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Your Body Knows Best
March 24, 2017
Joy in itself is an act of resistance.
-Mary Elliott, Curator, National Museum of African American History and Culture

"To handle stress and adversity more effectively, we should probably pay closer attention to what is happening inside our bodies, according to a fascinating new brain study of resilience and why some people seem to have more of it than others." So writes Gretchen Reynolds, in her New York Times article, "To Better Cope with Stress, Listen to Your Body."

The study was published in the January, 2016 edition of Biological Psychology. "The researchers found the results compelling," writes Reynolds.

"'To me, this study says that resilience is largely about body awareness and not rational thinking,' said Dr. Martin Paulus, the scientific director of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Okla., and the senior author of the study. 'Even smart people, if they don't listen to their body, might not bounce back' as quickly from adversity, he said, as someone who is more attuned to his or her physiology…

Improving internal communications with our bodies may be as simple as spending a few minutes each day in focused breathing…Quietly pay attention to inhaling and exhaling without otherwise reacting."





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