Welcome to the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast.

In today's third and final episode of our series with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, you'll

hear an exclusive excerpt from her audiobook, Whole Brain Living, The Anatomy of Choice,

and The Four Characters that Drive Our Life.

In this excerpt, Dr. Jill explores the issues of addiction and recovery as they relate

to the brain's four characters.

By understanding what is happening in the brain of someone struggling with addiction,

we can learn how to effectively help ourselves and our loved ones who are in need.

If you enjoyed this series and want to learn more, we hope you'll join us for Dr. Jill's

free virtual event called Balance Your Brain, Tools to Overcome Anxiety and Fear, from

August 24th to 26th.

Visit hayhouse.com slash brain to join now.

Chapter 11 Disconnection and Reconnection Our Four Characters in Addiction and Recovery.

As I discussed in the earliest chapters, at the level of the single-celled organism, the

meaning of life appears to be the ability to stimulate and be stimulated by that which

is outside of oneself.

The semi-permeable membrane of the single-cell allows some things to enter into the organism

while blocking other things from entry.

In addition, that membrane is stippled with specific types of receptors that will attract

the cell toward some things in the external world or repel the cell and push it off onto

a different trajectory, like two repelling magnets.

In the consciousness of the universe conceived single-cell microbes, it not only attained

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