Comments for Spacesuit Yoga http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com brought to you by The George Greenstein Institute for the Advancement of Somatic Arts & Science, dedicated to progressive conversation re: the evolving body and brain Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:02:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on TED 2008: Conference Afterglow: Jill Bolte Taylor and the Brain by Regina Parton http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/ted-2008-conference-afterglow-jill-bolte-taylor-and-the-brain/#comment-906 Regina Parton Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:34:13 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-906 Dear sweet Jill, I'm just a simple human being that found your video talking about your very personal experience of having a stroke, so very very beautiful in many ways. What I walked away with after I gathered myself together was that you now know as I do that there is so much more to this thing we call life, and then some more. I'm one of those people who checks with the gate-keeper first,(Poetical,left thought) before I do most anything important during my day. I know to put one foot in front of the other without much thought, but it's having the smile on my face that's the important thing. I try to be a living example of love to all people. I try to walk in the light so that people can see a difference in my life, and therefore may share my love for humanity. I just wanted to take a moment in time to say, I see you as my sister, in love, with a common bond. Thank you so very much for your insight, and a willingness to share it with others. Simply, Me Dear sweet Jill,
I’m just a simple human being that found your video talking about your very personal experience of having a stroke, so very very beautiful in many ways. What I walked away with after I gathered myself together was that you now know as I do that there is so much more to this thing we call life, and then some more. I’m one of those people who checks with the gate-keeper first,(Poetical,left thought) before I do most anything important during my day. I know to put one foot in front of the other without much thought, but it’s having the smile on my face that’s the important thing. I try to be a living example of love to all people. I try to walk in the light so that people can see a difference in my life, and therefore may share my love for humanity.
I just wanted to take a moment in time to say, I see you as my sister, in love, with a common bond. Thank you so very much for your insight, and a willingness to share it with others.

Simply,

Me

]]> Comment on Summer Fireworks Celebrate the Year of the Brain! by silverskyimports http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/summer-fireworks-celebrate-the-year-of-the-brain/#comment-904 silverskyimports Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:13:51 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-904 Wow interesting! Wow interesting!

]]> Comment on Summer Fireworks Celebrate the Year of the Brain! by Stanteedral http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/summer-fireworks-celebrate-the-year-of-the-brain/#comment-902 Stanteedral Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:44:01 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-902 Tahnks for posting Tahnks for posting

]]> Comment on SPINAL TAP REVISITED IN 21C by brainandspinalcord http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/spinal-tap-revisited-in-21c/#comment-899 brainandspinalcord Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:19:14 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=107#comment-899 Dr.G- In my endless quest for TBI and SCI info, your posts are truly refreshing and centering. Thank you for your perspective, your viewpoints are greatly appreciated. Amy Dr.G-
In my endless quest for TBI and SCI info, your posts are truly refreshing and centering. Thank you for your perspective, your viewpoints are greatly appreciated.
Amy

]]> Comment on Summer Fireworks Celebrate the Year of the Brain! by Amy http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/summer-fireworks-celebrate-the-year-of-the-brain/#comment-897 Amy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:37:43 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-897 We can only hope that some of the breakthroughs we've been waiting for will happen this year. And like you said, we'll need it with the huge numbers of TBI's we're seeing and will continue to see. As all this new information keeps rolling in, we're trying to stay on top of it and pass it on through our <a href="http://www.brainandspinalcord.org" rel="nofollow">TBI and SCI website</a> and <a href="http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/blog" rel="nofollow">blog</a>. If you get a chance check them out and feel free to make suggestions! Great blog here! Amy We can only hope that some of the breakthroughs we’ve been waiting for will happen this year. And like you said, we’ll need it with the huge numbers of TBI’s we’re seeing and will continue to see.
As all this new information keeps rolling in, we’re trying to stay on top of it and pass it on through our TBI and SCI website and blog. If you get a chance check them out and feel free to make suggestions!
Great blog here!
Amy

]]> Comment on TED 2008: Conference Afterglow: Jill Bolte Taylor and the Brain by karen brazeau http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/ted-2008-conference-afterglow-jill-bolte-taylor-and-the-brain/#comment-895 karen brazeau Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:01:08 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-895 I would like to share my neurobrain/mental "illness"/with someone in the research field who has time/ability to listen in a face to face situation. Ten years ago, while in a military training exercise, I was left in the field to basically "boil" in temps above 105 degrees. Over the years much has happened. Jill Bolte Taylor's video is greatly appreciated in the linear/non linear approach. It is refreshing and validating to hear a scientist speak energetically. It is hard for me to write, harder to concentrate on a book, but with the right person I know I could contribute greatly to this arena. I identified a lot with the summary above by David Scott Lynn. It is very frustrating to try to explain some of my behaviors to friends, family, neighbors and to be treated like a "short-bus "kid. Or to be dismissed as a pot head and attribute behavior always to that. Sometimes people think i have low intelligence because even though i understand what i hear sometimes, i just don't have the words to respond, or get overwhelmed when people use a lot of words for something. Circuit overload.I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder which looking back probably had all my life, and as many, finally got correct diagnosis later on. My mother, who passed not long after my birth, had grand mal seizures during pregnancy (no meds in the 1950's) which to me makes sense as a conributing factor.For one thing that depokote is used for bipolar and epilepsy. Sometimes I think I have had temporal epileptic seizures, more often I think I have great spiritual experiences/healing abilities...there goes the psyc/spirituality dilemma, although Jill's video hit it on the head in some ways from what i could understand. My smell is heightened, I "feel" with my eyes, my intuition is strong, but not always trusted by myself. I also have been treated for PTSD and other things.After the heat incident, i lost speech, bodily functions, ability to figure out simple things like how to get on a bus, basic check book skills and so forth. I was able to drive after awhile and would give my son a ride to his friends house if he told me how to get there but i didn't know how to get back home.Sometimes people would say something to me and it would take me three days to finally figure out the words that could have been used to respond.Part of my life has also been in the aviation electronics and mechanical arena, both navy and civilian,which seemed very natural for me. That was before the heat injury. I also know those skills helped me to make sense of a lot of the brain and nervous system functions to the point where my survival after injury, once i became more stable, was to "step outside" and view myself as a research experiment. Sometimes I felt like the shutter speed on a camera going too fast, sometimes like it shut down half way through the picture taking. I used to feel most "at home" with moderate to highly functioning autistic people. Sometimes it seemed my functioning mirrored the behavior of my father during certain stages of Alzheimers when I cared for him and could see him struggling to try to organize and perform basic things. Although I have used many, many, MANY different prescription meds, I have also used marijuana. The marijuana gave me a sense like my nerves had relief in that i would feel like they were receiving a mylien sheath that felt to be missing. It also didn't give me the "removed" feeling like zanex or the sometimes "flat line" feeling of other meds, or the anxiety/rage of antidepressents. I have been involved in much integrated health care which helps a lot. Thank you for listening and I will remain hopeful that somebody will contact me to be able to listen and probably categorize my experiences in a way that will be useful in aiding my most curious and analytical self and benefit and reduce the suffering of others.I would even like to work in science and research somehow but I also know I could not be in an environment with animal testing. So i guess that is a huge barrier. Maybe somebody has a suggestion along those lines. Thanks again and thanks Jill for caring about your brother and for sharing your experience with us. I would like to share my neurobrain/mental “illness”/with someone in the research field who has time/ability to listen in a face to face situation. Ten years ago, while in a military training exercise, I was left in the field to basically “boil” in temps above 105 degrees. Over the years much has happened. Jill Bolte Taylor’s video is greatly appreciated in the linear/non linear approach. It is refreshing and validating to hear a scientist speak energetically. It is hard for me to write, harder to concentrate on a book, but with the right person I know I could contribute greatly to this arena. I identified a lot with the summary above by David Scott Lynn. It is very frustrating to try to explain some of my behaviors to friends, family, neighbors and to be treated like a “short-bus “kid. Or to be dismissed as a pot head and attribute behavior always to that. Sometimes people think i have low intelligence because even though i understand what i hear sometimes, i just don’t have the words to respond, or get overwhelmed when people use a lot of words for something. Circuit overload.I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder which looking back probably had all my life, and as many, finally got correct diagnosis later on. My mother, who passed not long after my birth, had grand mal seizures during pregnancy (no meds in the 1950’s) which to me makes sense as a conributing factor.For one thing that depokote is used for bipolar and epilepsy. Sometimes I think I have had temporal epileptic seizures, more often I think I have great spiritual experiences/healing abilities…there goes the psyc/spirituality dilemma, although Jill’s video hit it on the head in some ways from what i could understand. My smell is heightened, I “feel” with my eyes, my intuition is strong, but not always trusted by myself. I also have been treated for PTSD and other things.After the heat incident, i lost speech, bodily functions, ability to figure out simple things like how to get on a bus, basic check book skills and so forth. I was able to drive after awhile and would give my son a ride to his friends house if he told me how to get there but i didn’t know how to get back home.Sometimes people would say something to me and it would take me three days to finally figure out the words that could have been used to respond.Part of my life has also been in the aviation electronics and mechanical arena, both navy and civilian,which seemed very natural for me. That was before the heat injury. I also know those skills helped me to make sense of a lot of the brain and nervous system functions to the point where my survival after injury, once i became more stable, was to “step outside” and view myself as a research experiment. Sometimes I felt like the shutter speed on a camera going too fast, sometimes like it shut down half way through the picture taking. I used to feel most “at home” with moderate to highly functioning autistic people. Sometimes it seemed my functioning mirrored the behavior of my father during certain stages of Alzheimers when I cared for him and could see him struggling to try to organize and perform basic things. Although I have used many, many, MANY different prescription meds, I have also used marijuana. The marijuana gave me a sense like my nerves had relief in that i would feel like they were receiving a mylien sheath that felt to be missing. It also didn’t give me the “removed” feeling like zanex or the sometimes “flat line” feeling of other meds, or the anxiety/rage of antidepressents. I have been involved in much integrated health care which helps a lot. Thank you for listening and I will remain hopeful that somebody will contact me to be able to listen and probably categorize my experiences in a way that will be useful in aiding my most curious and analytical self and benefit and reduce the suffering of others.I would even like to work in science and research somehow but I also know I could not be in an environment with animal testing. So i guess that is a huge barrier. Maybe somebody has a suggestion along those lines. Thanks again and thanks Jill for caring about your brother and for sharing your experience with us.

]]> Comment on TED 2008: Conference Afterglow: Jill Bolte Taylor and the Brain by Michelle http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/ted-2008-conference-afterglow-jill-bolte-taylor-and-the-brain/#comment-894 Michelle Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:37:13 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-894 MY STROKE OF INSIGHT was ranked #5 in all books sold on Amazon today and #1 in Memoirs above even Barbara Walters' memoir. Babs had been promoting her book for months in advance and Dr. Taylor's book was self-published. Then Oprah recommended it. There's the Power of Now, and then there's the Power of Oprah!! "My Stroke of Insight" is out in Hardcover now for less than the old paperback edition. Amazon has it for 40% off. MY STROKE OF INSIGHT was ranked #5 in all books sold on Amazon today and #1 in Memoirs above even Barbara Walters’ memoir. Babs had been promoting her book for months in advance and Dr. Taylor’s book was self-published.

Then Oprah recommended it. There’s the Power of Now, and then there’s the Power of Oprah!!

“My Stroke of Insight” is out in Hardcover now for less than the old paperback edition. Amazon has it for 40% off.

]]> Comment on More on Strokes and why we all need hemisphere time outs by Crystal http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/more-on-stokes-and-why-we-all-need-hemisphere-time-outs/#comment-893 Crystal Sat, 31 May 2008 01:43:41 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-893 I read "My Stroke of Insight" in one sitting - I couldn't put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it's a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I've ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity. I read “My Stroke of Insight” in one sitting - I couldn’t put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it’s a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I’ve ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.

]]> Comment on TED 2008: Conference Afterglow: Jill Bolte Taylor and the Brain by Scudder http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/ted-2008-conference-afterglow-jill-bolte-taylor-and-the-brain/#comment-892 Scudder Fri, 30 May 2008 05:15:43 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-892 I read "My Stroke of Insight" in one sitting - I couldn't put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it's a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I've ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity. I read “My Stroke of Insight” in one sitting - I couldn’t put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it’s a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I’ve ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.

]]> Comment on More on Strokes and why we all need hemisphere time outs by spacesuityoga http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/more-on-stokes-and-why-we-all-need-hemisphere-time-outs/#comment-891 spacesuityoga Thu, 29 May 2008 14:09:47 +0000 http://spacesuityoga.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-891 Sybby, thanks for the mention of the article. I saw it and have been noticing how far and wide Taylor's story has reached! Something is really afoot! By the way, what sort of "brain bliss preps" do you perform? Dr. G. Sybby, thanks for the mention of the article. I saw it and have been noticing how far and wide Taylor’s story has reached! Something is really afoot!

By the way, what sort of “brain bliss preps” do you perform?

Dr. G.

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