You can find your own digital workbook—including how I incorporate each chapter’s recommendations into my own daily life and how you can form them to meet your specific goals—at www.TheAlignBook.com.
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3. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score (New York: Penguin, 2015), 112.
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15. Ibid.
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1. Richard W. Byrne, “The What as Well as the Why of Animal Fun,” Current Biology, January 2015, available online at https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(14)01123-3.
2. “Less-Structured Time in Children’s Daily Lives Predicts Self-Directed Executive Functioning,” Frontiers in Psychology, June 2014, available online at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00593/full.
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8. Ibid.
9. Stephen Porges, “Play as a Neural Exercise: Insights into Polyvagal Theory,” The Power of Play for Mind-Brain Health, Mindgains.org, available online at https://mindgains.org/bonus/GAINS-The-Power-of-Play-for-Mind-Brain-Health.pdf.
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3. Andrew Still, Philosophy of Osteopathy (independently published via lulu.com, 2018), 18.
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1. Leonardo Barbosa, Barreto de Brito, et al., “Ability to Sit and Rise from the Floor as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality,” Preventive Cardiology, 2012, available online at http://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/srff/deBrito-Floor-Rise-Mortality-2012.pdf.
2. “Falls Prevention Facts,” National Council on Aging, available online at https://www.ncoa.org/news/resources-for-reporters/get-the-facts/falls-prevention-facts/.
3. Phillip Beach, Muscles and Meridians (London: Churchill Livingstone, 2010), 134.
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1. H. R. Colten and B. M. Altevogt, “Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem,” Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research, 2006, available online at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20669438.
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5. Alex Hutchinson, Endure (New York: William Morrow, 2017), 121–122.
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1. Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest (New York: National Geographic, 2012), 63.
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