Personal Development Videos

~ Meditation and Consciousness ~

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Meditation Therapy for Stress and Change with Jyotish Novak
Learning how to deal effectively with stress and change is one of the most important life lessons. Through Meditation Therapy for Stress and Change, you will learn how to relax, rejuvenate both mind and body, and to meet the inevitable challenges of everyday life with calmness.

Introduction to Meditation (Yoga Practice)
Kavita's introduction to meditation will not only help you get started with proper posture and preparation but will also help you understand why we meditate.

Middle Pillar Meditation and Tribute to Israel Regardie
This is a meditation that will help you relax to states you dream about. Sit back, relax and follow the guide a couple of times until it sticks in your memory and you can do it as you will.

Hacking the brain
The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. Is there a "mother of all algorithms" that will finally make robotics useful - and the mind better understood?

Deepak Chopra - explorations into consciousness
Yesterday's miracle is today's science. Deepak describes how he activates an individual's natural healing response.

Consciousness as Virtual Theatre
Presents a unique theory on why consciousness evolved as virtual simulator so as to allow more options, versus less, for a sophisticated nexus point of replicating DNA.

The Mystery of Consciousness - Peter Russell
Peter Russell explores the mystery of consciousness from both scientific and mystical perspectives, showing how light is intrinsic to both, and giving a coherent argument as to why consciousness is fundamental essence of the cosmos.

Brain, Mind, and Consciousness
The 2005 Skeptics Society Annual Conference was held in Pasadena, California and provides a balancing view to the "What the bleep" consciousness brigade.

Brain Mind Lecture: Lobes of the Brain, Limbic System, Language, Consciousness
Everything you ever wanted to know about the brain and mind - the nitty gritty facts. Very interesting indeed.

Consciousness - Alan Grindal
Neurologist Alan B. Grindal discusses the essence, operation, and pathology of human consciousness. Another very clear explanation of how the brain works, with particular respect to consciousness.

Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective
Thomas Metzinger focuses his research on philosophy of mind, especially on consciousness and the nature of the self. In this lecture he develops a representationalist theory of phenomenal self-consciousness.

My stroke of insight
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened, as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one - speech, movement, understanding - she nevertheless studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. The video here is worth your time, I guarantee it... (More TED Talks)