As a therapist I love this, as a human being, I am so grateful for the work our scientists are doing to make this life journey a better one. Thanks Richie and Greater Good!
1:16 "what do we mean by wellbeing" Then he presents 4 ways to increase wellbeing, or "promote higher levels of wellbeing", but doesn't explain what he thinks wellbeing actually is. It's telling the class he will explain what water is, then presents 4 ways how water can be collected.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and results; as an animator/lecturer I use his research to justify our observations to include well being into education through arts. I love his work.
Very intriguing. 47% don't know what we are doing? I hope that we know where we are going. Thats a very powerful statement especially if all the interviewees were sober. That is scary in a way.
Lisa Renee Kozitka Greenwood Lisa Renee Kozitka Greenwood I think he's referring to the instantaneous moment in time. Obviously we know where we are going when we're walking, his point simply illustrates that our full attention is not usually present.
This video brings welcomed memories of Psych of Emotion and Psych of Consciousness days at SUNY P. I am very happy to be aware of your continued efforts in guiding others toward inner peace!
7:49 third constituent is attention. Harvard psychologists: A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Happiness app? Results: 47% of life is not paying attention. Distractability. How do we show up and deeply listen. William James 1890 whole chapter on attention.10:30
Doing something for someone else not motivated by selfish desires or the desire to gain anything at all. Instead, motivated (mostly) for the only purpose of serving the other person. It's hard to understand or comprehend any action which is a perfect example of this or 100 percent altruistic. The best illustration I think is an extreme one. This would be to lay down your life for another person. This would be the ultimate act of generosity and altruism. To give up everything, so that someone else could live. So for example: if someone is going to kill a stranger or even someone who hates you and you offer to be killed in their place. This is the most extreme example, but it illustrates what altruism or generosity is in its fullest extent (imo). Of course there are less extreme examples of it, but most of the time you could still argue the person could still be motivated on some level by selfish gain. As a generality though altruism operates under those principles! I think it is found in humans all around us and I think striving to be altruistic is part of the purpose of life :)
why does he equate attention with "being present"? Can't you be laser-focused on something that's not right in front of you? For example, right now I'm not paying attention to my fingers tapping the keys, I'm paying attention to the thoughts in my head. But I'm still laser-focused on that. And can't be you laser-focused on imagining something about the future, or thinking about the past? I'm confused about this concept.
I think he means when you're at work, you should be laser focused on doing your job not letting your mind wander to what you're going to have for dinner, what you're going to do this weekend, etc. If we were laser focused, we'd be more productive at doing our work (That's my understanding)
I think he means to be focused and pay attention but not just to anything but with intentionality perhaps. For example to be paying attention to what we want to be paying attention to. Right now I'm ignoring my desires to go to bed because it's 2 am and instead my focus has drifted to comments on TH-cam
Thanks GGSC for keep sharing. By the way, the Berkeley UC course at EDX: "Science of happiness" it's an outstanding resource to learn about resilience, compassion and attention among other subjects related to the lecture, ah, was short but meaningful.
I cant see how one can practise resilience. If I cant snap back rapidly after a tumble then I just cant. I can see learning to be positive, learning mindfulness , forcing myself to do acts of generosity but how can I do resilience? Perhaps we become resilient after the other 3 practised are experienced over time.
The way I understand and experience this, meditation helps me improve resilience in the following way: While rewiring the brain to not (blindly) react to thoughts or sensations according is one part of meditation, how we react when we realize that AGAIN we have gotten distracted is another part to it. By not buying into the egos story of getting upset or emotionally reactive, but rather just move my attention (patiently, with a balanced mind) back to where I want it to be, and doing this thousands of times, I am shortening the time I take to recover from adversity. No, I have not yet meditated for 10000 hours, but about 2000hours it should be I guess :) Be happy!
This is good stuff for people who have no knowledge of this, but my teaching and understanding " Blows this " right out of the water. But this is good for people who don't know any better.
concise and sums it up nicely. am interested in the specific circuitry ritchie is talking about here re resilience. in my (albeit subjective) experience, resilience, ability to ride life's challenges and being able to see things from differing perspectives are an early result of committed practice.
How to easily elicit a state of well being from the perspective of affective neuroscience (Berridge's work) Think of your meaningful tasks at hand (i.e., events that have branching virtual positive outcomes), choose any meaningful task and alternate its performance with thinking non-judgmentally or ‘in the moment’, or being mindful. Because you do not have to make continuous judgments between rational (meaningful) and affective choices which are derived from the present (distraction), past (regret), or future (worry) your muscles will soon be at an inactive or resting state, and their prolonged inactivity will result in the release of opioids or ‘endorphins’ in the brain that will give you a feeling of pleasure. In addition, the anticipation or awareness of subsequent meaningful choices during mindfulness sessions and the performance of those choices afterwards increases attentive arousal (due to the activity of midbrain dopamine systems that cause arousal but not pleasure) that accentuates the feeling of pleasure in relaxation (or dopamine-opioid interactions), resulting in an enhanced positive emotional state during and after mindfulness sessions, or a sustained feeling of ‘bliss’. You will note that you will feel totally relaxed and have greater self-control and an accompanying sense of positive arousal, pleasure, and alertness, thus representing good feelings and much higher productive capacities that will extend into your otherwise stress filled day. (a summary explanation of this and it’s corollary neuroscience is on pp.44-51) And the good thing is that you will be fully rested and alert and experience a natural ‘high’ and will not have to take a course on mindfulness, or meditation, or even for that matter read the book that follows! It’s that simple. This procedure is based on the work of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to review and endorse it. A more formal explanation from a neurologically based learning theory is provided on pp. 25-27, and 44-51 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing Berridge article on the Neuroscience of Pleasure and Arousal- from Scientific American sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf Kent Berridge Lab sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
Wow, this is extraordinary content. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and it was truly phenomenal. "Reclaiming Connection: The Journey of a Digital Detox" by Joshua Ember
I have 10,000 hours of recording that I have to sort thought before I can finish my book. But have already cracked it all. I should just write a quick version of my book, so I can be the 1st to bring this information out.
Have only listen to 4:44 seconds of the video, there is "Nothing" that this guy knows that I don't already know. First of all in the firs 4:44 second, he's actually talking about a phenomenon of the brain. But he's so vague and non specific , no would get anything from this. But he is talking about a " Shift " in the brain. Or a place the brain gets "Stuck" at.
what these people are doing is " Working backward " to find the " Core secret" or the E=mc2 of the mind . I found the core secret, then I worked back ward from that. So they are sorting through the "Forest " to find the center tree.
I don't read books, probably read about 50-100 books in my entire life, which is good. I totally rely on my own thinking. I don't have all that defective information to contaminate my mind. Imagine having a world map and the map is wrong and you don't know it, that one advantage I have.
And I also want to say, this is the most "Important" research that can be done for human's mentally. It's so "needed" . What they are doing, is creating " A owners manual " for operating a brain. Your not born with one, and the "Morons teachers" in Schools should be teaching kids how to Operated the brain. But they are "Totally clueless "
resilience, outlook, attention, and generosity are the fundamental constituents of well-being.
As a therapist I love this, as a human being, I am so grateful for the work our scientists are doing to make this life journey a better one. Thanks Richie and Greater Good!
2:07 First Constituent 4:45 Second Constituent 7:46 Third Constituent 11:14 Fourth Constituent
Thank you 🙏🏾
god bless
His pace of voice and intonation are amazing. I am not only learn something new about well being and enhance my English listening skill also.
“We can all take more responsibility for our own minds.”
1:16 "what do we mean by wellbeing"
Then he presents 4 ways to increase wellbeing, or "promote higher levels of wellbeing", but doesn't explain what he thinks wellbeing actually is. It's telling the class he will explain what water is, then presents 4 ways how water can be collected.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and results; as an animator/lecturer I use his research to justify our observations to include well being into education through arts. I love his work.
Very intriguing. 47% don't know what we are doing? I hope that we know where we are going. Thats a very powerful statement especially if all the interviewees were sober. That is scary in a way.
Lisa Renee Kozitka Greenwood Lisa Renee Kozitka Greenwood I think he's referring to the instantaneous moment in time. Obviously we know where we are going when we're walking, his point simply illustrates that our full attention is not usually present.
This video brings welcomed memories of Psych of Emotion and Psych of Consciousness days at SUNY P. I am very happy to be aware of your continued efforts in guiding others toward inner peace!
All these findings are revealed in buddhist philosophy - why not have a look
7:49 third constituent is attention. Harvard psychologists: A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Happiness app? Results: 47% of life is not paying attention. Distractability. How do we show up and deeply listen. William James 1890 whole chapter on attention.10:30
Good time stamp and note. Thank you very much
3:49 bless you!!
Can anybody share some compassion meditations please?
davidji is the best
but currently mr richardson has changed them. They are awareness, connection, insight, and purpose
The term altruistic and generous behavior seem a little vague to me. Could someone provide an example of generous and altruistic behavior?
Doing something for someone else not motivated by selfish desires or the desire to gain anything at all. Instead, motivated (mostly) for the only purpose of serving the other person. It's hard to understand or comprehend any action which is a perfect example of this or 100 percent altruistic. The best illustration I think is an extreme one.
This would be to lay down your life for another person. This would be the ultimate act of generosity and altruism. To give up everything, so that someone else could live.
So for example: if someone is going to kill a stranger or even someone who hates you and you offer to be killed in their place.
This is the most extreme example, but it illustrates what altruism or generosity is in its fullest extent (imo). Of course there are less extreme examples of it, but most of the time you could still argue the person could still be motivated on some level by selfish gain. As a generality though altruism operates under those principles! I think it is found in humans all around us and I think striving to be altruistic is part of the purpose of life :)
why does he equate attention with "being present"? Can't you be laser-focused on something that's not right in front of you? For example, right now I'm not paying attention to my fingers tapping the keys, I'm paying attention to the thoughts in my head. But I'm still laser-focused on that. And can't be you laser-focused on imagining something about the future, or thinking about the past? I'm confused about this concept.
I think he means when you're at work, you should be laser focused on doing your job not letting your mind wander to what you're going to have for dinner, what you're going to do this weekend, etc. If we were laser focused, we'd be more productive at doing our work (That's my understanding)
I think he means to be focused and pay attention but not just to anything but with intentionality perhaps. For example to be paying attention to what we want to be paying attention to. Right now I'm ignoring my desires to go to bed because it's 2 am and instead my focus has drifted to comments on TH-cam
@@punkseth1 haha 3 years later and idk why I even asked this question, I get it now
Thanks GGSC for keep sharing. By the way, the Berkeley UC course at EDX: "Science of happiness" it's an outstanding resource to learn about resilience, compassion and attention among other subjects related to the lecture, ah, was short but meaningful.
I cant see how one can practise resilience. If I cant snap back rapidly after a tumble then I just cant. I can see learning to be positive, learning mindfulness , forcing myself to do acts of generosity but how can I do resilience? Perhaps we become resilient after the other 3 practised are experienced over time.
The way I understand and experience this, meditation helps me improve resilience in the following way:
While rewiring the brain to not (blindly) react to thoughts or sensations according is one part of meditation, how we react when we realize that AGAIN we have gotten distracted is another part to it.
By not buying into the egos story of getting upset or emotionally reactive, but rather just move my attention (patiently, with a balanced mind) back to where I want it to be, and doing this thousands of times, I am shortening the time I take to recover from adversity.
No, I have not yet meditated for 10000 hours, but about 2000hours it should be I guess :)
Be happy!
salamat!
This is good stuff for people who have no knowledge of this, but my teaching and understanding " Blows this " right out of the water. But this is good for people who don't know any better.
concise and sums it up nicely. am interested in the specific circuitry ritchie is talking about here re resilience. in my (albeit subjective) experience, resilience, ability to ride life's challenges and being able to see things from differing perspectives are an early result of committed practice.
How to easily elicit a state of well being from the perspective of affective neuroscience (Berridge's work)
Think of your meaningful tasks at hand (i.e., events that have branching virtual positive outcomes), choose any meaningful task and alternate its performance with thinking non-judgmentally or ‘in the moment’, or being mindful. Because you do not have to make continuous judgments between rational (meaningful) and affective choices which are derived from the present (distraction), past (regret), or future (worry) your muscles will soon be at an inactive or resting state, and their prolonged inactivity will result in the release of opioids or ‘endorphins’ in the brain that will give you a feeling of pleasure. In addition, the anticipation or awareness of subsequent meaningful choices during mindfulness sessions and the performance of those choices afterwards increases attentive arousal (due to the activity of midbrain dopamine systems that cause arousal but not pleasure) that accentuates the feeling of pleasure in relaxation (or dopamine-opioid interactions), resulting in an enhanced positive emotional state during and after mindfulness sessions, or a sustained feeling of ‘bliss’.
You will note that you will feel totally relaxed and have greater self-control and an accompanying sense of positive arousal, pleasure, and alertness, thus representing good feelings and much higher productive capacities that will extend into your otherwise stress filled day. (a summary explanation of this and it’s corollary neuroscience is on pp.44-51) And the good thing is that you will be fully rested and alert and experience a natural ‘high’ and will not have to take a course on mindfulness, or meditation, or even for that matter read the book that follows! It’s that simple.
This procedure is based on the work of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to review and endorse it.
A more formal explanation from a neurologically based learning theory is provided on pp. 25-27, and 44-51 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below.
www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
Berridge article on the Neuroscience of Pleasure and Arousal- from Scientific American
sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf
Kent Berridge Lab
sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
I will listen to the rest of this, but he knows nothing that I don't already know, and know better, with far far more clarity .
Wow that right there is a statement! I applaud your confidence. What draws you to this conclusion though?
Wow, this is extraordinary content. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and it was truly phenomenal. "Reclaiming Connection: The Journey of a Digital Detox" by Joshua Ember
I have 10,000 hours of recording that I have to sort thought before I can finish my book. But have already cracked it all. I should just write a quick version of my book, so I can be the 1st to bring this information out.
Have only listen to 4:44 seconds of the video, there is "Nothing" that this guy knows that I don't already know. First of all in the firs 4:44 second, he's actually talking about a phenomenon of the brain. But he's so vague and non specific , no would get anything from this. But he is talking about a " Shift " in the brain. Or a place the brain gets "Stuck" at.
what these people are doing is " Working backward " to find the " Core secret" or the E=mc2 of the mind . I found the core secret, then I worked back ward from that. So they are sorting through the "Forest " to find the center tree.
I don't read books, probably read about 50-100 books in my entire life, which is good. I totally rely on my own thinking. I don't have all that defective information to contaminate my mind. Imagine having a world map and the map is wrong and you don't know it, that one advantage I have.
That sure is a lot of work to do it that way lol.
And I also want to say, this is the most "Important" research that can be done for human's mentally. It's so "needed" . What they are doing, is creating " A owners manual " for operating a brain. Your not born with one, and the "Morons teachers" in Schools should be teaching kids how to Operated the brain. But they are "Totally clueless "
I better not play around with this or someone will steal my secrets if I point out the specifics.
I had to delete that last comment, that was too big of a secret to give away .