Positive outlook on life
– Actively try to catch negative thoughts and turn them into a positive statement in your mind.
– Protect yourself from the self-defeating demons chasing good plans and destroying them before any plan is put into practice.
– Believe in yourself and take a risk before the undermining parrot makes you irrelevant to competition.
– Coming last in a competition still means you are a competitor.
– Never entering a competition makes you a spectator in your own life.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/embodied-wellness/201704/affirm-or-not-affirm
– Get Involved
– Movement and interaction with life will keep both your body and mind active.
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– Maintain then improve the following with exercise
– Muscle strength and bulk
– Lift weights that seem heavy for you, including bodyweight type exercise.
– Feel fatigue after each set then recover before the next set for 3 sets in total.
– Aerobic fitness
– Start by walking on flat ground at a pace that creates mild breathing exertion.
– Progress to a faster pace, then progress to mild hills.
– Overall body flexibility
– Take up a formal stretching class example Yoga. Hold different parts of your body until a stretch is felt in your muscles. Hold this stretch without bouncing into the stretch, for 15 seconds. Repeat for a total of three stretches per body area
Lookout for the GeriTraK article on the evolving treatment history of depression.
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