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Really, none of this is new. Five thousand years ago, early yoga practitioners were tinkering with embodied cognition to prompt higher states of awareness. If simply standing like Wonder Woman for a few minutes is enough to produce meaningful changes in our hormonal profile, imagine what practicing a full sequence of yoga postures every morning would do. “There’s all this evidence that [movement sequences] have an impact on stress,”11 Peter Strick, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Brain Institute, writes in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “it has an effect on how you project yourself and how you feel.”
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
Story Skill: Be Intentional Scaffold your stories. Create an outline. Stick to your through line.
What Great Storytellers Know
Bernadette Jiwa
As Wendell Berry says, ‘we should banish from our speech and writing any use of the word “machine” as an explanation or definition of anything that is not a machine.
Ch 12: Extract 2 - By Iain McGilchrist
Iain Mcgilchrist
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