This week I watched a video of Bobby McFerrin “hacking your brain with music.” It was inspiring and enchanting. You can watch it at http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html
We all have those days when nothing seems to inspire or motivate us. I find that I check out www.ted.com and I generally find something that sparks my mind. If you are not familiar with TED it is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.
TED makes the various presentations available for free at their website. The site is updated weekly.
Over the years of following TED, my all time favorite talk was Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s presentation “Stroke of Insight.”
Taylor is a brain scientist who had a massive stroke and observed her brain functions shut down one by one. She went from not being able to speak, remember, or walk to making the final closing comment at the 2008 TED Conference. I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading.
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