Etikettarkiv: TED

Embracing otherness

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I remember watching this as I sat alone in a lunch room of a big industrial company. I remeber not being able to stop my tears from falling. It’s such a powerful story told by Thandie Newton on TED, and that’s why I would like to show it to you:

Thandie says:

The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and over again and my panic at not having a self that fit…

Can you feel it? Can you feel her panic, pain and confusion? How many children don’t go through this in some form? How many adults still experience anxiety because they feel they don’t fit in?

We come into being when we start to see otherness as something separate from ourselves – and yet, the most important take on this isn’t that I define myself in comparison to you.

Rather it’s the fact that what I perceive to be reality isn’t reality but rather my image of reality. My thoughts and feelings create the world as I perceive it. What happens to otherness and self, when you anchor yourself in this insight?

Stroke of insight

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Have you watched Jill Bolte Taylor‘s TED Talk about her stroke of insight (and she really means stroke)?

It’s a favorite of mine, and I strongly recommend it:

However, what I recommend even more is that you get a hold of a copy of her book My stroke of insight. In the book Jill describes what she discovered before/during/after she got her stroke. Since she’s a neuroanatomist she studies the brain. Her personal experience of having a massive stroke, coupled with her expertize of the brain makes for a very interesting book.

The thing I took with me from the book is her sensations of being one, and being everything. But you’ll simply have to read it to understand what I mean!

Have you experienced getting an insight that rocks your entire world?