Ep082: The Whole Brain Living: Understanding Our Brain's Anatomy - With Dr. Taylor - Part 2

OVERVIEW

Are you the type of person who always depends on medications if you are having trouble sleeping at night? Have you tried melatonin or other sleeping aids just to put you to a night of deep sleep? Most of us always prefer the easiest way to cure or solve our sleep issues by becoming dependent on these sleep medications, but what we don’t know is it greatly affects our brain. But how can you increase your natural ability to sleep without abusing the use of medicines or alcohol and not putting your brain at risk?

In this week’s episode, I continued my interesting discussion about the brain with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. She will share with us ways on how we can sleep soundly at night without taking pills or drinking alcohol. Dr. Taylor will share with us the importance of promoting sleep in a natural way. Listen to the episode and find out why our ability to sleep plays a big part in our mental health.

WHAT WILL WE LEARN

00:57 Sleep medications and its Pros and Cons
03:17 It starts with a good behavior before bedtime: Reduce screen time
05:19 Our ability to sleep is a big part of our mental health
07:07 What is a whole-brain living
08:46 Medications can always have a different result: We are not all similar
09:19 Drinking alcohol makes the matter worse
12:24 Body movement and activity: Increase our natural ability to sleep
14:44 The brain cells is a society inside of our head
15:33 Understanding your brain can be a great help in promoting sleep naturally
16:46 How to know if are you a left-brain or a right-brain type of person
20:18 The reason why Dr. Taylor write her book: "Whole-Brain Living: the Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters that drive our life"
23:32 Neuroplasticity: Our capacity to learn is the greatest gift
25:20 Dr. Taylor and her new book all you need to know

TODAY’S GUEST

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist. Her book entitled “My Stroke of Insight” spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. In this book, she documented her experience with stroke and her eight-year recovery. Dr. Taylor is also a dynamic teacher and public speaker who loves educating all age groups, academic levels, as well as corporations about the beauty of our human brain and its ability to recover from trauma. She was also the premiere guest on Oprah Winfrey’s “Soul Series” webcast.

“We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we wanna be in the world.”

— Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor