A stroke of insight

Here is a very powerful conference that was sent to me by a good friend of mine Dr David Gawain. I always struggled in my practice to get the average patient to recognise the principles that are touched here in this video. It is sometimes very hard to get patients to snap out of the reductionist perspective they often view their health with. Its hard to spoon feed this to patients droplets of information at a time to babystep them through a paradigm shift that seems so foreign to their concept of health.

If any of them started to hold in their minds that the very concept of health that they walk around with is also a consequence of brain function, what a great practice we would have. Imagine no longer having to bring people to understand that their body functions as a whole and that the pain that they walk around in, is only an insignificant indicator of their entire health status.

In this video Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor describes as a neuroanatomist her experience as a stroke victim. She describes her experience with such vivid details and emotional notes that I was snapped right into my own experience of the moment and how I too can be completely off when judging my own “projection” of reality.

As I witness this massive stroke victim unfold from her experience an inspirational lesson of that magnitude, I can’t help but wonder what my life in practice could be like If I let it sink in enough to start infusing my patient dialogs with the powerfull simplicity of her message.

Sometimes we make things so complicated.