Super Ager. Elise Marie Collins

Чтение книги онлайн.

СКАЧАТЬ aging, and you will be hearing about a lot more studies and advice about aging well in the next few decades.

      Form Your Own Community to Support Your New Habits

      Support can be critical to healthy habit change. Start with a buddy or a group. When you act in unison, the support becomes palpable. Suddenly changing long-ingrained habits becomes doable. Start a walking group, a volunteering committee, a healthy book club, or join a meetup focused on healthy habits or healthy aging.

      Those that follow Dr. Bredesen’s ReCODE protocol have an online support group for his complex protocol. Members of the group meet once a year and if it is their first time at the meeting, they are thrilled to meet online buddies in person. In my own experience as a Yoga Health Coach, my colleagues and I have found that creating support groups online or in person leads to far greater success in changing habits. The fact that our habits are part of our inner and outer ecosystem and are reinforced by friends and family can sometimes go unnoticed. When you feel supported in taking a step away from an old model of living, it can make change seem less overwhelming and scary. Have compassion for yourself as you transform.

      It is never too late or too early to start your healing your lifestyle by embracing new habits that help you to feel good, look good and age well. When you feel isolated and alone, you will have more challenges in changing habits. Fear and apprehension can take over your mind when you lack support. Many of us live isolated lifestyles, so don’t compare yourself to Some Super Agers who are a part of a culture that naturally supports Super Aging habits, like those who live in Blue Zone® regions. Some Super Agers have developed healthy aging habits at various stages of their lives, on their own, for many different reasons. It is possible to develop habits to find optimism in aging. Among all Super Agers, habits form the structure from which their purpose, dharma, or ikigai flourishes.

      Science of Life

      I am a longtime student of Ayurveda, which considers daily habits to be integral. Ayurveda, meaning “science of life” in Sanskrit, codifies an optimal way of life, one that is in harmony with nature and the world. A person who lives in union with the here-and-now, who they are at the deepest level, and then in harmony with nature will live a long and happy life, according to Ayurveda.

      “When I studied Ayurveda, yoga and enlightenment, I was told which habits I should be doing daily. Almost no attention was paid to behavioral science or how humans actually evolve their habits.” observes Cate Stillman, in her book, Body Thrive: Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga. I resonate with this observation and wonder why behavioral science is not taught in every high school and college. Some acupuncturists, chiropractors, naturopaths, and MDs often don’t instruct their clients in healthy habits and then almost never teach them how to set up a new habit using behavioral science. Cognitive Behavioral Therapists and other forms of behavioral therapists seem to be the only ones who are armed with the simple tools to identify, form, and then solidify healthy habits that benefit their clients. As the author of two books, I realized people liked to read my books on the Chakras and healing foods. They were inspiring, readers told me, but I wondered if anyone changed that much from reading them. On the other hand, books can make an impact when the author purposefully encourages habit change in the form of simple daily lifestyle practices that don’t even take much time to perform.

      When I joined the Yogahealer online community, I found myself able to integrate at least two habits that I had tried to change for at least a decade or so before meeting her. Cate Stillman and Yogahealer helped groups from all over the world shift their bedtimes, eat less meat, and to get up and get out and exercise. There is so much more to her habit-changing courses, and I, along with a team of editors and administrators, now run her health coaching blog at www.yogahealthcoaching.com.

      One of the reasons I began studying Yoga Health Coaching with Cate resulted from a study that I worked on in 2010, when I was a yoga instructor for the PRYMS (Practicing Restorative Yoga for Metabolic Syndrome) study. This NIH-funded research study examined the effects of restorative yoga versus stretching in patients with Metabolic Syndrome, which is a cluster of symptoms that are an indicator that you are highly likely to get Type 2 diabetes. The lead researcher on the PRYSMS study, Dr. Alka Kanaya, gathered participants for our first class and orientation where she took some time to explain the study. This would be a year of restorative yoga for everyone and the study participants were required to engage in a home practice. As an instructor, I had to be sure my students were participating and do as much as I could to get everyone on board. During the orientation, Dr. Kanaya mentioned a previous study that she directed, The Live Well, Be Well study, which compared two groups. One group was waitlisted, while the other group received healthy lifestyle counseling, primarily by phone. After a year, many in the counseling group had made small, yet important reductions in risks for Type 2 diabetes. Why weren’t interventions like this widely implemented, I wondered. As a yoga teacher, I felt I could make a significant difference in the lives of my students simply by counseling them on optimal health habits or setting up habits that I could ask them to perform. These initial thoughts led me to pursue “health coaching” as something valuable to offer as a health professional.

      A simple phone call had such great benefits. What could similar health interventions do for yoga students? What if all we did was ask one question of our students per week about their health?

      In studying Yoga Health Coaching, I learned about books and courses that explained the behavioral science and neuroscience behind habits. In yoga and holistic healing communities, many people rely on going to get help from a doctor or a practitioner. This works well when you are sick or not feeling well. However, there is much you can do to bolster health before you get ill. In Japan, preventative medicine is the model of care and it is no accident that the country has the highest life expectancy in the world. Preventative medicine or lifestyle medicine means integrating healthy daily and seasonal habits into your life. Understanding the connection between daily habits and preventative medicine deserves much more attention in western medicine and in many holistic practices. When you are sick, it is important to check with a doctor. However, cultivating healthy habits needs to be discussed more often by yoga teachers, acupuncturists, medical doctors, and the like. The assumption that change is too difficult for most people needs to change. Health coaches are trained to help people effectively change habits and enhance lifestyle choices for optimum health.

      Body Thrive

      Yoga Health Coaching was founded by Cate Stillman as a way to help yoga students and people interested in a holistic lifestyle optimize habits based on Ayurveda and yoga. She wrote the book Body Thrive, Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga. Body Thrive, which applies the most essential teachings of Ayurveda into a modern life by decoding the teachings into habits. Ayurveda is the perennial body-wisdom tradition that co-arose with yoga, the path of awakened living. The book describes a curriculum that every person can learn as a child, master as an adult, and refine as an elder for their body to thrive. The habits described in Body Thrive are simple and have been demonstrated to increase healthspan and lifespan, habits such as going to bed early, eating a hearty midday meal, exercising, eating more plants, and giving yourself regular oil massages, known as abyhanga in Sanskrit. To find a Yoga Health Coach to work with or for more information on Yoga Health Coaching visit https://yogahealthcoaching.com/find-a-coach/ to learn to put habits into place.

      Twenty Years Younger

      Jon Butcher, founder of multiple companies, including Lifebook and a Mindvalley Academy class, “Turn Your Life into a Living Masterpiece,” credits daily habits and purpose with helping him and his wife to look twenty years younger than their biological age. “The key is the habits that you put in place and then being true to those habits. And the way that you are going to get that done is to have a strong purpose and that’s what it always comes down to.” Jon Butcher didn’t СКАЧАТЬ