You Are Love: What Remains When the Left Brain Goes Silent

Warning, dear business readers, this one is about love. And what happens when half your brain stops working.

When Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a massive stroke, the left hemisphere of her brain went completely offline. For months, she existed with only her right brain functioning.

No language. No logic. No inner critic comparing her to others. No memories of her failures. The constant mental chatter that usually narrates our days? Silent.

She wasn't unconscious. She was fully aware, experiencing pure consciousness without the analytical mind's commentary. And in those five months of silence, as her left brain healed, she came to understand something about the true nature of existence that changed everything for her:

We don't need to earn love. We ARE love.

Think about that for a second.

Without her left brain's stories about her worthiness and achievement, what remained was the truth of what she was. Pure being. Pure love. No earning required.

As for me?

I used to wake up at 4am to prove I was dedicated enough.

I said yes to every project to prove I was valuable enough.

I worked through weekends to prove I was committed enough.

All while being made of the same energy that spins galaxies and beats hearts. 

How silly.

The ocean doesn't need to prove it's worthy of water. The sun doesn't hustle to deserve its own light. Yet we exhaust ourselves trying to earn what we already are.

Here's what Dr. Taylor's stroke revealed: When you strip away the left brain's stories about who you *should* be, what remains is the truth of what you are.

And what you are is love itself, walking around in a human body, convinced it needs to earn its own essence.

Your worthiness isn't something you achieve. It's something you remember.

The exhaustion you feel from constantly proving yourself? That's your body trying to tell you something:

You're trying to earn what you can never lose.

Stop.

You don't need another promotion to be loved.

You don't need to be perfect to be loved.

You don't need to be anything other than what you already are.

How could love be unworthy of itself?

It can't.

And neither can you. No matter what you’ve been taught to believe.