This book’s full title is Heart, Breath, Mind: Train Your Heart to Conquer Stress and Achieve Success. I got this book to review and I will do that. The book is designed to take 10 weeks to finish, but I obviously can review it in a shorter time frame, but probably also get some benefit from reading the book. It reminds me of a book I read in the past of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky .
I did not do the 10 weeks breathing exercises that is at the heart of this book. It seems like an intriguing way to help people manage stress. I do not have much stress at the moment even with the lockdown. I am fortunate in some ways that my son lives with me. At least I had company in the first part of the lockdown and now we can, in Ontario, go out somewhat with friends.
I did start on diaphragmatic breathing or belly breathing. This seems like a good thing to do. I had heard about this before and it is not new, but I had not practiced it. She talks on how training your body to handle stress can help people with problems sleeping to athlete’s performance levels. She tells a lot of stories about how she has helped people with in terms of lowing stress so they can perform or live better.
If you are suffering because of stress, it would be worth the while to get this book and engage in her 10 week course. It is a detailed plan. She also suggests some different apps you can get to help you, but you do not need these as you could follow her plan and use the worksheets she provides. Her way could be a powerful tool to improve your life.
There are few reviews of this book. You will find a couple at Good Reads. You will also find some on Amazon when you scroll to the bottom of the page. The books publisher is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Leah Lagos teams with Jaspal Ricky Singh to do a short at TED-Ed Talk. In this book, Leah Lagos recommends watching Kelly McGonigal on TED Talk. The title of this TED Talk is “How to Make Stress Your Friend”. There is also a short video on this book on YouTube. There is also a good description of what Dr. Lagos does at Goop.
If you like podcasts there is some choice. Listen to Dr Lagos on MixCloud There is another podcase on the subject of HRV at Elite HRV.
Jeff Halevy interviews Leah Lagos on YouTube at Workout from Within. Nunzio Presta interviews Leah Lagos via YouTube. This is a longer interview of some 17 minutes, but is well worth listening to. NBC did a news video about Leah Lagos helping an Olympic Rower on YouTube.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
Friday, September 25, 2020
Monday, September 14, 2020
The Mosquito by Timothy Winegard
This book’s full title is The Mosquito, A Human History of our Deadliest Predator. This is an interesting read of history though diseases we got from the mosquito. I had known about malaria and other diseases hitting North America, especially the 13 colonies. I had no idea that the early explorers bought malaria from Africa. I also did not know that Europe had malaria in the past.
The author is from Canada and is living in the US. Like a lot of history done in North America and generally in Europe, this book only looks at some European, but mainly American history. When I say American, I mean North and South America. But also, a great deal of the book deals with the US history. Nothing is said about Asia and mosquitos and very little about Arica and the mosquitos.
There is a review of this book on the CBC site. There is a podcast interview of Timothy Winegard on this site. Katie Wudel at Los Angeles Times reviews this book. She ends with the quote. “It is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent. … It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Lulu Garcia-Navarro on NPR interviews Timothy Winegard and the transcript is given on their site. Ghost Reader on YouTube give a review of this book.
Timothy Winegard is interviewed on The Agenda. Timothy Winegard speaks at Colorado Mesa University. The Q & A portion starts at 40 minutes. There is an interview on Your Morning of Timothy Winegard. This is short at just over 5 minutes. And for Canadians, Timothy Winegard wrote a book called For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. He talks about this in a video at Books. Our treatment of our Indians has been astonishingly bad. I had no idea they were not considered citizens in the past.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
The author is from Canada and is living in the US. Like a lot of history done in North America and generally in Europe, this book only looks at some European, but mainly American history. When I say American, I mean North and South America. But also, a great deal of the book deals with the US history. Nothing is said about Asia and mosquitos and very little about Arica and the mosquitos.
There is a review of this book on the CBC site. There is a podcast interview of Timothy Winegard on this site. Katie Wudel at Los Angeles Times reviews this book. She ends with the quote. “It is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent. … It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Lulu Garcia-Navarro on NPR interviews Timothy Winegard and the transcript is given on their site. Ghost Reader on YouTube give a review of this book.
Timothy Winegard is interviewed on The Agenda. Timothy Winegard speaks at Colorado Mesa University. The Q & A portion starts at 40 minutes. There is an interview on Your Morning of Timothy Winegard. This is short at just over 5 minutes. And for Canadians, Timothy Winegard wrote a book called For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. He talks about this in a video at Books. Our treatment of our Indians has been astonishingly bad. I had no idea they were not considered citizens in the past.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
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