How Brief Breath Practice Can Enhance Mood New Stanford Study Released On behalf of the GWI Breathe Initiative, we’re posting up-to-the-minute studies and articles to share the power of Breath for overall well-being at the moment as well as the long-term benefits of accessible practices like this. Here’s a just-released study from Stanford’s Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. David Spiegel on the power of a…
More Than Meets the Eye: The Important Story of Aesthetic Health Global Wellness Institute, Aesthetic Health Initiative, 2022/23
Registration Now Open for the Children’s Mental Health Symposium in Dublin, Ireland The Inaugural Children’s Mental Health Symposium will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from May 20-21, 2023, spearheaded by the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI’s) Global Wellness for Children Initiative and featuring renowned speakers, surgeons, researchers, and “First 1,000 Days” international advocate Sergio Pecorelli, MD, PhD, and the creator of Neuro-Nurturing and Brain Insights, author…
Partnerships Now Available for Geography of Wellness The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI) is pleased to invite new Country Partners to participate in GWI’s groundbreaking Geography of Wellness initiative which provides wellness market data for 150 countries around the world. Wellness sector data for individual countries is made available to the public for the first time with the support of exclusive Country Partners who donate $20,000 to the…
Europe Turned an Energy Crisis into a Green Energy Sprint– The New York Times, Feb. 15, 2023 The energy crisis unleashed by Russia’s war did create big problems, but the worst did not materialize. Instead, the EU succeeded not only in averting a major crisis, but also in “turbocharging the green transition,” to an extent that has knocked a full decade off its decarbonization timeline. In…
A new study from Stanford University compared different stress reduction techniques (each was done five minutes a day for a month): mindfulness meditation and three types of breathwork (cyclic sighing, with its greater focus on exhaling; box breathing, where inhaling and holding are done for an equal time; and one focusing on longer inhalation). They found that all three types of breathwork had a faster,…
