Month: May 2020

Setting Up Anchor Experiences in Your Brain

“If you know the correct trigger, you can elicit any response in yourself and others” begins the video.

Anchor Experiences in Your Brain

“If you know the correct trigger, you can elicit any response in yourself and others” begins the video. The brain cannot distinguish, between an actual experience and the memory of an actual experience. This means, by anchoring actual positive experiences in our brain, we can stimulate the triggers and responses of those experiences. We can then apply this learnt behaviour and responses to new situations. This is based on the research done by Dr. Dave Hamilton and can be used as a practical tool to approach some of our responses. The video shows us a 5 step method to anchor such experiences in our brain. Enjoy it and do try the technique.

Video length: 6 min 12 sec

Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness

Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness

This is not just a video about happiness; if you see it one pointedly it is pure joy, expressing through the Dalai Lama and infectious to the people around him. Just hearing him, I was moved to both laughter and tears. The Dalai Lama, talks about warm heartedness, a quality so integral to our sense of connectedness with the universe. When we are warm hearted, we intuitively acknowledge that the highest part of the universe – if you would like to call that God – resides deeply in each of us. If we cannot approach each other with warm heartedness, then we have cut ourselves off from the nectar that flows in our own heart; which is the beginning of loneliness. Please have a lovely day.

Video Length: 8 min 7 seconds

Life is Not a Journey

This video which has Alan Watts’ voice opens us up to looking at life through another prism. Not as a journey, but more as a playful happening, with no end result or end goal. There is no necessity for life and neither is it going anywhere. “Playfulness” is the key concept he speaks of. Life is best understood via the analogy of music according to Alan; since music essentially as an artform is playful. Being a musician since I was six years old, this has been my intuitive understanding since childhood. Playfulness and joy are the two pillars life needs to be constructed around and slowly a deep interiorisation of the process begins through consistency and practice, which eventually results in constant joy.

You want to save the planet?

George Carlin was an American stand up comedian. But in my eyes he was a tremendously spiritual being, who had an understanding of the universe and a unique way to express it. In this video titled “Saving The Planet”, George addresses our arrogance at even thinking we can save the planet and control nature. The planet knows how to look after itself, thank you, he says. At 6 minutes 30 seconds into the video you will be surprised at what he said so many years ago, appropriate for our current world situation. I hope you enjoy this short 8 minute journey and gain some insights from it. All your own.