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Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain

By Kelly McGonigal — 2020

Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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What to Eat for Optimal Mental Health

The food you eat can have just as profound an effect on your brain and your mental health as the drugs prescribed by your doctor. The reason: Your gut and your brain are in constant communication with each other.

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Uma Naidoo
2021
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Fight Pain Throughout Your Lifetime: Understanding Dr. John Sarno's Mind-Body Connection

Sarno’s basic message is that in the overwhelming majority of cases, back pain is a symptom created by the unconscious mind as a distraction to aid in the repression of strong unconscious emotional issues.

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Edward Siedle
2016
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How Exercise May Help Us Flourish

Our exercise habits may influence our sense of purpose in life and our sense of purpose may affect how much we exercise, according to an interesting new study of the reciprocal effects of feeling your life has meaning and being often in motion.

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DNYUZ.com
2021
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Social Network Blueprint for Happiness

The people you surround yourself with have a profound impact on your happiness.

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Dan Buettner
2018
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Can Trauma Really Be “Stored” in the Body?

Scientists now have more evidence than ever before revealing the intimate, intertwined relationship between the mind and body.

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Stephanie Eckelkamp
2019
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3 Reasons Your Injury Won't Heal + What To Do About It

The next time you pull a muscle and think, “Oh my gosh, not another one,” you may need to consider the location of your pain may not be the cause. If you are plagued with chronic muscle pulls or tendonitis-like symptoms you’ll need a more holistic approach to the problem.

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Laura Di Franco
2015
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Brain Mechanisms that Give the Iceman Unusual Resistance to Cold

Dutch adventurer Wim Hof is known as ‘The Iceman’ for good reason. Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self-developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation—known as the Wim Hof Method.

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Wayne State University—Office of the Vice President for Research
2018
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Wim Hof: The Man and the Method

Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.

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Emily Cronkleton
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The Power of the Relaxation Response

A behavioral medicine pioneer reports on a time-tested technique that reverses aging and improves health.

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Sara Martin
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Body-Work and Being. The Deeper Significance of Somatics

I suddenly knew that the mechanical reactions of my muscles and guts were my personality; that my soul, in fact, lay there writhing to break out of those rigid bonds. - Don Hanlon Johnson

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Don Hanlon Johnson
1987
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