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10 Benefits of Cold Water Swimming

The Sporting

While the cold temperature of wild waters may shock your system, it compels you to concentrate on your breathing, which can calm your nervous system. If you have a high vagal tone, your body can physically relax more quickly after periods of stress, thanks to the effective functioning of your parasympathetic nervous system.

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How to Annihilate Your Athletic Performance Anxiety Using Hypnosis

The Sporting

Enjoy yourself as athletes should by focusing totally on the moment and achieving your goals one after another. When you open a door, imagine, visualise, picture or pretend that behind the door you see yourself successfully achieving the moment you're anxious about. Read more top training tips on our fitness blog

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Giving Children Hearing and Confidence

Stanford Childrens

Finding the perfect fit in orthopedic surgery Muscles and bones have been natural topics of conversation for orthopedic surgeon Meghan Imrie, MD , since she was little. Landing in the specialty of pediatric orthopedic surgery turned out to be a perfect fit. You can’t always be successful at all four at the same time.

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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Simply put, researchers confirmed exercise helps maintain the “ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, functions, or connections.”. Skillastics® has multiple solutions to fit your physical activity program needs.

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The Art of Breath Control: Harnessing the Benefits of Kapalbhati

The Sporting

Kapalbhati has many benefits for your physical and mental health Breathe your way to inner power and unlock it to achieve serenity in your life – this is the best way to describe Kapalbhati. All of these processes are physiological in nature, resulting in the achievement of mental calmness and clarity.

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Mental Health Benefits of Exercise

Teen Health 101

By being mindful of your body and how it feels during exercise, it can help get the nervous system out of the immobilized stress response. Exercise can give you a sense of achievement or fulfillment because it makes you feel like you are doing something good for yourself by investing in your mind, body, and soul.

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Health Education Lesson Plans

PLT4M

For example, nutrition education shouldn’t give a one-size-fits-all prescriptive solution on eating and healthy habits. Food also provides non-energy vitamins and minerals that support essential activities like converting food to energy, developing hormones, supporting the immune and nervous systems, and protecting our body from damage.