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Surrendering to Creativity: The Psychology of Remembering To Breathe (Part 2 of 3)
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” – T.S. Eliot What does it mean, for anxiety to be the handmaiden to creativity? Reading this quote from T.S. Eliot, my mind wandered to think about Shae and Sansa. For those less obsessed with George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones than me, Shae is Sansa Stark’s handmaiden in the imaginary…
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Surrendering to Creativity; the Psychology of Remembering to Breathe (Part 1 of 3)
The author’s dad, Yogaman Bill, letting go of anxiety and creating beauty on the beach. “Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender…” ~ The Bhagavad-Gita, p. 41 I stumbled upon this quote earlier this week, as I…
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Hot off the press: Yoga and inflammation randomized trial
Yoga can make you feel good emotionally, but can it also help your immune system? Our research group recently completed a randomized controlled trial looking at the effects of a yoga intervention on inflammation.