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Free the Mind (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
80 min + 60 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Phie Ambo

Written By:
Phie Ambo

Actors:
Travis Leanna ..... Himself
Richard Davidson ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Professor Richard Davidson works with people suffering from psychological problems at the University of Wisconsin's Waisman Center. They include two American war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and a young boy with ADHD and anxiety. Free the Mind follows Davidson as he attempts to tame the human mind. Though we know that the human brain changes over the course of a lifetime, precisely how this comes about remains largely a mystery. For some people, a subtle change in their frame of mind could successfully eradicate their disorders. This film follows the three traumatized test subjects in their daily lives and during therapy sessions, which are based on tried and tested Eastern techniques such as yoga and meditation. The patients make rapid progress, a fact confirmed by psychological tests assessing how negatively or positively they experience the world. Conventionally filmed scenes are interspersed with seemingly abstract imagery illustrating the workings of the human brain. These psychedelic, 'spacey' sequences suggest an immense and highly interactive universe, with endless discoveries to be made. 'This is the most complicated organ in the universe,' says Davidson while standing next to a model of the brain. 'We're just beginning this journey.'

More American soldiers commit suicide after they return from war, than are being killed in the war. Most of the war veterans suffer from PTSD. Steve is one of the proud American veterans who just returned from Afghanistan. He was an interrogator and very good at his job. Now, back home, he suffers from sleepless nights and bad conscience because of all the terrible things he did during the war. He has a lot of anger and fear for the future and is struggling to be a good father for his two-year-old twins. Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga. Can veterans through meditation and yoga ease their pain and nervous system, find happiness and be more peaceful and get back to a life more like the one they had before the war? By studying Buddhist monks Richard Davidson has found that it is possible to rewire your brain through meditation. Some of the effects are that you become more altruistic, compassionate and happy. But Richard Davidson also wants to study how early in life you can start, using the same methods of meditation and yoga in an experiment with children with ADHD. Davidson sets up his experiment and chooses the veterans for the experiment. We are following Steve, the ex-interrogator, and Rich who was a very successful leader for battalions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He feels responsible for not being able to save his friends that were killed during the war. Rich becomes more and more closed up and can't tell his wife about his memories. Through the film, we experience what meditation does to human beings and we investigate, if we, by using other methods than taking medicine to ease our pain, can get less stressful, and happy.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 03 March, 2013.

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