Translator: Vanessa Soneghet Reviewer: Claudia Sander
“Your brain is bleeding.”
It’s what I hear from my doctor in the MRI room,
with eyes full of tears: “You’re having a stroke.”
Until that day …
common person, I was a pedagogue,
had a clinic,
well-married, very fond of sports,
danced flamenco,
I went to champion sailing.
But I was very stressed,
he always saw difficulty in everything;
instead of seeing solution, via difficulty.
And I thought I’d be happy one day.
But one day,
this one where I was in the hospital resonance room
where I received the information that I was having a stroke,
which is a stroke.
Stroke has two types: the hemorrhagic and the ischemic.
The ischemic is when a vessel clogs,
and the hemorrhagic is when a vessel ruptures.
Most 85% of the cases are ischemic.
The rest are bleeding.
And only 10% of hemorrhagic patients survive.
Well, that’s good, lucky me, right?
(Applause)
Among the dilemma of choosing
whether it was to be operated or not,
because if I operated, the chance of death, death
it would be great.
And if I did not operate, the chance of me having many sequels
would also be great.
We always have choices in life.
But how nice that at this time, this was not my choice,
because I had no conditions, but my family, my husband.
And the choice was to operate.
When I went to the bedroom, there were many sequels,
and I was not me anymore.
You imagine, you wake up one day
and all that in which you recognized yourself,
everything that you perceived, understood, was no longer there.
I usually say we are all a puzzle.
And mine, at that moment, besides being shuffled,
had pieces that were missing.
In practice, I was paralyzed on my right side.
I unlearned to speak.
I was already a specialist in reading and writing disorder,
and I could no longer read and write.
I had lost much of my memory.
I was married to my husband ten years ago.
and he could not remember who he was.
Imagine how I stayed.
My energies, my identity, my life was gone.
According to data from the World Health Organization,
Stroke is the disease that kills the most in our country.
AVC is second in death in the world.
And in Brazil, it is the first to leave people out of life,
off work.
Every six people,
one had or will have stroke throughout life,
if we do not change the way we live.
Because stroke, its vast majority can be avoided.
More and more women have strokes.
How did I recover? What did I do to be whole?
And, in my opinion, better than I was before.
At first, I went to do the indicated therapies for this case.
And especially I have always counted on a fundamental help,
which is the family’s help.
From the blood family
and the family of friends, the family of the heart.
I rehabbed myself, much of it, but it took me an hour, people,
that I was no longer evolving; and I just cried.
And I went into a deep depression.
But remember, we always have the choice.
And I could have chosen, staying in that depression,
in that situation where I thought I could do no more,
since I did not even recognize myself;
since I would not be able to be that Adriana again.
And I went after what excited me.
The word emotion comes from the Latin “emotio”,
that “and” means outside and “motio” means movement.
Then emotion, moving out,
this movement.
So, as much as we think it is,
We are moving;
only we need to get in touch with it.
And the emotion helped me heal.
I decided to do a clown class.
I went to do this class because I needed to laugh at myself.
I needed to laugh at that Adriana I did not recognize,
that I did not want to be, but I was being
because I wanted to resort to that past,
but my gift was my gift.
Me too, besides the clown course, besides laughing at myself.
had to do a lot of exercise to train the motor part.
Because training is part of it.
No one changes, no one improves without training.
But in my case, I had to walk to be able to return.
Because I did not feel my right side either.
So I went with a nurse or with my mother,
we went to a park or a square to train the march, but also,
I had asked for and got a book of trees with scientific names,
because, remember, I got hurt in my memory.
I could not remember the words,
I wanted to say that I wanted to shave my leg,
and I was saying that I wanted to cut my leg.
And I, in this work, in this exercise of walking
and to learn the scientific name of the trees,
when I wanted to remember a name like an ipê, like a banana tree
who did not come, did not come, did not come, then, if I do not have it this way,
I went to learn the scientific name.
Ipê, genus of tabebuia;
banana tree, musaceae family.
And so I was training, training and training.
So what happened?
That road that gave access to my memory
which was cracked, which looked …
there was a dark, I tried, tried and saw nothing.
What did I do?
I built a bridge, built a shortcut,
to create this new memory,
which were the scientific names, which I had never heard of.
Tabebuia? My God!
But what happened?
With exercise, with practice,
with pleasure,
with emotion
of wanting to change, of wanting to change,
move,
I made the bridge
between the new words I was learning, with the old ones.
Suddenly, it seemed, again magical, but we know that nothing is magic,
the words began to come back.
At one point, I was very uncomfortable with my way of walking,
Then I got a new challenge.
and I went to look for
the passerby of a samba school and I said: “Do you meet the challenge?
Teach a person who has this walk, the sambar? “
And she: “There, right?”
So, I learned …
(Applause)
I learned to sambar and taught my brain to seek new paths.
I taught my brain to shake.
Because our brain is plastic.
Brain plasticity is a faculty that every brain has.
Mine, yours, your grandfather, your son.
And it is the faculty, the competence that the brain has
to change, to reorganize, to restructure and to learn.
But I’m here today to tell you something I’ve learned.
A concept that I have lived,
in the brain, in the body, that I lived
in the organism as a whole, which is the concept of emotional plasticity.
Emotional plasticity is you, through your emotions,
of what touches you, can change.
The emotional plasticity that I found and that was for me
the reason that I am here today, more whole than before,
it is because I have discovered that emotion unites my brain to my body.
When I told you that I went sambar,
I was training flexibility.
When I told you that I went to learn the scientific name of the trees,
I was training perseverance, I was training creativity.
When I told you I was laughing
of things I could not change at that moment,
I trained resilience.
There are ten other exercises that I ended up developing
So I can become a new person again.
Because we change all day.
But sometimes there are bigger changes that we have to make.
And that’s when I discovered
that I have lived the importance of uniting
the body to the brain through emotion.
What we know is so valuable.
From what we have lived here today, in various situations,
what touches us, what really transforms us
and it can make us better.
We all may feel shattered.
It may be because of an injustice, it may be because of prejudice,
may be because we had a health problem,
or a problem with a child, or with the parent, or at work.
Fifty years ago, if we thought about the big problem we had?
The children became ill with measles, chicken pox,
were suffering from tuberculosis,
they broke their arm or leg because they were
playing in the yard or in the neighbor’s tree.
Today, children have hyperactivity,
bulimia, attention deficit disorder,
suffer from cyberbullying.
So before we got sick of the body
and today we get sick of the brain?
We can change this story if we can take care of it.
and value our emotions.
There is an index of disease prediction.
This index says that in 2020
the most common disease on the planet will be depression.
It’s going to be brain disease.
Before I fell ill,
I did not pay so much attention to my emotions.
We all have emotions, we are human beings.
I did not care.
I did not know that taking care of our emotions was so important to our health;
for our health of the body, of the brain, finally, for our integral health.
So that was a great legacy.
That is why I can say that today,
I really am better than I was before.
Even with my difficulties. Even within my new self.
So I invite each of you to teach your children,
those who are also there to be born,
and the children who are within us, within the adults as well,
that we teach to value the emotions, to take care of the emotions,
to learn about them.
Because…
emotion is what makes life have color,
is what makes life colorful,
That’s why I come here to share.
and suggest that you learn to swing with your brains.
And then, I agreed, that I would …
(Applause)
I did, huh?
(Applause) (Live)
“Your brain is bleeding.”
It’s what I hear from my doctor in the MRI room,
with eyes full of tears: “You’re having a stroke.”
Until that day …
common person, I was a pedagogue,
had a clinic,
well-married, very fond of sports,
danced flamenco,
I went to champion sailing.
But I was very stressed,
he always saw difficulty in everything;
instead of seeing solution, via difficulty.
And I thought I’d be happy one day.
But one day,
this one where I was in the hospital resonance room
where I received the information that I was having a stroke,
which is a stroke.
Stroke has two types: the hemorrhagic and the ischemic.
The ischemic is when a vessel clogs,
and the hemorrhagic is when a vessel ruptures.
Most 85% of the cases are ischemic.
The rest are bleeding.
And only 10% of hemorrhagic patients survive.
Well, that’s good, lucky me, right?
(Applause)
Among the dilemma of choosing
whether it was to be operated or not,
because if I operated, the chance of death, death
it would be great.
And if I did not operate, the chance of me having many sequels
would also be great.
We always have choices in life.
But how nice that at this time, this was not my choice,
because I had no conditions, but my family, my husband.
And the choice was to operate.
When I went to the bedroom, there were many sequels,
and I was not me anymore.
You imagine, you wake up one day
and all that in which you recognized yourself,
everything that you perceived, understood, was no longer there.
I usually say we are all a puzzle.
And mine, at that moment, besides being shuffled,
had pieces that were missing.
In practice, I was paralyzed on my right side.
I unlearned to speak.
I was already a specialist in reading and writing disorder,
and I could no longer read and write.
I had lost much of my memory.
I was married to my husband ten years ago.
and he could not remember who he was.
Imagine how I stayed.
My energies, my identity, my life was gone.
According to data from the World Health Organization,
Stroke is the disease that kills the most in our country.
AVC is second in death in the world.
And in Brazil, it is the first to leave people out of life,
off work.
Every six people,
one had or will have stroke throughout life,
if we do not change the way we live.
Because stroke, its vast majority can be avoided.
More and more women have strokes.
How did I recover? What did I do to be whole?
And, in my opinion, better than I was before.
At first, I went to do the indicated therapies for this case.
And especially I have always counted on a fundamental help,
which is the family’s help.
From the blood family
and the family of friends, the family of the heart.
I rehabbed myself, much of it, but it took me an hour, people,
that I was no longer evolving; and I just cried.
And I went into a deep depression.
But remember, we always have the choice.
And I could have chosen, staying in that depression,
in that situation where I thought I could do no more,
since I did not even recognize myself;
since I would not be able to be that Adriana again.
And I went after what excited me.
The word emotion comes from the Latin “emotio”,
that “and” means outside and “motio” means movement.
Then emotion, moving out,
this movement.
So, as much as we think it is,
We are moving;
only we need to get in touch with it.
And the emotion helped me heal.
I decided to do a clown class.
I went to do this class because I needed to laugh at myself.
I needed to laugh at that Adriana I did not recognize,
that I did not want to be, but I was being
because I wanted to resort to that past,
but my gift was my gift.
Me too, besides the clown course, besides laughing at myself.
had to do a lot of exercise to train the motor part.
Because training is part of it.
No one changes, no one improves without training.
But in my case, I had to walk to be able to return.
Because I did not feel my right side either.
So I went with a nurse or with my mother,
we went to a park or a square to train the march, but also,
I had asked for and got a book of trees with scientific names,
because, remember, I got hurt in my memory.
I could not remember the words,
I wanted to say that I wanted to shave my leg,
and I was saying that I wanted to cut my leg.
And I, in this work, in this exercise of walking
and to learn the scientific name of the trees,
when I wanted to remember a name like an ipê, like a banana tree
who did not come, did not come, did not come, then, if I do not have it this way,
I went to learn the scientific name.
Ipê, genus of tabebuia;
banana tree, musaceae family.
And so I was training, training and training.
So what happened?
That road that gave access to my memory
which was cracked, which looked …
there was a dark, I tried, tried and saw nothing.
What did I do?
I built a bridge, built a shortcut,
to create this new memory,
which were the scientific names, which I had never heard of.
Tabebuia? My God!
But what happened?
With exercise, with practice,
with pleasure,
with emotion
of wanting to change, of wanting to change,
move,
I made the bridge
between the new words I was learning, with the old ones.
Suddenly, it seemed, again magical, but we know that nothing is magic,
the words began to come back.
At one point, I was very uncomfortable with my way of walking,
Then I got a new challenge.
and I went to look for
the passerby of a samba school and I said: “Do you meet the challenge?
Teach a person who has this walk, the sambar? “
And she: “There, right?”
So, I learned …
(Applause)
I learned to sambar and taught my brain to seek new paths.
I taught my brain to shake.
Because our brain is plastic.
Brain plasticity is a faculty that every brain has.
Mine, yours, your grandfather, your son.
And it is the faculty, the competence that the brain has
to change, to reorganize, to restructure and to learn.
But I’m here today to tell you something I’ve learned.
A concept that I have lived,
in the brain, in the body, that I lived
in the organism as a whole, which is the concept of emotional plasticity.
Emotional plasticity is you, through your emotions,
of what touches you, can change.
The emotional plasticity that I found and that was for me
the reason that I am here today, more whole than before,
it is because I have discovered that emotion unites my brain to my body.
When I told you that I went sambar,
I was training flexibility.
When I told you that I went to learn the scientific name of the trees,
I was training perseverance, I was training creativity.
When I told you I was laughing
of things I could not change at that moment,
I trained resilience.
There are ten other exercises that I ended up developing
So I can become a new person again.
Because we change all day.
But sometimes there are bigger changes that we have to make.
And that’s when I discovered
that I have lived the importance of uniting
the body to the brain through emotion.
What we know is so valuable.
From what we have lived here today, in various situations,
what touches us, what really transforms us
and it can make us better.
We all may feel shattered.
It may be because of an injustice, it may be because of prejudice,
may be because we had a health problem,
or a problem with a child, or with the parent, or at work.
Fifty years ago, if we thought about the big problem we had?
The children became ill with measles, chicken pox,
were suffering from tuberculosis,
they broke their arm or leg because they were
playing in the yard or in the neighbor’s tree.
Today, children have hyperactivity,
bulimia, attention deficit disorder,
suffer from cyberbullying.
So before we got sick of the body
and today we get sick of the brain?
We can change this story if we can take care of it.
and value our emotions.
There is an index of disease prediction.
This index says that in 2020
the most common disease on the planet will be depression.
It’s going to be brain disease.
Before I fell ill,
I did not pay so much attention to my emotions.
We all have emotions, we are human beings.
I did not care.
I did not know that taking care of our emotions was so important to our health;
for our health of the body, of the brain, finally, for our integral health.
So that was a great legacy.
That is why I can say that today,
I really am better than I was before.
Even with my difficulties. Even within my new self.
So I invite each of you to teach your children,
those who are also there to be born,
and the children who are within us, within the adults as well,
that we teach to value the emotions, to take care of the emotions,
to learn about them.
Because…
emotion is what makes life have color,
is what makes life colorful,
That’s why I come here to share.
and suggest that you learn to swing with your brains.
And then, I agreed, that I would …
(Applause)
I did, huh?
(Applause) (Live)
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