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Three Principles of Guided Imagery

By Health Journeys Staff

To the body, images created in the mind can be almost as real as actual, external events. The mind doesn’t quite get the difference. That’s why, when we read a recipe, we start to salivate and get hungrier.

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The Science of Healing Thoughts

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Connecting Mind & Body to Cope with Infertility: 6 Techniques to Heal.

Through utilizing various mind-body techniques, women struggling with infertility can mitigate emotional stress and emerge with new perspectives.

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2015
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Heal the Mind, Access Through the Body

Mind body connection. Terms we throw around a lot but lets break it down. We hold all our mind’s thoughts in our body. Our body’s experiences of tension and relaxation are influenced by these thoughts.

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Meditation, Not Meds

Herbert Benson is the father of modern mind-body medicine. From the late 1960s onward, his breakthrough research has demonstrated that the “relaxation response,” which can be elicited through a variety of methods—including meditation—is a natural antidote to stress.

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Mind-Body Synergy

Whether you seek lower blood pressure, a longer silhouette, or a more peaceful response to life’s pressures, disciplined practices like yoga, tai chi and Pilates offer a host of transformative benefits.

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Your Brain and Your Body Are One and the Same

We see a dog walking toward us, think about whether it’s the neighbor’s or if it looks friendly, and tell our bodies whether to pet it or run. This all seems straightforward and maps pretty cleanly onto our conscious experience.

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Jack Meserve
2015
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Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core

“How we move, think, and feel have an impact on the stress response through real neural connections.”

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James Hamblin
2016
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When the Body Attacks the Mind

...the experience also raised a much larger question: If an autoimmune disorder of the brain could so closely resemble psychiatric illnesses, then what, really, were these illnesses?

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Moises Velasquez-Manoff
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The Wisdom Your Body Knows

Scientists are now focusing on the thinking that happens not in your brain but in your gut. You have neurons spread through your innards, and there’s increasing attention on the vagus nerve, which emerges from the brain stem and wanders across the heart, lungs, kidney and gut.

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David Brooks
2019
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Exploring the Mind–Body Connection Through Research

Throughout centuries, philosophers and scientists have hypothesized about the mind–body connection. However, far from reaching a definite solution, we have been left with what many refer to as the mind–body problem.

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Daniela Ramirez
2021
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