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Your Body On Meditation.
Tory Dunham created one of the best graphics I’ve seen articulating the benefits of meditation for The Huffington Post. Meredith Melnick wrote the accompanying piece. (to read more...) Click on the...
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Reading Now
Books: 7.9.13 In Mindsight: The New Science Of Personal Transformation, Dr. Daniel Siegel, combines his knowledge of clinical psychology, brain science and mindfulness with original thinking to...
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Rats, Strokes And Saving Lives
I was riveted by Jill Taylor Bolte’s 2008 book, My Stroke of Insight, describing her experience as a 37-year old brain scientist who suffers a stroke. It was inspiring and transformational, altering...
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Are Kansans More Active Today Than They Were In 1997?
The United Health Foundation has created one of the most densely packed and fascinating interactive maps of the United States showing on a color-coded state-by-state level how the activity level of...
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How We Choose to Age
You say tomato and I say “tomahhhto,” and when the Gershwin brothers resolved the dispute in their song by deciding to call the whole thing off, they really meant: big deal, who cares, we’re both...
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Feeling Anxious? Take Action.
It’s the new year and we should be feeling energized, the whole marketed “new year, new you” phenomenon, but if you’re like me, it’s becoming increasingly hard to shed feelings of chronic anxiety....
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Is Stress Killing You?
Six hours ago my neighbor decided to steam-clean the façade of his house using an incredibly loud, dark-gray-fume-spewing generator. It’s an otherwise gorgeous summer day, so all of my windows were...
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Be Happy, Don’t Hurry.
New research highlights the links between busy lives and bliss. Turns out that the happiest people in the country are more likely to report themselves both as less rushed and with no excess time....
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New Healthy Habits: Timing and Persistence Matter
If you are starting the new year with a resolution to get fit, it’s worth remembering that patterning new behavior takes time. A few years ago, at a time in my life when I was feeling particularly...
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What Your Hair Tells Your Doctor
Does early graying or balding mean a shorter life span? According to a study of 20,000 men and women in the Copenhagen City Heart Study, neither baldness nor grayness are linked to premature death. The...
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