Mindful Media is an independent Australian production company committed to making a difference in the world. We produce documentaries that inform, entertain, and inspire positive action. Mindful Media makes authentic factual films about the environment, nature, science, health and social issues in response to the global need for sustainability, responsibility and heightened awareness.
The principal team at Mindful Media has over 20 years television experience, having produced dozens of award winning factual programs. We work with many different broadcasters, both in Australia and internationally, and partner with a range of talented crew and production facilities. We collaborate closely with respected scientists, visionaries, corporations, organisations and communities to help realise transformation in people’s lives.
Mindful Media recently produced the acclaimed DEAD TIRED, a 2 x 1 hour series on the science of how lack of sleep is diminishing our health and quality of life. It was universally well received and had a powerful impact on Australian audiences following its broadcast on SBS in June 2009. The SBS Dead Tired blog attracted the most comments of any documentary in 2008 and 2009. As a consequence, several corporations, and government and non-government agencies, are now collaborating with our company to implement ways to mitigate worker fatigue.
This is the kind of change Mindful Media strives to achieve and is commensurate with our company philosophy. Central to this ethos is an emphasis on using strategic marketing and social media to help promote positive change. We create programs that have broad outreach potential, with campaigns that cross platforms, targeting diverse audiences who have a desire for informative, constructive and engaging shows.
We invite feedback from our audiences and you can always contact us with comments and/or ideas at casper@mindfulmedia.com.au
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AWAKE IS THE NEW SLEEP
This blog is to let as many people know about a wonderful miniseries we made about the latest worldwide research on sleep deprivation and insomnia. Anyone that suffers this affliction in its myriad of forms should order this DVD. Check out the trailer by clicking here.
To order our DVD just visit our website http://www.mindfulmedia.com.au
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I haven’t slept in two years. My body vibrates like a parked car with the engine running, all the time. I wasn’t in a war or beaten up or in a near fatal accident. I hadn’t been diagnosed with something horrific or life threatening.
I woke up one week after coming back from seeing my mother in a secure unit in a Dublin mental hospital with elderly dementia, to a severely pounding heart. That night sleeplessness and the total horrors that went on for six days.
In the last two years I have had every medical test possible and nothing shows except relative good health for a man my age.
The doctors keep saying to me: Panic Disorder or PTSD… I remain fairly unconvinced – It feels determinedly physical not psychological at all.
So, I have chased other words and acronyms around my head and my kepyboard, words like cortisol, adrenaline, COPD, asthma, ZMA, yoga, meditation, tremors, vibrations, ME, hyperadrenia, constant erection, more-energy-than-I-know-what-to-do-with, anxiety, the shakes, neediness, nicotine, caffeine, Remeron, psychiatrists, valium, anti-depressants, suicide, melatonin, prayer, AA…god the list goes on ad infinitum.
Its been a battle not to pull the ol’ gin bottle down from the cupboard over the cooker and get to some heavy drinking but I am fortunate I already don’t do that. Instead, a part from the odd bellowing scream, I…. swim, cycle, meditate, down dog, walk, get massaged, have sex, drink tea, take ginseng and vitamin A, B, C, D, zinc, magnesium, ginkgo… and so on. I used to dance when I was well, in my bedroom, directly after my feet hit the floor in the morning, without fail. Could be Bach or Donna Summer. God, I loved that – even at 46 it was still working. Now, only 48, not quite so full of bounce, scraping the face off the pillow in the morning.
And another thing, that doctors haven’t even ever once heard me say: I have never been so well. Not a single cold, fever, upset stomach, rash, toothache, sore gum, spot, pimple in the last two years. Makes me believe cortisol is pumping through my system at a hell of a rate inhibiting my immune response from any kind of infection at all. Even when I smoke I never cough, never feel any physical side effects. Used to be that three cigarettes would make me heave. Now, well, sometimes I don’t even feel alive anymore except I know I have a pulse and can lift weights and run on the tread mill. None of it makes sense. Oh, and I feel like crying a lot, at the slightest thing actually, except, I also don’t seem to have the same response from my sense world either that I used to. The shivers almost never happen anymore. I need my mind more than I ever did in the past. The body is failing me. There are just…
“Too many riddles weigh man down on earth. We guess them as we can, and come out of the water dry. The devil only knows what to make of it.
God and the Devil are fighting and their battlefield is the heart of man.”