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What Is Inflammation? Everything You Need to Know and How to Reduce It

By Mara Santilli — 2021

You may not be able to see it happening, but inflammation is the body’s interior defense mechanism toward anything going wrong, like illness or injury—it occurs with anything from a bruised elbow to an aggravated gut barrier. The catch? Inflammation can be both good and bad.

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Awakening in the Body

Being mindful of the body is a profound—though often overlooked—opportunity to deepen our meditation and develop our insight, says Phillip Moffitt. Meditating on the body, we discover all four of the Buddha’s noble truths.

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Phillip Moffitt
2017
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Your Brain and Your Body Are One and the Same

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.

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Jack Meserve
2015
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The Floating Heads

Many Western Budddhists, says Reginald Ray, perpetuate the mind/body, secular/sacred dualism that has marked our culture since early Christianity.

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Reginald Ray
2002
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Start with Your Body

A panel discussion with Phillip Moffitt, Cyndi Lee, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Reggie Ray. Introduction by Anne Carolyn Klein.

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Phillip Moffitt, Cyndi Lee, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Anne Carolyn Klein and Reginald Ray
2009
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The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma

Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk.

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Maria Popova
2016
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What Is Your Body?

It’s less than we think. It’s far more than we know. It’s who we are but it’s not. Contemplate the deeper reality of the body with Buddhist teacher Norman Fischer.

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Norman Fischer
2018
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