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"How do our brains store-and then conjure up-past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination. Psychiatrist Veronica O'Keane...
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"Let your intuition guide you to true, holistic healing Each and every body is different and oftentimes our physical ailments are connected to emotional and spiritual traumas. In Heal from Within, nationally recognized medical intuitive Katie Beecher shares a revolutionary, customizable approach to holistic health that encompasses physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Readers will learn to be led by their own intuition as they move towards...
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"New York Times best-selling author presents a radical alternative to psychotropic meds: discerning the meaning in your symptoms and your struggle as a way to reclaim your health and your self. For years, we've been telling ourselves that our difficult feelings--sadness, rage, shame, intensity, worry--are somehow "not okay." And, all too often, we've relied on the promise of pharmaceuticals to tamp them down. The fact is, though, that these feelings...
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"In 2018, Petra Kasperova won a six-day race in New York, running 370 miles. Akira Haraguchi, a sixty year-old man in Tokyo, can recite pi to the one-hundred-thousandth decimal point. John Nunn was accepted to Oxford University at age 15, the youngest undergraduate in five hundred years. Carmen Tarleton suffered injuries that nearly killed her. One of her surgeons said her injuries "were beyond anything we have ever seen." But Tarleton not only survived...
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"Combining her experience as scientist, researcher, and clinician, internationally recognized health expert Deanna Minich offers a comprehensive, integrative, and personalized approach to detox that helps you heal your unique physical challenges and overcome the life obstacles holding you back from total health and wellness. Following her systematic, step-by-step twenty-one-day journey through all seven systems, filled with helpful questionnaires...
46) The embodied mind: understanding the mysteries of cellular memory, consciousness, and our bodies
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"As groundbreaking synthesis that promises to shift our understanding of the mind-brain connection and its relationship with our bodies. We understand the workings of the human body as a series of interdependent physiological relationships: muscle interacts with bone as the heart responds to hormones secreted by the brain, all the way down to the inner workings of every cell. To make an organism function, no one component can work alone. In light...
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"Discover your most ageless, energized, joyful self with renowned mind-body-spirit innovator and fitness and wellness expert Jennifer Kries's Waking Energy, a groundbreaking program that synthesizes the greatest wisdom traditions of the East, from Qigong to meditation."--Book jacket.
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"A new theory of understanding how anxiety manifests in the body and brain, and how it can be treated" --
Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans, a number that continues to climb in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a "neck-up" problem - that is, one of brain chemistry and psychology - the truth is that the origins of anxiety are rooted in the body. In The Anatomy of Anxiety, holistic...
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In the popular "Little Bit of" series: a fresh, accessible introduction to the postures and practice of yoga.
Although it is an age-old practice originating in India, yoga is still embraced by many as a means of enhancing physical, mental, and spiritual health. Not only does it calm and strengthen, but yoga can improve flexibility and mental clarity through deep breathing and poses.
This accessible introduction presents the history and philosophy...
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"A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain. Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver's Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger...
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[2013]
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If you have any of the following symptoms, you have PTSD: 1. Excess weight or any eating disorder. 2. Anxiety, excessive worry or obsessive thinking for any prolonged period of time. 3. Depression, what s-the-use kind of feelings for a prolonged period of time. 4. Grief or sorrow that you may not even be aware of (often feels like a part of you is missing) that doesn t seem to go away. 5. Anger that expresses itself towards yourself or anyone else,...
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"In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders--revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science journalism. Anil Ananthaswamy's extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer perspectives that will change how you think about who you are....
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"Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples, and personal experience, Simon Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and explains how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives"--
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While the dialogue between the gut and the brain has been recognized by ancient healing traditions, including Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, Western medicine has failed to appreciate the complexity of how the brain, gut, and more recently, the microbiome (the microorganisms that live inside us) communicate with one another. Dr. Emeran Mayer offers a revolutionary look at this developing science, teaching us how to harness the power of the mind-gut...
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"Jon Gabriel has lost over 220 pounds without dieting and surgery. His innovative approach emphasizes understanding the influence of our mindset on the body's internal logic rather than succumbing to conventional, and often unheatlthy, attitudes toward weight loss"-- page 4 of cover.
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