OPRAH WINFREY INTERVIEWS . . . . .
Being a PhotoReading Instructor and Trainer in Accelerated Learning and how to open up your intuition and creativity, this interview with Oprah Winfrey was of particular interest to me. Oprah was interviewing Dr Bolte Taylor, the Harvard Doctor and Brain Scientist who suffered a stroke which opened up to a whole new ‘right hemisphere’ world of peace, flow and contentment.
As Dr Bolte Taylor talked about her experience one of the other things that struck me was her constant reference to energy, and the importance of energy and intention.
“DOCTORS, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU BRING TO ME AND YOUR PATIENTS”
Dr Bolte Taylor was talking about Doctors and Hospitals, however I think this is equally applicable to all of those in the helping and service professions.
Dr Bolte Taylor said:
The Emergency Room was just a hustling beehive of energy coming at me. That (energy) was all I had, this precious little reservoir of energy. Hospital s should be about conserving a person’s energy and not taking it away. Doctors bring me themselves. I ask that they bring their hope and energy because that was all I had. I teach 1st Year Medical Students and I teach them to walk in conscious, showing up for patients 100%. Take responsibility for the energy you bring me. Soften your brow and don’t bring your bad energy into this room. My right hemisphere could so perceive those people who were there to help me and those who were going through the motions.
My neurologist Dr Ann Young, I call her the Queen of Neurology, she made a connection with me. She touched my back as she walked around me like a good horse handler. She looked at me in the face and spoke to me. She made a connection with me. She spoke to me, she made a connection with me. She treated me as an equal. That has a huge impact and effect on your energy when someone is there to help you. I knew I’d be safe with her. She recognised I was wounded and not stupid. She was helping me and there’s a huge difference in the energy that comes with that.
With my mother ‘GG’, one day I was her Harvard Doctor daughter and now I was an infant again.
ON THE CREATIVE, RIGHT BRAIN STATE OF MIND
The quiet mind was so peaceful. No mind chatter, no attachment to the ego. The right hemisphere of the brain thinks in pictures. After the stroke I was no longer a Harvard Brain scientist, I couldn’t hold myself to that, I had none of her education or knowledge. I got re-born into another life and it was like, ‘What are you gonna do with it?’ I lost all my baggage. I notice how things feel in my body and I choose what to think.
In PhotoReading was go for a much more fun and gentle approach than having a stroke, however many of the things that Dr Bolte Taylor described in her interview are in alignment with that state the people achieve during my Weekend PhotoReading Classes.
ON BEING IN A PLACE OF FREEDOM AND PEACE
You have the ability to focus your mind on what you want to focus on. When you pay attention to what’s going on in your brain and you pay attention to the circuitry you are running, it’s a whole new game. Pay attention to your thoughts. You are not your thoughts. Pay attention to what you are thinking, and if you do not like it, change it. It’s that easy.
I thought of 40 Things That I Needed Most during that time and my recovery. These included:
- Allow me to hunt for the answers. I need to go through the hunting process (in PhotoReading speak we call that Mind Probing, making the space for those all important neurological connections to occur).
- Be patient with me.
- Handle me gently as you would a newborn, with reverence and love.
- I needed people to look me in the eye and be with me.
Pay attention to what you feel in your body because it only takes 90 seconds for emotions like anger and these chemicals to flush though your entire body and be gone.
Oprah asked if it was that simple, “Why then do some people live an entire lifetime struggling with the same debilitating and negative emotions?” Dr Bolte Taylor explained: It’s because people keep running the same triggers and re-running the loops and circuitry. That is why they keep feeling the same feelings for their whole life.
“HOW DID LOSING THE LEFT SIDE LOGIC CHANGE YOU?”
My friends and family tell me that I’m much more fun, that I have more time for people, and that I’m more compassionate of spirit. It helped me to find my purpose which is to show people that they too have deep inner peace right in there in the right hemisphere.
One of the ‘HomePlay’ exercises that I prescribe for the Breakthrough Clients is to be aware of their thoughts and feelings and simply play the game of focusing on what they want and in terms of how they language their thoughts, saying it the way that they want it. For example, when working with someone to overcome the fear of public speaking, the focus would be on being relaxed, calm, and in flow rather than not being nervous, anxious, or like a rabbit in the headlights. It sounds like simple stuff, however as Dr Bolte Taylor was explaining in this interview, it is simple yet very powerful stuff.
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ABOUT MARILYN DEVONISH
Marilyn Devonish is a Certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Trainer of Time Line Therapy, and Certified PhotoReading and Accelerated Learning Trainer. Marilyn’s journey started at a time when her memory and brain function was so bad that she feared she was suffering from the early onset on Alzheimer’s disease. Learning about how the mind and body and thoughts interact with each other was also a major turning point in Marilyn’s life. Having discovered some simple yet profoundly powerful tools and techniques, Marilyn has spent the past 13 years working with others who feel that there is more to life and want to tap into and unleash much more of their latent potential.
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