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What to Steal from 6 Olympians’ Pre-Game Rituals

By Lily Ford

We can’t think of many more pressure-filled moments in sports than being an Olympic athlete on the starting line. To be ready to perform at the highest level, and deal with the inevitable nerves, each athlete has to find his perfect pre-competition routine. Some use meditation or yoga, or wake up a certain amount of hours before they compete, or cue a crafted psych-up playlist.

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How to Start Meditating in 21 Steps

Consider doing something nice for your poor, flustered brain. Don't know how to meditate? Neither did we! So we asked Andy Puddicombe, the cofounder of Headspace and the voice on its app, to write this basic script. Have a friend read it to you slowly, setting a timer for 10 minutes.

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Esquire Editors
2019
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10 Top Tips for Establishing a Daily Meditation Practice

Training the mind, meditating, being mindful, or whatever else we choose to call it only works if we actively engage with it. More than that, it only works if we practice it regularly, preferably on a daily basis with a considered, gentle discipline.

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Andy Puddicombe
2013
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Softening the Belly… of Sorrow

We hold our grief hard in the belly. We store fear and disappointment, anger and guilt in our gut. Softening the Belly… of Sorrow Our belly has become fossilized with a long resistance to life and to loss.

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Stephen Levine
2013
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Iyengar Yoga 101: What Is It, Health Benefits & How to Practice

While Iyengar might not be as common a name as vinyasa or yin, it's actually the most widely practiced (and arguably the most accessible) style of yoga in the world. But what makes it different from other types—and why is it so loved by beginners and advanced yogis alike?

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Amanda Tarlton
2020
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Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga

In contemporary yoga classes, teachers often speak of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras,” a philosophical text compiled around two thousand years ago, as the wellspring of the practice.

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Michelle Goldberg
2014
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How to Create a New Vision for the Planet

There is so much change occurring politically and economically, and in the environment it is important that we hold a good and positive vision for the planet.

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Sandra Ingerman
2011
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How Our Brains Can Find Peace in a Crisis

Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.

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Jill Suttie
2020
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Health Focus: Well for Culture

According to Well For Culture’s ambassador Anthony Thosh Collins, the movement is “an alliance of like-minded Indigenous people from many nations and all directions.

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Native Max
2016
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4 Questions to Change Your Life: An Interview with Byron Katie, Creator of ‘The Work’

A powerful practice of self-inquiry created by Byron Katie, The Work consists of four questions that can help you examine and dissolve the stress associated with your thoughts. She explains how in this interview.

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Omega Institute
2015
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How to Create a Sankalpa

The yoga tradition offers a refreshing alternative to the New Year’s resolution: the practice of sankalpa, or resolve.

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Kelly Mcgonigal
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