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Martial Arts Training Can Help You Change Your Mind

Can kung fu fighting change what's inside your cranium? Even brief periods of martial-arts training can produce benefits in brain activity and bodily health.

Look on the Bright Side Because Your Mindset Always Matters

Do no less than believe in your success. Belief and confidence set the tide level for background efficacy and everything we experience is superimposed on that.

Don't Let Your Brain Scratch That Overthinking Itch

Rumination is rife with heightened background stress like that over holidays and large social events. Do things to prevent your brain from scratching its itch.

Your Body and Brain in Motion Are Where Mind and Matter Meet

Everything is connected. Our efforts to move and improve generate multiple cascading responses within our bodies that can lead to better neurobiological and psychological health.

Can the Fighting Arts Promote Positive Personality Traits?

With martial arts training, we likely need not fear fostering the Cobra Kai no-mercy mentality. Kung Fu Panda's agreeable and conscientious personality is a more probable outcome.

Can Karate Give Depression a Kick After Cancer?

Interesting and engaging martial arts practices have significant multi-dimensional meaning and should be encouraged therapeutically as well as recreationally.

Really, What Would Batman Do?

There are some realities in the mythologies of human superheroes like Batman. This can inspire us to use determination to achieve more in our real lives.

Stay in the Present When Performing Under Pressure

Maximal motor performance is focused on the present. Rewards arising from performance are in the future and will never arrive if we don't get through what we are actually doing.

Take Time for Your Heart to Meet Your Mind

While we can often be very challenged to directly alter our thinking, many things we do can lead to change in processes of brain and body that enable calmer thoughts and mindsets.

A Little Bit of Body Work Can Save Your Brain From Boredom

To save your brain from neurobiological boredom, stand up and be squatted every now and then, and start to think of sitting as part of your interruption of standing.