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Stillness Is The Key

by HealthSelf-help

Description: All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness–to be steady while the world spins around you.

In this book, he outlines a path for achieving this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living. Drawing on a wide range of history’s greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche, he argues that stillness is not mere inactivity, but the doorway to self-mastery, discipline, and focus.

Holiday also examines figures who exemplified the power of stillness: baseball player Sadaharu Oh, whose study of Zen made him the greatest home run hitter of all time; Winston Churchill, who in balancing his busy public life with time spent laying bricks and painting at his Chartwell estate managed to save the world from annihilation in the process; Fred Rogers, who taught generations of children to see what was invisible to the eye; Anne Frank, whose journaling and love of nature guided her through unimaginable adversity.

More than ever, people are overwhelmed. They face obstacles and egos and competition. Stillness Is the Key offers a simple but inspiring antidote to the stress of 24/7 news and social media. The stillness that we all seek is the path to meaning, contentment, and excellence in a world that needs more of it than ever.

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Your brain on porn

by HealthScience

Description: When high-speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms. Perhaps most surprisingly, for the first time in history erectile dysfunction was becoming a significant problem for young men.

This led to one of the largest informal experiments in the history of science. Tens of thousands of people have tried abstaining from sexually stimulating material in a process they call ‘rebooting’. Many of them reported startling changes, from improved concentration and elevated mood to a greater capacity for real-life intimacy.

Gary Wilson has listened to the stories of those who have tried giving up internet porn and related them to an account of how the reward system of the brain interacts with its environment. And now a growing body of research in neuroscience is confirming what these pioneers have discovered for themselves – internet pornography can be seriously addictive and damaging.

In Your Brain on Porn Wilson provides a concise introduction to the phenomenon of internet porn addiction that draws on both first-person accounts and the findings of cognitive neuroscience. In a voice that is generous and humane, he also offers advice for those who want to stop using internet pornography.

The publication of Your Brain on Porn is a landmark in our attempts to understand, and remain balanced in, a world where addiction is big business.

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Don’t Lose your mind lose your weight

by Health

Description: ‘Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight? is considered a path-breaking book by many as it has helped them to lose weight without giving up on food or without leading them to periods of crash diet and bad health. A celebrity fitness expert to whom many Bollywood actors and actresses owe their great shape and health, Rujuta Diwekar speaks to the readers in clear and simple words about how a person can eat anything he/she feels like and yet remain healthy, maintaining a good shape. As a leading nutritionist, Diwekar is against the idea of any crash diet that looms over carb-starvation, needless food cravings, and other similar things which ultimately lead to a food-deprived body. The book guides the readers through certain simple steps to an ideal way of dieting or maintaining a healthy and proper diet. It helps the user understand their own respective bodies and likewise helps them plan their own diet according to their body’s requirements. Since she is the celebrity dietician behind many leading Bollywood actors, Ms. Diwekar often cites the case of Kareena Kapoor about how she was able to attain the size zero for the successful film Tashan. Her book shows how one can indulge in their favorite foods yet manage to shed calories at the same time. Referred to as a marvelous and helpful read, this book was published in 2009 by RHI publishers and is available in paperback. About the author: The author of ‘Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight?, Rujuta Diwekar is a celebrity fitness expert who won instant success with her book and was bestowed with the Nutrition Award by the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in 2010. She has also received accreditation from Sports Dietician, a fitness organization based out of Australia.

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