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A Neuroscience Researcher Reveals These Lifestyle Habits That Wreck Your Brain Health Every Day
Your lifestyle wrecks your brain health daily.
Your daily lifestyle habits have a major impact on your brain health. The cumulative effect can wreck your cognition slowly.
Yet you stick to these habits as they are believed to be the need of the hour. They have sunk so deeply into your daily routine that they have become the norm.
You’re deluded into believing that you need these habits when in reality they threaten your brain health daily.
Dr. David Rock, a neuroscience researcher, warns against these daily habits and gives solutions to eliminate these habits from your routine.
Your lifestyle is poisoning your brain health
The demands of this modern lifestyle take a toll on your brain.
The universal burnout during the pandemic led to collective movements that inspired people to make a change.
But now we’re back again on the bandwagon of hustling which has singlehandedly wrecked the meaning of relaxation.
We used to slave away the entire week to live on weekends, but now even weekends are being optimized for better productivity.
You will soon get swept away by this never-ending avalanche of work. It gets difficult to disconnect your brain completely from work.
You think about work even when you’re relaxing and its stress follows you around like a shadow.
It wrecks your brain health slowly. The continuous barrage of stressful thoughts locks you in a loop of chronic stress.
But this is the reality that most of us live daily. You want to change it but sadly don’t have the time to do so.
Dr. Rock recommends an easy way to dismantle stress by focusing on the present moment through mindfulness, a powerful practice in mainstream media.
It’s a simple hack, but it takes practice to incorporate it into your daily routine which can be intimidating.
However, mindfulness is not a difficult technique. There are multiple ways you can add it…
