- Mabel Zhuang
- New York, NY
- United States
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I'm organizing a TEDx event centered around the theme "mindfulness." Anyone have ideas of relevant activities for our activities room?
To elaborate, we will have an activities room for audience members to go before, during breaks, and after the event to do a number of mindfulness activities. The room will be classroom-sized and host a number of areas with someone facilitating a short activity related to our theme, mindfulness. I'm thinking something that gets our audience directly involved, such as utilizing social media, would be cool. Also, maybe a more physical activity like meditation tips, etc. Any ideas would be helpful just to get the juices flowing.
Roxana Lopez Puras
My name is Roxana, I have a degree in System and I`m Coach, certified in Newfield Consulting. I provide trainings and seminars and usually include activites, for example to improved concentration and mental activity other ones to feel energized and positive, etc. I use to pick them up from luminosity site. Hopefully this information helps you. Don´t hesitate to contact me if you need additional information. Regards, Roxana (Argentina, Bs.As) lopezrox@hotmail.com
Nina Kearney
I would encourage you to look at Marsha Linehan. She used mindfulness in creating Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for people with Borderline Personality Disorder. Mindfulness is the at the core of DBT. Though one must be certified to officially use DBT as their therapeutic modality, there are fabulous aspects which anyone can use.
As an addictions counselor I find persons who have depression and anxiety find great success and benefit from using mindfulness techniques. I have used Thich Nhat Hanh's example of fresh apple cider with my clients. I read the concept in his book, 'The Sun My Heart'.
The challenge I find is living in a state of mindfulness within the reality of society. We must find that place within where we give ourselves permission to be in the moment without expectation of the next moment.
Soft paths....
Alex Lamas
and Anapanasati Meditation; mindfulness of breathing.
I've trained in both of these and they are great for getting people to learn a physical exercise in mindfulness.
Paula Haddock
This is a short exercise about 10 mins but would need careful facilitation so that the main learning points are drawn out (being in the present, noticing the mind and how it wanders, directly experiencing rather than 'thinking' about the experience) etc.
I will see if I can think of other simple things like this. Id love to come if you can send details of when and where the event is!! Hope this helps, Paula
Alex Lamas
How about some Tai Chi and Qigong? You can do push hand exercises, the basic Tai chi 24 move short form and some Qigong exercises.
Chris Westfall
edulover learner 10+
Ed Schulte 50+
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2013/02/18/a-surefire-way-to-sharpen-your-focus/
Arthur Zards 500+
Your version is vital to what you can do, or what you should not do, for some of the comments suggest a very narrow approach to your theme, which is not what a TEDx theme is about.
W. Ying 10+
Mindfulness --- our MIND is being occupied FULLy by our instincts without anything else.
Instincts are our ancestors’ successful experiences formed 10,000 years ago.
Hence, mindfulness makes us successful and content without worry and unnecessary want.
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(http://common-sense.ezinemark.com/layman-talks-the-pursuit-of-happiness-154ddf1ca4e.html)
Mark Meijer 100+
http://www.greatlifetechnologies.com/pureawarenesstechniques.shtml
More details:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51339094/Pure-AWARENESS
Kate Blake 50+
Basic ones from this series included 'saltana' mindfulness where everyone took a saltana and mindfully studied it for 15 minutes. Smelt it, squeezed it, listened to it, looked at it, tasted it, rolled it around in their hand then their mouth, etc. it was purely to teach them to slow down and smell the roses.
Brief guided meditations, writing their own eulogy, pairs of people seated facing each other where they share first a very sad story from their own life, then a very happy one. The listener cannot respond at all, just listen and then both share how it made them feel.
There are endless easy examples of mindfulness and there must be websites or books full of them. Get back to me if you need more?
W. Ying 10+
Yes, "to slow down and smell the roses".
I would say let our mind completely occupied by our instincts without any invalid happiness and suffering.
(See my comment the second previous above herein)
Fritzie Reisner 100+
greg dahlen 20+
Gail . 50+
1) Introduce the difference between an emotion and a feeling (emotions are body-oriented reactions. Feelings are a self-centered universal language.) The more in-touch we are with "feelings", the more power we have, and the less "owned" we are by emotions.
2) Have a bunch of mp3 or mp4 binaural meditations from different frequencies - including gamma, to allow individuals to experience the variances. This allows them to compare their "normal" to their "ideal".
3) A speaker giving fun and simple mental exercises that show immediate results of mind-power over body. (Such as close your eyes, hold out your arms, then hang (one at a time) imaginary grocery bags from one arm. Watch the surprise as participants are asked to look at where their arms are after 5 or 10 bags are hung on one arm. There are many of these types of exercises.)
4) Show a scary movie and ask spectators to practice keeping themselves "at peace". It's hard if the music is playing in the background, so silent will be easier.
5) Exploring your emotions class. Ask participants to choose an emotion that really bothers them & interferes with their life quality. Ask them to experience it as fully as they can (in silence). The result is that they get to experience their own perfection.
6) Set up some bio-feedback machines - that allow participants to see how powerful their SELF is and how un-mindful habitual thoughts impact their physiology.
7) Have someone explain how to connect to psychic power, then have people give readings to one another.
8) Remote viewing experiments.
These are all part of recognizing aspects of SELF that most people ignore.
I'll think on this and send more ideas as they occur, if this is the type of information that you are looking for.
Grace Greene 10+
Bruno Lavos 20+
Low volume music... "guess the music.. win a hug!" :D
Empathy Spy Frenzy. Each person has a secret card. He has to make "an observation mission" with his target... and simply fill in the card. "what was he/she thinking?" "how was he/she moving?" "was he/she feeling good or bad?"
... MILLIONS OF GAMES CAN BE INVENTED with the practice of Mindfulness!