Supercharge Your Mind And Body In Only Six Weeks

The Best Way To Supercharge Your Mind And Body In Only Six Weeks

 

Have you seriously underestimated your ability to change?

Forget changing yourself one-step-at-a-time — change everything all at once, a new study suggests.

The human capability for improving in multiple areas at the same time may have been seriously underestimated.

In the new psychology study, thirty-one participants were able to improve on a whole range of mental and physiological measures over six weeks.

Dr Michael Mrazek, who led the study, said:

“Part of what distinguishes this work is finding such broad improvements across so many different domains, particularly given that the effect sizes were so large.

Many of these effects were very large — larger than you tend to find in studies that focus on changing only one thing.”

The improvements included large — and sometimes dramatic — increases in:

• working memory,
• self-esteem,
• mindfulness and life satisfaction.
• strength,
• endurance,
• flexibility,
• standardized test performance,
• focus,
• and mood.

This was the result of five hours work, every weekday for the six weeks of the study.

It included:

• 2.5 hours of physical exercise (including Pilates and yoga)
• 1.5 hours of lectures on exercise, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, compassion, relationships and general psychological well-being.
• 1 hour of mindfulness practice.

Study participants ate mostly whole foods, drank little alcohol and slept 8-10 hours a night.

Dr Mrazek explained the study’s results:

“We predicted that the intervention would lead to substantial improvements in health, cognitive abilities and well-being, but we didn’t know how long they would last.

It seemed possible that some of the benefits wouldn’t extend beyond the training.

So I was surprised that even without any contact and support, participants maintained significant improvements at the six-week follow up.”

It may be that it is easier to make multiple changes at the same time, Dr Mrazek said:

“Recent research suggests its often more effective to make two or more changes simultaneously, especially when those changes reinforce one another.

It’s easier to drink less coffee if at the same time you get more sleep.

Our intervention extended this logic by helping people make progress in many ways, which can create an upward spiral where one success supports the next.”

Dr Mrazek concluded:

“It occurred to us that real changes in people’s lives don’t occur in a vacuum.

We wanted to see how much change is possible if you help someone improve all these dimensions of their life simultaneously.”