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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure--
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...
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More and more children are living with diabetes. Diabetes can cause many types of serious health problems. Learn the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and how to take care of yourself if you have either type. Small changes in diet and activity level can make a huge difference to diabetics.
Level 3 readers are aimed at children who are reading by themselves and can grasp new concepts. Key words and captions help readers understand new...
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Having asthma can be scary. But it doesn't have to stop you from leading an active life. It helps to know more about the disease and how it is treated. Find out what you can do to take care of yourself if you have asthma, and how you can help others who have it, too.
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Vision loss does not mean total blindness. It can be mild or severe. Eighty percent of vision loss can be prevented or treated. People with vision loss lead full and active lives. Finds out what causes vision loss, why it's important to get regular eye exams, and what you can do to help someone with vision loss.
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Mind-body medicine has captured the popular imagination. More and more, people are turning to alternative, nontraditional therapies to take control of their physical and mental characteristics and attitudes and how they can affect our physical well-being. Discover what research tells us about the true medical benefits of:
- Relaxation therapy
- Meditation
- Positive visualization
- Mental healing
- Hypnosis
Does science support the public's...
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Because we are human, heartbreak or loss will come to us at some time in our lives. Author Kristine Carlson shares powerful stories of loss and grief, and the role her mindfulness practice played in her healing process. She explains how practicing mindfulness now can even help you better face difficult times in the future. Learn how to access peace, even when joy might not be present.
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Dr. Amishi Jha shares her lab's exciting research on the effects of mindfulness-based training programs on cognition, emotion, and resilience. While other types of brain training do not seem to result in long-term benefits, mindfulness training can positively impact the physical structure and functioning of the brain, especially in the three distinct brain networks related to attention and focus.
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Chances are you have a lot of positive experiences in your life right now. But are they fleeting - do you even truly notice them? Learn how a mindfulness practice can help you convert positive experiences into long-term beneficial traits, through self-correcting positive neuroplasticity, what Rick Hanson calls "the superpower of superpowers."
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In this session with Dr. Shapiro, open by engaging in a meditation exercise to gather intention and center yourself in the present moment. Explore common questions about mindfulness, from concerns about maintaining focus to dealing with feelings of tiredness and even physical pain, and learn how to begin your own mindfulness practices and how to set goals you can commit to.
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We're always glad to be mindful of our emotions of gratitude, awe, or joy. But what about anger? With Juna Mustad, learn why our normal reactions to anger - either allowing it to drive our actions or stuffing it deep inside - are unhealthy. Learn how to become mindful of your anger, and how that awareness can point you to a healthier, more authentic life and better relationships with others.
11) Masters of Mindfulness: Transforming Your Mind and Body: Mindsight: Understanding Your Inner Life
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Our minds include our subjective experience, consciousness, and information processing. But how does this all come together? With Dr. Siegel, learn why self-organization is one of the key attributes of all complex systems. Discover how that quality of integration predicts the quality of mental health, and how the practice of mindfulness can take us to healthy integration.
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Learn how you can really be of service to another person in his or her time of grief - and what actions and words are more harmful than helpful. Kristine Carlson shows how your own mindfulness practice can help fill the gaping hole in your life caused by loss with the fullness of the present moment.
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Mindfulness can strengthen our immune system, decrease stress, increase cognitive function, and allow us to feel more compassion. With Dr. Shauna Shapiro, explore your own purpose for engaging on a journey of mindfulness with respect to intention, attention, and attitude. Given that what you practice grows stronger, what do you want to practice in your own life?
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Join Dr. Dacher Keltner and learn why awe is called a defining human strength and how this emotion and phenomenon differs significantly from beauty and astonishment. What do people report as their main sources of awe, and how does it make them feel? Why is an awareness of awe a central part of the human experience?
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Recent scientific discoveries reveal not only the mechanisms of aging at the cellular level, but also how our mental activities affect those processes. With Dr. Elissa Epel, learn how your activities can affect inflammation; the health of our mitochondria, our cells' centers of energy production; and our epigenome, the chemical compounds that turn our genes on and off.
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Our ability to pay attention and stay focused on a task is incredibly important for our productivity and safety - and often the safety of others. But the attention system in our brain is easily affected by our moods and stress. Are there exercises we can do to train our brain? And, if so, does that training show benefits over time? Dr. Amishi Jha explores brain training from a new perspective.
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Neuroscience reveals why we tend to act more quickly on our feelings of anger than any other emotion. We often regret acting out of anger, but what can we do about it? Learn how a mindfulness practice can help you take more appropriate action in response to anger by affecting your body chemistry and growing new connections in specific parts of the brain in this second session with Juna Mustad.
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See how changes you make in your mental and emotional life can affect aging and why the effort it takes to explore some of life's biggest questions - your own purpose, the meaning of your relationships, and more - is worth your while. Dr. Elissa Epel discusses what neuroscience reveals about the ways in which your social life and personal relationships impact your physical rate of aging.
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When Nelson gets a night job at the Sleep Eaze Motel, it's not long before he's pretty sure he's seen it all: junkies, criminals, and of course, the suicides. But when a group of professors travelling for a conference all die in their rooms -- seemingly by their own hands -- he's not too sure what's going on. Only that something's not right.
So when the nephew of one of the victims -- a deaf man named Jeremy -- comes to stay at the motel, Nelson...
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