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Here is the WOW documentaries and talks I have watched that made my eyes wide and heart swell with emotion. Need a little dose of knowledge and aww for the planet, nature and our human mind, here are some wonderful humans generously sharing their world with us.

documentary

Title: My Octopus Teacher

Fall in love with nature and blow your mind as to this extraordinary magical planet we live. 

This documentary allows us to have a front seat to witness the life of an Octopus, its environment and share in the curiosity and connection the divers exploration takes us on. Absolutely mind blowing and heart wrenching.

Where: on Netflix

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world. SUB...

documentary

Title: A Life on Our planet

David Attenborough 2020 documentary on life on this planet and the changes he has witnessed since he first started exploring and documenting the incredible diversity of life we share this Earth with.

This will open your eyes and your mind, through this journey you will be asking yourself, What can I do? What part do I take? Where do I fit? What have we done? How can I live more lightly on the planet?

Where: on Netflix

In this unique feature documentary, titled David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, the celebrated naturalist reflects upon both the defining moments of his...

Documentary

Title: happy

Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.

This is the ultimate success in life. Hands up if you want to join a community like this?, a simple life of sharing food with friends and family. Take me there. Everyone welcome.

What makes you happy? From the filmmakers who brought you Long Night's Journey Into Day, Beyond the Call, and the Oscar nominated Genghis Blues, comes a global journey across countries and continents in a search for humanity's most elusive emotion. HAPPY seeks to share the wisdom of traditional cultures and the cutting edge science that is now, for the first time, exploring human happiness. Through powerful interviews, we explore what makes people happy across the world. Directed by - Roko Belic Executive Producer - Tom Shadyac Produced by - Eiji Shimizu, Frances Reid, Roko Belic

ted talk

Title: do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson |·Author, educator

Have you heard the quote ‘“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” it is disputed whether this came from Albert Einstein or not, you do not need to be Einstein to get this. When people are judged or not able to be and fulfil their natural desires, they need to heal this part of themselves, I see this in therapy every day. Be free, be you, let go of the boundaries you were pushed into as a child.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

ted talk

Title: my stroke of insight

Jill Bolte Taylor | Brain Scientist

Wow!! Here is a scientist who studied the brain to understand schizophrenia and mental health, witnessing the left and right brain hemispheres and the process of her own stroke. Right hemisphere is present moment, sensing the energy, oneness, perfect, wholeness, thinks is pictures and kinesthetic energy streams. Left brain , past, future, details, organising, associating, projecting possibility, thinks in language. What does it feel like to be free of 37 years of emotional baggage, stresses gone, peacefulness? To experience being the life force power of the universe, peaceful, compassionate, loving people.

When we understand our brains and when we have personal experience of feeling more whole, more free, more at peace, we get to live in a whole new way. Meditation creates more cohesive brain waves and connectivity between our left and right brain, so it makes sense that through practice we become more peaceful and live more from our hearts than our heads, we feel more connected and less separated. Through language and visualisation matrix therapy allows us to reprogram the parts of the organising structures and categorisations stored in our brain.

Here is a scientists experience of consciousness and onesness and the power we have to choose.

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

ted talk

Title: the voices in my head

eleanor longden | psychologist

What happens with remote inaccessible emotions that do not have the opportunity to process or resolve; anger, shame, guilt, low self worth, fear, anxiety?

Eleanor shares her war with the mind, her empowerment to save herself, understanding that it is not about what is wrong with you, it is about what happened to you. Our mind and bodies create a survival response to traumatic life events, particularly from childhood. Eleanor shares her journey of her healing and now helps others so they do not need to live their lives from the damages that happened to them.

Describing the power of the individual and the unique beings with are with an instinctual capacity to heal with compassion, acceptance and respect of self. We all carry unresolved emotions and beliefs from our past. Life becomes better from the inside out when we work through them and allow them to be released.

To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare.

ted talk

Title: the power of vulnerability

brene brown | Vulnerability courage shame and empathy researcher

Brene conducted over 10 years of research into vulnerability, expanding perceptions and the way we live and love. Connection is why we are here and gives us meaning and purpose, this is how we are neurologically wired. What is the difference between people who are able to be vulnerable, create love and connection, are wholehearted and those that feel ‘I am not enough’ ‘I am not worthy’ and numb their feelings of fear, grief, shame and disappointment?

This is something we can all relate to, and learn to make steps towards creating more connection and love in our lives.

Brene Brown is a joy to watch and delivers her research with compassion and humour.

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.