If You Contracted a Serious Illness Like H1N1 Influenza, Will You Be Resilient Enough To Survive? -
A Columbia University Medical Center professor named, Yaacov Stern, presents research that reveals even when the brain has been infiltrated by amyloidal plaques and neurofibrillary twists, those suffering with signs of Alzheimer’s who have cognitive reserve will flourish and carry on.
Those among us with an ability to rebound from serious illnesses, depression, and continuing stress and are able to live a satisfied existence and all it has to offer are a resilient group. If you do not have this resilient tendency or characteristic, you will suffer from chronic ill health. Though some will not be able to summon this resilient capacity, others will while many can program themselves for cognitive reserve and resiliency.
How Do We Do This?
Cognitive reserve is a gift to those among us that spend their lives learning. By reading something on a daily basis we are training our brains to conquer novel skills sets and by utilizing the Internet, we can experience new thoughts and initiatives. When we do this we expand and broaden our cognitive reserves.
We should make every effort to pass on our own knowledge while spending time socializing with others, preferably those who are like minded or at least have a positive mental attitude. These suggestions have been proven and are backed up by strong evidence via scientific rule of law. You can learn more about this by referring to the Nuns Study Research conducted by David Snowden at the University of Kentucky.
Experiencing Optimism And Passion
Perhaps it sounds elementary and silly, but the more we experience jags of laughter, go through pleasing revelations and benefit from minor achievements, the more we will enjoy benevolent health and well being and fewer malicious infections and inflammatory episodes.
As much as unfounded hope often gives cause for potential success and anticipated improvement, it is again based on fact that a positive mental outlook can have much to do with personal health and longevity. As for the initial statement regarding H1N1 flu, you can indeed cut your chances of catching this epidemic and virulent form of influenza by getting vaccinated against it and finding more ways to smile often and laugh a lot every day, have some fun and enjoy yourself. If you do not believe me you can read about it further based on data collected by Professor Sarah Pressman from the University of Kansas and the Gallup World Poll.
Facial Expressions
When you nod your head up and down in the universal sign for “Yes” and turn your head from one side to the other signaling “No”, are you making facial expressions? Yes, absolutely. You are also utilizing five of the muscles in your face to mirror the primary emotions of surprise, anger, happiness, Fear, sadness and disgust. You may not be aware of the fact that your face I asymmetrical – or irregular. Additionally, the left side of your face is more expressive, it shows more confirmation that you are being emotional. If your intention is to try and persuade someone to your way of thinking and are attempting to get a read on their emotions, closely observe the left side of their face.
Communal Connection versus Communal Estrangement
When we meet someone, a sure fire way of connecting while with them while conversing is to be animated with your signals like smiling, nodding to them, shaking your head, making eye to eye – this qualifies as communal bonding. Each time we smile we activate the mirror neurons within our brain for understanding, this makes them innately smile back at you, give their head a nod and stare back at you right in the eyes.
When we attempt to influence, persuade or try to convince someone of something, we are practicing non speaking methods of contact. When we withdraw, we are setting our self up for communal disconnection. There was a time when we once left our elders to perish on a mountain somewhere, today we practice this social disconnect by placing elders in a nursing home.
Sure it is better than the alternative of being left to their own devices, but we do see less of them as a rule. They often become despondent at being “abandoned” and retreat into themselves rather than participate in activities and meet other folks.
These days we assist in communal disconnection by avoiding eye contact, mindless doodling, we lose focus and or become restless. We tend not to speak or communicate with others because of a failure to concentrate. For some the problem is due to lethargy while others are just intolerant, and it will make future socializing more difficult.
Why Even Care?
As humans we have still another attribute over our tree dwelling relatives, the chimpanzee – the capability to alter or advance our application of our facial expressiveness. It is noteworthy to mention that when experiencing negative feelings, humans will close their mouths so they stifle any yelling, potential biting or verbal rudeness. Doing this inherently puts the brakes to any potential sequence of hostility.
Chimpanzees on the other hand, cannot control their innate hostility and unconstructive feelings. They offer no cooperation since they are caught up in a competitive natural orbit. Human beings have been able to colonize and evolve due in part because they have the capacity of verbal communication but also instinctive unspoken facial expressiveness. This gives them the advantage to communicate for cooperative development through collaboration. It is a classic give and take relationship with obvious advantages and all contributors win.
Strong Understanding
How we express ourselves non verbally through facial expressiveness demonstrates what our current disposition is. Our frame of mind is two sided – when someone else notices our face they can draw correct assumptions from it ninety five percent of the time. Additionally, we also understand our facial expressiveness and support our emotional “canvas” with equivalent behavior.
Inside of us we are hearing a clear communicated memo directed at us that states – you are grinning so you must be cheerful, and becoming even happier. Of course we will listen to our own mind when it speaks to us.
In 1871, Charles Darwin noted that the open expressiveness due to external indications of emotive behavior strengthens it. Investigators of late have found that facial emoting of feelings is actually a genetic attribute lodged in our brains.
In 1900, Professor William James from Harvard Medical School stated that when an emotion is not felt from a physical standpoint, it has not been experienced period. There is more to our emotive behavior than simply the brain response from the limbic system, we express ourselves with facial reactions and this plays a big part in how we present ourselves emotionally.
Botox Treatments
When using Botox cosmetically some interesting side symptoms emerge. The muscles in the face are paralyzed. Those folks, who do not frown, are more cheerful than the people who are incessantly searching for something to be negative about, according to the Journal of Pain, in the May 2008 edition as stated by Michael Cardiff of the University of Cardiff. Interestingly, during intense episodes of pain, when the face muscles are utilized there is an obvious increase in the pain experienced.
So it is suggested that we mutually put into practice Duchene smiling, the authentic variety and Societal smiling which is the phony version. As the saying goes, fake it until you make it is truly accurate. Aging adults should spend at least one minute several times a day to practice social smiling. This will initiate a neural arrangement of legitimate smiling ability.
This kind of Smile Therapy has been working in many classes of society for a number of years now and many older people could also benefit from the practice in order to stay socially connected into their golden years, increasing their likelihood of longevity. The ritual really works and has proven effective for executives who have improved their social circle and financial progression as well as career advancement. More than eighty five percent of those participating in the practice report statistical success. They carry on with the practice as a brain exercise for positive development.
In Closing
A person must ask themselves if they would enjoy a definitive gain over their competitors if they were to read three books, articles and reports – and remember them – while their peers perhaps only are capable of summoning up only one.
Wed, May 26, 2010
Anti Aging, Gerontology, Lifestyle, Longevity