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“Fitspiration” is a popular social media trend that depicts images of thin women posing in exercise clothing or engaged in fitness pursuits. Research has found that this trend, which is intended to inspire viewers to engage in health-promoting exercise, often sexualizes and objectifies women’s bodies. Fitspiration may reinforce narrow — often unrealistic or unattainable — body ideals under a veil of health and fitness promotion.
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Although mindfulness originates within an individual, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher has found the benefits do not end with this person. The real payoffs emerge when an individual’s mindfulness is translated into mindful interactions and relationships.
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Ever wondered if you have anything in common with an astronaut? Turns out there are 206 things — your bones. It’s these parts of our body that are the focus of a research study on bone loss in astronauts, and the important question of whether bone can be re-gained after returning to Earth.
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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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When I first started massage thirty years ago, I assumed that achy fingers and thumbs were part of the job. In other words, if you’re going to do massage, your hands will hurt. Period. It was only about seven years ago that I discovered that I was dead wrong – we can work pain-free. At the time, my body was falling apart and I was on the verge of quitting massage. For the next year, I experimented in my massage room with different strategies and techniques to save my body. Figuring out how to save my hands took a while, but at the end of the day, one strategy stood out from all the rest: Use fingers and thumbs to sense but use a massage tool to press.
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