By Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Adversity in childhood can create long-lasting scars, damaging our cells and our DNA, and making us sick as adults
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Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.
Stressing the body makes you stronger—as long as you have time to rest and recover.
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Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
Dutch adventurer Wim Hof is known as ‘The Iceman’ for good reason. Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self-developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation—known as the Wim Hof Method.
Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
Did you know the thoughts you think have a direct impact on your health? Thanks to the research of Dr. Bruce Lipton, several successful studies now prove this phenomenon.