A video poem from my 2020 No Regrets Mindfulness Shows inspired by my learning from Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroscientist who had a stroke and her left brain shut down – for a bit. This is about her understanding of the left and right brains we have. I even sent this to Jill and she responded! I hope to meet her one day.
Flipping heck – talk about scientific experiment
To have giant blockage to left hemisphere sent
Left shuts down and only is right
Ego no longer has place left to fight
Jill Bolte Taylor is my hero
A neuroscientist really in the know
With our corpus callosum shrinking the most
Are we really two people, of that can I boast
What does it mean to contain these two brain
Can I realy contemplate this and still stay sane
Well yes now I have come to understand
What it feels like to inhabit both sides of this land
To be honest the left is where i mostly reside
But my heart and connection no longer want to hide
The left is the doing – its a very busy place
Planning future and thinking dont leave for much space
The words and the logic can persuade like the best
This side can excel at any mathematics test
The right is the being for whatever maybe,
It’s only present moment awareness that this side can see
When the right looks down at the atoms of your hand
Continuous it sees to the atoms of the land
Connected as one to the whole universe
Our gateway to joining ancd singing one verse
Could it be we have come so left dominant
Without balance are we are pretty incompetent
At working together for goodness of all
Any preventing bio-life catastrophic fall
Well I’m making it my purpose to encourage this change
And expand the homo sapien evolutionary range
It’s been the same story for billions of year
That coming together overcome individual fear
Together as one species and planet
Is how to reach the sustainable summit
In a world of harmony and balance to be
This is the future story that you will see