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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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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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Marci Sharif
2020
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Repressing or Expressing Emotions? There’s Another Choice!

I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.

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Karla McLaren
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When Rage Goes Viral: 4 Strategies to Cope with Anger in a Healthy Way

Our world is in the midst of an emotional meltdown. People are restless, volatile, our tempers about to blow. Why is rage so rampant? What is the solution?

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Judith Orloff
2011
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What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About the Brain

A close brush can leave a lasting mental legacy—and may tell us about how the mind functions under extreme conditions.

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Christof Koch
2020
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Tracking the Mind-Body Connection: An Interview with Dr. Herbert Benson

When cardiologist Dr. Herbert Benson was approached 40 years ago by a group of people interested in his studying stress, he was initially cautious.

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Margaret Emory
2019
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Coming Home to the Body

The practice of meditation is a journey of return to who we really are, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer. We come home to the body—so vulnerable, ever-changing, magnificent—because it is “the soil in which understanding grows.” It is the vehicle of enlightenment.

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Norman Fischer
2008
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