- 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.
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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)