over brain, is to think about the term mindfulness, mindfulness. so what is mindfulness? one way to define mindfulness is that it's the act of paying attention in a totally neutral manner. devoid of judgment, devoid of analysis, devoid of calculation. when you are truly mindful, you don't just hear, you listen. you don't just look, you see. and maybe the best way to explain, you know, mindfulness is to give an example of lack of mindfulness. so, my wife, dora, called me the other day at the lab to remind me that we had to go to our daughter's violin lesson the following week. and halfway through the call, i got an e-mail--'cause i was sitting at my desk--and the e-mail had some incredibly exciting data in it about a new alzheimer's gene. so i couldn't help it. you know, i opened up the excel sheet, i started checking out the data. but i--and i thought i was still talking to my wife on the phone. i thought i was. and--and then, you know, the following week came, and dora reminded me about little laila's lesson and i had no idea what she was talking

sound mind? you can't have a sound mind all by yourself when you live in terror, you live in mayhem. the sound of a tire firing is like a sound of an explosion. you can never have a sound mind by yourself, and i think that's the second place that god stepped in. i'm going to keep this group focused. you will not lose your mind. even as you lose your children, because there were women losing their children on a daily basis, but you keep your focus. i will give you a sound mind and you will do this work that i've called you to do. tavis: tell me how you arrange these kinds of protests, you gather these women together, again, of different faiths, in a country, by your own admission, where women had not been respected. so they're being raped and murdered, women and their children, every single day. i'm trying to figure out how you go from being disregarded in that way to being respected as you protest in the streets. i'm missing something here. >> in 2003 we had a gathering where we brought women tog

and mindfulness techniques people who use mindfulness techniques become happier they become healthier there's all kinds of other relationships improve i haven't specifically stated mindfulness myself but i also have written about kind of living in the present moment so the importance of kind of as you said you know not focusing too much on the past or the future now of course there are times when we need to focus on the past or the future. but but but focus to savoring the moment makes people happy as well dr sonja lubomir is can thank you so much for being with us i think it's been a pleasure to talk to you and for writing this group thank you to see this in other conversations and great minds. go to our website of conversations and grapevines dot com. that's the way it is tonight friday january eleventh two thousand and thirteen more information check out our website to tell martin accomplis speech dot org r t dot com and hulu dot com slash the big picture you know forget democracy begins you get out there get active take your. questions. download the official publication to yoursel

it would seem that the minds of our. wrong to the employees to prove it they are ruined takes us to his office he wants to show us a document that he keeps preciously a notarized act dating back to one nine hundred seventy nine. at that time frontino was in dire financial straits and it's english and american owners wanted to leave colombia but they owed years of unpaid wages to their employees so from their head office in new york they decided to bequeath the company and all its mines to them it's all there in black and white. mayor don't document this by way of this document signed in the presence of a notary in new york. it's now known as the new york act. yes there it is amenable it's through this that i think donation was made to the workers say by way of payment. the new york act orders the managers or from tino to transfer all the property to the workers and retired workers or to their unions it was authentic aided by the colombian consulate in one thousand nine hundred nine the document was then handed over to th

that would mean that our minds aren't worth much at all to me and. how do you explain the death rates received by the trade unionists not you know no the contrary would be strange you know of year there's nothing unusual about someone receiving a threat. how often have we received threats some people have offered millions were done jose said. i mean if someone receives it right here it's. we don't really want to. the sailor from tino to grand columbia was concluded four months before the end of our early base mandate. as a fighter for the people. who have strived for a safer more prosperous and more just country the former president left power in two thousand and ten he tours around the country to defend his track record long left colombia. still very popular he loves to mingle with the crowd but hates interviews we made several attempts to question him about from tino in vain we made another attempt during a political meeting in the boulder tar region do this and say go via the workers' union affronting they'll claim that the company belongs to them

the ability to read other people's minds. they call this the "theory of mind." that i can put myself inside the head of barry kibrick right now and sort of try to imagine what he's thinking. there's no other animal that has it. we developed this power. i go into the science behind it. the whole concept of mirrored neurons. and what that really means. you can't divorce who we are from the powerful social instincts and intuitions that we have. and the problem that we have in the world today is that people don't develop that side of their character. they don't know how to read people. they don't know how to sort of stop that interior monologue and focus on the other person and try to get inside their skin and use their natural empathy. it also helps you develop political skills, the social skills that you need. and you know how you need that in your work world and i need it in my work world. it helps develop all sorts of aspects of your brain. as a writer, having empathy helps me get into characters. i want to give you the idea that the brain is this interconnected

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paul said, he says, we have the mind of christ. that is, when you receive jesus christ as your personal savior, listen, we have the capacity to think the way he would think if he were in these bodies of ours and he was living in these circumstances you and i are living in. in other words, we can think the way he would have us think. and the wonderful thing is, he's given us his word. so that any question we have about life, any decision you and i have to make, there's an answer in the word of god. there's no contradictions in the book. think about this. think about all the millions and millions and millions of books there are in the world. manuscripts, books on top of books libraries on top of libraries. you can throw every single one of those books away, listen, you can throw every single one of those books away. if you kept this one, what would happen? you would have all the knowledge and wisdom you need to live a godly life. that's how powerful the word of god is. thy word is a lamp to thy feet and a light to my path. he says, o

every day stand guard of your mind and feed it.u feed your mind every day, reading something, hearing something, second, you have to strengthen your body. fear is physical, right? so is stagnation, numbness, sadness, rage. when you go in to change your body by an intense workout or run, or walk and the blood's flowing through, it automatically changes your biochemistry. the third thing, people found a mission bigger than themselves. you have to find a role model that makes it real. i was with warren buffett and sarah blakley, the youngest billionaire. we do this roundtable about the future. when women meet her, they don't just love spanx her product, they love her because she's a role model of what's possible. you get a role model, you get a plan. the last step, there's always somebody worse off than you are, i don't care what you've done. if you can help somebody worse off, it will put your life in perspective, and life's not about me, it's about we. the secret to a great life, is giving. and there's -- you realize there's somethi

looking for a way to give people more peace of mind this moscow based innovator got to work designing his own smartphone powered dosimeter the device can help people better understand the risks that simply aren't visible for example the paint used in this old compass is still image of radioactive particles that are easily measurable but the right equipment. right now we already have a whole line of software products and devices for various smartphones. cell phones laptops books with varying levels of complexity on the market will range from simpler and less expensive models to more sophisticated versions. but of course the idea of checking radiation levels is far from a new one ever since people understood the risk of radioactivity there's been the trusty but often cumbersome geiger counter to measure it the device is characteristic clicking sound has long let the user know if the plate of food in front of him or her is safe to eat each audible click is an incoming radioactive particle being ionized since its introduction models have become more portable and simply taking that traditi

mind we've come to this. region institute to take a closer look at the molecular makeup of things not obvious to the naked eye. here at the institute of solid state physics scientists have developed a compact that we here at technology update hope would help us get to the bottom of some of the longest running to faith regarding popular soda brands though it's got to admit that i had delusions of unlocking secrets so to recipes and discovering known reported ingredients to my apparently untrained mind it seemed as if the roman spectroscope developed here was the best way to get the answers that we were looking for. now in theory there's a wide array of potential methods of analysis each possessing its own benefits and shortcomings for example liquid and gas chromatograph are exceptionally precise. and expensive then there's mass spectrometry which also carries a pretty hefty price tag infrared spectrum scopes can be less expensive but demand a complex sample prep work and excludes gas samples then there are tr

our distance from the divine mind is greater than the distance of a dog's mind to einstein. i'm hoping i can give a sense of the excitement of giving one's life not to going through the motions on this world of shadows and so on, but trying to penetrate insofar as the human mind can into the mysteries and gloria is, because that's the better part of that other world. >> i want to come back to that but we do want to give the viewers an opportunity to get a brush through or overview of how you went into this work by looking at different religions and then i want to come back and ask you how you distill those three. let's start with hinduism, talk to us about this. >> that's the dancing she be a which now virtually belongs to the world. it is the symbol of nature, graceful dancing she dances in the twirling stars in the circling seasons the rhythms of the human heart and how beautiful. now contrast it with the modern we have a bigger universe 20 billion light years across but in a way the stars are beautiful, but on the other hand that's dead matter for us, where as this is emi

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the mind chatter can drive you crazy, and you have to exchange mind chatter for self-talk. first of all, we'll tell people that usually when they think of a future event, they feel overwhelmed. imagine being a crime victim going to court. what we try to say is, one thing that is effective with an incoming stressor is to break it down into pieces and parts. if you can work on parts, they don't feel as overwhelmed. can they develop-- and you may have to help them-- some guided self-dialogue to get them through that? an example would be, "well, you know, it's going to be pretty scary, "but i have three or four days. "i can practice what i'm going to say. "if i start feeling nervous, "i've learned a lot during therapy. "i know some relaxation techniques, "um, and i can start working now with three days notice to prepare for it." the important thing about this is that we're trying to get them to analyze what they say to themselves before, teach them more positive self-statements about preparing for the stressor, experiencing the stressor, and getting overwhelmed. the spectrum of

it gives you a peace of mind. it definitely do that. give you a peace of mind. present. >> reporter: something to focus on. >> pretty much. >> reporter: nellie proctor compares it to hanging out in the starbucks. >> this is like starbucks, without the coffee. >> reporter: just chilling? >> just chilling. enjoying the day. gets you away from the penitentiary lifestyle. >> reporter: there will be people that will see this story and might feel like you should do hard time, and going to a knitting class might not sort of fit their idea of what serving a jail sentence should be. what would you say to them? >> i'm doing something constructive. i could be doing a lot worse. to be honest with you. i could be running amuck, being a pain in the behind. i come in here to relax. they should try it and they'll understand. >> reporter: lynn and sheila give all the men a five-minute knitting lesson she swears she can teach anyone. i had one of the guys put me through the paces. wrap it around. you have to say it. everything they knit goes to charitable causes, like these hats

so, but what we mean by the uncompromising mind-set is a mind-set that is geared towards elections and not towards government. >> as we observe the changing scene in american politics we come to believe the general problem could be addressed by concentrating in particular institution, the united states congress. why is that? >> if you want to see the problems the uncompromised mindset, look no further than the congress, the under 12 congress. gridlock nothing gets passed. the least legislation in the last 50 years and why? because everybody is campaigning all the time. there is very little by way of relationships across the aisle, and we went up to the brink of the debt ceiling crisis before compromise was reached which was routine so we thought that by focusing on the problem of the congress whose popularity is an all-time low as john mccain said you can account for the 9% popularity of congress during the debt ceiling crisis by blood relatives and paid staffers and we felt that by focusing on the converse, we could both diagnose the problem and give some prescriptions for how to over

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then he said, i don't mind if you don't mind. as the woman said when the puppy dog her face. [laughter] now thought i am a biographer and i come to that, there is little i can do. there was perhaps only one bed but this may have changed by the time all over window homes went up there. we have no evidence what happened after that and as regards to the puppy dog, perhaps if you are a biographer who can take freud and read it carefully and say this remark is interesting of james. what an odd thing for him to say to her but there again perhaps it may have been a joke they have between them. a biographer has to be very very careful with that. don't judge that. don't go in and say all right i think i know what happened when he arrived. only one that. perhaps -- but if you are me and your novelists you suddenly realize, look what i have now. i have you no -- [laughter] so in a way there is that difference and so the idea of evidence for a biographer something that you have to be careful with them but for a second source for, analyze constantly remain sane, sober and serious in the r

we are very open-minded in the police department. we do here with the mayor says, it is a big business. do not be afraid to contact our particular office. i could go in with more modifications, but if you deny one, the whole thing is done for a whole year. we will work with you on the conditions in the hours, i find the entertainment commission very agreeable, as well as most of lobbyists. i think they will tell you the same thing as well. >> are there pink cards? you can fill them out if you have a question. nicholas will collect them. we will ask those questions of these folks. dmitri, you are up. >> good afternoon. in the executive director of folsom st. events. we are the producers of many other events. particularly the well-known folsom street fair. there is a lot of work to do. we are actually a non profit. we donate back to charities. our model is different probably the most street fairs. but we do take it very seriously. i am here basicallyé@ to sharea lot of concerns, the issues of others, producers in the city, regulations