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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. What is Performance Anxiety? Leave the room and walk to the next door.

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How To Practice Visualization Meditation With Students

PLT4M

Visualization is so powerful because our body, brain, and nervous system don’t know the difference between real life and our imagination. Therefore, if we can practice visualization meditation, then we have primed our body, brain, and nervous system to be ready for the real thing when it happens.

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Giving Children Hearing and Confidence

Stanford Childrens

On her way to becoming a preeminent physician-scientist, Dr. Rabinovitch was inspired by several other women in cardiology who made remarkable achievements. “A She has received dozens of awards for her research and mentoring over her 40-year career, including the 2023 Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.

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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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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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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.