This TED talk by Jill Bolte Taylor did not go where I thought it would.
But it encapsulates my current struggle with “balance” — Who are you? Moment to moment? The left hemisphere’s “I am” separate individual or the right hemisphere’s “We are one” the life-force power of the universe?
Which do you choose? And when?
“I believe the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our world will be.”
I crave stillness, silence, and unplugging with the force of my right hemisphere. But the professional “I-ness” of my left hemisphere has kicked into hyper-drive over the past couple months and wants me to go go go!
So I “procrastinate” each morning, as my hemispheres duke it out leaving me in a fog. Until I succumb to both: until I sit still to meditate and until I get down to business by crossing something off my to-do list.
How might I navigate this better? How might I embrace this duality instead of fighting it every single day?
[via Amanda Palmer, who recently gave a TED talk on the power of asking]
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