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A kitschy martial arts teen drama? Not exactly my TV genre of choice, but somehow the nostalgia from this iconic 80s movie, redemption story theme, and rocking soundtrack has me laughing each night with my husband and deep into the rivalry between Cobra Kai and Miyagi Do Karate.

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More than 30 years ago, one of them took second place. This time, he wants to win - and he's got nothing left to lose. Watch trailers & learn more.

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Pandemic stress. New job. Living with my parents. General anxiety about life. Hmm...yes--fight, flight, or freeze has been on overdrive. This talk was a much needed reminder to transform my relationship to anxiety I first need to notice the habitual actions and thought patterns in order to step out of reactivity.

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Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain's strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are.

This talk explores how we get caught in this reactive trance, and ways of calming anxiety and radically shifting our way of relating to the experience of threat. The gift is discovering an inner freedom in the midst of life, and the capacity to respond to what arises with love-in-action.

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Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety - Tara Brach

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Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain's strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are. This talk explores how we get caught in this reactive trance, and ways of calming anxiety and radically shifting our way of relating to the experience of threat.

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I always thought of joy as an elusive experience I'm forever seeing to find. The "lost ark" of emotions. But Joyful has shifted my lens from being a joy-seeker to a joy-spotter. Lee explains why confetti brings a smile to our face, why bright yellow hues bring inner sunshine, and how the natural expanse at a top of a mountain captures the feeling inner freedom.

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The Aesthetics of Joy by Ingrid Fetell Lee

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Available now in hardcover, ebook, and audio

Joy is the most basic building block of happiness, and this mesmerizing book reveals where to find it - and how to create it. Ingrid Fetell Lee's blockbuster debut will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight.

This book has the power to change everything! Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy.

A completely original treatment of a completely new and original idea. Joyful is an inexhaustible and exciting guide to what makes life good.

Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset? Or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring?

Is there a reason that people - regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity - are mesmerized by babies, and can't help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons?

We are often taught that our external environment has little or no impact on our inner joy. Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward - through mindfulness or meditation - and muting the outside world. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible joy?

In JOYFUL, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how the mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, she explains why one place makes us feel anxious or competitive, while another fosters delight and sharing - and, most importantly, she reveals how we can harness the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, and truly joyful lives.

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The Book - The Aesthetics of Joy by Ingrid Fetell Lee

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Available now in hardcover, ebook, and audio Joy is the most basic building block of happiness, and this mesmerizing book reveals where to find it - and how to create it. Ingrid Fetell Lee's blockbuster debut will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight.