Welcome to this week’s Further — your guide to living a long, happy life.
Here are some of the highlights of this issue:
- How belief impacts your health and longevity
- Is meaning more important than happiness?
- Why working out literally keeps you young
- How to tame your wandering mind
- Misconceptions about meditation
And of course, five more resources for living your best life. Enjoy, and thanks for being here!
Keep going-
Brian Clark
Further
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You’ve Gotta Believe
A recent epidemiological study suggests that our beliefs about how much we exercise may substantially influence our health and longevity, even if those beliefs are objectively inaccurate. The study intimates something we’ve known in other contexts, that “our mind-sets color our experience of the world.”
How Our Beliefs Can Shape Our Waistlines
The Meaning of (Your) Life
Here’s an article from a couple of years ago that I ran across again this week. It tells us that happiness and meaning are strongly correlated and often feed off each other. “Years of research on the psychology of well-being have demonstrated that often human beings are happiest when they are engaged in meaningful pursuits and virtuous activities.”
The Differences between Happiness and Meaning in Life
Brain Food
Researchers are starting to find links between our mental health and brain functioning and the foods we eat. What you heard endlessly growing up was right: You really should eat your vegetables — but perhaps for more reasons than your nagging parents knew.
Can Eating More Kale, Eggs, And Carrots Make You Smarter And Happier?
Young Guns
Working out is not just for putting on “the gun show.” Remaining physically active as we grow older could help to keep our muscles and immune systems robust, according to two inspiring new studies.
How Exercise Can Keep Aging Muscles and Immune Systems ‘Young’
Doing the Charleston
“Healthy” isn’t often the first word that comes to mind when considering the cuisine of the South. The historic, picture-perfect South Carolina city of Charleston, however, is carving out its place as one of the great culinary cities in America.
How This Southern Town Became One Of The Best Healthy Food Cities In America
Wanderlost
In their study “A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind,” researchers found that that experiencing a regular lack of concentration has a negative impact on overall mood and state of mind. In short, people were less happy when their minds wandered.
9 Ways to Focus a Wandering Mind
40-Hour Work Weak
What’s unique about 8 hours of work? Why was it chosen as a standard? What’s good and what’s bad with it? Turns out there’s a lot more bad than good.
How Teams Can be More Productive by Killing the 8-hour Workday
Critical Work
We need to move past self-criticism and negative self-talk to be happier, more resilient, and more successful at work. Here’s how.
How to Bring Self-Compassion to Work with You
Computer Love
We hear a lot about the scary side of AI, but there are likely more positive benefits than negative in reality. For example, researchers think artificial intelligence could recognize subtle changes in behavior and sleep patterns related to Alzheimer’s that allows for identification of patients at risk of developing the most severe forms of the disease.
AI Can Spot Signs of Alzheimer’s Before Your Family Does
Meditation Myths
Meditation can boost mental health, help chronic pain, reduce stress, and build a new appreciation for the world around us. But even with all this interest, misconceptions about what this ancient practice can do for human health and well-being are still circulating.
6 Common Myths About Meditation You Need to Stop Believing
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