Things I've learnt this month: May
Things I've learnt this month: May!
🌳 Spending just 10 minutes in a natural setting (even a city park) can significantly reduce feelings of stress and lower blood pressure. Nature really is a healer. (Ecopsychology)
🩸Women on average have 456 periods over a lifetime!
🧈 Butter prices increased 65.3% in the last 12months due to global demand for our butter so now we have to pay international prices (Stats NZ)
🔗 The four key pillars of healthy workplace relationships are trust, belonging, recognition and collective resilience. (Esther Perel). How understood do you feel in your workplace?
🎶 Music is a fantastic, free tool to help manage your emotions - and something many of us could use more regularly! A tempo of 60–80 bpm is ideal for helping you feel more relaxed 😌, while 140–150 bpm or so can help energise you ⚡. Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now is 156 bpm! What song lifts your mood when you hear it?
💃 98% of the time, you will feel better after dancing! What a fantastic FREE way to boost your mood – music + movement. I am all in! (UCLA Health Study)
💔 The highest rates of suicide in women occur between the ages of 45–54. It’s no coincidence that this overlaps with the major life transition of perimenopause. If you're struggling with how you're feeling, please reach out for help - ideally from a GP who understands women’s health and this stage of life. You’re not alone.
🌱 “Humility is an honest recognition of who and what we’ve become, followed by a deep desire to become who we can be.” - Bill Wilson
🔍 Once you become aware of and then observe a behaviour, it tends to change. This is known as the Hawthorne Effect. In my new book, I talk a lot about awareness because it is SUCH a powerful tool – noticing what you’re doing, without judgement. 📖
🚶♂️ Regularly taking the stairs is linked to a 24% reduced risk of dying from any cause and a 39% reduced risk of dying from heart disease. (European Society of Cardiology study)
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📱 We see more information in one day than a person 700 years ago would have seen in their entire life!
🔊 It’s about 4 times louder now than it was before humans took over the planet - and too much noise, too often, can really crank up your stress levels.
💊 Anti-anxiety medication use increases with every 10-decibel rise in neighbourhood noise, and people living near loud roads are 24% more likely to experience depression.
🚶♂️ Our ancestors were estimated to be 14 times more physically active than we are today. Fourteen!! No wonder so many modern health issues are linked to our lifestyle.
🧠 Super interesting learnings in the section above from @michaeleaster. Definitely got me thinking!
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What have you been learning this month? 🤔
Claire x
