Top 10 TED talks to Watch

These TED talks are chosen based on our own theme of Anveshane: Mind, Body and Technology. These are our hand picks from 1000’s of TED talks out there which are based on Mind, Body and Technology.

Here is our list of our Top 10 TED talks to Watch:

10. My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor
9. Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai
8. Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy
7. What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
6. Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model. | Cameron Russell
5. How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
4. How to make stress your friend | Kelly McGonigal
3. Ayurveda Over Western Medicines | Dr B.M HEGDE | TEDxMITE
2. Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? | Lissa Rankin, MD
1. Being Mystic | Sadguru

10. My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

9. Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai

Life is easy. We always make it complicated. Jon Jandai, a farmer from northeastern Thailand.talks on his pursuit of getting a job in cities. Later, how he found out to lead a simple life. Simple yet profound idea.

Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It regularly hosts training on simple techniques to live more sustainably. He continually strives to find easier ways for people to fulfil their basic needs.

8. Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success.

7. What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Lessons from the longest study on happiness. … As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction.

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of the 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.

6. Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model. | Cameron Russell

Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she’s tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don’t judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16-years-old.

5. How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure

Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening? Here’s Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the sound expert demonstrates some useful vocal exercises and shares tips on how to speak with empathy, he offers his vision for a sonorous world of listening and understanding.

4. How to make stress your friend | Kelly McGonigal

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

3. Ayurveda Over Western Medicines | Dr B.M HEGDE | TEDxMITE

Dr.BM Hegde speaks on the idea of how the ayurvedic medicines are far better for the human body than western medicines. He talks about important theories on how the human body actually functions with a given environment and how Ayurveda blends itself with the human body. Dr.Hegde speaks about the importance of meta medicines which would eventually decide the health factor of humans on earth.

2. Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? | Lissa Rankin, MD

New age gurus suggest that we can heal ourselves by simply changing our minds, but is this concept grounded in cold, hard science? Lissa Rankin, MD explores the scientific literature, reviewing case studies of spontaneous remission, as well as placebo and nocebo effect data, to prove that our thoughts powerfully affect our physiology when we believe we can get well.

1. Being Mystic | Sadguru

This is the realm of mysticism, of knowing life in its full depth and dimension. Sadhguru is a bridge into this mysterious arena of life.

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