What a gift it is to awaken evermore fully to the recognition that we nearly always have a choice…
...in every and any moment, for how we show up — for ourselves, for one another, and for life…
…based on the circuitry we choose to run in our brains and the voice, among our many inner voices, that we decide to turn up the volume on and let lead our relationships and lives.
If you aren’t familiar with Dr. Jill‘s amazing and famous work, I joyously recommend exploring it.
As a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, she helps us anatomically map out and distinguish the four different characters that exist inside of all of our brains — and how each one has its own personality, priorities, and purpose in our lives:
Character 1 (Left Thinking Brain)
– Goal-Oriented
Character 2 (Left Emotional Brain)
– Critical
Character 3 (Right Emotional Brain)
– Spontaneous
Character 4 (Right Thinking Brain)
– Generous of spirit
One of her teachings I adore that resonates so deeply is what happens when we bring what she calls our “Character 4” to any of the other parts of us.
Our Character 4 can bring a sense of purpose, higher vision, and meaning beyond rigidity to character 1, soothing, insight, and healing to character 2, and a depth of more conscious joy to character 3.
This Character 4 is a form of wise inner council we can access at any time — to essentially see a situation as Love would.
Thanks so abundantly much to Dr. Jill for helping us understand these concepts on a brain-level and for generously sharing your incredible light, brilliant gifts, and expansive perspective with us and the world.
Love, treasure, and appreciate you so! Xoxoxo
Abundant Love and Joy,
