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9 Fascinating Things That Happen to Your Body While You Sleep

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When you enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which is the deepest sleep of all, the muscles of your limbs are paralyzed completely and it’s temporarily impossible to move. There is a sleep disorder in which this paralysis is maintained for a few seconds or minutes after waking. Your muscles are paralyzed. Your throat narrows.

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Dr. Jenny Brockis: “Spend time in nature.”

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Dr. Jenny Brockis is a board-certified lifestyle medicine physician (non-clinical), keynote speaker, trainer and best-selling author specialising in brain health, mental wellbeing and psychological safety. The Japanese have been practicing Shinrin-Yoku for a number of decades. Thank you so much for doing this with us!

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Dr. Aaron Hartman: “Quality over Quantity”

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rather the amount of quality sleep. If you’re in bed for 10 hours, but only sleep four hours, that is not as good as someone being in bed for six hours and getting five and a half hours of quality sleep. G etting a good night’s sleep has so many physical, emotional, and mental benefits. including sleep.

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Unlocking the Keys to a Powerful Vision Board

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According to neuroscientist and executive coach Tara Swart, the images we look at on our vision boards prime our brains to recognize opportunity. Our brain has the ability to do what is known as “value-tagging.” Images in particular are assigned a high value by our brain. How does that work? Follow the Four Quadrants.

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Mikayla White of Muscles & Macros 4 Moms: “Get an adequate amount of sleep”

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Get an adequate amount of sleep. I’m sure you’ve heard time and time again that sleep is important. Our judgment is often compromised when we don’t get an adequate amount of sleep. I like to think of sleep like nutrition for your brain. I started looking into ways to improve my mental and physical health.

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“5 Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Dramatically Improve One’s Wellbeing” with Pierre Bi

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Water health. I drink a lot of water throughout the day, and a big reason for that, besides the obvious benefits, is that it keeps me energized and my brain working throughout the day. But you can’t really do that with an expensive system that has to work perfectly for people’s health! Thank you so much for doing this with us!

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Dr. Shideh Shafie On The Five Things You Can Do To Become More Resilient During Turbulent Times

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An overtired brain cannot access the higher brain or cortex fully, and tends to function from our lower more mammalian brain. Rest and recuperation are partially rooted in sleep, but also in daily movement, and nourishing food and in the content consumed. An overtired body and mind cannot be resilient.