I am feeling inspired and ready to gain 10 extra years of life! Sometimes I have days where I need an extra boost to help guide me in the right direction. I think we all have days like this. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed, stressed, irritable, or anxious. Those feelings can't be good for our minds or our bodies.
I highly recommend you take the 20 minutes to watch this incredible and inspiring TEDTalk video. Please find the link below. I will briefly summarize The Four Types of Resilience, which are tools we can use to extend our lives by 10 years.
1. Physical Resilience - we can build this up simply by not sitting still. Stand up and walk around to physically help strengthen your heart, lungs and mind.
Exercise Jane has you do: raise your hands above your head for 5 seconds.
2. Mental Resilience - we can strengthen our brains and minds by focusing on a specific task. Don't quit and keep going until you finish your task!
Exercise Jane has you do: snap 50 consecutive times or count back from 100 by 7's.
3. Emotional Resilience - we can strengthen our hearts by feeling love and happiness. Your goal is to feel 3 positive feelings of love and happiness for every 1 negative feeling.
Exercise Jane has you do: look at pictures of your favourite baby animals.
4. Social Resilience - we can strengthen our connections with others by increasing the hormone Oxytocin, the trust hormone, through gratitude and touch.
Exercise Jane has you do: shake someone's hand for 6 seconds to raise the trust hormone.
By completing tasks to build up these four types of resilience we are granting ourselves with a gift to live 10 years longer than the average person. I am so excited to start implementing this model into my daily life. I will act now to benefit my future self. I hope you join me!
Enjoy this wonderful video and let yourself live 10 extra years...you deserve it :)!
Always,
Ally May
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