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“When a person has a reaction to something in their environment, there’s a 90 second chemical process that happens in the body; after that, any remaining emotional response is just the person choosing to stay in that emotional loop. Something happens in the external world and chemicals are flushed through your body which puts it on full alert. For those chemicals to totally flush out of the body it takes less than 90 seconds. This means that for 90 seconds you can watch the process happening, you can feel it happening, and then you can watch it go away. After that, if you continue to feel fear, anger, and so on, you need to look at the thoughts that you’re thinking that are re-stimulating the circuitry that is resulting in you having this physiological response over and over again.”

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Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker, renowned for her unique personal experience and profound insights into the workings of the brain. In 2001, she experienced a remarkable stroke that damaged her left brain (responsible for language, logic, and emotion) while leaving her right brain (responsible for intuition and creativity) intact. This experience inspired her book 'My Left Brain Died: A Neuroscientist's Personal Stroke Journey,' which became an international bestseller and won multiple awards. Taylor's work not only helps people better understand the brain but also encourages them to explore their own inner intuition and creativity. more

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