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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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Happiness Isn’t a Feeling—It’s a Skill that Can Be Learned

For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”

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Nataly Kogan
2018
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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll

Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.

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Betsy Morris
2020
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This Is Your Brain on Gluten

A No. 1 bestseller by a respected physician argues that gluten and carbohydrates are at the root of Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. What to make of the controversial theory?

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James Hamblin
2013
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Why We Can and Must Focus on Preventing Alzheimer’s

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed how levels of blood sugar directly relate to risk for dementia.

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David Perlmutter
2017
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The Power of Positive Self-Talk

The line between failure and success can come down to something as simple as self-talk. Powerful and positive self-talk can change your entire mindset, which can affect your actions.

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Teri Karjala
2020
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The Floating Heads

Many Western Budddhists, says Reginald Ray, perpetuate the mind/body, secular/sacred dualism that has marked our culture since early Christianity.

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Reginald Ray
2002
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To Touch Enlightenment with the Body

Like many Westerners, I always assumed that meditation was a “spiritual” phenomenon, which I took to mean that it somehow had to do with realms beyond the physical.

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Reginald Ray
2003
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Amanda Bisk on How to Get a "Better Than Gym" Workout from Home

While gyms play an important role in workouts, there is no genuine need to attend a gym to reach your fitness goals. Exercise physiologist and elite athletics coach Amanda Bisk explains how to get an effective workout from the comfort of your own home.

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Amanda Bisk
2020
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Cultivating a Fierce Heart in Fierce Times

Three ways to find strength, courage, and wisdom when the going gets rough.

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Spring Washam
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Curiosity and Wellness

What you don’t know may very well hurt you. Curiosity is essential to wellness.

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Alison Bonds Shapiro
2010
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