Your Soul Food for the Last Friday in May 2024: How to Instantly Feel Better

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

I’ve studied positive psychology for 10 years: This is the secret to happiness:
Stephanie Harrison has studied the science of happiness for 10 years. Here’s what she says is the secret to happiness.

This is the secret to happiness, from a happiness researcher (cnbc.com)

Exercise can reverse ageing in the brain, study claims:
It looks like brawn could be the key to long lasting brains. May 15, 2024 We all know exercise is good for us. It’s been clear for hundreds (if not thousands) of years that keeping fit and mobile is important to keep your body in good nick, prevent diseases and improve your mental health. Despite its myriad benefits for us, however, there always seems to be one insurmountable fact of life that exercise can’t conquer: our minds and bodies decline as we age

Exercise can reverse ageing in the brain, study claims | BBC Science Focus Magazine

As we are all in the midst of reinventing ourselves, I thought this episode of Hidden Brain was particularly informative and counterintuitive!

Innovation 2.0: How Big Ideas Are Born | Hidden Brain Media

Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning:
Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can’t match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.

As schools reconsider cursive, research homes in on handwriting’s brain benefits : Shots – Health News : NPR

And the soul-filling wonders of nature-

Majestic mountain ibex among winners in GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2024 members’ competition:
20 breathtaking images from this year’s GDT Nature Photographer of the Year members’ competition, including a stoic Alpine ibex, a wave-riding penguin, and a bewitching winter woodland.

Majestic mountain ibex among winners in GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2024 members’ competition – Discover Wildlife

Stay in the positive and please pay it forward.

Love,

Neville

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