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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 22h \ on: Reluctantly... I'm Back at H&F HealthAndFitness
(It took me a while to realise what h&f actually stands for in this context, lol. My brain automatically associated it with Hammersmith & Fulham. 😅)
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+100 points: saving a person's life; ensuring a woman's fidelity; preventing infanticide or abortion. +50 points: adopting an orphan; burying an unclaimed corpse; preventing someone from abandoning their village during famine; successfully persuading fishermen, hunters and butchers to find a different profession. +30 points: persuading an evildoer to change; correcting an injustice. +10 points: recommending a virtuous person for office; removing a public harm. +5 points: convincing someone to drop a lawsuit; saving a domestic animal. +3 points: saving the life of a useless animal; asking fishermen, hunters and butchers to seek a different profession. +1 point: praising good deeds; not joining in wrongdoing; curing illness; feeding the hungry; burying a dead animal; saving an insect or aquatic creature; donating money to good causes such as building roads, bridges, wells, temples, or for helping the poor with essentials like tea, medicine, clothes, or coffins. -1 point: each character misread while chanting a sutra; reciting a sutra after eating garlic or onions. -2 points: sex with a prostitute. -10 points: possessing arms to kill; entertaining murderous thoughts; talking back to one's parents; illicit sex with someone of good family. -100 points: raping a woman; sentencing someone to death.
This is the Chinese equivalent of Moses' stone tablets. It's interesting to observe how societies come up with their own moral/ethical rules to ensure their cohesion, how those rules compare to each other, and how they evolve with time...
She insisted the she had only calmed down because she took deep breaths and it still hurt.
Using the breath to self soothe is a great skill to have! What a hero! 💪💡🤙
Treat your (future) self as someone you're responsible for... Because you are.
This is exactly what I tell my little one when he complains I'm sometimes too strict. I'm responsible for bringing him into adulthood in good health, so I insist that he doesn't eat too much sugar, that he brushes his teeth twice a day, that he doesn't get too much screen time...
He's more cooperative, now that he understands my motives.
First he thought he could solve government overspending by creating another government agency.
Now he wants to fix the 'tyrannical two-party' system by creating a third one... 🤔
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 4 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 4 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
Absolutely! From what I understand, there are several method to trigger the RR, such as prayer, breathwork, directing time in nature etc.
My favourite is being near water (sea, lake etc)
Again, for the umptieth time, I've come across the term "Relaxation Response", and this time I decided to look into it. I liked what I found initially, then decided to buy a few books on the subject to learn more.
I'm currently reading a book on Coherence Breathing, and how to use it to trigger the body's relaxation response. Basically, the RR is about strengthening your parasympathetic nervous system by turning off the fight or flight response. The goal is to become more resilient in the face of stress. The benefits for mental and physical health are immense. I decided to give it a try yesterday evening for the first time, and I think I'm hooked, lol.
In other news, my BOLT score this morning: 35 sec. Weekly/Monthly averages: 40/37 seconds (I'm aiming for 40 sec monthly average)
Also:
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 3 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
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Woke up 40 minutes ago, it was 5am. I am going through my morning routine, starting with measuring my BOLT score1: 47secs today, not bad.
I'm still in bed, taking my time before carrying on with stretching, and going out for a quick short walk...
Footnotes
It's my experience that functional glutes are important for the posture. They provide great support for the lower back and the spine.
I remember when I used to swim regularly, strong glutes would help me with my balance, and to effortlessly maintain a streamlined body in the water
Lastly, since you mentioned sex, working out your glutes, will automatically work out your perineum (pelvic floor), which will drastically improve your sex life.
(PS: sorry couldn't watch the video. No IG account)
My wife is a certified professional coach. That's her side gig.
She always says it's as worth as you are willing to put the effort in changing your situation. Coaches will not and cannot solve your problems, they just bring them to your awareness, give you the tools, then it's up to you to decide what to do. Either way is fine.
Also, I know a friend who was diagnosed with cancer, had chemotherapy etc. She hired a health coach too...
I believe in free will. No one else chose your partner.
You make choices, and have to accept their consequences.
52 sats \ 1 reply \ @398ja 2 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
This blog post appeared on my oura app today.
Cold showers act as a hormetic stressor: the initial chill kicks your sympathetic “alert” response into gear, then your body rebounds with a surge of parasympathetic activity—stimulating the vagus nerve and releasing mood-boosting neurochemicals.
This is exactly my experience with cold showers, I wrote about it here:
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 2 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
Moar energy
31 sats \ 3 replies \ @398ja 2 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
Yes, that too, but to be frank, I believe sleep is paramount.
52 sats \ 5 replies \ @398ja 1 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
I actually had my blood pressure measured this morning during a routine examination at the hospital. At first I thought something was wrong because the nurse made a surprised "Oh!" but then I realised she was just positively surprised by the very good blood pressure and heart rate results. "That's what we want to see," she congratulated me.
I want to believe that my cold showers and my other routines (sleep! etc) have contributed to it. I have actually rarely felt so well, physically and mentally...
152 sats \ 12 replies \ @398ja 1 Jul \ parent \ on: (Mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
lol, same here.
I remember how at the beginning I was always hyperventilating when in contact with cold water. Now, I don't anymore, or not as much. It's still a small shock to the system, but I don't need to mouth breathe anymore.
According to Wim Hof, cold shower is exercise for your vascular system and heart. He writes:
When you take a cold shower, all of those little muscles in your vascular system — millions of them — are activated and exercised. Within ten days of taking these showers, you will notice that your heart rate has decreased significantly, as much as fifteen to thirty beats per minute, and that it remains that way twenty-four hours a day. That translates to a lot less stress.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Amazing. Zykeband looks promising. I really like the idea of locally processing your health data, which makes lots of sense, considering its sensitive nature. A major plus, imho.
I did research Oura's ToS, they make big promises about privacy, but you have to trust them. Also, to get more out of it, you have to share quite a lot of PIIs, a huge risk, but nevertheless, I decided to go for it.
I still don't regret my decision, because their app is superb, and I can see how it can/will get even better in the next years.