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Acrobats, Aerialists, Contortionists 🤸‍♀️
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🇨🇦 CANADA DAY 2026 🇨🇦

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In my favorite gym with homies. Thankful for a healthy body and a healthy mind. And good company. 🙏

🎥: @mylescharron

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Life Mystery #1 | D Rad Show

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#comedy #mentalhealth #family #lifepartner mystery

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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NEWS FLASH!!!! It's ALL in OUR HANDS!

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The anterior mid-cingulate cortex (aMCC) is a brain region that acts as a hub for willpower, motivation, and effort, integrating signals to guide behavior, particularly when facing challenges. It's involved in a wide range of functions, including directing attention to threats, making reward-based decisions, processing emotions like anger and sadness, and calibrating the autonomic nervous system for stress responses. The aMCC is associated with tenacity and can grow larger with activities that involve overcoming difficulty.

Key functions of the aMCC

Willpower and motivation:

The aMCC helps consolidate signals to either motivate action or resist urges, acting as a "willpower hub". It grows in size when people engage in difficult tasks, such as dieting or rigorous exercise.

Cognitive control:

It is active during demanding tasks that require high working memory, error detection, and conflicting options. The aMCC is engaged when tasks become more difficult and its activity is related to predicting the effort required for a task.

Emotional and affective processing:

The aMCC is robustly engaged by negative affect and pain and functions as a "neural alarm," directing attention to potential threats and conflicts with survival goals. It is involved in processing emotions like fear, disgust, anger, and sadness.

Autonomic regulation:

It is a core node of the central autonomic network and plays a role in calibrating bodily reactions and stress responses. Damage to the cingulate cortex can lead to autonomic dysfunction, affecting processes like heart rate and blood pressure, Flint Rehab.

Reward processing:

The aMCC tracks the magnitude and probability of predicted rewards and is sensitive to both increases and decreases in reward, integrating reward with motor responses.

Social processing:

The aMCC is engaged in social tasks, such as the Ultimatum Game, and helps code self-reward within a social context to guide social behaviors, National Institutes of Health.

#longevity #Health #brain #mind #mindbody #challenge #discipline #motion #lotion

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UPA End of Year Gala was a spectacular celebration of our students' talent, hard work, teamwork, and creativity! From acrobatics to aerial acts, our students lit up the stage. Everyone showed their strength, artistry, and passion, while combining costumes, music, lights, and their characters.
Thank you to everyone who supported and cheered them on – what a way to finish the year! 🌟

#PowerOfNature #GalaShow #UPA #CircusArts #Acrobatics #AerialArts #KidsOnStage #StrengthAndArtistry #Teamwork #CreativePerformance

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Happy Birthday our Beloved Andrushka ❤️ #acrobatics #circusarts #talentedkids #performer #show #entertainment #kidsactivities #kidshavingfun #love #party #birthdayparty #games #funtogether❤️

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An Acro Trio is more than three athletes on the floor. It’s a partnership of strength, timing, and trust where each role — base, middle, and top — comes together to create something bigger than the individual. The result is movement that blends power, balance, and artistry into one performance.

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#AcroTrio #AcroGymnastics #Teamwork #Balance #Strength #Flexibility #Trust #Acrobatics #GymnasticsCommunity #AthleticArt

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