Exercise Medicine

Najwa Zebian, EdD, has been grappling with the concept of letting go for years, both in her own journey and in her interactions with community members, students, and friends. More and more, Najwa has observed that while our problems are personal, the themes surrounding them are universal. She concluded that letting go is a topic that deserves specific attention and consideration. Wanting a tool that is practical for as many people as possible, Najwa used her considerable platform to solicit questions from longtime followers.

If you have certain illnesses or symptoms, a poorly functioning vagus nerve could be the culprit; that’s particularly true of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. This nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the body, running from the brain stem to the colon and affecting many organs in the body. The good news is that you can take simple actions to stimulate your vagus nerve to function better. This information can be especially important for people with treatment-resistant depression; vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) seems to reset chemical imbalances in the mood centers of the brain.

How many times have you hit a rough patch in your life and wished for someone to guide you through it? Someone who could show you what to do when you had to make a tough decision? When life overwhelms us, we humans rely on psychologists, life-coaches, or family and friends to help us deal with whatever is troubling us. But these “earthly” helpers have their limits.

Have you ever envied your cat? Cats radiate warmth and positive energy—they know how to enjoy and live life in the present. It seems like there’s a lot we can learn from these tiny Zen masters. Us people, on the other hand, we live stressful lives, often riddled with tension and anxiety. This audiobook was created to help solve these problems and learn from our cats, who have a lot to teach us about relaxation and being in tune with our bodies. You will learn how to reconnect with your relaxed state, enhance your sensitivity, and compensate for stress while reducing anxiety.

Survive and thrive in uncertain times by listening to the insights and inspirational ideas of world-leading experts on staying calm, focused and in control, brought to you by Penguin. Too much time on your hands? Too busy to think? Too tired to do anything? Too anxious? Life as we know it presents us all with different challenges - whether it's the anxiety of loneliness or the stress of being cooped up with the kids 24/7, working at all hours from home or finding yourself unable to fill the long hours of each day.

Let’s talk about your vagus nerve, a large branching nerve that connects your brain to all of your major organs. It transmits information in both directions, so both your brain’s orders and your organs’ reports to the brain go through the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is responsible for calming you down after a stressful situation, controlling the inflammation levels in your body, regulating your digestion, and much more. As you see, a lot can go wrong in your body if the vagus nerve is somehow blocked or not active enough.

Mornings set the whole day's beat: it is up to you to seize the opportunity of living a more relaxed and enjoyable life. This series of exercises are designed to take part in your personal morning routine, one or more at a time, as healthy habits to shape your way to success. Increase your self-esteem, become more relaxed and playful, learn mindfulness and improve your visualization skills through a journey of the senses, gain focus and presence through your whole day with proven and efficient techniques that will lead you to a more enlightened life.

Möchten Sie eine natürliche und ganzheitliche Methode entdecken, um mit Ängsten umzugehen, Traumata zu überwinden und Ihren Schlaf zu verbessern? Hier ist nur ein Teil dessen, was Sie in „Klangheilung für Anfänger“ entdecken werden: Der größte Fehler, den Menschen machen, wenn sie versuchen, mit Klängen zu meditieren, ist, dass sie dadurch tatsächlich daran gehindert werden, inneren Frieden zu finden.

Modern life dictates a very high level of stress and bustling through your day. On a good day, you could be so busy that you forget to eat one or more meals, let alone making your personal health a priority. Starting by practicing yoga for even half an hour at the end of a day filled with stress can be an ideal way to melt away the stress and tension of the day, to bring you back to tranquility, and can even help you to get better sleep so you’re more able to face the next day. This is me talking to you, the listener.

In The Book on Heat, Brad Pilon offers new hope to those struggling with their health, weight loss, and disease prevention. This is a guide to the exciting effects that heat can have on the human body, and is a helpful resource for both the avid health enthusiast looking to improve their health and people who cannot exercise due to injuries or other issues. The Book on Heat covers 70-plus years of research on the effects of temperature on the human body. In a clear and easy-to-understand manner, Brad shares his insights from over two decades working as a researcher.

Meditation is so much more than mantras and yoga. It's an ancient spiritual discipline, practiced by world religions for thousands of years. Research has shown that it's far more than just "hippie" nonsense. In fact, it's been shown to have positive benefits for both our physical and mental well-being, reducing stress and combating depression and insomnia.

This self-help book will give you a strong mental edge so you can break through stagnant, confining barriers that often make you feel like you cannot reach your full potential.

Yoga Nidra allows you to experience a deeply relaxed daydream state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. This meditation will guide you through eight steps: intention setting, sound, body, breath and thought awareness, creative visualization, gratitude, and surrender. Your entire body, mind, and nervous system will gently get guided to a coherent state of deep relaxation, as your brain-wave activity will lower to alpha, delta, or theta brain frequencies, triggering the relaxation response and the functioning of your nervous and endocrine system.

Do you wish you had more energy? Millions of people today suffer from fatigue and low energy because of weakened immune systems. With Increase Vitality, fatigue melts away and vitality is increased through effective, self-rejuvenating routines of deep breathing, self-acupressure, and gentle stretching exercises. Michael Reed Gach shows listeners how to boost their energy system in just ten minutes, and over time build resistance to emotional and environmental stresses.

Jeremy Colledge has embarked on a tour de force of all the major healing modalities and spiritual practices, finally settling on a reboot of an ancient Chinese exercise system called Zhineng Qigong. Dr. Pang Ming built this system from ancient understandings and launched it into the 20th century. Jeremy has taken this Eastern teaching and presented it here, along with many other ideas and exercises, giving them Western relevance.

Meditation can clear the mind, relax the body, and improve your mood all with just one session. But, many avoid the practice simply because they do not know how to meditate. This session solves this issue by providing a simple meditation that can be done by anyone, even those who have never meditated before. This audiobook mixes the most effective meditation practices and boils them down to simple techniques that will help you reap the benefits of meditation without needing to be an expert at meditating.

If you suffer from back pain, you know how it affects every aspect of your life. With Release Back Pain, you get relief through simple flexibility exercises and self-acupressure that alleviate pain by gently stretching your back muscles and supporting your spine. Join Michael Reed Gach, best-selling author and director of the Acupressure Institute, to learn a series of back care techniques that give relief to your aching back, and can be practiced anywhere, anytime.

The material world that we see with our eyes is a magnificent creation of God. All living beings coexist on this planet according to the laws of the nature. Among all the living beings, human beings are a wonderful creation of God. God has blessed humans with immense potential and unlimited powers. Have you realized the unlimited powers that you possess? Here you will learn many techniques to balance your mind, body, and spirit.

Are you tired of feeling miserable and starving yourself to only temporarily lose weight? Do you gain too much excess fat when trying to build muscle? Do you want to be able to strategically enjoy delicious foods that will actually help you burn fat? If you answered yes, then you'll want to download this book.

Feeling stressed from everything that happens in your everyday life? Forgot what it was like to have peace of mind? It’s time to try meditation! In today’s world, there are a lot of things that cloud people’s minds. This constant chatter and noise leads to feeling stressed and anxious all the time. This, in turn, can lead to a negative state of mind and also have adverse effects on one’s body. If you are one of these people, then it’s time to discover the power of mindfulness meditation.