of stagnation or degradation. In the end, only you know the difference. If you find yourself going into self-judgment, try to stop yourself as soon as you can and come back to center. Know that you are not good or bad, you are simply you.

...taken from the Daily Om

Why does this keep happening to me?

Ever feel like you are a real life reenactment of the movie Groundhog Day?  No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try...you keep reliving the same situations over and over again.  Each time getting more and more beat down.  Perhaps you keep attracting the same dead end relationships.  Or, perhaps you keep attracting toxic interactions with other people.  Whatever your situation is, if you feel like your life is on repeat playing a horrible song...it's time to stop feeling like a victim and consider that perhaps you are to blame.  If the same thing keeps happening, even tho with different people, YOU are the common denominator...

What you have here is life's version of being held back in school.  You've had teacher after teacher (same situation over & over again), tutors (your friends giving you advice), even summer school (a particular recurrence that really hurt you to the core)...yet you STILL flunked the grade!  Don't worry, you won't be kicked out of school...cause God practices "No Child Left Behind"...;-)  This just means you'll repeat this class till you get it right.  Just remember, it's up to YOU how many times you repeat it...:)

So, it's time to sit down with yourself...pray...and ask God to help you see what the lesson is you're supposed to be learning.  You have many guides and angels whose sole job is to help you graduate...so trust in Him and have FAITH that everything is gonna work out just fine.  Remember, rain doesn't last always...the sun soon will shine again...:)