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Travel For Self-Discovery: Getting Lost To Find Yourself + Heal Your Soul. The Best Vacation Ever

Filed Under: Favorites, Highlights, Mind/Brain, Video

Travel For Self-Discovery: Getting Lost To Find Yourself + Heal Your Soul. The Best Vacation Ever


Travel For Self-Discovery. Zen & The Art Of Metaphysical Maintenance:
So we’ve talked before about the actual, real health benefits of Happiness.

Recently, it’s been shown that people who take regular vacations actually live longer, happier, and healthier lives.

And in one post, we mentioned some of the specific ways you improve the “effectiveness” of a vacation.

But here, The School Of Life raises the surprising, yet philosophical idea of specific types of vacations as a kind-of symbolic “food”,

Or better yet: Nutrition For The Soul…

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Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future

Filed Under: Aging, Exercise, Mind/Brain

Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future
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The Best Time To Plant A Tree…:
So we hear a lot about the benefits of exercise & nutrition.

And though people are slowly finding that nutrition is actually the weight-loss king,

Exercise all by itself turns out to be the king of many other things.

But we never really seem to learn about When we should do it.

So for this reason, researchers got together and found out another really interesting thing about its many undiscovered benefits…

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Maximize Vacation Time: 5+ Ways To Become More Healthy And Happy On Your Time-Off, Without Trying To Keep Up With The Joneses [Video]

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Maximize Vacation Time: 5+ Ways To Become More Healthy And Happy On Your Time-Off, Without Trying To Keep Up With The Joneses [Video]


Maximize Vacations To Make Your Mind & Body Happy:
So we’ve been told at least once or twice, that Happiness equals Healthiness.

And in much the same way that our bodies need good Sleep for good health,

There is new work that shows we need a type of rest you just don’t get on the Weekends.

Believe it or not, our bodies actually do need Vacations.

And on that note, The Science Of Us pulled a lot together to help us with our Summers, so we can get maximum enjoyment as we also recharge for better health…

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Ladies, Break Out The Dark Chocolate! Gentlemen, Start Your Omega 3s! Because Happiness Really Does Make You Healthy

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Mind/Brain

Ladies, Break Out The Dark Chocolate! Gentlemen, Start Your Omega 3s! Because Happiness Really Does Make You Healthy
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One Quest Meets Another:
Over time, mankind has set itself many challenges to find purpose & meaning in life.

And one of those big goals is counterintuitive. One that doesn’t necessarily involve outward achievements.

-But Inward ones. All of which lead to it: Happiness.

And once you’re actually surviving, perhaps it’s The Only Goal.

Strangely enough, researchers are finding out some of our dearest desires have significant, yet unexpected side-benefits.

Including, among other things, actually keeping you alive longer…

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Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” Meditation Is Short But Fantastic, Foul-Mouthed Stress-Relief For Your Real Life. [Video]

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” Meditation Is Short But Fantastic, Foul-Mouthed Stress-Relief For Your Real Life. [Video]


The 3rd School Of Meditation We All Needed:
So over the years, we’ve learned a lot about Meditation.

From ancient shamans and their wild claims, all the way to present-day experts like Eckhart Tolle.

And all the while, the discipline has preached a serene, near-wordless detachment in its suggested-state.

It hasn’t been until now that a more purpose-built school for the trials of modern life has taken Meditation into the realm of something practical & liberating.

Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” school of thought…

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Coconut Oil Is Risky BS After-All. This Is Why Health-Fads Are Dangerous:

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Nutrition

Coconut Oil Is Risky BS After-All. This Is Why Health-Fads Are Dangerous:
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Crapping-Out At The Biochem Casino:
As we’ve said before about Supplements, many fads are largely untested.

And because of that, trying them is like gambling.

If you’re going to give something with sketchy research a very serious try,

You’d better be confident in your common-sense & Chem-Fu.

The latest casualty of actual SCIENCE? –Coconut Oil…

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Video: Dr. Neal Barnard On The Power Of Food To Save Your Brain From Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Video

Video: Dr. Neal Barnard On The Power Of Food To Save Your Brain From Alzheimer’s & Dementia


Science Was Wrong Again!:
We just learned that Science was wrong about adults not being able to grow new brain-cells.

In this video, Dr. Neal Barnard shares Dietary-changes that can actually improve your brain,

And most importantly help avoid Alzheimer’s, the disease that killed his father.

Having watched that whole process, he ranks it as one of the last things you’d ever want to happen.

So, here’s his list of 5 research-backed tools that may make a surprising difference…

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Science Said Growing New Brain-Cells Was Impossible. Science Was WRONG! Fancy French Lady Explains How You Can Do It. [Video]

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Science Said Growing New Brain-Cells Was Impossible. Science Was WRONG! Fancy French Lady Explains How You Can Do It. [Video]


A Lose-Lose Situation Reverses?:
So for the longest time now, Science has painted a pretty static picture. After about 18-25 you only get worse, right?

Well teams of researchers are finding you don’t have to get stuck.

In-fact, the brain-map is changeable. And research is showing you can Improve it,

Not just with supplements or Lumosity, but by doing something science said was impossible.

Growing new freaking brain cells, baby!…

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