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Videos
On these pages we have listed many different Videos which explore the human condition and explain different emotional states.
We hope it will be an excellent resource for your understanding.
Dancing
Where the Hell is Matt? 2008
Matt takes his singular dance routine all around the world and performs it either in splendid isolation or in the company of bemused locals from Bhutan to Bali by way of Bognor. Exhilarating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=email
The Stanford prison experiment
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from Aug. 14-20, 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Twenty-four students were selected out of 75 to play the prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Roles were assigned randomly.
The participants adapted to their roles well beyond what even Zimbardo himself expected, leading the "Officers" to display authoritarian measures and ultimately to subject some of the prisoners to torture. In turn, many of the prisoners developed passive attitudes and accepted physical abuse, and, at the request of the guards, readily inflicted punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it.
The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his capacity as "Prison Superintendent," lost sight of his role as psychologist and permitted the abuse to continue as though it were a real prison. Five of the prisoners were upset enough by the process to quit the experiment early, and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. The experimental process and the results remain controversial. The entire experiment was filmed, with excerpts soon made publicly available.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=677084988379129606#
''Obedience'' Milgram's experiment (1962)
Electrocuting the student Milgrim
An excruciating film of a student having an electric current passed through him by an increasingly worried operative. The point is passed where the current would, under real circumstances, kill the volunteer.
What the Bleep do we know?
Can you distinguish between dream and reality? Have you ever stopped to consider an exploration of profoundly nagging questions, such as: Who are we? Where do we come from?
What thoughts are made of and where they come from? A touch of quantum physics lightens the mood.
://www.veoh.com/collection/s535785/watch/e155185bqn5hb6S
Ho’Oponopono
A series of short films seeking to explain what Ho’ponopono is and how to practise it. We are told to remove the ‘negative data’ that causes us to repeat unsettling behaviour, and encourages us to recite to ourselves repeatedly the mantra:
I Love You: I am sorry: Please Forgive Me: Thank you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL972JihAmg
Right Now
This is a beautiful film to explain the happiness that is experienced by those who live now
/www.stumbleupon.com/su/1SjkoP/positivepause.com/
Bertrand Russell
To our descendants ... the great philosopher is asked what his advice would be for future generations. He divides his answer into two categories, one intellectual, and the other moral. View on.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1QjqGF/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253Dg3jnEqXhDNI
Consciousness
This film promotes the theory that, in terms of our consciousness, rather than being separate and distinct individuals, we are all part of one divine intelligence
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Y1a8l/video.google.com/videoplay%253Fdocid%253D7
Seeing things
By showing how our senses – sight in particular - can be deceived we are invited to understand the role light and colour define how we react.
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain ...
A physical demonstration of the pentatonic scale, realising the subtitle of this film: ‘Notes and Neurons; In Search of the Common Chorus’.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/27RmY8/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DDBJ7mBxi8LM
Body language
A comprehensive guide to body language, gestures – how to read them in others and control them in yourself.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/321ki8/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DZUXtGQkJcQ0
Psychiatric office answering machine
A somewhat tongue-in cheek summation of the entire profession. Not to be listened to when feeling low or ultra-serious.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/9a3uIB/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DDI5RvmNvXak
Eye movements
A number of people are asked a list of 10 questions and then we are treated to an analysis of the varying eye movements in response to those questions.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1avtK4/video.google.com/videoplay%253Fdocid%253D-1667208463945846125
Mad but glad
A BBC Horizon programme examining the relationship between various mental conditions and artistic brilliance. We start with a Turrets victim who finds his therapy is his wonderful creativity as a pianist.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2YOF4G/video.google.com/videoplay%253Fdocid%253D5651985775946663762
Schizophrenia
‘Schizophrenic man terrifies kids at party’ – the subtitle says most of it. Not for the faint-hearted.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2nRXGj/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DNGN1s2FyGA8
OCD
A fairly disturbing, but brief, look into the mind of an OCD sufferer.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/19rIVu/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DQBkveiaKfBk
People say I’m crazy
A variety of individuals involved in or with the mental health system in the US put across their experiences and learning in their own distinct way, hence the oft-repeated phrase: ‘We speak for ourselves’.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AsV1Qc/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DVdzHl65XPYc
Friendship
A series of bon mots about friendship and love set to a slide show of gorgeous floral images and a soundtrack guaranteed to make you feel rested.
Now
A beautifully expressed exposition of the theory that life is precious and special right now and that future worries and past anxieties must be eradicated in order to realise and enjoy this truth.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1SjkoP/positivepause.com/
Transcendental Meditation
An online guidebook to the hows and whys of TM, exploring: ‘inner peace, stress relief, better health, reduced anxiety and spiritual development’. After which you are encouraged to buy a course. Your choice.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2VxoGP/tm.org/
Fun Theory
You have a choice between escalator and stairs at an underground exit. What would make you take the healthier option (stairs, by the way)? Why not turn the stairs into a ‘grand’ piano?
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Et5CM/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253D2lXh2n0aPyw
Little Albert
A series of films on the progress of ‘Little Albert’ under (non-cruel) experimentation beginning in the 1920s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3r3NJw2otw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0ucxOrPQE
Faces A graphic illustration and explanation of facial expressions and body posture. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1ztolX/www.cedarseed.com/fire/emotut.jpg
Relaxation music and sounds of the sea We don’t quite know why the sound of the sea is so relaxing .... but it is! This wonderful collection of ‘sea sounds’ backed up by images of calm – and sometimes storm – will soothe even the toughest shell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ViTXgAb-vo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jld4lDRcTO8
Be Happy – H. E. Situ Rinpoche A plea and a prayer from an H. E. To be happy and live in peace. Compelling. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1SIwRZ/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253Dy5yPh8trI9k
