True professional success doesn’t just come from intelligence or ambition; it starts with how we care for and connect with ourselves. Tuning into the body’s signals and aligning them with the mind’s ...

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Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...

Researchers have also demonstrated that bodily signals such as breathing patterns and gut rhythms can influence emotional ...

Science is learning some interesting things about how our minds and our bodies work together. It's called the mind-body connection, and experts say the more you understand it, the better you'll feel ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. Many of our experiences in healing treat our mind and body like they are separate entities. The tradition of seeing things this way is called ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from ...

Somatic exercises focus on awareness or perception of physical movements and tap into the mind-body connection to help improve mental health and relieve physical tension. Many of us have felt that ...

In today's hyper-connected, modern world, talk of mental wellbeing is finally picking up steam. And yet, the answers we tend to find are in the form of band-aids like fast vacations, short getaways, ...

Science is more aware than ever of the myriad complex links between our physical and the mental worlds; from the strange effects of placebos and nocebos, to the explosion of research into ...

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned bodybuilder, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about ‘mind-muscle connection.’ After ...