Ilchi Lee

Her book records her experience and the realizations she made about the brain during her 8-year process of recovery. Her story is fascinating to me because it illustrates the importance of using both halves of the brain.

She says, “When I lost my left hemisphere I lost all of the normal in-the-box thinking. When I lost the ability to define, organize, and categorize information, I gained the ability to be intuitive and creative.” During her stroke, she says that she could no longer define the boundaries of her own body, and she felt “enormous and expansive.” She was very aware that her usual brain chatter, and all the stress and tension that goes with it, had been silenced.

Her experiences reveal abilities of the right brain that we have not fully utilized. Most of our educational activities focus on the left brain, emphasizing math, logic, language skills, and the like. But it is among the gifts of the right brain we will find the creative answers that can make better lives and a better world.

Most of us are badgered by the chatter of our own prefrontal cortex, and this is a great source of stress in our lives. I see no reason why one should wait for a dangerous stroke to experience the things that Taylor experienced. Brain Education is meant to give people a more complete education, one that develops both sides of the brain and all modes of brain processing for a wider and more fulfilling experience of life.