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How Meditation Works

By Light Watkins — 2012

Meditation Expert Light Watkins demonstrates how meditation reduces stress levels in the body using a Rubik's Cube.

02:48 min

The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy.

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Kelly McGonigal
2021
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A Stanford Psychologist Has a Simple Mental Exercise for Tackling Student Stress

Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, thinks we spend too much time worrying about stress and not enough harnessing it to learn and grow.

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Jenny Anderson
2017
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Science Shows that Stress Has an Upside. Here’s How to Make It Work for You

In Kelly McGonigal’s new book, The Upside of Stress, she argues that stress can “transform fear into courage, isolation into connection, and suffering into meaning.”

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Brigid Schulte
2015
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Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain

Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.

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Kelly McGonigal
2020
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The Big Brain Benefits of Meditation

Science proves meditating restructures your brain and trains it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.

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Kelly McGonigal
2010
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Kelly McGonigal: Can We Reframe the Way We Think About Stress?

Guy Raz from NPR interviews research psychologist Kelly McGonical about how we can be better at understanding stress.

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Guy Raz
2019
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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

You hear it all the time: stress causes heart disease; stress causes insomnia; stress is bad for you! But what if changing how you think about stress could make you happier, healthier, and better able to reach your goals? Combining exciting new research on resilience and mindset, Kelly McGonigal,...

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Kelly McGonigal
2016
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