After suffering from severe depression and anxiety for many years I come across Vipassana meditation which teaches the art of mindfulness in the present moment. It has purified my mind of anxiety and depression and although I still have periods when I do feel anxious or slightly depressed it will never be as bad as it once was. Mindfulness meditation has given me a second chance in enjoying life

I have a roof over my head, food to eat and a job- immense gratitude to life.

The power of meditation is tremendous. To be able to observe your mind and emotions, and not react to it was a game changer for us.

It's so weird that we even need mindfulness meditation- its all about getting out of our head and focusing on the present moment, and the fact that we need it means that our thoughts are basically more "real" to us than what's right in front of us!

This guy is so lovable, so positive and happy.

My notes: 1.-Practice 40-45 minutes a day 2.-How to do it: We place our attention in our belly in order to focus in our breath. And here comes the hardest part: Non-Judgmentally (including non-judgmentally the non-judgmentally) pull the focus back on the belly/breath everytime your mind wanders 3.-Don't judge meditation (Am I doing this right?, Is this working?, I can't do it, I don't want to feel pain...)

People talk about having epiphanies and while I was happy for them, it had never happened for me...until now. The way Dr. Kasim explained 'mindfulness', it finally resonated with my soul (and mind). ;). I actually cried. After so many years of pain and depression, I feel there may actually be a light at the end of the tunnel that isn't a train. So thankful!!!

20 years living a life in addiction. Mindfulness and compassion is the way out. Every day feels great without having to act anymore on triggers which may or may not come. Who needs any drug like alcohol, sugar, attention etc. when you can start to be at peace with what is, and enjoy every moment to the fullest by just being present..... As Eckart would say, this is re-defying your Ego, your personalty to something pure and good. What an enlightenment this all is

I''ve been an anxious/depressive kind of person, for so many years of struggling, may times I thought Im already done with it during my highs only to be smashed down on my very low moments. More than a year ago I started meditating and it really changed a lot in me, how I view myself and the world, how I react, how I behave, most importantly how to be at peace and calm even at times when my anxiety strikes. I pray more people if not all will be able to benefit from meditation.

I’ve been doing mindful meditation for 2 days. I immediately feel results . If I have a thought it doesn’t stay and I don’t fight it . It just flows by and I don’t react . This is amazing

Superb- LOST Lost in thought. Offer loving kindness. See & smile. Take a deep breath. Thank you for new insights.

A clear-calm mind is what everybody wants and I'm grateful for having it. I feel utmost silence in my mind such that I can focus on anything effectively. I feel a gentle sensation throughout my body as a result of deep meditation. I have attained control over my mind and I allow only positive thoughts to enter in. My habits have uplifted my mood and I'm happy about this.

So love the words "My mind was creating the suffering". With much struggle personally dealing with an internal fight with my mind on a daily bases to redirect my thoughts it truly is a practice that many would see victory over life challenges once the brain is trained to redirect and rethink. This talk was very well delivered an a reminder of how to get that center peace.

I loved your talk! You were witty with a serious message. I have chronic back pain - three discs that that have become completely mushy and two vertebrae that have crushed into many pieces. Sometimes I imagine the waves from the ocean are flowing down my spine and when they get to my injury they get stronger and stronger but in a comforting way. Then the waves become calm and just hold my injury in a very peaceful and again a very comforting way. It really helps me with my pain. Thanks again for your fab talk. Also , I've never commented on a Teds Talk before. ☺

seriously how can there be ANY dislikes on this presentation? so good, so accessible to those of us who are meditation novices! if Kasim reads this comment... THANK YOU for such an enlightening way of approaching this new practice. love this presentation

Meditation is just life changing. I meditate daily, if I miss a day or so I really notice a difference. I feel so much better and have more energy after meditating....life is more effortless. The ability to REWIRE YOUR THINKING through meditation is such a GIFT.

Awesome talk 🙏 Mindfulness it's so simple, but so often our mind takes flight, we lose touch with our body, and pretty soon we’re engrossed in obsessive thoughts about something that just happened or fretting about the future. And that makes us anxious.

Regular meditation sets you on a path to gradually wean away from many if not all of your medications. That is my epiphany 🙏🏻. Thanks to Dr Kasim for sharing his story to drive home the essence of mindfulness meditation and its benefits.

One of the best meditation presentations I've seen!

I listened to your talk at just the right time when I really needed it. Thank you Dr Kasim for affirming that nothing is permanent, and even though we improve our lives with Mindfulness, we are still not Immune to life's problems. I was still struggling with that.

"Training the brain to present".. Mindfulness has such an impact on my life. This video was inspirational to see!

Mindfulness, I say I can just be. I practice (perhaps with a bit of playful curiosity??), being in my pain. It’s a strange journey. My suffering got so deep, so entirely consuming I thought: ‘perhaps I’ll just sit with this?…..And here I am. I am alive! I survived an unspeakably awful thing. I can be , it turns out, in this moment!

Thank you Sir, I have just started meditation, only 10 days into it, 10 minutes per day. I am feeling a bit calmer but not yet experienced what you have mentioned. Maybe it will need more efforts from my side, although the good part is that the journey has begun.

Could somebody tell that cameraman to be present to the moment and hold the fucking camera steady? Thank you.

His voice was very soothing! Great presentation.

The best talk on mindfulness and he s so kind. His laugh is adorable too. 🕊🙏🏻

Identifying (and visualizing) the negative spiral and how it's caused so much stress unchecked has helped me understand that meditation really works. Great talk.

Thank you Dr. Kasim Al Moshat for putting yourself out there and helping with the simple but vulnerable task of to reducing suffering.

6 months later and I find myself back to this video . I’m dealing with anxiety and insecurity every day. Our brain likes to send us messages of stress and threats. Anything really lol. We don’t need to attach to those subconscious thoughts and spiral out of control into anxiety and depression. Thank god for meditation

Always give love and respect to all things for they are you. Because we are one collective consciousness experiencing ourselves subjectively. Being mindful of everything as a part of you just in a different physical form will help the eternal now becomes more relaxing and more excepting. Side step into infinite spirals positive or negative it doesn't matter only when you can catch yourself and see why did it start then you can help heal but only without judgment of your own patterns can one truly except there own inner workings and level up to new levels or yourself. The mental challenges are only has hard as we make them. Every once in awhile everyone needs to deferment they hard drive and reset their computer. helps the computer run better and helps computer find files faster. A perform longer without error. This is one way meditation helps me thanks for the video reminder.

When he mentioned there was an elephant in the room, I was genuinely surprised he didn't then talk about his haircut. A great talk on mindfulness though, well presented.

World would have been so peaceful if everyone had meditated.

To whoever reads this: You are beautiful. You are smart. You are worthy. You are incredible. You matter. You rock💗✨ Ps. small youtuber here

I think I will listen to this every day. Thank you.

Everything is in this talk. Just listen very carefully

Practice the first time during the Cultural Intelligent class. Just after 13 minutes, I feel my mind was so clear that I feel more confident to take up the challenge in my life. I was experiencing a 'break up' (haven't over yet), and like just what Kasim told in the video, pain is just pain, not agitated, instead, peaceful exist in every moment. Now I start to practice mindfulness meditation, and start to learn to accept the reality, and discover peaceful moment in life.

Lovely, clear, and engaging beginning-level talk. He mentions Viktor Frankl's statement about the importance of having inner choice, no matter what the outer circumstances may be. What makes that quotation even more remarkable is that Frankl was a concentration camp survivor. One note: beginners who don't know brain physiology should understand that the speaker's references to exercising the brain's "muscles" is mostly a metaphor. Meditation probably helps with increased blood flow in the brain; however, the tiny involuntary muscles within blood vessels aren't what we think of when we see someone lifting weights. Still, it's a good way to demonstrate the importance of regular meditation practice, which does affect the brain's neural (nerve cell) "wiring." (There are many billions of neurons in the human brain.)

Training the brain to be present . I used to practice meditation daily morning and it exactly helps me a lot that everyday would be a new day! Have a wonderful day!

A profound art of living so beautifully and simplistically explained, my heartfelt thank you to you 🙏🏽🙏🏽 , Dr Kasim. It’s phenomenal souls like you whose teachings and guidance that make the remarkable difference in my journey of seeking. God bless you....from Malaysia 💞

What a great and educational talk. We think that so many people would do well if they discovered mindfulness meditation!

He carried that smile throughout, that's amazing.

So happy for your transformational journey. You are so Courageous and inspirational. We would be lost without you☺️!

Wow! Beautiful, inspiring, moving. I found myself with a huge smile and a lovely warm feeling like I've already just meditated! Thank you and bless you 🙏

Thank you Dr Kasim. I appreciate listening to the training of the mind to be present. The power of Mindfulness living in the present moment non judgementally.

“I accept and praise the ever glowing eternal flame of the now the fire of exsistance”.. 💞🙏💞

Best TEDx regarding mindfulness. Not very technical but he embodies it so well. Love this vid.

I had a long journey when I discover mindfulness in every way. The mind, the communication, not sure if meditation cause I don't meditate I just let it flow through my head as I kept being busy in my life, internal, external, and others which words I don't know that is about mindfulness. It was great as I had practiced it without even knowing it back in elementary to high school 11th grade. That is when I had a view of what mindfulness is. Although I currently am still practicing it and have an easier time with assignments diving into it. I'll also say it has many benefits for you in life anywhere. One thing I had was depression back then, didn't even think I had it but it was interesting for me to be able to cope with depression and other pains, such as doubt that makes people suffer mentally, as I also learn about it and myself even further. It was just in part of me that just autopilots like it detects the problems, study the problems, and then solve them. No matter how many years it takes. Maybe it's just my consciousness that has been built and keeps being built stronger and expanding. Well, that's all I have to say cause I emptied everything that I wanted to say.

Mindfulness meditation can become one of the most effective tools for healing anxiety and depression, when we learn how to embrace our emotional pain with mindfulness rather than reacting out of habit with avoidance and aversion.

He really looks so calm!

Absolutely exquisite in it’s simplicity. Thank you so much 😊

So this is what Sokka did after the war.

Meditation has teached me to be grateful for the things i have and to focus on the present moment

Very inspiring. Totally agree with how vital daily meditation is to our well-being.

One of the most helpful things I have found is a free online book called Mindfulness in Plain English.

I consider meditation as a method to relieve the stress and it really useful

Mindful meditation does calm the anxious mind. I practice daily with Guided meditation at Living app by RoundGlass and haven't faced stress related issues since then.

A million Thoughts by Om Swami is a wonderful book on different meditation techniques and how to do them.

This guy is like a friend. Thank you so much

thank you very much. this was very informative.

Best TEDx video I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing it with us ❤️ Dr. Al-Mashat

WOW!, that was amazing.

The best presentation on mindfulness till now.

This was beautiful thank you. Meditation has changed my life for the better!

Great talk and perfectly explained mindfulness meditation and why it is important for all of us to practice it regularly! Thank you

Unbelievable message! So grateful that it popped up in my video feed. Will try this!!

It's really very nice presentation and useful to human

this was a fantastic presentation!!!

What an enjoyable Man! And an excellent talk on mindfulness meditation Too!

This was the best video i have seen so far. I love the L.O.S.T. I used to meditate for several hours a day. I felt like i lost it, but you just reminded me of everything that i already knew. Now its time to apply it. Thank You!

Very beautifully explained. Cleared a lot of my confusions. Thank u very much sir!

meditation is NOT haram in Islam, it is called miraqba, sufism is real islam. Ted talks are so good they make you believe in humanity and decency and how good people actually are but for some snide remarks. I wish each and every one of us meditated. Peace

Thanks for sharing your experiences and expertise my friend!

Awesome speaker and presentation! Well described!

Uau!!! Magnífico, uma das melhores apresentações que já vi sobre mindfulness.

My favorite meditation mindfulness video I’ve seen

The best inspiring video I watch

What a great talker/person!

This is eternal wisdom

Meditation vs Ego Without meditation OR prayer OR being in a happy state........ your ego rules your life. Do you know, IF you don't listen to your intuition and keep pushing it aside and denying what its trying to tell you, YOUR EGO WILL CREATE CHAOS THAT'LL MAKE YOU WISH YOU WERE LISTENING, BY A HUNDRED-FOLD!!! Your very own Ego will SACRIFICE YOU because you're headed toward an even much much more worse situation IF you're not stopped completely in your tracks in that very moment!!

Thank you

Mindfulness is all the rage today in therapy circles. It is the hallmark of DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) used especially for treating difficult self-harming character disorders like BPD(borderline personality disorder). Before sound like I might be minimizing the importance of this practice, I would like to say I actually have my own mindfulness technique that works awesomely for me - but it is not the end all - and I have not made a religion of it (my central spiritual habit of life). This practice of "mindfulness" is obviously not new since Dr Kasim went to a "monk" to learn it. It is fundamentally an ancient Buddhist practice. In fact, more specifically Zen Buddhism. This also was all the rage in the 70s (ex. Alan Watts... and Robert M. Pirsig's book "The Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance") . Psychologically "mindfulness" is redirecting the mind away from the chemistry of the body that has taken the mind captive to the endless slide show of life. STOP! and develop something that stops the show for a moment and reduces that stirring pot (actually some people use pot :) -not recommending it - sorry) . Its helpful to have a technique... whatever you want to call it that breaks one free from this endless slide show of life and its stressors. But PART TWO... ok got a technique down... but PART TWO is the key. Where do I go now? Dr Kasim went to embracing the "slide show" of pain or anxiety and attaching positive thoughts onto it. So what positive thoughts? Where did he get those thoughts? ... the whole idea and basis for "positive" or "loving" or "kind" - or whatever... Where do these come from? For Dr. Kasim they were first learned at a Buddhist retreat... Buddhism! and then some... Where Dr Kasim? I believe this is the key and answer to the endless slide show... because one day THE SLIDE SHOW WILL END. YOU WILL END. It is exceedingly important to know whether retreating back to the moment is really the end all... I'll finish: Dr Kasim did not talk about God. Is there a God? If there is a Creator that made Dr Kasim , you and me we just might want to consult Him (I'll go with Him). Mindfulness is not the end all meditation, but it does help us to cut away from the rat race. For what purpose besides our own happiness and contentment and sharing it with others on a TED talk? It can be used for the most important practice in the Universe... PRAYER... talking to the Creator, discovering you, in fact are not your own... Connecting back with the God who made you and loves you is the bottom line. I will end with these two verses of Scripture: "... anyone who comes to God must believe He exists and is a rewarded of those who seek Him with all their heart" Hebrews 11:6 and this one from the book of Acts ... "For in Him (God) we live and move and have our being" Acts 17:28 So YES by all means practice mindfulness... use it as a tool to cut away from the rat race, connect with Your maker and let Him reward and teach You how to love Him and what Your calling is in this life. This will lead to ultimate happiness and the best preparation for when you breath your last breath.

Very interesting and very knowledgeable talk................thank you

*Patience* is key to a successful mindful meditation

this man is happier than bob Marley with a 5 gram blunt on 4/20

Great...

Can't disagree, but we'll never truly rest until we rest in him...

very calm and informative talk. Thanks for sharing your life.

Thank you so much I have recently come across mindful meditation and your talk is the second video on mindful meditation that I have watched. Your explanation was excellent on it. Thank you once again and bless you for sharing. :D

Watching videos about medetation relax me :)

many thx Kasim=K-indness A-nd S-ilence I-n M-editation K-eep -up A S-mile I-t's M-indfulnessness!!??

I loved the way he explained

This guy is a philosopher, even if he doesn't know it!!

Meditation is the best!

Awesome Dr.....thank you

Blessed we are. Thank you.

Good explanation of mindfulness along with examples

I tried this and found I was more stressed out forcing myself to pay attention to everything I did. Definitely not for me.

Very good talk

Brilliantly explained, great talk, thank you

fabulous speaker, wonderfully explained this material