Social psychology states that there is a link between high self-efficacy and positive outcomes--and that the belief that you can achieve a difficult task defines your level of self-efficacy. According to research on the connection between self-efficacy and quality of life perceptions of health, this belief in your ability to succeed may even affect how you perceive your body's abilities. The study was led by Anna Banik, who worked with fellow researchers from the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Self-efficacy refers to the belief that you have in your own abilities, specifically the ability to meet challenges and accomplish certain tasks successfully. While general self-efficacy refers to the overall belief in your ability to succeed, there are various specific forms of self-efficacy, such as those relating to academics or sports.
For the study, the research team relied on a meta-analysis to examine all the available evidence in the literature about the role of both general and exercise-specific self-efficacy in predicting health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in people who had cardiovascular disease (CVD). HRQOL is defined as "your perspective on your health in the broadest sense of physical, mental, and social functioning." The research team explained that "improving HRQOL among people with CVD is one of the critical goals for any treatment, rehabilitation, and intervention efforts."
When facing a physical challenge, having heart disease may significantly affect your quality of life. But Banik commented that one way to resolve this is by modifying your sense of self-efficacy, which is a crucial yet modifiable personal resource that allows you to manage your own functioning. Believing that you can control health-related outcomes should help improve your perspective about your overall health and your sense of self. (Related: Mind-body connection: Simple attitude proven to lower risk of heart failure by 73%.)
Various studies have shown that using self-efficacy, people with CVD can manage their disease to some degree. It can even help them reduce the depression that is usually linked to chronic illness.
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Doctors Prescribing Nature
It's October right now, so your doctor has prescribed that you step outside and appreciate a cloud. Or maybe you could write a worry onto a stone and throw it into the sea.
The above are suggestions from a new ‘Nature Prescriptions' program being rolled out to medical doctors in Scotland's Shetland Islands this week. After a successful pilot at a surgery in Scalloway, all of Shetland's doctors can now literally prescribe ‘nature' to their patients as part of their overall treatment strategy. The project, jointly run by NHS Shetland and RSPB Scotland, is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, and those behind it expect the scheme to improve patients' blood pressure, reduce their risk of heart disease and strokes, plus give their happiness and mental health a boost.
"There is overwhelming evidence that nature has health benefits for body and mind," says RSPB community engagement officer Karen MacKelvie. "So, we saw an opportunity to design a leaflet that helps doctors describe the health benefits of nature and provides plenty of local ideas to help doctors fire-up their patients' imaginations and get them outdoors."
When doctors sees a patient whose health could benefit from a nature prescription, they can give them the leaflet--which explains ways in which spending time in nature is good for the human body--along with a calendar that gives ideas about what to see and do in Shetland's great outdoors. "The benefits to patients are that it is free, easily accessible, allows increased connection with surroundings which hopefully leads to improved physical and mental health for individuals."
While some of the suggestions on the Nature Prescriptions calendar are region-specific, lots of them could be done by people living anywhere. So why not tend to some plants? Turn over a rock and see what's underneath. Go camping in the wild. Listen to some birdsong. Feel the wind in your face. And then look back on your year and see how far you've come.
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An Unacknowledged Human Ability
When it comes to precognition, the new study recently published by scientists at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) examines multiple, scientifically controlled experiments that have yielded significant results. They examined multiple areas of research, multiple studies and meta-analysis showing how the scientific evidence for pre-cognition is measurable and continues to grow.
The authors are careful in their writing, pointing out the observed effects:
If positive empirical evidence continues to accumulate, especially if the methodological recommendations suggested by ourselves and others are followed, then a time may come when we are forced to think the unthinkable. Indeed, the implications of retrocausation are so remote from engrained ways of thinking that the first reaction to this line of research is that it must be flawed. The second reaction may be horror that it represents a previously unaccepted fact about reality.Another interesting concept discussed in the study is time, as you cannot really have a discussion about pre-cognition without the concept of time. When you think about pre-cognition, as with most parapsychological areas of study, you also have to consider quantum physics, because these two disciplines are deeply related to each other. Studies conducted over the years in quantum physics alone has shown how human intention, and other factors associated with consciousness, can and do interact with our physical material reality.
When we talk about future events, and time, if we look at matter on a quantum scale, future events are represented as a wave of possibilities, and don't really manifest as physical matter until we, the observer, click it into existence with our own consciousness. In 2007 (Science 315, 966, 2007), scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus and showed that their actions could retroactively change something which had already happened.
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Drumming
Drumming synchronizes body processes from the rhythmic movement, and the effect of a steady drumbeat is soothing to both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Many people think they can't drum because they "have no rhythm". Yes, I know some people who don't believe they can tap out a rhythm, and so they can't, but this is more a matter of belief than anything else. You have a heartbeat, therefore you can drum. If you're in the category of "non-rhythmic" people, I would point out that if it weren't for the rhythmic motion of the circulatory system, you would not be alive. Start by tapping your finger to some of your favorite music, then get a wooden spoon and tap on some pans. Get a bongo drum at a garage sale, or music store, and just start pounding on it. The rhythmic muscular motion helps the circulatory system with all of its venous and arterial gates, synch up with the heart, and it is a great way to stimulate endorphin production, reducing pain, and creating a better mood. (From 25 No Cost Health & Healing Hacks by Boyd Martin)
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