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10 Things the Gym Taught Me About Life

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The mantras I had become used to—especially those that came in the form of encouragement from others admiring my physical prowess—started to sound empty. If you endeavor to make a change in your physical form, you have that opportunity every day, no matter what happened the day before. I was having trouble believing them myself.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

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This kind of media avoidance is actually a rather popular method for reducing media strain on our mental health. If you expose yourself to less media and reduce the degree to which you fill your mind with pollutants—politics, controversy, natural disasters and tragedy, for example—your mental health may improve, as the thinking goes.

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What It’s Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

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Floating gravity-free in complete darkness and silence provides a host of putative health benefits, including joint-pain relief and decreased blood pressure. The water’s high salinity means that no life form, including microbes and other pathogens, can survive. Before you can reserve your session, you have to agree to a release form.

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18 Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence

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They look for change that is lurking just around the corner, and they form a plan of action should these changes occur. When the threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when the threat is ancient history, holding onto that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

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What Happened When I Ditched Technology for 7 Days

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It really does feel like a form of dependency. This article appeared in the May 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Now I let my mind wander and process the day’s events until sleep takes control. Even though the missing-limb nightmares haven’t stopped, I’m actually sleeping through the night. It’s 12:01 a.m.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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From there the trail hops back and forth over Slickrock Creek, which forms part of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. Here near the creek, though, at the base of the V formed by two hard mountains, I couldn’t gaze out at open water; I couldn’t fly through open sky. I couldn’t even see what waited around the next turn.

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5 Reasons Behind the Meteoric Rise of Pickleball

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In 2016, Randy Sussman’s job transferred him from Las Vegas to Florida. In the middle of matches, they gave us helpful tips about strategy, form and where to position ourselves. I heard story after story of instant friendships formed and long-lasting ones strengthened by whacking a plastic ball over a net. “I

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