Book review and recommendation of “The Willpower Instinct” by Kelly McGonigal
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If you feel tired, you’re not alone. But you might be shocked by the damaging impact poor sleep has on both your health and the economy. Professor Vicki Culpin explains how one small change could make you happier, healthier and more productive.
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Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness-sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.
Wellness Warrior and cancer Thriver, Kris Carr, brings her Crazy Sexy talk to Wanderlust Festival in Stratton, VT in June of 2011.
In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that’s how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida—at age 64. Hear her story.
Chronic stress is devastating for your brain. It ruins your memory, your attention and concentration and your emotional resilience. The brain areas that help execute these functions literally deteriorate. Luckily, brain science has revealed many ways to prevent or counteract this.
"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it." - Dr. Stephen R. Covey Habit 1: Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. You can't keep blaming everything on your parents or grandparents.
Welcome to DAY 1 of the 31-DAY HEALTHY EYE CHALLENGE! Dondi Dahlin, author of the much acclaimed book "The Five Elements" and Donna's daughter, kicks off the Healthy Eye Challenge series for us as she leads you through the exercises from San Diego, California! If you are joining us daily for...
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist who experienced a stroke and wrote about her wisdom in her book "My Stroke of Insight". In this interview, she is calls for a balanced brain model. The left hemisphere of our brain notices our differences, not our similarities.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society.
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An interview with Resmaa Menakem, on his book My Grandmother's Hands, Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. This is the first self-discovery book to examine white body supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.