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Natalie Goldberg: The Great Spring and Writing Down the Bones

By Natalie Goldberg — 2016

Banyen Books & Sound and VPL co-hosted Natalie Goldberg for a book launch on March 14th, 2016, in Vancouver, British Columbia. See more...

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Can You Boost Your Creativity?

How attention and focus affects creative thinking.

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2014
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Neuropsychology and Performance Anxiety | Priyanka Potdar | TEDxNapaValley

Priyanka Potdar shares her experience and idea on how Neuropsychology can help with Performance Anxiety as part of the TEDxNapaValley 2014 “Going Against The Grain, embracing the unconventional” event.

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2014
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Dan Harris: Hack Your Brain's Default Mode with Meditation | Big Think

There’s no way a fidgety and skeptical news anchor would ever have started meditating were it not for the science. The science is really compelling.

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2014
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How Meditation Impacts the Brain and Implications for Health

How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.

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Helen Weng
2016
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05:08

The Secret to Creativity

Let your mind wander: Your next great idea might come when you least expect it.

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2016
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The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias | Beau Lotto | Big Think

To be creative, we have to unlearn millions of years of evolution. Creativity asks us to do that which is hardest: to question our assumptions, to doubt what we believe to be true. That is the only way to see differently.

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2017
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Seeking Wisdom in Graying Matter

Geriatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dilip Jeste reveals how our brains compensate for physical aging and discusses an unexpected evolutionary advantage to growing old–gaining sage wisdom–which holds great promise to benefit society as a whole.

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Dilip Jeste
2016
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03:48

Meditation’s Impact on the Brain | Documentary Clip

This is a clip from the feature documentary “A Joyful Mind.”

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Richard Davidson
2019
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25:29

The Science of Meditation

Meditation has never been so popular. But can it really make you smarter, happier and healthier? New research shows that it can affect the body as well as the mind, slow down the aging process, and even alter the structure of the brain.

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2016
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Addiction and Trust: Marc Lewis at TEDxRadboudU 2013

A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve.

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2013
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