houselights on let me open it to you
what do you want me to talk about tell
Art of Living come on you don’t need me
to talk about art of living just look at
beg your pardon
mind mind balance okay that’s one okay
emotions
okay okay God all right you know you
guys are like almost asking me to talk
about what I had planned to talk about
maybe the coup d’etat pajama and the
long hair that does it okay so since
this talk this the theme of the Ted is
about excellence right excellence
happens when things over here work the
way they should right so what exactly
are the things over here Barnaby what
are we carrying along with us yeah when
you take birth when you come on to this
planet
what do you come with well the first
thing is the body yeah and this piece of
organic technology is something really
amazing you know if you start going
inside the skin and start looking at the
systems that are there in your body that
can be 25 TED talks all all by
themselves
yeah for example did you know that your
brain weighs one and a half kilos and it
is given blood by two little arteries
called the carotid arteries right if you
if you touch here you will feel feel the
pulse right so you’ve got two carotid
arteries giving blood to your brain
which is basically keeping you alive now
one and a half kilos of weight on two
little tubes not possible really it’s
not possible right so the angel
when they had a conference vanitha dia
like an encore that offers other what to
do
well they injected a little bit of water
cerebrospinal fluid it’s called and
because of that what happens is your
brain floats did you know your brain
floats in your head in that cool right
and because it floats it weighs only 200
grams so life works you have a hundred
billion neurons in your brain a hundred
billion yeah and each of these hundred
billion neurons have between 2,000 to
10,000 dendrites floating out of them
and those 2,000 to 10,000 dendrites
interact with each other in more
permutations and combinations then there
are elementary particles in the universe
you’ve got God sitting right here so
that is the body then we have the mind
what we call the mind yeah and body is
very solid you can feel it
mind the pathani Hannay hair hair
develop a chi Hannegan kaha pathani
right so my katana past or future am is
a terrific it oscillates between the
past and the future have you noticed
this happening have you noticed it
happening right now while I was talking
how much longer am I supposed to sit
here
right you know neuroscientist friend of
ours he said that the state of your bum
is the same as the state of your head if
your bum is feeling squashed and tired
then your head is feeling the same yeah
I was actually going to get you guys
okay why don’t we just get up everybody
stand up let’s fix the state of the bum
first okay come on finish finish is the
exerciser he has the cooter so you can’t
see the biceps come on everybody stretch
like you just woke up maybe you did
shake up shake shake shake shake shake
shake shake shake shake
check the bum that’s the part you wanna
fix okay now please sit do notice you’re
feeling good yes do you know why it’s to
do with your brain again turns out if
you look back a little bit two thousand
three thousand five thousand years ago
our body was meant to move right because
basically either we were running away
from something that wanted to eat us or
we are running after something we wanted
to eat right and if your body didn’t
know how to move you would die so the
brain has an inbuilt mechanism in it
whenever you move your body whenever you
do some sort of movement some sort of
exercise it releases something called
endorphins and endorphins make you feel
good
have you seen of people walk out of the
gym right it makes you feel like you are
in control like you are the boss yeah
physiologically speaking when you
exercise you get a boost another amazing
thing about exercise is it gives you a
younger brain did you know that you know
we started out with those hundred
billion neurons but there are a lot of
these electrical chemical activities
that are going on in the brain right now
if there is so much of this happening
something is going to get fried right so
every minute you are losing a few
neurons and neurons are the only cells
in the body do not replicate right and
so it was thought that as you grow older
you work with 100 billion minus X
neurons where X is consistently
increasing and until the early 2000s it
was thought that once you lose on your
own is gone finished but turns out that
when you exercise there’s a part in your
brain called the hippocampus which
actually generates new neurons and a
whole new field of neurosciences come
which is called neurogenesis yeah so
when you exercise not only do you feel
good your body feels great but you get a
younger brain cool no yeah so that’s the
mind then we have the breath the breath
is the thing that connects the body and
the mind think of all the things that
you want in life come on everybody I
give 10 seconds everything you want in
your life think about it just think
about it and know that you’re going to
get it so think about it properly five
four three two one
thought about all of that all those
things you want yes no you didn’t think
about you want another ten seconds okay
think of all those things that you have
always wanted and put them on one side
and put your breath on the other side
what could you choose when was the last
the most important aspect of ourselves
is also the most neglected aspect of
ourselves right that’s the whole science
of pranayama pranayama is using the
amazing it’s amazing when you know we
cannot even start talking about it I can
just give you a little bit like that
about it yeah
so that’s pranayama hmm come on shall we
do one quick pranayama
okay everybody put your hands like that
in front of you okay sit up straight
keep your feet firmly on the floor okay
and when you breathe in you breathe in
with force and then out and if some he
comes out of the nose don’t worry okay
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georgette and relax see how you feel
some tingling started yes that’s the
prana okay
that’s the subtle energy that you start
feeling okay so this particular program
is called bhastrika yeah and it’s it’s
also we call it the power breath if
you’re feeling tired just sit and do bus
3 car 20 times yeah instantly you will
start feeling energized okay so body
mind breath intellect
what’s the intellect for what do you
think the intellect is for some idea huh
deciding whether it’s right or wrong in
deciding whether it’s good or bad it’s
for discrimination right but typically
we use it for doubting I will not is
that and it’s amazing what we doubt we
doubt only the good things isn’t it
someone comes and tells you you are a
bloody idiot
you don’t doubt that so when you got
back H you kind of know almost everybody
around you of that cage and you get this
nice sensation of outstripping the
competition so to speak
he also every Saturday morning she will
be having that child say culinary
chopper you what a lady she was oh he
was such a gentle man like that equal
a once in the middle of the array are
arrays she significance solids are
moving very good which in Gujarat is
good job roughly translated into English
it means good the bitch is dead 1969
shake insanity laughing but is it that
exactly
haha yea-ah khumba a curable
and here kidnapper given gigantic memory
again children not a problem you just
imagine this you’re sitting there
watching your muse or watching your word
for watching your IPL or whatever it is
that you are watching on TV which are
really interested in and someone comes
and shuts that you get the bottom end
what will you do to that person
and isn’t this what we deeply do to our
kids they’re sitting there watching the
cartoon network or something like that
but she has these long journeys that
adults develop and again with the memory
what to be remember all the batteries
someone says oh you are so wonderful you
are so beautiful your eyes are lovely
your hair is fantastic but your nose so
and your nose
ladies points everything what you going
to look at the middle what’s wrong with
my nose and we sleep talk about noses
anything right ten compliments one
insult what you remember and then you
say oh I am so miserable in life
intellect set out cut their memory toe
exam track Mara Engineering I gig at the
end last whisper front party I am
Heather pocket pocket kappa hotpokket
kappa Dookie does not appear one of my
teachers used to say now that people
throw a ball of at you you know
what you do you dive in catch it
and they look like doctor fees oh my god
and whatever this temple take it and put
it in the safe deposit vault every time
you’re feeding you to open up deep
breath my intellect family the sixth
level is very interesting is the info
it’s the sense of iron right and there
are three types of ego the first is the
inclusive ego let us all move together
sandwich at my butt so they ever go to
Macau the whole world is my family right
let us all move together this is the
inclusive ego the second is the
competitive ego I am better than you
that this is how the world works more or
less right my father is better than
yours
starts there right some people take it
to ridiculous excuse doesn’t matter it’s
still okay the competitive ego is still
okay but the third is the disruptive ego
is the ego of the terrorists not only
will I kill you I will kill myself I
will destroy and if that disruption if I
get destroyed it doesn’t matter and many
times it is not just Adam it could be a
relationship both people are utterly
miserable both are screwing each other’s
happiness and the destructive we hook
the competitive ego and the inclusively
good people say ego is bad I don’t say
you go is back ego is part of you right
maybe you say I that is ego there is
nothing wrong with you go the point is
you should know when to use the
inclusive ego and when to use the
competitive ego where what will fit is
very important and of course go to the
destructive ego at all right
and then the seventh level is what we
call the self who you truly are
right and this cannot be defined
it can only be negated so we say you
have the body you know the breath mind
not the internet not a memory not that
ego if we move all that what is left is
we were right and this state is the
meditative state is what we teach how to
get there now there are four states of
consciousness the first is awake
okay
the second show in the a big state there
is rest of something in the awake state
there is awareness but that is no rest
right if you stay awake for too long you
feel tired the second step is the second
state with the sleep state sleep that is
rest but low awareness and the third
stage is the dream state and drink sit
there is neither rest nor awareness you
cannot you wake up in the morning than a
life-threatening event both sides are
there too many thoughts too many dreams
couldn’t sleep together neither guests
not of it in the fourth step you have
rest and awareness and it is my personal
theory that in a few generations maybe
an institution like the art of living
will be out of business because people
will be born with the ability to
meditate just as people are born with
the ability to stay awake sleep and
dream the full state of consciousness
will be hardwired into our DNA because
meditation is basically override it
overrides the evolutionary response of
the brain when you are feeling
threatened the brain goes in the pipe of
light right meditation allows you to
overwrite that so your regionally in the
jungles and all that or when a tiger is
in front of
you cannot stand anything a Charlie
Parker calculate I do that it’s a
split-second decision that needs to be
taken
fight or flight either I run on and
fight and for that what needs to happen
is all the blood from your stomach goes
into the external T then you get ready
to fight of light right that’s an
evolutionary response the brain does
okay when you meditate you can override
that because the brain doesn’t really
know what is danger
when you’re standing in front of an
audience and not prepared PowerPoint
doesn’t work your keyboard doesn’t work
because oh my god oh my god oh my god
right it doesn’t know that from either
so it basically says none but when you
are a meditator you can say look it’s
not a threat anymore it’s not a threat I
can handle this
chill and so the body produces these
feel-good hormones called serotonin
oxytocin keeps you in control of the
situation
okay to heighten I would like I like to
give you an experience of serotonin
oxytocin serotonin oxytocin I call the
happiness hormones all right so what I
want you to do is turn around to your
partner whoever are give each egg and
shake their hands for 20 seconds looking
at them in their eyes look at them and
shake their hands
good everybody taking is required if you
want come on give them a hug okay okay
how are you feeling you’re feeling good
no you are feeling actually ridiculously
good yeah it is a scientific fact the
hard core scientific fact that when you
have physical contact with someone you
like and they like you for more than ten
and it floods you with the serotonin and
oxytocin all happiness horrible and you
feel good okay and by the way this
effect lasts for around three hours so
it’s perfect to do just before lunch now
you can network and crack those deals
thank you there bye [Applause]