Stress Management A Way of Life
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6 Simple Amendments For Longevity

Submitted by on December 16, 2009 – 5:00 amOne Comment


Often thoughts flood our consciousness about what could one do in the present that would help in prolonging one’s life. When shining examples of those around having long existence – often the confounding query nagging many is that ‘what could be the universal thread behind it?’

There are, in fact, lots of miniscule variations one could make in one’s lifestyle today that would go a long way in lengthening one’s life. Explicated below are the simple yet immensely beneficial alterations in one’s daily life that are bound to add several years to one’s life.

  1. Merely inculcating the flossing routine into daily routine could increase one’s life span by a year. A well-identified fact is the apparent association in between gum diseases and cardiovascular ailments. When one flosses regularly it is the best step one could take at curbing this onset.
  2. Exercise increase life spanBy taking a low-dosage aspirin daily one would be adding 2 whole years to one existing lifespan.
  3. Restricting the consumption of caffeine to just 2 cups daily would be adding another year.
  4. By just keeping tabs on one’s blood pressure on a regular basis would mean adding eighteen months to one’s life.
  5. Adhering to an exercise routine of thrice a week would translate to adding 3 years to one’s life.
  6. Cutting back on working hours to a decent forty to fifty hours per week would help in adding eighteen months to one’s life.

Ways to increase life expectancyWhen one sums it all up, one has increased one’s life span by almost ten years more. Though, it is most often easier preached than practised, particularly when it is about lowering the number of working hours. However, it is well known that stress has a major affect on all parts of the body. Not being able to bear the stress and strain, our system just comes to a grinding halt when faced with this daily onslaught.

Longevity hotbeds across the globe are often dubbed the ‘blue zones’ and by observing the lifestyles of the inhabitants in such blue zones, one could garner clues that could be eventually self-implemented. However, one aspect about individuals that have prolonged existence in blue zones across the globe is that they also experience stress. Still they are having an ailment-free existence and mostly live to the ripe age of a hundred years. The distinction is that these individuals avoid internalizing their stress that majority of the humans are so adept at doing. These people are into practising simplistic methods of de-stressing their bodies like doing prayers, taking naps, also involving the happy hour. Meditation done for twenty minutes on a day-to-day basis could also be inculcated for reaping its immense benefits. It finally boils down to the basic fact that one needs to take time off for oneself.

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