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Health improves with emotional resilience.
When we consciously capture joy as a daily practice, we cultivate healthier internal systems.
Love is being willing to lose part of ourselves to be part of the collective.
An older family member rants to me that her life has never been busier—because she is drowning in too many remedies and healthy habits!
Wellness can seem like an all-consuming challenge. The more options we are given in the profitable market of endless youth and vitality, the less bandwidth we feel we have to process, and the more tools we need to plan the long journey ahead.
We need to find motivation and purpose for doing the sustained work that is required for staying healthy. Part 2 of this 3-part series on Musical Health ended with the idea that learning how to ease up on effort is crucial for that sustainability. This article continues with recognizing the love for life, others, and ourselves that motivates and multiplies our resolve.
Working backwards then, we need to pursue the environment and community that will give us motivation and resources to find sustainability.
Before that, the prerequisite is to be able to capture joy and link a sense of purpose to the effort.
And that would be preceded by having the emotional resilience to be aware of how we relate to our health from moment to moment and what we need to recalibrate as we navigate life’s uncertainties.
Music offers us a pleasurable way to work on that emotional resilience, without which our efforts in healthcare and caregiving would be futile.
Health Improves with Emotional Resilience
Health is a holistic state of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being that happens when we function optimally and sustainably. Biomarkers like........