Health
My next eBook will be on Societies Characterised by a Healthy Old Age and what we can learn from them.
This will be backed up by what we know about mind-body medicine and what works to keep us healthy.
I’m excited about it. It’s something of my big book on health. What we know that [...]
Continue reading about Societies Characterised by a Healthy Old Age – what we can learn from them
It’s been a long while since I did a round-up of good posts I’ve found. I’ve been bookmarking (blogmarking?) them so I would have them to do a post about.
I’ve realised that I won’t get the time any time soon to do a post on each so this is the collection.
First up is a [...]
I have a guest post on Marie’s Coming Out of the Trees blog. Marie’s blog is mostly her journal about recovering from child sexual abuse. This is a very important subject and Marie writes very well. However, if you are dealing with these issues yourself it may not be the time to [...]
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In the last week or two I have been feeling overwhelmed. This isn’t surprising to me: I have a part-time and a full-time job and do my best to contribute to a good relationship with my partner. I like to go for a walk each day to stay fit and do a weekly [...]
This post is just to alert you to what I think is a very important book and website.
They are about the relationship between social equality and health. There is good correlation between the equality in a nation and the health of all people in that nation. That is, greater equality is not only [...]
Some years ago now some researchers wanted to study the oldest and healthiest populations. They marked these on a map with blue circles. And so these areas came to be known as “Blue Zones”.
There is an on-going project to research these long-lived and healthy people. The results of studying these people – [...]
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Can we predict how healthy we will be in our old age? We all have an interest in the answer to this question! Most of us, I would think, want to know what will give us a healthy old age.
A word of caution: These predictions are about statistics and averages – which [...]
There are three tasks or personal qualities that are especially relevant to old age. These are well explained in George Vaillant’s Ageing Well. They are: generativity, keeping the meaning and integrity.
Generativity
Generativity as defined by (Ageing Well p.115) John Kotre: To invest oneself in forms of life and work that will outlive the self. [...]
