One Athletic Mind

January mantras emerge:

Minimize, lighter load, subtract, reduce, release, let go, ahh flexibility and freedom..

Making space for ✨ 🤔 ✨ possibility 🐥
Happy Friday ✌🏼

Hope, gratitude & Love

Which Character Strengths Are Most Predictive of Well-Being? If you seek high well-being, your best bets are gratitude and love of learning.

When the reward circuit is chemically shorted in the brain, those that eat for pleasure released more cortisol & reported nausea. MBSR + MB-EAT groups saw greater weight loss than control groups.

Eating for pleasure: Biomarker identified for mindful eating - American Mindfulness Research... Posted 06.15.2015 | by AMRA Eating is often an enjoyable experience, and at times we eat more for pleasure (“hedonic eating”) than to provide nutrition or reduce hunger. Since pleasure occurs in response to the brain’s release of endogenous opioids (morphine-like neurotransmitters manufactured in th…

Wise Rest Rx -> peak performance & health

Are you "running" yourself into hormonal trouble ? Do those 40+ mile weeks do only good things to your body or could they be hurting you ? Is all this exercise catabolic ? Have you ever heard of hypothyroidism ? How about screwing up the...