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Your Brain and Your Body Are One and the Same

By Jack Meserve — 2015

We see a dog walking toward us, think about whether it’s the neighbor’s or if it looks friendly, and tell our bodies whether to pet it or run. This all seems straightforward and maps pretty cleanly onto our conscious experience. But in Intelligence in the Flesh, the cognitive scientist Guy Claxton tells us that this is utterly wrong.

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Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in.

Christine Caldwell

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Exhale: 40 Breathwork Exercises to Help You Find Your Calm, Supercharge Your Health, and Perform at Your Best

More than forty simple breathing exercises to help you transform your physical and mental health and improve performance and emotional well-being. We take between seventeen to twenty-nine thousand breaths per day.

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24 – Friday Fix: A Quick Exercise That Calms Your Brain and Your Body

In today’s episode, I share the exercise and explain the science behind why it’s so effective. It takes less than 60 seconds and it can send signals to your brain that it’s okay to calm down.

The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

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How to Breathe: 25 Simple Practices for Calm, Joy, and Resilience

In How to Breathe, breathwork expert Ashley Neese gives practical guidance for channeling the power of your breath to help you tackle common challenges with mindfulness and serenity.

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The Science Behind Yoga

This is a 26 minute clip of a 30 minute whole.The full documentary was produced by Uplift TV.

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Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma or incredible stress or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be.

Deirdre Fay, Janina Fisher (foreword)

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The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman

Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing.

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Becoming Superhuman with Ice Man—Wim Hof

We've admired the pioneering work of Wim Hof for years now from afar. This January however we got an opportunity to spend four days with him in the mountains of Poland. We didn't know what to expect.

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Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness—Transform Pain, Stress, Trauma, and Aging

Awakening Somatic Intelligence offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches.

Risa Kaparo, Rick Hanson, James L. Oschman

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The First Thing I Learned as a Monk

This lesson has stayed with me and is so relevant to our lives today.

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