Títulos en Envejecimiento y longevidad

For over 25 years, Dr. Angeles Arrien has examined the way diverse cultures handle the challenges unique to the "great-crossing" at mid-life. Now in 6 challenging lectures - each one packed with mythological tales and elder wisdom - Dr. Arrien bring you these profound teachings just when they are needed most. Here is the "Blessing Way": the indigenous ritual for making a golden invitation for those who follow us; the 8 Gates of Initiation, which open to new vistas in your inner and outer worlds; the 9 Nine Muses of the ancient Greeks, and how they mediate between the mystery of creation and your creativity; and much, much more. Dr. Arrien teaches that, when you find the courage to change at mid-life, you return to your soul's highest values, prepared to create your own legacy and leave your everlasting imprint on the world.

You know you have a physical body, but did you know that you also have a light body - a timeless, energetic essence that connects you to everything in the universe?

It is estimated that more than 20 million Americans have practiced some form of yoga, yet almost none of them have heard of yoga's early teachers or their insights. While we are familiar with yoga's physical benefits, the original purpose of yoga as a path to inner freedom and enlightenment is embodied by only a few students in the West. Now yoga scholar Georg Feuerstein immerses you in The Lost Teachings of Yoga, the first comprehensive audio curriculum about yoga's original spiritual wisdom and practices.

Michael Gelb explains what neuroplasticity means, and provides some low cost ways (including optimism!) to improve our brain power and resilience, and possibly prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. He describes the benefits of challenging the brain to do something new, and other brain-enhancing activities, including meditation, wine in moderation, and naps!

Trying to live a completely stress-free life is a zero-sum game. The true goal of your relationship with stress is to figure out how to manage it effectively, how to use it to build and support a meaningful, resilient life. In these 18 enriching and inspiring lectures, discover how to manage and minimize the stress in your life. You'll explore the nuances of stress in ways you never really considered. Rooted in scientific findings from experiments, research papers, and case studies, these lectures offer you nothing less than a bold new way of facing (and appreciating) daily life.

With its up to 500 trillion synaptic connections, your brain is easily the most powerful machine in the world. Even more incredibly: This amazing machine is constantly changing through a process known as brain plasticity. And you can take advantage of this process to improve and enhance your brain’s jaw-dropping powers - at any age. 

In this series of 24 fascinating lectures, an acclaimed teacher and psychologist gives you a bio-psychological perspective on both the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us and an understanding of the ways in which that process is ever-changing.

Memory is, without a doubt, the most powerful (and practical) tool of everyday life. By linking both your past and your future, memory gives you the power to plan, to reason, to perceive, and to understand. Yet while all of us have an amazing capacity for memory, there are plenty of times when it seems to fail us. Why does this happen? And how can you fix it? In Scientific Secrets for a Powerful Memory, you’ll explore the real research on how memory functions - and then apply these findings to help you make better use of the memory abilities you have.

Wouldn't it be great if you could wake up every morning with an unending reserve of energy? Get a step-by-step guide and toolkit that will spark your life with a jolt of vitality. It's not just a list of "superfoods" or trendy exercises; the course takes a rigorous scientific approach to human vitality. Energy is a limited resource; learn to allocate yours in the best way possible to make the most of each day.

In 1967, St. Christopher's Hospice, the first modern hospice, opened in a suburb of London. Since then, millions of people around the world have chosen hospice at the end of their lives, with many patients choosing to receive care in their homes. In Hospice Chronicles: Joe and Roger, producer Dan Collison follows Joe, a volunteer trained in "respite care," giving family members a break from caretaking responsibilities.

La scienza ha senza dubbio reso l'uomo più longevo grazie all'introduzione di cure e procedure diagnostiche più efficaci. Per questa ragione da diversi anni si sta diffondendo una nuova visione dell'invecchiamento, legata a un approccio terapeutico personalizzato e a uno stile di vita volto al benessere fin dalla giovane età: diversamente dalla medicina tradizionale, che interviene solo a malattia già insorta, la medicina antiaging preferisce rallentare il processo d'invecchiamento mettendo in primo piano la prevenzione, ritardando così il declino dell'organismo umano.

Listeners eavesdrop on a family crisis triggered by the sudden need for 24 hour health care for eighty six year old Gramma Elsie Fay Johnson. Using his family as a model, through candid interviews and personal narration, Elsie's eldest grandson and producer Gary Johnson describes the dynamics of caring for Gramma Elsie.

Losing your balance and feeling dizzy? It happens as we grow older, and astronauts are trying to help us figure out why. Producer Judith Kampfner takes a look at how health researchers use the experience of weightlessness to better understand the bodies' equilibrium. The effects of motion sickness —disorientation, maladjustment to environment, and human flexibility to adapt — are the same effects experienced by astronauts in outer space.

Un numero di anziani con più di 65 anni superiore a quello dei giovanissimi con meno di 15, una speranza di vita - 80 anni per gli uomini e 84,7 per le donne - superiore alla media europea e tra i valori più elevati del mondo: due dati, negativo il primo ma decisamente positivo il secondo, che inquadrano perfettamente la situazione italiana e i profondi mutamenti, non solo culturali, che ne derivano. La seconda edizione aggiornata del volume insiste proprio su questi aspetti.

Much of the U.S. and international space program in the early years looked at the biomedical consequences of space travel on the human body. Bone loss, muscular atrophy and the impact on the cardiovascular system were of special concern as astronauts came and went from outer space. Then researchers began to make connections between the impact of extreme conditions and natural aging here on Earth.

Come conciliare i principi di una vita sana con la nostra quotidianità, fatta di spuntini veloci, scarsa attività fisica, stress da multitasking, intossicazione digitale, aperitivi alcolici, cene fuori con gli amici e nottate da leoni?

Sono più interessanti le storie belle o le storie tristi, quelle nere o quelle rosa? Le storie sono storie, e raccontano la vita.

You're probably thinking: There's no way I'm going to live to 100. I'm not sure I want to live that long, even if I could. But odds are, you will. And, while your parents and grandparents may have been blindsided by their longevity and suffered for it, that doesn't have to happen to you. Aging can be a good thing, the opportunity to realize all of your dreams and establish a remarkable legacy, if you prepare for it.

In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon’s Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book provides everything dads need to know about supporting their partner through labor, birth, breastfeeding, and beyond.  

Dalla stessa autrice dell’AudioLibro "L'eterna giovinezza con i Cinque Tibetani", è finalmente disponibile il manuale, tratto da "Rinascere nel Corpo e nello Spirito", dedicato a uno straordinario percorso di auto-miglioramento fisico e interiore. "Ringiovanimento e Benessere - 13 facili esercizi da fare tutti i giorni", ti accompagna in un training che rigenera e restituisce energia, brio e luce. E' la chiave della giovinezza, una sorta di elisir di lunga vita e di catalizzatore di positività.