7 Ways To Bulletproof Your Well-Being & Help Others

Lewis Keens
Age of Awareness
Published in
12 min readApr 5, 2020

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Are you feeling stressed? Here’s why you might be, along with some useful ways to improve your well-being to help those around you.

The world has pressed pause.

To those few ‘front liners’ that can physically help, we salute you and your selfless efforts.

The majority of us, however, are in a position where the only way we can contribute in a meaningful way is to keep calm and stay at home.

The current situation provides a rare opportunity to slow down, focus on what is important to us and those close to us.

This transition to our new ‘normal’ from the infinite choices and options we are used to, has the potential to change the way a whole generation will look at the world, and more importantly, how we will look at each other.

So if it all feels like a quite a lot right now, that makes sense.

Human beings don’t like change.

Our brains are hardwired to hate uncertainty.

Changes cause stress responses we have all felt at times in our lives. You will recall a time you have experienced them — an increased heart rate, sweat running down your back, clammy hands, tense shoulders, that empty feeling in the pit of your stomach — these are all unpleasant feelings and avoided by most, at all cost!

Much of this is because our perception of the future is often worse than the reality. In the book, Stumbling on

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Age of Awareness
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Lewis Keens
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