{"id":193,"date":"2009-12-30T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2009-12-30T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:26:53","slug":"a-stroke-of-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/a-stroke-of-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stroke of Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"tagline\">Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions \u2014 motion, speech, self-awareness \u2014 shut down one by one. An astonishing story. She did an 18 minute presentation on TED regarding this \u2013 it is brilliant, an extraordinary account of how our brains work within our spiritual self. Please take the time to view this enlightened performance.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/JillBolteTaylor_2008-medium.flv&su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/JillBolteTaylor-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=229&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight;year=2008;theme=top_10_tedtalks;theme=master_storytellers;theme=medicine_without_borders;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TED2008;&preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/JillBolteTaylor_2008-medium.flv&su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/JillBolteTaylor-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=229&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight;year=2008;theme=top_10_tedtalks;theme=master_storytellers;theme=medicine_without_borders;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TED2008;&preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We make our choices daily on how we wish to live; with peace and joy or fear and confusion. It really is our choice. <a href=\"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/a-stroke-of-insight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,17,97,98],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-attitude","tag-enlightenment","tag-gratitude","tag-insight","tag-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}