Author: spiritualwrestlings

Fitness: Posture (HPSE): Fix the Weakest Link Muscle Causing Your Forward Head Posture (Poor Posture): Dr Alan Mandell, DC: YouTube

“Here is a simple and very effective stretch exercise you can do anytime. This will help reverse kyphosis, hunching, and rounded shoulders. You will notice over time that your muscles and joints will become more flexible in the back region. Your posture and breathing will also improve…”

Human Analysis: Personality Types: The Biology of Personality: “The Hidden Side To Your Personality” | BBC News

“Looking inside our body gives greater clues. And a trickle of recent findings has recently turned into a torrent, as studies are now revealing how personality is linked with many aspects of our biology, from our hormones and our immune system to the microbes in our gut. These are important discoveries because personality – especially…

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“The face acts “like a road sign to affect the traffic that’s going past it,” says Alan Fridlund, a psychology professor at University of California Santa Barbara who co-authored a recent study with De Montfort University’s Crivelli arguing for a more utilitarian view of facial expressions. “Our faces are ways we direct the trajectory of a social interaction.”

That’s not to say that we actively try to manipulate others with our facial expressions (though every once in a while, we might). Our smiles and frowns may well be instinctive….”

Click BBC – Future – Why our facial expressions don’t reflect our feelings for the rest of the article.

Health: Exercise: Cognition: Ten minutes of exercise a day improves memory | The Guardian (UK)

“Just 10 minutes of light physical activity is enough to boost brain connectivity and help the brain to distinguish between similar memories, a new study suggests. Scientists at the University of California studying brain activity found connectivity between parts of the brain responsible for memory formation and storage increased after a brief interval of light…

Diet: Supplements: Vitamin B1: Thiamine Deficiency Symptoms & Dangers You Don’t Want to Ignore | Dr. Axe

“What are some symptoms of vitamin B1 deficiency? A thiamine deficiency (also referred to as beriberi) can cause weakness, chronic fatigue, heart complications, psychosis and nerve damage. The best way to prevent thiamine deficiency is to eat whole foods that supply high amounts of B vitamins, particularly thiamine foods. Thiamine can be found in many…

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Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical. One of my major worries is that when you lose the novel, you lose the ability to go into another person’s perspective. My biggest worry now is that a lot of what we’re seeing in society today — this vulnerability to demagoguery in all its forms — of one unanticipated and never intended consequence of a mode of reading that doesn’t allow critical analysis and empathy.

Click A neuroscientist explains what tech does to the reading brain – The Verge for the rest of the article.

“…President Trump is not generally given to understatement, but he soft-pedaled problems at the Department of Justice. There is, he said Friday, a “lingering stench” there.

A “stench” doesn’t describe the situation. A snake pit is more like it.

The report by The New York Times that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plotted to remove Trump, either by wearing a wire or invoking the 25th Amendment, cements forever the fact that there was and still is a deep state centered in the nation’s top law-enforcement agency. This was a plot by power-mad individuals who aimed to overturn the 2016 election and thwart the will of voters….”

Click The ‘deep state’ leaves Trump with no good options for the rest of the article.