TEDxBoulder - Shannon Paige - Mindfulness and Healing

Shannon Paige is a writer, sacred activist, dedicated Yoga teacher. She is also the founder of Om Time Yoga Center and the styles of Bhava Vinyasa for Depression and Anxiety and Anjali Restorative Yoga.
Shannon battled with cervical cancer ferociously....and won. Although she had survived, the battle with depression, especially the pressure and anxiety of how she should feel "lucky" for having survived, nearly crippled her. She narrates how many people, after surviving life threatening circumstances, are also robbed of the ability to smile for real, the ability to connect, and the ability to hope. "Depression is hard. Depression is gross. And Depression is Mean." A doctor stepped in and told her to get back into her body, volunteer, and do yoga. For Shannon, the battle with depression was actually as hard as battling cancer. Through this, Shannon discovers that while, yoga can't heal depression, getting into your body can change the mind and create a state of empowerment, stability, and release.

[@scentsoftravelmeditation]

Mindfulness is one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone! This women is a living proof of that!

[@carlenetaylorLMHC]

1991, Stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma and my story of healing, given a sentence of a 40% chance of living 10 years, is remarkably similar. Horses, working with children, being the change I want to see in the world, and yoga.... 26 years later, 16 years past my highest expiration date and healthier than ever. There is something to this and it needs to be shared.

[@sachbnag]

Hi Carlene. Yours is a inspiring story. Am going through something similar. Can I connect with you via email?

[@watchingtheireyes]

This is wonderful, she's a fantastic speaker. Really special that she's willing to be so vulnerable in order to help others.

[@deborahbowman2919]

Powerful and gentle reminder to be fully alive.

[@MsTazzara]

I love what yoga practice has done for my anger and aggression. It calmed me to be in touch with my body and brings out the compassion.

[@Simplesimple123]

Tina Azzara i have discovered the same, im amazed something so simple and available to us all has these huge benefits. imagine if schools and parents taught children this, the world would be a different place, much respect to you and nice to see someone voice the same reasons i do it too. thank you.

[@tinaazzara8595]

1chipchap thanks for sharing. Yoga practice in the schools would be very helpful in the way she describes. The breath is key! I'm a musician and for years I taught kids to play instruments, breathing was a big part of that. Yoga has an even bigger effect in the body, oxygenation. Take care, and let's keep practicing.

[@ForViewingOnly]

Very inspiring, thank you Shannon. I think I have also come to the conclusion that a person can't use their brain to cure depression when it is the brain that is the problem in the first place. In other words, you can't use a faulty brain to 'think' your way out of depression! It makes total sense to me that the body must be used to heal the mind.

[@sassyrojo]

As this was one of only two talks I got to see live that night, I'm thanking you for changing the way I breathe :)

[@moniquevamado]

This is excellent! She's an amazing speaker. So much truth in this and so inspiring. Will be sharing.

[@qwacs]

You have the voice of reason. Thank you!

[@janetwills8522]

Shannon Paige is Terrific . Look at all she has gone through and come out even stronger

[@brighteyed2009]

What she said about yoga is absolutely true. Love and respect this woman. Breathe...

[@ekennahutchinson1636]

Thank you for your time and consideration and sharing ❤️🙏

[@marymyers1386]

As a holistic therapist I have seen how mindfulness can transform a persons life.

[@harshsaini2494]

Mary Myers can i cure my crippling depression with mindfulness miss?

[@sergioianni5349]

Harsh Kumar Saini Mindfulness cannot cure depression but pharmaceutical therapy can control it. Practicing Mindfulness can be a further help to stop having obsessive thoughts and live in the present moment. no miracles.

[@markbonn1982]

WOW a FAB clip :-) Thanks you for posting / hosting :-)

[@BestBodyworkandyoga]

This is the first time I've known someone who named this...this experience that feels like my hidden reality...

[@aekjotek]

a heart wrenching talk x

[@petergratrix9285]

Fantastic talk thank you for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jennmann9153]

My God, you are able to articulate everything I believe. Thank you so much.....

[@feelingoffbalance]

There are numerous studies linking stress with cancer and numerous studies saying yoga helps with stress/anxiety. Breathing any deeper that you are already breathing doesn't give you any more oxygen; everyone's blood is already maximally saturated with O2, even if you breathe shallowly. Yoga and mindfulness do help you manage stress though and that makes you less likely to get sick, as stress hormones suppress your immune system (and that's important for cancer too).

[@HenryStradford]

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[@rondareynolds372]

Nice

[@ajmarr5671]

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 last 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. www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30302-3/abstract www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist

[@wandaboyle3745]

Very interesting !!

[@bootsclues5731]

thank you very helpful indeed such a brave smart woman.

[@dancagle2533]

Great explanation of disease and healing.

[@tropicalia5546]

Wow! You are such an inspiration.

[@MsGnor]

Oh wow Shannon, that was beautiful xxx

[@fxcoconut]

just awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AbreTuMente]

Amazing talk!!

[@garyp1432]

Yoga is not to do with exercises on a mat but a way of life mind, body, spirit but unfortunately in the west it’s just a series of exercises. She is a great educator

[@basemkhourma5163]

Thank you

[@gracetorres]

Wonderful!

[@Amharra1]

Inspiring video - thanks!

[@Hikikomori-777]

When she started with "It's 1994..", had I been in the audience, I would have been very tempted to shout out, "My time machine!...IT WORKS!".

[@meenugupta6509]

How can I connect with you. I am really impressed and would like to talk to you.

[@jostott9975]

Wow that was incredible, I'd love a conversation with this fabulous woman 😊❤

[@jenniferbuell8832]

THank you so much for this!. It touched my heart, An gave me valuable tools in my life. :}

[@laurendunn5985]

wow! That was beautiful

[@fadiaazar603]

thanks ,,,

[@sharong6009]

Excellent message ❤️❤️

[@unzahid]

powerful.

[@joginderbakshi8199]

Breathing is very impactful in my case. I m 83 years and to take care of my hypertension and sugar problem. I regularly monitor my blood pressure. It is sometimes more than prescribed range. In that situation I lie down and start belly breathing that is concentration on air coming in and air going out. I continue for 10 to 15 mnts. Thereafter on measurements I notice a fall of 10 points in systolic range. It happens and I donot understand how? So I donot need to increse dose of medicine.such is the power of mi ful breathing.

[@melissahouse1296]

Wow just wow.

[@breasvibe]

“Yoga works by creating a ‘mind, body, breathe’ connection” “Cancer can not live in a high oxygen environment, interestingly enough neither can depression or anxiety”

[@Lori_g70]

Is it just me who thinks her first husband was trying to help her by trying to get her to not focus on the illness?

[@DrSRanjanMBBSAcupuncturist]

9:52 John Hopkins Study, High Oxygen Environment

[@karenhall2988]

Does anyone know of a similar talk from a man - this is a superb TEDtalk but I find that such stories are most often told by women and I'd like to share some to men by men. Shannon is pretty amazing.

[@joyreeves3255]

Hi Karen I agree but oh what a powerful story thank you for sharing!

[@johncarpenter4083]

Hi Karen. We men have been sharing similar stories since the time of the Buddha. Shouldn't be too difficult for you to find man-talk since Mindfulness is a Buddhist practice, created by Buddhist monks. Open your mental search to admit men and you will find perhaps more men than you care to handle. Start with Deepak Chopra (an Indian-American author, public speaker and physician ( Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital). A prominent alternative-medicine advocate and author of several dozen books and videos, he has become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the holistic-health movement). Daniel Siegel, M.D., (Daniel J. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute), go on to Jon-Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (in 1979), and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (in 1995). He is the author of two best-selling books: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness. If you're going to reply to this note, please keep it civil.

[@karenhall2988]

John Carpenter Hi John, well that was a little patronising but you perhaps misunderstood my request. I'm am looking for a TEDTalk similar to the one above, except that it would be by a man describing his experience which I can share with people in my network. I have found & shared several moving & inspiring TEDTalks from men about their experiences of depression which people have found useful. I'm not looking for a guru speaker, just an ordinary person speaking from their own experience. If you have any other recommendations that don;t come from your ego I'd be interested to hear them.

[@johncarpenter4083]

Ok Karen. From your message I surmised that 1) you are not an academic, 2) you are not given to spending perhaps hours searching Internet for what you seek, 3) you are perhaps embedded in a narrowly focused womans' group, 4) you are perhaps young enough to be my granddaughter. My ego? Well, that brings to mind an old girlfriend, computer programmer by trade, who drug out her old astrology book so she could show me -- in print, mind you -- how truly fucked up I was, based on my Sun sign, which is Virgo. Go figure.:) The recommendations offered to you are pointers! Each of the "gurus" mentioned command the attention of many, many thousands of people of both genders. If I were offered that sort of information, I really wouldn't scoff at it. I would take it as offered and run with it. My Mother taught me: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." BTW, the patronization was a test -- intentional -- of sorts. As they say in the NLP world: The meaning of your communication is the response that you get. Also BTW. I hail for the days of Robert Bly (Iron John). A sailor like Bly, from the days before women on warships was common. Also, in those days, depression was a luxury of the rich.

[@karenhall2988]

John Carpenter Thanks John. Are you a Buddhist?

[@ckonetn]

呼吸

[@MrPcphn1]

Most of these stubs people talking about on Tedx are old stubs taking from eastern traditions. Nothing new. Most of these speakers I noticed are here to advertised themselves and it’s their career. I don’t know what they went through or experiences are real. It’s hard to verify what they said. But I don’t doubt that the mind can cure the body of diseases. I would preferred those people that actually cured themselves giving testimony. Like I said most these speakers are on Tedx to enhance their career.

[@namson1539]

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