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December 26, 2022 - April 5, 2023
Wellspan is the “wildcard” – the combination of nuanced variables, unique to each individual, that create wellbeing. In fact, wellbeing has been found in numerous studies to reduce all-cause mortality and add additional years to lifespan. Wellbeing is the objective measurement of factors like safe housing, access to resources, education, and economic sufficiency, paired with subjective measures like social connection and community; purpose; love; spiritual health inclusive of beliefs and values; intellectual stimulation (i.e. staying curious to learn or engage in new things); financial health;
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What I found in my studies from around the world is that 25% of longevity is genetics, while the rest is cultural, which includes food and everything else, but it's not just the food, it's a consciousness.
Flexibility is one of the causes of health to be rigid with the things that you do is a cause of fear and fear will actually cancel out what you're trying to do healthy. So it's very important to see that.
I learned that they have a way of life. They have a sense of humor. They know how to forgive. They're flexible, they're active. They think they're going to live forever, but they're not afraid of dying. And they know how to eat on time. Also, you elongate time, by the way that you see the future.
They plan ahead, looking forward to what is to come and the biology follows to a certain degree. Why? Because if you think you're going to be around forever, even if you're not, the subconscious thoughts of your brain that you have, adjust your biology. That doesn't mean you're going to live forever, but it means that you get the fear out of tomorrow.
People say it's stress. It's not the stress, is the compression of time that they do by living in the urgent present.
The United States has a high tolerance for uncertainty where Japan and Poland, have low thresholds for uncertainty. Why? Because Japan and Poland have had invasions. They have had major problems that we haven't had in the United States. So then that culture in Poland or Japan and others will teach you to avoid uncertainty. How do you do it? With perfectionism. And what does perfectionism do? It puts you into the terrain of the urgent present.
Adrenaline ensures your heart rate increases as blood is pumped to the muscles, your breath rate increases and the lungs open to increase oxygen into the system while cortisol triggers the release of glucose (the fuel for your muscles) so you can take immediate action to “fight or flight.” Your brain is brilliant in how quickly it acts to keep you safe from life’s threats.
As a result, the system is always “on,” responding to the constant inputs. Without the proper removal and recovery, it becomes overloaded and the impact accumulates.
Being in a state of chronic distress, without adequate time for recovery, has clinically been linked to the shortening of your telomeres, the depression of your immune system, and epigenetic alterations, which as explained in Chapter Two impact all of the other hallmarks of aging.
Chronic stress due to the accumulation of higher cortisol levels in the system has been shown to accelerate cognitive decline impairing memory, executive function, language processing speed and social cognition. It also impacts your gen...
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A key study showed that acute stress, lasting seventy-two hours or less, actually stimulates new neural stem progenitor cells in the brain for upwards of two weeks.
The recipe for harnessing the positive benefits of stress calls for increased challenge or load to the system for a short duration of time, followed by rest and recovery.
Meditation, breathwork, time in nature, humming, gargling, singing, socializing and laughing, massage, cold water exposure to the face, hands or body and chiropractic adjustments all activate the vagus nerve and enhance parasympathetic activity, moving you into more moments of rest, reset and recovery.
The longer your system is overloaded, the longer cortisol runs the show and accelerates aging.
Develop and train your parasympathetic system so you can move from distress into neutral to then shift into eustress for achievement, growth and expansion when followed by rest and recovery.
Energy Psychology is the name given to a variety of therapies that work with the body’s innate energy system to produce a physical and psychological change by restoring balance perpetuating homeostasis on the mental and physical planes.
Our beliefs, both conscious and subconscious, are part of a vast information system that we call the field of energy, and it is influencing our biology.
“The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains … even into old age … is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.”
EP techniques such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) assist with this pruning by erasing and replacing what is no longer useful to you.
Neuroplasticity shows that we have the ability to change our subconscious beliefs and, remember, it is these beliefs that create your thoughts and your thoughts that create your reality, including your physical health and longevity!
If you believe you are a limited being, undeserving, and a victim with very little choice in life, then that is exactly what your reality will be.
I help clients create new self-talk scripts and record them in their own voice to playback for a personalized experience. Repeatedly hearing your own voice speak your desired belief statements can enhance and speed your self-entrainment process.
If we habitually consume pessimistic stories, we will experience the wear and tear of living in chronic stress.
