Persuasive Speech, Meditation as a way to transform life. — Transcript

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1. 0:12most people in the United States are
2. 0:14over stressed they're trying to keep up
3. 0:17um in their daily activities trying to
4. 0:19be successful at work at school at home
5. 0:23and that eventually leads to Stress and
6. 0:25Anxiety there's a need to break this
7. 0:28Vicious Circle um
8. 0:30I myself personally struggled with that
9. 0:33as a wife mother and a full-time college
10. 0:35student I had trouble keeping up I was
11. 0:38constantly stressed and overwhelmed and
12. 0:41I was looking for a
13. 0:44solution everywhere I need IR reliable
14. 0:46stress
15. 0:48reliever uh I spend time um and money on
16. 0:53fancy stuff on Miracle pills none of
17. 0:55those work but what worked is simple
18. 0:59it's just a simp simple as that and you
19. 1:00don't need to spend a penny that's
20. 1:04meditation uh today I want to inform me
21. 1:08about the concept of
22. 1:10meditation um types of meditation
23. 1:13characteristics of that most meditation
24. 1:15practices have in common and I want to
25. 1:18persuade you to start meditating
26. 1:26yourself now that I have previewed my
27. 1:28main points let me introduce the concept
28. 1:30of meditation meditation is a mind and
29. 1:33body technique that involves deliberate
30. 1:35holding one's deliberately holding one's
31. 1:37attention on subject object or a
32. 1:42process uh it goes back to ancient
33. 1:45Eastern religions and spiritual
34. 1:47traditions and has been practiced by
35. 1:50Buddha and be was made Popular by be in
36. 1:5260s by the way a most important feature
37. 1:56of meditation is uh focusing focus at
38. 1:59attention of
39. 2:01meditator as we just learned most
40. 2:03important feature of meditation is
41. 2:04focused attention actually uh all most
42. 2:08meditation practices have four elements
43. 2:10in
44. 2:12common uh let's
45. 2:14see I call it flap it's easy to
46. 2:20remember that's Focus location attitude
47. 2:23and
48. 2:24posture uh Focus attention that's pretty
49. 2:27clear location that can be you know
50. 2:30you might have tough time finding a
51. 2:32quiet location cuz you need really quiet
52. 2:34location with as few distractions as
53. 2:36possible uh attitude let distractions
54. 2:39come and go open attitude let me give
55. 2:42you an example you get uh an A in your
56. 2:46speech class and you just let it come
57. 2:48and go without being too excited about
58. 2:50it or you failed your speech class and
59. 2:52then well you just let it go that's an
60. 2:55open open attitude that's why call an
61. 2:57open attitude so you might consider as
62. 3:00well uh posture what is good about
63. 3:03meditation is you're not supposed to
64. 3:06start with L position and like you know
65. 3:08feel like an disabled person afterward
66. 3:12you can
67. 3:13actually see or just walk around you
68. 3:18know concentrate in attention make sure
69. 3:20you're concentrated on all that or you
70. 3:23can live light down so there a
71. 3:26choice uh as we just learned most uh
72. 3:30meditation practices have flap in
73. 3:32common
74. 3:35uh we just talked about flap now let's
75. 3:38talk about different types of meditation
76. 3:40all of them have this elements in
77. 3:43common
78. 3:44uh breath concentration is a Cornerstone
79. 3:50of meditation
80. 3:54techniques that's B basically breathing
81. 3:58it's something we do on a regular basis
82. 4:00but but really not
83. 4:02it
84. 4:04h as Richard Rosen a yoga teacher says
85. 4:08do not we do not need to do anything
86. 4:10about it but observe it there's one more
87. 4:12mindfulness cultivating awareness of
88. 4:15your experiences looking at an object
89. 4:18such as a candle candle flame those were
90. 4:20supposed to be
91. 4:23on and movement using a physical
92. 4:26technique like
93. 4:27yoga by coordinating the
94. 4:30breath and body with gentle
95. 4:34movement for example like this using a
96. 4:38mantra Mantra repeating a word or phrase
97. 4:41over and over the most famous one
98. 4:45is and or you can listen to meditation
99. 4:49music
100. 4:50uh we just discussed different types of
101. 4:54meditation uh now you might say you
102. 4:58might just wonder what's in it for for
103. 4:59me but then uh there are conscious
104. 5:02benefits meditation offers Accord
105. 5:05according to NCC that nih.gov
106. 5:11it is used to
107. 5:15treat many health problems such as
108. 5:19anxiety pain depression
109. 5:23stress physical or emotional symptoms
110. 5:26that may be associated with chronic
111. 5:28illness and their treatment
112. 5:30also definitely used for overall
113. 5:33Wellness uh as for the depression
114. 5:35consider that study uh conducted by
115. 5:39haritz um it's a pretty recent study
116. 5:422010
117. 5:43uh among 207 childhood sexual abuse
118. 5:48victims in Med that took part in medical
119. 5:51in meditation program and uh also
120. 5:54practiced meditation at Daily at home in
121. 5:5724 weeks they observed statistically
122. 6:00significant reduction in both stress and
123. 6:03post-traumatic
124. 6:05disorder and consider one more
125. 6:09research
126. 6:12uh that proves that uh it also helps
127. 6:16manage pain and helps heal way faster
128. 6:19according to storms meditators heal four
129. 6:22times faster than non-meditators so
130. 6:25that's pretty impressive isn't it uh
131. 6:30one more thing
132. 6:33uh benefits of meditation to an average
133. 6:36person without any chronic condition
134. 6:38include improved physical emotional and
135. 6:41mental health focus and clear thinking
136. 6:44and um consider a study uh am college
137. 6:48student just like you and me uh by Aman
138. 6:51and shabir and um they practice
139. 6:53meditation regularly and then two month
140. 6:56significant reduction of stress
141. 6:58increased emotional balance B and
142. 7:00forgiveness we just covered some of the
143. 7:02benefits and healing powers of
144. 7:04meditation now let me remind you of the
145. 7:06concept of meditation and summarize my
146. 7:08main ideas meditation is an Eastern Mind
147. 7:11Body practice it has four
148. 7:13characteristics in common I call them
149. 7:15flat we just talked about that types of
150. 7:18meditation we cover types of meditation
151. 7:20and finally benefits of meditation
152. 7:22meditation is a great practice to start
153. 7:25if you're looking for something more in
154. 7:27life more energy more power
155. 7:29more sense of accomplishment is uh
156. 7:34Richard Rosen uh a famous yoga teacher
157. 7:37says meditation is like exercising a
158. 7:40muscle the more you exercise the more
159. 7:42benefit you get and it's basically first
160. 7:46it's a CH eventually it's a pleasure
161. 7:49thank
162. 7:53you I really like your topic um