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Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime

By Ferris Jabr — 2013

Research on naps, meditation, nature walks and the habits of exceptional artists and athletes reveals how mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity.

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How Meditation Protects the Aging Brain from Decline

A string of recent research suggests regular meditation practice may boost mental flexibility and focus, offering powerful protection against cognitive decline.

B. Grace Bullock

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Retirement and the Return to Wonder

When I retired from clinical practice several years ago, I let go into the unknown. I felt tentative, uncertain, yet knowing intuitively that I needed to heed the call.

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When Endurance Training Can Be Deadly for Older Athletes

This case shows the danger of one asymptomatic condition in particular.

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Age Shouldn’t Be a Barrier to Playing Competitive Sports

To stay healthy and fit, older people have traditionally been advised to take up gentle activities, such as walking and tai chi. But it’s time we added competitive sports to the mix.

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Can Exercise Reverse the Ageing Process?

We often confuse the effects of inactivity with the ageing process itself, and believe certain diseases are purely the result of getting older.

Stephen Harridge, Norman Lazarus

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Age Like a Former Athlete

We may need to rethink what normal fitness is or should be in older people.

Gretchen Reynolds

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Interview with Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. Here he fields questions from Michael Sliwinski in this Productive Magazine interview.

Productive Magazine

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Why the Concept of Retirement Is Destructive and Needs to Be Replaced

As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.

Prudy Gourguechon

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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.

Alice G. Walton

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