Meditating with Movies: The Scenic Route To Healing | DeVante Love | TEDxTufts

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NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker’s spiritual views, beliefs, and interpretation of meditation, consciousness, and healing. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf In their TEDx talk, DeVante asks: What if films could be mirrors and portals that reveal deeper truths and guide our healing? Through personal stories, like how Black Panther taught them to embrace their expressive queer identity and how Wonka helped them retrieve a business idea they'd suppressed, DeVante demonstrates the power of what they call cinema meditation. Their three-step process is straightforward: notice your body's reactions before the film, allow yourself to fully respond during it, and write a reflective letter afterward. This approach, rooted in the concept of interdependence (needing others to truly see ourselves), turns passive entertain

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