Louie Schwartzberg: Gratitude Revealed
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Sandie Sedgbeer: I can see so many uses for your footage. I mean, you could be playing this in hospital rooms. People could be watching them while they’re lying in their beds. You could be playing them on planes. I would love to have the owl. I would love to have that as a screensaver and just have that every time I open my computer. Because then everything that you’re doing after that, you’re doing from a different place. You’ve already had that thing that makes you feel calmer and brings a smile to your face. And gives you a bit of Wonder and awe.
Louie Schwartzberg: We are bringing it into healthcare. And we have some clinical trials going on at UCSD. We were in every room I saw. They had a brand-new hospital, and they had smart TVs. And there’s a new movement in healthcare called Patient Experience, where they care about what’s going on with the patient. It’s about time, but they have an iPad that tracks your medical records so you can be aware of the procedures and treatments that are going on, control the lighting and the shades in the room, and control the tv. And so I came up with a suggestion. I go.
Let’s ask the patient where in the world they want to go to be healed. Where’s their power spot? And then the choices are ocean desert, forest flowers. And it’s a half-hour video with music, no words. So, you can go on your own personal journey, and you can process whatever you need to process. Everyone should be on their own sense of Wonder. I think the results I think are positive in reducing anxiety, blood pressure, respiration rate, better sleep, less addiction to painkillers, and shorter hospital stays. I mean, that’s what we want.
Sandie Sedgbeer: And, probably better recovery rates.
Louie Schwartzberg: Yeah. If we can’t put people out into nature, we can certainly bring feeling the energy in. And especially, as you pointed out, Sandy, I’m not showing you what it looks like to be walking in the woods.
I’m showing you things that a human eye can’t see. It’s even more special, whether it is the mushrooms growing in the forest, aerials or giant, you know, mountains. It enables you to get a different perspective, encouraging you to take that walk in the park. Because when you see the bee land on the flower, you will have a deeper understanding of what that represents. It’s a fruit supply for you. It keeps you alive.
It is a mutually enabling relationship that is done without greed and done to give us the fruits, nuts, berries, and all the healthy food we need to eat. So don’t run away from that bee landing on the flower. It’s nothing to be scared of. It’s something you should be so grateful for it.
Sandie Sedgbeer: We talked earlier about your interviews and the different values that were covered. You know, patience, courage, wonder, and trust. Wonder and awe as something that seems to be sadly lacking these days; everything seems so heavy that people forget about the Wonder and the awe. But you have a vlog cast, don’t you, on your new channel. Tell us a little bit about that vlog cast because you have lots and lots of little pieces on Wonder.
Louie Schwartzberg: Thank you. Yeah, we talked about earlier, like why even do time-lapse. So, it was because of the sense of Wonder to see things that the human eye can’t see to make the invisible visible. And for me, that is like the sweet spot of the intersection between art and science.
I wonder what inspires you to explore. I think from a scientific side, it’s to explain with methods what reality is and how things work.
I believe the artistic side is more of an inward journey to be able to say what drives us, and what makes us feel the way we feel. To have that sense of a blank slate, the way a four-year-old does when you’re looking at things, to be able to look at something and observe it without judgment, that’s being in the moment.
It seems to me that the core of every spiritual or meditative practice is to become ultimately present. So, if I’m staring at a flower or I’m staring at a lizard, it’s like I am with it. I am one with it because I am not trying to name it. I am just trying to be with it. And doing that takes me through portals of time and scale that enable me to go beyond my own limited parameters of existence.
I want to share those kinds of magic moments that I can film on the LouieChannel.tv, where people can get these little nuggets of Wonder. Not only visuals but interviews with artists, thinkers, thought leaders, and inspirational people who are also open-minded and seeking that sense of Wonder.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Children are great reminders of that, especially, you know, infants. When you look at it, I remember watching my grandson at about six months old looking at a tree with such… Like never seen anything before. And the next day, he would look at it in exactly the same way again. So, it was a continuous absolute awe of what was going on in the world around them. And when you see a child like that, it also takes you to that place.
Louie Schwartzberg: That’s where I hope we all want to be. Opens your heart and makes you more compassionate: It makes you kinder. I can’t step on an ant. I probably do, unknowingly occasionally. But if I know that, it’s like I have respect for every living being because I’ve looked at Ants close up, I look at what they’re doing, I don’t quite understand it all, but I can tell that they’re making Life go forward and I don’t want to get in the way of that.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Absolutely. Talk to me about courage because that’s one of the values. Is courage for you?
Louie Schwartzberg: I think courage for me is being able to let go of fear. I think in the movie, too, with the skateboarders. Fear causes hesitation. And hesitation makes your worst fears come true. Hesitation makes your worst fears come true. So, courage, I think, is to be able to go forward, let go of fear, to be able to explore, to be able to overcome resistance. And those challenges, when you overcome them, whether you succeed or fail, you look back, and you go, there are blessings in disguise because I learned something, there are blessings in disguise because I learned something, I succeeded, or I failed either way, you know. I have challenged myself to do something that might have been out of my comfort zone but that builds resilience.
Sandie Sedgbeer: So, Gratitude, I mean, I’m reminded of the whole process of what you are doing, you know, the time it takes for something to unfold and reveal itself in its true beauty. And I see that reflected in the movie because it developed its own Life. It’s got all of these offshoots now. Yeah. The gratitude blog, the journal, the resource guide, the gratitude game, and even the parent handbook and educational curriculum. So how did all that come about?
Louie Schwartzberg: Well, we want to spread the gift of Gratitude and the fact that after we made the movie, we partnered with the Templeton Foundation, which is helping us get this movement out there. They help work with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, where they’ve been doing all this research on Gratitude for many years. And so, we created a journal that people can use to talk about these different values, what they are and the practices one can do to benefit from them. And I thought it would be good to have one specifically for teachers and parents to be able to have a conversation with children regarding Gratitude.
Sandie Sedgbeer: So, in short, you’ve really turned the movie into a movement. So, what’s your next film going to be about?
Louie Schwartzberg: That’s a good question. I’ve got a bunch of them that are percolating. I may want to do one just purely on Wonder because I think that’s the ultimate place to be. Again, bringing my scientific friends and my artistic friends into the middle and how we can all work together from that, from two points of view.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Louie Schwartzberg, thank you for joining us today. Thank you for this movie. I’ve watched it three times. I will continue watching it again because you take note of something different each time. It is just an incredible feast for the eyes and for the soul. Thank you.
Louie Schwartzberg: Thank you, Sandra, for all the great work you do and for the home TV channel and your audience, your community, making the world a better place. That’s what it’s all about.
Sandie Sedgbeer: If you want to know more about the movie, you can go to the website gratitude reveal.com, where you can find details on how to host a screening. You can get the resource guide at https://www.louiechannel.tv/
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