Health & Medical Self-Improvement

When Negative Stress Zaps Your Life Energy - Counterbalance it With an Activity You Love

These days negative news abound and they can have a detrimental impact on your health and make you age faster.
Even if you are not part of those who fear for their job or have already lost it, you can be caught in the spiral of negative stress that surrounds us.
A good way to counterbalance this negativity is to introduce a regular activity into your life that gives you pleasure and focuses your attention temporarily in another direction.
Something that can help you recharge your batteries because it's fun and stimulating.
Interviews with a number of healthy 90+ year olds showed that their life strategies significantly impacted their health and happiness.
One of the significant learning's was that maintaining an activity you love can help you age better.
Interestingly, playing bridge or following a hobby has a similar impact on your health than regular physical activity: it ideally compensates stress.
If you don't have the time, possibility or inclination to join a group of individuals face to face, find an online community that reflects your interests.
If you are looking for intellectual stimulus and fun, like stories and history and are interested in understanding how things work, then you might enjoy a social network focused on antiquing and collecting.
By its very nature, collecting is a social experience and very extraverted.
Collectors love to share their passion and explain the stories behind their favorite collectors' items.
Watching, listening and reading their stories, you start to understand the reason for the existence of many things and very simple everyday objects will suddenly spring to life.
One of the few Websites that combines the informational side of the many different antique, art and vintage items and collectibles with networking and social exchange is atquid.
com.
This site combines interactive features such as those on YouTube with networking tools such as those found on LinkedIn, Plaxo and Facebook.
This allows you to build meaningful social exchange and network, even if you have not yet caught the collectors bug yourself.
The content is user generated and membership is free.
Whatever you do, don't let the surrounding negativity get the better of you, device strategies that recharge your batteries and give you positive life energy.


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