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The Happiness Project synthesizes the wisdom of the ages with current scientific research, as Rubin brings readers along on her year to greater happiness.

In fact, Rubin's "happiness project" no longer describes just a book or a blog; it's a movement. Happiness Project groups, where people meet to discuss their happiness projects, have sprung up across the country-and across the world. Hundreds of book groups have discussed the book; professors, teachers, psychiatrists, and clergy assign it.

The Happiness Project has appeared in Fantasy Island, Big Little Lies, Orange is the New Black, The Night Agent, and it was even an answer on the game-show Jeopardy!

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The Positive BOOST You Need Every Day! The Daily Boost Podcast is the most popular and longest-running personal growth podcast in the world - for a good reason. Every episode delivers a positive boost of daily motivation and coaching designed to help you get what you want - no matter what gets in the way.

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If you've ever felt anxious or overwhelmed, some well-intentioned person has probably given you the advice, "Just breathe." When you're in the midst of a stressful moment, though, that can be much easier said than done.

Integrative medicine specialist Melissa Young, MD, explains how to do the box breathing technique, a simple but powerful method of focusing on your breath that can help you get - and stay - calm.

What is box breathing?

Box breathing is a form of yogic deep breathing employed by the United States Navy SEALs and by stressed-out people everywhere. It's also known as sama vritti pranayama, born of the yogic practice of pranayama, or focusing on the breath.

Its common name, "box breathing," refers to the fact that a box has four sides, a concept represented here by breathing while you slowly count to four for a total of four times - four counts of breathing in, four counts of holding your breath, four counts of exhaling and four more counts of holding after your exhale.

This technique goes by other names, too:

4×4 breathing.

4-4-4-4 breathing.

Equal breathing.

Four-square breathing.

Square breathing.

The benefits of box breathing

"I love breathwork because it's easy, it can be done anywhere and it has a potent effect on your physiology," Dr. Young says. "It's really very powerful."

She explains what box breathing, like other forms of breathwork, does for your body.

Lowers stress

The biggest benefit of box breathing is relaxation, especially in times of stress. Studies show that regulating your breath can lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and maybe even help lower blood pressure.

Activates the parasympathetic nervous system

In times of stress, your sympathetic nervous system is on high alert. Box breathing can help you move out of that state by tapping into the bodily system responsible for rest and digestion - the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is the opposite of the sympathetic nervous system, otherwise known as "fight or flight."

"When we're anxious, we breathe shallowly and quickly, which actually creates more anxiety within your body," Dr. Young explains. "We can use breathwork to move out of the fight-or-flight state and into that parasympathetic nervous system."

Calms the mind

You don't have to be stressed to benefit from this breath exercise. Practicing box breathing is an opportunity to bring mindfulness to your breath, which is a valuable practice even in tranquil times.

"It allows you to slow your breath, and it also has an aspect of meditation," Dr. Young says. "As you're breathing, you're also silently counting, which is a kind of mantra meditation that, again, calms the nervous system and brings you into the present moment."

How to do box breathing

Don't put too much pressure on yourself to master the box breathing method right away. "You don't want to go too slowly or too quickly," Dr. Young says. "Stay at your comfort level, making sure you're breathing very gently and not straining."

1. Breathe out slowly, releasing all the air from your lungs.

2. Breathe in through your nose as you slowly count to four in your head. Be conscious of how the air fills your lungs and stomach.

3. Hold your breath for a count of four.

4. Exhale for another count of four.

5. Hold your breath again for a count of four.

6. Repeat for three to four rounds.

How simple is that? In fact, box breathing's straightforwardness is what makes it so accessible - and so impactful.

"Box breathing's simplicity is its greatest strength," Dr. Young says. "When you start out with other forms of breathwork, you can almost get more anxious by overthinking it. But this is just very simple breathing and counting."

She recommends practicing one or two times a day, regardless of how you're feeling. Try it out first thing in the morning or after a stressful day of work.

Keep practicing

At first, you may have a hard time keeping your breath steady for all those counts of four. But as with anything, you can get better at it with a little bit of practice.

"Over time, this becomes easier, and you'll be able to extend that count to four more easily and slow your breathing down for even more benefit," Dr. Young says.

And working on your box breathing in times of calm can help you harness it in times of anxiety, even going so far as to lessen your body's overall response to stress.

"The nervous system is not fixed; it's plastic," Dr. Young says. "We can change it by learning how to be less responsive to stress and how to calm that response."
To hear more on this topic, listen to the Health Essentials podcast episode "Breathwork for Beginners." New episodes of the Health Essentials podcast publish every Wednesday.

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One of the most poignant early images of the coronavirus pandemic was of Italians playing music and singing from their balconies even as the virus ravaged their cities. Others soon followed suit, including pop stars streaming live performances from their homes and choirs sharing concerts via Zoom-all trying to provide connection during a frightening and uncertain time.

Of course, music has been bringing people together for millennia, and not just during crises. And in the last few decades, investigators have been training their attention on the so-called universal language of music-how it affects our brains and how it might be used to facilitate health and healing. That interest is now being fueled by new research attention and funding: In June, the Global Council on Brain Health, an independent science and policy collaborative devoted to understanding brain health, released a report concluding that music has "significant potential to enhance brain health and well-being for individuals of different ages and different levels of health" and making recommendations for future study. And last year, Sound Health, a program launched by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Kennedy Center, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), awarded $20 million over five years to support its first 15 research projects on the topic, including several headed by psychologists.

"Why is music so captivating for us?" asks Thomas Cheever, PhD, staff assistant to NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, for Sound Health and a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. "The more we understand about that, the more fascinating it's going to be, and the more we are going to learn about how the brain works in general." Psychologists and neuroscientists are particularly interested to find out which neural pathways are affected by music, how music influences children's development, and how music interventions may help people with a range of physical and mental health conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, delirium and Parkinson's disease.

And they are adding COVID-19 to the conditions they are trying to ease. Babar A. Khan, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, for example, is using a Sound Health grant to test a music intervention with patients who have delirium, including those with COVID-19. Delirium-an acute, short-term condition marked by confusion and emotional disruption-afflicts as many as 80% of patients who are in the intensive care unit for respiratory failure, including those with COVID.

If the intervention proves helpful, says Khan, "it will be used immediately during the course of the current pandemic."

Enhancing child development

One ongoing research interest is how music may affect youth in terms of language development, attention, perception, executive function, cognition and social-emotional development. Psychologist Assal Habibi, PhD, an assistant research professor at the University of Southern California Dornsife's Brain and Creativity Institute, has been investigating these topics for the past seven years in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, known as YOLA, an after-school program that brings low-income youngsters together to learn, play and perform music. Now in its final year, the study has been tracking brain and learning outcomes of 75 children who are either participating in YOLA, a community sports program or no after-school program.

Data published from the first few years of the intervention show that YOLA participants gradually develop auditory and cognitive advantages over youth who aren't involved in music. After the second year of the study, the YOLA participants showed greater ability to perceive pitch, rhythm and frequency of sounds, as well as enhanced development in the auditory pathway, the neurological route that connects the inner ear to auditory association areas in the brain (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 21, 2016). After the third and fourth years in the program, they also began to perform better on tasks unrelated to music, including on executive function tasks involving working memory and delayed gratification-likely because of the discipline required to patiently learn pieces of music, Habibi says. In addition, youth involved in YOLA showed greater development in brain areas related to language and auditory processing, and greater neuronal connectivity in the corpus callosum, the nerve bundle that connects the brain's right and left hemispheres (Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 28, No. 12, 2018).

"We obviously expected their musical skills to get better," she says, "but it seems a broad range of other skills are also impacted by music."

Habibi now has a grant from the NEA to follow these same children into adolescence to see whether the brain benefits they derived early on translate into real-life behaviors and decisions as teens-choice of peers, for example, or whether they show up to class. She also has an NIH Sound Health grant to compare differences in executive functioning among bilingual youth who are learning music and those who are learning music but only speak one language.

"As a developmental psychologist, I don't think there's just one pathway to better executive function in children," she explains. "So, it will be interesting for us to identify different mechanisms and understand how each one works."

Music and mental illness

Researchers are also exploring whether music may prove to be a helpful therapy for people experiencing depression, anxiety and more serious mental health conditions. A study of 99 Chinese heart bypass surgery patients, for example, found that those who received half an hour of music therapy after the operation-generally light, relaxing music of their own choice-had significantly lower self-reports of depression and anxiety than those who rested or received conventional medical check-ins in the same time frame (Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2020). Meanwhile, in conjunction with the Global Council on Brain Health's strong endorsement of more research on music and brain health, an AARP survey of 3,185 adults found that music has a small but statistically significant impact on people's self-reported mental well-being, depression and anxiety.

Others are examining whether music interventions could benefit those with serious mental illness. Yale experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Philip Corlett, PhD, for example, will use a Sound Health grant to test an intervention in which people with schizophrenia come together to write and perform music for one another. The work builds on Corlett's developing model of schizophrenia, which maintains that people with the disorder have difficulty revising and updating their views of self and reality based on newly emerging events, considered a central feature of the healthy human brain. Making music with others-which involves both positive social interactions and a type of expression with predictable outcomes-could allow participants to experience more realistic predictions and hence foster their sense of predictability and security, he hypothesizes.

"If we can show that music-making changes the mechanisms that we think underwrite these symptoms [of schizophrenia]," Corlett says, "then we can figure out its active ingredients and ultimately come up with ways to deliver this to people who need it."

Therapy for older adults

The impact of music on older adults' well-being is likewise of keen interest to researchers, who are looking at how music therapy may help verbal fluency and memory in people with Alzheimer's disease ( Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2018) and how singing in a choir may reduce loneliness and increase interest in life among diverse older adults (The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Vol. 75, No. 3, 2020). Music even shows promise in preventing injury: A study by Annapolis, Maryland-based neurologic music therapist Kerry Devlin and colleagues showed that music therapy can help older adults with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders improve their gait and reduce falls (Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019).

Still others are investigating how music can help people recover from serious illnesses and conditions, including, now, COVID-19. In a pilot study, Khan of Indiana University showed that patients with delirium on mechanical ventilators who listened to slow-tempo music for seven days spent one less day in delirium and a medically induced coma than those listening to their favorite music or to an audio book (American Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2020). Now, with his Sound Health grant, he is comparing the effects of slow-tempo music or silence on 160 participants with delirium, including COVID-19 patients on ventilators in hospitals in Indianapolis.

Studies like these underscore music's potential as a safe and effective medical intervention, as well as the importance of conducting more research on which kinds of music interventions work for whom, when and how, including during this difficult time, adds Cheever.

"How do we get [music therapy] into the same realm as other interventions that are the standard of care for any given indication?" he says. "The answer to that, I think, is a solid evidence base."

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"We are totally comfortable calling Gretchen Rubin's new book, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives , life-changing." -Better Homes & Gardens , Gretchen Rubin picks up where [William] James left off, integrating a wealth of insight from psychology, sociology, and anthropology in an illuminating field guide to harnessing the transformative power of habit in modern life." -Chicago Tribune-Lifehacker addresses one of life's big and timeless questions: how can we transform ourselves? In a way that's thought-provoking, surprising, and often funny, Gretchen Rubin provides us with the tools to build a life that truly reflects our goals and values." , shows us how. Unlike other books on habits, Rubin's book gives us the specific tools and a blueprint for getting back on track-the fast track."is a gem, and the first habit you should form is reading a chapter every night."is a force for real change. It rearranged what I thought I knew about my habits, and I'm better for it."
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"Change can be good. Particularly if it helps us live longer, healthier, indeed, happier lives - the objective of Rubin's latest project."

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"Do you have a bad habit you're trying to shake, or a good one you wish you could cultivate? Gretchen Rubin is one of the most charming and erudite authors of her generation. Here, she uses her gifts to help you eat right, sleep well, stop procrastinating, and start enjoying all that life has to offer."
-Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post and New York Times bestselling author of Thrive
"Gretchen Rubin combines deep research and observations from her own life to explain how habits emerge and-more important-how they can change. It's indispensable for anyone hoping to overhaul how they (almost unthinkingly) behave."
-Dan Heath, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Made to Stick , Switch , and Decisive

"Filled with insights about our patterns of behavior, Better Than Before
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"Is there a habit in your life you'd like to change? If so, here's your first step: Read this book. It's loaded with practical, everyday tips and techniques that will guide you to success."
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"Almost everyone wants to be 'better'-slimmer, smarter, better looking, more interesting, more productive-and we want to know we're improving, we want the reinforcing evidence. Gretchen Rubin's new masterpiece,

"With bold and original insights, Gretchen Rubin reveals the hidden truths about how to change our habits-from resisting junk food and hitting the gym to ending procrastination and saving money.

"Gretchen Rubin's superpower is curiosity. Luckily for us, she's turned her passionate inquiry to the topic of making and mastering habits. Weaving together research, unforgettable examples, and her brilliant insight,

Gretchen Rubin is one of today's most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She's the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm; The Four Tendencies; Better Than Before; and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On her top-ranking, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin , she explores happiness and good habits. She is also a CBS News contributor, providing weekly solutions for living a happier life. Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she realized that she wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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Dr. Pooja Lakshmin MD is the author of the national bestseller, Real Self-Care, which has been featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch and 1A, The New York Times, The Guardian, Talks at Google, and has been translated into 6 languages.

Pooja is a board certified psychiatrist and author specializing in women's mental health and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. She is a leading voice at the intersection of mental health and gender, focused on helping women and other marginalized communities escape the tyranny of faux self-care. She maintains an active private practice, where she treats women struggling with burnout, perfectionism, and disillusionment, as well as clinical conditions like depression and anxiety. As a frequent contributor to the The New York Times, Pooja's viral essays on the betrayal of burnout have changed the national and international conversation about women's mental health. Pooja's virals Instagram posts have resonated with millions of women. Her advice has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, The Drew Barrymore Show, NPR, and in Glamour, Marie Claire, Self, Shape, Harper's Bazaar and other media outlets.

In 2020, after noticing a gap in accessible science-based digital resources tailored to women's emotional well-being, Pooja founded Gemma, a physician-led education platform dedicated exclusively to women's mental health, impact, and equity. Gemma provides expert taught virtual courses to support women's mental well-being and is building an innovative approach to online learning and women's mental health.

Pooja frequently speaks, advises and consults for organizations on mental health, well-being, and real self-care for employee wellness and for brand social impact initiatives. Her recent partners include LinkedIn, Therapy for Black Girls, Google, The New York Times, 23andMe, Edelman, Pearson, McKinsey, and Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Pooja studied at the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude in Women's Studies and Biological Basis of Behavior. She received her MD from Jefferson Medical College. She did her internship and PGY2 year of psychiatry residency training at Stanford University, finishing her psychiatry residency training at George Washington University, where she was part of the Global Mental Health track.

Having gone down the rabbit hole of faux self-care and extreme wellness herself, Real Self-Care is Pooja's answer to the juice cleanses, the gratitude lists, and the bubble baths -- not only to care for ourselves for real but, in turn, to transform our broken culture.

She lives in Austin, Texas with her partner Justin, their son, and their two feisty cats.

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Book: The Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonical

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N ow in paperback. The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement.

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy.

Through her trademark blend of science and storytelling, McGonigal draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, as well as memoirs, ethnographies, and philosophers. She shows how movement is intertwined with some of the most basic human joys, including self-expression, social connection, and mastery--and why it is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.

McGonigal tells the stories of people who have found fulfillment and belonging through running, walking, dancing, swimming, weightlifting, and more, with examples that span the globe, from Tanzania, where one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes on the planet live, to a dance class at Juilliard for people with Parkinson's disease, to the streets of London, where volunteers combine fitness and community service, to races in the remote wilderness, where athletes push the limits of what a human can endure. Along the way, McGonigal paints a portrait of human nature that highlights our capacity for hope, cooperation, and self-transcendence.

The result is a revolutionary narrative that goes beyond familiar arguments in favor of exercise, to illustrate why movement is integral to both our happiness and our humanity. Readers will learn what they can do in their own lives and communities to harness the power of movement to create happiness, meaning, and connection.

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Tina Boogren's weekly podcast features quick and doable actions that promote self-care even for the busiest educator.

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Self-Care for Educators is the podcast for creating happy, healthy, inspired, badass educators. Host Tina H. Boogren is a lifelong educator, the author of numerous books, and an associate for Solution Tree and Marzano Resources. Each week, Tina will help educators dig into the essential work of self-care via bite-sized episodes that fit into your busy schedule. If you are a teacher, administrator, counselor, coach, singleton, or simply considering a career in education, this podcast is for you. Because truth be told, this isn't just a podcast; this is a community. We are the caretakers. It's time to find ourselves again so we can create lives we don't need to escape from. You are welcome here.

Self-Care for Educators is the podcast for creating happy, healthy, inspired, badass educators. Host Tina H. Boogren is a lifelong educator, the author of numerous books, and an associate for Solution Tree and Marzano Resources. Each week, Tina will help educators dig into the essential work of self-care via bite-sized episodes that fit into your busy schedule. If you are a teacher, administrator, counselor, coach, singleton, or simply considering a career in education, this podcast is for you. Because truth be told, this isn't just a podcast; this is a community. We are the caretakers. It's time to find ourselves again so we can create lives we don't need to escape from. You are welcome here.

Listen Once & You'll Be Hooked!

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Thank you

I struggle as an educator to take time for myself. This podcast by Dr. Tina Bodgren helps me to take care of my mental health.

New music would make all the difference

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The 5-Minute Recharge by Lynne Everatt & Addie Greco-Sanchez

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The 5-Minute Recharge by Lynne Everatt & Addie Greco-Sanchez

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Researchers have discovered the formula for living a good life, so why is depression still the world's leading disability and anxiety the most common mental health disorder in North America? Most people don't know what will truly make them happy, and far too few make proven wellness practices a part of their lives. To cope with all the stresses we encounter, we need to actively care for ourselves, which includes heeding our ancient programming that demands that we move our bodies, connect face-to-face and get enough sleep. Science has proven that you have the power, through your habitual ways of thinking and behaving, to renovate the space inside your head, making it brighter, more resilient, and a more enjoyable place to hang out.

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With your well-being in mind, authors and soul sisters Lynne Everatt and Addie Greco-Sanchez designed these 31 hands-on tools for creating a greater sense of having enough time, connecting with others, nourishing your body and mind, feeding positivity, and taking time for reflection. And that's worth getting charged up about.
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