mind body connection
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The Breathing Book By Donna Farhi: Paying Attention To The Simplest Thing Changes Everything
What if the most transformative practice you could ever discover was something you were already doing, just not fully? Donna Farhi's The Breathing Book invites you to slow down, return to yourself, and rediscover the quiet miracle that has been with you all along.
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What Is Pranayama? The Ancient Science of Breath and Why It Matters Now
Long before modern science had the tools to measure it, ancient yogic practitioners had already mapped the profound relationship between breath and human wellbeing and what they discovered is more relevant to our stressed, distracted lives than ever. Dive into the world of pranayama and find out why this 5,000-year-old science of breath might be exactly what you've been missing.
Anxiety in the Body: How to Feel It Without Being Overwhelmed
Understanding where anxiety lives in your body, and learning to work with it there, is a different and often more effective approach than trying to address it at the level of thought. Because by the time anxiety shows up as thought, it's already been present in the body for a while. The thought is often the last thing to arrive.
The Body as a Source of Emotional Intelligence
I did not understand, for most of my life, that my body was a source of information. I understood it as a vehicle, something that transported my mind from one place to another. Something to be maintained. Something that felt things, yes, but whose feelings were secondary to what I thought.
How Your Body's Hidden Wisdom Keeps You Balanced: The Life-Changing Science of Homeostasis
There is something happening in your body right now that you are not consciously directing. Your heart rate is adjusting. Your breathing is shifting. Hormones are being released and reabsorbed. Temperature is being regulated. Blood is being routed. All of it, simultaneously, without a single deliberate thought from you.