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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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Something in the Water: How Skibbereen Rowing Club Conquered the World

Olympic rowers Gary and Paul O’Donovan may be the face of Irish rowing and Skibbereen Rowing Club, and have enormously increased the popularity of rowing in Ireland, but they're just one piece of a much larger jigsaw.

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Kieran McCarthy
2025
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State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality—or at least the closest that one high...

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Melissa Isaacson
2020
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Developing a Spiritual Practice - A Monk's Top 5 Tips

Developing a Spiritual Practice - A Monk's Top 5 Tips With all that has been happening throughout the world, people are recognizing the importance of developing and maintaining a spiritual practice. A spiritual path helps to keep us grounded, mindful, and connected.

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2021
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Harriet Lerner
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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C. S. Lewis
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Scarcity Consciousness: Renee Baribeau & Sandra Ingerman—The Shamans Cave

In shamanic communities everyone works together to manifest the best for everyone in the community. For they know they are dependent on each other’s gifts and strengths and their unique ability and talent to manifest the best for all.

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Sandra Ingerman
2019
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Movement Makes Us Human: Kelly McGonigal, PhD | Rich Roll Podcast

A health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who specializes in understanding the mind-body connection, Kelly is a pioneer in the field of ‘science-help,’ translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support personal well-being and community...

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Kelly McGonigal
2020
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