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A Performance Expert Reveals 3 Simple Techniques to Get 'In the Flow'

By Jamie Wheal — 2017

Jamie Wheal is a performance expert and the co-author of "Stealing Fire." In the book, Wheal and coauthor Steven Kotler share how Navy SEALs, maverick scientists, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs achieve deep mental states of concentration and creativity.

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Breathwork Has Gone Mainstream During the Covid Era

From Justin Bieber and Gwyneth Paltrow to Wim Hof and your favorite Insta influencer, having a breathwork practice is all the rage. But what is it exactly, and why are people so obsessed?

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By Now, Burnout Is a Given

The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.

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The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well-Being, and Inner Growth

Take a life-affirming journey with Taoist and breathwork teacher Dennis Lewis into the physiological, psychological, and spiritual experience of breathing.

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Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.

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Breathwork Detox: How to Thrive in the Age of Anxiety

Breathwork is the new yoga; it's meditation for people who don't like to meditate, the overthinkers and impatient ones who don't want to wait for results.

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Passion and Reason: Making Sense of Our Emotions

When Oxford published Emotion and Adaptation, the landmark 1991 book on the psychology of emotion by internationally acclaimed stress and coping expert Richard Lazarus, Contemporary Psychology welcomed it as "a brightly shining star in the galaxy of such volumes.

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The Positive Effects of Nature on Your Mental Well-Being

We can enjoy the positive effects of connecting to the environment at all levels of individual well-being.

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Laughter Meditation: 5 Healing Benefits and a 10-Minute Practice

In a world where there’s much to be taken seriously, it’s important to remember to laugh. Not to make light of the severity of war, discrimination, terror threats, or climate change, but to maintain a perspective that there is still much to be thankful for and to celebrate in your life.

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A 90-Second Breathwork Tool to Reduce Stress

Ashley Neese, a holistic practitioner in California, describes breathwork as a deeper kind of self-care, one that can “help you move through blocks you can’t see.” Slow, intentioned, mindful breathing is a tool that can be used “any time, any place,” she says.

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I Tried This Trippy Healing Modality for Mental Clarity—And Still Can’t Believe How It Made Me Feel

A few years ago, a friend told me about an underground breathwork circle she’d attended in Venice Beach—back when breathwork outside of yoga studios was still hush-hush. It was totally trippy and cathartic she told me. People were convulsing, shouting, sobbing uncontrollably.

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