tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80716040332827947702024-02-07T19:24:20.547-08:00STYLE.OMMORE THAN FASHION, MORE THAN YOGAMaria-Stefania Vavylopoulouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15103574376102647210noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071604033282794770.post-40811629976070419872017-08-30T13:19:00.000-07:002017-08-30T13:19:01.128-07:00Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ever since I can remember, I’ve been told to strive for balance. Yet I’ve noticed something interesting: The times in my life during which I’ve felt happiest and most alive are also the times that I’ve been the most <em>unbalanced</em>.</div>
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Falling in love. Writing a book. Trekking in the Himalayas. Training to set a personal record in a triathlon. During these bouts of full-on living I was completely consumed by my activity. Trying to be balanced — devoting equal proportions of time and energy to other areas of my life — would have detracted from the formative experiences.</div>
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It’s not just me. Nearly all of the great performers I’ve gotten to know — from athletes to artists to computer programmers to entrepreneurs — report a direct line between being happy, fulfilled and at their best and going all-in on something. <a href="http://www.richroll.com/" style="color: #326891;">Rich Roll</a>, a top ultra-endurance athlete, told me that “the path to fulfillment in life, to emotional satisfaction, is to find what you really excites you and channel your all into it.” Dr. Michael Joyner, a top researcher at the Mayo Clinic, says “you’ve got to be a minimalist to be a maximalist; if you want to be really good, master and thoroughly enjoy one thing, you’ve got to say no to many others.” Nic Lamb, one of the best big-wave surfers on the planet, speaking of his relentless pursuit of excellence in the water, <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2060076/how-can-i-overcome-fear-get-most-out-myself" style="color: #326891;">puts</a> it like this: “The best way to find contentment is to give it your all.”</div>
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Perhaps we could all use a little more unbalance in our lives.</div>
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In the 1990s, the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi introduced the term <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202" style="color: #326891;">flow</a>, a mental state during which people become wholly immersed in the activity they are doing and their perception of time and space is altered, their entire being filled with enjoyment. A telltale sign of these optimal experiences, of “being in the zone,” is that the outside world disappears. In such a state, flow and balance are irreconcilable. And compared to flow, balance seems, for lack of a better term, boring.</div>
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And yet there is still a cost of pursuing something full-on: all of the other things that you leave behind as a result. When you are wholly immersed in anything, it’s all too easy to let the inertia of the experience carry you forward without ever really evaluating what you’re sacrificing along the way; for example, time with friends and family, other hobbies, even simple pleasures like catching up on the latest episodes of “Game of Thrones.”</div>
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But even so, I don’t believe that balance — which essentially asks us to <em>never</em>go all-in on anything — is the right solution. I think far better than striving for balance is striving for what psychologists call internal self-awareness, or the ability to see yourself clearly by assessing, monitoring and proactively managing your core values, emotions, passions, behaviors and impact on others. Put differently, internal self-awareness is about creating the time and space to know yourself; constantly check in with yourself (since your “self” changes over time); and then live your life accordingly.</div>
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Someone with keen internal self-awareness is able to separate the acute euphoria of being fully immersed in a pursuit from the long-term consequences of doing so. It’s the Olympian who <em>chooses </em>to retire in time to start and raise a family; the artist who realizes that setting aside some time for life outside of the studio gives rise to great works inside the studio; or the lawyer who sets a hard rule of not missing family dinners or her children’s sporting events. This type of self-awareness doesn’t come easily. Paradoxically, one of the best ways to accomplish internal self-awareness is to mentally step outside of your “self.” Psychologists call this self-distancing, and examples include <a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/02/self-distancing-will-help-you-make-smarter-deciions.html" style="color: #326891;">pretending you’re giving advice to a friend,</a> <a href="http://www.medicaldaily.com/writing-third-person-helps-stressed-people-understand-their-circumstances-more-wisely-287460" style="color: #326891;">journaling in the third person</a> (and then examining the emotions that arise when you read what you wrote), or <a href="https://medium.com/personal-growth/a-short-reflection-on-self-awareness-and-mortality-e5da49af0444" style="color: #326891;">reflecting on your own mortality</a>.</div>
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Practicing internal self-awareness allows you to honestly evaluate and re-evaluate the trade-offs inherent to living an unbalanced, flow-filled life. It ensures that you are making conscious decisions about how you spend your time and energy, and thus decreases the chances that you’ll have regrets about what you did — and didn’t — do. It helps you realize when your identity may be getting too interwoven with a specific activity and that in some instances — writing a book, the first few months with a newborn baby, or trying to make an Olympic team, for example — your lack of balance may be excessive, but it can be O.K. because it’s temporary.</div>
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Studies show that those who possess strong internal self-awareness <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20152338?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" style="color: #326891;">make better decisions</a>, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4020610" style="color: #326891;">have better personal relationships</a>, are <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239808850_Self-Awareness_and_Constructive_Functioning_Revisiting_the_Human_Dilemma" style="color: #326891;">more creative</a> and have more <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879103000344" style="color: #326891;">fulfilling careers</a>. Other <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525119/" style="color: #326891;">research</a> demonstrates that internal self-awareness is associated with improved mental health and general well-being.</div>
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When you put all of this together, an interesting idea starts to emerge. Maybe the good life is not about trying to achieve some sort of illusory balance. Instead, maybe it’s about pursuing your interests fully, but with enough internal self-awareness to regularly evaluate what you’re not pursuing as a result — and make changes if necessary. Living in this manner trumps balance any day.</div>
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A weekly routine of yoga and meditation may strengthen thinking skills and help to stave off aging-related mental decline, according to a new study of older adults with early signs of memory problems.</div>
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Most of us past the age of 40 are aware that our minds and, in particular, memories begin to sputter as the years pass. Familiar names and words no longer spring readily to mind, and car keys acquire the power to teleport into jacket pockets where we could not possibly have left them.</div>
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Some weakening in mental function appears to be inevitable as we age. But emerging science suggests that we might be able to slow and mitigate the decline by how we live and, in particular, whether and how we move our bodies. Past studies have found that people who run, weight train, dance, practice tai chi, or regularly garden have a lower risk of developing dementia than people who are not physically active at all.</div>
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There also is growing evidence that combining physical activity with meditation might intensify the benefits of both pursuits. In an <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/meditation-plus-running-as-a-treatment-for-depression/" style="color: #326891;" target="_blank">interesting study that I wrote about recently</a>, for example, people with depression who meditated before they went for a run showed greater improvements in their mood than people who did either of those activities alone.</div>
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But many people do not have the physical capacity or taste for running or other similarly vigorous activities.</div>
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So for <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27060939" style="color: #326891;" target="_blank">the new study</a>, which was published in April in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions decided to test whether yoga, a relatively mild, meditative activity, could alter people’s brains and fortify their ability to think.</div>
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They began by recruiting 29 middle-aged and older adults from the Los Angeles area who told the researchers that they were anxious about the state of their memories and who, during evaluations at the university, were found to have mild cognitive impairment, a mental condition that can be a precursor to eventual dementia.</div>
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The volunteers also underwent a sophisticated type of brain scan that tracks how different parts of the brain communicate with one another.</div>
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The volunteers then were divided into two groups. One began a well-established brain-training program that involves an hour a week of classroom time and a series of mental exercises designed to bolster their memory that volunteers were asked to practice at home for about 15 minutes a day.</div>
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The others took up yoga. For an hour each week, they visited the U.C.L.A. campus to learn Kundalini yoga, which involves breathing exercises and meditation as well as movement and poses. The researchers chose this form of yoga largely because people who are out of shape or new to yoga generally find it easy to complete the classes.</div>
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The yoga group also was taught a type of meditation known as Kirtan Kriya that involves repeating a series of sounds — a mantra — while simultaneously “dancing” with repetitive hand movements. They were asked to meditate in this way for 15 minutes every day, so that the total time commitment was equivalent for both groups.</div>
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The volunteers practiced their programs for 12 weeks.</div>
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Then they returned to the university’s lab for another round of cognitive tests and a second brain scan.</div>
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By this time, all of the men and women were able to perform significantly better on most tests of their thinking.</div>
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But only those who had practiced yoga and meditation showed improvements in their moods — they scored lower on an assessment of potential depression than those in the brain-training group — and they performed much better on a test of visuospatial memory, a type of remembering that is important for balance, depth perception and the ability to recognize objects and navigate the world.</div>
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The brain scans in both groups displayed more communication now between parts of their brains involved in memory and language skills. Those who had practiced yoga, however, also had developed more communication between parts of the brain that control attention, suggesting a greater ability now to focus and multitask.</div>
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In effect, yoga and meditation had equaled and then topped the benefits of 12 weeks of brain training.</div>
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“We were a bit surprised by the magnitude” of the brain effects, said Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. who oversaw the study.</div>
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How, physiologically, yoga and meditation had uniquely changed the volunteers’ brains is impossible to know from this study, although reductions in stress hormones and anxiety are likely to play a substantial role, she said. “These were all people worried about the state of their minds,” she pointed out.</div>
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Movement also increases the levels of various biochemicals in the muscles and brains that are associated with improved brain health, she said.</div>
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Whether other forms of yoga and meditation or either activity on its own might likewise bulk up the brain remains a mystery, she said. But there may be something especially potent, she said, about combining yoga with the type of meditation practiced in this study, during which people were not completely still.</div>
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The Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation, which partially funded this study, <a href="http://www.alzheimersprevention.org/research/12-minute-memory-exercise" style="color: #326891;" target="_blank">provides information on its website</a>about how to start meditating in this style.</div>
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Maria-Stefania Vavylopoulouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15103574376102647210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071604033282794770.post-12722488426041034082014-03-31T08:26:00.000-07:002014-03-31T08:26:04.058-07:00Marc Jacobs and the Most Expensive Dress of the Fall 2014 Season<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maria-Stefania Vavylopoulouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15103574376102647210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071604033282794770.post-39576531145764753012014-03-22T15:29:00.000-07:002014-03-31T07:51:11.174-07:00L'Wren Scott Remembered<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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