Of course, I was tempted to cut straight to, “Live long and prosper!” 🖖🏻 This is so much a part of our popular culture that it has its own emoji.

I'm sure you share my delight that Moodscope holds one of the most important keys to our longevity…

Dan Buettner is the explorer and author who coined the term “Blue Zones.” These Blue Zones are the regions of the planet where the population typically live to 100 years of age, and sometimes longer. Countering current trendiness, he’s not into pill popping, nor is he passionate about potions. No, it’s back to basics for him and other commentators at the conference:

- eat food that’s as close to its source both in terms of being unprocessed and geographically – and mostly plants

- exercise every day, e.g. walk! cycle!

- meeting with neighbours in the town square – surrounding yourself with loving people

- Get plenty of high-quality sleep

- And here’s where Moodscope scores – turn stress into a positive.

The surprise is captured best in this quote, “Know your values… Why? Because people who can articulate their sense of purposes live eight years longer than people who are rudderless in life. Nobody in this conference (Longevity Conference reported by CNN Health), can make any money off you if you find your purpose and you put it to work volunteering.”  

If you don’t know where to start in seeking and finding your purpose, I have a set of ‘postcards’ here that help by asking the questions that reveal what you already know at a pre-conscious level of awareness: https://bit.ly/4qc5VkD

One of my questions on the, “Postcards on Purpose,” is “What work would you do as a volunteer?” National Trust? Charity Shop? If Charity, which Charity? Animal focus? Hospice? Our choices reflect our chosen path to meaning.

What about Technology?

Hard tech I’m trialling includes:

- Sound and Light Machines to lead to desired brainwave states via entrainment
- HeartMath® emWave2 to seek to get my heart’s constant atrial fibrillation under some form of non-drug-related control.

I’ll let you know how I get on.

How about you? What about Apps?

- Headspace seems to be a firm favourite for mindfulness
- I’m also beginning to use “Purpose” from Mark Manson. I have found it to be, frankly, superb – try it for yourself.
- Noah AI has been recommended too, your own 24/7 Emotional Coach. And I’m giving that a go.

What would be your recommendations for a recipe for a life lived better and longer?

I close with Thoreau…

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

Lex

A Moodscope member