{"id":248120,"date":"2023-11-24T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wellness-center-message-science-of-a-meaningful-life"},"modified":"2023-11-24T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:39:02","slug":"wellness-center-message-science-of-a-meaningful-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wellness-center-message-science-of-a-meaningful-life","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Center Message-Science of a meaningful life"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE TOP 10 INSIGHTS FROM THE \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SCIENCE OF A MEANINGFUL LIFE\u00e2\u20ac IN 2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. <\/span>Happy people are more willing to tackle social problems:<\/span> They may care more about contributing to important causes and have more energy for doing so.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. <\/span>In the long run, diversity wins:<\/span> People come to appreciate over time the differences with others, consider them as equals and and it correlates strongly with positive leadership.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. <\/span>We influence our brains for the better<\/span>: People feel connected to the greater world; their minds are engaged and less prone to wondering.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. <\/span>Treating yourself gets old fast – but giving to others doesn’t:<\/span> This relates with feeling enduring satisfaction instead of adapting to the situations overtime. This increases the success of cooperative work, a grater sense of purpose and meaning and better physical health.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. <\/span>Practicing Loving-Kindness slows aging:<\/span> Cultivating warm-hearted positive emotions towards oneself and others through mindful meditation influences the length of Telomeres (DNA -protein complexes inside the cells that protect them from decay) to slow down aging.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. <\/span>Your partner’s emotional health could affect your longevity:<\/span> Romantic partners are interconnected, and according to different studies, your partner’s happiness could impact your physical health becoming a protective factor if they are happy.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. <\/span>People who are more forgiving sleep better: <\/span>Forgiving people tend to sleep better and for longer periods of time, have better physical health and feel more satisfied with their lives.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Leaving behind negative events and emotions decreases the frequency of painful rumination – focused attention and repetitive thoughts about our distress.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. <\/span>Kids who engage in the arts feel better about themselve<\/span>s: Arts bolster self-esteem and it doesn’t matter if the results are good or not. Kids feel accomplished, unique and driven to purse differed goals.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. <\/span>Feeling grateful increases our honesty<\/span>: Gratefulness might increase the likelihood\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>to be honest about different situations.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. <\/span>Seeing goals as a journey drives you to stick to them<\/span>: People are more likely to take actions to stay on track and reinforce the behavior that got them to their goals. The journey metaphor fosters a greater sense of personal growth, a feeling of changing and learning over the course of the experience.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Adapted from an article published on December 19,2019 in the Greater Good Magazine from UC Berkeley<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Carolina Ram\u00c3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    THE TOP 10 INSIGHTS FROM THE \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SCIENCE OF A MEANINGFUL LIFE\u00e2\u20ac IN 2019 Happy people are more willing to tackle social problems: They may care more about contributing to important causes and have more energy for doing so. In the long run, diversity wins: People come to appreciate over time the differences with others, consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochesterapps.com\/rochestereduco\/lions-honor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}