Train Your Brain: Mindfulness Meditation for Anxiety, Depression, ADD and PTSD | Daniel Goleman
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- Train Your Brain: Mindfulness Meditation for Anxiety, Depression, ADD and PTSD | Daniel Goleman
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By now, everyone knows that mindfulness meditation is good for you-but what's still surprising scientists is just how quickly it works. Ten minutes of meditation won't make you a better mutlitasker-there's no such thing, as psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman explains-but it will make you more adept at switching tasks and returning to a deep level of concentration more quickly after a distraction. Every time you practice meditation, you’re strengthening the neural circuitry for focus and training your brain away from mind-wandering. Beyond the need to concentrate for work, pleasure, or to overcome negative emotion, mindfulness meditation can also help to manage disorders like PTSD, anxiety, and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). This last one particularly has shown incredible results, and Goleman cites one exercise a teacher in a rough neighborhood of New York City practices routinely with their class of seven-year-old kids, over half of which have special needs like ADD and autism. That daily ritual keeps the class environment calm and constructive, and is empowering the children with self-control strategies early on. The scientific research evidence on the benefits of meditation is already compelling, and there are major studies underway, which Goleman expects will reveal many more insights that can be used to instruct creative, educational, and mental health practices. Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson are the authors of Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body.
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DANIEL GOLEMAN
Daniel Goleman is a psychologist, lecturer, and science journalist who has reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half.
Goleman is also the author of Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. The book argues that new information technologies will create “radical transparency,” allowing us to know the environmental, health, and social consequences of what we buy. As shoppers use point-of-purchase ecological comparisons to guide their purchases, market share will shift to support steady, incremental upgrades in how products are made - changing every thing for the better.
His latest book is Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, which he has co-authored with Richard Davidson reveals the science of what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.
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Daniel Goleman: What’s surprising, at least to scientists, is that the benefits from meditation show up right from the beginning. You can do, for example, mindfulness-that’s a very popular meditation-if you do mindfulness practice ten minutes a day or ten minutes three times over the course of a day something remarkable happens to your attention, and it has to do with the fact that we’re all multitasking these days. People on average look at their email about 50 times a day, they look at their Facebook 20-something times a day and that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's Instagram, there's your phone calls, there’s whatever it is you have to do. And what this means for attention is that we’re challenged. Focused attention is an endangered species, however, we need that focus to get work done well. So it’s a real problem and meditation, it turns out, even at the beginning, has some of the answers.
It goes like this: when you’re really intensely focused on that one thing you have to do or you want to do-the paper you’re writing or the project you’re working on-then you think, 'Oh, I better check my email,' and then that leads to your Facebook and that leads to the phone call, it leads to-we call this multitasking. The brain actually does not do multitasking, it doesn’t do several things at once in parallel, rather it works in serial and it switches very rapidly from one thing to the next.
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*A moment of silence for those of us who are reading the comments while listening to the video.*
Anonymous u got me
This comment actually made me pity myself and I returned back to the video ! 😀
Quiet I'm eating LOL
Reading darn text-to-speech anyway!
funny thing is I was going to then I scrolled back up mid way
He’s right. Most of us can’t even listen to this video without reading the comments. Our brains have learned to constantly be going going going. Some of y’all will stop reading this by now after seeing how long it is, and that’s an issue with your attention and concentration and is further proving my point. We have to be stimulated at all times. And then you add caffeine and things on top of it and our brains actually probably hate us. Technology is probably most responsible for the increase in mental disorders like depression and anxiety. Just remember, it’s okay to be slow. It’s okay to take it slow. I know your work day probably has to be fast paced and stressful and that’s okay too. Just take the time to breathe for 5 minutes if that’s all the free time you get in a day. For me, meditation is almost something I HAVE to do everyday. It’s not really an option for me. Almost everything we take in on a daily basis is bad for our mental health, remember that. News is bad for us. Work can be bad for us. Rarely do we take in positive information. Good Sleep, meditation , exercise and a good diet are the only sure ways to make sure you bring in good energy. Think about it, If your sleep is whack, your diet is whack, you don’t meditate and you don’t exercise.... you have no room to complain about being in a bad mood, Because you have the answer right there. Life is hard but it doesn’t have to be harder when free tools are at your disposal at every waking second. Good luck y’all. Off to meditate I go.
I read the whole thing and I agree
thank you this is going to help me in so many ways. More people need to be aware of what they are doing to their own mental health👏
I needed this today. Thank you.
Round of applause to him writing this
Yh u got me. 111 likes aswell. Message received 😭
I have been diagnosed with Dysthymia and ADHD and Social Anxietv. I get mad all he time for no reason and I lack social skills because of the anxiety and I'm actually switching schools because there is a school (I recommend you check it out) it's called PACE and it's an all girls school for people who have mental health issues which cause them to make bad decisions or get bad grades or even if you just need counseling along with school. Every student at PACE has their own counselor to make sure you follow your goals.
I have researched and found out that shrooms are very helpful , it has really helps to reduce anxiety and depression . I would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some , Is there any realiable source I can purchase one
@@Jennifer-bw7ku I was having this constant, unbearable anxiety because of university stress. Not until I came across dr.sporess, a very intelligent mycologist. He saved my life honestly
@Laura Polonioli I’m feeling the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety level. I am so glad to be part of this community.
@@elizabethwilliams6651 Please how do I contact him?
@@Jennifer-bw7ku @dr.sporess
Brilliant. Daniel's voice is so relaxing as well, like a guided meditation itself :)
Better Than Yesterday u mean the cash me ousside girl? I agree
Around 2 weeks in on meditation, my anxiety has reduced alot
Did you keep going? Update?
@@Darfaultner Still waiting
@@TheG54 He ded
DanteDarcangelo lmfaooooo
He is so relaxed now and found his inner peace without visiting youtube ever again for answers.😂
To the person reading this:
I don’t know you but I wish you the best of what life has to offer to you 💕💜💖
Thank you🧡🌙
I've struggled with social anxiety for the majority of my life. After practicing attention training using CBT techniques I have seen amazing results, this video resonates perfectly with my experiences. Great video.
cbt = cock & balls torture?
Why kind of techniques did you do? Do you feel like you still have social anxiety anymore?
Needed a reminder for why I meditate everyday. Thanks
Thank you Dr. Goleman.
*surfs web while listening to this video in the background* ... oh the irony.
Reads comments while listening to the video at a speed of 1.5x
Level Attained.... EK Number :)
A brilliant author (Emotional Intelligence and many more), a brilliant researcher, a brilliant practitioner, and a thoroughly brilliant human being!!! Daniel Goleman!!
Outstanding video!
Thank you for sharing.
You are reading this comment while listening to the video, you lack concentration!
Vidyadhar Patil fuck, playing back the video for the 38th time
Vidyadhar Patil fuck, fuck fuck, shit, fuck
This is called multitasking... With focus on both....
@@PurplePlay5 cool down, nothing to burking
Just looking for summary...steps
Islam has something called Salah(prayer) it's a combination of yoga exercises and meditation exercises. As it encourages all these qualities. This is might not have been intentional in its making but it's remarkable how it works.
It's so interesting how religions even before today's studies and knowledge have adapted practises like this which help one's mental or psychical well being!
It also has fasting daily for a whole month (Ramadan), which is also quite good for our health.
Daniel Goleman! I love this guy's writing! Thanks Big Think, this is sick!
This spoke right to my soul and made so much sense. I’ve been trying to clean my house, for years. But I can’t and I don’t because of a stupid cell phone addiction. Meditation has been proven to literally increase the size of the gray matter in your brain.
Absolutely correct, Daniel
I took a massage and relaxation class in college before my harder classes, and we would take the hour to meditate, mind you i never did it before. And it was one of the things that made me focus more clearly on subjects I didn't understand. And I passed that math class.
Yes
Thanks !
Amazing. As a person struggling with ADHD, this video was inspiring!
I was watching this and opened Facebook, chatted a bit and finally came back. What a wonderful message, totally agree.
Hector Jimenez LOL
Very interesting.
Looking forward to those results.
Thank you for your knowledge
I was watching the video while trying to catch up on my social media then stopped… put my phone down, watched the video and was mind blown 🤯 this is all too true!! I notice the difference of not even a year of meditation has done for my ADD and this explains it!!!
This is gold!!
I like this guy.
I read his book on emotional intelligence.
Recommended read if anyone gets the chance.
Pat McSherry Read it as well, one of my favorites! He also collaborated with Dalai Lama..can't remember the exact name of the book but it is a strong recommendation
Agree! Social Intelligence by Goleman is good too!
Thanks to
M r Goleman.
Be proud of yourself if you've made it through the entire video while staying focused on his face and words without reading the comments while watching.
I recommend guided meditation and mirror work. Mirror work is when you look at yourself in the mirror while saying uplifting loving and positive words to yourself, a few minutes a day will shift things for the better your life will change for the greater good.
May you have good health, love, happiness, success prosperity and lots of money. Have a wonderful day 🤗
I am glad I stumbled across this video
I was watching the video while trying to catch up on my social media then stopped… put my phone down, watched the video and was mind blown this is all too true!! I notice the difference of not even a year of meditation has done for my ADD and this explains it!!!
Perfect !
Un video cortito y muy bien explicado. Muy práctico para compartir y crear interes en el tema de mindfulness
Watching while reading comments. Multitasking.
Great video and information thank you x
Your message is Empowering! I'm 42... I wish I had this Belly Buddy when I was 7.
As a society we don't practice Focusing... we focus on handing out drugs with no assistance on self reliance.
I personally have PTSD and use mindfulness meditation twice a day. It really helps overcome the anxiety and worries.
However I still think we need to fight hard not to let religious people take credit for this psychological discovery, or use it as a tool to convert vulnerable people to their religion.
You must have seen the religious AD first too =p
Thor Jørgensen I hope your not against Christianity. Because I was going to share how to get rid of PTSD . One of the first things is what the Bible says taking EVERY thought captive and bringing it to the obedience of Christ. Brother Mike at Hardcore Christianity has free teaching on UA-cam and can email you a list of steps to get 100% free. It WORKS!
??? I'm an atheist but what does it has to do with religions? You should know, they ALL have sort of meditations and mindfulness since centuries. It's even for one of them the center of the belief system, Buddhism.
Preach brother. Get their God nonsense out of this useful tool.
@@zandersgirlfavorites People don't need an imaginary friend for this to work... Why is that?
Big big big thankyou
Thank u thank u thank u 🙇🙇🙇
This is so me 😥 thank you sir
I was reading a book last night which was talking about the exact same things he’s talking about.
Prayer 5 times a day..you got all your focus!
That’s why religion work for many ppl.. it’s the focus!! Focusing really has an impact on our minds!
You're a legend..
Namaste, I am grateful that the ancient wisdom of INDIA and Hinduism ( yoga and meditation) is being appreciated and adapted all over the world now...
Me too
I've read two books from this guy. Very insightful. Books are Emotional intelligence and Social intelligence.
I have anxiety problems so I frequently get an issue where no matter how hard I try focusing on some noise or breathing my thoughts just start screaming at me.
I hope you are felling better now x
I'm dealing with this now
thiz Is so useful
Especially in the beginning this was like ent speech.
I would like to point out that it seems a common experience for people with ADHD to think/focus better while doing more than one thing. For us it helps to do something physical like running or walking while trying to focus on something requiring a lot of mental energy and focus.
It's a common habit that people sometimes (or most times) try to accomplish multiple tasks at the same time; we tend to think of what what have waiting in our queue before we even start the what's next. We think that preparation is an investment of time, sometimes it is, but mostly it leads us into a state of noxious anxiety. Taking it slow, one step at the time will not only allow us to accomplish more in less time, but it also make us proficient at it.
My mind wanders off so easily. I had to keep refocusing and rewinding this video just to get all the information. But its not just this video. Its every video and everything.
Me too!
Girlll it might be ADHD (the symptoms vary with women alot and Women can get ADHD TOO )
Its the most basic ancient thing. Not letting the mind/brain wonder off helps us to have more focus. Mindfulness and meditation are free from biases, dogma etc. Just stay more concentrated and handle stress better trough more focus, awareness. Simple massage.
Switching tasks/attention in the brain looks similar to switching threads in a computer program. These threads can run concurrently (not parallel) on 1 processor core, but there is a thread switching cost.
So it's probably best to focus on one thing a day instead of 5
Was diagnosed with ADHD in college. Have been practicing mindfulness meditation with a balance of healthy diet and exercise, best habits I adopted. Simply Ritalin or any other prescribed meds just don’t work unfortunately. Anyone who is suffering and is feeling lost, I strongly suggest to seriously give its try without pre-judging it.
Really good comment x
This is a step behind the true solution in my opinion. I have found that the best meditation is not mindfulness, but it is to actually discard from your mind. Mindfulness just "allows" the thoughts, but they're still there, and it's a continuous process of having to manage and deal with it. I'd rather fix the root cause, so I've found actually reflecting and discarding the thoughts to be infinitely more effective in my experience :)
ironically i saw this video while i were writing down stuff on paper, eating, drinking and chatting on facebook. internet is so hard with add :-D
I should start meditating again. I used to do it but I stopped a while ago
You should!! I get in patterns like that myself sometimes but Im so happy when I start meditating again! I encourage you to start again and meditate today! Check out or videos if you want binaural beats to listen to while you meditate. Good luck my friend!!
@@wojakmedia the binaural beats is what got me refocused and deep into meditation as in going further than I’ve ever been before.. I see it as a function, it has so many wonderful benefits 💜💜💜💫💫💫💫💫💫
From experience, The instant cure for anxiety is to understand the fact that there are infinite amount of possible outcomes in this universe and our brain only thinks of a handful . A bad outcome can become the means of a good outcome in the future. Just like that a good outcome can become the means of a bad outcome. For example, you lost your job (bad thing). But then you got a new job which is better ( bad thing led to a good outcome.) It's an endless cycle. So just go with the flow and don't think about it . 😄 Goodluck.
I cannot help but relate two things to multiple times a day meditation: and mindfulness practices 1) the first and most minor relattion is that a lot of religion advocate practicing praying, for example chanting meditation, or quite meditation, 4 ot 5 times a day! Morning, Noon, Afternoon(, Evening) and night. I am thinking 6 am when one wakes up, and every 3 hours ending at 9 pm. **2)** And More Importantly: There are research on what is called Micro Naps where periodically through out the day, one stops and quiets ones miind. In fact, Da Vinci and Thomas Edison were known to take regular naps Every 3 hours or so! Also I love the reference to children in Spanish Harlem and Mindfulness practices. ❤
I started meditating because of my ADHD. I struggle to be in the moment, to focus on the meditation. So I looked of videos on observing my thoughts because that's required in one of the meditations I do. Then I struggled to just be present and not in my head. So I looked at videos to clear my mind. They mentioned meditation. Then I watched this video talking about ADHD. Why meditation is helpful, so I am back where I started. I guess the answer is just to meditate more. I find this whole thing to be funny
Surprisingly, Answer to my every concern regarding myself as a personality is mindful meditation. This is like a doctor's prescription to me now. I have to take it to survive.
Could anyone please recommend guided meditation I can learn on UA-cam that is mentioned here?
"Mindfulness is a no-brainer" - Daniel Goleman 2017
ripped out of context
void militant vegan : )
lol doesn't actually say that at all...
"Meditation with ADD... in a way, this is a no brainer..."
If you're going to quote someone, don't paraphrase.
Stay concentrated? Never heard that before. What is it that is concentrated? Our true essence possibly. Sounds good to me. Now I can tell people the act of redirecting thoughts is mediation.
In all honesty, this video has reminded me of how important it is to focus on your breathing. One lost touch in today's society.
Yes 💜
Thx papa smurf
You know it's bad when you keep losing focus and getting distracted while watching the video
Connecting is the four step method (Connect, Listen, Trust, Act) that teaches you how to
disengage your mind to access the intuitive part of you, called your Self. In
the practice of Connecting, you learn how to connect to the Self. You eliminate
the feelings and emotions that come from the mind and keep you from having the
results for the life you want.
I'm definitely going to try out belly buddying 😄
I love mindfulness , I meditate so much. However there is some cautions that need to be known . Becoming too self aware can cause loss of sleep and sometimes more anxiety and boredom . I’ve been feeling more anxious lately than not .. I get horrible nights I can’t sleep . Too much of meditation can be harmful as well
Hi Brandon, have you ever listened to a guided meditation within the first hour of awakening?
@@marci6259 no , should I ?
@@brandonyafanaro9710 if I were you I sure would! , I can send you one by email, it's an MP3 Well-being meditation. I made it myself! ✌️😎
@@marci6259 oh that’s very sweet of you . I’ll have to look into it
@@brandonyafanaro9710 if you're on fb feel free to friend request me. What would you think if I told you that listening to a 15 minute guided meditation every morning allowed me to get off of 28 years of prescription meds...??? 😲 🎯
I guess I was being mindfulness not knowing what the term really meant, but I didn't really notice my breath, I was just in this place that I call the void. I think of this place as the no mind place. Not thinking just in neutral from the engaged mode of thinking and body movement that is what I use to call human doing. This new state develops best in silence, I can hold the state for hours it's quite enjoyable, no thoughts drift through.
Why the hell would anyone 'dislike' this video!?
if you are concentrating on one thing - you are meditating. To learn to control your mind concentrate on one thing often. Then work on a job thinking only of the job, is mindfulness.
Meditation then is training the brain to think of one thing - attention.
Work without distraction is meditation.
Thank you for this comment.
I’m barely finding out about all this and I already feel sorry for the rest of the population who could careless about this
Training the mind out of the habitual patterns of reactive thinking is central for managing stress, anxiety, depression and ADD. Focusing on the breath is a good place to start, but the real power of mindfulness starts when you focus attention on the mind, when you learn to mediate on thoughts themselves, holding them in the mind without becoming lost in reactivity.
Do we need to hold them in.. or is it that we’re not acknowledging them through fear, .. that’s how I feel, it’s like a barrel waiting to combust with the denial of them, so holding on to them I get it, it’s how we look at these thoughts is the key.., I think 💭🤔😩 💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫
Thank you sir may I ask one question ..when doing mindfulness or meditation do we need music backround?
No. Silence is best. But if you are distracted by noise, take note of what distracted you and go back to focussing on your breath. Do not judge distractions as bad, accept them and return to your breath.
N A M A S T E ❤️
How are the major studies going?
I'm a 16 year old kid, and my mind is constantly wondering off. I don't even notice when I begin to wonder off. So I want to make my attention span longer than 5 seconds and be able to genuinely focus on something or someone without my mind making every little thing a distraction on its own.
👌👌
Try these meditation books too.... Practical meditation and The way and goal of Rajyoga... these are from 'omshantistore'.
No-one needs the distraction of religion for this.
Read your book!!! FOCUS
One way I tackle smartphone related distraction is by disabling all notifications. It helps in forgetting about smartphone and all the social media.
In my experience, mindfulness meditation can also *cause* anxiety and PTSD. I never had a problem (or even a concept) of these things before I went to a Vipassana meditation retreat recently. I had to leave early because the anxiety escalated to the point where I thought I was going to die. It has continued as PTSD after returning home. So I'd say, be careful with meditation. The level of distraction we got today is also a good thing.
I'm definitely not a professional, but perhaps that's merely indicative of unresolved issues you have. Without the distractions they were actually able to, at the very least begin to, come to your conscious awareness.
@@williamedmiston5164 yes I was going to make that suggestion myself.. Trauma even forgotten pain does rear it’s ugly head when meditating.. it’s part of the process .. maybe carry on with the deep breathing and just focusing on one thing, that’s all it is.. you can do this by yourself, listening to some diff music or 528 hz whilst you’re doing this..
There are a few things to try
Don't have a long to-do list
Learn to say 'No'
Do most important tasks first
Simplify and de-clutter
(I learned these and why they work on wilfs blueprint system website )
Hi
is there a how to video?
Does it also work for ocd
The mindfulness book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels is good. It has 30 exercises for meditation and mindfulness that are helpful and practical.
What he talks about in the beginning of the video of getting distracted, for most people is actually Internet addiction. I don't think it's sensible to try to negate the effects of this through meditation without dealing with the root problem. Most people don't see it as a problem because it's become so widespread. Also in relation to stress, so many people talk about ways to cope with stress as if it's an unchangeable fact of life. Should we be also looking at how to live less stressful lives in the first place?
I got distracted 4-5 times while watching this video :(
Distraction is okay if you are aware of it and keep bringing your attention back to the present moment
I procrastinated whilst listening to this video, to write a comment about me procrastinating whilst watching this video...that’s the level Im at, I need help
Belly buddies? Sounds legit.
Meditation is important, but overindulgence can lead to an empty mind listlessly looking for answers in questions when the answer is right in front of them and easier to see than people realize.
The mind IS capable of understanding contradictions. They're brainteasers yes, but there's a difference between thinking and sense.
A combination of both in the right measure is the key to understanding even the contradictions. Understanding the difference between observation and intuition.
Intuition works on probability, observation works in known facts. Intuition is the question, observation of the answer.
If we're incapable of understanding contradictions, we wouldn't pass the Turing Test. Even those with an autistic mind can be capable of passing a Turing Test.
how about hours of meditations?
I started reading the comments while listening to the video but the first comment got me thinking and focused back on the video :)
Yes.. with lots of UA-cam vids we’re able to look through the comment section and listen to video.. as the information is not that important.. yet we bombard ourselves with this shot daily.. which in turn is making us ill.. we’ll have to see, but many ppl find that they feel so much better after deleting their social media account, or cutting the usage down! 😊
The problem starts at school by forcing people to learn boring subjects in a boring way
I think social media is a much bigger problem
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.”
"People check email 50 times and Facebook 20 times a day"
What is this? A survey of old people? 😂😂
Lol I don’t understand why people make up random numbers and present them like solid research.
Most of my friends does that
*i have deleted all my social media except youtube since it has positive impact
I wish I did mindful meditation when I was a toddler, that could've turned me into a straight A student. -_-
Deep breath for 10 mins right ?? Ok ill try.
Need to relaxe
*Hold your breath
does reading and studying count as mindfulness meditation?
No bc u arent focusing on yourself when studying/reading. Studying/reading is focusing on the subject such as math just search 10 minute meditation on youtube its free and easy
Yes, if you are focusing your attention on one thing at a time !