My mother is an Aayurvedic doctor, and she always told me that the main difference between Aayurveda and Western/modern medicine is that the former treats the root cause whereas the latter treats the symptoms.

I'm an Australian but proud of my Indian heritage and culture. Thank you for this valuable information.

It’s very unfortunate that people resort to yoga and meditation as a desperate bid to get better. More often than not, it’s a last resort. This really should be our first and primary approach if we really want ourselves to heal

So amazing, the benefits of pranayama! Everyone should turn to yoga, meditation and breath work instead of reaching for medications or considering surgery as a primary choice of healing.

Amazing, so amazing, especially the child calming. That tells it all. If only the world would embrace these things it could be a paradise. Because it also instinctually makes you compassionate, more responsible towards the environment, others, society.... I hope there comes a time when they start teaching this in schools, just the excercises without any religious background because we know everyone would immediately jump in the air. Just the skills and excercises of meditation and yoga. In a generation or two we would change the world for the better more than in the last 150 years.

Beautiful human being genuine talk and like the man said should be shown in every school.Fantastic

One of the best, purest Ted Talks I've seen. I am both desperate and inspired.

Learned about pranayama in the early 70's. Wonderful decade.

The kid part really got me despite the difficulty associated with audio.

Great talk and vision, Jim! Thank you for sharing your story. And don't mind negative comments - there are still unhappy people out there. But it's getting better and talks like this one are making it happen.

Thankyou Jim, such a simple lesson than has taken me 42 years of living to hear. This knowledge is powerful and healing, and I will be sure to practise and spread the word. Namaste.

THANKS HEAPS FOR THIS, I’ve already started because it’s free and I can still be lazy & hide in my house because I’ve been frozen with fear since a COPD diagnosis two weeks ago. I know this is the only way I will be able to quit smoking. I am so damn addicted to these awful cancer sticks despite the fact that I am a parent to one. I just told my 12 year old daughter about this lecture and showed her the graph about slow breathing and longevity and she says “does that mean if you stopped breathing you’d live forever?”🤣 just had to share that. Love to you all💗 (I’m happy now because I’ve just done 3 minutes of slow breathing. Just one minute on my phone timer every time I want a ciggy-that’s all I have to remember 👍👍👍)

Bravo! Fantastic! Good teacher! Very grateful!

favourite ted talk of all time 1/1

this info has mind blowing potential for human beings

it's like taking tranquilizers, but yet you have the energy of coffee!

I think we should all do Pranayama daily especially now we have Covid 19 to deal with.Stale air in the bottom of our lungs should be gotten rid of.Thanks for making the video.

Thanks Jim! Good stuff!

prana=life energy yama=control or management

Very helpful, Jim. Thank you for sharing.

So inspiring!

Brilliant!! Thank you so much.

Your a legend Jim, I'm definitely going to learn this for when I have kids.

Thank you, great talk

Thank you!!

Lucky kid to have open minded loving parents, must be good karma from previous lifetimes thats paying off, to be blessed to have such supportive parents. ✌

This is so cool, even if for the parenting insight alone. Overall, what a good story and presentation, and good content and message. Explaining how you've taught your daughter how to calm down was genius imo (on top of the genius that is teaching your child these skills since birth!!). "If a baby can do it, then so can you" lol yes!

Prānayāma ..is an absolute technique of concious breathing hence you become the controller of the energy force within you🧘‍♀️🙏

Thank you

Very informative thank you

what a beautiful revelation of life and love beyond suffering and pain! thank you for sharing, might we all learn to be like these little ones in their innocents and joy, faith and presence Aum Tat Sat :-) thank you for sharing this life giving message tedx :-)

Great inspiring story! Thank you for sharing. Ohmmm

I am definitely using this with my 2 year old!

Just seeing this now in 2020 and have so many similarities with Jim, what a synchronicity

I’m very fortunate to have found this knowledge. I just wish it was earlier in my like, but I look on the bright side I may never have found it

I know I can heal my life by practicing pranayama and fasting.

Everybody interested in this should try the breathing of the Wim Hof Method. It has lots of similarities but... give it a try:)

love it

There's a free nice app for Pranayama called Prana Breath, by the way.

Maybe anxiety is like a spark trying to jump start our nervous systems. Makes sense because many of of us are like old cars, running slow from chronic stress, shot nervous systems so all we can manage is some weird, anxious twitch to try to force us to action. Threatening ourselves instead of using positive reinforcement which, btw is proven to work best for all mammals- no matter your shape! The fight or flight response is so worn out because it’s always on and many mammals, rather than fight (who’s got the energy, right?!) will freeze. Fear creates inaction. Faith and hope create action. This is proven research people! You know why people like immediate rewards? It’s obvious. Why wait for some unsure reward in “the future”? Because we might be dead in the future!

Sanathana Dharma one of oldest 'Way of Life' has contributed and still contributing for humanity in many forms ( Yoga, Ayurveda, Astrology, ZERO,. etc) Practice, enrich and explore Sanathana Dharma !

Translator: Tanya Cushman .... Good job, it was almost word by word. * By the way, I raised two children and they got extreme attention and love. They hardly ever cried. ... No room for yoga :)

Have faith in yourself, all power is within you. Even the poison of a snake is nothing if you can firmly deny it. - Swami Vivekananda.

I hope that you research the anxiety while deep breathing claiming that the two can not happen at the same time a bit more. I doubt I am the only person in the world who uses deep breathing to help through the attacks. Yes full deep slow breathes as difficult as that may sound. I do get what your trying to say about breathing impacting our lives greatly and I agree. I know you cant undo a presentation but maybe a small blurb after looking into it more in the video description?

great

Is there any other version of this speech with better sound/volume? Hard to follow

Is that an SM58 microphone? That would explain why it sounds like that.

How can I find out more about this guy?

I loved the talk. I would love to contribute fixing the audio of this video. If you are interested please let me know.

pranayama baby.

There still so so much to be discovered of the ancient indian texts, that we never expected it to be there. Pakistan should also help in this expedition as because area of pakistan and india have same ancient history.

proud to be Indian n Hindu

Hi Jim, I am studying engineering and live in a hostel. I plan to start doing yoga using books or online videos. Please suggest a good online resource that is genuine and would be able to instruct me the right exercises in the right way.

super cute baby

Can you fix the audio issue?

BASIC

unfortunate to see yoga and meditation need medical approval! something which was practiced and proven from thousand of year now need certificate of modern failing medical system.

Do Pranayam We Got Result Of All Disease Cure

The audio isn't good.

does somebody know something obut that "seven second research" about the amotion lasting? (not the site 6 seconds blah blah that I have found in my search, but some real research? it's really interesting but didn't manage to found some evidance to his words) if somebody knows the way to ask him directly pls share in PM or here thanks

we indians are not understanding the values and power of pranyama and see this foreigners😬😤🇮🇳

David Sinclair

Such a cute little girl...😊

Wait.. so does that mean exercising is bad since it makes you breath faster? Serious question!!

very good topic. but i would disagree with the fact that you cant have a panic attack while you breath slow deep etc. its very frustrating that i seem to be the only person who can experience this? i have a heart phobia and often when i do this relaxation techniques i can feel and heart my heart even more and that triggers my anxiety :D- i am calm at the outside but nervous at the inside.

Good message to bad thé audio is not so good

Why isn’t this taught in schools everywhere? It doesn’t make any sense. It’s been proven over the long term, all over the world to benefit EVERYBODY. It really does make no sense- unless you actually know who’s in charge of everything.

CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION!!!! Yes, yoga can help and there are benefits, just as there are benefits to breathing (duh) but that whole lifespan and bpm graph just proves that how long you live and your bpm are correlated, but there is no proof in the graph that by having less/longer breath CAUSES you to live longer. There needs to be more work done there. It also concerns me that they're selling yoga as a cure-all, I'm not denying benefits in being healthy and meditating and practicing yoga but it won't fix serious medical problems.

It's just that the capacity of humans to understand the real truth of life force is decreasing. people look for quick fixes rather than root fixes! curse of KALIYUG

10:05 But little dogs breathe faster and they live much longer than big dogs. Correlation doesn't equal causation, and if we even consider different sizes of dogs, we get the inverse of what he is claiming, and within the same species.

sad the auditory situation here.

This is so helpful. But there’s one catch. Anxiety is in the body.

Plot the tortoise!

This stuff isn’t taught in schools to our children because if it was the health industry would lose billions !

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2: 7). Watch: “Mankind cannot save himself. JESUS CHRIST is the Saviour of Humanity” on India Jesus is Coming. Amen

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Sanathana Dharma or Hinduism one of oldest 'Way of Life' for Humans has contributed in all ways possible for Humanity. SAVE Hinduism.. SAVE Hindus !

Detachment... that is how you call leaving your child hopelessly crying alone? Insane.

But no one find out spinalchord diorders

பிராணயாமம் is a தமிழ் spiritual word... Pranayamam is a Thamizh spiritual word... Thamizh siththars (sidhas/saints) were the inventors of these ancient breathing techniques. Kindly watch " Vinayaka worship - a great mystery solved " Thanks for reading !

Bad audio quality

What’s the deal with his mouth breathing? Not good.

gotta be better than cigarettes

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I enjoyed this talk. But you cant compare the life span of a mouse and a whale and try and say its all down to how fast they breath. They are completely different species of animals in different habitats.

While I agree with the content, this man isn't doing himself any favours by sounding like a salesman.. could be bad for getting the message across.

Get rid of the Epoc times. Pure propaganda!

Sorry but not a doctors discovery. Good staff anyway. Thanks.

Eastern philosophy or Islam doesn't have abstract reasoning and thinking and theoretical thinking (it's a fact which for them is difficult to admit because they can't grasp the difference as in Christian understanding and that's why those none Christian philosophies and yoga is rubbish compare with Christianity especially Catholic Faith and teachings theology Eucharist as true Blood and Body of God Jesus Christ and not only symbol or mind but can be observed in the mind and understanding but next to but in relation as objective truth reality no matter of subjective interpretation or thinking or understanding...the same about the rest of Sacraments science philosophy even Thomas Aquinas or St.Augustine and all Bible and Trinity based western Christian abstract thinking which is only in the West and is as a key for all discoveries and understandings analysis as key understanding Trinity True God True Son God Jesus True God Holy Spirit in one and you have ground visible and not but all are true and different relations in between but not illusion or just mind as only reality as in the East...where everyone is or can be all and therefore be lost not finding deference about reality and reality as a mind and God as separate next to all but in relation with all but not creation as part of creation as in the East and understanding about humans and universe as created beings about creation and creator God. Eastern philosophy brings only confusion and delusion but attractive for many because there is only own human strength-based understanding about possibility to become God...but the truth is they are not God and never will regardless of all efforts they are putting into...but in the West and Christianity is clear creation and men human can have relationship with God and creation as independent but related complete beings....in reality, and also in the mind

It's not Yoga, it's breathing. Every breath comes from YAHWEH, not from Yoga.

That's completely ridiculous that he's comparing us to animals. The human being,.. the mammals, you and me, is so much more than just an animal.

Great talk and vision, Jim! Thank you for sharing your story. And don't mind negative comments - there are still unhappy people out there. But it's getting better and talks like this one are making it happen.

So amazing, the benefits of pranayama! Everyone should turn to yoga, meditation and breath work instead of reaching for medications or considering surgery as a primary choice of healing.