What you're experiencing is not what's happening | Dr. Romi Ran | TEDxRancho Mirage

Oxford-trained Clinical Psychologist Dr. Romi Ran discusses moving past traditional psychological frameworks to explore the core of human identity. Drawing from years of intensive contemplative practices, including extended solitary and darkroom retreats, she explains what it means to strip away societal identity and experience life more directly. Dr. Romi Ran is an Oxford-trained Clinical Psychologist, speaker, and author whose work explores the relationship between the mind, suffering, and human experience. After more than a decade working within traditional psychological frameworks, she became increasingly interested in the deeper mechanisms underlying thought, perception, and identity. Her perspective has been deeply shaped by several years of intensive contemplative practice, including extended solitary and dark room retreats, which continue to inform her clinical work. Her TEDx talk challenges the way we understand our own experience and explores what it means to experience life more directly. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx