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Wind Down: Switching Off with Sleep by Headspace

By Andy Puddicombe — 2018

A simple visualization to soothe the mind and relax the body, creating the ideal conditions for healthy, restful sleep. Try all of our wind downs plus 12 new Sleepcasts in the brand new Sleep by Headspace experience. Here’s to a life well slept.

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The Truth Behind What It Means When You Have A Really Vivid Dream

Are you having unusually realistic dreams? Here’s what science can tell you.

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Lara Rutherford-Morrison
2015
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level.

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Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson
2017
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you. You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.

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Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren, Carlye Adler
2025
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Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind

From a leading neurologist, neuroscientist and practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, comes a rigorous scientific investigation of the healing power of sound, showing readers how they can use it to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.

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Kulreet Chaudhary
2020
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Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains

Whenever we learn something new, pick up a new skill, or modify our habits, the physical structure of our brain changes.

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David Eagleman, Don Vaughn
2020
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What Is Compassion Meditation? (+ Mantras and Scripts)

In Positive Psychology, Compassion is seen as a way to relate to the self and a pathway to happiness. The proven benefits of compassion range from increased well-being, to relief from illness, and improved relationships.

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Michelle Ribeiro, BCom.
2020
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7 Ways Meditation Can Actually Change the Brain

The meditation-and-the-brain research has been rolling in steadily for a number of years now, with new studies coming out just about every week to illustrate some new benefit of meditation. Or, rather, some ancient benefit that is just now being confirmed with fMRI or EEG.

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Alice G. Walton
2015
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How Meditation Changes Your Brain—and Your Life

When neuroscientists tested expert meditators, they discovered something surprising: The effect of Buddhist meditation isn’t just momentary; it can alter deep-seated traits in our brain patterns and character.

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Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson
2018
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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep―and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares.

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Guy Leschziner
2019
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The Monkey Is the Messenger: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind Is Trying to Tell You

“My mind is so busy, I really need to meditate.” “My mind is so busy, there’s no way I can meditate.

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Ralph De La Rosa
2018
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