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Move Your Body Through Grief
Learn how physical movement can be used as a tool to help transform your grief.
Breaking Down Weight-Loss Barriers
A roadmap of habits for support your efforts for body-composition change.
Can the Arrival of Spring Cause Seasonal Affective Disorder?
It turns out seasonal affective disorder is not just a winter affliction. Try these strategies to lessen spring anxiety.
What Is Metabolic Health, Anyway?
Gain an understanding of eight factors that can help you better understand your current metabolic health, including why each is important for longevity and vitality.
10 Practices to Get Out Of Your Head and Into the Present
We often lose touch with our bodies, whether because of daily stressors or more deep-seated trauma. These 10 embodiment practices can help us reconnect with our physical selves, calm our nervous systems, and release stress.
8 Ways to Activate the Vagus Nerve — and Relieve Anxiety
The following techniques all safely stimulate the vagus nerve, but people with severe asthma, sleep apnea, or heart conditions should use caution with any electrical forms of VNS.
Can You Measure Vagal Tone?
Yes. You can measure heart-rate variability, do the palatine-arch response test, and more.
A Place Between
Experience Life’s editor in chief on how to slow down and just be when life feels hectic.
How to Reset Your Vagus Nerve — and Find Calm
Stimulating the vagus nerve can relieve stress and anxiety, as well as depression, physical pain, inflammation, digestive distress, insomnia, and more. Discover tools and strategies that make relief accessible to anyone.
5 Strategies to Try When You’ve Been Triggered
If you’ve been triggered, don’t panic. There are still some things you can do in the moment to help soothe your body and bring yourself back into the present.
How to Do Resonant Breathing
Resonant breathing — also known as coherent breathing — is a simple breathing technique that may help regulate your nervous system. Here’s how to do it.
How to Do Alternate-Nostril Breathing
Learn how to do Nadi Shodhana, a traditional breathing technique that has been practiced for centuries.
How to Manage a Trigger Response
You don’t have to be hijacked by strong reactions. Learn how to manage them — and how to recover your cool when you’ve already lost it.
What Is Social Rest?
Do you feel alone or worn down by certain people? Discover the signs that you need more social rest and with whom to find it.
What Is Sensory Rest?
From strong smells, artificial light, and loud work environments, our senses can become overwhelmed. Here are strategies to give your senses a much-needed break.
What Is Creative Rest?
Learn why taking a deliberate break from creative work may allow your creativity to regenerate.
What is Spiritual Rest?
Discover the signs that you may need more spiritual rest and opportunities to find it.
What Is Emotional Rest?
Are you feeling emotionally exhausted? Discover the signs that you need more emotional rest as well as simple practices to help you recover.
The 7 Types of Rest
If you’re feeling run-down, you might be deficient in one of the seven types of rest. Learn how you can recharge your physical, mental, emotional, creative, social, sensory, and spiritual self.
What Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
The gold standard in psychotherapy, CBT can help with a range of mental disorders, including anxiety, obsessive–compulsive disorder, depression, addiction, insomnia, and PTSD.