IS OUR DNA DIFFERENT OR THE SAME?
Now here’s a question for you….ever wondered about your DNA?
Where does it come from and how does it influence each person? Do we share DNA? Does DNA determine what sort of day we have or how we think? When we say DNA, we think of one thing, don’t we? Have you ever sat down with family and see similar features in each other or heard similar voices? Have you seen similar features in other people who are not family? Did you know that the human DNA consists of about 3 billion bases, and more than 99 % of those bases are the same in all people? Imagine that!
Now, would it make a difference if we looked at DNA differently?
I mean, what if we did look at DNA differently… Just imagine if the letters DNA meant something else? I have come up with another meaning that I use for myself every day and it seems to work – for me. Let me share it with you…. For me, eventhough scientifically my DNA (my deoxyribonucleic acid or hereditary material) is just about the same in every cell in my body, my every day is not the same. My every day is not the same because I have my own personal exciting dialogue that influences a different experience every day. It is my ‘Dynamic New Adventure’. My ‘DNA’. What is yours?
Why would I have this ‘Dynamic New Adventure’?
I learned many years ago, that I function best when my daily routine includes mental and physical exercise that is not always the same. The medical professionals, exercise physiologists and alternative medicine gurus will tell us that exercise does all sorts of good things for our bodies and it is true. In one study, a research review published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (2018), researchers discovered that there is a link between aerobic exercise and a person’s cognitive function and that resistance training can enhance a person’s executive function and memory.
There is more to this ‘Dynamic New Adventure’ approach I have every day. In another article published in the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education (2012), researchers concluded that the fundamental paradigm of “stress and recovery” contends that a balance of neurobiological processes help realign psychosocial equilibrium in the short term and over the long term. In other words, positive adaptation. We know through research that the brain’s resilience is achieved through two main processes – neurogenesis (growth of neural tissue) and neuroplasticity (the re-wiring of neural tissue).
Sometimes we hear people say, I am going to start a new exercise program or I am going to exercise my brain…then they make lots of excuses to cover why they don’t. What would happen if you did start a healthy dynamic new adventure program for yourself that will have positive benefits for your physical and mental well-being? What wouldn’t happen if you did and what wouldn’t happen if you didn’t? Really, it is up to you to make a start and to be consistent.
What holds you back from taking action so that your well-being is a priority?
Is it work-life balance? Is it that you don’t have time? Or is it you don’t know where to start? Whatever it is, there is a solution. You know there is a solution…
We really will only make life changes for the better when we take positive action. Be at cause.
Want to know how you can get focused on your wellbeing?
Contact Gina and Glen Palmer, Minds Tomorrow gina@mindstomorrow.com.au or glen@mindstomorrow.com.au
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