TED talk

Модный тренд на mindfullness, жизнь в настоящем и все эти медитации – просто маркетинг и стремление заработать или реально полезная штука? Порассуждать на эту тему можно после просмотра TED talk от спикера, который в 20 лет решил оставить свою привычную жизнь и уехал в Тибет, чтобы стать монахом. Скорее открывай этот пост и получай бесплатные упражнения к видео!

Before watching

• Have you ever heard about “mindfullness“? What does this word mean?
• Have you ever tried to practice meditation or yoga? Why (not)? If yes – have you noticed any positive effect from it?

Watch the TED talk and say why the speaker started meditating. What benefits of this practice does he mention?

While watching

What synonyms for the word “anxious” do you know? Write them down.

Watch the TED talk and write what synonyms you hear in it. The synonyms can be not only adjectives, e.g. the mind whizzes away like a washing machine

Possible answers (for teacher): worried, inundated, stressed, distracted, overwhelmed, frantic, agitated, nagging. You can find all these words in the transcript for this talk

After watching

Read the 5 statements the speaker made during this talk. Do you agree or disagree with them? Explain your point.

1. We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we’re always doing something.
2. I think the present moment is so underrated. It sounds so ordinary, and yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it’s anything but ordinary.
3. There was a research paper that came out of Harvard, just recently, that said on average, our minds are lost in thought almost 47 percent of the time. 47 percent. At the same time, this sort of constant mind-wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness.
4. We need an exercise. We need a framework to learn how to be more mindful.
5. Well, whatever it is, meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back and to get a different perspective, to see that things aren’t always as they appear.

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