These 6 Habits Help Predict How Long You'll Live! (Heal The Body & Mind) | Gemma Newman

Rangan Chatterjee

24 ene 2024

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What is it that really makes us healthy? Is it regular trips to the doctor, a swift diagnosis, and medicine when we need it? Or do we need a more holistic approach? Today’s guest believes it is the latter.

Dr Gemma Newman has been a family doctor in the NHS for 20 years. She is regularly invited to speak and teach all over the world and is incredibly passionate about treating body, mind and spirit as one - and this forms the basis of her brand new book, Get Well Stay Well - The Six Healing Health Habits You Need To Know.

Like me, Gemma increasingly found that her conventional medical training wasn’t yielding positive results for many of her patients - so she decided to take a more open-minded approach, studying nutrition, psychotherapy and a range of other holistic methods and combined them with her conventional medical practice. And, very soon, she began to see radical transformations in the health of her patients.

It’s this holistic method that Gemma explains in our conversation today, using the acronym GLOVES - which points to six key areas of life we can address if we want to get well and stay well. They’re ways of thinking, being and doing that should be front and centre in our lifestyles, and, of course, we discuss them all during our conversation together.

Crucially, Gemma, believes the first step in any effective, lasting behaviour change is finding self-compassion, and her approach will help you trust your inner wisdom, feel more in control, and stop outsourcing your wellbeing to the doctor’s surgery.

And in a world where ‘wellness’ often comes with a hefty price tag, her suggestions are all free.

Gemma writes and speaks from the heart and I think you will really enjoy this conversation.

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Episode description

Mindsip insights from this episode:

Cultivate self-compassion to envision a healthier future

The biggest barrier preventing people from making lasting health changes is a lack of self-compassion, which stops them from being able to imagine a better future for themselves.

#compassion

#personal-growth

Utilize tapping to alleviate emotional pain

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or tapping, is a physical tool that uses a simple sequence of tapping on pressure points while repeating a mantra to diminish the intensity of a problem or pain.

#emotion

#therapy

Engage in forest bathing to boost immune cells by 40%

Studies on 'forest bathing' show that walking in a forest can boost your natural killer cells by 40% over two days, significantly enhancing a key part of your immune system.

#environment

#immune-system

Create a personal code word to reinforce core values

To embed your core values, create a personal 'code word' (like 'polar bear' for family) that is tied to a specific memory, serving as a powerful reminder to live by that value.

#habits

#values

Visualize muscle flexing to enhance strength

Research shows that visualizing yourself flexing your muscles in real-time can lead to a measurable improvement in actual muscle strength, even without any physical movement.

#mind

#muscle

Practice gratitude to reduce physical pain perception

Practicing gratitude can reduce your perception of physical pain, with one study showing up to a 16% reduction, offering a way to endogenously improve pain without medication.

#gratitude

#pain

Implement GLOVES framework for holistic well-being

A simple yet powerful framework for well-being is GLOVES, which stands for Gratitude, Love, Outside, Veggies, Exercise, and Sleep.

#wellness

Recognize mind and body as a unified entity

Rather than thinking of the mind and body as merely connected, it's more accurate to see them as one and the same entity, where mental states directly manifest as physical symptoms and vice versa.

#body

#mind

Reframe trauma using the Meaning Maker Exercise

The 'Meaning Maker Exercise' helps you process difficult events by first writing down the objective facts without emotion, and then listing what you are grateful for having learned from the experience.