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  • Thank`s for sharing your informative information. Awesome...)

  • Very well said :D

  • By far the best primer I've come across on how to meditate. I'm always being turned off by the ridiculous statements made by some proponents of meditation. Divine energy raining down from heaven and all that. There is none of that BS here. This guy is awesome.

  • Thank you John for this nice "workshop" you've presented us. You've clarified some things for me and left me with a nice and peaceful feeling :)

  • "'...Normalisation of breathing immediately triggers a healing process..." Buteyko Trilogy Volume 1 Chapter 17: The First Handbook

  • Special meditation mind massage website: ss.cxx.ca

  • wow, this is awesome :)

  • I wish everyone would see the true beauty in this! This video can introduce you to your true identity. It can give you assurance of your future like knowing spring will come after winter. Live in the moment!.. and he looks amazing for 63 because he is in tune: mentaly, emotionally, and physically. haha.

  • sounds and looks like the therapist from Breaking Bad

  • @weinbergerjoseph and that's what makes breaking bad an awesome show :P

  • There is a quality of voice that all of the introspective , meditating self help gurus all seem to share and for some reason I just can't seem to pay attention to them. Why is that?

  • @purity4all this is just a possibility but perhaps you had a bad experience with this "quality of voice" and it's lying somewhere in your sub-conscience. maybe a subconscious fear that you may loose a part of yourself by fully listening and opening up to it?!?!

  • @codyStrode Hmm perhaps. Maybe a teacher trying to teach a subject I couldn't grasp. School was extremely traumatic due to a learning difference.

  • really.. find yourself..

  • sooo soothing....

    

  • We see meditation as something to escape reality and rest. but it's more about being alert with reality. Notice when we need to think of something about work we suddenly sit upright and wake ourselves up for it. Do this for meditating and we are more there. This flows into better quality work, relationships etc.

  • Jon Kabat Zinn is the bomb!! I so enjoy his talks.

  • Google Sucks. . This Talk and session by Kabat-Zinn is great!

  • @TheElusiveMan1

    Yes it is

  • @TheElusiveMan1 that's not very buddhist of you

  • @fboliv Hehe, I may be Buddhist but I do not claim perfection either LOL!!, I am still working on that.

  • 23:00 is the meditation!

  • what a great answer he gave at 1:04:45 - worth thinking about

  • old man boob alert

  • Meditation is a treatment for our world not a cure. What had meditation done for Tibet? Peace in the absence of justice is a delusion.

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  • @stllopez314 Really? I got an immense amount out of this. But then again I always like to say that theres something to learn from everything. Even if its small

  • @stllopez314 Wow you are upset about this. I would guess that you're not psychologically minded, especially if you watched this video on mindfulness and left a judgmental hateful comment. It's alright if what he said didn't resonate with you, but he's far from a joker. I think that you're not ready or willing to hear what he is saying.

  • @krop0026 you're being judgmental, too. just saying. and so am i

  • @stllopez314 Sad....

  • so frunkiss, just notice his shirt, be friendly aware of it, and simply return to yourself...

  • yo this niggas shirt is fucking awful. it looks like he's wearing a bulletproof vest

  • colloquial use of "grokked"? *like*

  • I hope i can use those practice and i am very happy that you share this presentation

  • He would look a lot better if he had his shirt fitted. It makes a better impression to be neatly dressed. Because he is interesting. Think about it.

  • hm guckt mich an bin ein elch

  • He seems pretty stressed.

  • @eatcarpet seems like hes pretty calm to me.. and hes stressing the information out to everyone

  • I have realized I am constantly judging myself on everything I do, I try to slow down my pace and walk mindfully but the mind goes crazy, thoughts like "am I doing this right" and the one that is driving me nuts lately "who is it that decided to walk mindfully" then of course many more thoughts follow and I notice my pace speed up again. I feel totally lost yet liberated to admit that I don't know who I am, everything I thought I was was false. Has anybody got any advice? it would be appreciated

  • @PlaceForEverything01 It's part of the deal of society today. Keep practicing. Don't judge yourself if you miss a day. Try your best but remember to be gentle. Everything will get firmer with your life (even if that's becoming more comfortable in feeling totally lost).

  • @PlaceForEverything01 Loving kindness meditation is a practice that cultivates self-compassion, especially for those of us who are especially harsh to ourselves. Although it is hard to imagine now, through noticing your judgments you can practice letting them go versus holding on to them. We all have judgments or strange thoughts; sounds like you're gaining awareness into yours, which is a wonderful first step.

  • I have been practising mindfulness for about 6 months now and It really is the hardest work in the world. I constantly tell myself I will get up early to practise every morning, I will stick to a routine sleeping pattern, I will go for regular jogs, I will try to be there for my family yet I still get up late sometimes and I still find myself browsing the internet randomly it is really scary, it is also heartbreaking when I go to see family and friends and find that my mind is elsewhere...

  • It is interesting how I chose to find and watch this video.

  • so wohne in leipzig

  • learnt how to practice mindfulness and meditation which have started many times and failed to continue thanks he quoted a poem which i liked by DEREK WALKOT i would like to know the title of it

  • @swarnasamy

    Love After Love - by Poet Derek Walcott

    

  • i love it. this confirmed what i believed and have been telling my friends that, being aware about things are more meaningful then just knowing those things on its own. when i meditate, my soul stepped out and behaves like a curious being and started to observe and discover and learn and touch and fly off to different dimension.

  • I LOVE what he starts talking about at 21:03 - "The future is concept."

  • Jon Kabat- Zinn is an awesome speaker. The Hipster at the end is a fucking idiot. Glad Jon told him. :)

  • plz experience with kabat and see ,Thank you

  • All I have to say is...Thank You, ...Jon Kabat-Zinn

    The poem is amazing.

  • Google should invite Ajahn Brahm to give a talk

    He was a physicist from Cambridge and he was the first western student of Ajahn Chao ,who also is the teacher of Jon Kabat-Zinn.

    check out his talks on loneliness, dealing with emotions, freedom.

  • He was a physicist from Cambridge and he was the first western student of Ajahn Chao ,who also is the teacher of Jon Kabat-Zinn.

    Try Ajahn Brahm's talks on other subjects, for dealing with emotions, etc. and make your own conclusion. He has made me a much happier person. His talks are related to real life .

  • Try Ajahn Brahm's talks

  • I love yoga because it incorporates mindfulness into a physical exercise.

    If it is always right now, then what is really important in this moment?

  • He looks amazing for 63!

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  • @talons85 Man ya scared me. I thought that you were trying to say that young asian guy in the beginning was 63. I was going to say I want to know what he is eating.

  • Awesome video!!i have a mindfulness guided meditation video!!Peace and Love..

  • The purpose of mindfulness is to escape the thought-form of I/Me/My/Self.

    Before you can unlock the potential of mindfulness, you need to directly see there is no You.

    You are not the body, mind or perception of either thereof. The is no thinker of thought, no 'pilot' of the body, no experiencer of experience.

    Life lives itself. There is nothing standing behind the camera of perception. No audience to this movie. The movie is the totality of all things.

  • I loved every word and every idea.

    Great, thanks.

    Love and peace.

    Cheers

  • _()_

  • Can mindfulness meditation help someone find his life purpose?

  • @mrdindurden89 I say yes. You will be more aware. Also you will be more focused and have greater creativity. So you will be more aware of important life opportunities and then you will be able to do more with those opportunities.

  • 1:04:33 The question about the white boards and the enormous salaries. There IS something inherently contradictory about using mindfulness and Buddhism to be a better Google employee. Speaker says there isn't, but then I don't understand that at all. Other Buddhists says awareness without ethics is not mindfulness at all.

    Also, he isn't getting paid for this talk? Aren't Google talks paid?

  • @hiyacynthia Hmm, I think what he is trying to say is that it is just his opinion, that his opinion can create thoughts in the mind, like the questioner said "somehow I feel like meditation is the opposite to money" ... mindfulness and buddism? this is mindfulness.

  • 27:21 into there is an anomaly, any one wanna comment,happens a couple of times, to no one else weird

  • Wow, Look at all those empty chairs at 27.00. Do google employees know what they are missing?

  • very insightful!

  • I just found you today via 'Spotify' music ap. I typed in pain relief and started listening to you on Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief . I am a 58 year old woman who has been recently diagnosed with osteoarthritis. I am familiar with the concept of mindfulness and 'being with the pain' but you clarified and expanded on my knowlege of this. In the 15 minutes I have been hearing you, I already know I can add you to the list of people who change my life for the better. God bless you.

  • Double D's?

  • looks like training - how to be dead - 

  • @MacMalte dont get me wrong i meditate myself

  • You look like Mrs. Doubtfire due to the folds in your shirt, but as you are a meditator, you are probably serene enough not to mind :-)

  • Superfiicial, fake

  • @MrLimbomo how so

  • mind lessness should it be :)

  • alguien puede subtitular lo? graciasss

  • @TheXesca learn english

  • This is brilliant. Thank you.

  • For more instruction, you can find another video by searching youtube for the following: "Loving Kindness Meditation Instructions - First day of the Joshua Tree Retreat 2011." Also, there are a lot of fantastic videos by Youtube user, "BuddhistSocietyWA". They have helped me so hopefully you'll get something out of them.

  • I've known this guy all my life and yes, his bow at the end speaks volumes. Jonny was always full of himself and I see he hasn't changed.............

  • @NagasakiSue yep, it speaks of thanks to the crowd. Your comment is pretty idiotic.

  • The typical mistake is made once again, awareness over thought , subjugate thought to achieve awareness. This really is the most common mistake by all western meditation teachers, you cant just generate this ability in this fashion. Ive achieved dyhana many times other ways, suppressing thought is such a awful technique that doesnt work. You cannot detach yourself from your own mind its such a ridiculous notion if you actually analyze it for a second, youd see its just how preposterous it is!!

  • @oliverking90001 I like your comment. Is there a particular kind of meditation you suggest or a reference? thanks

  • @Gargonzolo

    Meditation on mind or thoughts is the best way into "real" meditation, if you attempt to suppress thoughts they just come back harder , making true meditation impossible. You should begin to realize this is your mind even when thoughts seem to swarm. Directed thought is a fundamental component of dhyana, vitakka, when you come to understand this thought as mind, you will begin to understand mind. Then mind can become awareness. I recommend Wumen's koans in, 'Gateless gate'.

  • @oliverking90001 Yes you pretty much got it. As long as we dont identify with our thoughts/ego as "I" then they will have no power. We cannot stop thoughts because that requires us to be on high alert all day long. It would drive us insane. Just realize everybody that you are not your thoughts, you are the awareness of them. The space in which they pop up. Stay as that presence in the moment, without attachment or judgement, and then you will all be free.

  • @Nunzi1001 This is very helpful. Have been dealing w. a very annoying obsession/compulsion for more than a year and just recently decided to accept it rather than fight or judge it. It has helped. I wonder how much these ideas put into practice can help people who suffer from OCD. Does anyone here know of specific resources for meditation as it relates to helping OCD sufferers?

  • @funch357 Meditation surely helps in overcoming OCD.. there are various techniques.. the one which Jon Kabat is teaching is Vipassana.. you can try it out for a month and see if it helps..

  • CHE COGLIONE APPOGGIATO DALLA LOBBY!

  • I came here looking for Vuvuzelas..........

  • To be or not to be that is the question

  • Mindfulness is very important! If everyone should so this, the world would become a much nicer place :). Let's get inspired with this popular video: 2012 A Message of Hope. Has changed the lifes for a lot of people, spreading happiness

  • I know this is pretty trivial, but that bow at the end looked so bad ass for some reason.

  • Does that man have breasts?

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  • I love this quote, "What we think of ourselves gets in the way of us being ourselves."- Jon Kabat-Zinn...this is the power of the ego and why we should be more mindful.

  • Yes, be aware. Google "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 TRUTH. Peace to all.

  • There is absolutely nothing mystical about mindfulness meditation. It is a simple, practical exercise that can help us become more present and aware in life and is has helped thousands the patients deal with chronic pain, illness and stress. We can never "get rid" of thoughts, but we can learn to slow down and observe them. This awareness and observation makes room for conscious choices as opposed to always being pushed around by our automatic reactions and preconceptions.

  • @debmc50 This is the single best description of what meditation is supposed to achieve.

  • I liked your information very well! Yours truly, pro fit student :)

  • Meditation is overrated! You might get rid of thoughts that have nothing to do with you or your loved ones, but what about those thoughts that emerge from REAL happenings? Like, for ex., your wife has cancer (@crvc56), your home might get lost because you can't pay your mortage anymore, one of your relatives will die, etc...why do you think thoughts could ever go away through meditation as long as the REAL situation that stands behind these thoughts still exists??

  • @ijneb86 someone has to have put you up to this. quiet, troll.

  • @atlzdanniboi No room here for critical thinking, I see. Allright, I made a mistake posting this here!

  • @ijneb86 umm.. realism is a movement, you're not alone. but one thing that i feel is common with people that think that way, is that they can never seem to see past 'the way things are'. just because no one has proven it to you yet, does not, and can not mean that millions upon millions throughout the last 6,500 years are all wrong. you have probably never attempted to meditate more than five minutes, and are only quick to hinder others from learning to do so. you are a youtube troll, ownurrole

  • @ijneb86 As hemsjon says, the idea is not to make thoughts go away. Consider two people who witness a gruesome accident. They both feel terrible for the victim. The first one is overcome by the scene and vomits. The second has the presence of mind to go and help. Mindfulness is about having presence of mind.

  • @ijneb86 The point isn't to make the thoughts go away. The point is to reconsider them and see them from a different perspective.

  • @ijneb86 @ijneb86 I think your concern is based in misunderstanding. Good meditational practice has nothing to do with 'getting rid of' thoughts/feelings, or even avoiding them -- it's about confronting them directly with full awareness, but *without judgment*. It's OK to feel anything in meditation -- the point is to increase awareness and acceptance of one's stream of consciousness. If not anything else, it's a journey of self-discovery in which you learn the 'flow' of your mind. S = PxR :)

  • @yolanda21 ABSOLUTELY ! Well explained .

  • @ijneb86 - please dont form the impression that meditation = no action, it is not a surrogate for doing what you are supposed to do.. meditation helps you to get grounded and face situations with equanimity and with maximum awareness..

  • MEDITATION RESOURCES:

    Yoga Nine Vipassana" is a Facebook page that offers free resources for meditation, including articles, quotes, recent research, excerpts from well-known teachers, etc. Please come and check it out.

    Look up "Yoga Nine Vipassana" on Facebook.

  • @anapanasati1970 found this on a video called 2012 - a message of hope! got a class on sept 7 :]

  • Is a men o women ?

  • More than twenty years ago my wife developed cancer and her oncologist enrolled us both in a meditation course based on Kabat-Zinn's appoach. What helped me to turn off the myriad thoughts running through my mind was counting to 10. Start counting and the moment your mind strays, go back to 1. It's harder than you'd think. Once you can count to 10 without having to restart you're beginning to learn meditation.

    kevin

  • @crvc56 i have read a lot of books on the mind, thoughts, etc but just got introduced to Full Catastrophe Living. I have never meditated so I am going to start using the methods from the book. Cheers for the extra tip!

  • Just started a mindfullness course two weeks ago. Im hoping it will help me at least a little!

  • Great introduction to mindfulness principles

  • @kamwrites i'd gladly pay $20 to hear a band called "the shirt is pooching" play at google! cheers!

  • Jon shares so much gems and insights in this presentation. Rekommended to watch several times with pen and paper

  • crazy chase montara RN sent me here - hawk is a sociopath with MPD/DID

  • Great job!

    

  • at about the 2:58 mark his shirt gets BIGGER!

  • I LOVE this guy. :)

  • man boobs

  • @ArbitraryLifestyle nobody seems to know what's under his shirt but i guess they're man boobs..i still can't understand the first guy..google's jarlee gu farlow?

  • @bihitasu Oh come on. First, it's just the way the shirt is pooching after he stood, stiff shirts do that. It flattens out later. Second...you can only comment on the state of his shirt? Try absorbing the video instead.

  • His shirt is so forward-protruding. What's up with that :p

  • Hermann Hesse brought me here.

  • it was very enlightening!

  • This man is extraordinary and unique. You an see his empathy and compassion in this exciting field called: 'mindfulness' . Try out his book called: 'Full Catastrophe Living'; you will NOT regret it!

  • is that first guy speaking english?

  • @bihitasu If you were speaking English, you would capitalize it... just sayin'. ;o)

  • the first guy's a singaporean/malaysian. hahahahah

  • Thank you very much Jon for the posting this video. It is very useful.

  • thanks 

  • Acually studies showes that meditation makes people even more anxious than they where before they started. Only after years of practice meditation gives any results. If your not ready to practice and wait for years its useless. Very few gain anything from meditation.

  • @Mjolbaggar How about a link to one of these actual studies? I've read up a lot about meditation over the past year and no where have I read anything about it causing more anxiety. I'm just curious and would appreciate a link to these studies.

  • @Mjolbaggar  Bullshit.

  • @Mjolbaggar

    Even though many people believe that meditation is a quick fix and think that they are immediately sages after meditating once or twice or going on retreat, which is crap. There are real studies that show that the brain structure changes drastically after 10-24 hours of meditation practice. However not "years" that's just untrue. I have been practicing mindfulness and sitting for roughly 10 months and i have experience astronomical changes.

  • @Mjolbaggar That's because they have so much guilt burried deep down in their mind. Meditation is the journey to the deeper layers of one's mind.

  • at around 50 minutes, the camera image beings pulsing at about the rate of the human heart beat... why?

  • at around 50:00 the camera image beings pulsing at about the rate of the human heart beat... why?

  • Thumbs up if you were linked to this video and were thinking: it will be some usual 4 minutes "internet thing" clip, but realised that this is a 1h video AND eventually watched/listened/enjoyed it till the end.

  • @jonivaio I fit the description but thumbs down. I kept listening, hoping to get something of value, but there's absolutely nothing here. First he spends an inordinate amount of time bragging about all the smart people he's coached, then he spends an inordinate amount of time getting people to breathe and be aware of your breathing. That's it. That's fucking it. He's a genius if he can convince people (and Google execs, of all people!) to pay him big bucks to dole out shit like this.

  • @transitionality I forgive you for giving a negative feedback about, what seemed to me, very delightfully clever and wise person, and for giving me thumbs down although I did not ask you to do so.

    It is ok that you didn't understand every word or meaning that this person was telling. Perhaps it was just me, but every sentence, every word, every thought that this person expressed was very logical, clear and true for me.

    I hope you are happy with your opinion and I wish you a nice day :)

  • @transitionality Thanks for the heads up. I saw the length and loaded it to my playlist. I'll delete it. Another hour saved for my life :D

  • @transitionality I think you did not pay enough attention.Let me suggest you actually try to be aware of your breath for 5 minutes. That's it. You may realize of your thoughts coming one after the other and it is not such an easy task. Who knows, maybe you even realize we all have a preconditioned mind that makes us to be quite judgemental, frequently..

  • Seems like something gets twisted with the links on YouTube. Here's a shorter version for the mp3 download which leads to the same dropbox URL: db [dot] tt [slash] JksHmsd

  • "awareness is like a bubble, that when touched disappears"

  • Ming is so funny and sweet, I just love him! Jon Kabat-Zinn has always been a favorite. AND, Google you may also want to invite Matt Kahn & Julie Dittmar to lead some programs or workshops for you all. They're very "mindful", peaceful people...all about the relaxation, meditation, yoga for improved well-being, happiness, clarity, productivity. They will work WONDERS with your Google guys and gals! Happpy connecting with them.

    Peace,

    Shakti

  • Excellent!

  • sorry, but what is under his shirt at 1:23? surely they're man boobs?

  • 14:53

  • 15th minute is the best:-)

  • interesting talk, and he has a nice rack!