
#1 Neuroscientist: Truth About Stress, Belly Fat, Coffee, Alcohol, Diet & Journaling -Dr. Tara Swart
Rangan Chatterjee
Jan 10, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Experience beauty to enhance mental health and longevity
Neuroaesthetics is the science of how experiencing beauty through art, music, or nature has a positive impact on our brain, mental health, and longevity.
Train interoception through body scans for enhanced self-awareness
Our actual sixth sense is interoception—the sense of our body's internal physiological state—which can be trained by doing body scans of internal organs.
Balance stress and trust by managing hormonal states
Trust is linked to the hormone oxytocin while stress is linked to cortisol, and you cannot be in both of these opposite hormonal states at the same time.
Align your life with personal values to combat burnout
A huge cause of burnout is not just overwork, but living a life that is not in accordance with your personal values, which is a form of chronic stress.
Choose gentle exercise to manage stress from intense jobs
People with stressful jobs should consider more gentle forms of exercise, as high-intensity workouts also spike cortisol, adding more stress to the system.
Train intuition through journaling and low-risk testing
You can systematically build trust in your intuition by journaling your logical versus intuitive feelings on decisions and then testing your intuition in low-risk scenarios.
Manage stress to prevent contagion in others
When you are stressed, cortisol particles can leak out through your sweat into the atmosphere, which can then be absorbed by others and raise their stress levels.
Avoid late meals to protect sleep quality like you would avoid alcohol
Heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring shows that not leaving a two-hour gap between your last meal and bedtime is as disruptive to your sleep as drinking alcohol.
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