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Samuel Sirota

Are Some of the Benefits of Exercise Due to Placebo Effects? | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • Exercise makes us feel good, right?
  • we have found that you can manipulate the psychological experiences of exercise by altering environmental factors unrelated to the actual physical exercise someone is doing.
  • Remarkably, we have found that perceived fitness (or your belief about your fitness) is a better predictor of the psychological benefits of exercise
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  • Go ahead and exercise (it is clearly good for your physical and mental health)
LJ Thompson

Mindfulness Exercises For Everyday Life - 0 views

    • Robert Coady
       
      The thought of brining mindfulness into anything you do is both amusing and insightful. Instead of trying to adhere to a routine of mindfulness, you can find time to be mindful in your daily tasks.
  • and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note
  • Mindfulness Exercise #3: Listening to Music Listening to music has many benefits — so many, in fact, that music is being used therapeutically in a new branch of complimentary medicine known as music therapy. That’s part of why listening to music makes a great mindfulness exercise. You can play soothing new-age music, classical music, or another type of slow-tempo music to feel calming effects, and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note, the feelings that the music brings up within you, and other sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If other thoughts creep into your head, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the current moment and the music you are hearing.
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  • nd vibration of each note, the feelings that the music brings up within you, and other sensations that are happening "right now" as you listen. If other thoughts creep into your head, congratulate yourself for noticing, and gently bring your attention back to the current moment and the music you are hearing
  • and make it an exercise in mindfulness by really focusing on the sound and vibration of each note
    • Anna Delapaz
       
      Repetition of words having to do with what mindfulness can bring you. This emphasizes the usefulness of mindfulness and it's ability to bring clarity and focus into your life
    • LJ Thompson
       
      I really should have used this in my essay. Didn't even think of this.
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

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    Exercise and the Placebo Effect
Samuel Sirota

Exercise for the body is food for brain, study says: [Chicago Final Edition] - ProQuest... - 0 views

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    Exercise for the body is food for the brain
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2008), pp. 111-131 - 0 views

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    exercise effecting children
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 80, No. 3 (Mar., 1980), pp. 435-440 - 0 views

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    Effect of Exercise on Rehab of the Cardiac Patient
Samuel Sirota

Phys Ed: How Exercise Fuels the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

    • Samuel Sirota
       
      brain with more fuel can sustain and direct movement longer
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    Fueling the Brain
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug., 2006), pp. 20... - 0 views

    • Samuel Sirota
       
      exercise increases molecules that support the growth and survival of brain cells
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    Increasing activity
Samuel Sirota

Mind-Body Exercises - 0 views

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    Heart and Health
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

    • Samuel Sirota
       
      psychological benefits associated with exercise
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Feb., 2007), pp. 165-171 - 0 views

    • Samuel Sirota
       
      good exercise satisfies active life style
Rebecca Lurie

Can You Build a Better Brain? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 0 views

    • Tom McKean
       
      Muscular Strength is also a lot less complex than our brain.
  • People who use their gym locker tend to be fitter than those who don’t, but it is not using a gym locker that raises your aerobic capacity.
  • Whether you go neuro-slumming (Googling “brain training”)
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  • (searching PubMed, the database of biomedical journals, for “cognitive enhancement”)
  • if scientists understood the mechanisms of intelligence even half as well as they do the mechanisms of, say, muscular strength.
  • but the number of rigorous, well-designed studies that will stand the test of time is much smaller,”
  • Be skeptical
  • depending only on whether attention is being paid.
  • we don’t pay much attention to them
  • cognitively demanding activity
  • To be determined: whether a nicotine patch delivers the benefits without the risks.
  • by simply believing that you’ll do well, which itself releases dopamine.
  • reducing stress and the resulting cortisol, which attacks the myelin sheath that coats neurons and thus impairs signal transmission, allows underlying abilities to reach their full potential.
  • that the more you use a circuit, the stronger it gets.
  • physical exercise
  • meditation
  • evealing the mechanisms of cognition.
  • but the number of rigorous, well-designed studies that will stand the test of time is much smaller,”
  • Greater cognitive capacity comes from having more neurons or synapses, higher levels of neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons, especially in the memory-forming hippocampus),
David Dunn

Fishing is More Than Just a Relaxing Pastime; It Can Help With PTSD Symptoms | | Mental... - 0 views

  • Fishing has a pretty good rep as a relaxing pastime, but it actually goes a lot further than that
  • The therapeutic effect derives from the fact that fishing brings together mental relaxation, low-impact exercise and, very often, social camaraderie.
David Dunn

A Meditation With Nature: A Special Way To Bring in the New Year - 0 views

  • This meditation needs to be performed outside where you are physically present with Mother Earth and the Universe that surrounds her.  Find a quiet place outside, where you are away from other people, traffic noises, and alone with the beautiful sounds of nature.
  • Grounding is simply a word that describes the strengthening of your connection with earth.  It is an exercise that should be performed each morning as well as before meditation.  The process of grounding helps you to remain anchored in this dimension as you move through other dimensions in this meditation.
  • To ground yourself, close your eyes, breathe gently and deeply.  Imagine that there is a strong energy that flows up and down your spine, and then down through both legs.  Stay with this energy as it moves up and down your spine and legs – it’s a powerful energy.
David Dunn

What is mindfulness - Living Well - Mental wellbeing for men - 0 views

  • Mindfulness exercises have been shown to help people stay on course and to better manage difficult thoughts, feelings and experiences.
  • When you are mindful, you are better able to take in information from your environment and choose an appropriate response, rather than reacting based from a history of bad experiences and old habits.
Samuel Sirota

JSTOR: Cancer Causes & Control, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Jul., 2009), pp. 775-784 - 0 views

    • Samuel Sirota
       
      physical activity increasing life expectancy 
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    Cancer Cause & Control
Emily Vargas

Cancer, anxiety and mindfulness | Telling Knots - 0 views

  • the anxiety tends to persist and may even become worse
  • I recently wrote about the things I do to (attain and) maintain mental health, and in an earlier post I wrote about my choice to live intentionally, to live an examined life:
  • It only requires pausing in your day, or even in your week or month, to be aware of your interior and exterior worlds.
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  • What am I doing? Is it what I want to be doing? Is there a change I’d like to see? Can I bring it about? What path am I on; is it likely to bring me to where I want to go?
  • By interior world I mean thoughts, feelings, wishes, desires, discomfort, contentment, hopes, satisfaction, anger, delight… a kind of mindfulne
  • I was very interested to see that my intuition about using mindfulness to cope with stress and anxiety was borne out in a small Danish study that was published this past April
  • The women participating in the study had been diagnosed with breast cancer at Stage I, II or III and had undergone surgery
  • In any case, the statistical results are far less important to me than my lived experience: mindfulness exercises and meditation and living an examined life help me to cope better with stress and anxiety, and that is all the proof I need
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