I want you guys to take a deep breath with me. Really feel it get all the way to the bottom of your lungs. Spread your ribs out.Get the big breath belly. Let it out. You take about 20,000 breaths a day.And you likely don't notice most of them, but each one you take is life or death. It's the most important breath you've ever taken. And in the silence between those breaths is your inner voice, the one that tells you who you are.I'm a martial arts instructor. I uh use breath as the tool of my trade. So it it ...

We inherit so much from our families, from the color of our eyes to our last names. And on the surface, we appear so different. We've gone through different things. We have different lifestyles and we've survived different struggles.But as a society, we are so judgmental. We judge each other for staying in the same toxic relationship for way too long. We judge ourselves for making the same choices that hurt us again and again, even when we know better.But what if these choices didn't start with us. What if ...

Throughout my childhood, I had always dreamt of the day that I'll finally be called a teenager. But only eight days after I turned 13, this girl standing here was kidnapped. I know that their prescription for physical pain, but every day after that incident, I prayed for a prescription that would take away the pain that I felt.And because I wasn't able to speak up, I was an introvert. I began writing. I wrote so much that my hands began to hurt.But I didn't stop. Unknown to me, I was slowly giving myself he ...

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. They also say the only fear greater than death is public speaking. So, let's just talk about something that rarely gets the attention it deserves, the loss of a loved one. It's painful, easier to avoid than confront. But maybe having a conversation is exactly what we need. When faced with the death of a loved one, life changes and we feel lost. How do I grieve? Where do I go from here? What will the next chapter of my life look like? Imagine quietly ...

the page with such amazing people and I'm really grateful for Rejie to start off with. So I think we all manifest and visualize this world that we want to live around us you know and we work so hard checking off all the boxes and right in the moment when we think we have arrived at the beginning of something so phenomenally great life comes crashing down it uh crashes so hard that it knocks the wind right out of your lungs I'm no stranger to that situation what I thought was going to be a cozy disco in 2023 ...

Next speaker of TEDexuzu 2025, the power of humanities. >> This is a picture of me and my grandpa. He passed away when I was 16 years old because of a rare disease that affects only one in 100,000 people.This was the first time I faced the death so directly. It has greatly changed my personality, making me withdrawn, quiet, even a bit defensive. For a long time, I refused to hear the word death because whenever I did, it would trigger me immediately, bring back all those memories, and I'll be unable to hold ...

ए वार्म आफ्टरनून एवरीवन। टुडे आई एम गोइंग टू टेल यू थ्री पॉइंट्स दैट चेंज्ड माय लाइफ फ्रॉम डार्कनेस टू लाइट। व्हेन आई वाज़ अ चाइल्ड आई हैव लर्न समथिंग वेरी अर्ली इन लाइफ। दैट पेन डज अनाउंस बाय इटसेल्फ समटाइ्स इट डजंट स्क्रीम समटाइ्स इट डजंट ब्रूस बाय स्किन समटाइ्स इट क्वाइटली एंटर्स एंड स्टे आई ग्रिव अप विदाउट अ मदर एज अ चाइल्ड दिस पेन इज नॉट जस्ट इमोशनल इट शेप्स हाउ द वर्ल्ड फील्स फॉर यू इट शेप्स हाउ द ट्रस्ट कम्स इट शेप्स हाउ योर बॉडी सॉफ्टन इनाइड माय फैमिली आई हैव एक्सपीरियंस्ड समथिंग दैट नो चाइल्ड शुड एक ...

My given names are Jason and Alexander. They mean healer and conqueror. For years, I thought this meant I needed to fight, to overcome, to win.But I've now learned that true healing is not a conquest. It's a practice. I've learned this from working with nature on my small hobby farm.And I'm so excited to tell you. I've learned how to compost what has died, how to plant new seeds with community, how to honor the necessity of rest, and how to practice the art of surrender. Perhaps the most important lesson th ...

When it comes to homelessness, we've been asking ourselves the wrong question for a long time. We've asked, "How do we solve homelessness. " But what if the real question is, "How do we return people to themselves. " Because if we're honest, we've built housing. But what we haven't built were places where people can be returned to themselves with stability, healing, and belonging. The state of homelessness in the United States is dire. Today, we have over 770,000 people experiencing homelessness in the Unit ...

[music] [music] [applause] I have nine siblings, most of which are criminals. Six of their kids are dead. And now I'm dying, too.My father was abused by his father and left for Vietnam at 17. He came home broken. My earliest memory is of him kicking me in the stomach with his cowboy boots.My mom left him and her new boyfriend tried to touch me, but I fought back. I fought back so hard that he beat me back. When I was seven years old, some neighborhood boys took me into an orchard and sexually abused me.I cr ...