How mindfulness meditation redefines pain, happiness & satisfaction | Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat | TEDxSFU
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Kasim teaches and presents on the use of mindfulness for creating healing, transformation, and peace. He is passionate about enhancing people’s sense of joy, authenticity, and presence. Kasim also teaches and speaks about the use of laughter and laughter yoga for improving wellness. Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat is a therapist with interest in fostering positive change in mental health both inside and outside the therapy room. He recently returned from completing a challenging six-month meditation retreat in silence, in a forest monastery in South East Asia. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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id love to do a 6 or 3 months retreat can anyone give me any info plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. i need it this year my life is turning upside down, i believe this is my last option. i google the place he was on about going to see can they help
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This guy has an over-effusive enthusiasm that detracts from his "believe-ability" Getting past the tortured undercut, I'm recoiling at every raised eyebrow, and raised finger, like a caricature of a genuinely enthusiastic person. And the model illustration. Ridiculous!
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very nice. !!
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People talk about having epiphanies and while I was happy for them, it had never happened for me...until now. The way Dr. Kasim explained 'mindfulness', it finally resonated with my soul (and mind). ;). I actually cried. After so many years of pain and depression, I feel there may actually be a light at the end of the tunnel that isn't a train. So thankful!!!
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Mindfulness meditation can become one of the most effective tools for healing anxiety and depression, when we learn how to embrace our emotional pain with mindfulness rather than reacting out of habit with avoidance and aversion.
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Beautiful talk, amazing.
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Stupid ass dr.never had real pain, that's why he's yapping about "loving your pain", dumb ass!!!!
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I love this video, he is teaching mindfulness.. then i look at the sidebar and there's a video titled "don't try to be mindful" also on ted talks. Wtf
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hi
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I hope that the video has convinced you to meditate. Many of you may know how to meditate correctly. I urge you to download Insight Timer app. It is a community where people meditate. We help and support each other. I am grateful for the guided meditations. Rather than thinking if you should install it, Install it. It is the best app you can ever have. It is free and doesn't have any ads. Money was never a factor for the developers. Insight Timer -- Download it. Dare: I dare you to meditate for 7 consecutive days. Bye :)
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i find it sooooooooooo........
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Distracted mind,full of
thoughts and just unable to
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Mindfulness does indeed reducde pain, and here is an alterantive explanation, and references
What Mindfulness Research Neglects
Mindfulness is defined as non-judgmental or choice-less awareness. Choices in turn may be divided into non-perseverative choices (what to have for breakfast, what route to take to go home, or choices with no dilemmas) and perseverative choices (worries, distractions, and rumination, or mental dilemmas wherein every alternative is bad). All meditative procedures, including mindfulness, avoid both.
The consistent avoidance of perseverative choice alone represents resting protocols, wherein the neuro-muscular activity is sharply reduced. In other words, when we want to be relaxed we isolate ourselves from distractive and worrisome events and thoughts. These states in turn correlate with increased levels of endogenous opioids or ‘endorphins’ in the brain. The benefits of this are manifest, as the sustained increase of endogenous opioids down regulates opioid receptors, and thus inhibits the salience or reward value of other substances (food, alcohol, drugs) that otherwise increase opioid levels, and therefore reduces cravings, as well as mitigating our sensitivity to pain. Profound relaxation also inhibits muscular tension and its concomitant discomfort. In this way, relaxation causes pleasure, enhances self-control, counteracts and inhibits stress, reduces pain, and provides for a feeling of satisfaction and equanimity that is the hallmark of the so-called meditative state.
It may be deduced therefore that meditative states are primarily resting states, and that meditative procedures over-prescribe the cognitive operations that may be altered to provide its salutary benefits (that is, you just need to avoid perseverative choices, not all choices), and that meditation as a concept must be redefined.
Finally, the objective measurement of neuro-muscular activity and its neuro-chemical correlates (long established in the academic literature on resting states) is in general ignored by the academic literature on mindfulness, which is primarily based upon self-reports and neurological measures (fMRI) that cannot account for these facts. The problem with mindfulness research is therefore not theoretical, but empirical, and until it clearly accounts for all relevant observables for brain and body, the concept will never be fully explained.
More of this argument, including references, below including a link to the first study (published this year) that has discovered the presence of opioid activity due to mindfulness practice, as well as the 1988 Holmes paper which provided the most extensive argument to date that meditation was rest.
http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30302-3/abstract
https://www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
https://www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist -
this was a fantastic presentation!!!
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what is mindfullness meditation and how do it. please help me.
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Great talk man , thank you
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at the beginning I seriously thought he would mention his hair :D
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STOP THIS GARBAGE TAKE PILL IS OK MEDITATION CAN'T HEAL ILLNESS.
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just can't stand the way he talks
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many thx Kasim=K-indness A-nd S-ilence I-n M-editation
K-eep -up A S-mile I-t's M-indfulnessness!!??
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