Springboard to Creativity
A quotation that is original with me is, “Frustration is the springboard to creativity.” I used to be a diver on the swim team in high school. I’d go to the end of the board and spring up, giving me energy to preform my dive in the air before I passed the board again to descend into the water. As I got older, I learned to experience frustration as a friend and a form of energy, like a spring board, helping me to get a higher perspective on life’s problems. My diving exper
Ideas on Being Resilient and Less Anxious
According to this article, https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/brain-study-exercise-increases-resilience-to-stress, “Aerobic exercise ...is more likely to have a greater effect on stress resilience than non-aerobic exercise.” There’s that word, "resilience." In an experiment with mice, the article said: "Those who exercised showed less anxious behavior after the stressful event compared to mice that didn't exercise. Exercising mice also had elevated galanin levels in the locus
Happiness and Breathing Formula
Martin Seligman came up with this formula for Happiness: H=S+C+V or Level of Happiness = Set point for Happiness + Current Conditions/Circumstances + Voluntary Activities. Walking in the woods with my friend, Nancy, was my voluntary activity today. We stretched ourselves by taking a mountain bike path along Ridenour Lake in Nitro, West Virginia . We had no idea where it would lead us nor how long it would take. According to Nancy’s Fitbit, we walked 3.34 miles, 8,739 step
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