A resource companion to "mindfulness: connecting with the real you" book

My book "Mindfulness: connecting with the real you" uses metaphors from movies, novels, scientific experiments, magic shows, etc. to illustrate main points. The table below presents the links to the publicly available videos for each of the chapters.

Chapter	Links
1. Balancing the bicycle of life	Paheli clip (5min) (44MB) illustrating mindfulness as balancing between bookkeeping and berry-picking. (English subtitles - SRT file) "My life is ruined" scene from the movie Queen "The backwards brain bicycle" from "Smarter every day" channel by Destin Sandlin "Smarter every day challenge: Learn the backwards brain bike" by Mike Boyd
2. Listening to the mental shotgun	Listening with "It's possible" vs "It's impossible" - A clip from "12 angry men".
3. Stepping out of the train of thought	"How do you know you will live to be forty?" scene from Hindi film "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" (2011) (English: You don't live twice) Rowboat scene argument between Maria and Captain in Hollywood film "The sound of music" (1965) Drum lesson from the Hollywood film The Visitor (2007) where the Professor is told "not to think" while drumming.
4. Recognizing wasteful thoughts	"What if she starts taking drugs?" How thought moves from school admission to drug addiction in a flash of a second - Hindi film - Hindi Medium (2017) (0:32-0:39) Dutch film "All about nothing" written and directed by Paul Smit and Robert van den Broek (2013). "What if you lose?" A question posed to Prof. John Nash in the movie "A beautiful mind" (2001) may be familiar to many of us.   Nash learns to recognize and ignore wasteful thoughts in "A beautiful mind". Nash's "diet of the mind" from "A beautiful mind".
5. Watching the dance of necessities	"You are a slave to the prison for your mind", Morpheus explains Neo in "The Matrix" (1999). "What is real?" Morpheus shows the residual self-image to Neo in "The Matrix". "What is reality?" Episode 1 of The brain with David Eagleman, A PBS documentary (2016).  "Ian Waterman" in The brain with David Eagleman, PBS documentary (2016). Afterglow, A short film written and directed by Kaushal Oza (2014). Shawn Farquhar in "Penn and Teller: Fool Us" show, 2014.
6. Investigating the shooting game	Gabbar Singh "How many guys were there?" dialogue from Sholay (1975). Kannada film "Samskara" (1970) with subtitles, directed by Pattabhirama Reddy.
7. Searching for the real hero	Amitabh Bachchan talking to mirror in the Hindi film "Amar Akbar Anthony" (1977) Ink drops in glycerine experiment as a metaphor for understanding implicit and explicit order, video from NewScientist (2011) David Bohm explains the implicate order through ink-drop in glycerine experiment in this video "The nature of things" produced by CBC Canadian Radio, 26 May 1979. (12:31-18:00) Derek Muller's Veritasium video "Is this what quantum mechanics looks like?" (2016) "Dual walkers" site from a team researchers based in Paris who study wave-particle duality through dancing droplets. "Turing machine with wave memory" video from Emmanuel Fort et. al., 2016 You can watch Princess Leila hologram from Star Wars in this video - "A new hope" (2:27) Truman is surprised by a light bulb comes crashing from the sky.  Truman talks to the creator - the "The Truman show ending scene" where he asks the question, "Who am I?" "That's one for free" Truman talks to the mirror
8. Dying to self-image every moment	Eckhart Tolle talks about the film "Groundhog day" from his interview "Conversations on compassion" by Dr. James Doty of Stanford.  "Groundhog day...again", Phil realizes for the first time that he is in a time loop. Bengali film "Ghare Baire" (English: The home and the world" with English subtitles. Nikhil's dialogue with his sister-in-law is at 1:36:18. "Kamla" Hindi film (1984) with subtitles, written by Vijay Tendulkar, directed by Jagmohan Mudhra. The dialogue between Kamla and Sarita is at 1:13:54. The dialogue between Sarita and her uncle is at 1:54:25.
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