Positive mindfulness - positive transformation | Dr Itai Ivtzan | TEDxLeamingtonSpa

So what if we befriended both psychology and spirituality? Dr Itai Ivtzan explores how integrating both into our lives can help us in our quest to become super-heroes - gaining super-strengths of awareness, courage, resilience and compassion.
Itai is passionate about the combination of psychology and spirituality. He is convinced that if we befriend them both, introducing them into our lives, we will all become super-heroes - gaining super-strengths of awareness, courage, resilience and compassion. In addition to being a positive psychologist, senior lecturer and Master’s programme leader at the University of East London (UEL), Itai is also an honorary senior research associate at University College London (UCL).
Over the past 15 years, Itai has run seminars, lectures, workshops and retreats around the world, is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and has published several books, journal papers and book chapters. His main areas of research are positive psychology, mindfulness and spirituality.
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[@emmanuelrodriguez7963]

I love this one compared to other mindfulness ted talks. I really like his comparison over healing vs just simply bettering our positive life!

[@euleneats]

Mindful meditation should be a way of life and not as a last resort when everything falls to pieces. I wish I had understood that sooner in life.

[@ThanhNguyen-pq4ky]

Thank you for your great presentation on mindfulness, Dr.Itai.

[@monakamonnie]

Wow, this is the best speech of mindfulness I've ever heard! This should be more heard.

[@brunogil6630]

Thank YOU! And wall of text warning. So about three years ago I was going through a very rough patch and I discovered mindfulness. after some heavy research i invested heavily on it and for the next three months I practiced mindfullness pretty much every single day. the benefits were amazing! And I was able to get my life back on track, for the most part. But then I stopped. Life was better and all, but slowly I started to feel like something was missing. Then i tried started again. TRIED being the keyword. For the most part of the last three years I've been trying to start practicing mindfullness again, but the most I could do was about three days in a row, and I would stop again. And I've been struggling to understand why. Like, really struggling. "I know practicing mindfulness makes me feel better overall, then why dont I just do it?" I actually went as far as to ask a therapist why did she thought that was happening. Her opinion was something along the lines of "well, if you think of mindfulness as a tool, maybe you had some use for it before, but now you dont". Since then, I haven't really been trying to start practicing again, even though it's been on the back of my mind for most of the time. So now I come across this video totally at random, start watching without really expecting anything out of it, and when you mentioned that the west uses mindfulness to try to fix the negatives instead of taking more out of the positives... it was like a lightbulb lit up in front of me. My MINDSET around mindfulness has been telling me "you're not that bad, you dont really need that now". SO now I know. And now I know what I have to do to reap the benefits of this wonderful practice once again: reframe my mindset around mindfulness. so, once again, THANK YOU, and thank you TedX for your amazing inspirational content. Peace.

[@candykandy]

I want to be that lady with the blue sweater looking like she’s trying to soak up all the positive energy. Great talk and mini mindfulness exercise

[@jessicamaden707]

❤💚 I LOVE how real you are! This video is a cherishable gift. 💚❤

[@alompe3]

All this guy says here, it is so true that the day you practice to be mindful and here and now, you will feel peace, love, joy, happines, and many thing thai i cant not explain but it feel so beautiful to be alive here and now, some times i even cry in how life is so beautiful.

[@balasooriyaas]

Great I appreciate!

[@shir35303]

Itai, the idea to look at meditation not just as medicine, and more like a vitamin (if my analogy makes any sense) is amazing. thank you for this wonderful talk!

[@vidusha123]

shir35303 true!!!

[@danc7657]

Fantastic perspective on mindfulness. Love this guy!

[@jordanlucas85]

Brilliant, so simple but so true, one of the best ted talks I’ve seen

[@fernandocerutti4621]

Very interesting approach towards the meaning and objective of mindfulness and meditation. Thanks!!

[@timeetc]

Loved your talk, especially the mindfulness exercise. I'd love to see mindfulness coaching offered universally - especially in business!

[@jessicamaden707]

❤💚 So true! If businesses focused on the productivity of their employees in this way they would see a much greater level of results. Its beginning to be appreciated and considered, a revolution is silently happening. 💚❤

[@drdevikakhanna4979]

Smile practice 5.59-10.14 ☺️🌹🙏

[@micahdelaurentis3719]

love this guy

[@ralphwalker2008]

Great talk ,Im watching for the third time. Great!!!!

[@shmankersox]

Thank you! Your speaking style is nearly as amazing as your content ✨

[@thaodo817]

It is so so touching and it gives me some new thoughts about mindfulness. Thanks so much !

[@davidgiroux1369]

Great great message thank you !

[@yuricantu4731]

This is amazing. Thank you.

[@nzrealpk7629]

You are a good creative Zen man

[@sivakumarpalaniappan5831]

thanks🙏🙇

[@khp7425]

The mindfulness first time explained to the world by the Buddha. Read the sutta named,The four foundations of mindfulness.

[@infinite8eyes]

life is good :)

[@ThePoligny]

This guy knows whatsup

[@leonardmerlin7926]

I think the focus on stress was the ship to enter the western world. It doesnt mean, that the focus on everyone wasnt thought in the first place. When you listen to Jon Kabat-Zinn, it is clear, that he never only thought it as a cure. BUT! If he would have the holistic approach in the first place, he wouldnt have been come so far. He would have been stopped immediately. So this means, this TED Talk wouldnt even have this audience without the clinical approach. It all belongs together. Dont judge the approach, judge what comes out of it!

[@Chebab-Chebab]

I get mindfulness forced upon me. It makes me hate it. Normally, my skepticism would make me ignore it, but it's foisted upon me. Don't want it. Don't need it. Don't like it. It's like an abusive partner saying, 'You WILL love me!'

[@leonardmerlin7926]

why would your scepticism make you ignore it? that sounds weird to my ears. As if scepticism makes you stay in your own bubble. Or how do you mean it?

[@Chebab-Chebab]

@@leonardmerlin7926 I'm skeptical of all the claims mindfulness has.

[@leonardmerlin7926]

@@Chebab-Chebab but does it let you ignore it? Because scepticism in my understanding is the oposite of ignoring something. Its about questioning everything. So why not questioning mindfulness? Maybe its wrong. But search for exactly these answers if you want to be sceptic.

[@Chebab-Chebab]

@@leonardmerlin7926 Mindfulness makes claims it cannot back up, therefore I'm skeptical of its efficacy. I regard it as much as horoscopes, interesting but useless. However, my workplace encourages (forces) us to participate.

[@leonardmerlin7926]

@@Chebab-Chebab yes there is a way mindfulness practice is useless. When you practice (or have to practice) with a mindset like yours. No postitve outcome possible. Maybe you should try to talk to your bosses to not have to do it

[@thaisjirschik6118]

Hm he

[@euleneats]

55 people who disliked this will use meditation when they become bonkers.

[@abirdas4347]

The awesome vulture marginally possess because feather chronologically match despite a perfect cabbage. previous, tacky cheek

[@user-xz4ng9yf6j]

The awesome vulture marginally possess because feather chronologically match despite a perfect mind to be positive and forget all the negative thought about it..

[@doktorhulk]

where was this exactly? which mountain, which cloister? this sounds like the typical foundation myth of every average eso swindler. so: where exactly. which mountain, which region? which buddhist school? or is this all self serving myth?

[@roberthypnomagnetism]

Good question, he is a liar ! He said it was in Yun Nan, Yun Nan is in the southern part of China, there is a snow mountain there but no monastery up there !... and the photo he shows was the Tiger Next Temple in Bhutan... and no monks as on the picture !