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How to boost your attention and ability to function with meditation, exercise and sleep

New research highlights the importance of daily meditation, exercise and sleep for improving executive functioning, a component of attention that helps us prioritize what we want to engage with and filter out unwanted interference.


Cardiac rehab for heart patients saves lives and money, so why isn’t it used more?

Despite all the attention on COVID-19, heart disease remains one of the biggest health threats. Indeed, many people have not taken care of their heart health during the pandemic, and are experiencing reduced quality of life because of it. If you’re reading this from the sofa with a bag of potato chips, this may include you.


Neural pathway key to sensation of pleasant touch identified

Similar to itch, pleasant touch transmitted by specific neuropeptide and neural circuit.
 
 
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Key to happiness

4 ways to find the key to happiness in today’s clinical environment

Happiness is an emotion that is variable and unique to each person on the planet. What makes you happy might not be exactly what makes me happy and vice versa. I think we can agree that happiness is a state of being, and not some port of call that one arrives at. Boiled down to its base level, happiness is a combination of electrical and neurochemical signals interpreted by the brain. There are likely many different combinations of signals; all equating to the many different types of happiness. » Read more...
 
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The Therapeutic Pause in Osteopathy and Manual Therapy: The Somatosensory Integration Time

Osteopathy, and Bowen therapy in particular, emphasizes the importance of making therapeutic pauses during treatments. But it is not explained why a pause should be incorporated into the treatment session, just that it is important to do so.

This book is based on research which attempted to understand and identify the physiology that might justify the inclusion of pauses during treatment. It also looked at how much the pause was used within osteopathic treatment in general.
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