I’ve noticed that most of us let ourselves be driven by our resistance to something difficult, frightening, or uncertain. We take on a hard task—creating something, for example—and then we feel some kind of resistance or we feel overwhelmed. It’s often simply fear of the unknown. It’s quite normal and understandable to let this fear…
Exercises Key to Preventing Muscle Loss
Australian researchers are advising people to start early with a personalised regimen of exercises—rather than medication—to prevent muscle loss in old age. Geriatrician Jesse Zanker from the University of Melbourne says the age-related loss of strength and mobility in which muscles begin losing their youthful bulk starting from about the age of 30, is largely…
Resistance and Suffering—Preparing Ourselves to Stand for Truth in a Time of Lies
March 3, 2022
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“The key to resilience in the face of persecution is the willingness to suffer,” says Rod Dreher, “not just to bear it stoically, but to find a way to transform it and purify it into something good.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek speaks about soft totalitarianism, “wokeness,” and ways to…
Move Toward What You Resist
Our minds have the tendency to turn away from what we fear and resist the most. We naturally don’t like pain, frustration, and difficulty. So turning away and avoiding such things are protective acts. And yet, this keeps us in our comfort zone, the stagnant zone. Growth requires pushing into resistance. Each day, find the…
Best Laid Plans: Why They Often Fall Short
June 16, 2021
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When we’re thinking about our plans, we don’t consider all the tiny micro-tasks that need to get done.
Should the Real ‘Resistance’ Begin Now?
Commentary Literally within minutes of the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, his opponents took to the streets declaring themselves “The Resistance.” Some of us, myself included, considered that an act of what the “woke” like to call “cultural appropriation,” indeed an extreme—I would even say obscene—one. CA is a term, many will recall, applied…
Women Benefit From Strength Training As Much As Men
Contrary to popular belief, a new Australian study of men and women over 50 has found that strength training—also known as resistance or weight training—benefits older women just as much as older men. “Historically, people tended to believe that men adapted to a greater degree from resistance training compared to women,” exercise science lecturer at UNSW Medicine…
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