B. Alan Wallace 'Cultivating mental and emotional balance ' at Mind & Its Potential 2012
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How do our desires and impulses affect our mental wellbeing?
How does inattention affect our minds?
What impact do negative thoughts have?
How can we remedy emotional imbalances?
How can we cultivate mental and emotional balance in our lives?
B. Alan Wallace, leading scholar, author and meditation teacher, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, USA
Protect this man at all costs 🙏
Totally. 🙏
Challenge this man at all costs.
This man said some things that have set my mind free, lifted the weight off my shoulders, the anxiety from my abdomen. He has the same opinion of pharmaceuticals as me. It is true I find myself not paying attention to something for long enough before my negative ruminations and refractions poke their head out into my mind. Ironically, I went off to do other things while watching this video, so had to rewatch it. I couldn't even give attention for 30 mins. That discovery alone has helped me.
I felt just like you when I saw Allan Wallace for first time. It's a bliss to have acces to this wisdom with just a click. I become a fan of every talk he has. His words and clarity of speech has a magic touch. Just by listening to him it's more easy to warn myself when a delisional state of mind emerges.
Lexapro has really helped me with negative rumination. It doesn't cause dependence. IMO Alan should not be expressing his opinions on psychiatric medications in such a public forum, because he's not a medical doctor or a psychiatrist, and it's not his place to do so.
I listened to several talks by B Allen Wallace, with positive effect...followed by a long period of cognitive hyperfocus and attention to hedonia and "being attached to the back of the truck" of my mind. This morning while getting ready for work I turned this lecture on.. thank you for posting this. The wisdom and practical steps for training the mind that are presented in this 30:33 are priceless, both for myself as I seek internal stability and well-being, as well as for those around me-- my children, friends, co-workers and others with whom I come into contact. Invaluable listen.
A friend shared this talk with me. Thank you so much. May we all achieve attentive clarity...
Thank you Mr. Wallace
I have found this so helpful at a time of great personal distress
Thank you
although sleep still flees from me
A wonderful bridge to awareness of self and others, clearly articulated and accessible to us all
Thanks for refreshing my memory of shamatha and vivifying my rumination by sincerely sharing your contemplative resources so articulately. I am grateful your institute sent this to my email so I could hear you speak and help me navigate a fight I just had with my boyfriend last night where I am ruminating wildly about breaking up.
wonderful.. such clear and precise language..
Interesting and informative,
beautiful easy-to-listen-to-voice
Thank you for caring and sharing. :)
I was mesmerized by his talks! I believed he was walking the talk. His words held hope ...
I wanted so much to meet him in person. And i did!
Sadly, this is an extremely knowledgeable person yes, but not true in any word he preaches. It was a great shock & utter disappointment when I finally met him in person...to see how untrue to the teachings a teacher can be. 🙏
Totally and absolutely highly learned of course. But cold hearted and devoid of compassion of the Buddha.
Meeting him initially shattered my trust !
But later over the years that passed, this experience brought me to the understanding of how supreme knowledge can be wrongly used to gain popularity and fame... To be careful of whom i put my faith and trust in blindly, because their words can sound so spiritual and real.
I thank the path of Dhamma for helping me recover from this experience.
What a refreshingly wise man!! Thank you Allan, you have such an astute grasp of the human mind and it's potential.
Om...you do ALANON very well..it sounds good in the middle tone with something like a door out of so much . .negativity for example when it gets obscenely rushing into a point
I love love this talk and desire to live a meaningful life like Alan suggests!
Attention..... the best thing we can offer. Meditation is awakening and freedom.
Thank you so much for sharing.
This is amazing!!
Brilliantly shared. Thank you
thank you very much for sharing! Very interesting and real!
Mooie manier om verder te kijken
Thank you!
Thank you 🌺🌺🌺
Protect him at all cost
Great video
Man, Alan is not terribly fond of neuroscience...it's going to change everything about spirituality whether he likes it or not.
It already is. I tried meditating following traditional instructions alone for years and didn't get anywhere. I couldn't focus, my mind instantly wandered etc. Psychedelics, neurofeedback and target brain stimulation finally helped me make a lot of progress.
_"Hold that in space."_ Okay, for how long? This talk was nine years ago, and he's still saying that. We learn more about the brain every year. Applied neuroscience is one of the primary growth areas of science. We should all be grateful for that.
Dear professor Allan Wallace, I have an OCDD thought, I think it's a kind of common question. All you said has a tremendous and instantaneous sense of truth. No hedonic pleasure is an artesian well of truly wellbeing. Luis Borges, an argentinian writer once said "Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers". There is no doubt about the trascendence of such aim in order to generate and share true love. A big thing here is, how to deal with such threats as political stubbornness that is driven us to catastrophee (climate change, wars, social injustices, an so on) by doing shamata as citizens? I mean, i'ts confusing because it seems that world requires maximum "practical" measures to save us, taking urgent political action. While we are meditating, there are politicians signing for bringing more misery and ecological destruction. Will be possible to solve our problems as humanity by coupling personal slow changes in hope to gradually revert actual destroying tendencies?, Will the earth can resist sufficient time to let us do that?. Without suggesting Buddhism as a universal pathway, I guess that a possible clue to answer this question will be to look at countries as Butan*, the perfect example of the political, ecological an social implications of daily actions of people who really make an effort to put in practice this principles of searching true wellbeing. If by casuality you read this, would be possible to let us know your opinion about this personal-planetary change matter? Thank you so much any way for share so clarity, wisdom and inspiration!!!!!
*Butan is the only nation that absorbes more CO2 than he produces, also it has 70% of their territory under ecological protection, has free medical assistance and nobody lives in streets - th-cam.com/video/Oki0kftEm-Y/w-d-xo.html
Awesome 🙏
This is fantastic. What about trauma though? Focussing the mind might not help recover from trauma? Might there be a danger of further disassociation?
Gabor Mate "Compassionate Inquiry" Well worth looking into regarding dealing with trauma.
Yes.
thank you ~;~
educational!
Omg I have OCDD, i have delusional thoughts all the time.
He's pretty cool :)
I really admire his wisdom in many ways, but I disagree with how he broadly dismisses medication for mental illness. It’s not his area of expertise.
Glad I'm not the only one. He has a real mental bock when it comes to anything that's not 'traditional'. Now that neurotechnologies are rapidly advancing in their ability to alter brain activity, Alan has included them in the same category of stuff that he dismisses as he does medication. Basically, anything new is bad and anything old is good. He's hopelessly out of touch and in denial about what is happening in neuroscience today. And he never, ever discusses artificial intelligence...except to, that's right, dismiss it.
I used to respect him more as a teacher, but his constant railing on about this stuff has caused me to lose a lot of respect for him.
a lot of rumination comes from hormonal or blood sugar issues...getting these chemical issues balanced allows you to work on informational and structural issues
Alan Wallace is a confusing mix of modern and traditional Buddhist. He thinks the answer to everything is 'more meditation', using techniques that haven't changed since he started practicing 45 years ago. Most of us don't have three extra hours a day to meditate like him or a few months to a few years lying around to go on retreat. We have to make the path more accessible to everyone.
Physical must be addressed first. Vitamin deficiency's are another reason.
@@yoya4766 yes, and excessive sexual indulgence
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A vague promotion of the supernatural belief that the mind is everything alternating with the belief that there is no mind.
It is a subjectively experienced reality that has increasing support from neuroscience, e.g. Sam Harris' bestseller 'Spirituality Without Religion'. Spirituality might be entirely brain-based, but it is profoundly transformative at the highest level.
Like Alan Wallace, I believe in a primordial consciousness that you need a brain to experience, but that is irrelevant to the discussion. It's not important what you believe if you have the right tools for working with the mind, including highly technological ones.
valar Any belief in the supernatural from any source is an error. If the world can be understood and controlled human beings will do it. The human mind is the most significant phenomenon in the multiverse.
@@patmoran5339 I prefer 'supernormal'. Many things we used to call supernatural are now 'natural', and perhaps many more things in the future as well.
@@squamish4244 I don’t agree.
@@patmoran5339 Why not? You think we have it all figured out? What is consciousness? Nobody can explain it. Kind of like the elephant in the room, except our mind is the elephant.
Reminds of Malcolm Tucker for a certain reason.
+himzoidae Ha. I was thinking Dr. Who!
He's more in the age range of Dr. Who, yes. I agree, he has a remarkable physical similarity to Peter Capaldi :)
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Repackaged, pseudoscientific woo-woo.
+jeffersonianideal What's pseudo scientific about it? Maybe examining the original package would have been the scientific approach. Having a picture of the DNA double helix doesn't make you a scientist.
+Keith Williams
How many examples of metaphysical gobbledygook would you like?
I've never claimed to be a scientist. If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be anxious to see it. Your point about my chosen avatar is therefore, irrelevant. The reason behind the icon requires inquiry, not knee-jerk assumption. If you aren't familiar with the wise old adage regarding the making of assumptions I'd be happy to post it.
+jeffersonianideal It's true from a subjective perspective - if you actually take a look at your own mind, you will be able to verify most of what he says. Concentration, stability, clarity - these are all skills you can develop and they really benefit in terms of a feeling of peace and relaxation. Most untrained minds are always engaged in an endless stream of rumination that is physically and emotionally draining.
From the way you are describing it, practically anything can be declared true from a "subjective perspective".
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What I mean is, you can actually observe your conscious experience changing if you apply these techniques. The constant chatter we all experience subjectively- unless you don't? - the endless stream of judgments, trains of thought, emotional reactions to trivial stimuli, etc. - this is all obvious as soon as you apply some introspection. Why do we lose our shit when someone cuts us off in traffic? Yet it doesn't have to be like that - our responses can be changed.
The effects of meditation can also and have been extensively objectively measured. We know from many well-conducted studies over the past decade that meditation produces massive, remarkably consistent changes in brain function in areas associated with rumination, anxiety, compassion, attention, pain response, etc. Long-term meditators also have a higher startle response threshold, lower levels of cortisol in their saliva, heightened immune response to antigens, and even potentially slower shortening of the telomeres at the ends of DNA strands.
This is a huge field, involving some perfectly respectable minds - e.g. Sam Harris, Richard Davidson, Daniel Goleman, Gary Schwartz, etc. and you really should look into it further before making these claims.
Thank you for sharing!
Great video