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A Performance Expert Reveals 3 Simple Techniques to Get 'In the Flow'

By Joe Avella and Kevin Reilly — 2017

Jamie Wheal is a performance expert and the coauthor of "Stealing Fire". In the book, Wheal and coauthor Steven Kotler share how Navy SEALs, maverick scientists, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs achieve deep mental states of concentration and creativity. Following is a transcript of the video.

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Sacred Sundays with Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine: The Radiance Sutras

Sacred Sundays is a monthly consciousness-raising salon featuring some of today's leaders in self-help, healing, meditation, and modern spirituality. The event is hosted by mindfulness meditation teacher and Author Ora Nadrich.

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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile.

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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

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Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.

Chalene Johnson

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The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well-Being, and Inner Growth

Take a life-affirming journey with Taoist and breathwork teacher Dennis Lewis into the physiological, psychological, and spiritual experience of breathing.

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The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy.

Kelly McGonigal

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Mastering Self-Control | Stoic Exercises for Inner Peace

The Stoics bring forth the theme of self-control on a regular basis. Epictetus, for example, spoke about abstaining from talking about vulgar things, and Marcus Aurelius points out that we should set limits to comfort and consumption.

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Living an Examined Life, by James Hollis, Ph.D.

The first decades of our life are mostly spent in making adaptations to the world and its demands upon us. The central project of mid-life and beyond is the recovery of a deeper sense of identity, rediscovery of purpose, and the development of a more mature sensibility.

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No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline

Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline.

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