Wellbeing (Video)

Dr. Kevin Barrows provides a general description of mindfulness, which includes it as a form of awareness and a way of paying attention. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31366]

Artist Yuko Kodama shares her inspiring story of healing and transformation and the role of yoga in her recovery. Yuko's cancer began in her mouth, and her art reflects the pain and memory associated with that part of her body. We visit her studio to get an in-depth look at the relationship between her struggle with cancer and her art. We also follow her to the yoga studio with Eddie Stern, Yuko's yoga teacher for almost two decades, who shares his perspective on her illness and recovery, and how yoga practice contributes to spiritual strength and perseverance. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31289]

Dr. Kevin Barrows relates some of the historical roots of mindfulness and how it evokes the revealing of the unconscious processes of the mind. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31365]

Sleep is much more than just a time of rest and repair. Deepak Chopra discusses the deeper significance of sleeping and dreaming, so critical to our health. Sleeping gives our brain necessary time to process short and long-term memories. But it can also allow us to reconnect with our original, higher state of consciousness, like the freshness of a newborn baby. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31290]

Deepak Chopra defines meditation and discusses it's history and context in Vedanta. He also explains some of the benefits of its practice. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31285]

Julie Zwillich is introduced to the seven spiritual laws of yoga in part three of her trip to the Chopra Center. She learns that the qualities you learn and develop on the mat often translate to life off the mat. So as yoga helps the body become stronger and more flexible, those qualities translate into the rest of your life. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31282]

Drawing on yogic tradition, best-selling author Dr. Deepak Chopra explains the essence of creativity, how the artist implicitly taps into higher stages of consciousness, and why artificial intelligence cannot be creative. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31180]

Dr. Kevin Barrows explains the term “mindfulness based stress reduction” (MBSR) and why he recommends the process to anyone, especially those suffering from certain psychological and physiological conditions. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31325]

Dr. Andrea Garber speaks on the ways in which the food industry and associated advertising agencies promote a combination of foods lacking nutritional value and unhealthy representations of body image, cultivating an anti-nourishment culture among the youth. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31230]

Dr. Deepak Chopra hopes that the future will bring a better understanding of the influence cast by a person’s electromagnetic field, and how those fields interact with one another. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31182]