Dan Buettner is an educator, explorer, National Geographic Fellow, and writer of numerous books, such as, The blue zones: secrets to live longer than the healthiest parts of the earth.
“In the early 2000s, I began to reverse the longevity of the engineer,” says Buettner. “Instead of looking for answers to a test tube or a Petri plate, I was looking for them among the populations that have achieved what we want – long, healthy life and sharp brains to the end.”
After the Blue Zones in the world were identified, Buettner and National Geographic took teams of scientists at each location to identify the lifestyle features that could explain the unusual longevity. They found that although blue animal communities are in very different parts of the world, their inhabitants share nine specific characteristics that lead to longer, healthier, happier lives. These features are called Power 9.
- Moving naturally -“The longevity of the world all-stars do not pump iron, runs marathons or participate in gyms,” says Buettner. “Instead, they live in environments that constantly push them to move without thinking about it.”
- Purpose – “People in the blue zones do not wake Draw de vida And the Okinaea named it Ikigai. For both, he translates into “why I wake up in the morning”.
- Reduced displacement -“Even people in blue zones face stress, but what the longest people in the world have that they are not routines to throw this anxiety.
- Rule of 80% – “Eat until you are 80% full. Unlike most Americans, who continue to eat until their stomachs they are full, traditional Okinaux stops as soon as they no longer feel hungry.”
- Tilt – “By the end of the 20sth century, the diets of each blue zone were almost entirely of minimally processed vegetable foods-mainly whole grains, green, walnuts, tubers and beans. “
- Wine @ 5 – People in blue zones (except adventists) drink alcohol and regularly. The trick, if you drink, is to drink one to two glasses a day with friends and food. ”
- Belong -“Healthy hundreds of years everywhere have faith.
- Loved ones first – “The successful centenary in the blue zones first put their families.
- Tribal -“One of the deepest, measurable and long -term things you can do to adopt a blue lifestyle is to build a social circle around yourself that supports healthy eating, activity and emotional well -being.”
All this is worth exploring. Those who work for you, build your life. However, it is not easy to experience with these healthy practices in today’s world.
The rise of sovereignty systems around the world
Social systems scientist Riane Eisler, one of the most original thinkers of our time, wrote for the first time the two contrast systems in our world in her book, The tablet and the blade: our story, us us Future:
‘The first, which I call the dominant model, is what is widely called either patriarchy or matriarchy – the classification Half of humanity over the other. The second, in which social relationships are mainly based on the principle of link Instead of ranking, it can be better described as the partnership model. This model – starting with the most fundamental difference in our species, between male and women – diversity is not assimilated even with inferiority or superiority. “
In her latest book written with anthropologist Douglas Fry, Cultivation of our humanity: How sovereignty and partnership shape our minds, lives and future, They say that for most of our two million years history, people have lived in balance with nature in true cooperation. But over the last six thousand years have increased 6,000 years (less than 1% of our history).
Planet Aqua: Re -examining our house in the universe
Like Riane Eisler, Jeremy Rifkin is a Maverick social scientist who changes the way we perceive our world. He is a writer of 23 books including The insensitive culture, the era of durability And more recently Planet Aqua: Re -examining our home in the universe.
Rifkin says that when people decided to try to tame the huge waters of our planet six thousand years ago, he moved a time -task of damaging damage that endangers our existence. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Peace, he says, says,
“Aqua planet It will shock most people. Rifkin points out that instead of living on a planet Earth, we really live on a water planet-fresco, salt and frozen-and that changes all of our long-term beliefs. Now, climate change quickly disrupts the hydrosphere, which leads us to a predetermined future of floods, drought, thermal waves, fires and hurricanes, pushing many species into extinction, including our own. “
Nature Bats Last: The impending collapse of hydraulic culture
“Our first ancestors were animists and were designed by the world around them as living, vibrant and full of spirits, constantly interact with a great nature whose species service was closely interconnected,” says Jeremy Rifkin. “Πριν από έξι χιλιετίες κατά μήκος των ποταμών του Ευφράτη και του Τίγρη σε αυτό που είναι τώρα η Τουρκία και το Ιράκ και, λίγο αργότερα, ο ποταμός Νείλος στην Αίγυπτο, τα ποτάμια Ghaggar-Hakra και του Ινδού στην κοιλάδα του Ινδού, ο κίτρινος ποταμός στην κοιλάδα Huang He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He He Huang. Now, on the handles of a planet of heating, largely from a nexus led by fossil fuels, urban hydraulic culture collapses in real time. “
Anthropologist Joseph Tainter studied many cultures throughout the story and recognized collapse patterns described in his book The collapse of complex societies. In The fate of the empires and the search for survival, Sir John Glubb noted a similar pattern that all the “superpowers” from ancient Persia in the Roman and British empires collapsed after ten generations or about 250 years.
Thomas Berry was a “geologist” and a historian of religions. He spoke eloquently about our connection with the Earth and the consequences of our failure to remember that we are a member of the community of life.
“I never knew enough, nor were we close enough with all our cousins to the great family of the earth, nor can we hear the various creatures of the earth, each by telling his own story. Time has come now, however, when we hear or die. ”
Another visionary that the alarm is heard about the times we live in is the evolutionary scientist, Rebecca D. Costa. In her book, The Watchman’s Rattle: A radical new theory of collapse, Says,
“The abnormal rate of change between human biology of slow evolution and the rational rhythm with which societies are ultimately moving on to make the progress to stop.”
He mentions the world biologist of the mentor Eo Wilson, who has been named “Darwin of 21F Century. ”According to Wilson,
“The real problem of mankind is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and technology that looks like God.”
In an article I wrote about the work of the cost, “we can handle the truth”, I mentioned:
“From the evolutionary point of view, social progress is moving quickly, but our brain – the device that needs to process all this new information – has been evolving for millions of years.
This is the underlying reason, he believes that all complex cultures are finally over.
Truth can release you: Who do you choose to be?
I wrote about the collapse in many articles, such as “how you can survive and thrive as the Culture’s ship collapses”. In the article I introduced the readers to another visionary leader, Margaret J. Wheately, who more than anyone I know tells the truth about what we are dealing with and guides us to a better future.
“This is the era of threat,” says Wheatley, “when everything we find intensifies fear and anger. In a way of survival, we leave each other, we abandon the values that kept us together, we leave ideas and practices that encouraged integration and created confidence.
He acknowledged that what we see in the US today follows the same model of collapse after 250 years of domination recognized by other experts.
But there is a better way. As Jeremy Rifkin says,
“We must abandon our belief that it is our duty to dominate and control nature and reconnect as partners throughout life on Earth.
We have to find our race outside the boundaries of “culture”. The captains of the “ship of culture” would have believed that even if the ship sinks, we could go down by boat because we are all doomed (except the captains who imagine they will survive and thrive as the rest of us go down). This is the big lie of culture. As my vision showed me, there are millions of alternatives and more and more lifeboats in the water every day, but you will not know about them in the media that control the company. You can find out more here.
Each of us must claim our own course of service. Only by joining others who have the courage to deal with the truth and become “warriors of the human spirit”, as Margarita Sitati calls us, can we work together to create “islands of reason”.
We have to act now or we will scan from the currents of change. Wheatley says,
“My ambition is for you to see clearly so you can act wisely. If we do not know where we are, if we do not know what to prepare, then every course we choose will keep us wandering in the desert, increasingly desperate, increasingly lost.”
One positive action you can do now is to find out about a new course that Wheatley will offer. Claiming your service course: choosing to serve this age of collapse and probabilitydeveloped with the excellent platform Advaya.life. ”
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