Moralistic talk about food, exercise and bodies has its roots in Christianity and is perpetuated by corporations. Collectively, we can resist.
Exercise and activity are important parts of living the lives humans are meant to live from an evolutionary standpoint.
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As the new year gets underway, millions will make resolutions. The author explains why resolving to live in accordance with the way humans have evolved could go a long way to increasing happiness.
The odds of hitting your target goals is improved by building ‘goal infrastructure’.
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What research says about how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions
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Today, experts will be sharing with us insights into how to make a change in your life -- big or small -- using evidence from the world of academic research.
Pop metaphorical ‘brain bubbles’ by grounding your brain in the here and now.
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We often set generic goals, such as to exercise more. Because these don’t necessarily tap into our personal motivations, we may not follow through. Goals that are meaningful to you are more effective.
For good health and longevity, the right mindset – and less stress – may be more important than exercise.
Modern citizenship in the West increasingly involves a duty to care for ourselves — to eat healthily, exercise enough and even screen ourselves for disease — to minimize our health-care costs to the state.
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Are your new diet, exercise, meditation and self-care resolutions for 2020 really a personal choice? Or are you a model western “biocitizen,” living a life of unfreedom?
Want a mentally healthy year? Don’t resolve to go on a diet.
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Could your resolution resilience use a little science to back it up? A new study suggests practice can help your self-control – but don’t push it too far.
Reinforcement of the idea that exercise will lead to weight loss acts as a disincentive for those who stick to their exercise goals to only find the scales haven’t turned in their favour.
Self-control is a major problem for many of us, so failure to maintain New Year’s resolutions isn’t surprising.
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Every year, millions of people around the world make New Year’s resolutions. And every year, the great majority of us break and abandon those resolutions. Psychology research can help.
A professor of behavioural addiction gives us his top tips for sticking to New Year’s resolutions
Temporal landmarks act as demarcations between a past self, who has perhaps failed to meet goals, and the present self, who has goal pursuit at their fingertips.
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Recent psychological research highlights several reasons why New Year’s resolutions might actually work - as well as simple ways to set yourself up for success.
What will your resolutions be?
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In setting out our resolutions, we should first step back and take stock of what it is that we really want, what we consider the good life to be, and then think about how best we might achieve it.