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TELOMERES: A PATHWAY TO LIVING YOUNGER
Linguistic self-distancing. Think about an upcoming stressful task using the third person, as in “What is making Liz nervous?”
Rumination is the act of rehashing your problems over and over.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.” But it doesn’t have to be a competition between being happy and being productive with purpose—they come together.
“life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage,”
Your eager assistant is like a bright-eyed young intern, one who desperately wants to prove her worth by providing you with a steady stream of well-intentioned but often misguided advice.
Cook-Medley Hostility
“Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire,”
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT,
Because “being” also
in a three-month period compared
Moderate aerobic endurance exercise, performed three times a week for forty-five minutes
Simply walk or run at about 60 percent of your maximum ability.
Interval (repeat 4 times): Walk fast (on a exertion scale of 1 to 10, be at a 6 or 7): 3 minutes Stroll gently: 3 minutes
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/indexrk.htm.
Dozier has developed a program known as Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up, or ABC, to teach this kind of exquisite responsiveness to parents of at-risk children.
One aspect of temperament is stress sensitivity. Stress-sensitive children are more “permeable,” which means that for good or for ill, their environment doesn’t just bounce off them. It penetrates.
For tips on how to “outsmart smart screens” and limit your child’s use, Harvard’s Prevention Research Center has a free guide for parents: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/prc/2015/01/07/outsmarting-the-smart-screens/.
(http://www.screenfree.org/).
INTERCONNECTEDNESS AT ALL LEVELS We are connected to one another and to all living things at all levels from the macro to the micro, from the societal to the cellular.
Mind Your Telomeres Evaluate sources of persistent, intense stress. What can you change? Transform a threat to a challenge appraisal. Become more self-compassionate and compassionate to others. Take up a restorative activity. Practice thought awareness and mindful attention. Awareness opens doors to wellbeing.
