By Paul Lenda In moments of stress, anxiety and other intense harmful mind states that we experience within our lives, it can be difficult to keep our focus on positive personal development. The thought of becoming an radiating fulfilled person with seemingly-perpetual positive energy can seem far off… an unattainable goal given life’s everyday problems. […]
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By Jay Walljasper Life in the slow lane is better for you, the planet and our society as a whole — but getting there isn’t always easy. The Speed Trap More and more it feels like our lives have turned into a grueling race toward a finish line we never reach. No matter how fast
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By Mike Baltren Minimal effective dose, do all that’s necessary not all that you can, less is more, these are all ways to describe the same thing. The picture below is a performance curve that I borrowed from a DVD lecture series called “The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How To Be The Most Rational Person In Any Room”.
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by Jonathan Serfaty | It seems like every day you hear about studies “proving” that one food causes cancer, another causes heart disease, and a magical supplement will help you live forever. The media loves to report sensationalized stories about the dangers and benefits of everything from coffee to red meat to multivitamins. And you can’t blame
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| Lashaun Dale, MA, MPH, NSCA, CHEK Researcher and meditation guide Kelly Howell, known in her field as \”The Brain Whisperer,\” has spent over 30 years studying things like mind expansion technology and brain wave frequencies with neuroscience heavyweights. But Howell\’s specialty is in meditation and sleep, making her the perfect expert to discuss the long
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By Dave Cruz Overview Pillar strength is the foundation for all movement. It consists of your hip, core, and shoulder stability. Those three areas provide a center axis from which to move. Think of your body as a wheel. Your pillar is the hub and your limbs are the spokes. Core Performance also uses the term \”pillar strength\” to
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Crafting a mission statement depends less on what you want than on what you know by Alex Lickerman, M.D. In my book The Undefeated Mind I make the argument that articulating to ourselves and living by a personal mission statement describing the broadest type of value, or contribution, we want to make to the world will increase
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by Phil Stutz, a practicing psychiatrist, and Barry Michels, a practicing psychotherapist THE REAL REASON WE PROCRASTINATE The list of things we can procrastinate about is endless, but the list of reasons for why we procrastinate is not. We avoid every task for the same reason: Taking action will cause us a certain amount of pain. To understand
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Overview Regeneration comprises all the planned activities and nutrition strategies to help your body physically and psychologically overcome the stress of training. It’s essential to recovering quickly and efficiently from exercise. Importance of Regeneration Recovery is the limiting factor to performance. Consider the demands of everyday life, plus intense training. The cumulative stress to your
by Aleks Salkin and Josh Halbert: “I said look you need to crawl before you ball” – Kanye West Every exercise has a standard to accomplish before you can rightfully say you’ve gone from “suck” to “entry level good.” For the deadlift it’s double bodyweight. For the one-arm press it’s half your bodyweight. And for
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